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NEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Daily electronic trading volume of U.S. Treasuries rose to $154.1 billion in September, up 8 percent from $142.1 billion in August but down 2 percent from a year ago, said interdealer broker ICAP on Wednesday.
The daily volume on U.S. repurchase agreements, which are often backed by Treasuries as collateral, was $229.1 billion per day, up 5 percent from August. It was also 9 percent higher than a year earlier, ICAP said.
ICAP compiled the figures based on trading on its electronic trading systems.
The higher month-over-month trading volume on Treasuries and repos occurred as U.S. bond yields seesawed on uncertainty about when the Federal Reserve may interest rates and the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
The Bank of Japan's change in its policy stance and worries about the stability of Deutsche Bank caused investors to rethink their holdings of longer-dated government debt.
On a 12-month basis, daily Treasury volume was running at $160.1 billion a day in September, down 6 percent from a year earlier, while the daily repo volume was running at $214.1 billion, 1 percent lower than a year ago, ICAP said. (Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)


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A Paul Bunyan in Their Midst
By Thomas Boswell
Monday, May 25, 2009
To understand what Adam Dunn's two home runs, one of them a grand slam, and his career-high six RBI, meant to him and his struggling Nationals yesterday in an 8-5 win over the Orioles, you have to go back five days. You have to revisit a moment typical of the frustration that has tormented the Nats all season. But may be starting to lift.
The 30,880 in Nationals Park on a warm Sunday will remember Dunn's towering fly in the sixth inning that carried and carried until it cleared the center field fence for a two-run homer to put the Nats ahead 4-3. And they'll recall the moment just one inning later when Manager Manny Acta took the bat out of the hands of two men -- one hitting .349, the other .348 -- just so Dunn could hit with the bases loaded and the game at stake. They'll chatter about how the big Dunn-key drove his game-winning slam to the opposite field off the scoreboard clock above the Birds' bullpen to prevent an O's series sweep.
But, for the proper context, let's rewind this long miserable 2-9 Nats homestand, a slump that has called into question whether the Nats were headed toward improvement on their awful '08 or were careening off the rails toward a dismal disaster of a season. Go back to Tuesday night when Dunn struck out in the ninth inning with the potential winning run on second base. The Nats then lost in the 10th inning to the Pirates.
Long after the game, when other Nats had left the scene of their nightly bullpen crime, Dunn lingered on a stool, seeking blame, or at least facing accountability. He didn't want to talk about the homer he'd hit that night, only about his galling strikeout.
"We came back to tie the game [in the ninth]. I thought, 'This is it. We're going to break out of it. We just need to get one big hit here,'" said Dunn. "But you have to step up and do it. I felt great. I saw every pitch good. But I swung through the last one. . . . I've always wanted to be a [team] leader. But to be a leader, you have to produce."
Throughout his eight years with the Reds, five of them 40-homer seasons, Dunn was typecast as the easy-going lug who didn't care enough -- about the team, his defense, his conditioning. That image was part of the reason the Nats got him when the free agent market dried up and his phone didn't ring. Why, $20 million was enough to get a 275-pound slugger for two years. The Nats probably could have signed him for a third year, too, but shied away. Dunn says that image was never him. Whatever. It's not him now.
All season the 13-30 Nats have found inventive ways to lose every sort of game. No recapitulations, please. In the seventh, the wheels of baseball malice seemed to be turning again. After two singles, Acta chose to have Cristian Guzmán (.349) sacrifice bunt, knowing the Orioles would walk Ryan Zimmerman (.348) intentionally so the slow-footed double-play-
prone Dunn would have to face Walker whose role in life is to face hitters exactly like Dunn.
"I thought, 'Let 'em pitch to Dunn,' " said Acta, ignoring Dunn's history of 170-strikeout years. "He showed how important he is to our lineup and how much we needed him over here. It's a totally different story when you have a guy like Dunn behind Zimmerman."
"I like it," said Dunn, considering Acta's strategic sacrifice of Guzman and Zimmerman, just so he could be the man. "It's good to know my manager has confidence in me." With that, to his credit, he rolled his eyes to the sky.
Even Dunn finds it hard to believe how perceptions of him have changed. Of course, when you're hitting .284 and are on pace for 52 homers and 144 RBI, you tend to get a lot of respect. When a teammate, Nick Johnson, shows up sick to his stomach before the game, and you volunteer to play first base -- where you've seldom played and sometimes been embarrassed -- then make two scoops in the same inning to save Zimmerman from errors, you will usually be appreciated.
Some games mean more than others. If the Nats had lost 10 games in an 11-game homestand, something so ugly as to be almost a statistical impossibility, their season might have gone from pratfall to free fall. The slow improvement of their bullpen would have been easy to ignore. The emergence of five young starting pitchers, none dominant, but all promising and none of them named Daniel Cabrera, might have been overlooked.
Instead, Dunn played Paul Bunyan and carried the whole load.
"Bless the Lord we won this one," said Acta. "This was a really bad homestand. That was going to be a long train ride to New York."
Now, instead of being merely bearable, it will be a kind of pleasure.
"We've been getting better work from the bullpen. The rotation has been getting better," said Josh Willingham. "But things kept going against us. When it finally clicks, we could string off seven or eight wins in a row."
Of course, all teams, including bad ones, believe this. Or at least they still do in May. But it's also the reason that almost every team, including the poor ones, actually do have winning streaks that can turn a bad season into a productive one.
"In a snapshot world, this is just one game," said interim GM Mike Rizzo. "But, in a longer view, the way we've been playing so well, so close lately, you need some things to go right. Because things have definitely been going against us.
"That's when you need your best players to perform. That's why we brought Adam here. He's never been anointed the leader before. But he's become a quiet leader here. He'll take it on. And he'll deflect criticism from his teammates onto himself."
Now, instead of riding the rails to New York thinking how dismal they are, the Nats can, if they choose, focus on a kind of mythic strongman in their midst who takes pressure off Zimmerman, who hit balls off scoreboards in Arizona that nobody believed would ever be reached and who cracks jokes while he's doing it.
"Adam makes everybody feel better," said reliever Joel Hanrahan who, in recent days, has rediscovered his 96 mph fastball and even added a bit of bravado to his mound manner. Is this the Dunn swagger?
"Don't know," said Hanrahan. "But I need to get some 'attitude' out there."
Right now, what attitude the Nats have, or even aspire to, comes from Dunn. "If you ask him what he was thinking in that at bat, he'll probably say, 'Oh, I was just trying to get the bat on it and I happened to hit it hard,' " said Zimmerman.
So, Adam, what were you thinking?
"I was thinking, 'Grand slam home run,' " he said.
And almost kept a straight face.

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EDINA is a UK-based data centre (partly funded by Jisc), which provides data applications delivered over the Internet and aimed primarily at Higher Education staff and students in the United Kingdom.[2]
(In this context, a "data centre" is an organisation that provides a set of specific datasets which can either be downloaded, or accessed and manipulated directly over the Internet. A comparable UK-based data centre is the UKDA.)
It also conducts research and development (R&D) projects into the delivery of data across networks.
