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Building code standards for seismic certification require that critical electrical equipment, such as automatic transfer switches, transformers, motor control centers, and other on-site power gear, must endure expected ground acceleration levels or risk being red tagged during inspection — or worse. Who assigns these ground acceleration levels? The U.S. Geological Survey does. More broadly applied today than in the past, these International Building Code (IBC) standards could have important consequences for electrical contractors who buy, install, test, and maintain on-site power equipment. A basic understanding of seismic design requirements and your responsibility/potential liability as a project team member is critical for you to protect your business interests.
Seismic Standards
IBC 2009 and CBC 2010 refer to ASCE 7-05 as the performance benchmarks for seismic criteria. An important element in designing power systems to resist seismic events is seismic demand spectrum. SDS represents the base acceleration forces for a specific site, which can range from 0 to 2.48. Equipment must be certified to the SDS values for both the site at which it will be installed and the location in the building where it will operate. For example, power systems installed on rooftops in California must be certified for rooftop applications at the SDS value for the project. A typical value might be 1.93.
With the well-populated West Coast particularly vulnerable to seismic events, California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) has taken the lead and essentially become the de facto national approval agency with its pre-certification program. Specifically, for hospitals and other California health facilities, pre-certified manufacturer listings are available at: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/fdd/Pre-Approval/special_seismic_cert_pre-approval.html. If the manufacturer's product is on the list, you may use it.
These IBC and OSHPD requirements for seismic certification and pre-approval of electrical equipment can be game changers, raising the level of "proof" that design, construction, and equipment specification as well as installation and operation will enable essential facilities to continue their intended function after a severe seismic event.
Special inspectors — not building code officials — evaluate facilities for compliance. If a facility does not comply, then the inspector has a legal right to withdraw the certificate of occupancy, even though the building may already be occupied.
Real Life Risk
Demonstrating the ramifications of failing to comply with current standards, engine-generator equipment installed in a new hospital constructed in St. Louis two years ago was red tagged for not being seismically qualified. St. Louis is located near the New Madrid fault area, which has generated the most severe ground acceleration during a seismic event in the United States (click here to see Map). In this particular example, the engine-generator manufacturer had to send a retrofit kit to the site that was field installed to bring the equipment into compliance.
In addition to dealing with the hassles of a red tagged job, the building owner and other plaintiffs, in turn, could sue project team members, including electrical contractors, for improperly designed and installed systems. As of May 2010, for example, Richard Berger, chairman of The VMC Group, Bloomingdale, N.J., said 38 lawsuits related to seismic design had been filed as a result of these new requirements. Project team members can minimize their exposure by ensuring critical equipment is specified and installed according to current standards.
It seems simple enough, but it isn't always. Team members may believe they are protected by the master specification. However, if it isn't written properly, it can be of little comfort when litigation arises. The bottom line is that project team members are joined at the hip, regardless of their role. The IBC's Consequential Damage clause makes clear that the work of one is also the responsibility of others.
One reason contractors and other project team members may be unaware or confused about changes in the building codes — especially for seismic events — is that the handbook is for structural engineers, not electrical engineers. Seismic certification requirements for electrical equipment are not included in electrical handbooks.
All states have adopted one version of the IBC code or another. Nevertheless, many earthquake-prone communities in the country still do not have up-to-date building codes with seismic provisions.
One way to ensure properly written specifications is to review the structural engineer's notes on a project. These notes will typically cover data on building type and its seismic design category, estimated required ground acceleration SDS, soil conditions, and other seismic design forces that the building and its critical equipment must withstand.
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
To qualify for seismic certification, critical systems and components must be subjected to simulated seismic events on a shake table, rather than just an engineering analysis. Compliance no longer can be achieved with engineering analysis alone. When qualifying on a shake table, testing must adhere strictly to AC156 criteria for non-structural systems and components.
The VMC Group, for example, certifies equipment on a tri-axial seismic simulator that punishes it with thousands of pounds of force. During such tests, mounting bolts take the brunt of the force. They are a critical factor in withstanding a seismic event, considering enclosures may sway 3 inches in all three axes (see Photo below). The top of the enclosure may move up to 4 inches. Test results should show the equipment's ruggedness — mounting bolts remain seated, doors remain closed, and mechanically locked critical components, such as electrical contacts, do not jam.
This stop-action image shows a 4,000A bypass-isolation
automatic transfer switch being shake table tested. The
enclosure can move as much as 3 inches to 4 inches
during this type of test.
Bolts and braces also are important for another reason — to protect against consequential damage and the potential liability that could result. This type of damage occurs when non-essential equipment breaks loose during a seismic event and causes essential equipment to fail.
It's in the Codes
Chapter 17, Sec. 1708.4 of the IBC describes seismic qualification of non-structural components (i.e., mechanical and electrical equipment). Such systems encompass open gen-sets, enclosures, sub-base fuel tanks, remote radiators, automatic transfer switches and switchgear, batteries and battery racks, battery chargers, and day tanks. Depending on the equipment, some components may require isolation mounting as per Sec. 1708.5.
If the equipment is required to function to keep an essential facility online during a seismic event, is a life-safety component, or contains hazardous material, it's assigned a seismic component Importance Factor (Ip) of 1.5. Section 13.1.3 of ASCE 7-05 acts as the guide for this rating. As noted earlier, Chapter 13 of ASCE 7-05 is the performance benchmark added in the IBC 2006 and 2009 building codes.
