text: Curriculum ACPE-CPE Program Curriculum Elements The program of clinical pastoral education at Legacy Health is a relevant part of graduate theological education for persons in ministry. The clinical pastoral education program acts as a teacher, facilitator and guide. It is up to the student to make it work. The program's focus is: Dynamic: Evolving from a student's need and interest to learn in different ways at different paces, guided by self, peers and written evaluations. It is informed by theological, cultural, psychosocial and system understanding of humanity. Holistic: Directed toward the development and integration of the student's own gifts and limitations, awareness of self in relation with others and ability to use learning resources. Comprehensive: Clinical pastoral education introduces the students to areas of pastoral formation, personal reflection and professional competency. Students will also learn how to use theoretical tools to minister to persons, family and staff facing the continuum of health and illness. The program's objectives occur within the structure of ACPE standards, which include areas of professional development in parish ministry, chaplaincy and other relevant areas of ministry. These are the main elements of the curriculum: Pastoral ministry Each student chooses a clinical area(s) within the hospital that coincides with his/her own learning covenant. These clinical areas include: adult trauma, pediatrics, women's health, psychiatry, burn patients and adult acute care units. She or he is responsible to provide at least five hours of pastoral care through daily patient/family visitation and collaborative relational development with the health care team. This unique opportunity provides various experiences in which the student has an opportunity to establish a basic level of trust, which in turn, fosters an openness to learning and experiencing deeper relationships, varied lifestyles, beliefs and self-knowledge. This can serve to help the student in identifying, developing and differentiating their own unique ministry. Didactic seminars Didactic seminars facilitate a working knowledge of pastoral content, personality theory, leadership development, cultural/gender theory and medical practice. This understanding of humanity informs, enhances or limits the student's pastoral work. These seminars are scheduled weekly for one hour. Group supervision Group provides a time for students to share both their thoughts and feelings about working with patients, families, staff, other students and the supervisor. The purpose is to help the student become aware of how he/she receives and responds to support, clarification and confrontation with regard to his/her own attitudes, values and beliefs. On a weekly basis there are two supervised interpersonal open groups of 60 minutes; two supervised verbatim case conferences at 90 minutes per session; five 15 minute on-call and administrative report times; and one didactic session of 60 minutes. Individual supervision This is a weekly time, in dialogue between student and supervisor to individualize, integrate and plan opportunities for personal/professional growth. As active partners in the learning process, the student is invited to take significant responsibility for initiating issues that are important for learning by providing written material and reflection on pastoral ministry. Worship/on-call Each student has the opportunity on a weekly rotational basis to prepare and present a brief devotional experience for patients, family members and hospital staff who wish to attend chapel or alternative worship possibilities on Wednesdays and Sundays, especially during holy seasons. The student also provides, as appropriate, an on-call administrative report giving a brief summary of pastoral events that have occurred during their on-call experience. On-call usually includes an addition of 15 hours of service. This responsibility is shared with staff chaplains, who respond to the needs of patients, families and staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Legacy Emanuel campus. Reading requirements Both summer interns and year-long residents report on a research project per unit; the topic is chosen based on learning needs and interests developed through the individualized learning covenant. The student has the opportunity to become both presenter and teacher through verbal and written report in a peer/interdisciplinary didactic session. Writing requirements At the beginning of each unit of training, a covenant of learning is developed and completed as mutually agreed upon by the student and supervisor. The covenant is open to negotiation as the need arises and the student becomes aware of new ways to enrich their pastoral formation and reflection. Verbatim and narrative reports on pastoral acts are written on a weekly basis. These tools of assessment and reflection are submitted for both group and individual supervision as part of the ongoing process of patient care. These serve to strengthen self-awareness, self-confidence and professional competence in delivering effective pastoral care. Year-long residents attend a weekly one-hour, journal-writing seminar. This group experience helps students deepen and broaden their own inner reflective voice and discover the impact their unique narrative history has on their life and ministry. For year-long residents (beginning their third and continuing on through their fourth unit), a self-study project is developed and reported upon. This 8-10 page paper may focus on their understanding and integration of theology with human behavioral sciences.


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2014 Mercedes GLA review
* New small SUV to rival Audi Q3 * Based on the latest A-Class * GLA220 CDI and GLA250 tested...
The Mercedes GLA is the German brand's answer to the Audi Q3 and BMW X1 – and it's been a long time coming.
Mercedes has sold a smaller SUV (the GLK) for a while in continental Europe, but that car was never available in right-hand drive. Now the slightly smaller GLA has turned up, and Mercedes UK is expecting to pull in lots of new buyers who want a family hatchback-sized model with a slightly higher driving position.
The key words there are 'slightly higher', because the GLA is very much a beefed-up hatch instead of a proper SUV. Indeed, on some of the lower suspension settings available (and there are several) you could mistake it for a modified A-Class. Still, it is available with Mercedes' latest 4MATIC four-wheel-drive system, including an off-road mode that incorporates hill descent control.
Mercedes is pitching the GLA above the A-Class, so that car's more modest engines aren't on offer here for now. Instead, the line-up starts with the 134bhp, front-wheel-drive GLA200 CDI, priced from £25,850.
The four-wheel-drive models are badged 4Matic, and they get more powerful engines: the 168bhp GLA220 CDI (from £30,030), and the £29,910 GLA250 turbocharged petrol, with 208bhp.
There's also the outlandish GLA45 AMG, which has a 355bhp 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine, the dual-clutch gearbox and four-wheel drive. It's not on sale yet, but it's likely to cost around £44,000.
What's the 2014 Mercedes GLA like to drive?
Mercedes has said all along that the regular GLA would focus more on comfort than the fairly stiff A-Class, and the good news is that the engineers have followed the brief. Both comfort and sports suspension set-ups feel more pliant than any A-Class.
You don't seem to pay any great penalty for this comfort, either, because the GLA doesn't lean particularly badly in corners compared with many other SUVs. The steering, meanwhile, is direct enough around the straight ahead, and nicely weighted.
Refinement is decent, too; the petrol motor is smoothest overall and both diesel engines get a bit gruff when pushed hard. At a motorway cruise, the GLA200CDI and the GLA220 CDI are pulling barely 2000rpm so engine noise fades into the background nicely; you're more likely to be bothered by wind noise (particularly around the windscreen pillars) and road rumble than engine roar. Both motors feel comfortable with the car's size, with more than enough torque for rapid progress.
