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The largest meeting of dermatologists in the world is held annually by the American Academy of Dermatology
The largest meeting of dermatologists in the world is held annually by the Αμερικανική Ακαδημία Δερματολογίας (AAD) each year with about 14,000 dermatologists in attendance. Ο IPPF holds its annual medical advisory board meeting during the AAD as most of the international and national members attend. Last year, the IPPF decided to apply to the AAD to run a 3 hour symposium on autoimmune bullous diseases, and Professor Dedee Murrell volunteered to prepare and submit the application, which was approved in July last year. 11 speakers were chosen during the 3 hours with the program below;
Καρέκλα Dedee F Murrell, MD, on behalf of the International Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Foundation (winner of AAD 2008 Golden Triangle Award)
Περιγραφή: This session will highlight advances in the diagnosis, characterization of and ttherapeutic arena related to πεμφίγο και πεμφιγοειδές. The recent international consensus on disease definitions for pemphigus and two disease severity measurement tools that are being studied will be presented. Attendees will learn about the genetic and environmental factors that predispose patients to develop pemphigus and pemphigoid. Experienced clinicians will give a critical review of the evidence for traditional and novel therapies. The key role played by the patient support group, IPPF, to advance the diagnosis and management of these 'orphan» diseases will be explained.
2.00-2.05 Importance of patient support groups for autoimmune bullous disease
Janet Segall, USA.
2.05-2.25 Practical diagnosis of pemphigus and pemphigoid
Jean Claude Bystryn, MD (USA)
2.25-2.45 Genetic predisposition towards pemphigus & pemphigoid
Animesh Sinha, MD, PhD (USA)
2.45-3.05 Environmental triggers of pemphigus & pemphigoid
Valeria Aoki, MD, PhD (Brasil)
3.05 -3.25 Prognosis and avoiding complications of treatment
Amit Pandya, MD(USA)-
3.25-3.45 Evidence-based management of pemphigoid
Russell P Hall,MD (USA)-
3.45-4.05 Evidence-based management of pemphigus
Pascal Joly ,MD, PhD(France)
4.05-4.25 Outcome measures and Consensus Statement on Definitions of Disease Endpoints, and Therapeutic Response in Pemphigus
Dedee F Murrell MD(Australia)
4.25-4.45 Measuring extent and activity of disease in pemphigus
Victoria P Werth, MD (USA)
4.45-5.00 Better diagnosis & management of pemphigus as an orphan disease
and future collaborations
David Sirois, MD (USA)
A large hall was allocated for the session, which was open to any registrant without an additional fee, and was full for most of the session, with about 300 dermatologists in the room. The session was opened by IPPF patient liaison officer, Janet Segall, speaking from her personal experience as a patient, about how much a patient support organisation, such as the IPPF she established, could make a difference to the lives of patients with these rare AIBD.
Dr Jean-Claude Bystryn, from New York University, went over very clearly the clinical and pathological features needed to diagnose πεμφίγο και πεμφιγοειδές, and how to distinguish their subtypes and tell them from other forms of bullous diseases. His presentation included very clear photographs of the diseases and diagrams designed to make this complex area of dermatology easy to understand.
Dr Animesh Sinha, from Wayne State Univ in Michigan, gave an enlightening presentation about the genetic risk factors that can predispose patients to developing pemphigus, including his own research. He explained that there is an increased risk of other autoimmune diseases in patients with AIBD, the most common of which is thyroid disease, in about 20% of cases. Almost half of pemphigus vulgaris patients reported having relatives with autoimmune diseases. There are no twin studies of AIBD, so if you are a twin with pemphigus or pemphigoid, please get in touch with Janet so she can link you with Dr Sinha, as twins with/without diseases can provide information about causes and triggers of the disease. Dr Sinha explained in detail about the tissue types that increase the risk of developing pemphigus, particularly one called DRB1-0402. His lab and others are actively researching genetic markers of pemphigus.
