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Laptop Battery The massive iron housing is still under investigation. The biggest questions now are where it came from and who is responsible.

According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

Thinkpad Turns out the "pipe" that punctured a Greek tanker last month and caused a massive oil spill on the Delaware River wasn't a pipe after all.

Since it is unlikely that congressional approval for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will be forthcoming, and Alaska's Prudhoe Bay pipeline infrastructure is crumbling and causing oil spills, it is up to oil producers in the lower 48 to keep the oil pumping. based Sunray Oil Company, as an independent oil and gas company with over 50 years of experience in acquiring, drilling, completing, and reworking oil and gas leases, is doing just that.

Microsoft Dozens of engineers and other experts said yesterday that the large hunk of iron the Coast Guard hauled out of the water Thursday was the top half of the housing of a large centrifugal pump.

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Laptop Computers The housing could have come from a dredging operation or a water or sewage plant, they said. How it got to the bottom of the Delaware, however, remained a mystery.

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Laptop Computer "It's not something that you have to put under a microscope and say, 'Ah, it's this.' It's obvious," said Frederick Blum, a mechanical engineer with Paul Zamrowski Associates Inc. in Berwyn. "Any engineer knows what it is. The real interesting question, in my opinion, is: How did it get there, whose is it?"

This oil pump makes storing cooking oil cleaner, easier and filters out matter that may taint the oil.

Desktop Computer But the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard were mum yesterday on the "metal object" and its origins.

Notebooks "Everybody I talk to has got an opinion about this," said Merv Brokke, an Army Corps of Engineers spokesman. "We're going to let the investigative team take a look at it and let them study it and let them come up with their conclusions."

Lenovo The pump housing was taken to a Coast Guard facility in Philadelphia on Thursday for evaluation, but officials there had no new information to release yesterday.

Hard Drive "It comes to a point where my hands are tied until my guys say, 'This is what it is and this is what we know,' " said Petty Officer Kimberly Smith, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard.

Travelstar When the object was discovered sticking up from the bottom of the Delaware earlier this week, the Coast Guard described it as a cast-iron pipe.

Gateway No matter what the label, investigators believe the object pierced the hull of the Athos I as the tanker was maneuvering toward the Citgo Petroleum Corp. refinery in West Deptford on Nov. 26.

Laptop Parts Thousands of gallons of oil poured into the Delaware, coating nearly 120 miles of coastline, killing more than 100 birds and disrupting commercial traffic.

Software The remaining oil on the tanker was unloaded at the refinery yesterday. The Athos now will go to a shipyard in Philadelphia for repairs.

Hard Drives Hal Reed, an engineer with Greeley & Hansen, an environmental engineering firm in Philadelphia, said the Coast Guard should be able to figure out who made the pump housing based on its markings, then possibly trace it to its owners.

Electronics Smith said she did not have any information about markings on the pump.

Canon "That pump is huge. That tells me someone was moving a lot of water," Reed said. "It's either from a water plant, a wastewater plant, or it's industrial."

Desktop Pc Inside the pump housing would have been a wheel with blades attached. The wheel would turn to create the suction to draw water into the pump, then the water would push out an opening on top of the housing. The pump does not filter water, it only moves it, engineers said.

Desktop Computers Reed said the consensus among his coworkers was that the housing probably fell off a scrap barge.

Think Pad "That's our guess," he said. "It was clearly scrap."

Repair Officials from Camden Iron & Scrap, the nearest scrap yard, said the pump housing didn't come from there.

Data Recovery John T. Lehman, a marine engineer and naval architect, said the housing could have come from a dredging operation as far back as the 1920s, when dumping in the river was more common.

Cisco "Somebody didn't go out there in a bass boat and accidentally lose it," he said. "It may have been from decades ago, when this was not an uncommon thing to do."

Keyboard The Army Corps of Engineers last dredged the area where the housing was found in 1979. Citgo officials said they last had the area dredged in 1992 by the American Dredging Co., which was bought by Weeks Marine the following year.

Monitor Officials at Weeks Marine, of Cranford, N.J., said that the pump housing was not theirs, and that it appeared to date from long before Weeks got into the dredging business about 15 years ago.

Desktop "We're pretty confident it's not from any of our vessels," company spokesman George Wittich said. "That's a pretty antiquated piece of equipment."

Infosys But Reed said he didn't think the pump housing was that old, judging by the Coast Guard photos he saw. He said the interior of the housing was too clean.

Refurbished Laptops "I would say it hadn't been in the river a whole, whole long time," he said. "This isn't something that's been missed for 15, 20 years."

Wipro In addition to civil penalties, whoever lost or dumped the pump housing in the Delaware could face criminal penalties under the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, said Joel R. Burcat, an environmental lawyer in Harrisburg.

Lap Top Smith said a criminal investigation "wouldn't even be possible until we could pinpoint who it belonged to."

Refurbished Blum said it was unlikely that anyone would dump the pump housing intentionally.

Memory "It's not a trivial thing to move," he said.

Intel One theory, Blum said, was that the housing had been removed for repairs to the pump and accidentally fell into the water.

As400 "Instead of going to the time and expense of retrieving it from the riverbed, if they were insured, they might simply put in an insurance claim and buy a new one," he said. "Again, the operative word is, might."

Averatec By Troy Graham and Wendy Ruderman
Philadelphia Inquirer - 12/11/2004

Topic: Petroleum Industry

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