The automatic gearbox that's standard on the GLA220 CDI and the GLA250 is smooth but is slow to kick down. The six-speed manual gearbox that's standard on GLA200 CDI is fairly slick, however.
The GLA45 AMG, meanwhile, is just plain fast. It'll crack 0-62mph in 4.8 seconds and it feels that quick, with a solid thud of power delivery from as little as 2000rpm and a gunfire-esque pop every time you shift up a gear. It handles surprisingly well, too, although it's a little odd to be chucking a car around from the slightly elevated driving position.
What's the 2014 Mercedes GLA like inside?
The front cabin of the GLA will look familiar to you if you've spent any time in the A-Class or CLA; in fact, it's a mixture of the hatchback's design with the slightly more upmarket finish of the baby saloon.
The fascia itself is dominated by the centrally mounted infotainment screen (some may feel that it looks 'tacked on', although its image quality is crisp) and you can choose from piano black, 'black wood' and aluminium dashboard trims.
The other materials are hard to fault, with solid-feeling switches and plenty of dense, soft-touch plastics, although the pedals don't line up properly with the steering wheel (they're positioned too far to the right).
The main controls are all conveniently positioned, with Merc's steering column-mounted gearshift for the automatic transmission freeing up a fair amount of front cabin space. The infotainment system – which is controlled via a rotary dial between the front dials – isn't quite as intuitive as BMW's iDrive system, but it's still relatively easy to use.
Clambering into the rear will remind you that the GLA is not a full-sized SUV; the aperture at the back doors isn't particularly wide and once you're in place, there's only average leg- and headroom for anyone beyond six feet tall. Think of it as a regular family hatchback and you'll get the idea.
The boot is a fair size, at 481 litres, rising to 1235 litres if you fold down the 60/40 split rear seats. For comparison, that's 60 litres more standard capacity than Audi's Q3, but around 90 litres less with the seats folded.
The GLA does suffer from the same problem as the A-Class, with wide rear shoulders that don't help the loading access. An electrically operated rear hatch is offered as an option.
Should I buy one?
The GLA has real showroom appeal. It's nicely finished, roomy enough for two adults and two children with a fair amount of clutter, and comfortable enough, too.
We'd recommend buyers stick with the GLA200 CDI. It's fast enough, relatively refined and offers the best fuel economy and lowest emissions in the range. Combine that with a starting price of £25,850 and the Mercedes is a genuine rival to the popular Audi Q3.
What Car? says…
Mercedes-Benz GLA220 CDI 4MATIC
Engine size 2.1-litre diesel
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Defending Champion Roger Chapman of England, who rose out of obscurity a year ago to capture two senior major titles, heads 10 past Champions returning for the 74th Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, May 23-26, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo.
Chapman, who turns 54 on May 1, ended a victory drought in style in 2012 by winning the Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid followed less than two months later by adding the U.S. Senior Open – all in the state of Michigan. They were his first professional victories since 2000.
"There must be something in the air," joked Chapman about his Michigan visits. "It has been a remarkable feeling to say that I have won the Senior PGA Championship. It was the best feeling in the world. I was also glad that I was able to go on and prove that I was not a one-off thing, and win a second major."
Past Senior PGA Champions joining Chapman next month at renowned Bellerive Country Club are: Michael Allen (2009); Jay Haas (2006, '08), Hale Irwin (1996, '97, '98, 2004), John Jacobs (2003), Tom Lehman (2010), Mike Reid (2005), Tom Wargo (1993), Denis Watson (2007) and Tom Watson (2001, '1l).
The 156-player field represents 13 countries in the most historic and prestigious event in senior golf. Final entries to the Championship will be made April 19.
There are currently 23 past major champions in the field: Mark Brooks, Mark Calcavecchia, Steve Elkington, Irwin, Jacobs, Steve Jones, Tom Kite, Bernhard Langer, Lehman, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Andy North, Mark O'Meara, Nick Price, Scott Simpson, Jeff Sluman, Craig Stadler, Curtis Strange, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, and Ian Woosnam.
The Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid is the oldest event in senior golf, originating in 1937 at Augusta National Golf Club at the invitation of the legendary amateur Bobby Jones. The Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid will feature 12 hours of live television coverage on NBC and Golf Channel, with viewership in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide. Tickets to the 74th Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid are available by visiting SPGA2013.com.
Among the world-class field are 35 PGA club professionals, including reigning Senior PGA Professional National Champion Jim Woodward of Edmond, Okla. Thirty-five members of the contingent earned a berth last October in the Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship in Aldie, Va.
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We are a family foundation that focuses its efforts predominantly on Jewish causes and the philosophy of Tzedakah – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzedakah.
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This is the second contest round – see prior round at http://99designs.com/contests/23037.
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The logo must accommodate all of the following names:
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The big test is tomorrow—should you stay up late and study, or cut short the cram session and get a good night's sleep? Most if not all students face this dilemma at some point in their lives. Until very recently, their choice might have seemed obvious: stay up and study, to commit as much information to memory as possible. But research now indicates that missing sleep in order to study may well be self-defeating. A good night's sleep helps greatly—and is essential in some cases—to making just-learned information consolidate or stick in memory.
This issue doesn't affect only students or business people whose performance depends heavily on memorization. Older people's lives are often complicated by a "where did I put my car keys?" impairment in memory function, and it now seems that aging-related sleep problems may cause some of this cognitive decline.
The good news is that researchers may soon find ways to counteract this process, by helping people to sleep better and by developing techniques to strengthen specific memories during sleep. "We now know that it's possible to cue, during sleep, the reactivation of certain memories that were just learned or trained, and this has the effect of enhancing the ability to recall those memories on subsequent days," says Jan Born, Ph.D., a professor of medical psychology at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
A recent awakeningThere have long been tantalizing hints of the relationship between sleep and memory. One of these was the discovery in the 1950s of dream-rich rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which eventually led to the hypothesis that REM dreaming is the brain's way of strengthening—by semi-consciously re-experiencing—new memories. "People thought that it was a rehearsal of daytime experience," says J. Allan Hobson, M.D., professor of psychiatry emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.