Although funded at a national level, EDINA operates through the University of Edinburgh, where it is a division of Information Services.[3]
EDINA front-end services (those accessed directly by the user) are available free at the point of use for students and academic staff in the UK working on and off campus. Access to most services involves licence or subscription by universities and colleges, and requires some form of authentication by end users. Some services are also provided to researchers beyond the UK academic sector.[4]
Front-end services fall broadly into the following categories
- Geospatial data (including Digimap, GoGeo, ShareGeo and Unlock)
- Multimedia collections (including Jisc Mediahub)
- Bibliographic data (including SUNCAT and SALSER)
- Repository services (including OpenDepot.org)
- e-Books (including the Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online Service)
In addition to front-end services, EDINA provide middleware services, which provide connections between various other data applications across the UK Higher Education computing sector. EDINA also provides infrastructure and support for the UK Access Management Federation.[5]
EDINA undertakes and engages in projects geared to development activities which inform and develop the operation of EDINA national services, either producing new services or improvement in existing services. These are generally externally funded and often in partnership with other institutions.[6]
The projects fall broadly into the following categories:
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EDINA has its origin in Edinburgh University Data Library, which was set up in 1983/4.[7][8]
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh working with data from government surveys were looking to the University to provide university-wide provision for files that were too large to be stored on individual computing accounts. Arrangements for the University Library to purchase the small area statistics from the 1981 Population Census became the opportunity to petition action by the Program Library Unit (PLU) - which had both local responsibility for software provision and a national role to convert software for various computing platforms for UK universities. The PLU was also active in the design and implementation of the code for SASPAC, the program used widely for the extraction of census data, as part of a project led by David Rhind of Durham University.
In response, the Data Library was formed as a small group within the PLU led by Trevor Jones plus 1.5 staff: use of a programmer and a computing assistant. Peter Burnhill took over full-time responsibility in 1984. Early holdings were the 1981 UK population census, and research data from the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde.
Geographic information was a focus from the beginning, as the Data Library worked with researcher Jack Hotson to convert parish-based agricultural census data to grid square estimates. This allowed detailed visualisation of land use across the UK.
A collaboration with the Department of Geography saw the establishment of the Regional Research Laboratory for Scotland, focusing on quantitative techniques in the Social Sciences. Soon afterwards followed SALSER, a serials index bringing together libraries from the thirteen Scottish universities, the National Library of Scotland and the two major civic libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow. SALSER remains heavily used to this day, providing public access to important specialist serials collections.
Links to the research community were cemented by the RAPID project, which linked research activity to the output of other work funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Uniquely, RAPID included not only conventional monograph and journal publications, but also new types of research output such as software, datasets and learning materials. Reusable components for self-paced learning were to become an integral part of the department's role a few years later.
Such projects built up a wealth of knowledge within the Data Library, and a breadth of subject which was to serve it well for the most important event in its history - the launch of the EDINA national data centre in 1995/96. Along with BIDS (acquired by ingenta in 1998) at the University of Bath and MIDAS (now Mimas) at the University of Manchester, the Edinburgh University Data Library was chosen as a JISC-funded centre for the provision of data services to the entire UK academic community.
EDINA's new services included bibliographic indexes such as BIOSIS and Ei Compendex, which helped with literature searches, and UKBORDERS, which filled a gap in census, political and postal boundary data. The Digimap service, launched in 2000, continues to provide access to a number of national geospatial data sets including Ordnance Survey GB maps and data, historical Ordnance Survey GB maps and maps and data of UK geology and hydrographic and other marine environments. SUNCAT, the Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community became a freely available EDINA service in 2006, and contains data from scores of UK research libraries, including the British Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales.
With the launch of EDINA, the Data Library had to be redefined to continue its local remit, distinct from the national services. Donald Morse took on the role of manager of the new Local Services team, and Joan Fairgrieve became the University's first Data Librarian.
Currently, Peter Burnhill is Director of EDINA and head of the Data Library Services Division of the University of Edinburgh Information Services. Robin Rice serves as Data Librarian,[9] and Stuart Macdonald as Associate Data Librarian.[10]


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FIFA Taps Into China ManU Announces 17.3% Revenue Growth WADA Rejects RUSADA's Appeal Formula E Invests In Marketing Hangin' With ... Jorge Rincon Executive Transactions Peru Declares Holiday After WC Qualification Names In The News Barcelona Releases Study Of Club's Brand ITV Signs Gary Neville For 2018 World Cup
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Ex-Real Madrid Communications Dir Among Dead In Spanish Train Derailment
Spanish journalist and former Real Madrid Communications Dir Enrique Beotas "was one of 80 people killed in a train crash in Santiago de Compostela, Spain," on Wednesday night, according to the EFE. Beotas, born in '55, worked for various Spanish media outlets throughout his career, including Radio España, Radio Voz and Punto Radio, among others (EFE, 7/25).
GAMES CANCELED: MARCA reported Spanish second division side Lugo has suspended a friendly scheduled for Thursday afternoon against league foe Ponferradina "as a show of respect for the tragic train accident Wednesday in Santiago de Compostela." Lugo expressed its "support and condolences for the victims of the tragedy." Spanish second division side Deportivo La Coruña also canceled a game scheduled for Thursday, when the club was to take on Spanish third division side Ourense. The game will "instead be played at 7pm local time on Friday" (MARCA, 7/25).
ATHLETES REACT: MARCA reported that a number of prominent Spanish athletes took to Twitter to express their condolences for those affected by the accident.
- Barcelona's Andrés Iniesta tweeted: "Triste por el trágico accidente de ayer en Galicia. Sin palabras suficientes d consuelo para las familias afectadas. Abrazo desde el corazón" ("I am saddened by the tragic accident yesterday in Galicia. Words are not sufficient to comfort the affected families. A hug from my heart")
- NBA L.A. Lakers Pau Gasol tweeted: "My heart is with the families of all the victims from the tragic train accident in Santiago de Compostela."
- Chelsea's Juan Mata García tweeted: "Really shocked with the train crash in Santiago. All my support for the families and friends of all the victims #ÁnimoGalicia" (MARCA, 7/25).
Football Notes: Barcelona To Expand Asia Footprint, Open Hong Kong Office
FC Barcelona "agreed to lease space in a building in Hong Kong's Central business district as European teams seek to expand their fan base in Asia." The team will occupy a floor of more than 3,000 square feet at 8 Queen's Road Central (BLOOMBERG, 7/25). ... Serie A side Lazio "is facing the possibility" of a six-point deduction, and captain Stefano Mauri could be suspended for four-and-a-half years following the start of their match-fixing trial on Wednesday. Prosecutor Stefano Palazzi "has also asked" for Lazio to be fined €20,000 ($26,000) and for Genoa and Lecce "to be docked three points each" (CANADIAN PRESS, 7/24). ... Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia, which is under new ownership, "announced that there will be a salary cap for players and staff, reducing salaries to below last season's levels." The highest wages of the top players will be about 15,000 leva ($9,900) per month (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 7/25).