Dr Valeria Aoki, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, was nominated to speak in lieu of Dr Luis Diaz, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as he is on the board of the AAD, whose meeting clashed with ours. They have collaborated in very important research on what environmental triggers cause endemic pemphigus foliceus, known as fogo selvagem, in the rainforests of Brasil. People living in these indigenous reservations, as well as people moving into the reservation, develop high antibody levels to the protein that is targeted in the skin in pemphigus foliaceus, called Desmoglein 1. There is a particular species of black fly in these reservations which is thought to be somehow related to the triggering process. Up to 10% of healthy people in the reservations also made antibodies to Dsg1 but, crucially, not the disease-causing subtype of antibody, which is an IgG4 antibody, rather than IgG1, against a structurally crucial part of Dsg1. Dr Aoki also spoke about an endemic form of pemphigus vulgaris that has recently been found in Brasil as well. By studying this, more information could be gleaned about factors that trigger PV.
Next, we switched gears back to the practical clinical aspects of managing the many complications of treating AIBD, which was reviewed very well by Dr Amit Pandya, of the University of Texas, Southwestern, in Dallas. You could hear a pin drop in the audience as everyone's eyes were glued to the screen. He spoke about the mortality of pemphigus having improved over the years, but the morbidity is what we need to improve on now. Mortality is lower due to early recognition of these diseases, earlier commencement of treatment and more appropriate use of prednisone or alternatives. Supportive treatments including sometimes overlooked basic aspects, such as nutrition, hygiene, moderate exercise to reduce muscle wasting and osteoporosis, avoiding tape; pain control, when antibiotics might be needed. He uses a very useful 'dear doctor' letter to the patients' local physician, detailing all the complications that need to be watched for whilst they are on corticosteroids, including the importance of not suddenly stopping the steroids.
Extremely popular were the next two clinical talks, as well. Dr Russell Hall, chair of dermatology at Duke University, delivered a very succinct overview of the evidence for treatments in use for bullous pemphigoid. He explained that older studies had not always excluded other AIBD that attack the basement membrane, particularly epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, which is more resistant to therapy than BP. Survival rates reported for BP differed between different countries and centres, for example in France a 59% 1 year survival was reported in BP patients receiving oral steroids, but was much improved in those randomised to potent topical steroids instead. Studies in the USA reported one year survival rates of 89% and 77%. In countries where the application of topical steroids can be provided and longer stays in hospital, the use of TCS instead of oral steroids may well improve survival. He pointed out some new trials which will be starting soon in the UK to address these questions further.
New international member of the IPPF, Prof Pascal Joly, from the University of Rouen, France, carefully reviewed, in perfect English, the evidence for treatments in use for pemphigus. Much of this has recently been published as a detailed Cochrane Review by Linda Martin, Vicky Werth and Dedee Murrell, available from the weblink http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab006263.html. In addition, Dr Joly spoke in detail about the studies of rituximab for pemphigus vulgaris, which he has recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, as leader of one of the most active group of dermatologists in the world doing clinical studies in pemphigus and pemphigoid.
The next two presentations were about the work of the International Pemphigus Definitions group, in order to develop a consensus about how pemphigus is staged clinically and how it should be graded. Prof Dedee Murrell, Chair of Dermatology at the University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, in Sydney, Australia, explained how she and Vicky Werth had coordinated meetings between disparate groups of dermatologists from all parts of the world who are experts in pemphigus, to hold face-to-face meetings alongside international congresses, to debate the very important topic of defining disease stages in pemphigus – in other words, what constitutes when the disease is under control, a remission on/off therapy, what minimal therapy for pemphigus is, what is a flare, what treatments and doses should be trialled before the patient is said to be 'resistant' to treatment. As a prelude to this, she and her fellow, Linda Martin, had reviewed all studies of pemphigus published with more than 5 patients and had found that more different definitions of outcome measures were used (116!) than there were studies (96). In order to compare treatments in an orphan disease, a statistical method, called meta-analysis, is used, which can be a very powerful tool for rare diseases for which very large randomized trials are impossible. However, to do meta-analysis, you need uniform outcome measures to be used in each study. Since the Definitions consensus for pemphigus was published in the JAAD last year, new trials are including these.
