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The morning after a late night of troubleshooting by the car's builder and crew, and subsequent work on a voltage problem in the master control unit and a vexingly low exhaust temperature, the jet-fired Lambo rolled to the line. The crowd tensed, wondering what to expect when the thrust-ghini hit the ice strip. Then, it was over. a frustrated crew rolled the Lambo back from the line. Maybe next year.
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WHEREAS, the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq ., confers upon the governor of the state of Louisiana emergency powers to deal with, respond to, or recover from emergencies and disasters, including those caused by fire, flood, earthquakes, or other natural or man-made causes;
WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, issued on August 26, 2005, declared a state of emergency for the state of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina's potential to cause severe storms, high winds, and torrential rain that could cause flooding and damage to private property and public facilities, and threaten the safety and security of the citizens of Louisiana;
WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005 was extended by subsequent proclamations, the last of which is Proclamation No. 47 BJ 2008, due to the extreme damage caused by Hurricane Katrina and the continuation of emergency/disaster conditions in the most affected areas;
WHEREAS, pursuant to R.S. 29:724(D)(4), and subject to applicable requirements for compensation, the governor may commandeer or utilize any private property if he finds this necessary to cope with a disaster or emergency;
WHEREAS, at the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority West Bank, the Department of Transportation and Development, and West Jefferson Levee District, and upon the concurrence of the Attorney General's Office, it was determined in Executive Order No. KBB 2007-19, issued on September 24, 2007, that the best interests of the citizens of the state would be served by commandeering the use of certain property in the parish of Jefferson for the construction of the West Bank and Vicinity, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection Project, West of Algiers Canal, Contract 1 - Sector Gate to Boomtown Casino, East of Harvey Canal Floodwall, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Map File No. H-4-45741, drawings R-1A through R-6A of 29, dated August 2, 2007, attached to that Executive Order as Exhibit A;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. KBB 2007-19 directed the commandeering of the use of certain property located in the parish of Jefferson, state of Louisiana, situated in a portion of Section 56, Township 14 South, Range 24 East; containing approximately 22 acres and labeled "Limits of Required Rights-of-Way" on the map attached to that Executive Order as Exhibit A, Map File No. H-4-45741, drawings R-1A through R-6A of 29, dated August 2, 2007;
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Welcome to Being Cancer Network, a resource for bloggers & survivors.
- Access to over 1500 personal cancer blogs (new sites added weekly)
- I am a two-time leukemia and stem cell transplant survivor, pancreas cancer survivor, and now head and neck cancer survivor. I have been an oncology nurse for 27years. This website is meant to help cancer bloggers connect with each other.
( If you are experiencing any problems, please contact me off-blog. email@example.com OR firstname.lastname@example.com. Dennis)
I have been away too long and I apologize. This is the longest I have been away from the blog since I started it in 2008. My Mail program on my Mac has been on the fritz since April. I was on the phone with Apple Support yesterday when the program came back to life, at least for the Being Cancer address. I was shocked to find that several dozen folks had left messages and requests, including a family in Greece seeking advice on treating my original illness, T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia. I felt a sense of guilt as I always try to communicate with fellow T-PLL patients, as there is so little information out there on this rare cancer.
I was cancelled at the hospital today so I plan to use the time to go thru my correspondence and subsequently highlight some of the new blogs that have been created recently. I was gratified that, even in my absence, people have found Being Cancer Network to be a valuable tool. So I will be adding new blogs and gradually weeding out some of those that have been discontinued. As there are over 1500, it would take at least 75 hours to go thru them all. If you know of any software that culls inactive links, please let me know.
Briefly my own life is continuing on. A repeat CT of my abdomen showed no further sign of pancreatic cancer. A recent head CT showed no sign of additional parotid tumor. The site has healed well although the right side of my face is still numb. Good news is I no longer have to shave on that side of my face. I am due for my annual visit to my bone marrow transplant doctor but I expect no bad news there. I still work my basic part-time schedule in the bone marrow transplant clinic but have changed my status from regular to supplemental. This means I receive no benefits other than hourly wage but I can take off whenever and as often as I want.