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One scout said that as many pro days he's attended he's never seen a player get applauded for a workout. This kid is one of the nicest people you'll ever come across. His mother and step father are just wonderful people. It's unfortunate that he got hurt. He was a very, very good football player. It looks right now like he's battled all the odds and he's going to win and get a chance to play in the NFL. It's unbelievable what he's accomplished after a devastating injury in his last year at South Carolina. - Gil Brandt, NFL.com
03/29/2013 - 2013 South Carolina Pro Day: Injuries have derailed a prospect once considered a potential first-rounder, but Lattimore maintained his usual upbeat attitude about what he accomplished at his pro day. "I could be out there doing something (in on-field drills), but it's not smart to be doing that at this time," he said. "I wanted to be out there bad, just get out there and run some routes. "(But scouts) were able to see me use my feet, use my knee and see that my knee is fine. It felt great, but I know I've got a lot of work to do and I need at least three or four more months before I put on some pads. I feel like my step-ups showed a lot, when I stepped up onto the box with my right leg. Just showing how stable it is, showing that it's still good and it's progressing."
Lattimore said he has been sprinting recently, though not at full speed, and that he still hopes to play in the first half of next season. He will not have a personal pro day, but will go to Indianapolis next Friday and Saturday for a follow-up examination by NFL doctors. They first examined him at last month's combine in Indianapolis. "Everything has been progressing perfect," he said. "I know I'll be back playing football, no doubt. One team is going to believe in me. I know that." - Derek Harper, The Sports Xchange
03/29/2013 - 2013 South Carolina Pro Day: Marcus Lattimore hadn't walked onto the field at South Carolina's Williams-Brice Stadium since Oct. 27, when he suffered a gruesome injury to multiple ligaments in his right knee in a game against Tennessee. Five months later, the running back who spent three seasons helping to elevate the Gamecocks' program returned to their home field Wednesday to participate in South Carolina's pro day. Although he isn't ready yet to take part in on-field drills such as the 40-yard dash, he did some indoor exercises for NFL scouts to demonstrate the progress of his knee.
He quickly stepped in and out of the squares on a rope ladder. He jumped from a standing position onto an 18-inch box and did the same with a 24-inch box. He did step-up exercises onto a box. He did lunges, reverse lunges and balanced on one leg and lowered himself as far as he could. What it means for his NFL Draft status remains to be seen. The draft's third and final day is a month from Wednesday. The fourth through seventh rounds are picked on that day, and Lattimore is currently rated as a fourth- to fifth-round prospect by NFLDraftScout.com and the No. 11 running back available in this class. - Derek Harper, The Sports Xchange
03/01/2013 - 2013 NFL PRO DAY DATES TO REMEMBER: Lattimore suffered a devastating knee injury in November, his second serious knee injury in as many years, and is furiously rehabbing to work out for scouts before the draft. He might be the most gifted running back in this draft class, but his durability is a bright red flag. Allen suffered a knee injury in late October that ended his season and kept him from participating at the combine. He has scheduled his pro day for April 9 in Greensboro, N.C., and is still in the conversation to be top receiver drafted. Carradine tore his ACL late in the 2012 season but is already a month ahead of his rehab schedule and has begun running. The potential first-round pick expects to be 100 percent by mid-April and plans to perform every agility and positional drill for scouts at his own pro day. - Dane Brugler, NFLDraftScout.com
02/21/2013 - Three months after undergoing reconstructive knee surgery, running back Marcus Lattimore says NFL doctors who examine him at this week's combine "will be shocked, I can tell you that." The former South Carolina star, who appeared on the school's weekly radio program Inside the Roost, said he's way ahead of schedule in his recovery. He won't do physical drills at the combine, but said he'll start running Monday and then "it's game on."
The school's all-time leader with 41 career touchdowns and 38 rushing scores, Lattimore sustained a gruesome injury Oct. 27 against Tennessee, tearing three ligaments and dislocating his right knee. He underwent surgery Nov. 7 and says he plans to play this fall. Lattimore has been rehabbing -- lifting weights, building strength in the knee and jogging lightly in a pool -- under the supervision of Dr. James Andrews, part of the team that performed the operation. Andrews, a Redskins physician, will be at the combine to answer questions from teams about Lattimore's progress. Andrews reportedly told Lattimore he'd "shock the world" with his recovery.
Lattimore (6-foot, 218 pounds) would have been a surefire first-round pick had he stayed healthy in 2012, even after missing the last six games of 2011 with a left knee injury. Now he's viewed as a fourth-round pick by CBSSports.com. NFL Network's Mike Mayock said Lattimore likely will go in the third round even though teams won't expect him to make an impact until 2014. - Larry Hartstein, CBSSports.com
02/20/2013 - 2013 NFL Combine, Medical watch: Lattimore is an obvious focus for teams looking for a running back. When healthy, he's shown the vision, body lean and leg drive of an NFL workhorse and has been a standout since stepping onto the field for the Gamecocks as a true freshman. Unfortunately, though he's been a dominant force against SEC competition and scouts rave about his work ethic, he's facing an uphill battle in the NFL due to his struggles with durability, which appeared long before the Oct. 27 collision with a Tennessee defender which caused "Willis McGahee-like injuries" to his right knee and has since been characterized by his former head coach Steve Spurrier as a knee dislocation.
The 6-0, 220-pound Lattimore has long legs, which, in part due to his determined running style, take some hellacious hits. This has resulted in his missing action in each of his three seasons of college football. - Rob Rang, NFLDraftScout.com
12/14/2012 - South Carolina Running Back Marcus Lattimore officially announced that he will forgo his final year of eligibility with the Gamecocks and enter the 2013 NFL draft at a press conference at Williams Brice Stadium on Wednesday. "This has easily been the best 3 years of my life" Lattimore said. But he'd go on to say "after lots of praying and discussion with my family, I decided this was the best decision for me. "
Lattimore suffered his 2nd year ending knee surgery in 2 season on October 27th against Tennessee. Dr. Jeff Guy, who performed the procedure, said Lattimore tore 3 of the 4 ligaments in his knee including the ACL which had to be completely restructured. But luckily there are no cartilage problems and says Lattimore is right on course for where he needs to be and shouldn't need additional surgeries. Gamecocks Head Coach Steve Spurrier said he supports Lattimore's decision to enter the draft "100%" going on to say "at some point when you can play this game the way Marcus can, you need to be financially rewarded." - Kevin Bilodeau, WCSC TV 5 News
12/10/2012 - South Carolina junior running back Marcus Lattimore has decided to skip his senior season and enter the 2013 NFL Draft, according to ESPN. After suffering a torn ACL in his left knee last year, he injured several ligaments in his right knee this past season after an ugly collision on Oct. 27 against Tennessee. Lattimore has first round talent and ability, but obviously the knee issues and durability concerns will weigh heavily on his draft stock. According to Joe Schad's report, Lattimore's recovery "is on schedule" but there is still a chance he might not be ready for the 2013 NFL season.
Few thought Willis McGahee would be a first round pick after he suffered a devastating knee injury in the National Championship Game in 2003, but after a remarkable recovery, he was drafted 23rd overall by the Buffalo Bills a few months later. It's unlikely Lattimore will be drafted as high, but his draft projection won't become clear until closer to the draft when he hopes to jog and make some football moves for NFL teams. - Dane Brugler, NFLDraftScout.com
12/10/2012 - Some might not agree with his decision to go pro, especially coming off back-to-back seasons ended by knee injuries. But making the jump now allows him to receive medical treatment from NFL teams and also a contract to get paid while he rehabs. There is also the concern that if he returned to school and suffered another injury that his career could be over without a chance in the NFL.