Dr Victoria Werth, Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylavania, gave the second presentation on the advances being made in developing grading systems for pemphigus and other AIBD. She explained that there were certain standard steps that needed to be completed in order to develop and validate proposed disease extent and activity measures. She has successfully done this before for another autoimmune skin disease, lupus. There are two proposed disease extent and activity measures, one developed by IPPF MAB member Prof Michael Hertl, in Germany, called the ABSIS, and one developed by the Pemphigus Definitions group, including the experts from around the world, as well as Prof Hertl, and other German dermatologists, as a group, called the PDAI and PSS. Dr Werth reviewed the results of a validation study done on patients with pemphigus at Penn, with several expert dermatologists, mainly from the IPPF group, performing these gradings on the same patients on the same day. Whilst both the ABSIS and PDAI were sensitive, the PDAI was more sensitive at lower degrees of involvement and had a higher intra-rater reliability coefficient. She spoke about another study using photographs of these same patients, and other more severely involved patients, being assessed similarly but via a secure IPPF weblink, so that international experts could participate as well.
Finally, the session closed with a unique presentation by IPPF President, Dr David Sirois, Professor of Dentistry and Oral Medicine at New York University. He spoke about the opportunities for the pharmaceutical industry to support patients with orphan diseases, including AIBD, by using the fast tracking of applications for approval by the FDA, using the Orphan Drugs Act, 1983. Of 1700 new drug applications, over 300 have been approved, or about 11 new drugs for orphan diseases per year. Whilst orphan diseases may be rare, because patients usually require these expensive new treatments for many years, it is worth pursuing by these pharmaceutical companies as if they are given an approved listing for that indication, insurance companies are then obliged to fund them, and those drugs which have been approved for orphan diseases have averaged an expenditure of $500M/year. On the other hand, insurance companies, he said, were not going to spend time looking into projected costs for rare orphan diseases.
Judging by the high attendance, applause and questions, there was much enthusiasm for the session. At the AAD, the audience is asked to grade each presenter and only sessions with good gradings are invited back the next year. We anticipate excellent ratings based on the attendance and hope to return with this session at the AAD next year with more new information for the dermatologists across the globe.
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Speakers at the AAD Symposium on Management of Autoimmune Bullous Diseases. Left to right: Drs Amit Pandya, Animesh Sinha, Pascal Joly, Dedee Murrell, Jean-Claude Bystryn, Ms Janet Segall, Drs David Sirois, Victoria Werth, Russell Hall and Valeria Aoki.
Respectfully submitted, Dedee F Murrell, MD


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(NEW YORK) -- Top House Republicans Tuesday opposed a bipartisan compromise that passed the Senate in the wee hours of New Year's Day to avert the "fiscal cliff," as new studies conclude that the compromise on taxes and spending would add trillions to the U.S. deficit.
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GOP leaders emerged from a morning conference meeting disenchanted by the legislative package devised by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Biden early Tuesday morning, with several insisting they cannot vote on it as it now stands.
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The company's plans, first reported by the Addison Independent, call for an initial work force of 35 workers to locate next year in a vacant 6,700-square-foot space at 1197 Exchange St. Deborah Schwarz, founder and president of e-Corp English, hopes to expand that work force to more than 100 within the next three years.
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The Pyle mss., 1929-1945, are letters to Ernest Taylor Pyle, 1900-1945, journalist, from editors, newspapermen, journalists, congressmen, senators, and friends. Included are also ninety-nine personal letters from Pyle to his wife, Mrs. Geraldine "Jerry" Elizabeth (Siebolds) Pyle, 1900-1945, and one hundred and eight personal letters to Paige Cavanaugh, 1899-1991, businessman and classmate of Pyle at Indiana University. These letters were written while Pyle was a war correspondent in England, Ireland, France, Italy, Sicily, Africa, and the South Pacific during World War II. He used ninety-seven pseudonyms in writing to Cavanaugh. In addition to the letters there are sixty-six articles and one column, "On V-E Day," Pyle had written which was found in his pocket at the time of his death, April 18, 1945, on Ie Shima. The Pittsburgh Press published the column on September 9, 1945. After the war the body was moved to the new National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater, near Honolulu.