The Ip also applies to components in or attached to an Occupancy Category IV structure (IBC 2003/2006) or Category III structure (IBC 2000), which are essential to the continued operation of designated facilities. Occupancy Category is the new term for Seismic Use Group that was used in previous versions of the IBC. Category IV is essential facilities, such as hospitals, airports, and emergency services. Category III facilities are those that represent a substantial hazard to human life if they should fail. Examples are schools, day care facilities, power plants, and facilities with occupancy capacities exceeding 5,000. Categories II and I facilities and their equipment need to comply with seismic standards when the Ip is 1.5 due to life safety or hazardous material.
There are instances when an existing building could change categories. Berger recounted an experience by Goldman-Sachs with a 35-story building it owns in Jersey City, N.J. Because the brokerage house leased space to a 911 call response center, the category for the entire building changed to Occupancy Category IV. That made it an essential facility and subject to Category IV standards. In another instance, if a school's gymnasium is designated as an "emergency shelter," the gym can't be considered an "island." The entire school must then be categorized as Occupancy Category IV.
Compliance and Equipment Labels
Equipment that needs to meet standards, however, must carry a certificate of compliance (C of C) that is submitted to the specifying engineer during submittal review and also submitted to the building official for approval. In addition, a label, mark, or other identification on the system or component must be affixed to determine compliance. This identification is proof to the inspector that the equipment that arrived on site is the same as what was submitted and approved during the submittal process. The C of C and the equipment label must contain the name of the certifying agency (or manufacturer may self-certify), the name of the manufacturer, the model designation of the equipment, and the performance criteria of the equipment (i.e., the seismic capacity of the equipment).
For his part, the building owner or his professional engineering representative must submit a statement of inspections identifying the building's seismic-force-resisting systems, seismic systems, and architectural/electrical components requiring special inspections.
The key to satisfying the local inspectors or other Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) is to provide the exact conditions of the tested equipment. In fact, it is common for the AHJ to ask for the electrical product's Seismic Test Report.
Increasingly demanding seismic standards and broader application of these rules add another dimension to the responsibilities of electrical contractors. The good news is they can minimize their exposure to risk and liability by familiarizing themselves with evolving seismic code standards, knowing whether or not project specifications account for ground acceleration and other seismic data for a site, working with project team members on a quality assurance program, and ensuring only properly certified equipment is installed.
Weber is a divisional engineer with ASCO Power Technologies in Florham Park, N.J. He can be reached at: [email protected].


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Can I finally go to bed, Wolvsie? That was some challenge to include everything on the list. I hope this qualifies since I considered the word "something" to be either paper or embies. The red plaid paper and the red paper are combined for a background. I used black paper with Fiona's current shape to do the black something. The metal is the silver snowflakes from Donna Thomas. The frame is also silver. The stripe is the bottom of the mail box and the flowers are a cluster I made.
Lovely layouts so far. Cheesepiece, thank you for sharing your special memories. it is a real tribute to your father.


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Ron Paul Slams Police, Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with "police state tactics."
In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself. The forced lockdown of much of the Boston area, police riding armored vehicles through the streets, and door-to-door searches without warrants were all reminiscent of a military coup or martial law, Paul added.
"The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city," according to Paul.
Furthermore, this response did not result in the capture of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Paul charged. He was discovered hiding in a boat by a private citizen, who called police.
"And he was identified not by government surveillance cameras, but by private citizens who willingly shared their photographs with the police," Paul wrote on Lew Rockwell's site.
Yikes. This isn't going to go down well in Watertown, is it? Citizens there applauded when police finally carted off Tsarnaev alive. The Boston police commissioner told his troops over the radio that "it's a proud day to be a Boston police officer." In the wake of the suspect's capture the media have generally portrayed law enforcement officers as heroes.
But Paul's contrarian take perhaps should not be surprising. After all, he's a committed libertarian who at one point in the GOP presidential debates said that the border fence with Mexico might at some point be used to keep US citizens penned in.
And while Paul's position here is, um, not in the majority, there are other public figures who charge that the Boston response was overkill. In some ways this is one of those points in the circle of American politics were conservative libertarianism and liberal progressivism meet.
The generally left-leaning Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, for instance, told PBS host Bill Moyers over the weekend that the public lionization of police in the wake of the Boston bombing isn't necessarily a good thing.
"The way in which Americans now related to their government, the way in which they get nationalistic pride is through the assertion of this massive military or police force, and very few other things produce that kind of pride," Greenwald said. "I think [this] shows a lot about our value systems and what the government is failing to do. And that's the way in which this culture becomes coarsened."
However, state and local officials have continued to defend their decision to shut down much of Boston for the Tsarnaev manhunt. At the time they did not know whether the suspect had more explosives or fellow conspirators, and they did not want to risk another tragedy.
"I think we did what we should have done and were supposed to do with the always-imperfect information that you have at the time," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) said at a news conference last week.
And Paul in particular is now drawing criticism for the company he keeps. Lew Rockwell, Paul's former congressional chief of staff, now heads the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a think tank with "deep ties to the neo-Confederate movement," which believes the wrong side won the Civil War, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
As a Paul employee, Rockwell oversaw newsletters published under the former congressman's name that contained controversial statements about race, homosexuality, and other hot-button topics.
Furthermore, Paul's own new organization, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, has an advisory board that contains a "bevy of conspiracy theorists, cranks, and apologists for some of the worst regimes on the planet," according to Daily Beast writer James Kirchik.
These include Southwestern Law School professor Butler Shaffer, who has written a post for the Lew Rockwell website titled "9/11 was a conspiracy," notes the Daily Beast.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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To me, it looks like Flight Time trips, grabs Dan because he's the closest thing, and falls. I mean...He walks off the path and as a result, trips and falls.And for the "second fall", what type of person tackles sideways? So... it really seems more like a trip to me...
