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Rosalie Kunert, aka Rosie the Riveter, of Burbank died June 28. She was 86.
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Dozens of volunteers, called together under the auspices of the Church World Service Ohio, gathered Thursday night to package and send cleaning supplies to those on the East Coast still struggling in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and this week's nor'easter that dumped a wintry mix on the already water-soaked region.
Packaging gloves, masks, dishwasher's detergent, bleach and other household products, the volunteers from churches across southern Ohio came to the Eaton Church of the Brethren, 1407 N. Barron St., where they packed 200 buckets in 30 minutes, Pat Via, with Brethren Disaster Ministries of Southern Ohio, told News Center 7.
The regional effort is a project of Brethren Disaster Ministries of Southern Ohio.
The goal for the night was 400 buckets, to be loaded in a trailer that will be pulled by a pickup truck.
Nick Kiger, with event leader Church World Service Ohio regional office in Columbus, said the load was to leave Thursday night headed for Maryland first, then to other areas in the region.
According to national news reports, damage in New York alone from Superstorm Sandy could total $33 billion when all is said and done, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Thousands are reported to be in shelters still, and thousands more have been left trapped in their apartments and homes. Several national search and rescue units remain in the region, offering assistance.
Church World Service is an organization made up up of 37 denominations. founded after World War II to respond to the post-war food shortages in Europe. The group responds to disasters domestic and international.
Via said, "We have a lot of people who have a mind to help others and we can't always go and be there, but we can do what we can do."
The "clean-up" buckets containing about 15 items each will go to the closest disaster, probably New York, Via said, noting, "Once people help once, they understand how taking a few hours of their time can make a difference."
Earlier this week, members of the Eaton Church of the Brethren fellowship class and women's aid fellowship collected and prepared the donated supplies for Thursday night's final assembling and packing.
Other congregations that want to help or do a similar project should call the Church World Service in Columbus at (614) 481-4416.
According to Kiger, clean-up buckets are needed most. Blankets are another critical need because of the seasonal weather changes, but Kiger and his organization said it is better to give a $5 donation so his church can buy blankets.
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OverviewThe park contains oak savanna and old farm fields at the top of river bluffs, and forested valleys draining to the river shore below. Much of the grassy fields are going through prairie restoration projects. BirdsI was here on an unseasonably warm February morning, and surprisingly I saw very few birds - just a handful of crows, chickadees and cardinals. ChecklistTo do Site InformationHistory and UseI guess this is only a birding destination in warmer months. In winter there are groomed cross-country ski trails, and in warmer months the park is probably quite crowded. Areas of InterestTo do Access and FacilitiesAfton State Park is located on the St. Croix River, on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border southwest of St. Paul, MN. It is located next to Afton Alps ski area. Daily ($5) or annual MN state park pass required. Contact DetailsTo do External LinksTo do Content and images originally posted by bkrownd


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Should never have doubted my own genius. Looking a bit better now.
National Scrabble Champion 2009, 8th in 2009 World Championships, gold medal (team) at Causeway, 2011 Masters Champion
Australias Darren Lehmann is a blatant loser insists Stuart Broad
Countdown Series 57 Champion
King of the Arcade
Reply from mods to my prank bans in public:
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Series Result: Eng 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker:Johnson/Siddle
Player of the Series: Broad
Surprise Packet: Broad
Dropped Player(s): Monty, Hughes
Miscellaneous Event: Swann to cop it in the nuts a dozen times throughout the Ashes.
Looking pretty good...
- As featured in The Independent.
"Even when England lost 5-0 in 2006-07 I don't remember them folding like this. This is as bad as I have seen from an England side."
- Mick Vaughan on the 2013/14 tourists' efforts
Series Result: 2-1, 1-2 or 1-1 Still up in air.
Top Eng Run Scorer: Strauss 474 @ 52.66
Top Aus Run Scorer: (currently still up in air) Clarke 448 @ 74.66
Top Eng Wicket Taker: Broad 17 @ 27.82 (unless Anderson takes 5 more than Broad this innings)
Top Aus Wicket Taker: Hilfenhaus 22 @ 27.45
Player of the Series: Contenders - Strauss, Clarke, Broad, North (if he wins this match)
Surprise Package: Broad, Hilfenhaus, Trott
Dropped Players: Panesar, Bopara, Hauritz
Results are in
Series Result: 2 -1 England
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Hilfenhaus
Player of the Series: Clarke and Strauss
Surprise Packet: Probably Broad and Hilfenhaus
Dropped Player(s): Monty, Onions, Bopara, Hughes, Hauritz
Miscellaneous Event: Take your pick - Pietersen getting injured, Flintoff retiring, etc.
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Hitachi Data Systems is directly attacking storage rivals EMC and NetApp with converged infrastructure solutions that tie its storage with a choice of Hitachi or Cisco servers and Cisco or Brocade networking technology.
The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is slated to be available in two versions, including a fully integrated version that directly competes with the VCE Vblock and a reference architecture that competes with EMC's VSPEX and NetApp's FlexPod offerings.
But regardless of which of the three top independent storage vendor customers choose for developing a converged infrastructure, Cisco is the only company that has ties to all three.
[Related: Data Center Decision: Converged Infrastructure Vs. Best-Of-Breed]
The Hitachi UCP also will compete against converged infrastructure offerings including IBM's PureSystems and Oracle's Exadata, said Ravi Chalaka, vice president of solutions marketing at Santa Clara, Calif.-based HDS.
For enterprises running mission-critical applications, HDS developed the Hitachi UCP Pro, a solution that combines the enterprise-class Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) with Hitachi's CB500 blade servers, Brocade networking technology, VMware vSphere virtualization software, and Hitachi's UCP Director management software.
The Hitachi UCP Pro scales to up to 8,000 virtual machines, and UCP Director is tightly integrated in VMware's vCenter software for management and orchestration of both physical and virtualized servers as well as virtual desktops, Chalaka said.
"This gives a unified view of the entire physical and virtual infrastructure," he said.
Like the VCE Vblock converged infrastructure offering from VCE, the Hitachi UCP Pro is available only as a completely integrated solution. Chalaka said the Hitachi UCP Pro will be completely assembled and tested at HDS facilities in Norman, Okla., before shipping to customers.