But testing the relationship between sleep and memory was and still is tricky. A researcher can't easily disentangle the direct effect of a good night's sleep on memory consolidation from the indirect effect of improved alertness and recall performance. There are also different types of memory, such as procedural memory, which underlies physical skills, and declarative memory of events, dates, and places. They are stored in different brain regions, and are not consolidated in the same way during sleep.
Sleep itself is not a uniform process. Brain activity in REM sleep differs from that within non-REM sleep, which in its deepest stages is called slow-wave sleep (SWS). The initial scientific emphasis on REM sleep as the principal window for memory consolidation produced inconsistent results and controversy.[1] "The recent focus on SWS has led to a more consistent story about memory consolidation," says Ken Paller, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Northwestern University.
The scientific shift towards SWS as the major memory-consolidation phase began in the mid-1990s with experiments in animals, the results of which were later confirmed in human subjects. For example, Born's laboratory reported in 2000 that people who had practiced an image discrimination task—a visual skill requiring procedural memory—improved after a period of mostly SWS sleep, but not after the same duration of mostly REM sleep. The experiment was one of the first to control for some of the confounding effects of sleep loss.[2]
In a different study, Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Hobson's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, found that subjects given a similar image discrimination challenge did not improve with repeated testing unless they slept on the first night after their initial testing session. Stickgold also was able to control for lost alertness by comparing subjects who slept for three nights after the first test with those who stayed awake the first night but slept on the next two nights and recovered to normal alertness.[3]
Subsequent experiments in the mid and late 2000s indicated that SWS strengthens not only procedural memories but also place memories—learned routes within a town—as well as declarative verbal memories, such as homework-type memories of historical facts. Overall, the degree of memory consolidation seems to depend on factors such as the duration and type of sleep (REM sleep having little or no effect), the type of memory (declarative memories being helped most consistently) and the importance of the memory in the life of the person.[4] The memory benefits of sleep also depend on age, because the amount of SWS in a typical night's sleep declines, on average, after people reach their thirties.[5] "By age 50 your memory consolidation capacity is probably significantly worse than when you are 30," says Born.
Age-related sleep problems may even contribute to the "normal" cognitive decline seen among the elderly. "There's a substantial amount of evidence that fragmented or inadequate sleep in elderly people makes their cognitive function worse," says Dana Alliance member Clifford B. Saper, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, head of the neurology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[6] Saper adds that sleep apnea, a breathing-interruption condition which disturbs sleep patterns and is found more commonly among elderly and obese people, is the leading treatable cause of dementia in his clinic. "If we cure their sleep apnea, their memory usually comes back and they feel better than they have in years," he says.
How does memory consolidation work?An event happens, and you witness it. You hear it; or see it; or read it; or taste it; or feel it; or perhaps engage all these senses at once. These seemingly simple acts of perception are brought about by millions of your neurons' firing in highly coordinated ways: neurons that correspond to the sensory features of the things you perceive, the semantic meanings of these things, the place and time, even how you feel.
Neuroscientists widely assume that a memory of such an event is a set of connections among all these neurons—connections that bind them into a functional group, so that the reactivation of one can lead to the reactivation of the whole group, and thus a subjective re-experience of the event.
Although perception occurs within the very large and lately evolved structure known as the neocortex, the initial neuronal connections that make a memory are formed chiefly elsewhere. For a declarative, who-what-where memory—also called an "episodic" memory—the initial connections are thought to be made in the hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped appendage that is wired extensively into the neocortex.
The hippocampus works a bit like an old-fashioned telephone switchboard, making quick but temporary connections among the millions of nerve channels that enter it from the cortex and other regions. In animals and people, destruction of the hippocampus removes the ability to form new declarative memories. "We think that the hippocampus essentially links the separate features of an episode together," says Born.
During SWS, these hippocampal links come alive again, apparently to consolidate the new memory. Experiments on rats who learn their way through mazes indicate that the same hippocampal neurons that are active during the learning of a maze are reactivated during the next period of SWS. With a similar study in humans, Pierre Maquet, D.M., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Liège in Belgium have shown that the degree of this hippocampal reactivation during SWS correlates with improvements in the subsequent recall of the newly learned place memories.[7]
One likely effect of this hippocampus-initiated memory reactivation is to strengthen the new hippocampal connections. But its more important goal seems to be the stimulation of slower-growing connections among memory-associated neurons outside the hippocampus, mainly in the neocortex. These slower-growing connections are more direct and permanent, and correspond to what we usually think of as long term memory. During a period of weeks to months they form and strengthen, until the temporary connections in the hippocampus are no longer needed. "The longer-term neocortical connections are less prone to interference, compared to hippocampal connections, and we suspect that they are better connected to prefrontal structures that regulate memory retrieval," says Born.
What determines whether a new memory is consolidated during SWS? There is evidence, Born says, that the highly evolved prefrontal cortex and an evolutionarily older, emotion-related structure called the amygdala do this by chemically "tagging" new memory-associated links in the hippocampus, based on their apparent logical or emotional importance.
Why does this memory consolidation process occur principally during SWS, rather than in REM sleep or wakefulness? Born points to a number of key brain chemistry changes that occur during SWS, including a sharp drop in the arousal-related neurotransmitter acetylcholine. "This has the effect of switching the normal direction of communication between the neocortex and hippocampus, so that now the hippocampus can send information to the neocortex," he says. REM sleep's function here is still a matter of debate, but Born suspects that it further exercises and strengthens newly formed neocortical connections, albeit locally, without input from the hippocampus. [8]
Finally, what about procedural memories of sensory-and-motor skills, such as how to ride a bicycle? Less is known about the ways in which these are initially stored and consolidated, but the muscle-controlling structure known as the striatum appears to play a major role in their long-term storage. A related brain structure callled the cerebellum "could have a short-term storage role for procedural memories, analogous to that of the hippocampus for declarative memories," says Born, "but for now that is very speculative."
Enhancing consolidationPharmaceutical companies now are developing drugs to help enforce more normal, youthful sleep patterns in older people. Such drugs may have a significant effect in reversing age-related declines in memory function. But neuroscientists—most visibly Born's and Paller's laboratories—have also investigated non-drug methods to enhance sleep-based memory consolidation.