DavidMV,Are you certain you havn't mistaken Vienna for the actual city for Episodes 10 adn 11? CBS has confirmed Prague with their Map and RFF has known it to be Prague for months.I do agree with you major point that it would be ideal for a TBC. I love TBCs compared to NELs. I hope that the renewed trend staretd by AR14 of having one TBC in a season continues.
David, I believe there will be NO TBC's this time.
Matt/Gary are not seen at the ferry. Is that because they had already gone thru before primefun arrived?? Or did they come through after he left to go chase the teams. That could be the difference between first and last at that point. Have asked primefun which he thinks is more likely, hope to hear.
Quote from: georgiapeach on November 15, 2009, 01:07:16 AMMatt/Gary are not seen at the ferry. Is that because they had already gone thru before primefun arrived?? Or did they come through after he left to go chase the teams. That could be the difference between first and last at that point. Have asked primefun which he thinks is more likely, hope to hear.I thought they were seen on the ferry? I definitely remember seeing Cheyne/Megan and Brian/Ericka on the ferry, I could've sworn the pictures were of Matt and Gary getting interviewed.
- I was waiting at the ferry like an half an hour before the teams finally arrived, so i was there like 9:30 a.m. just standing there and waiting, was plotting to leave my car somewhere near to give them a ride if needed which made me nervous cause my car was parked in an illegal spot lol. So i was there nothing was happeneing and then suddenly BOOM! all these teams and cameramen ran out, it all happened so fast that i personally cannot remember any details, I was so busy filming it and all of this is in the first video... so like i said it all happened very fast and i think it is highly likely that i might have missed a team although i did get my camera out asap but there is a great chance one team could have ran also into the other side of the taxi stand, if you look at my first video at 13 seconds you can see there is some running/commotion goin on at the other side of the taxi stand too.- So i basically left right after shooting the first video but this obviously gave the teams a head start as compared to me plus at the old town you cannot park everywhere thus i was struggling finding a parking spot upon arriving in pikk street, i think thanks to this i lost another couple of minutes, so it is hard to tell if i was there before the teams but i would think i was the last to arrive. Upon arrival next to the House of the blackheads i saw gary and matt and no other team (i think this might have been around 10:15 a.m.) and started following them into wrong direction, then ran back and saw ericka/brian and cheyne/meghan and took the 3rd video. So all together it is difficult to say what was going on as some teams might had arrived while i was following gary/matt (for only like a minute) or the other teams might have been inside the house of the blackheads.I would think that gary and matt had already completed the task in the house of the blackheads upon my arrival but it is bizarre why they ran into the wrong direction as all other teams went to Toompea. As for placing gary and matt i would think they might have been in the first place.
I think Vienna will be an NEL of some sort because in recent history they have done it that way.Season 14- BeijingSeason 13- India (Can't remember the city, but they stayed there)Season 12- Japan
Peach, my gut tends to agree with you that G/M may be safe this week. But that darn S/D confessional keeps replaying in my mind. That makes it sound like the Trotters are in and G/M are out. But if it was edited/spliced together in anyway, which is possible since we don't actually see them the entire time they are talking. The GT remark could be an old remark. Also, the athletic remark could be said about M/C, and since G/M are an all male team, they could have been talking about them, with the GT part added from another time.
What do you think about having a TBC in this season? Some people said something about it, but I really think that, maybe, there can be a TBC in Vienna, as last season. The TBC didn't require teams to leave the city where they were, and maybe the same happens this season, making this Tallin's leg a EL, and the last NEL (that would be in Vienna) as a TBC. Maybe this makes sense to some of you?
Could you refresh my memory Hooky? When and where the speedbump appeared in past seasons?
Quote from: puddin on November 15, 2009, 05:25:18 PM Could you refresh my memory Hooky? When and where the speedbump appeared in past seasons?They usually appear mid-leg. TAR 12 Mumbai leg (: Right before the detour/u-turn.TAR 12 Taiwan leg (10): Right after the roadblock.TAR 13 India leg 2 (7): Right before the detour.TAR 13 Moscow leg 2 (10): Right before the detour.TAR 14 Jaipur leg (6): Right before the detour. (India has quite a few speedbumps!) TAR 14 Guilin leg (9): Right before the roadblock.TAR 15 Cai Be leg (2): Right at the start.TAR 15 Tallinn leg (9): I predict it's between the roadblock and the detour.EDIT: was beat to it
I think I might have missed it, but who said the title?
Does anyone think Brian's choice of Halloween Costumes is a big spoiler on who would have won?I would ask in that thread but it isn't a spoiler thread.
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Harvard men's volleyball meets Princeton and George Mason in conference play this weekend (photo courtesy Ben Barnhart).
The Storyline
Trailing this weekend's opponents by two games in the EIVA standings, the Harvard men's volleyball team puts an 11-match home win-streak on the line as it looks to improve its postseason position when Princeton and George Mason come to the Malkin Athletic Center this weekend. The Crimson (13-7, 6-3 EIVA) hosts Princeton (10-7, 8-3) on Friday night at 7 p.m., before taking on George Mason (12-11, 8-3 EIVA) on Saturday at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 6, is Senior Day for the Crimson. Prior to the match versus the Patriots, Harvard will recognize seniors Derek Jansma, Rob Lothman and Dan Martin.
Follow the Action
A live video stream will be available through GoCrimson.com by clicking video. Live stats will also be available.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's volleyball team captured its 11th straight home victory with a straight-set defeat of Erskine College, 25-20, 25-23, 25-19, on Saturday afternoon in the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson used a .226 hitting percentage and nine blocks to top the Flying Fleet (13-14) and improve to 13-7 on the year. Sophomore DJ White led Harvard with 10 kills on .278 hitting and two aces, while junior Nick Madden delivered eight kills, a match-high six blocks and team-best four digs. Senior setter Rob Lothman distributed 26 assists and matched Madden's four digs.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Sweeps Erskine, Wins 11th Straight at Home
Around the League
Harvard is currently in fourth place of the EIVA standings with a 6-3 conference mark and a 13-7 overall record. Prior to matches played on Thursday, the Crimson is second in the conference in hitting percentage (.256) and aces (1.22), fourth in assists (11.10), kills (11.87) and blocks (2.39), and ranks sixth in digs (8.68).