In 1944 Pyle was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and voted the Outstanding Hoosier of the year by the Sons of Indiana of New York. In the same year he received the honorary degrees of Litt. D. from the University of New Mexico and L.H.D. from Indiana University and the Raymond Clapper memorial award from the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity.
Among his publications are Ernie Pyle in England. New York: P.M. McBride & Company, [1941]; Here is Your War. New York: H. Holt and Company, [1943]; Brave Men. New York: H. Holt and Company, [1944]; Last Chapter. New York: H. Holt and Company, [1946]; Home Country. New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., [1947]. Lee Graham Miller published An Ernie Pyle Album: Indiana to Ie Shima. New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., [1946]; and The Story of Ernie Pyle. New York: The Viking Press, 1950.
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After Deadly Mine Explosion, Will Massey Corp. Ever Face Justice?
By Roger Bybee
What corporations can get away with legally in the United States while ignoring the costs they impose on the public is bad enough. But it's even worse to see a corporation brazenly and repeatedly break mine-safety laws, destroy pristine mountains and rivers, and crush worker rights—and get away with it all, again and again.
One of the country's worst corporate outlaws is Don Blankenship, CEO of the Virginia-based Massey Energy Corporation, which owns the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia where 25 miners met their deaths yesterday after an explosion collapsed the mine's roof. Four others still in the mine are presumed dead.
Given Massey's egregious record of safety and environmental violations, this latest mining disaster should ignite an outcry for serious federal action to hold accountable a corporation that has obviously outgrown the restraints of democracy at the state level. The horrific deaths of at least 25 people buried alive or blown up in the Upper Big Branch disaster have all the earmarks of large-scale corporate negligence of the worst sort, with Blankenship pushing his managers for more coal production—at any cost.
With Massey Energy growing in wealth and political power, Blankenship has been able to far outspend the organizations and candidates—both political and judicial—who might stand up against his ruthless policy of pillage and plunder.
When Blankenship became infuriated with all the safety, environmental, and labor-law violations with which Massey was being hit, he took action. He used his wealth to essentially buy two State Supreme Court seats in West virginia, where many of Massey's mine operations are located.
He was unfazed by a firestorm of public criticism over his spending millions to buy sleazy, deceptive ads that clearly drowned West Virginia democracy with his dollars. Blankenship's $2.5 million worth of TV ads in 2004 falsely accused the court's chief justice of freeing a child molester—cynically hiding the CEO's real agenda of getting a pliable court on environmental violations and other corporate concerns—and replaced him with a reliable friend of business.
Nor was Blankenship disturbed much when a U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that one of his paid-for State Supreme Court justices couldn't participate in a case involving Massey because of the flagrant conflict of interest. (But the court's recent Citizens United case gives him power to engage in unlimited campaign spending on ads attacking his enemies.)
What Don Blankenship wants, Don Blankenship gets. So when he tells his mine managers to get their priorities straight and get more coal out of the ground, you can be sure they understand that they had better not allow other considerations—say, like the environment or worker safety—to stand in their way.
In a 2006 internal memo to underground mine managers, Blankenship's exasperation with what he saw as excessive caution was evident: As the New York Times reported,
In the memo, Mr. Blankenship instructed the company's underground mine superintendents to place coal production first.
"This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills," he said.
Blankenship had little reason to question whether the superintendent of the Upper Big Branch mine shared his obsession with making profits above anything else—despite the fact that mine had amassed a sizable number of safety violations, as the Times noted:
Federal records indicate that the Upper Big Branch mine has recorded an injury rate worse than the national average for similar operations for at least six of the past 10 years. The records also show that the mine had 458 violations in 2009, with a total of $897,325 in safety penalties assessed against it last year. It has paid $168,393 in safety penalties…...
Ellen Smith, the editor of Mine Safety and Health News, said the Upper Big Branch mine was the site of two fatalities in the previous 10 years.