In 2007, Born and his colleagues reported an experiment in human subjects in which they strengthened the recall of new declarative, hippocampus-based memories by cueing the reactivation of the memories during SWS. The cueing was done with a floral odor that had been associated with the memory during learning. [9] Paller's group recently reported similar effects for a largely procedural memory—a keyboard-playing task requiring visual-motor coordination—using the learned melody as the cue during sleep.[10]
Turning these simple experimental protocols into methods that ordinary people can use to enhance memorization may not be easy. Some cueing methods may disturb people's sleep, thereby spoiling the effect. Others, such as odors, may not be useful for cueing highly specific and complex memories, says Born. There is some evidence, too, he adds, that consolidation-enhancement with cues during sleep involves a tradeoff, in which specifically cued memories are strengthened but other newly learned memories are weakened, possibly reflecting a strict overall budget for memory consolidation every night.
Perhaps most importantly, no one has yet reported the enhancement of memory consolidation for the verbal memories that dominate school and business learning, and that might require specific verbal cues during SWS. "That's one of the next questions we have to ask: can you improve your verbal score on the SAT, for example?" says Paller.
He is cautiously optimistic. And certainly the demand for memory enhancement is there. "I think it's just a matter of time before people are using such methods," Born says—"and maybe also misusing them, since people when they sleep can't entirely control the cues to which their brains are exposed."
Published August 2012
[1] "The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis," by Jerome M. Siegel, Science 2001 (vol. 294, November): 1058-1063.
[2] "Early sleep triggers memory for early visual discrimination skills," by Steffen Gais et al, Nature Neuroscience 2000 (vol. 3, December): 1335-1339.
[3] "Visual discrimination learning requires sleep after training," by Robert Stickgold, LaTanya James and J. Allan Hobson, Nature Neuroscience 2000 (vol. 3, December): 1237-1238.
[4] "The whats and whens of sleep-dependent memory consolidation," by Susanne Diekelmann, Ines Wilhelm and Jan Born, Sleep Med. Rev. 2009 (October): 309-321.
[5] "Midlife decline in declarative memory consolidation is correlated with a decline in slow wave sleep," by Jutta Backhaus et al, Learning and Memory 2007 (vol. 14): 336-341.
[6] "Increased fragmentation of rest-activity patterns is associated with a characteristic pattern of cognitive impairment in older individuals," by Andrew S. Lim et al, Sleep 2012 (May 1): 633-640.
[7] "Are Spatial Memories Strengthened in the Human Hippocampus during Slow Wave Sleep?" by Philippe Peigneux et al, Neuron 2004 (vol. 44, Oct 28): 535—545.
[8] "The memory function of sleep," Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2010 (vol. 11, Feb): 114-26.
[9] "Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation," by Björn Rasch et al, Science 2007 (vol. 315, Mar 9):1426-9.
[10] "Cued memory reactivation during sleep influences skill learning," by James W. Antony et al, Nature Neuroscience 2012 (pub. online 24 June).
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Mark Levin Hoax Caller's "Death Panel" Lie Sets Off Right-Wing Echo Chamber
Back in November, a man referring to himself as "Jeff" called right-wing radio host Mark Levin's show claiming [1] to have information about President Obama's health care law. Jeff claimed to be a "brain surgeon" who had just "returned from Washington, D.C.," where he and other neurological doctors had reviewed a document allegedly issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding "Obama's new health care plan for advanced neurosurgical care."
Jeff went on to claim that the document "did not call [patients older than 70] patients, they called them units" and stated that "if you're over 70 and you'd come into an emergency room and you're on government-supported health care that you get comfort care" instead of medically necessary neurological surgery. Jeff further claimed the document mandated "ethics committee[s]," to which Levin replied: "So, Sarah Palin was right. We're going to have these death panels, aren't we?" Jeff responded, "Oh, absolutely," and made a comparison to Nazi Germany.
The interaction was picked up by the usual right-wing media outlets, hungry for new fodder to keep their long-debunked "death panel" myth alive. On November 29, Fox Nation posted [2] audio of thecall on Levin's show under the headline, "Neurosurgeon Dishes on Obamacare 'Death Panels', Administration Calls Patients 'Units.' " From Fox Nation:
The claim also jumped to WorldNetDaily, which published a January 3 article [3] about the call headlined, "Hear Brain Surgeon's 'Death Panel' Warning," claiming that the man "confirmed to Levin that those panels will exist." In an interview with WND, Levin stated, "I have no basis to disparage anything he said."
Of course, as anyone with even cursory familiarity with the right-wing "death panel" myth will be entirely unsurprised to find out, the entire story was false -- from the man's profession to the absurd claims he made about neurological care.
First, "Jeff" is reportedly not a "brain surgeon" at all. In a January 5 post, FactCheck.org reached out [4] to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and reported:
Alison Dye, a spokeswoman for the groups, told us that they know who the caller is and that he is not a brain surgeon or a neurosurgeon. "One of our neurosurgeons knows who he is, and they had a conversation," she said. AANS/CNS declined to give the full name of "Jeff," the caller, saying that he had asked the groups not to identify him. Dye did say he was in the medical field but was not registered at a recent CNS meeting in Washington, D.C., since he isn't a neurosurgeon and isn't part of the organization.
Second, the document that Jeff claimed to have reviewed does not exist. The AANS recently issued a statement [5] noting that the call "contained several factual inaccuracies" and that it has requested the audio be removed from Levin's website:
The AANS and CNS are unaware of any federal government document directing that advanced neurosurgery for patients over 70 years of age will not be indicated and only supportive care treatment will be provided. Furthermore, in conducting our own due diligence, the caller who identified himself as a brain surgeon is not actually a neurosurgeon, nor was there any session at the recent Congress of Neurological Surgeons' scientific meeting in Washington, DC at which a purported government document calling for the rationing of neurosurgical care was discussed.
Neurosurgeons are committed to providing timely, compassionate, and state of the art treatment for all patients -- regardless of age -- who have neurosurgical conditions. As such, we have requested numerous times that this podcast be removed from Mark Levin's website as it portrays inaccurate information which could potentially be harmful to the patients that we serve.
Third, as we all know by now, the persistent "death panel" claim is a lie [6], no matter how it may change [7] to suit the current needs of the right-wing media's health care attack machine. Sadly, the fact that the right-wing media uncritically promoted such wildly false health care misinformation from an unknown radio show caller is simply par for the course.