DJ White, Caleb Zimmick rank second and third in the league with hitting percentages of .328 and .322, respectively, while Branden Clemens is 10th with a .274 attack. White also ranks seventh in the EIVA for kills per set at 3.29 and is joined by Nick Madden with 2.89 kps for 10th in the stat column. Chris Gibbons comes in fourth among liberos with 2.49 dps, while Rob Lothman is fourth among EIVA setters with 9.95 aps. Zimmick also boasts the third best blocking average at 1.18 bps with Kyle Rehkemper chipping in 0.91 bps, seventh in the conference. At the service line, Rehkemper rates fifth in the EIVA for aces per set average (0.32), while Michael Owen is seventh at 0.28.
National Scene
Men's volleyball national ranking summary through games played March 31.
Scouting Princeton
The Tigers split last weekend's matches, suffering a 3-1 loss to No. 13 Penn State at home after picking up a three-set win over Saint Francis. At 8-3 in EIVA play, Princeton is tied with George Mason for the second best record in the league entering the weekend.
Princeton leads the EIVA with the sixth best blocks per set average (2.69) in the nation and ranks third in four league stat columns, kps (12.17), hitting percentage (.253), assists per set (11.45) and aces per set (1.02). The Tigers' 8.32 digs per set is worst in the conference. Princeton is hitting .253 on the year, but .281 in its last three matches.
Individually, Pat Schwagler is ranked seventh in the nation for points per set (4.70), ninth for kps (3.84) and 14th in aces per set (0.37). Davis Waddell ranks 18th in the NCAA for assists (9.98) and Tony Ensbury's 2.14 digs are 25th most in the country. Will Siroky (1.09) and Michael Dye (1.05) lead the team in bps.
Harvard fell to Princeton, 3-1, the first time the two teams met this season and now trails the all-time series, 32-13.
Earlier Meeting: No. 14 Men's Volleyball Drops Second Straight Match at Princeton, 3-1
Scouting George Mason
The Patriots also split last weekend's matches, suffering a 3-2 loss to No. 13 Penn State at home after squeezing out a five-set win over Saint Francis. At 8-3 in EIVA play, George Mason is tied with Princeton for the second best record in the league entering the weekend. The Patriots travel to Sacred Heart on Friday night, before making their way up to Cambridge.
George Mason leads the EIVA with the third best digs per set average (10.17) in the nation and ranks second in three league statistics, kills per set (12.44), assists per set (11.70) and blocks per set (2.51). The Patriots are hitting .229 on the year, but .214 in its last three matches.
Both Max McFarland's 2.55 dps and Piotr Dabrowski's 1.25 bps are ninth best in the nation. Mark Jones paces the Patriot's lineup with 3.38 kps, while most of the offense flows through Javier Perez (10.30 aps). Jones is also producing 0.45 aces per set, sixth best in the country.
After falling in the earlier meeting this season, Harvard trails the all-time series with George Mason, 6-1.
Earlier Meeting: No. 14 Men's Volleyball Falls in Straight Sets at George Mason
Approaching the Postseason
With two weeks remaining of the regular season, Harvard is in EIVA Tournament with the fourth and final spot. However, the Crimson can improve its standing as all five of its remaining league matches come against teams immediately above or below the Crimson in the standings, including the first four at home. Harvard trails Princeton and George Mason by two games entering this weekend.
Records are Meant to be Broken
Two Harvard men's volleyball records were broken within four days of each other. Junior Chris Gibbons produced 30 digs against UC Santa Barbara on March 15 to surpass Matt Jones '12 452 career digs. With 523 scoops, Gibbons is the only player in program history to surpass the 500 dig plateau.
At Concordia on March 19, senior Rob Lothman dished out 27 assists to overtake Mike Bookman '03 in career assists. Bookman amassed 2,765 assists while playing for the Crimson. Lothman, whose freshman and junior single-season totals rate among the best in program history, has tallied 2,803 assists at Harvard.
Keep on Blockin'
Middle blocker Caleb Zimmick registered a career-high nine blocks against Sacred Heart on March 13. The outing marked the third time this season that Zimmick has recorded seven or more blocks and the 12th time in the sophomore's young career with at least five blocks in a match.
Winning Ways
Harvard won six straight matches from Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, it longest streak since winning 13 in a row in 2005. During that span, the Crimson won four matches in straight sets, also matching the 2005 team's streak of four consecutive sweeps.
National News
Harvard has fallen from the AVCA Division I-II Poll after being ranked in consecutive weeks from Feb. 25 to March 4. The Crimson reached as high as No. 14, the highest ranking in program history.
Taking Home the Hardware
Sophomore DJ White recently earned a pair of honors, being named both the AVCA Division I-II National Player of the Week and EIVA Offensive Player of the Week. The praise comes after White averaged 4.17 kills per set and hit .477 as the Crimson knocked off No. 9 Penn State and St. Francis (Pa.) in straight sets.
White is the first member of the Crimson to earn the national recognition. He has been named the conference's offensive player of the week twice this season and has earned the distinction three times in his career.
Slump Busters
The Crimson ended a 51-match drought for conference opponents versus Penn State when it upset the ninth-ranked Nittany Lions Feb. 15, 3-0. Penn State's last loss to an EIVA conference foe came on March 7, 2008 to George Mason, 3-1.