When my wife's parents died, she and some of her siblings bought the vacation home (trailer) in a retirement community in Estero, Florida. After my last cancer diagnosis last spring I bought a sailboat and we are keeping it down there for sailing in Charlotte Harbor. I will be 68 this summer and intend to start actively enjoying these years while I still can, especially with two new diagnoses of cancer in the past two years. With my reduced commitment at work I should have more time to spend on this blog site.
Take care,
I got to ring the brass bell in the lobby of the radiation center last Wednesday. I rang three times as is the custom. Except for that celebratory ritual, the day was a bit anti-climatic. This whole cancer episode has been undramatic, especially when compared to my previous battles with the "Beast". I never felt as threatened, as scared, as debilitated, as sick with this parotid cancer as I did with my leukemia. This is not meant to take away from other head and neck cancer survivors for I know from experience that those can be among the most gruesome and distressing of cancers
I continue, I guess to be lucky in my various encounters with cancer. We caught this early. It was small in size and had not spread to my lymph nodes. It is possible that the surgeon was able to resect literally all of my cancer. Radiation was just a mopping up exercise, an extra measure, giving me confidence that the 20-30% chance of reoccurence might not apply to me. And since the tumor was small and no lymph nodes were involved, the target area for radiation was small, the beam penetration shallow.
I had been prepared for the worst – agonizing pain in my throat, being unable to swallow anything, dangerous, uncomfortable sores all over my mouth. In these cases a tube is surgically placed into the abdomen, passing thru directly to the stomach with subsequent weight loss and progressive weakness.
My throat started to hurt during the second week of treatment so I was quite sure I was heading for a long and disagreeable experience. But that pain got no worse. I never developed the mouth sores. The skin around my right cheek and ear did turn a purplish-black color. My skin broke open and bled a little throughout the day. There was an oily yellowish discharge, followed by crusting. I ruined several pillow cases. But as ugly as it looked, it provoked along minor discomfort. In fact much of the area is still numb from surgery.
For the past couple of weeks I have been putting a complicated dressing on the area. I start with some protective cream, Silvadine, followed by a moist petrolatum dressing, covered with gauze, a telfa pad, then the whole thing secured by wrapping stretchy Coban material up under my chin, encircling my head so that I look like the ghost of Jacob Marley in 'A Christmas Carol." The skin breakdown, radiation dermatitis, will continue for another several weeks.
During the last few weeks I have also been overcome with a profound weariness and fatigue, a condition vaguely related to accumulated radiation and the detritus of cellular breakdown. But I have in fact come out the other end of this. Unlike the peculiar elegance of leukemia which leaves only internal scars, this episode is visible in the long, sweeping scar on my face that, though fading, is hard and a bit jagged to touch. And I still carry the long red mid-abdominal scar from last summer's brush with pancreatic cancer's precursor surgery.
The blindness in my left eye, courtesy of my transplant procedure, has proved absolutely permanent. Multiple infections robbed me of my sense of smell. Radiation has disabled my sense of taste but hopefully that sense will return after a period. My appetite is poor but that okay right now. I needed to lose ten pounds or so. I will need to followup on my pancreas this August. Hopefully I am free of cancer, at least for now. So many medicines – chemo, biotherapy, multiple antibiotics, anti-rejection meds, steroids – used in some many combinations then overlaid with 30 radiation treatments seems to have done unpredictable damage to my DNA.
I hold no grudge. I am alive years, a decade even, longer than I ever hoped. But I am beginning to feel like a permanent tourist in the nether world of cancer. Where will it strike next? Cancer has become a familiar guest in my life. The critical thing to remember, to cherish, is that that life does go on. And so I look forward to each new day.
Take care,
Yesterday I had my 15th radiation treatment. I am halfway through, definitely the easier half. I confess I am writing this under duress. I have just spent the last hour typing out a clear, seamless narrative of my recent experience – checked and edited. I went to add a photo. For some reason lately my blogging platform has been rejecting photos as being too large. I tried to fix it, gave up, then hit my "Back" button. MY ENTIRE NEW POST HAD DISAPPEARED.