The second version is the Hitachi UCP Select reference architecture which, like EMC's VSPEX and NetApp's FlexPod offerings, can be integrated by solution providers either before shipping to customers or in the field.
The Hitachi UCP Select offers a choice of the Hitachi VSP or the Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) unified storage platform, Chalaka said.
Customers and their solution providers also can choose from either Hitachi or Cisco UCS servers, Cisco or Brocade networking gear, and VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, he said.
NEXT: Hitachi UCP Pro vs. Hitachi UCP Select


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Goodall Express
Goodall Express offers a whole new level of walk-in care and convenience to Waterboro and the surrounding communities. When patients aren't able to see their own primary care physician, the facility provides care for non-emergency medical issues, such as abdominal pain, abrasions, dental problems, sinusitis, headache, minor cuts & scrapes, bee stings, and minor skin infections.
Goodall Express is not an emergency room and patients are urged to call 9-1-1 if they are extremely ill or injured. For minor issues, however, Goodall Express will be there to take patients in, get them treated, and get them on their way as quickly and conveniently as possible.
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Don't let the storm-tossed economy discourage you from sailing on a cruise. With fewer people booking passage and more (and bigger) cruise ships being launched, cruising has become a buyer's market. Here's how to find the lowest fare at the best time.
Look for bulk buyers
Check out cruise consolidators, which buy large blocks of cabins from the cruise lines at a deep discount. Most of the deals don't include airfare, but the savings are significant, and companies such as CruiseOne.com, CruiseBrothers.com, and Cruise.com feature dozens of discounted cruises around the world every week.
Don't shrug off "shoulder season"
Rates are lower between peak and off-peak seasons, when fewer people are escaping winter. Try sailing to Alaska in mid-May or early September; to the Caribbean in late April or September and October; to Hawaii in late August, late November, February, or May; or to the Mediterranean in March or November.
Check the school calendar
Avoid any time kids are on vacation, such as spring or summer break. That's when the supply of empty cabins is usually the lowest—and prices for them are highest. Cruises are wildly affordable right after Labor Day and during the week after Thanksgiving, for example.
Wait…Wait… Okay, now book it!
If you don't have a specific cruise date in mind, try waiting until the last minute to book online. Almost all cruise lines quietly unload any remaining inventory as the departure date draws closer. Note: "Last minute" doesn't mean what it used to. Post-9/11 security regulations require cruise lines to close the list of passengers as much as 96 hours before sailing.
Keep That Sail a Sale
Cruise lines don't make a profit on your cabin, so they try to separate you from your money the second they pull up the gangplank. Here's how to keep your budget afloat.
Factor in tipping
Some cruise lines automatically add gratuities, while others still rely on passengers to make that decision. One helpful resource is cruisetip.tpkeller.com, which calculates the suggested tip per day for each major cruise line.
Stick with the main dining room
More and more cruise ships have specialty—restaurants to give passengers options beyond the cost—included main dining room and midnight buffet. But eating at one of the ships' designer restaurants will run you extra: on Royal Caribbean International, for example, dinner at Chops Grille is $25 per guest.
Budget for booze
Don't expect to bring your own. Most cruise lines frown on this, and some actually employ a "liquor retention team" to seize alcohol not purchased on board (the bottles are returned at the end of the cruise).


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Citation and the Construction of Facts
Paula Treichler, a discourse analyst and cultural critic, has questioned the realist presumption that the HIV hypothesis became fact simply "because it's true." With reference to Gallo and his close associates, Treichler has argued: "By repeatedly citing each other's work, a small group of scientists quickly established a dense citation
network, thus gaining early (if ultimately only partial) control over nomenclature, publication, invitation to conferences, and history."[6]
Yet Treichler provided neither evidence nor elaboration to support this claim. To consider the acceptance of Gallo's hypothesis more carefully, I performed a content analysis of those scientific articles published in seven major journals in 1984, 1985, and 1986 that cited Gallo's crucial 1984 article published in Science (the one specifically advancing the causal argument).[7] Within the pages of these journals during the period 1984–1986, there were 244 articles that cited Gallo, ranging from 19 in Nature to 66 in Science . These were the pivotal years, as evidenced by the citation trend in all scientific publications: Gallo's article was cited 116 times in 1984 and 410 times in 1985; this dropped off slightly to 384 citations in 1986 and then more sharply to 341 citations in 1987 and 284 citations in 1988. Like most influential scientific articles, Gallo's enjoyed a brief period of heavy use during which more and more people found reason to invoke it—after which point the claims enunciated within it presumably became too much a part of common knowledge for citation to be necessary.[8]
In my content analysis I investigated four factors: first, whether scientists and clinicians referenced Gallo's article in order to support qualified claims about the causal role of the virus ("HIV is the virus widely believed to cause AIDS") or unqualified claims ("HTLV-III, the etiological agent in AIDS, …"); second, whether qualified and unqualified claims were made more (or less) frequently over time; third, whether articles authored or coauthored by Gallo or any of his 1984 coauthors were more (or less) likely to make unqualified claims than those written by other authors; and fourth, whether the articles that made unqualified claims were more likely to cite later articles in conjunction with Gallo's in order to back up those claims. (For details on how this analysis was carried out, see the Methodological Appendix.)