A native of Duncan, S.C., Lattimore finishes his Gamecock career with 2,677 rushing yards and 38 touchdowns. Thousands turned out for an on-campus celebration of Lattimore the week after his October injury, also celebrating his 21st birthday. Head coach Steve Spurrier, who once called Lattimore perhaps the most popular South Carolina player ever, was in attendance and gave fans even more reason to cheer.
"The message he gave me was, I'll be back," Spurrier said. "So he's coming back." Apparently Lattimore changed his mind. And it's tough to blame him. - Dane Brugler, NFLDraftScout.com
12/08/2012 - 2012 ALL-SEC HONORABLE MENTION (MEDIA): Marcus Lattimore, RB, South Carolina, Jr., has been selected Honorable Mention All-Southeastern Conference (Media selection) for the 2012 college football season. - South Carolina football
11/09/2012 - Injured South Carolina tailback Marcus Lattimore won't attend the 12th-ranked Gamecocks contest with Arkansas on Saturday. The school said Thursday that Lattimore, team physician Dr. Jeffrey Guy and head trainer Clint Haggard agreed that Lattimore should not attend. Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier had said earlier in the week that Lattimore would be on hand when the school unveiled signage at Williams-Brice Stadium honoring the junior for his school career-best 38 rushing touchdowns. Lattimore suffered a gruesome right knee injury against Tennessee two weeks ago. He had surgery last Friday, Guy and other surgeons repairing several knee ligaments. Guy says there are no plans for additional operations. The school says Lattimore is in good spirits and has started his rehabilitation. Lattimore finished the season with 662 yards and 11 touchdowns. - AP Sports
10/22/2012 - South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier expected star running back Marcus Lattimore back in the starting lineup this week against Tennessee. Lattimore missed several practices last week with a hip bruise and got only three carries for 13 yards in a 44-11 loss to No. 3 Florida this past Saturday. Spurrier said Sunday it didn't make sense to send Lattimore back into the game and risk aggravating the injury once the Gators opened a 21-3 lead midway through the second quarter. The Gamecocks (6-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) rushed for just 36 yards. Kenny Miles started for Lattimore at The Swamp and finished with 15 yards. Freshman Mike Davis was the team leader with 20 yards on the ground. South Carolina fell eight spots in the rankings to No. 17. - AP Sports
10/18/2012 - South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore did not practice Wednesday because of a bruised hip and coach Steve Spurrier said his junior star might not start Saturday against No. 3 Florida. Spurrier had said Lattimore was running well earlier in the week, but the injury kept him out of Wednesday's workout. Lattimore arrived at practice let and watched from the sidelines. If Lattimore can't go, Spurrier says backup Kenny Miles and freshman Mike Davis would handle the load at tailback when the ninth-ranked Gamecocks (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) go against the Gators (6-0, 5-0). ''We're sort of banged up all of a sudden,'' Spurrier said. Spurrier said an injury like Lattimore's generally takes a week or two to heal. Lattimore had a touchdown, but gained just 35 yards on 13 carries in ninth-ranked South Carolina's 23-21 loss to the Tigers. Spurrier has gone back-and-forth on Lattimore's condition since Sunday. At first, he expected Lattimore to miss a couple of workouts, but said Tuesday that Lattimore had looked OK during Monday's session and expected him to play at The Swamp on Saturday. Then came Wednesday's twist. Lattimore is sixth among SEC rushers with 584 yards. He's tied with Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel for the SEC lead with 10 rushing TDs. ''It's not surgery type things,'' Spurrier said of Lattimore's condition. ''It appears it's something that'll be fine in a week or so.'' - AP Sports
10/17/2012 - In discussing Marcus Lattimore with reporters on Tuesday, Florida safety Josh Evans wasn't disrespectful. He didn't talk any smack. He said specifically that he didn't want to "take anything away" from the South Carolina star running back and invoked his 2011 ACL injury. But none of that matters much when you say point-blank that your opponent this week is not the player that he once was, and, per The Miami Herald, Evans did. "I think he lost a step a little bit from what we've seen before," Evans said, "but he's still showing statistics, so nothing to take away from him. I think that's due to the injury." As Florida blog Alligator Army documents, Lattimore's yards-per-carry numbers -- never quite eye-popping, thanks to his relative lack of long runs -- have, in fact, dipped in 2012 over his sensational 2010 freshman campaign and abbreviated 2011 season. As Evans himself points out, with Lattimore still only a year removed from major knee surgery, it would be difficult not to see a small setback in that department. But whether Lattimore has "lost a step" or not, it doesn't make much difference where his effectiveness is concerned. A larger role in the Gamecocks' passing game has meant that Lattimore still ranks second in the SEC in yards from scrimmage, and his 10 touchdowns are tied for the league lead among all players. It's also fair to say the stats don't always do Lattimore's bruising style justice. Though he ran for just 35 yards on 13 carries in the loss to LSU, the Tigers' success in penetrating the Carolina offensive line meant that even those 35 yards (and Lattimore's lone touchdown) were extremely hard to come by -- and yards that few other running backs would have earned. - Jerry Hinnen, CBSSports.com
10/08/2012 - WEEK 6 SEC OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE: TB MARCUS LATTIMORE (South Carolina) -- Carried the pigskin 24 times for 109 yads and a touchdown against Georgia. - SEC football
10/06/2012 - Connor Shaw threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, Ace Sanders had a dazzling 70-yard punt return touchdown and No. 6 South Carolina's defense dominated fifth-ranked Georgia in a 35-7 victory Saturday. The Gamecocks (6-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) won their school-record 10th straight game with a performance that marked certainly marked them an Eastern Division front-runner -- and maybe showed they're capable of even more. Those tests come soon as South Carolina travels to once-beaten LSU next week and then to Florida on Oct. 20. It'd be hard to pick against the Gamecocks after this one. South Carolina grounded "Gurshall," holding Georgia's stellar freshmen Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall to 76 yards combined. The Bulldogs (5-1, 3-1) finished with 224 yards, less than half their season's average coming in. Marcus Lattimore ended with 109 yards and a touchdown, the third straight time he's gone past the century mark on the Bulldogs. Coincidence the Gamecocks have posted their first-ever three game win streak in the series that began in 1894? The Gamecocks 10th straight victory surpasses a school best set with their 9-0 start in 1984. That team reached No. 2 in the country and were poised for the top spot when No. 1 Nebraska lost, but South Carolina fell to Navy to lose perhaps its best-ever shot at a national champion. Steve Spurrier's Gamecocks look capable at another run this season. - AP Sports
10/01/2012 - WEEK 5 SEC OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE: TB MARCUS LATTIMORE (South Carolina) -- Rushed for 120 yards on 23 carries and two touchdowns against Kentucky. - SEC football
09/29/2012 - After a sluggish first half, No. 6 South Carolina smothered Kentucky in the second half and pulled away to win 38-17 on Saturday night in an SEC game. The Gamecocks (5-0), who trailed 17-7 at halftime, broke away with a dominant third quarter. South Carolina rushed for 101 yards in the third after heading into halftime with 26 yards on the ground. Quarterback Connor Shaw's efficiency and running back Marcus Lattimore's power were too much for Kentucky's young defense to handle. Shaw was 5 of 5 for 54 yards and a touchdown pass in the third quarter. Lattimore's effect may have had more to do with the frequency of his carries than anything else. After five carries for 12 yards in the first quarter, he had eight rushes for 49 yards in the third quarter alone. Shaw finished 15 of 18 for 148 yards and two touchdowns; Lattimore's final total was 120 yards and two touchdowns on 23 rushes. - The Sports Xchange