So here I go again. Sometimes the post is better the second time around. Always it is more tedious! So 15 down, 15 to go. Monday through Friday, radiation treatments have become my daily routine, my new normal. The treatments themselves have become rather boring and decidedly undramatic. Shouldn't complain though. Drama and cancer treatment is seldom a good thing. It all started a few weeks ago, my second trip to the radiation department, this time for my simulation. You say "sim" if you want to be cool. Radiation departments are frequently housed in the basements of treatment centers. The walls are lined with lead, the machinery is massive. It's heavy down there.
I am led back to the sim room. This is where the simulation CT scanner lives. I lie on the hard table. The technicians bring over a large rectangular sheet of a treated cloth mesh that has just been prepared by heating to soften the fabric. The whole thing is brought over my head and shoulders, then slowly brought down. Technicians on either side push the warm fabric around the contours of my face. It is snapped into place on the table itself. This will become my mask, fashioned specifically to my head and shoulders. It will ensure that my anatomy will be held in the same precise position and for each and every of the thirty treatments I am scheduled for.
A series of CT images are taken. All of these are then examined in the planning room by a team consisting of my radiation oncologist, a physicist, and a dosimitrist (who calculates the dose, both the total dose and the 30 fractionated doses). Radiation medicine is serious business. The radiation beam has a specific target. The official name for that target is my tumor bed, so-called since my actual tumor was removed some weeks ago my my surgeon.
My radiations beams are targeted but not quite so precise as say Cruise missiles are supposed to be. There is always "collateral damage." This is due to the nature of radiation being delivered as a beam that is continuous. On it way to my tumor bed in the area that used to contain my parotid gland, it first encounters several layers of skin and muscle. It arrives at its target with optimal strength but then continues on, passing through structures in my throat and then out thru the other side of my face. In my case five separate beams have been planned, each from a different angle, of a different intensity, and of a different duration. If all goes as planned the maximum total dose will be delivered to the tumor bed, the area that might contain microscopic cancer cells that escaped the surgeon's knife.
What does this collateral damage mean for me, the patient? In my case it means a bad case of sunburn and an increasingly sore throat. The first few weeks my face was increasingly red. Now it is shifting towards more purplish tones. Crusted areas have started to develop, especially around my suture lines. Desquamation is the medical term. Each morning I wake up to new blood stains on my pillowcase. The skin on the right side of my face is tight and a little swollen, making my face a but asymmetrical. The whole area is tender with occasional pangs in my ear and along suture lines. So far the sore throat has not interfered with eating but my voice fails me at times, dropping into a coarse, raspy whisper. My mouth is constantly dry despite an array of products from my dentist. Fatigue is becoming an issue. On Sunday and Tuesday I needed to take two naps each day, and that after nine or ten hours of sleep. Spring around our house with all our gardens is not a good time to be dealing with treatment-related fatigue.
My appointment each day is at 2:40. I drive downtown, valet park, take the elevator down to the basement, check in, get a cup of cold water, then head back to a waiting area. In two to ten minutes (this seems to correlate somewhat to how interesting is the magazine I am reading) a technician carrying my mask comes to fetch me. We go back to one of the two linear accelerator rooms. A plate to receive my mask is attached to the head of the table. The table is covered with a thin white sheet. I lay down as technicians place a foam support under my knees, then fasten me down to the table with eight plastic clips. SNAP, SNAP, SNAP… Now I am literally pinned to the table. I can blink but barely move my mouth to talk. The technicians retreat to a room next door, closing behind them a seven by seven foot, 5 inch thick lead and steel door. Remember those beams pass right through me and continue to bounce around the room.
It is right about now that my nose or ear or some other part of my face begins to itch, an itch I cannot scratch. I know that the staff and see and hear me. Music is playing. The first week I kept my eyes open and watched as the great machine rotated around my head, whirring, clicking and buzzing, and flashing red and green laser lights. Lately I just close my eyes and let my mind wander off somewhere else, not from anxiety but rather from boredom. SNAP, SNAP, SNAP… It's all over in about five minutes.
On Wednesdays I see a resident and then my doctor. I am weighed, vitals signs are taken, and an assessment of the side effects is made. This is the time to ask questions. Last week I asked how the radiation might affect the vision in my right eye. I completely lost vision in my left eye years ago after a shingles infection. We look over my treatment plan in color-coded CT sections of my head. Maybe a 10% chance of cataract development in my good eye. In a day or two the dietician will ambush me and chide me for a half pound weight loss.