Table 1 shows a striking shift over the three-year period. Only 3 percent of the 1984 articles that cited Gallo (2 out of 59) did so in conjunction with unqualified claims about the virus being the cause. Fifty-eight percent of them cited Gallo to support qualified claims, while 34 percent cited Gallo for other reasons and without making etiological claims. By the following year, the percent citing Gallo to make unqualified claims had jumped to 25 percent (26 out of 106). And by 1986, 62 percent (49 out of 79) of the articles cited Gallo to make unqualified claims, and only 22 percent did so in conjunction with qualified claims.[9]
A glance at some of the more authoritative sources within the sample reveals the trend over time. A review article by the Council on Scientific Affairs of the AMA, published in October 1984, spent nearly two pages reviewing various etiological hypotheses and then concluded: "At the present time, the retrovirus etiology of AIDS is the hypothesis for which there is the most convincing evidence." However,
"even though the time may be close at hand when the definitive cause of AIDS is established, there is yet much to be explained." The authors noted several questions: "Why has AIDS been largely confined to certain groups while the majority of the population does not appear to be at much risk of acquiring the disease? Why does frank AIDS develop in only a small percentage of patients with the lymphadenopathy syndrome?"[10] A year later, several prominent epidemiologists from the CDC wrote an article for Science reviewing the literature on the epidemiology of AIDS, noting in the opening paragraph that, in 1984, "a retrovirus variously termed lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III), or AIDS-associated retrovirus (ARV) was isolated and shown to be the cause of AIDS [emphasis added]."[11] Similarly, a group of investigators with the Division of Virology of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine in late 1985: "The role of the human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) in the development of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is firmly established"—citing only the three "discovery" papers published, respectively, by Montagnier in 1983, Gallo in 1984, and Levy in 1984.[12]
Expressions of doubt or skepticism—let alone support for other hypotheses—were extraordinarily rare throghout this period from 1984 to 1986. The Lancet 's initial editorials reporting on the Heckler press conference and on Gallo's articles in Science criticized the public fanfare and argued for a sober assessment of the facts. The journal noted that the finding of a virus "is no proof of causality," given the possibility "that these viruses are simply passengers—yet another opportunistic infection to which these patients are susceptible."[13] "Nevertheless," the editorial went on to say, the fact that two laboratories had isolated the viruses from AIDS patients and that the viruses had been identified in many of the risk groups and rarely in controls "[lends] credence to our prejudice that viruses such as these are likely to be the guilty party."
One article in the New England Journal , published in August 1984, noted in passing that "further evidence is necessary to substantiate [the] possibility" of a retroviral cause.[14] More serious doubts tended to be voiced only in short letters to journals. Arthur Ammann of UCSF Medical School called for a "cautious appraisal" in a September 1984 letter to JAMA . Arguing that "there is no historical precedent for believing that a single infectious agent is capable of abolishing a normal immune system," Ammann suggested that AIDS might conceivably be
the consequence of "multiple infections" involving HTLV-III acting synergistically with other viruses, such as CMV. Before concluding that HTLV-III is the sole cause, he cautioned, "a great deal more evidence must be obtained."[15] But interventions such as these failed to gather any allies, and they largely vanished from the pages of the prominent medical and scientific journals after 1984.
What role did Gallo play in pushing the argument that his virus was the cause of AIDS? Articles authored or coauthored by Gallo or his coauthors certainly accounted for a substantial part of this literature—about a third of all publications in the sample for 1984 and 1985 and a quarter of them for 1986. (Of course, in many of these cases where the names of Gallo and/or his coauthors appear somewhere in the middle of a lengthy list, Gallo's lab most likely played a marginal role, perhaps no more than supplying viral samples.) But an interesting finding, revealed in table 2, is that, in terms of the pattern of making qualified or unqualified claims, there are no statistically significant differences[16] between the papers influenced by Gallo's group and those with other authorship. As Treichler has asserted, Gallo's group may have strengthened the credibility of their claim simply by publishing so many papers about AIDS and referencing their 1984 paper at every turn. But in referencing it, they were no more or less likely to make either qualified or unqualified etiological claims than other scientific researchers who cited it during the same years. They promoted their product—but they did not, in any crude or blatant sense, oversell it in terms of its causal implications.
On the other hand, Gallo and his collaborators were less circumspect than Montagnier's group, who, as late as March 1985, wrote cautiously in JAMA: "Although the precise role of LAV in the pathogenesis of AIDS remains to be confirmed, the present report, together with the recent description of HTLV-III and AIDS-related virus, provides growing evidence in favor of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus as the causative agent in AIDS."[17] And in November 1985, Montagnier reminded his readers that "cofactors"—factors in addition to the primary cause, such as antigens or foreign proteins—might often work together with LAV to cause AIDS.[18] Montagnier, in other words, sought to incorporate some of the claims contained in earlier hypotheses, such as the immune overload hypothesis, within a new explanation that gave star billing to LAV.
A remarkable aspect of the change that took place over the three-year period is that the trend is observable even among those papers that
do not cite any subsequent research. Table 3 shows all papers in the sample from 1985 and 1986 that made a causal claim when citing Gallo's paper (as opposed to citing him for some other reason). These papers (ninety in 1985 and sixty-nine in 1986) are divided into two groups: those that cited Gallo alone or Gallo in conjunction with other previous or roughly contemporaneous "discovery" papers, such as work by Montagnier and Levy; and those that cited Gallo in conjunction with at least some later research. One might expect that papers also citing later research would be more likely to make unqualified claims. While that apparently is not the case in 1985, it seems to be in 1986. (The numbers are too small for the results to be statistically significant, but twelve of fourteen such articles made unqualified claims.)[19] However, two points deserve note. First, only a minority of
the articles that made unqualified claims about the virus being the cause (five out of twenty-six in 1985 and twelve out of forty-nine in 1986) pointed to any later research when making such claims. In both years, most articles that made unqualified claims referenced the early set of papers only. Second, even among those articles that failed to cite any subsequent research, the original trend is apparent: between 1985 and 1986 the ratio of qualified to unqualified claims shifts markedly.[20] These articles would seem to follow Gallo's own lead, gradually reinterpreting the significance of the early papers by imputing to them a stronger causal claim than even their authors made at the time of their publication.
To be sure, one might argue that people who failed to cite the subsequent research have been influenced by it nonetheless. Perhaps when researchers cited the early papers as having "proven" that HIV causes AIDS, they intended these citations to serve as a kind of shorthand or synecdoche that symbolically represented the larger body of published scientific literature. For this reason alone, it makes sense to attend to the other research findings published in this time period that supported the HIV hypothesis. However, many of the subsequent articles
that were co-cited with Gallo's provide little additional evidence. The two most commonly cited articles (each cited three times by articles in the sample making unqualified claims)—Samuel Broder and Gallo, published in the New England Journal in November 1984, and Flossie Wong-Staal and Gallo, published in Nature in October 1985[21] —are review articles summarizing the literature on the "HTLV family" of viruses. The only additional etiological evidence that Broder and Gallo provided appeared in a brief mention of unpublished data from Gallo's lab showing (1) that HTLV-III had been found in semen and saliva in addition to blood, and (2) that HTLV-III had, by this point, been isolated from over 95 persons and could be recovered over 90 percent of the time from patients with "pre-AIDS." These latter data from Gallo's lab were eventually published by S. Zaki Salahuddin et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ,[22] though in this paper the Gallo group also reported that they still were unable to isolate the virus from half of the patients with full-blown AIDS. The Wong-Staal and Gallo paper is essentially the same in terms of its contribution to the question of causality. The authors simply reviewed the original Science articles and the additional findings published by Salahuddin et al. in the Proceedings .