09/16/2012 - No. 8 South Carolina rolled to another victory, despite some uneven play on offense and ongoing injury problems at quarterback. The Gamecocks (3-0) beat UAB 49-6 on Saturday night, rolling up 501 yards and scoring 35 points after starting QB Connor Shaw left late in the second quarter after taking a brutal hit to his throwing shoulder at the same spot it was hurt in the season opener against Vanderbilt. "This was one of the closest 49-6 games I have ever been around," coach Steve Spurrier said. It was Spurrier's 200th college coaching win, but he even shrugged that off. He counts his wins in the NFL and USFL too. "I have 47 others, so it sort of blends in," said Spurrier, who joined Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer, Texas' Mack Brown and Nevada's Chris Ault as the only active Division I coaches to reach that mark. Spurrier didn't think his quarterbacks made good throws at times and his running game didn't start to click until late when the game was well decided. Marcus Lattimore carried the ball 12 times for 85 yards. The all-SEC back hasn't topped the 100-yard mark in five of his past seven games. But the junior's 2-yard TD run in the second quarter gave him the school's record for touchdowns at 34 and tied him for all-time rushing TDs at 31. Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers held both those marks previously. - AP Sports
09/11/2012 - RB Marcus Lattimore rushed for only 40 yards on 13 carries against East Carolina, but his six-yard touchdown run in the first quarter was the 33rd of his collegiate career. That ties George Rogers and Harold Green for most in a Gamecocks career. - The Sports Xchange
09/06/2012 - Junior Marcus Lattimore played in his first game after sitting out the second half of the 2011 season because of to knee surgery. He picked up right where he left off, however rushing 23 times for 110 yards and two touchdowns. That was enough to earn him Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Week honors. He leads the nation in career rushing yards per game, averaging 101.2 in 21 starts. - The Sports Xchange
09/03/2012 - WEEK 1 SEC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Marcus Lattimore, Running Back, South Carolina...Making his first appearance since a season-ending knee injury last October, Lattimore rushed for a game-high 110 yards on 23 carries and a pair of touchdowns in South Carolina's 17-13 win at Vanderbilt...Lattimore also had a team-high three receptions for 21 yards...His 29-yard run in the first quarter gave the Gamecocks a 7-0 lead. His second score, a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter, put Carolina ahead to stay, 17-13. - SEC football
08/30/2012 - Rob Rang's 08/30/12 Top 32 NFL Draft Big Board: 26. - The Sports XchangeMarcus Lattimore, RB, South Carolina: Like fellow SEC star Justin Hunter, Lattimore will have to prove he's over the torn ACL that ended his 2011 season prematurely to warrant listing this high. Just as Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson were the unquestioned top backs each of the past two seasons, however, there is no doubt that if Lattimore is healthy, he has established himself as a superstar. - Rob Rang, NFLDraftScout.com
08/30/2012 - THIS WEEK'S GAME: South Carolina at Vanderbilt, Aug. 30 -- The Gamecocks have won three consecutive games against Vanderbilt, but each has been hard fought. They understand the Commodores lying in wait when they come to Nashville. Vanderbilt has a new found confidence following 2011. Despite finishing with a 6-7 record, Vandy advanced to a bowl game under first year coach James Franklin. The Gamecocks have bigger goals as, following a school record 11 victories a year ago, the team hopes to win its first Southeastern Conference title. KEYS TO THE GAME: South Carolina will attempt to establish the run against Vanderbilt, which means going to TB Marcus Lattimore early and often. That will allow the QB Connor Shaw to more easily work the receiving corps into the game. The play is to potentially give the ball to Lattimore 25-to-30 times, with backup Kenny Miles getting 10-to-15 carries. The Gamecocks will be more aggressive on defense, but coordinator Lorenzo Ward may have to temper the aggression due to an inexperienced secondary. P Tyler Hull and K Adam Yates are first time starters. PLAYERS TO WATCH: RB Marcus Lattimore -- The junior All-American is the foundation of the South Carolina offense. Although the unit played well in their last three games, the offense is much better with Lattimore in it. QUOTE TO NOTE: "I love carrying the ball. When I'm in the zone, and it is third and three or four, I don't even think about how many carries I've got. I'm just going as hard as I can." -- RB Marcus Lattimore, on whether he wants his carries to be limited this season. - The Sports Xchange
08/30/2012 - Marcus Lattimore ran for two touchdowns and 110 yards, and Connor Shaw ran for 92 yards while playing the second half with an injured shoulder as No. 9 South Carolina rallied for a 17-13 victory against Vanderbilt to open the season Thursday night. Shaw hurt his right, throwing shoulder late in the first half and missed the first two series of the third quarter before returning. The junior drove the Gamecocks for the go-ahead touchdown and ran 12 yards to the Vandy 1 before rolling in pain in the end zone. Lattimore scored the go-ahead TD on a 1-yard run with 11:25 to go. The Commodores turned it over on downs with 1:47 to go when Jordan Matthews couldn't handle fourth-down pass from Jordan Rodgers. Gamecocks defensive back D.J. Swearinger appeared to grab Matthews' arm before the ball arrived. - AP Sports
08/16/2012 - South Carolina tailback Marcus Lattimore looked strong in his brief showing at the Gamecocks' scrimmage Wednesday night. Lattimore is returning from knee ligament surgery after tearing his ACL against Mississippi State midway through last season. Lattimore missed South Carolina's final six games. Lattimore didn't play after South Carolina's first two offensive series. He rushed for 23 yards on five carries, two which went for first downs. He also caught a pass for 5 yards. Lattimore also showed off his tough, inside running style, breaking several tackles. Lattimore's been South Carolina's leading rusher the past two seasons. He gained 1,197 yards as a freshman. He had 808 yards through seven games a year ago when he got hurt. The Gamecocks open the season at Vanderbilt on Aug. 30. - AP Sports
08/07/2012 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S TOP 10 MOST VALUABLE NON-QBS: 7. Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina, RB: Steve Spurrier experienced life without his star in 2011 and the Gamecocks fared pretty well after Lattimore was lost in mid-October to a knee injury thanks to Brandon Wilds, Kenny Miles and QB Connor Shaw's own wheels. The Gamecocks averaged over 185 yards on the ground in those and eclipsed the 200-yard mark against Florida and arch-rival Clemson. Would they have been even better with Lattimore, no doubt, but this is case where the options behind the stud are still pretty good. - Bruce Feldman, CBSSports.com
08/06/2012 - PRO PROSPECTS ON THE MEND: RB MARCUS LATTIMORE, South Carolina, INJURY: Torn ACL (left knee), October 15 - missed final 6 games of 2011...Considered one of the favorites for the Heisman Trophy last year, Lattimore's All-American worthy sophomore season took a turn for the worse - literally. With over 800 yards over his first seven games, he was among the nation's leader in rushing, tallying four 100-yard performances including a career-high 246 rushing yards against Navy. However, Lattimore suffered a knee injury in an October win over Mississippi State and left the game on crutches. Originally diagnosed with a "knee sprain," he needed surgery to repair knee ligaments that ended his 2011 season and kept him from practicing this past spring. Even with the injury concerns, Lattimore is considered the top draft-eligible running back for the 2013 NFL Draft and should cement that status if he returns fully healthy this fall. - Dane Brugler, NFLDraftScout.com
08/03/2012 - It has been almost 10 months since running back Marcus Lattimore took a handoff for the South Carolina football team. Lattimore, a junior running back who starred at Byrnes High before leading the Gameococks in rushing the past two seasons, went down with a knee injury in the seventh game in 2011. Following an operation and vigorous rehabilitation, Lattimore has been cleared to participate in fall practice, which begins at 7:30 tonight at the Proving Grounds for the team team that learned Thursday it will open the season ranked No. 9 nationally in the USA TODAY coaches poll. While fans attending the workout will be looking forward to watching Lattimore work his magic on the field, Carolina plans to take a careful approach as it re-integrates its leading rusher of the past two seasons. "He wanted to come back and participate in the spring," said USC running backs coach Everette Sands. "But we weren't winning any games in the spring. We were like ???Nah, we're not going to let you in there.' That was the one thing to worry about - was he going to work too hard and making sure he didn't push himself too hard." USC coach Steve Spurrier is not a believer in a lot of contract during practice, which would allow Lattimore to ease back into action. "We don't really tackle too much to the ground," Spurrier said. "We try not to fall into legs and that kind of stuff unless we're scrimmaging, and Marcus didn't scrimmage that much last year before the season, anyway. "... From what I understand he should be ready to do everything he did last year." - Willie T. Smith III, Greenville Online