And so it goes. Not bad so far for cancer treatment. Folks with head and neck cancers who also need concurrent chemotherapy have a much harder time. So far just a bad sunburn and a slightly misshapen ear. Hopefully my throat will not get so bad that I need a feeding tube placed in my abdomen. Fighting the good fight. This is what we do as cancer survivors. I don't mind the term cancer survivor because it is not so much about who I am as about where I have been.
Take care,
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There are always two ways of looking at things. Sure I have a new cancer, my third actually, and given my medical history and the state of my immune system, perhaps not the last. After all there was a time when I did not think I would live much beyond a year. That was twelve years and four months ago. Much has happened in those intervening years, most of it good. My sons have grown into adulthood. I have four beautiful granddaughters. I have returned to cancer nursing. I started this blog. I have had the opportunity to give back, to make a difference.
And then there are these pesky problems – having my spleen and part of my pancreas removed last summer in order to avoid the transformation of precancerous nodules into malignant tumors, and now having had another temporarily disfiguring surgery to remove a dangerous high-grade parotid tumor. But it had all been good news. Both surgeries were successful – no post-op complications, clean margins. And now I am about to embark on a new chapter, going thru radiation therapy. Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, biotherapy, stem cell transplant – I will have experienced all the common treatment modalities for cancer.This experience can inform my writing and how I relate to the larger world of cancer survivors.
The good news continued last week. First on Monday we met with my surgeon. He reported that there were clean margins. That means he thinks that "he got it all." He also excised 32 lymph nodes and there was no sign of cancer involvement in any of them. He did recommend that I go through radiation therapy as an adjuvant treatment. Even though there was no evidence of disease spread, microscopic disease may still be present. High-grade suggests a highly active tumor with a propensity to spread rapidly if it gets a foothold. He says that some of his patients elect not to go through radiation for various reasons. We tell him that we have decided to do the treatment and have an appointment with a radiation doctor the next morning. On the way home Tish makes several phone calls to various family to share the news.
On Tuesday morning we meet at the Cancer Pavilion at the IU Health Cancer Center. Radiation centers are frequently located underground or in the basement of a building. Machinery can be enormously heavy and the walls must be shielded with lead, I had previously sought out recommendations for doctors from my colleagues at work. As a patient I was able to use the valet parking service, a small treat. We took the elevator to the basement. Registration was simple, quick and painless. A male nurse took us back. It turns out that we went to college with Tish and I, although he graduated between us. As he took my vitals he shared that he was a tongue cancer survivor of fourteen years.
The next person we met was a young female resident, a doctor who has chosen radiation oncology as their specialty and is doing training under an established physician, in this case, Mark Langer. We spend some time reviewing my, at this point, rather complicated medical history. We were impressed that both physicians asked us about our own understanding of both my disease and its treatment. Too often discussions with doctors can be one-sided – the doctor asking very specific questions and the patient providing, sometimes hopefully, short, to-the-point answers.
Not surprisingly they both recommended radiation treatment, six weeks, Monday through Friday. One of my bone marrow doctors pointed out once that if you go seeking advice from a guy with a hammer, his recommendation will include using that hammer. Their main reason was the high-grade nature of my particular disease. The type of cancer I have is called mucoepidermoid carcinoma. Most times these are low-grade and behave more like a benign tumor. Mine behave like a squamous cell tumor.
I am given a folder of educational material as well as an internet source of teaching material. I give them high marks for this as patient and family cancer education is the focus of the special project that I have been working on the past year. The good news continued when he said that he did not recommend having a G-tube placed for feeding. Since there was no lymph node involvement, the radiation field will be fairly small and isolated near the corner of my jaw where the parotid gland recently resided.
So that pretty much brings us up to date. I have found a way to keep my mind off the cloud but that is material for another post. I am writing this the day before my first treatment appointment. This is called planning and simulation. And I will write about that in due course. Until then,
Take care, Dennis
I just reread my previous post. Boy, did I leave it on a somber, teasing note. I suppose we would call this post-op day # 8. I am in the waiting and recovery mode. The surgeon minimized the discomfort that I might feel – "maybe just a stiff neck" he said. The pain hasn't been that great, just nagging and persistent. I rate it at a 4-5 on a 10-point scale. Today is the first time I did not have have to take a pain pill when I got up. Using I have been taking one pail pill3 to 5 times a day. The pain seems to wander as the blood inside settles in various areas due to gravity. Wherever it has settled, it feels tight and hard. Much of my face still feels numb to the touch. No feeling at all on the outside, definite pain lurking beneath. It is my ear that gives the oddest of sensations or rather oddest lack of sensations. It is so oddly shaped, especially now since it is swollen.