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Israel, thank goodness, killed a top Hamas murderer yesterday, but unfortunately, I guess due to faulty intellingence, several civilians living in or around his house, including some family members, were also killed or injured. This provoked the usual outcry from Europe, dwarfing in volume any European outrage over a Palestinian mass murder, to the extent that George Bush felt obliged to denounce the attack, I hope insincerely. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated, expressing their "outrage" over the inadvertent deaths of a few Arab civilians, and vowing revenge. This makes no sense, obviously. The Palestinians have adopted as their sole and exclusive strategy the deliberate mass murder of Israeli civilians, including especially women and children. What ground they have to be "outraged" is beyond me. By this time, thankfully, it appears that every sentient being on the planet can distinguish between killing civilians accidentally in pursuit of a legitimate military target, and murdering civilians on purpose as part of a campaign of genocide. It's that old "accidentally vs. on purpose" distinction–subtle, but still valid after all these years. OK, there are a few brain-dead exceptions of the Chomsky or Said variety, but every person of normal intelligence can grasp the concepts involved here. InstaPundit points out that even far-out left-winger Eric Alterman has expressed no sympathy for the Palestinian murderers this time. If even leftists are getting on board, maybe progress is being made after all.
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Asian shares and the dollar steadied on Tuesday, with investors' reluctant to place new bets amid uncertainty over the outcome of a tight U.S. presidential election and renewed doubts over Greece's ability to push through severe fiscal reforms.
Risk-aversion underpinned the dollar near a two-month high against a basket of major currencies and bound most asset markets within tight trading ranges, with oil, gold and the euro all barely budged.
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U.S. stock futures indicated a slightly firmer open on Wall Street, while financial bookmakers called London's FTSE 100, Frankfurt's DAX and Paris's CAC-40 to open up 0.1-0.3 percent, after falling in the previous session.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are statistically tied, but the Democrat has a slight edge in some of the pivotal states where the election will be decided, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
If the election is so close that the result is delayed it could roil financial markets, as happened in the protracted 2000 Bush versus Gore battle that ended up in the Supreme Court.
"That is a situation global markets fear most and such uncertainty will have a big negative impact," said Cameron Peacock, market strategist at IG in Melbourne. "The best possible outcome would be for a clear and unqualified victor to emerge."
Meanwhile, the world's leading economies gave themselves a bit more wiggle room on Monday to meet targets for cutting budget deficits rather than risk worsening a slowdown in many countries, chief among them the United States.
The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.4 percent, pulled higher by a 0.2 percent rise in Australian shares and a 1.1 percent gain for South Korean shares that outweighed weakness in most other Asian equities.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 0.4 percent, dragged down by a drop in the index heavyweight HSBC Holdings. Japan's Nikkei average also fell 0.4 percent.
Whichever candidate prevails in the U.S. election, the prospect of a less than decisive win and lack of a clear majority in Congress raises the chances of messy negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" - nearly $600 billion worth of spending cuts and tax increases that risk pushing the economy into deep recession - analysts say.
In addition to the U.S. election, investors need to be mindful of the potential for renewed stress in Europe and China's political leadership transition, Morgan Stanley said.
"Markets are currently beset by opposing (positive and negative) factors, with the weight of upcoming risk events now turning us decidedly more cautious ... Risks of a messy negotiation around the fiscal cliff are likely to increase volatility at minimum," it said in a research note.
Greece faces protests as the government is set to propose its latest belt-tightening measures for a vote by lawmakers on Wednesday, which is needed to secure more aid and stave off bankruptcy.
But a bailout deal to keep Greece afloat is unlikely to be struck next week when euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels, a senior EU official said on Monday, as the euro zone still had to find a formula to make Greek debt sustainable and several countries, including Germany, had to discuss the matter with their parliaments.
"The market ought to be focusing more on the imminent situation facing Greece, even more than the U.S. presidential election," said Daisuke Karakama, market economist for Mizuho Corporate Bank in Tokyo.
The euro eased a touch to $1.2789, staying near the previous day's low of $1.2767 set on trading platform EBS, the single currency's lowest level in about two months.
The dollar was also off a fraction against a basket of major currencies, but remained close to the two-month high scaled on Monday.
The Australian dollar rallied 0.6 percent to $1.0436, a five-week high, after the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting.
Greek uncertainty bolstered safe-haven bids for German two-year government bond, sending the yields below zero for the first time in two months on Monday, while benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields fell to 1.684 percent.
U.S. crude futures were almost unchanged at $85.67 a barrel and Brent crude was also flat around $107.70. Gold was little changed around $1,656 an ounce.
Asian credit markets were subdued, leaving the spread on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment-grade index little changed from Monday.
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The mad scientist Issey loves cruising around the universe in his spaceship.
However, an unfortunate accident throws him off course, his ship crashing on an alien, uncharted planet.
There he makes a great discovery - the planet is populated by life. Unfortunately, the complex organisms do not view him as novelty, rather as dinner.
Will his new discovery be shared with humanity? Will Issey survive? Will he repair his stylish ship and go back home?
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Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Search settlement and posted the interview in audio form. The page isn't dated, but guessing from metadata in the URL it was somewhere around the publication of paper issue dated June 26, 2009. I'm calling out this particular interview because Mr. Smith said things that I hadn't heard in other forms yet -- Google's intentions about privacy in Google Book Search, an explicit statement about the Book Rights Registry releasing information about the status of orphan works, and a statement on what Google expects the size of the orphan works problem to be once the Registry has been in operation for a while.
Below is a rough transcript of portions of the interview. I've added emphasis in the transcript to the parts that I hadn't heard Google representatives say before.
Chronicle host: There has been a lot of concern among librarians and in the library community about access and privacy. Can you alay some of those fears?
Adam Smith: There has been a lot of discussion about how this settlement affect things such as access and privacy, and what we are really looking at is creating a product that will be broadly accessible to the university community as well as the internet community generally. [...] I think with respect to privacy, Google hasn't designed the product yet so it is hard to have a privacy policy for it, but we fully intend to have a policy that is consistent with a lot of the standard procedures in the library community today. Things such as allowing authentication to happen via IP. But we take privacy seriously and it will be consistent with Google's privacy policy as well as have some specific provisions when we actually get down to designing the product.