Both review articles pointed to the Salahuddin article for the new evidence, and that paper was also cited on its own by other authors in the sample. But turn to that study and the citation pathway neatly reverses direction. The authors declared that "it is clear that HTLV-III is causatively involved in the immune disorder AIDS," and they explicitly advised the reader to refer back to Broder and Gallo for a summary of the evidence.[23] Findings such as these certainly support Treichler's claim—that Gallo and his close associates established a network of citations that served to create the impression of greater certainty than Gallo's own data warranted. In circular fashion, each article points to a different one as having provided the definitive proof; the buck stops nowhere. Still, one can find places where Gallo did a better job of summarizing the existing evidence. For example, in a less frequently cited article in the journal Blood , Wong-Staal and Gallo reviewed two types of evidence in addition to the serology studies.[24] First, in an unpublished study from Gallo's lab, out of ten blood donors whose recipients later developed AIDS, ten tested positive for HTLV-III antibodies. Second, an "animal model" was provided when chimpanzees were deliberately infected with HTLV-III.[25] The chimps "mounted an immune response to the virus, and some
developed enlarged lymph nodes analogous to the lymphadenopathy syndrome that often precedes AIDS." According to Wong-Staal and Gallo, these various results, accompanied by the knowledge that HTLV-III kills T cells in the test tube, "unambiguously establish HTLV-III as the etiologic agent of AIDS."[26]


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Via Sacred Geometry International
In the previous two months articles I discussed the remarkable phenomenon of red rain. I quoted chemical engineer and archaeologist Patrick McCafferty who concluded in The International Journal of Astrobiology that the red rain particles were both extraterrestrial and biological in nature and that their source was the interior of comets, but, as he comments, "such an image of a comet, containing a liquid interior teeming with red cells, is difficult to imagine and even harder to accept." Yet, as difficult as it may be to accept, it appears that a considerable amount evidence, both historical and empirical as well as mythical and anecdotal, leads to such a conclusion. I followed this discussion by suggesting that such a scenario was symbolized by one part of the strange and marvelous vision of the Grail Procession passing through the great hall of the Fisher King, as described in the writings of Chretien de Troyes, ca.


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Moira Nazzari lives in ITALY in the neightbourough of Milan.
She is an advertising photographer with travel passion!
Recently awarded with an HONORABLE MENTION at the INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS 2012 in the special category "Night Photography" with a series of London Pictures made in January 2012. Awarded in 2011 at IPA in "Fine Arts photography" for a 3 portrait of fish. She was awarded in 2007 and 2008 with other 3 honorable mentions in advertising photography. In 2007 she won the bronze and the silver medal at the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS.
She is addicted to music, visual arts and stationery.
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Some lies are so absurb that I couldn't help but to shake my head in bewilderment at it all.
"What planet DO you live on?"
Some lies were so manipulative that I ended up doubting MY sanity.
Tonight's meeting is not an Addict Bashing session. Not in the least.
It's about US!!! Addiction is a family disease--and we catch a mutation of the disease.
What happens to us and OUR sense of right and wrong in this mess called addiction?
A passage from our Naranon blue booklet, page 4 THE FAMILY says--
...we may try to cover for him, blame him, or excuse his unacceptable behavior.
We worry, we take on the addict's responsibilities, we make excuses and we try to cover up for him---
this is our anxiety--and as a result we become enablers...
Have you ever been so caught up in the daily chaos where YOU lied to cover up for your ALO?
Have you made excuses for your ALO?
Have you "fibbed" to family members about your ALO or to his/her employer?
I replied to another post with the reminder that actions speak louder than words.
"People my doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do"
These quotes apply to ME too....and YOU?
Do I make threats that I cannot--or will not--carry through on?
Am I sending mixed messages to my ALO?
May I worry more about what comes out of MY mouth
(things I can change)
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November 5, 2005, Terre Haute, Ind. - The Tigers scored on the game's first play and never trailed in a 60-21 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win at Rose-Hulman.
DePauw improved to 7-1 overall with its seventh straight win and finished SCAC play at 5-0 for at least a share of its first SCAC title since it was tri-champions in 2000. Rose-Hulman dropped to 5-4 overall and 2-3 in the SCAC.The Tigers' 60 points established a modern day school record and were the most by a DePauw team since the Tigers defeated Franklin 74-0 on November 4, 1939 and was the second most by and SCAC team in a conference game.
DePauw's Curran Clark intercepted Rose-Hulman quarterback Cameron Hummel on the first play of the game, returned it 29 yards for a score and Tyler Mallory booted the first of a school-record tying seven extra points to give DePauw a 7-0 lead just 18 seconds into the contest. Just 56 seconds later, Hummel rambled 66 yards for a score and Jeremy Sharp's point-after made it 7-7.
The Tigers started the ensuing drive on the Rose-Hulman 10 after Ryan Shatto recovered an onside kick. Six plays later Jeremiah Marks scored on a 1-yard run (photo above) to make it 14-7 with 12:25 left in the first. The score was Marks' 13th rushing touchdown of the season which broke the DePauw single-season record of 12 set by Bart Simpson in 1973.
The Engineers' Charlie Key fumbled on Rose-Hulman's first play of the next series and the Tigers recovered at the Rose-Hulman 22. On the Tigers' first play, wide receiver Brian Culp tossed a 22-yard scoring pass to quarterback Ross Wiethoff to make it 21-7 with 12:07 remaining in the first.
Marks made it 28-7 with a 5-yard run with 6:54 left in the first and then scored on another 5-yard run with 6:37 remaining in the half to make it 34-7. Mallory booted a 28-yard field goal with 11 seconds left in the half to push the lead to 37-7.
Rose-Hulman scored on its first series of the second half as Hummel ran 44 yards to cut the margin to 37-14 with 10:54 left in the third. Jason Murphy scored on an 11-yard run on DePauw's next drive to extend the lead to 44-14 with 6:57 remaining in the third.