08/03/2012 - South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier was happy with the Gamecocks first practice of the fall on Friday. But he's had plenty of reasons to be upbeat this offseason. There were no questions after practice about who was going to start at quarterback or the off-field behavior of his main signal caller for the first time in several years. And star running back Marcus Lattimore was back after missing the last six games of last year with torn ligaments in his knee. Lattimore wore a heavy brace on his left knee, but he made cuts and showed a burst of speed after catching several passes. The several hundred fans that watched the opening practice clapped as the junior jogged during warm ups and gave him a good natured moan when he dropped an easy catch. "Marcus was running around full go as we expected. I asked him if he could do everything, and he said, `Yea, I'm doing everything coach," Spurrier said. Lattimore didn't speak to reporters after practice. He was the SEC freshman of the year in 2010 running for 1,197 yards and 17 touchdowns. He was hurt last season blocking for receiver Bruce Ellington downfield, but Spurrier and his teammates say the knee is fully recovered. "He's one of the best running backs in the league. We're excited he is back to help our offense," Ellington said. - AP Sports
07/21/2012 - 2012 PRESEASON ALL-SEC FIRST TEAM (MEDIA): RB Marcus Lattimore (201), South Carolina, Jr.,...Lattimore, a six-foot, 218-pounder from Duncan, S.C., has also been named to the Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award watch lists. - South Carolina football
07/21/2012 - 2012 PRESEASON ALL-SEC FIRST TEAM (COACHES): RB - Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina...The University of South Carolina football team was represented by eight players on the 2012 Coaches Preseason All-SEC teams. The Gamecocks had two players receive first-team recognition, four players earn spots on the second team and two players make the preseason All-SEC third team. Lattimore, a six-foot, 218-pounder from Duncan, S.C., has also been named to the Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award watch lists. - South Carolina football
07/20/2012 - 2012 PRESEASON WALTER CAMP PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD WATCH LIST: Marcus Lattimore, junior, RB, South Carolina, has been named one of of fifty preseason "players to watch" for The Walter Camp Football Foundation 2012 Player of the Year Award, the nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade. Lattimore, a six-foot, 218-pounder from Duncan, S.C., has also been named to the Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award watch lists, while being a preseason first-team All-SEC selection by both the coaches and the media. - South Carolina football
07/20/2012 - 2012 DOAK WALKER AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Marcus Lattimore (Jr.), South Carolina, has been selected to the Preseason Doak Walker Award Watch List for the 2012 college football season, presented annually to the nation's premier running back for his accomplishments on the field, achievement in the classroom and citizenship in the community. After just two seasons in the Garnet & Black, Lattimore ranks 14th in school history with 2,015 rushing yards, is tied for third with 27 rushing touchdowns and is third with 30 touchdowns scored. He owns eight career 100-yard rushing games. Off the field, he was named the Dr. Harris Pastides Scholar-Athlete for football at the 2012 Garnet & Black Spring Game and was recently nominated for the 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. - South Carolina football
07/17/2012 - South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier had plenty of zingers in his back pocket as he strolled to the podium at SEC media days for yet another go around with reporters from across the county. Entering his eighth season in charge of the Gamecocks, he was dressed appropriately with a spiffy garnet blazer and came out firing as only a walking quote machine could. Spurrier on injured running back Marcus Lattimore: "The doctors can do wonderful things now with those knee surgeries. We think we got one of the best in the country, Dr. Jeff Guy, that we think is certainly one of the best. Feels like he got a very good surgery. Marcus rehabbed it beautifully, done everything they asked and probably a little bit more. He should be ready to go." - Bryan Fischer, CBS Sports
07/10/2012 - 2012 MAXWELL AWARD PRESEASON WATCHLIST: Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina, RB, Jr., has been selected to the preseason Maxwell Award watchlist for the 2012 college football season, given to America's outstanding collegiate football player since 1937 and named in honor of sportswriter Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell. - The Maxwell Football Club
06/27/2012 - Heisman Watch 2012: Marcus Lattimore, RB, South Carolina - After scoring 19 touchdowns as a freshman in 2010, Lattimore was well on his way to becoming a potential Heisman Trophy finalist in 2011 before suffering a season-ending injury in October. The sophomore's numbers were astounding in just over six games (818 rushing yards, 182 receiving yards, 11 TDs). He returns in 2012 fully healthy and will again be the focal point for a very good Gamecocks team. With Trent Richardson now a member of the Cleveland Browns, Lattimore's combination of physical gifts and on-the-field production make him the most talented back in the nation's most competitive conference. - Nicholas DeLorenzo, The Sports Network
05/15/2012 - 05/14/12 BIG BOARD, BEST FOR 2013: 24. *Marcus Lattimore, RB, South Carolina: Lattimore, like fellow SEC star Justin Hunter, will have to prove that he's over the torn ACL that ended his 2011 season prematurely to warrant listing this high. Just as Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson were the unquestioned top backs each of the past two seasons, however, there is no doubt that if Lattimore is healthy, he's established himself as a superstar. - Rob Rang, NFLDraftScout.com
04/17/2012 - South Carolina star Marcus Lattimore realized during his time away from football he hadn't done nearly enough to keep himself healthy and help the Gamecocks succeed. Lattimore missed the last six games of the season and all of the team's just concluded spring practice as he rehabbed from torn ligaments in his left knee. Injured in the second half of South Carolina's 14-10 victory at Mississippi State last October, he had surgery a month later. Since then, has thrown himself into returning even stronger. "The main thing is getting stronger," Lattimore said. "I feel like I'm almost there." Lattimore used the time away from team workouts and practices to break down everything he did as a football player. He certainly appeared to do his share on the field, rushing for team highs of 818 yards and 10 touchdowns despite missing the last six games of South Carolina's 11-2 season. But Lattimore acknowledges he didn't know as much as he could about the offense or follow training guidelines as closely as possible. For example, he didn't always use cool tubs and hot tubs to soothe or perk up muscles worn from working at their peak. It might not sound like much, but in Lattimore's eyes, it was the difference between a so-so gain and a long run toward the end zone. "I'll never take my legs for granted again," he said. South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier and first-year running backs coach Everette Sands expect Lattimore to be at full speed this summer. Lattimore was often seen working on high knee steps or doing sprints on the sidelines while his teammates worked out on the field. "It's going to be nice when we get him back out there," said Sands, a former standout tailback for the Citadel. - AP Sports


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State officials put Duke Energy on notice Thursday after finding a leak in the secondary coal ash pond at the Dan River Steam Station near Eden.