Chronicle host: There have been a lot of interest and concern in so called "orphan works" -- where do those fit into the settlement and how do respond to some of the anxiety about that.
Adam Smith: So there is no technical definition of "orphan works" but for the purposes here we'll say a book for which no rightsholder exists. Google's mission in this is to really provide broad access to all of these books and when you look at the corpus as a whole, the percentage of books that are available -- say -- is about 20% are in the public domain or more, about 5% are kind of in print. What that leaves is this center of books that are not in print but may be or may be not in copyright. And what we believe is through the settlement agreement and the establishment of the Books Rights Registry, which is an author- and publisher-controlled entity that will try to track down the rights holders of the particular book, we believe that over time what will happen is that rightsholders will come forward to claim the money that was generated via the economic models and this will allow for better identification of the specific rightsholders to the works. And the Books Rights Registry has committed to making any information -- or making the information about whether or not a book has been claimed -- making that public so that someone who's interested in making use of one of these potentially orphan works can understand as to whether or not a rightsholder has come forward for that particular book.
Chronicle host: Another concern is maybe the one that Google encounters the most -- is the question of monopoly. And why we should be happy that the idea that a private company has essential control over 10 million plus works?
Adam Smith: So I think at its root what's really important here is to look at the agreements. And Google has non-exclusive agreements at the root of all of its agreements. So, its agreements with its library partners are non-exclusive, its agreements with its publishers and authors are non-exclusive. So anyone is free to enter into agreements with those institutions or those publishers. With respect to the settlement agreement, for all works for which a rightsholder comes forward, the Books Rights Registry will have the ability to license or enter into economic models with other parties for those works. So really this is not an exclusive license to Google, but rather it's establishing the ability for them to get access to these. Obviously for the public domain works, there is no rights or contract associated with that. So what this really leaves is what we believe is a very thin slice of the remaining books, which are the orphan worked books.
I'm glad to see some sensitivity to the notion of privacy in Mr. Smith's response to that question. The notion of privacy goes beyond using IP address authentication to enable institutional subscription users to access the scanned books, of course -- specifically to the collection and disposition of log files related to individuals' use of the Google books database. I wonder if Google will really consider severing the link between reader and work, as is common practice in libraries today. In the case of online books, that would mean not collecting -- or at least immediately anonymizing -- the IP address of the machine used to read portions of the book. Time will tell, and this is certainly an area where I hope there is more dialog between Google and academic libraries (should the settlement agreement be approved).
It is interesting that a Google representative is making statements about what the Books Rights Registry will do with orphan works information. I would think it would be up to the registry's board of directors to decide whether or not they publicly release information about the orphan status of a work. I don't recall reading in the settlement agreement that it would be mandatory.
Mr. Smith's answer to the monopoly question ignores the "most favored nation" clause in the settlement agreement that says the Registry cannot offer licensing terms to another party that are more favorable than the ones offered to Google. While that might not be a monopoly in the strictest sense, it certainly makes it harder for any other entity to compete effectively with Google. That same answer also shows Google's optimism in the estimate that there will be "a very thin slice" of works that will turn out to be orphans -- in copyright but without an identified rightsholder. I can only assume that they have internal research to back that up. My gut tells me that there is considerably more than a thin slice, but that part of Mr. Smith's answer plays well with the notion that Google won't really have a monopoly because there will be so few books that Google will have the exclusive protections in the class action lawsuit settlement to digitize.
Adam Smith also has answers to questions about why Google didn't fight it out in court, what Google is doing to help the settlement be approved, and what Google's reaction might be if the settlement isn't approved.
The text was modified to update a link from http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v55/i40/smith/ to http://chronicle.com/article/Audio-Whats-Next-for-Google/48349/ on January 20th, 2011.


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Since my disappointing attempt at the Orangette Cinnamon Buns last week, I have been doing abit of research on the various methods of making Cinnamon Buns.
I tend to learn better via visual demonstration and found the numerous videos on this subject really useful. I especially liked this video which I found on YouTube.
Whilst the buns didnt turn out looking perfect, they were alittle on the flat and irregular shaped side, they tasted really good. The buns were really just a vehicle for the delicious frosting, which was a nice balance of sweet and savoury to go with the cinnamon and brown sugar mix.


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The USDA has selected for funding 450 projects nationwide, including 31 in North Carolina, that are focused on helping agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce energy consumption and costs; use renewable energy technologies in their operation; and/or conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy projects. Funding is made available through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which is authorized by the 2008 farm bill.
"The Obama administration and USDA are helping agricultural producers and rural small business owners reduce their energy costs and consumption – and by doing so is helping to create jobs, preserve our natural resources, protect the environment and strengthen the bottom line for businesses." said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "This is part of the administration's 'all of the above' energy strategy. Stable energy costs create an environment for sustainable job growth in rural America."
Secretary Vilsack made the announcement while touring Metrolina Greenhouses, a family-owned plant and services company in Huntersville, North Carolina, that has received a REAP guaranteed loan and three grants totaling over $1 million since 2007. In 2009, Metrolina received a combined REAP guaranteed loan and grant to construct a wood boiler heating system to supplement and replace the natural gas and fuel it uses at the 120-acre facility. In addition to heating Metrolina's greenhouses, using wood chips in the boiler provides an additional market for local lumber mills and logging operations.
Tennessee small business owner Rick Alexander is using a REAP grant and investing another $325,000 to create the first solar powered business in Maury County. Electricity is the largest expense for the climate controlled storage facility he built as a creative re-use of a former furniture building in the downtown business district. The 260 panel, 60 kW solar photovoltaic system is expected to generate more than 71,000 kWh, enough electricity to meet over half of the energy needs of his business for the next two decades. By also participating in the Tennessee Valley Authority's Generation Partners program through Columbia Power and Water, Alexander earns a premium on each clean kW produced, more than enough to cover the average monthly cost of electricity for his businesses.
In Mount Hope, Wis., located in the southwest corner of the state, Maurice Nichols was selected to receive a grant to purchase efficient grain dryer for his farm, saving over 42 percent in annual energy usage.
Whispering Pines Poultry in Centre, Ala., was selected to receive a grant to replace four propane heaters with renewable biomass wood pellet heaters to improve heating efficiency of the poultry houses. It is anticipated that the change will result in a yearly energy savings of over $3,000 per barn.