I generally sleep on my side, my right side. So sleep, at least comfortable sleep has been difficult. For the first few days I daren't lay on my favored side – too painful. I tried sleeping on my back, a technique that seems to work better in hospital than at home. I have trouble hearing on the right, due to the swelling. So sleeping on my left side tends to drown out sound – generally a good thing, except when Tish is trying to talk to me.
I sometime feel a little uncomfortable when I am out, with small children running away, screaming in horror and that sort of thing. Actually it is not that specifically noticable until I point it out. The area is gradually changing color, progressing to a darker and darker shade of red. There is an oblong streak of red, creeping down my sternum as if wanting to meet up with my vertical abdominal scar left over from pancreatic surgery last fall.
I have been taking naps in the afternoon. Lately I have been working in the yard a little, pruning rose bushes. This is steady, low impact, low energy work. Except for the bend.ing over, my body might not notice it all.
I found out my surgeon only gave me a release from work for two weeks. I also found out that FMLA denied my request because, due to my six weeks off in the fall for surgery, I have not worked 1250 hours in the past twelve months. All that means if that IU Health is not obligated to hold my position while I am off work. My position was in a state of flux anyway. We moved out clinic from the hospital to the cancer center. More isolated there I can not work later in the evening. Coming in much earlier it difficult because my mother lives with us and needs pretty much constant watching over. But I am not worrying about my job now. I am past retirement age. And this may be one of those points in your life at which you need to redefine yourself.
Next week should be interesting. Monday is my 2 week surgical follow-up. My surgeon is out on spring with his family. So we are meeting with a partner. Maybe he will be more talkative. After all, I do have CANCER and we haven't talked much about that. Monday we hope to give a name to a specific diagnosis. What type of several possible cancers is this? How aggressive is my type? What will the treatment recommendations be? We know that most tumors such as mine require follow-up radiation. In some cases chemotherapy is also suggested.
It is hard to do much in the way of homework with the pathology results. But I have identified a radiation oncologist with more experience that most in head and neck cancers. So I have an appointment with him on Tuesday after own Monday meeting. We did this mostly out of impatience with waiting 2 weeks for the surgeon's recommendation. Probably more important is the need to regain a sense of control over life and disease, to try to take back my rightful place in the driver's seat of my life now under assault.
Two experts in the field have given me the same advice. Advice that I asked for but did not welcome as it brought with it a sense of gloom and general seriousness. The advice is to consider proactively having a G-tube or gastrointestinal tube, surgically placed in my abdomen. This is not a big surgery as those things go. But it is another thing done to me, another procedure. It is a medical appliance, a tan rubber tube with a stopper on the end, connecting my outside with my inside. It can be used to get part or all of my nourishment.
Even the the radiation will be very specifically focused, it will affect other cells in my mouth and throat. People getting radiation there experience throat and mouth pain, making it difficult, sometimes impossible to eat. And during this time of physical and emotional distress, sufficient calories are needed for healing. I could take a chance and wager that I will be able to successfully maintain adequate nutrition and hydration. But if I lost that wager it might mean interrupting the daily radiation therapy in order to recover for a week or so. And then might end up having to have a G-tube placed when my health, stamina, and immune system are at a low point anyway.
I may be putting the cart before the horse here. But I would rather mull over it a week before the actual discussion than be surprised during the consultation. All of this reminds me how much I prefer doing to waiting. So many things are on hold – my job, my grant, the rest of my life! What and how long with that be? Time again for redefinition, for discovering agency.


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Could sorghum be the feed ingredient that helps optimize poultry and swine producers' bottom-lines? In terms of global cereal grain production, sorghum ranks fifth behind corn, rice, wheat and barley. It is a hardy crop that can be grown in hot, dry climates around the world, especially where corn or wheat cannot be grown. Because of that, it is a grain that is or could be available globally to most producers. However, nutritionists have discounted using sorghum as an alternative ingredient as it contains proteins that are difficult to digest, causing reduced animal performance.