Ranked Wins
Harvard's 3-0 victory over then ninth-ranked Penn State marked the team's second win over a ranked opponent in as many years. Last season, the Crimson knocked off No. 12 Call State Northridge, 3-1, to record the program's first victory against a ranked team under head coach Brian Baise.
MAC Attack
Harvard is 22-6 in the friendly confines of the Malkin Athletic Center since the start of 2011 including a 6-0 mark this year. The Crimson has won 11 straight matches at home dating back to last season and has captured each of its last three home openers.
Block Party
The Crimson recorded 17.5 blocks at No. 6 Penn State, the team's highest total over the last three seasons. Caleb Zimmick led the way with eight total blocks as Michael Owen and Kyle Rehkemper each turned in seven. Nick Madden and Rob Lothman also got in on the action, registering six blocks and four blocks, respectively.
Harvard's season high for blocks in 2012 was 17 at Rutgers-Newark.
Quick Start
Harvard swept Stevens, NYU and St. Francis (Pa.) to open the year, marking the third straight season that the Crimson has started the year with at least two victories. Harvard's three straight-set victories, meanwhile, had not been accomplished since 1993 when the squad posted four sweeps in its first four matches.
Catch the Crimson in 2012
Harvard will host 11 home matches at the Malkin Athletic Center this season and each will be streamed live online through GoCrimson.com. Fans can also watch each match On Demand approximately two hours after completion. One-year subscriptions are available for $49.95 and allow access to every home event streamed by the Crimson, including football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's hockey and men's soccer. For more information or to sign up today, click here.
Captaining the Ship
Rob Lothman and Nick Madden will serve as the team's captains for the 2013 season. Lothman was named to the All-EIVA second team in 2012 after setting a career-high with 888 assists, the fifth-best single-season total in program history. Lothman directed the Crimson attack to a .298 hitting percentage, which ranked seventh in the NCAA, while his 10.1 assists per set were good for 18th in the nation. Madden, meanwhile, started all 24 matches last year for the Crimson and ranked second on the squad in kills (3.01) and points (3.6). His 268 kills in 2012 were good for eighth in program history while his 147 career blocks rank his sixth all-time.
Banner Year
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Largest Medicare fraud takedown includes 4 EMS, 2 home health care operators
Four Houston ambulance operators accused of making phony trips to a mental health clinic were among 107 people nationwide charged Wednesday in attempts to bilk taxpayers out of $450 million in bogus Medicare claims in the largest health care fraud crackdown in U.S. history.
The arrests, along with those of two home health care operators, were made by investigators with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General and FBI agents. The nine people indicted in Houston accounted for more than $16 million in fraudulent Medicare claims.
The charges against four Houston EMS operators - who are accused of ferrying able-bodied patients to mental health clinics and disguising the trips as patient transports to a hospital - are the first since a Houston Chronicle investigation last year documented that the two industries appeared to be working in concert to fuel billing spikes for the nation's largest insurer of the elderly and mentally disabled.
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None could be reached for comment
A fourth operator, Gwendolyn Climmons-Johnson, a lawyer and owner of Urgent Response EMS of Houston, surrendered to federal authorities. Last year, the Chronicle reported that Urgent Response EMS had been paid nearly $800,000 by Medicare, according to billing data obtained by the Chronicle. The indictment Wednesday showed that from April 2009 to December 2011, Urgent Response submitted more than $2.37 million in EMS claims to Medicare. Of that, $939,833.30 was paid to Climmons-Johnson's company.
"We're sure once all the information is received that she will be found not guilty," said Yvette George, a spokeswoman for Climmons-Johnson. "I've known her for over 30 years. She's one of the most ethical people I know."
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All four operators are accused of transporting patients who would not qualify for EMS transport because they were not "bed-confined" and they were being taken to community mental health centers, or CMHCs, not a hospital, dialysis center or nursing home, per Medicare's rules.
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Last year, Climmons-Johnson said her business had not engaged in improper billing and that able-bodied mental health patients sometimes needed EMS transport because their behavior that put themselves at risk, or others.
"A lot of these patients have episodes," she explained a year ago. "Because of that risk factor, they are isolated from other patients during transportation."
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"I would say this is the beginning," said Gary Cantrell, deputy inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "We have certainly seen a trend in ambulance fraud issues in that area (Houston) and other areas around the country."
The four Houston ambulance companies all transported patients to Spectrum Care, a mental health center. Last December, Spectrum Care's two owners were charged in a $90 million Medicare billing scheme, as was an assisted living home owner accused of taking kickbacks for sending her residents to the clinic.
There is no mention of Spectrum Care in the indictments, but the Houston Chronicle confirmed with sources familiar with the investigation that all four EMS companies transported to the clinic.
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The Chronicle tried unsuccessfully for more than a year to get officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, to explain why EMS trips to clinics were being paid by taxpayers.
On Wednesday, Dr. Peter Budetti, Medicare's deputy administrator for program integrity, declined to specifically address why it took years for the agency to stop payments to EMS transports to mental health centers.
"Certainly we are very much aware of it," he said.
Also indicted Wednesday was 85-year-old physician Dr. Nick Patzakis, the medical director of Jackson Home Healthcare. He is accused of prescribing home health care for patients who were not in need of such care at either Jackson Home Healthcare or Houston Compassionate Care Inc. Also charged were Jackson Home Healthcare owner Valdie Jackson and Houston Compassionate Care Inc. operator Valnita Turner.
Jarvis Thomas, an employee of an undisclosed hospital, was also indicted. He is scheduled to turn himself in on Friday.
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The elevated presidential campaign of ideas, fleetingly achieved after months of mudslinging, died Tuesday.