The disaster at the Massey-owned mine caused the most fatalities at any U.S. mine in 25 years, and comes after mining-safety enforcement was supposed to have been reformed four years ago. Those reforms occurred after 19 miners died in a series of accidents in West Virginia and Kentucky. One of those accidents led to criminal charges against a Massey subsidiary, the Times reported.
Massey's history of safety violations and fatalities in its mine prompted U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, who represents the district in which the mine is located, to declare, "This is the second major disaster at a Massey site in recent years, and something needs to be done." Although Upper Big Branch is a non-union mine, the United Mine Workers sent in a team of specialists to provide advice on rescue efforts and to assist the miners' families.
Meanwhile, Blankenship offered up the standard, hollow blather to miners' grieving families and the public in a statement Monday: "We want to assure the families of all the miners we are taking every action possible to locate and rescue those still missing."
However, following past mining disasters, Blankenship apparently failed to have Massey's PR staff prepare his comments, as suggested by the Times' account:
After the disasters at the Aracoma Alma Mine, which Massey owns, and the Sago Mine, in which a total of 14 miners were killed, Mr. Blankenship drew sharp criticism after he told The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Md., that such accidents were rare and statistically insignificant.
But normally Blankenship is an articulate spokesman for the corporate viewpoint in opposing safety and environmental standards. He is also an active strategist for promoting a complete return to the brass-knuckled capitalism of a century ago.
Blankenship's eye-popping pay gives him the wealth to influence politics in West Virginia from from outside the state. His checkbook has already cast a long, dark shadow over democracy in West Virginia—he has spent $6 million of his personal fortune there. The Times reports:
Don L. Blankenship is not the governor of West Virginia. But here in coal country some say he may as well be, considering the power he wields…
In a state where candidates who win typically spend less than $20,000, Mr. Blankenship has poured more than $6 million into political initiatives and local races over the past three years. …
''Don Blankenship would actually be less powerful if he were in elected office,'' said United States Representative Nick J. Rahall II, a Democrat whose district includes a majority of Massey's coal mines. ''He would be twice as accountable and half as feared.''
One of Blankenship's first steps as Massey CEO was to aggressively try to move aggressively to crush the once-mighty United Mine Workers, who had already been hit hard by a major downturn in mining in Appalachia. As the Times explained:
The first step in that mission, said Cecil E. Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has been to oppose unions fervently in the state.
''From the first day he could, Don began busting unions,'' Mr. Roberts said. ''He was pretty effective at that, so now Don is trying to extend his reach across the state in politics. Union leaders say Mr. Blankenship, 56, is the main reason that less than a quarter of the state's coal miners are now organized, down from about 95 percent just three decades ago. …
And environmentalists describe him as the biggest force behind a highly destructive form of mining called mountaintop removal that involves using explosives to blow off the tops of mountains to reach coal seams….
Massey has had more toxic spills of coal waste than any other company in the state, and from January 2000 to December 2005, it received 4,268 citations from state regulators. The next closest company received fewer than 800.
In light of Massey's record of destroying both human lives and the environment, you have to wonder how much a corporate outlaw can get away with:
- How many more workers need to get killed until Massey stops ignoring safety standard and executives are faced with criminal charges?
- How many more rivers does Massey need to pollute before it receives a punishment that will be a real deterrent?
- How many more judges can Blankenship purchase before the notion of "equal justice" becomes a bitter joke?
- How much more are we willing to see democracy buried beneath a blizzard of dollars unleashed by Blankenship?
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The galaxy just got more crowded. Astronomers using data from the Kepler space telescope have confirmed the existence of 715 new planets orbiting 305 stars, increasing the total number of known planets to about 1,700. This is the largest number of planet confirmations ever announced at once.
"We've struck the mother lode," said Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., during a February 26 press conference. "It's an exoplanet bonanza."
The new planets are mostly small — 94 percent are no bigger than Neptune — and circle their stars along with sister planets in compact, circular orbits all in the same plane. The new findings increase the number of confirmed Earth-sized planets by 400 percent.