Dorrius Ford's 5-yard run with 2:56 remaining in the quarter made it 51-14 before Key scored on a 1-yard run with 10:10 left in the game. Following another unsuccessful onside kick, the Tigers took over at the Rose-Hulman 46. On the second play from scrimmage, Daniel Stauffer scampered 45 yards to push the DePauw lead to 58-21 with 9:12 left. Jesse Brutkiewicz then sacked Hummel in the end zone for a safety with 8:18 remaining to end the scoring.
The Tigers outgained Rose-Hulman 483-314 including a 357-211 advantage on the ground. Marks paced the Tigers with 162 yards on 25 attempts with three touchdowns for a school-record tying sixth 100-yard game of the season and the 10th of his career in 17 games. Stauffer finished with 67 yards with Murphy adding 67 and Wiethoff 49. Hummel led Rose-Hulman with 179 yards in 15 attempts with two scores.
Wiethoff completed 9 of 17 passes for 104 yards with Culp hauling in five for 52 yards. Wiethoff caught the only touchdown pass of the game. Hummel connected on 12 of 20 for the Engineers with three going to Key for 26 yards.
Darren Lasley led the DePauw defense with six tackles including an 8-yard sack, while Eric Lewis, Greg Sylvester and Aaron Key each had five. The Tigers intercepted three passes with Clark, Andrew Huff and Ryan Shatto each totaling one.
Tim Wilson led the Engineers with 13 tackles followed by Nick Klaseerner and Paul Spreen with 11 each. Bryce Beckstrom recorded Rose-Hulman's only interception on the afternoon.
DePauw concludes the regular season on Saturday, November 12, when it hosts 9-0 Wabash in the annual Monon Bell game. Kickoff for the 112th overall meeting and the 74th for possession of the Monon Bell is set for 1:07 p.m. The all-time series is tied at 51-51-9 with DePauw holding a slim 35-32-6 edge in games played for the coveted trophy.


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Myelopathy can be caused by either intrinsic spinal cord disease or extrinsic compression. In the individual case, it may be impossible to clinically distinguish between the two. While myelopathy has traditionally been evaluated with myelography, this technique is both more invasive and less sensitive than MRI.
MRI has revolutionized the imaging of myelopathy. Not only is MRI more sensitive than CT or myelography for detection of disease, it is also more specific for the characterization of disease. This issue of Applied Imaging discusses the most common diseases of the spinal cord that can be diagnosed with MRI.
William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, FACR
Myelopathy is produced by disease of the spinal cord. 1 It can present with sensory or motor abnormalities. Sensory abnormalities include pain, numbness, or paresthesias from involvement of the spinothalamic tracts, or loss of position sense/proprioception from involvement of the dorsal columns. Sensory abnormality can be one-sided (e.g., Brown-Séquard) or bilateral, with a definable sensory level that is either fixed (e.g., transverse myelitis) or variable (e.g., ascending myelitis).
Motor findings due to cord disease include loss of motor function to both legs (paraparesis) for lesions involving the thoracic cord and conus, or loss of motor function in the arms and legs (quadriparesis) due to lesions of the cervical cord. Lesions involving only one side of the body (hemiparesis, hemiplegia) typically arise in the brain, not the spinal cord.
Over the past 2 decades, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proven to be the premier imaging technique for the evaluation of myelopathy. Older techniques, such as myelography, were limited to evaluation of the cord contour (which was both insensitive and nonspecific). While computed tomography (CT) continues to be useful for evaluation of the bony spine (e.g., in cases of trauma, spondylosis, or tumor), it is less sensitive for demonstrating the cord itself.
This issue of Applied Imaging focuses on the use of MRI to evaluate the symptoms of myelopathy. It is organized along classic lines: intramedullary (cord), intradural-extramedullary (outside the cord but within the thecal sac), and extradural disease (originating outside the thecal sac) with secondary cord impingement.
Intramedullary disease
Initially, cord gliomas are seen as focal areas of hyperintensity on T 2 -weighted images that may or may not enhance with gadolinium on T 1 -weighted images (Figure 1), similar to their appearance in the brain. 2 With time, they enlarge and a contour abnormality can also be detected. Cord gliomas are most often of two types: astrocytomas and ependymomas.
Astrocytomas of the cord tend to involve the cervical region but may involve any part of the cord. They tend to be infiltrative and difficult to remove surgically. These lesions tend not to respond to radiation therapy. 3,4
Ependymomas of the cord are more often found in the lower thoracic cord and conus. 3 They tend to be more easily resected and are more radiosensitive than astrocytomas. 3,4 There also is a tendency for ependymomas to be more vascular and more prone to hemorrhage. 5 Thus, they are more likely to enhance with gadolinium.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) of the cord can simulate a cord tumor (Figure 2). In milder cases, the only finding may be focal hyperintensity (Figure 3) on a T 2 -weighted image. 6 Tumefactive MS presents with cord swelling (Figure 2) and may enhance just like a tumor. In patients undergoing an initial evaluation of myelopathic symptoms, it may be useful to obtain images of the brain to detect subclinical MS. In such cases, thin-slice, sagittal, fast fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images have proven to be particularly useful. 7
While MS plaques may be indistinguishable from tumors on an individual basis, they tend to be more longitudinally elongated and flame-shaped (Figure 3) than tumors (which tend to be more rounded). Involvement is most common in the posterolateral aspects of the upper cord, decreasing in frequency in the thoracic cord and conus.
MS of the cord can present with transverse myelitis, although these symptoms are not specific. Viral myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a monophasic autoimmune demyelinating process, can produce similar symptoms. Any of these inflammatory conditions can cause cord swelling (Figure 2) and simulate a cord tumor. 8
Syringohydromyelia is a term encompassing almost any cystic lesion of the cord. 9 When these are associated with a Chiari I malformation (extension of the cerebellar tonsils at least 3 mm below the foramen magnum), the appropriate term is "hydromyelia" (Figure 4). This represents enlargement of the central canal; therefore, hydromyelic cysts are lined by ependyma.
The term "syringomyelia" technically refers to cystic lesions of the cord other than those due to dilatation of the central canal. Such cysts may be seen following trauma or arachnoiditis. They may also be seen in conjunction with a cord tumor. The tumor can be intra- or extramedullary and located either above or below the syrinx (Figure 5). Syringes are lined by glia.