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As posted on January 22, 2014 on myfoxatlanta.com
By Dana Fowle, FOX 5 I-Team reporter
This now shutdown private child support collections agency just outside of Valdosta, according to federal prosecutors, was able to reach into the pockets of metro Atlanta parents taking $2.3 million dollars by defrauding parents.
"This was a horrendous, horrific, extremely pervasive, and widespread criminal ring," said John Sours from the Governor's Office of Consumer Protection. His agency launched the original investigation almost six years ago.
"They were living high on the hog, certainly higher than the people they were taking it from, or the people they should have been providing it to. You know the typical situation: fancy homes, boats, cars."
Stuart Cole pleaded guilty in federal court January 13, 2014 to "conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud" and "money laundering." Investigators say his agency went by as many as 14 different names - names like Child Support Services of Georgia and Atlanta.
Brandie Solis told the I-Team in 2008 she thought after a call to Child Support Services of Georgia, a number she found in the phonebook, that she was dealing with a state agency.
This struggling single mother said, "I told them that's who I was looking for and he told me, 'we're the ones here. That's what we're here for to get child support to the children'."
Instead like many others, she complained to the state that the baby's father was sending money but that she wasn't getting much.
"They would come but sporadically. I think three weeks they came when I could go to my mailbox on Monday and know that it would be there," she said frustrated.
Investigators told us the scheme included illegally threatening parents to get them into contracts.
Back in 2008 James Leverette told the I-Team, this private child support collections company threatened him.
"Either they could suspend my license, or basically, the main thing they told me, they would garnish my wages."
In fact, even before the company shuttered its doors, a Gwinnett County judge started telling clients who'd been hauled into court by Child Support Services to tear up what he considered fraudulent contracts.
From the bench Judge James Oxendine used harsh words, "They are nothing but bloodsuckers out of people who do not understand the law."
Mr. Cole is scheduled to be sentenced April 28th. He could face 40 years in prison with a $750,000 fine. A business partner is also expected to plead guilty. A spokeswoman with the US Attorney's office says the judge will decide if parents can expect some sort refund for money they paid but never got back.


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Geysers of the World
Geysers of Yellowstone
Grotto Geyser
Feature Type: Geyser
Geyser/Spring Type: Cone geyser
Upper Geyser Basin
Grotto, Riverside, Chain Lakes
Grotto Geyser is the namesake of the group. It was named and first reported on by the Washburn expedition of 1870. While not tall, the maximum height, usually reached at the very start of the eruption, is only 30-40 feet, the eruption can last for a fairly long period, expelling large quantities of water. Grotto is a fountain-type geyser. The pool through which it erupts is hidden inside Grotto's unique sinter formation. The unique formation is the result of sinter coating old tree stumps that stand around the pool. The result is a shell like formation that is not seen anywhere else in the park. Grotto's sinter formation connects directly to the large raised rim of Rocket Geyser. Both geysers erupt simultaneously.
The duration of the eruption can be anywhere from one hour to 26+ hours. Eruptions are often classified as one of two types. Short Mode eruptions usually last for 1-2 hours but can last longer. These eruptions are usually but not always concluded by a major eruption of Rocket Geyser. About 3/4ths of Grotto's eruptions are short mode eruptions. Long Mode eruptions, sometimes called Marathons, generally last for 6-12 hours but occasionally can last considerably longer. These eruptions usually do not include a major eruption from Rocket Geyser but do include eruptive activity from Spa Geyser. Also, during Long mode eruptions, the water level in Marathon Pool often drops a few inches. When the Short and Long mode classifications first came into common use, intermediate length eruptions, 3-6 hours, were very rarely seen. Since then, these intermediate eruptions have become more common. No consensus has yet been reached on how to classify these intermediate length eruptions.
Grotto's interval depends on the duration of the previous eruption. The interval for short mode eruptions is usually around 7 hours. The interval for long mode eruptions can be over a day. The longer the previous eruption, the longer the next interval. Fortunately, even if you don't know the length of the pervious eruption, with a little practice, it is usually possible to determine if the start of an eruption is imminent.