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Pundits and politicians expressed optimism Saturday that Mitt Romney's introduction of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate signaled the two campaigns would gather themselves for an adult conversation about the nation's future and the complex problems America faces, lifting a year-old contest filled with small-minded sniping. Romney drew a wave of praise for his "bold" choice, and President Barack Obama promised voters will choose between "two fundamentally different visions of how America became great and how it's going to stay great."
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Vice President Joe Biden warned during a morning rally in Danville, Va., that Romney would return to a deregulated Wall Street, sparking a debate about his inflammatory word choice. "Look at what they're proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules — unchain Wall Street," Biden said. "They're going to put y'all back in chains."
Republican denunciations of Biden's use of the word "chains" ricocheted across the Internet. By day's end, Romney accused Obama of basing his campaign on "hate."
"Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America," Romney told an evening crowd in Chillicothe, Ohio.
"This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don't hear any answers coming from President Obama's reelection campaign. … This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. He won't win that way."
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt fired back with a statement that Romney's "comments tonight seemed unhinged, and particularly strange coming at a time when he's pouring tens of millions of dollars into negative ads that are demonstrably false."
Before that volley, Biden addressed the hours of pushback from Romney's team, which dubbed his comments "not acceptable in our political discourse." Speaking mid-afternoon in Wytheville, Va., the vice president modified his language, replacing "in chains" with "in shackles" and adding that House Republicans have claimed their economic plans would "unshackle" the economy.
"I am told," Biden said, "when I made that comment earlier today in Danville, Va., the Romney campaign put out a tweet, put out a tweet, went on the air, went on the airwaves saying, 'Biden was outrageous in saying' — I think I said, instead of unshackled, unchained — 'outrageous to say that!'"
Biden added: "I got a message for them: If you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies. Their effects on middle-class Americans, that's what's outrageous. That's what's outrageous."
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AMERICUS, Ga. – The record-breaking 2011-2012 season for the Georgia Southwestern Lady Hurricanes continued Monday evening with an individual milestone being passed. Jessica Bivins would score her 1,000th point of her college career as the Lady Hurricanes won their NCAA Division II record 15th game as they downed the visiting Lady Cougars of Columbus State (12-9, 7-5 PBC) by a score of 77-65.
Her 242 points so far in her senior season at GSW has given her 818 career points in a Lady Hurricane uniform. Those three years of scoring plus her 184 points scored as a freshman at Stetson University pushed her into the 1,000 point club.
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Coach Britsky and company would take the 9-7 lead on a Tania Walters three-pointer after just five minutes. The Walters bucket started a 16-0 GSW run over the course of the next 4:50. The 'Canes would never relinquish that lead as they would build upon that lead, lose a large portion of said leave and then rebuild their lead. The Blue & Gold would lead by as much as 13 points in the first half before settling for a ten-point lead at halftime with a score of 42-32.
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With her 19 points scored on Monday evening, senior guard Terra Brach is also approaching the 1,000 point club. The Athens native needs to score 52 points over the next five games to become only the second player to score 1,000 points in a four-year GSW career in the NCAA Division II era.
The victory continues to improve the GSW program's NCAA Division II era best overall record. At 15-6 (7-5 PBC), the Lady Hurricanes tied their program record for most conference wins at seven. GSW went 7-11 in the PBC in the 2009-10 season, which was also the season the program made their one and only Peach Belt Conference Tournament appearance.
The Lady 'Canes will look to continue their record book altering ways on Saturday, February 11th. Georgia Southwestern will play host to the Montevallo Lady Falcons at 5:30 p.m. for homecoming in the Storm Dome.


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The development of mind in the internal arts is a very important part of the training. We say that the specific part of the intellect we are trying to cultivate is the "Intention".
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Tai Chi begins from the posture called Wu Chi (emptiness/absence of support). From emptiness springs forth all movement. The mind, however, must remain still even while the body is active. The chi must be lead gently from one part of the body to the next with the intention while the postures transition from frame to frame. There must be a fullness of path maintained with the intention at all times throughout the practice. Both the closing and the opening energies must be experienced fully for the practice to be valuable.
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TORONTO — Well, Matt Stairs is over his stiff neck problem and back in the Blue Jays' lineup as the designated hitter in the fifth spot. I, on the other hand, have a kink in the right side of my neck that started after my long run along the lakefront last night. Go figure.
Shannon Stewart is back in the leadoff spot for the third straight game. This season, he's led off in six games and has hit .286 with a .448 OBP in those contests. Since Vernon Wells went down with his left wrist injury on May 9, Stewart has hit .318/.404 in 13 games.
And I'm getting goosebumps just thinking abou Lyle Overbay's first at-bat tonight. If he gets a hit, or is plunked by the pitch or draws a walk he will have reached base in a franchise record 12 straight plate appearances! Overbay is currently tied with Tony Fernandez's 1999 record of 11. Can you feel the excitement? All kidding side, that's a pretty solid feat.
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KANSAS CITY (21-28) at TORONTO (26-25)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at Rogers Centre
David DeJesus, LF
Esteban German, 2B
Alex Gordon, 3B
Jose Guillen, DH
Billy Butler, 1B
John Buck, C
Ross Gload, RF
Tony Pena, SS
Joey Gathright, CF
PITCHING: RHP Gil Meche
Shannon Stewart, LF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Alex Rios, CF
Scott Rolen, 3B
Matt Stairs, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Marco Scutaro, SS
Brad Wilkerson, RF
Rod Barajas, C
PITCHING: RHP Dustin McGowan
UPDATE: It's just past midnight and I'm packing my bags for Cali. Won't be at the ballyard tomorrow — I'm leaving on a jetplane. Catch you all from the Coast on Tuesday.