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Advertising is everywhere: Text messages. Robo-calls. Elevators. Gas pumps. Now you can add public urinals and cop cars to that list.
The latest regional entries into the world of guerrilla marketing: The Clarks Summit police fleet this spring will sport two 8-by-16-inch advertisements on each of the borough's three marked police vehicles.
The advertisements, which cost $1,000 a year, will be placed on the vehicles' rear quarter panels, under the blue "911" lettering. They are expected to generate $6,000 in revenue annually and help offset the borough's dramatic dip in earned income tax revenue.
And then there's the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, who this season will have sponsored video games activated by men and boys relieving themselves in urinals at Coca-Cola Park.
But are these merely advertising gimmicks or are they effective? And when does every last available piece of public space stop getting consumed with advertising?
Robert McKenzie, a professor of communication studies at East Stroudsburg University, calls it "noise pollution."
"It's just another example of advertising creep into the public sphere," he said.
"Ad creep" is a term used to refer to the prevalence of advertising in places we wouldn't have expected before, from school buses to police cars.
"We should be taking ads like this seriously, and telling the people that we don't want these," said Kalle Lasn, editor of the Canadian-based magazine Adbusters, and a leading critic of global advertising.
He says that this form of advertising creep has been accelerating for the last 25 years. Lasn calls urinal and police car ads just the "tip of the iceberg of a $1 trillion worldwide industry. It's a culture that's gone berserk," he says.
A group that advocates for urinal ads says they may not be so bad.
The unique urinal advertising reaches a narrow but coveted audience of 21-to-35-year-olds, according to the Indoor Billboard Advertising Association, which focuses on rest room ads.
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He points to a sanitary side benefit: "Our devices have shown that they keep the rest rooms cleaner. First of all, they're aiming better."
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High vibration is a common problem for motors installed on top of vertical pumps. Its source can stem from a mechanical issue with the pump, motor, or coupling — or even hydraulic forces from the pump. Structural issues involving "reed frequency" resonance often amplify the problem, but effective diagnosis must begin with an understanding of the underlying vibratory forces. Although the general category of vertical pumps includes submersibles, this discussion focuses solely on the ones that most commonly exhibit high vibration conditions — surface-mounted pumps that have the motor bolted to a pedestal on top (Photo).
Mass unbalance
As with all rotating machinery, the most common vibratory force for vertical pump motors is mass unbalance. Unfortunately, accurate balancing of the rotor in a balancing machine will not eliminate all sources of unbalance for these motors. Often, the top thrust bearing mounts on a carrier hub, which is a clearance fit to the shaft and is locked in place by a shaft nut. This creates unbalance by allowing some variance of the rotating axis in relation to the principal axis of inertia.
On hollow shaft designs, the massive hub that mounts to the top of the rotor is subject to unbalance and eccentric mounting. It may even have moving parts for the anti-reversing ratchet that can add to the problem. The pump shaft on these designs passes through the motor shaft and bolts to the top hub. Mass unbalance will result if the pump shaft and retaining hardware are slightly eccentric.
Coupling type and alignment
The type and alignment of the coupling can also cause vibration in vertical pump motors. On hollow shaft designs, the coupling consists simply of the bolts that secure the motor shaft to the top hub. The only flexible element in this drive train is the pump shaft, so any offset or angular misalignment of the pump shaft and hub will produce significant vibratory forces.
An alternate design is to couple the pump shaft and motor at the bottom of the motor. Here, the coupling that supports the weight and thrust of the pump is often solid rather than flexible. This greatly increases the chances for vibration as compared with conventional, horizontally mounted flexible couplings.
Mechanical action of pump shaft and impeller
Another vibratory force that often affects the kinds of vertical pump motors discussed here is the mechanical action of the pump shaft and impeller. These pumps have long, slender shafts that are susceptible to twisting and bending, so they usually have guide bearings at intervals along the casing to provide stability. Any variances in guide bearing clearances can make the pump shaft "dance" or "whip," especially on very deep pump applications.