It follows from the above that syringohydromyelia presenting without a Chiari I malformation requires further evaluation for the presence of a tumor. Such patients should be given gadolinium at the time of MR imaging.
A third kind of spinal cord cyst is that due to a cystic neoplasm (Figure 1). Such cysts are lined by tumor cells and tend to be filled with fluid that is more proteinaceous than CSF. This causes them to appear brighter than CSF, particularly on T 1 -weighted and proton density-weighted images.
The lesions in this compartment originate outside the cord and within the thecal sac. Generally, they produce myelopathy only when they interrupt the blood supply to or the venous drainage from the cord, or when they become large enough to compress the cord.
Meningioma is the most common tumor in this compartment, most often found in the thoracic and cervical spine. 10 This lesion tends to arise from the arachnoid villi near the denticulate ligaments. 9 In the cervical spine, these tend to be anterolateral; in the thoracic spine, they are posterolateral. 9 Like meningiomas in the brain, lesions in the spine tend to be isointense with normal neural tissue on both T 1 - and T 2 -weighted images and to enhance intensely with gadolinium (Figure 6). Spinal meningiomas may have a dural tail. Because they are generally slow growing, they may cause considerable cord compression before the patient seeks medical attention.
Schwannomas tend to be more common in the cervical than the thoracic region. Unlike meningiomas, they tend to be brighter than neural tissue on T 2 -weighted images and darker on T 1 -weighted images. Like meningiomas, they enhance intensely with gadolinium. 11 Since schwannomas generally arise from nerve roots, they tend to be positioned more laterally and may extend into the ipsilateral neural foramen. Because they are slow growing, they often remodel the bone with subsequent widening of the foramen. With continued growth, they will expand lateral to the foramen as well, leading to the classic "dumbbell" appearance. 8
Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis most often results from hematogenous spread of carcinoma of the lung or breast, or from lymphoma. It may also result from CSF spread of such intracranial malignancies as high grade gliomas and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs). 12 The latter "drop metastases" generally present first with radiculopathy due to involvement of lumbosacral nerve roots; however, over time, lesions in the cervical and thoracic region can enlarge to sufficient size to compress the cord (Figure 7).
It is important to realize that early spinal leptomeningeal carcinomatosis can only be detected on MRI with gadolinium and that many of these patients have already had craniospinal irradiation. This irradiation will result in enlargement of the vessels over the surface of the cord, potentially simulating leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. 13 In such cases, it is important to ascertain that the apparent drop metastases do not actually represent multiple cross-sections of the same dilated vessel on sequential axial slices. Additionally, in one form of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, there is a thin coating of tumor over the surface of the cord known as "zuckerguss" (German for "sugar coating"). On T 2 -weighted images, the cord may appear enlarged and to have increased signal intensity, simulating a primary glioma. It is important to administer gadolinium to these patients to detect the thin layer of enhancement on the surface of the cord and, thereby, make the correct diagnosis (Figure 8). Although uncommon, this form of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis can be seen with lymphoma, metastatic breast carcinoma, and CSF spread of medulloblastoma.
Fungal meningitis can simulate the appearance of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, leading to enhancing nodules over the surface of the cord. 14
Extradural disease
The most common cause of extradural disease that produces cord compression and myelopathy is bony metastatic disease. 15 While most metastatic disease goes to the vertebral bodies initially, lymphoma can go directly to the epidural space, thereby producing cord compression without bony destruction. 16 In older patients with osteoporosis, compression fractures may lead to a retropulsed fragment that compresses the cord, producing myelopathic symptoms. 8 In younger patients without osteoporosis, the same effect can be produced by trauma. In a similar fashion, disk extrusions in the cervical and thoracic region can acutely compress the cord. In particular, flexion-extension injuries of the cervical spine (whiplash) can result in traumatic disk extrusion with secondary cord compression, cord edema, and myelomalacia. 17 Thus, in the setting of myelopathy following spine trauma, it is important to perform MRI to determine whether the cord compression is secondary to transient buckling of the posterior longitudinal ligament from hyperextension (which does not require surgery) or acute disk extrusion or fracture (which may require surgery). 17
In addition, common masses such as schwannomas and meningiomas can be found in the epidural space or in both the epidural and the intradural extramedullary compartments. Regardless, when such masses achieve sufficient size within the confines of the bony spine to compress the cord, myelopathy ensues. Similarly, bony spinal stenosis due to degenerative disk disease can cause myelopathy (Figure 9).
While CT may have applications in the setting of primary or metastatic disease of the bony spine or trauma, it is not effective for visualizing the cord itself due to the dense beam hardening (Hounsfield) artifact produced by the surrounding bone. Therefore, MRI, with and without contrast, should be the initial imaging evaluation for myelopathy.
Clinical Quiz: True or False
1. When MRI is available, there is no reason to perform CT or myelography for evaluation of myelopathy.
2. Spinal masses show up so well on MRI that contrast is not required.
3. The evaluation of syringomyelia does not require the use of gadolinium.
4. While myelopathy is usually produced by diseases of the cord itself, it can also be produced by lesions outside the cord.
5. It is possible for an extramedullary mass to have compressed the cord and caused myelopathic symptoms, and not be visible on an MRI study several hours later.
1. False. CT is often useful for the evaluation of diseases involving bone. Post-myelography CT may be useful if there is too much patient motion or local metallic artifact on the MRI study. In addition, patients with pacemakers and ferromagnetic intracranial aneurysm clips can never undergo MRI.
2. False. Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis can often be seen only with gadolinium, and small meningiomas and schwannomas may only be revealed on the basis of their enhancement.
3. False. When syringomyelia is seen without an associated Chiari I malformation, gadolinium should be given to detect an otherwise unseen cord tumor, which may be producing the syrinx.
4. True. Lesions that are large enough to compress the cord can produce myelopathy.
5. True. In the setting of whiplash injury, the posterior longitudinal ligament can acutely buckle due to hyperextension, bruise the cord, and then return to its normal position.