The announcement includes $412,304 in grant funding to 20 agricultural producers and rural businesses to conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy systems. For example, in Washington, the Port Angles Hardwood, LLC., has been selected to receive a grant to study the feasibility of installing a woody biomass co-generation system. If the project is feasible, all biomass mill residuals are estimated to be consumed, and no biomass will have to be sent to a landfill.
In South Londonberry, Vermont Woodchips, Inc. has been selected to receive a grant to help determine feasibility of installing a 4 megawatt combined cycle biomass gasifier power plant.
REAP offers funds for farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses to purchase and install renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements. These federal funds leverage other funding sources for businesses. In all, USDA announced nearly $7.4 million in energy grants today.


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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
The industrial, financial, energy, materials and technology sectors led Wall Street sharply higher on Tuesday. Traders paid close attention to the U.S. presidential election.
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Today's Markets
As of 3:20 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 133 points, or 1%, to 13244, the S&P 500 gained 10.9 points, or 0.77%, to 1428 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 10.8 points, or 0.36%, to 3010.
In a sign of the breadth of the rally, nine of ten S&P 500 sectors were in the green on Tuesday. Volatility slid some 7.4% as tracked by the CBOE's VIX, sometimes referred to as Wall Street's fear gauge. Commodities rallied across the board.
Election in the Spotlight
Trading desks across the world were fixated on the American presidential election, the results of which are likely to play a big role in shaping the world's leading economy in years to come. Last-minute polling showed President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a very tight race.
A significant concern among market participants was also the uncertainty that could be caused by the election dragging out over several days or weeks.
"Election results will come down to voter turnout and, with the polls as close as they are, there is a non-negligible risk of a vote count dragging on beyond tonight," analysts at Nomura warned clients. "Any doubt over the validity of election results ... could worsen tensions ahead of the fiscal cliff debates."
Analysts at Barclays echoed that sentiment, saying: "The importance of economic policymaking, the significant differences between the two candidates, the closeness of the polls and the result's possible effect on bond yields make this a particularly important election in terms of potential short-run effects."
Indeed, the U.S. is barreling toward the so-called fiscal cliff, a painful combination of federal spending cuts and tax hikes that could weigh heavily on economic growth. Political analysts have said that avoiding that outcome, while likely, will require careful stewardship by the White House and in Congress.
On the economic front, U.K. industrial output slid 1.7% in September from the month before, which was more than double the drop economists expected. Meanwhile, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that the European Union expects Spain's economy to shrink 1.6% this year compared to Madrid's estimate of 1.5%.
In corporate news, AOL (NYSE:AOL) and CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) both posted quarterly earnings that topped expectations on the top and bottom lines.
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About the Author: Michael DeTar serves as the Political Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The U.S. Ambassador and some Embassy staff in Sri Lanka are accredited to the Maldives.
I was glad to accept the Human Rights and Democracy Achievement Award on behalf of the people who actually deserve it. Ambassador Blake, Deputy Chief of Mission Jim Moore and entry-level officers in my section, supported by the entire U.S. mission, did most of the important work. Diplomatic colleagues from other countries collaborated with us and encouraged us. Many dedicated human rights advocates and freedom defenders in Sri Lanka and Maldives persevered in the face of adversity and at great personal risk. I have received greetings from a number of them. They look to the U.S. as a source of inspiration.
Listening to the Secretary's remarks, I was struck by the disturbing accounts of human rights abuses in Russia, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka. While working in the area of human rights can be disheartening and frustrating, the story of the struggle for democracy is also inspiring and uplifting. This year, one of the world's smallest countries has taught us valuable lessons about the constant struggle for freedom.
Maldives has fewer than 400,000 citizens, half of whom are under 18. The country consists of open ocean and hundreds of small, flat islands grouped in several atolls. By tradition, Maldives is one hundred percent Sunni Muslim. This November, Mohammed Nasheed, a former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, took the oath of office as Maldives' third President since independence. I and several of my predecessors have known Nasheed as an activist, freedom defender, and personal friend. The path he and his country took to democracy is a remarkable one.
Nasheed, a journalist, was jailed for his writings in 1991 -- the first of many stints in prison for his political views. Elected to Parliament in 2000 to represent the capital Male', he was arrested on trumped-up charges six months later and sentenced to internal banishment -- then a common punishment in Maldives. The death in 2003 of a teenage prison inmate set off riots in Male'. However, Maldivians channeled their outrage into a movement for democratic change.
In self-imposed exile in Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom, Nasheed founded the Maldivian Democratic Party with Mohamed Latheef. In 2004, the incumbent president committed to reforms, setting up a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution. But two months later, the government declared an emergency, arresting reform leaders.
In 2006, urged on by reform-minded ministers, the government established a "Roadmap for Reform" and released many political prisoners. After long months of negotiations, the constituent assembly finished its work. The new, democratic constitution took effect this August. Still, many were not convinced that the democracy movement would succeed. Some feared that the incumbent would manipulate the polling process, or that the security forces would intervene.
But none of this happened. In October, five challengers and the incumbent contested the first round. Three weeks later, the former political prisoner defeated Asia's longest-serving ruler in the runoff. I was there for both rounds of the election and in November for Nasheed's inauguration. The mood in Maldives was of pride and quiet elation. There was no gloating. The new government recognized the former autocrat's role in ushering in democracy and allowed him to retire in dignity.
Maldives is an example in the Muslim world in which a human rights-driven reform movement has brought about a peaceful, democratic transformation. Many problems, including a huge fiscal deficit, face the new, pluralistic, free market-oriented and pro-Western government -- which also has to deal with rising expectations of the people who voted for change. Maldives' new leaders are now taking their first baby steps toward consolidating the democratic revolution. The U.S. must be there to support them.
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It is perhaps just as important to peaceful democratic transition that the incumbant leadership be concerned with the legacy it wishes to leave behind , as it is with the intent of the opposition to achive its democratic aspirations for all the people, not just its supporters.
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When he arrived at work that day, an experienced machinist/technician quickly learned that one of the presses was not working properly. One of 50 employees in the factory performing various jobs on heavy machines, such as lathes and milling machines, he took it upon himself to investigate the problem. Not long after, he found that one of the circuit breaker's attachment screws was not tightened fully. Making a conscious decision to replace the circuit breaker in the "hot" panel, he accidentally caused a short circuit when he dropped the screwdriver he was using to tighten the screws holding one of the conductors. Although he didn't receive an electrical shock — no current actually flowed through him — he suffered burns over 90% of his body due to the plasma spray that resulted from the arc blast.