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To my knowledge there is no Jays media that do a "down on the farm" report. Is that something you could do on a weekly/bi-weekly basis?
Bout time the Jays start beating on the junk team!!!
Vernon who????
Vernon Wells. The guy who had an 8 hitting streak before he went down and was really the only Jay hitting at the time. Please don't suggest that the reason the Jays are playing so well is because he's out. The truth is if he were this team is that much better. Brad Wilkerson wouldn't be playing for one.
Ha easy now… I'm saying the team has sure made Wells' injury forgetable with the way they have been playing as of late. Obviously!!!!!….. It would be great to have him in our lineup.
Just a thought…. I would really love the Jays to get some real grass in the skydome. That should be possible since they have the retractable roof. Better atmosphere and better for the players.
Any one here want to make a bet that the Big Hurt will hit like 3 home runs against us this series?
Sorry Rmatty. For a second I thought you'd be one of those fans who'd imply that because Wells' isn't in the lineup the team is better because "he's just not a winner" etc.
Freedom, I have a bad feeling too, that he'll have a terrific series though I wont bet with you.
I'm still confused as to why we dumped Thomas so early. We could have used him for awhile longer before he was in range of of his option ab's. I also have never bought into the "cancer" in the clubhouse story. I've played lots of sports with clowns that you simply ignore… they never prevented me from playing the sport at a certain level. If Thomas didn't like sitting on the bench, too flippin bad! He isn't the manager, and to my knowledge no where in his contract stated that he had to play everyday. We should have kept him, sat him and waited to see if his bat would come around. You would be able to see his progress in batting practice. You just know he will have a big second half and HURT us in a few games.


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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Coming up, we've all heard that old saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Is that old-fashioned? Well, one writer says it's worth a shot - actually, 300 shots. We'll hear why she's vowed to make 300 sandwiches for her boyfriend. That's in just a few minutes.
But first, we want to talk about the partial government shutdown. We've been hearing much about the 800,000 furloughed government workers, but we're already seeing the shutdown affect Americans outside of the federal government and outside of the Beltway. Early this morning, TELL ME MORE posted a social media call-out on Twitter and Facebook, and we asked how the shutdown is affecting you. We've already heard from hundreds of you from Indiana to Ohio, Colorado, Kansas City - including this message from Roberta Vogel-Leutung. She works as an ecologist for the Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City, Missouri.
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MARTIN: We actually caught up with her at her office where she was tying up loose ends getting ready for the shutdown. We're going to hear more of those stores as we continue to talk about this. But to gain some additional perspective, we're joined once again by Sudeep Reddy - economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal - and NPR business editor Marilyn Geewax. Welcome back to you both. Thank you both so much for joining us.
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SUDEEP REDDY: Thanks.
MARTIN: Now, Marilyn, I'm going to start with you because this isn't your first government shutdown. You reported on the 1996 shutdown when the disagreements between the then Republican-led Congress and President Bill Clinton partially shuttered the federal government. But what's different today?
GEEWAX: There's really one big - really big difference, and that's that this debate today is about policy. They're really arguing about should there be Obamacare going forward or not. Back in 1996, why it seems like the old days. It was so much simpler then. They were just arguing over money. It was really a question of how much money should the government spend and on what domestic programs. So there was room for compromise where you could come up - here's your number, here's my number, let's meet in the middle. With this debate, you're really - when you're arguing policy on the back of a budget, that makes it much more complicated. And then, speaking of complicated, I think there's one other thing that's really different this time around.
When I was a reporter working on this kind of thing in '96, really, there was no social media to speak of. It was top-down reporting. Everybody looked at this from - you turn on the evening news or you picked up your newspaper to see what was happening. I think, as we've heard from the folks who have responded to us on Facebook, there's going to be a very different impact this time maybe because we've got 800,000 laid-off federal workers who, in a sense, could be reporters all reporting on their experience on various social-media platforms. And so that may change the tone of the debate as we hear from all these people.
MARTIN: And also customers - people who are customers.
GEEWAX: Right.
MARTIN: People who are awaiting passports. People who are awaiting visa applications. The customers are also weighing about what their conditions are.
GEEWAX: I suspect that there are lots of Facebook pages right now of people at national parks, closing up their tents, you know, pulling their RVs out. People - seventh-grade classes that are here on the National Mall and can't get into a museum. So that kind of thing - it's almost unpredictable how that will change the conversation, but it could.
MARTIN: Sudeep, I think one thing that may change the conversation for some people is, I don't know that everybody - people understand how large an employer the federal government is. You know, that's thing is one. But what other thoughts do you have about this and how this is playing out?
REDDY: Marilyn's exactly right. The reason we have such a vicious political environment today is because we're fighting over much more fundamental issues, and that raises the stakes in many ways. If you think of where we are as a nation, we're four years out of a recession - a devastating recession. It's been very difficult. A lot of what Congress is arguing about is the fundamental role of government, whether it should be able to shape policy. That's why this is a fight that's about more than numbers and a budget. It's about the fundamental position of government in our lives. And that is why you've had the Tea Party rise up - a relatively small part of Congress. It would've once been a fringe, and now it's been able to leap - to spark this government shutdown because there are people who believe they're fighting on principle on an issue that really matters.
And given where we are, this is all rooted in a very weak economic environment. And you see this in all sorts of countries around the world that when you have a weak economic environment, you're going to have some political breakdowns like this.
MARTIN: We're talking to Sudeep Reddy of The Wall Street Journal and NPR business editor Marilyn Geewax. We're hearing stories about the federal government shutdown. To your point about what is the role of government, we're hearing a lot from people who are directly and indirectly affected. I'll just play this from Christopher Casazza. He's not a federal employee, but he's an immigration lawyer in Philadelphia and he works regularly with offices that are shuttered today. And he said that the action in his client's cases could be delayed as a result.