What to look for:
In recent years, most eruptions of Grotto Geyser have been preceded by Grotto Fountain Geyser. Thus, look at the information for that geyser to understand what to look for. Even if Grotto is not preceded by Grotto Fountain, the things to look for are still basically the same.
Predicting Grotto Geyser:
Lew and Jan Johns have been studying Grotto Geyser for a number of years. They have determined that you can predict the next eruption of Grotto based upon the duration of the current eruption. Follow this link to read their report on using eruption durations to predict Grotto geyser. Their results work quite well. Their 1997 linear regression formula for predicting the Interval Between Eruptions (IBE) was:
Where: IBE is in minutes and D is the duration in minutes.
Electronic Monitor Files
Grotto eruptions for 2000.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2001.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2002.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2003.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2004.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2005.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2006.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2007.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2008.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2009.txt
Grotto eruptions for 2010.txt
Some of the temperature data used to derive the eruption times and durations used in this section were collected by Ralph Taylor under a National Park Service research permit, and the remainder was collected by personnel working for the Geology Department of the Yellowstone Center for Resources (including Ralph Taylor). The loggers are a combination of loggers owned by the NPS and Ralph Taylor. Analysis of the raw temperature data to extract the eruption data was performed by Ralph Taylor. The eruption time files on this website may be used provided that Yellowstone National Park is credited for the temperature data and Ralph Taylor is credited for the eruption times.
Activity Recorded by Data Logger - by Ralph Taylor
Grotto Geyser has been monitored electronically since 2000, and was monitored at times before that, including the 1997 summer season. My data for 1997 covers the span 22 July to 14 October, with several gaps. Thermal volunteers Lew and Jan Johns also studied Grotto Geyser in 1995-7; their data can be found at
. The 1997 data described below and begins after the Johns' data for that year.
The form of the data presentation for Grotto differs from the presentation that I used for many of the other geysers because Grotto has some unique characteristics. Grotto has two types of eruptions, short eruptions and marathon eruptions. Short eruptions last about 1h30m and are followed by intervals of about six hours. Marathon eruptions have a much longer duration, some in excess of 24 hours, and are followed by a quiet period of a full day or more.
Since Grotto's eruptions fall into two groupings, much of the analysis that follows treats the non-marathon and marathon activity separately. It could be argued that the marathon eruptions are no different from the non-marathon eruptions other than lasting longer; on the other hand, there is a often a pattern of eruptions consisting of several short eruptions followed by a marathon, and marathon eruptions do deplete the energy not only from the Grotto group but also from the Giant group. At any rate, I did separate the eruptions by duration and provide statistics for the short and marathon eruptions separately.
In the analysis that follows I have chosen 4h50m duration as a dividing point between marathon and non-marathon eruptions. I initially used 3h30m based on an apparent gap in durations and the shape of the duration frequency distribution. However, analysis by Tara Cross presented in her paper on Giant Geyser in GOSA Transactions Vol X used 4h50m (electronic) to separate marathon and non-marathon eruptions based on observation of Grotto and related geysers.
It has been suggested by Paperiello that activity by Spa Geyser be used to distinguish marathon eruptions, but in this analysis I have only the electronic data for Grotto, so cannot use that criterion for this analysis.
Marathon eruptions, at least those that continue long enough, also cause visible changes in the Giant Geyser group, but again, that information is not available in the data set that I have for this analysis.
Activity in 2010
The interval and duration graphs shown here simply plot all of the intervals (time from one eruption start to the next eruption start) and duration (time from the start to the end of the eruption) along a timeline.
The first graph shows the intervals for all of 2010 to date and will be updated as new data are obtained. The second graph shows the activity for the most recent three month period.
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The graph at the right shows Grotto's activity for the last three months.
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The interval histogram at right shows the distribution of Grotto's intervals. The intervals below 4h50m represent the non-marathon eruptions. Note that the marathon intervals are fairly evenly distributed with little obvious clustering. Note that in this and the other histograms displayed here the labels shown on the X-axis represent the upper boundary of the class, not the midpoint. Geyser times are traditionally truncated.
The graph at the right has class widths of one hour. The bar appearing above the label "18:00," for example, contains intervals from 17h01m through 18h00m .
