An electrical storm jangled power to the center.

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While in Pittsburgh, the President will visit the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Number Five Training Center.

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According to a study conducted by Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University, electrical use per household in urban areas of Humboldt County has shot up 50 percent since 1996, while in Arcata and more rural areas, household electricity use has jumped 60 percent.

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Both Bellevue Hospital and New York Langone Medical Center had to be evacuated because all their electrical systems were in the basement.

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Bernhards Ogutu, a Kenyan pediatrician who went on to found a malaria diagnosis center, says expensive microscopy kits, complex technical training and electrical grid requirements limit how much the nonprofit can do to diagnose malaria in Africa.

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Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.

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The center aims to work much like Underwriters Laboratories, which puts its familiar UL seal of approval on electrical appliances that meet its standards.

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These components are combined with electrical parts that are also "made by Volkswagen, " such as the lithium-ion battery in the center tunnel and the 54-hp front and 114-hp rear electric motors.

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