Hydraulic action of fluid
The hydraulic action of the pumpage as it moves through the pump casing and out the discharge is another significant vibratory force that can affect vertical pump motors. The discharge from most of these pumps is horizontal, so the fluid must make a 90° turn — usually at the top of the pump just below the motor. Flow turbulence at this location can be a strong exciting force.
Resonant frequencies
All machines have resonant frequencies due to the stiffness and mass of their structures. Design engineers try to keep these frequencies well above (or below) those of any exciting force by stiffening the structure or adding mass. It's like tightening a guitar string to raise its pitch, or strumming a thicker string to play a lower note.
Although resonant frequencies are potentially present in horizontally mounted pumps and motors, the base structures of these machines can usually be engineered to withstand them. By contrast, the long moment arm created by a tall motor mounted atop a pump flange makes it difficult to build in the required structural rigidity. Therefore, resonance frequencies may be low enough to coincide with and amplify any vibratory forces that may be present.
To see how this applies to vertical pumps, try holding a simple metal ruler at one end and striking the other. The tone you will hear is the ruler's natural (or reed) frequency. Like the ruler, a vertical pump motor is attached (to a structure) at one end and free at the other. The stiffness of its supporting mounting flange depends on the foundation, especially on how well the pump is grouted and bolted to that foundation. Of course, the pump that hangs below the mounting flange also has significant mass with its own resonant frequencies, as does the attached discharge piping.
In relation to the whole machine, the flange to which the pump, motor, and discharge piping attach looks pretty small and weak, offering abundant opportunities for resonant frequencies in various ranges. This might be good for making music, but to most maintenance professionals, it sounds like trouble.
Before trying to identify resonant frequencies that may be contributing to vertical pump vibration problems, check and adjust everything that can prevent severe vibration:
- Ensure that the mounting flange is stiff enough to raise the resonant frequencies well above those of the operating speed and other exciting forces.
- Adjust the mechanical alignment and balance to within reasonably tight tolerances.
- Ensure hydraulic flow through the pump and piping is smooth.
Conduct basic frequency analysis
Any attempt to solve vibration problems on vertical pump motors should begin with a basic frequency analysis using a portable vibration analyzer. In most cases, a single vibration frequency will be dominant — often at rotating speed. Then, by simple process of elimination, zero-in on the source of the problem.
If rotating speed is the dominant frequency, the problem is not hydraulic forces from the pump. If rotating speed is not the dominant frequency, then neither unbalance nor misalignment is a source of vibration. Conducting a simple bump test can identify the resonant frequencies of the mounted motor. From this point, it is a fairly straightforward process to identify other contributing factors using phase analysis and operating deflection shape (ODS) analysis.
Vibration at 1 × rpm is by far the most common occurrence, so it merits attention. Phase analysis can confirm that the vibration is at 1 × rpm, and amplitude and phase data from various locations on the motor and pump flange can generate a "picture" of the vibratory motion. With ODS analysis, computer software animates the motion based on phase and amplitude vectors (see Figure). Although this can be useful, a pencil sketch with vectors plotted can provide adequate information.
Trim balancing
Placement of trim balancing weights in an attempt to reduce vibration can be an important diagnostic step. Convenient locations for the weights are on the coupling hub and the fan at the top of the motor. A resonant condition exists if very small weights significantly change the amplitude and phase vector. If reducing the vibration in one direction (e.g., north-south) causes an increase in the other (e.g., east-west), unbalance is not the primary exciting force — suspect misalignment or a warped pump shaft.
Other possibilities
When vibration is not at rotating speed, the process of elimination must consider a number of other possible forces. Basic vibration analysis techniques, although not covered here, can help to isolate the most likely causes. While the motor is usually the focus of attention, the pump, perhaps unseen below the surface, can also generate vibratory forces that will be reflected in the motor vibration.
Even a seemingly simple case of vertical pump motor vibration can take the vibration technician on an analytical journey. By recognizing that resonance, pump generated forces, and the interaction between the motor and the pump shaft can all be contributing factors, the technician can approach the problem objectively, using the process of elimination to solve it. Those who approach the problem unprepared will ultimately only find frustration.