The Scene
Power was fed to the factory's main panel through a 3-phase transformer on the street. There was a circuit breaker (rated at 2,000A) and shutoff at the main panel. Power was further distributed to various machines via subpanels located throughout the factory. Upon leaving the main panel for the subpanels, there was no shutoff. Voltage delivered to the heavy machinery was nominal 240V.
The press was drawing excessive current, and every so often it tripped the circuit breaker in the subpanel that fed the press. Upon inspecting the equipment, the victim discovered that one of the circuit breaker's attachment screws was not tightened properly. This produced a small gap (less than a millimeter) between the electric lead of the breaker and the conductor, which gave rise to arcing. Although the arcing was localized and harmless, over time it had built up a deposit around the circuit breaker's contact (Photo 1).
After investigating other places in the machine's circuit, the technician concluded that this loose screw was the cause for the power fluctuation and power losses in the machine. Therefore, he decided to replace the faulty circuit breaker.
Because there was no breaker between the main panel and the subpanel, the technician could not turn off the power to the subpanel without shutting down the entire plant. A plant-wide outage would require the approval of the plant president, who had already approved shutting off the power on that coming Saturday.
The Accident
Rather than waiting until the end of the work week for the plant-wide outage, the technician chose to replace the circuit breaker "hot," because he felt the machine needed attention immediately. There were three bus connections at the breaker for each phase — 240V (nominal) and 125A.
Putting on gloves rated at 600V, the victim worked under physical tension so as to make no mistakes while the circuit remained hot. He carefully removed the bad circuit breaker. Then he attached one side of the replacement unit to the three output wires and proceeded to connect the three standoff bars. While he was screwing down one of the screws, he dropped the screwdriver. A large discharge occurred, which blew out the transformers located on the power poles outside the plant, eliminating power to the entire plant.
The Aftermath
Miraculously, the technician did not receive even the slightest jolt of electricity during the accident — no shock nor hint of electrocution. However, the incident caused severe arcing at the subpanel, resulting in the technician receiving second- and third-degree burns that kept him in the intensive care unit for six months. The fact that his burns had nothing to do with touching an electric source demonstrates that you can still receive serious burns even when electricity does not enter your body.
Investigation and Analysis
I was hired by the insurance company as a forensic engineer to represent the machine shop, after the injured technician sued the company and a host of others, including the electrical contractor.
During the initial installation performed by the electrical contractor, which occurred about a year before the accident, the screws of the problematic circuit breaker had not been tightened fully. This was the fault of the original electrical contractor who had installed all of the wiring. This left a paper thin gap between the electric lead of the subpanel and an attachment standoff, which gave rise to localized arcing. Although the arcing was harmless, over time, a layer of oxide built up on one of the tabs (Photo 1). This layer of oxide gradually reached a point (on the day of the accident) where it began to impede the flow of current. For this reason, the machine that depended on this breaker was not receiving power in a normal fashion. This original circuit breaker was later tested and found to be faulty, as alleged by the injured technician.
The dropped screwdriver caused a phase-to-ground fault and severe arcing, which was confirmed by the great level of soot found on the bus bars that served this breaker. The source of the soot was due to vaporized plastic. The fact that the technician dropped the screwdriver meant that he was not in contact with the electric circuit. This saved him from suffering an electrical shock, which could have been fatal, considering the available currents at this location in the electrical system.
The arcing was so strong that the blast vaporized the surrounding copper and plastic components. Photo 2 (click here to see Photo 2) shows the front panel (or the face plate) of the subpanel after the accident. Notice the semi-circular hole in the metal in addition to the rectangular hole on the left. This semi-circular hole was not present before the accident. The severe arcing vaporized 1/8 in. of cold rolled steel, creating this hole on the face plate. Photo 3 shows the plaster wall facing the power panel. Orange colors are due to copper vaporization. Black colors are due to plastic insulation being vaporized and possibly steel. Just to be clear — the copper and steel did not melt; they vaporized. No cooled off puddle melt was found nearby. Not only did the vapor coat the wall surrounding the panel, but it also coated the technician. The hot gases laced with vaporized metal caused second and third degree burns on the upper half of his body. Photo 4 shows where the technician stood between the wall and the subpanel — the location where he was sprayed over the top half of his body with hot plasma and vaporized metal.
The circuit breaker at the main panel did not react fast enough to break the circuit. It was a "slow-blow" surge arrester. The current quickly rose until it reached 4,000A. This blew out the transformers on the pole outside the factory. Arcing continued at the subpanel until the current blew out the transformers. In other words, the power transformers became fuses for this accident.
Lessons Learned
Clearly, this accident was the result of the original electrical system design. With the existing setup, the supply to the machine could only be turned off by shutting off the power to the entire facility. The electrical contractor who initially wired the electrical system did not put in a secondary disconnect between the main panel and the subpanel. This configuration was a clear violation of the requirement of NEC Articles 210 and 215, and 240. This is also reflected in OSHA. For example, see 1926.404(e)(1)(iv), which specifies that a shutoff for heavy machinery should be approximately 25 ft (or less) away from the machine, and all clusters of machines or components on a particular circuit should have their own subpanel with its own shutoff.
Independent shutoffs for each of the subpanels would have helped in making easy repairs to the machine and also prevented the secondary circuit breaker from tripping. In addition, the machine involved in the accident was well over 100 ft from the main panel and not in a straight line that could be visible. Furthermore, by leaving behind a spare circuit breaker after wiring the plant, the electric contractor enabled an unlicensed person without proper training to install a component that needed proper training and licensing. This component's availability facilitated the opportunity for the technician to take it upon himself to repair the defective breaker.
The case settled before trial with the burned technician receiving an estimated $1.5 million, the cost of his medical care plus a financial settlement for the pain he had suffered. The contractor who installed the panels and wiring bore the majority of the costs involved in this settlement.
Hmurcik is a consultant at Lawrence V. Hmurcik, LLC. He can be reached at: [email protected]. Patel is a PhD candidate at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Conn. He can be reached at: [email protected].


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