That plant was one of three coal-ash impoundments with enough problems to force the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to issue a notice of deficiency. Duke has 30 days to come up with a plan to address the issues.
DENR began taking a closer look at how coal ash is disposed of after a spill Feb. 2 at the plant in Eden. A leaking pipe released 39,000 tons of toxic coal ash from the plant�s primary pond into the Dan River. Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to generate electricity, contains contaminants and heavy metals.
After reviewing video from 33 coal ash impoundments around the state, DENR officials said Thursday they had found numerous problems at the facility on the Dan River.
Video of a horizontal pipe system used to discharge wastewater from the coal-ash impoundment showed numerous holes and leaks throughout a concrete barrel pipe.
The video shows tree roots growing throughout joints in the pipe and some joints displaced.
Several blockages prevent flow through the pipe.
�Your dam is considered a �high hazard� dam,� DENR said in its letter to Duke. �In the event of dam failure, significant environmental damage to the Dan River could occur due to the release of coal ash stored behind the dam.�
But DENR isn�t that concerned about this newly reported leak, at least not yet.
�If there was any kind of high risk at this point, we would have staff engineers on site,� spokeswoman Bridget Munger said.
That hasn�t happened.
Said Jamie Kritzer, a spokesman for DENR: �We do not believe these pose an imminent threat to the structural integrity of the dams.�
He didn�t say Rockingham County shouldn�t be concerned by the leak, Kritzer said, it�s just not an immediate threat.
�They (the problems) are something that we�re concerned enough about that we have issued this notice to Duke to address this,� Kritzer said. �They do not represent an imminent threat to the dam itself.�
Munger went even further, saying the pipe�s location makes it impossible for coal ash to leak.
Duke Energy used the pipe that broke in February as a stormwater drain. This pipe is different.
�It is a wastewater collection and discharge system and the piping system runs beneath, I believe, the dam for that particular impoundment,� Kritzer said. �That�s the one we�re talking about today.�
The coal ash pond acts as a wastewater system. The coal ash is kept wet in order to keep it from flying free.
Cleaned wastewater settles on the top of the pond. Coal ash sinks to the bottom.
When water in the pond reaches a certain level, it flows to the top of a pipe that connects to a horizontal pipe where the water flows out to be discharged.
The leaking pipe is discharging cleaned wastewater into the Dan River in small increments, which doesn�t pose a threat, Munger said.
The threat comes if the dam breaks, which would release toxic coal ash into the river.
A Duke Energy spokeswoman declined to respond to DENR�s report of additional leaks and said the company�s statement of June 16 would be its last on the issue.
Duke officials said then they had begun to create engineering plans to address or close pipes in need of repairs.
DENR previously told Duke Energy to perform camera inspections at coal ash impoundments around the state.
�We basically said to Duke, �You need to go through and look at all of your piping systems at your coal ash impoundments,�?� Kritzer said. �Duke did that and they sent us their video they ran through the piping systems.�
Kritzer said the DENR staff reviewed the videos and sent three letters of deficiency to Duke Energy for the power plants in Chatham, Person and Rockingham counties.
It also sent letters requiring the company to provide engineering assessments for piping systems at coal-ash impoundments at power plants located in Wayne, Person, Chatham and Stokes counties. This includes the Belews Creek Steam Station.
The company is being asked to provide repair plans for all deficiencies or engineering assessment for pipes with less serious problems.
If Duke Energy does not provide repair schedules or engineering assessments within 30 days, it could face action, including a fine.
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RALEIGH � State dam safety officials ordered Duke Energy on Thursday to provide a schedule to fix piping systems in dams at six coal ash impoundments in central and eastern North Carolina, according to a news release.
The state discovered the leaks and other concerns with the piping systems while inspecting video Duke Energy provided to the state after a coal ash spill Feb. 2 at the utility�s Dan River facility in Eden, according to the release from the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The N.C. Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources on Thursday issued four notices of deficiency for leaks and other structural concerns the state found in the piping systems at Duke Energy's and Dan River (Rockingham County), Cape Fear (Chatham County) and Roxboro (Person County) power plants.
The state ordered the utility to provide a schedule for repairing the piping systems within 30 days.
Also Thursday, the state sent letters to Duke Energy requiring the company provide engineering assessments for piping systems at coal ash pond dams where state inspectors noticed smaller leaks or concerns at facilities in Belews Creek (Stokes County), Lee (Wayne County), Mayo (Person County) and Cape Fear (Chatham County).
None of the leaks or other concerns has been identified as an imminent threat to the structural integrity of the dams, said Tracy Davis, director of the N.C. Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources.
The state could fine Duke if it doesn't comply with the order, according to the release.
Last week, the state Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources issued Duke Energy 14 letters, ordering the utility to address leaking pipes or other concerns with the piping systems where more information was needed.
The pipes where leaks were identified are in the dams around the coal ash impoundments. The leaking components include risers that capture overflow from the coal ash impoundments or the spillway systems of the coal ash impoundment dams that carry treated wastewater from the risers to discharge points at the facilities.


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Cardinal Blasts Partial-Birth Abortion at Medical Congress
'Brain death' debate also sparks meeting of 400+ physicians
BY Brian Caulfield
September 20-26, 1998 Issue | Posted 9/20/98 at 1:00 PM
NEW YORK—Speaking with thunderous emotion at an international conference of Catholic health professionals in New York City, John Cardinal O'Connor commended those who have spoken out in moral terms against President Clinton's admitted sexual misconduct and asked why there was no comparable moral outrage when Clinton vetoed legislation outlawing partial-birth abortion, which the cardinal called "a horror far beyond others."