CHRISTOPHER CASAZZA: Hopefully, depending on what they're applying for - what kind of benefits they're getting - hopefully they have some sort of employment authorization. But not all of them do. Some of my clients are sitting there without any status at all in the United States, without even employment authorization, and they're the ones that are going to be affected the worst.
MARTIN: We've also heard from people, for example, in this area who own a small bed-and-breakfast who had cancellations from people who were planning to come to visit the monuments and said there's no point in my coming in anticipation of the shutdown. And the family said, we've also heard from people - two federal employee families who have kids heading off to college who are very worried about whether they're going to be able to meet those, you know, term bills come January, depending on how long the shutdown lasts. The question I have for you, Sudeep, is, do people care? I mean, is this - and I don't mean that in a superficial way - but are those kinds of stories really dispositive here since what seems to be the issue is, as you said, is philosophy.
REDDY: I think those stories do matter and they matter a lot. And those are exactly the reasons why the leadership, the Republican leadership, has been generally opposed to shutting down the government because they know it's a political loser when you see that the core functions of government start to slip away and people will get frustrated and their tensions will rise and they'll start to question that political philosophy that the Tea Party has built up.
And that's one reason why many Democrats have been so eager to allow the Republicans to push this into a shutdown environment is because it is actually a defining moment for what is the role of government. And two-and-a-half years ago, when we were first going through this shutdown debate with the rise of the Tea Party, there were a number of Democrats, including some in the White House, who wanted to spark that shutdown so they could get this out of the system early, and then have a more fundamental argument about how to tweak government instead of fighting over whether you're going to completely overhaul it, which really doesn't look like is going to happen here.
MARTIN: But, Marilyn, is there a chance that - obviously, nobody knows how long this is going to last - but will the people who aren't getting paid, as a consequence of this, will they get back pay? And will that shortfall be made up eventually?
GEEWAX: This one of those things that'll still have to be decided because, you know, back in 1996, they did get retroactive pay. Congress agreed that this was really an employer lockout. The people were innocent victims, and they paid them. But this time around, it's not so clear that Congress is going to be in the mood to hand out retroactive pay to people who didn't work. But, you know, that may be an interesting political position. But for people who today's - you know, have to pay the rent for October, it's a pretty big pressure and it's an interesting question that will have to be answered in the future because that's not decided.
MARTIN: Sudeep, are there broader economic impacts that we have not yet discussed?
REDDY: There's clearly going to be an economic impact just from the disruption in key services - things like passports, as you mentioned. There will also be some hit to confidence among businesses and consumers to see their government in dysfunction. There's a longer-term problem here that really doesn't get addressed by Congress. When you're wearing down federal workers like this - when you're basically telling a lot of them, they don't matter, what are federal workers going to do?
They're probably going to try to leave government and go into the private sector eventually. And you lose some of the people you need in these roles, whether they're environmental, financial regulation, all of these roles require people who are willing to take some of the abuse by being a government worker. And if you keep doing this, you're going to lose the people you need to run your government.
MARTIN: Marilyn, and did that happen last time?
GEEWAX: Yeah. Well, there wasn't quite the level of animosity towards all federal workers the way we've seen some really harsh statements about, you know, government bureaucrats and all that. But the other point I really wanted to make was that there are a lot of important economic reports that the government puts out. For example, at the end of this week, we were supposed to get the September jobs number. This very morning, we were supposed to have gotten a construction spending report.
All of these kinds of government reports are being shut down because there aren't the economists, the workers, to put out the data. So now - you talk about undermining financial markets, those reports really matter to people. They want to know what the job market is doing. So think about this, even if this doesn't last very long, you'll have a disruption in the September numbers, and then you're also getting to have a disruption in the October numbers. So really, markets will be flying blind without that important labor data for a couple of months.
MARTIN: Sudeep, very briefly, internationally, what are we starting to hear about reactions from customers, partners, investors, markets abroad?
REDDY: Absolute befuddlement. People don't understand how the largest economy in the world, presumably the strongest country in the world, is behaving like this. And there are some real questions about what that means for the role of the United States in the international financial markets and in a security position if we go through an episode like this and make people question whether we actually have the basic, fundamental governance ability that you would expect from more of a middle-of-the-road nation rather than the leading nation in the world.
MARTIN: Sudeep Reddy is an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Marilyn Geewax is an NPR business editor. They were both kind enough to join us once again in our Washington, D.C. studios. We're still on the job, right?
REDDY: We are.
MARTIN: Thank you both so much.
GEEWAX: Great to be with you.
REDDY: Thanks, Michel.
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Data Formats for Importing or Exporting Data
This section looks at the requirements for formatting data files and at how to interactively specify the format of data fields when exporting data by using the bcp utility.
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Einstein Researcher to Receive Top Award from American Federation for Medical Research
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Dr. Meredith Hawkins is a Professor of Medicine in the Diabetes Research and Training Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Hawkins earned her M.D. degree cum laude from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods cum laude from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology, and as Secretary Treasurer of the American Federation of Medical Research. Dr. Hawkins' current research interests include the effects of nutrient deficiency and excess on insulin resistance, nutritional regulation of adipose tissue inflammation, and the regulation of hepatic glucose production in diabetes mellitus.
Dr. Hawkins is a Beeson Scholar of the American Federation of Aging Research, and has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and the Diabetes Action Foundation International. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Junior Physician Scientist Award (2001) and the Outstanding Investigator Award (2012) from the American Federation of Medical Research, the Novartis Young Investigator award in Diabetes Research (2007), and election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2012).
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