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At 05:34 PM 5/9/2005 -0700, Jim Lux wrote: >At 01:40 PM 5/9/2005, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>At 05:49 PM 5/6/2005 -0700, Jim Lux wrote: >> >Today I was running a lot of antenna models, using a method of moments code >> >called NEC4 (in FORTRAN). >> >Just to describe the computational task for context: >> > >> >The antenna I am modeling is 9 patches, in a square grid, the middle one of >> >which is excited. >> > >> > >> > >> >What I DON'T want to do is rewrite (or even recompile) the antenna modeling >> >code. It works, it's been validated, it's been optimized (to a certain >> >extent), and besides, my job is to use the code, not to rewrite it for >> >parallel computing. >> >>You know, i can get very sad reading that. >> >>I worked for 1.5 years real hard (i have worked several months, 7 days a >>week, from 9 AM to 11 PM or later even) to get a hard to parallellize >>algorithm to work on a 512 processor SGI origin3800, without being able to >>test on the machine. >> >>If you can get system time on a 1024 processor machine for how many cpu >>hours is it? That means that the organisation in question is spending on >>you tens of thousands of dollars of system time and probably even more to >>salaries of the organisations guarding the machine. >> >>You aren't even prepared to do hard work to let the program run more >>efficient within the system time given? >> >> >And yes, there are approximations, better modeling codes, etc. >> >available. But again, I'd like to avoid having to track them down, >> >validate them, and so forth. I want to run my tried and true (but slow) >> >code, faster. >> > >> >I suspect that I am not alone. There are probably hundreds of people who >> >have similar kinds of problems, and would be well served by a desktop or >> >personal supercomputer. >> > >> >Flame On!! >> >>If you are not prepared to modify the software, >>then basically i'm missing the point of the problem presented. >> >>Any way to run it more efficient involves re-programming the software. >> >>Matrix type stuff is very well possible to parallellize. > >Actually, this describes the basic problem in the high performance >computing area very well.. The people who have jobs that "need" HPC don't >have the skills or time or resources to modify their code to use some >particular computational resource. > >So you have a resource (a very high performance computational system) that >goes begging looking for work, because there's some other "non-free" >resource needed to effectively use it (that is, skilled software people). I >should point out that JPLs 1024 processor Dell Xeon cluster is actually >heavily used, as are the Cray and the SGI machines, so my comments are of a >general nature. > >And, yes, the organization IS paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to >provide a shared resource, just as it pays for the buildings, the library, >and so forth. And, none of these resources are "free", even if they come >as part of the institutional overhead. > >But, at some point, you have to decide whether to allocate your resources >to developing software, or working on your particular problem, for which >the software is merely a tool. You do a cost benefit analysis: do I spend >a work month of time on parallelizing some code, so that the remaining 4 >months worth of work takes only 2 months? Or, do I just soldier on with the >old slow code, and adapt my working style to making overnight runs. > >Then, there's also the situation that even if you DID have the money, you >might not have the people resources. It's very difficult to "buy" a few >weeks' time of a skilled developer. If they're skilled, they're probably >busy and fully subscribed. If I have to wait a month for them to fit me >into their schedule, I might as well have been running the old slow code, >and be partway to my end point. > >And then there's the granuarity of purchase problem. If the 10 skilled >developers are already fully occupied, my little one work month increment >of work would require hiring a whole additional person, which my little >research task could not afford. > >Add to this the fact that for most codes, it would probably take many many >work months to significantly improve and modify them. It's a full time job >in itself. And that's assuming that you have sufficient visibility into the >code to do it. What if you're stuck with a tool that is ONLY available as >a compiled program (and such things are not particularly >uncommon). Imagine trying to modify OpenOffice to use Base 9, instead of >Base 10. Sure, the source is available, and the actual change might be >quite simple, once you knew where to change it. The problem is that it >would probably take you a year to find the 4 or 5 essential routines, and >to make sure that everything still worked after you were done. > > >So... the trick is to find a way to make cluster (or super) computing >usable in a transparent fashion? This is one reason why people buy >mainframes, after all. You can run the same old code, faster. It's the >original concept that Cray had. Run your unchanged FORTRAN program, a LOT >faster. It's the original concept behind a system I worked on back in the >80s, where the idea was to build a 80286 emulator out of fast ECL, so that >IBM PC software could be run lots faster. Not particularly clever, but >still, elegant in a kind of perverse way. > >If the reconfiguration extends to maybe an hour or two of setting up >(because that's essentially what it takes to install a new software >package), you'll find that people are willing to do it. 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On a Google map, the long stretch of Florida coastline from deep South Miami-Dade County to Sebastian Inlet appears a seamless mass of urban development jammed between a thin border of sand on one side and wetlands and farmland on the other.
But zoom in and it's soon sliced up by lines both real and imaginary: roadways, highways, railways, waterways and the boundaries of numerous, and often overlapping, governmental jurisdictions.
Now this vast area, at once connected and disconnected, is the subject of one of the most ambitious planning efforts ever undertaken in Florida. Called Seven50, it aims to chart a coordinated, integrated future for the development of Southeast Florida's seven counties for a couple of generations, through the year 2060.
On Thursday, the big moveable feast of thinkers, planners, economists, government officials and business leaders that is Seven50 convened in downtown Miami for the effort's second public summit since its launch in Delray Beach last June.
The seven counties of southeast Florida, already more populated than 35 states, will cram 3 million people into the region in the next 50 years, planners told several hundred attendees Thursday morning.
But transportation networks, public infrastructure and land use rules that encourage sprawl mean the region could face gridlock, environmental degradation, and dropping quality of life if current policies continue, they said.
The free public meeting is to take all day.
It may sound like "wonky stuff,'' said Seven50 lead consultant Victor Dover, a Coral Gables-based planner. But he said Seven50's scores of participants are convinced that agreeing to coordinated plans across jurisdictional lines is critical if the region is to prosper and meet a long list of common challenges. They range from transportation logjams to the prospect of rising seas and U.S. and international competitors trying to grab our share of international investment, tourism, cargo and trade.
And that competition is serious and well-organized, Dover said. In Texas, for instance, 13 counties and 100 cities between Houston and Galveston have banded together in a similar planning alliance, and so have cities and states along the Great Lakes.
The advantage Southeast Florida has, Seven50 planners say, is that old real-estate cliché: location, location, location.
But the region risks throwing its advantage away unless it better links up its airports and seaports, installs more and better-connected mass transit, and develops strategies to improve education and retain and attract the kind of skilled, educated young people considered key to economic prosperity in today's economy.