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The next graph shows Grotto's durations for 2010.
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The next graph shows the durations for the most recent three months. The pattern of non-marathon and marathon durations is more clearly seen on this graph.
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Finally, the duration histogram shows the distribution of the intervals for 2010.
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Activity Since 2000 (and in 1997)
The interval and duration graphs shown here simply plot all of the intervals (time from one eruption start to the next eruption start) and duration (time from the start to the end of the eruption) along a timeline.
The interval graph shows the range of intervals, and reveals some changes in Grotto's behavior. First, note the gap at intervals around the 12 hour line. This represents the break between non-marathon and marathon eruptions. The actual distinction is made based on duration, but the break is also visible here. Second, note that until early 2004 there were no intervals below three hours, but since then, and especially in 2005, there were several intervals well below three hours.
Lastly, note the marked increase in long marathon intervals (those in excess of two days), beginning in late 2005 and continuing in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
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The duration graph shows similar trends (not surprising, since Grotto's intervals are known to correlate with the preceding duration). One notable trend is the decrease in the duration of non-marathon eruptions, some of which have had duration of only a few minutes.
For this analysis I originally chose seven hours of duration as the dividing point between non-marathon and marathon eruptions. I used the seven hour criterion for the 2000 and 2001 data. Beginning in 2002, I changed to a six-hour break since the duration distributions since 2002 have had a region around six hours was the bracket with fewest members. Finally, in 2006, after discussions with other observers and after looking at the data further, I moved the dividing point to 3h30m duration, since that seemed to be a more appropriate choice based on behavior of the Grotto-Giant system.
The choice of duration to mark the separation between non-marathon and marathon is somewhat arbitrary, but is made on the basis of the annual duration distributions, which always show a break at some duration.
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The next four charts show the change in monthly statistics for both non-marathon and marathon eruptions.
For this analysis, as noted before, all eruptions with durations over 3h30m are in the marathon eruption data set. The marathon interval chart gives the intervals from the start of one marathon eruption to the start of the next marathon eruption, not the next non-marathon eruption.
The graph of monthly minimum, mean, median, and maximum non-marathon intervals reveals that the average (both mean and median) interval between non-marathon eruptions has remained steady at right around six hours. The range between minimum and maximum has begun to increase beginning in early 2005. There were no intervals below three hours detected before June of 2005, but in the last half of 2005 numerous very short intervals were recorded.
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The graph of the monthly statistics for non-marathon eruption durations shows similar characteristics. Again, the average has remained around the 90 minute range, but since early 2004 has gradually declined. The maximum is, of course, limited by the choice of 3h30m as the upper bound of non-marathon eruptions. Perhaps the most notable change is the decline in the minimum intervals, to nearly zero starting in September 2005.
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The next graph shows the statistics for marathon eruptions. For this analysis, the marathon interval is the time between marathon eruptions, not the time from the start of the marathon to the start of the next eruption (which is usually a non-marathon eruption). The reason for this choice is that marathon eruptions are of particular interest because of the connection between the activity of the nearby Giant Geyser group and Grotto Geyser.
During Grotto marathons, the activity on Giant's platform slowly ebbs until a few hours into the Grotto marathon the Giant platform is quiet.
Interesting Giant Geyser activity, including hot periods and eruptions, tends to be related to Grotto marathon activity. It is this relationship that suggested that the marathon interval for Grotto be tracked.
On the average, marathon eruptions occurred about every two days since 2000.
The marathon frequency dropped (that is, the marathon interval increased) during 2003 and 2004, but in the last months of 2005 marathons became much more frequent (and Giant Geyser became more active, which may or may not be related).
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The final graph of this group is the marathon duration graph at right. Since July of 2003 Grotto's marathon durations have increased slowly on average, reaching over 20 hours for much of 2005 but then declining. Note also that the maximum marathon intervals have increased.
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The graph at the right shows the percentage of marathon eruptions for each month for which I have electronic data. I added this graph after noticing the increase in the number of marathon eruptions in early 2006.
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Activity in 2009
Activity in 2008
Activity in 2007
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This vintage Haynes picture of Grotto Geyser shows the start of a Grotto eruption. The water is not nearly as tall later in the eruption.
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