Much eloquent speech has been devoted to the president's situation in this country and abroad, the cardinal stated, "but where was the country, where was the world, when the president of the United States vetoed the bill passed by the Congress of the United States banning partial-birth abortion?"
He said that last week he sent a letter to Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, a Democrat who spoke from the Senate floor denouncing in strictly moral terms the president's misconduct, and who set the stage for other congressmen to do likewise. In the letter, the cardinal said, he told the senator that he "shared the popular applause over his courage to speak about the morality of the situation and not merely the politics of the situation, and I said for that reason — I cannot begin to understand how you can speak in such wonderful moral terms and yet vote as you have voted to support partial-birth abortion, which in my judgment is as heinous an offense against human life as our civilization has ever seen."
The cardinal said he was not speaking in political terms and called Lieberman an outstanding man in some other respects. His comments were given more force, however, by the fact that the Senate is scheduled this month to vote on an override of Clinton's veto of the partial-birth bill. Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, has been the target of an intensive campaign among pro-life Jews and Christians seeking to change his vote from last year in the Senate's failed effort to override the veto. The House of Representatives voted to override the veto last June, and a positive Senate outcome would bring the bill into law.
It was the first time Cardinal O'Connor had spoken publicly about the scandal surrounding Clinton, and his statement came a day after special prosecutor Kenneth Starr delivered his report to Congress outlining 11 possibly impeachable offenses by the president.
In his weekly column earlier this month in New York Archdiocese's newspaper, Catholic New York, the cardinal said that he did not need to make a statement on the president's situation because no faithful Catholic could be in doubt as to his thinking on the matter and he did not see how speaking out would stem the spread of public scandal or advance the salvation of souls.
The cardinal was a keynote speaker Sept. 11 at the meeting of health workers which marked the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) and the 67th annual meeting of the Catholic Medical Association USA (CMA). The conference, with more than 400 Catholic physicians and other health professionals from some 20 countries, was held at the Sheraton New York Hotel in Manhattan, Sept. 10-13. The theme was "Medical Ethics in the Third Millennium: Christ's Healing Love Through the Gospel of Life."
Other keynote speakers included Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, professor of medicine and medical ethics at the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, who gave the Jerome Lejeune Memorial Lecture on the doctor-patient relationship in the light of Christian ethics; Father Benedict Groeschel, CFR, director of the Center of Spiritual Development in New York, who spoke on devotion to Christ the Physician ("Christus Medicus"); and Father Stanley Jaki, a physicist and professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, who reported on the conditions surrounding two spontaneous healings at Lourdes witnessed at the beginning of this century by a Nobel Science Award winner. The laureate, Alexis Carrell, was a religious skeptic at the time and spent the rest of his life searching out the causes of the healings before being reconciled to the Church on his deathbed in 1944, Father Jaki stated.
Raising the greatest debate was a talk on the issue of brain death and its relation to organ transplants. Dr. Paul Byrne, the outgoing president of the Catholic Medical Association, said that brain death, in which a person has no discernible brain waves, is not death at all. It is a non-medical term that was created to justify the removal of living organs for transplantation, said Byrne, a neonatologist from Toledo, Ohio. The brain-dead patient is actually killed by the removal of vital organs which cannot survive intact for many minutes after actual death, he added.
His assertions received hearty support and strong objections from various participants. The Church has not ruled definitively on the issue of brain death, and a number Catholic physicians accept brain death as true death, Dr. Richard Watson, newly elected president of CMA, told the Register.
Byrne argued that the Church has always defined death as the separation of the soul from the body, and a brain dead patient may still be "animated" in many ways, with a beating heart, discernible blood pressure, self-sustaining body temperature and regular urination. Pregnant women declared brain dead have been kept alive until they have delivered their babies, he stated.
"I had to fight my way onto the list of speakers here because many people do not want me to give this message," Byrne said to the Register. "People are being lied to about this reality but the lie will not prevail."
Cardinal O'Connor also read a letter of commendation from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican Secretary of State, who thanked the conference for seeking more and better ways to assure that medicine serves to heal and not to harm and to promote the common good in conformity with the natural and divine laws.
Among the documents accepted by the conference was an "Oath of Hippocrates," drafted by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston, which retains the traditional prohibition against abortion and euthanasia.
Also approved was the "Promise of a Catholic Doctor" outlining eight items of ethical behavior, including to defend human life from conception to natural death, to serve the public health and donate time for care of poor people, and to cooperate with public health policies except when they violate human goods and life.
The conference's final resolution stated allegiance to the Church's Magisterium — "an ageless light, shining all the more brightly in the darkness of modern-day secular humanism" — with particular mention of the teachings found in Evangelium Vitae, Donum Vitae (the 1988 document on biotechnologies), and Humanae Vitae. The Catholic physician is called to be an alter Christus (another Christ), the resolution stated, who is "challenged to realize in touching and healing the wounds — both physical and psychological — of each patient we treat, that we are privileged to touch and heal the very wounds of Christ our Lord."
The conference focused as much on the spiritual as the medical. Daily proceedings included Mass, parts of the Divine Office of the Church, and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, which was exposed for 50 consecutive hours during the conference in a hotel room on the 34th floor. Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of the Military Archdiocese was the conference's episcopal adviser and celebrated the closing Sunday Mass for the gathering at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
"Most significant is that so many Catholic health professionals from so many countries have gotten together to pray, to share their faith, and to reinvigorate one another in fulfilling our religious and professional obligations," said CMA President Watson. He, his wife Leonie (also a medical doctor), and one of their eight children, Peter Damien, who has Down syndrome, brought up the gifts at the concluding Mass.
A urologist practicing in New Jersey, Watson said that a host of ethical dangers having to do with genetic manipulation, euthanasia, and abortifacients face medical professionals today and the dangers will become more pronounced and numerous in times to come. The conference sought to address the major issues and forge a comprehensive response that takes into consideration the positive elements of scientific progress while pointing out the ethical problems many new technologies present.
"I think groups of our type get a bad image of wanting to halt all progress according to some outdated medieval model of medicine," said Dr. Watson. "What we are affirming is an integrated, wholesome, life-affirming approach to all medical issues, so that the dignity of the human person is recognized as central to all that we do as doctors."
In his keynote speech, Dr. Pellegrino, recent recipient of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, said that the diverging views of Christian and secular bioethics were causing a crisis in the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors lacking a religious grounding no longer recognize their primary obligation as healer and make medical judgments increasingly on the basis of "quality of life" seen from a materialistic viewpoint. He urged the promotion of a Christ-centered view in which the physician and the patient are two parts cooperating in the larger Body of Christ.
Father Groeschel said that the image of Christ the Physician was the earliest private devotion in the Church, dating to the second century. St. Augustine made reference to "Christus Medicus" 40 times in his homilies, speaking of Christ as healing man's greatest illness — pride. Devotions to the Sacred Heart, the Good Shepherd, and the Divine Mercy are modern forms of the same devotion, he stated.
Brian Caulfield writes from New York.
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The centre-right VVD party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte has emerged as winner of yesterday's closely contested elections in the Netherlands. The centre-left Labour Party of Diedrik Samsom is in second place.
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