"Planning at this scale is profoundly American, from Jefferson to the creation of Washington, D.C., and if we don't do it, we're going to get blown away by the competition,'' said Andres Duany, a renowned Miami-based planner who will give the keynote address at the downtown gathering. "They're gunning for us.''
The sessions at Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus are designed to gather public input and share a still-in-development snapshot of the region as planners build what they describe as a massive data warehouse covering everything from demographics to housing, economics and transportation networks. Key discussion areas will be transportation, education and the daunting implications of climate change.


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Reading this AP dispatch from London, I can't decide if it's a legitimate news story (on the first British landng of the A380 Super Jumbo jet), or a press release for Airbus, the aircraft's European manufacturer.
The AP story is filled with fun facts on the massive size of the double-decker airliner, and the infrastructure upgrades required to accomodate the A380 at London's Heathrow Airport. There's even a description of the plane's initial flight to Britain, including a pass over the factory in Wales that builds the wings for the A380.
Along the way, the AP even takes a few swipes at Boeing, noting that the A380 will soon pass the American 747 as the world's largest passenger jet. The wire service dutifully notes that Airbus has recieved 159 orders for the giant aircraft, suggesting that the 747's era of dominance is coming to an end.
What's wrong with this story?
As we noted a few months back, both Airbus (and the A380 program) are in a bit of trouble. The super jumbo was conceived when oil prices were below $40 a barrel, and a 555-passenger jetliner made economic sense. Now, with a barrel of crude hovering in the $70 range, airlines are looking for aircraft that are more fuel efficient, particularly on long-haul trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific routes. Instead of rolling out a super jumbo of its own, Boeing wisely opted for development of fuel-efficient jets., notably the 787 "Dreamliner." Over the past two years, the American manufacturer has racked up 291 firm orders for the 787, compared with only 259 for both the A380 and the A350, designed to compete directly with the Dreamliner.
Making matters worse, American airports appear to be in little hurry to expand facilities to accomodate the A380. A 2002 GAO study conservatively estimated that facility upgrades needed to accomodate New Large Aircraft (read: A380) at 10 major U.S. airports will total at least 2.1 billion dollars--a cost that will be borne (ultimately) by travelers and local taxpayers. At Heathrow, upgrades for the A380 have (so far) run $850 million. The two billion total for U.S. airports is likely low, and there is opposition in some communities (notably Los Angeles) to expand terminals and runways to handle the super jumbo. Without wide access to the U.S. market, the A380 is ultimately doomed; in other words, a passenger flying from Singapore or Hong Kong on an A380 would have to change planes in Tokyo or Sidney, adding time (and cost) to the journey.
Not surprisingly, many airlines are opting instead for the Dreamliner, or the latest-generation Boeing 777, fuel-efficient jets, capable of serving long-haul routes, and compatible with existing U.S. airport facilities. While the largest U.S. airports will inevitably expand to accomodate the A380, they will likely remain a rarity at U.S. terminals for years to come, and that will likely translate into fewer orders for Airbus.
Make no mistake: the A380 is a technical marvel. But so were the Spruce Goose, the Lockheed L-1011 and the B-70. Ultimately, none of those designs were successful, because they were the wrong aircraft at the wrong time. The same judgment may ultimately befall the A380.
But that sort of context is obviously missing from the AP story. Reading their account from London, you'd think that Airbus has driven the final stake in Boeing's coffin. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. What are they teaching in journalism schools these days?


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Water use hints at problems at Utah Data Center
If you want a clue as to whether there are problems at the Utah Data Center, talk to the man selling the massive spy building its water.
When operational, the Utah Data Center is expected to consume 1.7 million gallons a day in order to cool the people and technology inside. But so far, says Bluffdale City Manager Mark Reid, water consumption has been wildly inconsistent.
"They've gone from no usage to over their amounts that they planned to use," Reid said on Tuesday.
"I don't know what they're doing there," Reid said, "but they're usage has been all over the board. "
The sporadic water use could point to the kinds of equipment failures reported this week in the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said the Utah Data Center has been plagued by power surges that have ruined "hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery" and "delayed the center's opening for a year."
The newspaper reported there is not yet a consensus on how to fix the electrical failures. The Journal said there have been 10 failures — the first on August 2012 and most recently on Sept. 25.
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers office in Sacramento, Calif., has been the lead engineer on the project since construction. On Tuesday, a spokeswoman in that office, DeDe Cordell, released a written statement confirming much of The Journal report.
"During the testing and commissioning of the Utah Data Center, problems were discovered with certain parts of the electrical system," the statement said. "Issues such as these can arise in any project, and are the reason the Corps tests and reviews every aspect of any project prior to releasing it to the customer.
"Because of the scope of this project, a specialized team of experts from the Corps' headquarters was sent to review and assist with addressing these issues. The cause of the electrical issues was identified by the team and is currently being corrected by the contractor. The final commissioning of the entire electrical system is still ongoing. The Corps is ensuring it functions as required and that it will be completely reliable prior to releasing the project to the customer."
The statement from the Corps of Engineers added that there are no issues with computers controlling the electrical systems.
The Utah Data Center was scheduled to be operational last month or this month — the NSA would not specify — and employ about 200 people.
While the Department of Defense contracted with a state agency to build substations and utilities outside the Utah Data Center, the massive building itself and everything occurring inside has been overseen by the Corps of Engineers and the Defense Department.
Cordell said she could not provide the documents reviewed by The Journal and that the Corps of Engineers would be "interested to know" how the Journal acquired or reviewed them. NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said in an email that "testing is underway" at the Utah Data Center.
The 1 million-square-foot data center will use 65 megawatts of electricity (a single megawatt is enough to run appliances in 500 to 750 homes). Rocky Mountain Power's largest Utah customer is Kennecott Utah Copper, which uses about 200 megawatts.
While cheap electricity was a major factor in why the NSA placed a data center in Utah, available water also was an issue. The NSA has an agreement to purchase water from Bluffdale. Bluffdale receives waste water from the Utah Data Center and uses it to water city parks.
Reid did not immediately provide statistics on the Utah Data Center's water usage. The NSA has agreed to buy a set amount of water from Bluffdale even if the Utah Data Center doesn't use it all. That's to ensure Bluffale is able to repay a $3.5 million bond it issued in 2011 to pipe the water to the data center.
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