Vogel is a pump and vibration specialist at the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) in St. Louis. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Over the weekend, Greg Cosell (@GregCosell) started tweeting again. About college players he watched film on and his opinions on how they might project to the NFL. Cosell is Executive Producer of NFL Matchup, and Senior Producer NFL Films for 33 years. Love reading his writing on football (that can be found at NFL Films blog, but I'm not sure how to find just his writing), and he often challenges or confirms your thinking on things.
Don't know about you but I'm wanting the draft to be here already. The talk is turning into ruminating, you know, where you think about things over and over again in mostly unproductive way. Sort of like the time waste that is blogging.
In any event,this is a concierge sort of blog post. Putting Cosell's recent tweets together in a way helpful for fans, with specifically Texans' fans interests in mind. Also in a way that in a point in the future, it is easy to look back as a reference. If you are not familiar with the players, here's some basic reference info from the CBS Draft Site.
So does this confirm your views on draft prospects? Challenge them? Cause you to unproductively ruminate?
I don't really have a strong preference at 26. I know most websites have the Texans taking wide receiver, but not certain that they go that way in the first round.


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Earlier this month, President Obama used his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia a National Monument. The significance of President Obama's Proclamation cannot be overstated; it is the first time he has used this authority and Fort Monroe is a unique and historically important military base worth federal protection.
The Proclamation will ensure preservation of the majority of the buildings within the 570-acre National Historic Landmark District as well as significant landscapes and viewsheds. But only 324 acres, or 57 percent of the 570 acres, was designated a National Monument, leaving the rest of the property to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Ideally the entire 570-acre property would best be served as protected parkland.
We've written before about the deficit of parkland in the Hampton Roads area and how a new, historic park would have a significant positive impact for the entire region. The opportunity to gain priceless acres of waterfront parkland is especially noteworthy. The National Monument designation includes federal ownership of the parade ground, some buildings, and the beaches, with easements surrounding the entire fortress and moat.
The site has the momentous distinction of being the spot upon which, in 1619, the first Africans destined for the British continental North American colonies landed—the vanguard of an estimated 10–12 million Africans forcibly brought to the colonies and, later, the United States.
Fort Monroe was begun in 1819 and completed in 1834. With a seven-sided shape, walls of stone, ramparts over a mile in circumference, completely surrounded by a water-filled moat, and bristling with huge artillery guns, Fort Monroe was given the nickname "Gibraltar of the Chesapeake." It is the largest fort ever built in the United States.
During the American Civil War, Fort Monroe was one of only a very few strongholds in the South that never fell to the Confederates. Among notable military events that occurred at Fort Monroe was Major General Benjamin Butler's decision to declare that any slave escaping to Fort Monroe would not be returned but would be kept as "contraband of war." As word of the novel legal decision spread, thousands of slaves found their way to Fort Monroe, which soon became known as "Freedom's Fortress." By the end of the war, thousands of "contraband" were living around the fort. The spot of the first landing of slaves became, after more than 200 years, the spot of their first emancipation.
Fort Monroe continued as an active military base through World Wars I and II. In 1960, the entire post, both inside and outside the moat, was designated a national historic landmark because of its rich military and cultural significance. In 2005, under the Base Realignment and Closure Act, Fort Monroe was ruled surplus by the army and deactivated on September 15, 2011. Although it is no longer an active Army base, the land is still owned by the Army and therefore under federal control. Much of the rest of the base is scheduled to revert to state ownership in January, under control of the Fort Monroe Authority.
Used by 14 presidents since 1906, the Antiquities Act has protected some of the most unique natural and historic features in America, including other urban national properties like the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The main difference between a National Monument and a National Park is the way it obtains its status. The President has the authority to declare a National Monument while Congress declares a National Park. Regardless of designation, it will operate like any other unit within the National Park system. There are currently 21 national park units located in Virginia; Fort Monroe will be the 22nd and the 396th nationwide.
For more information on the deficit of parkland in the Hampton Roads region, read our 2008 report Bracing for Change.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Shares of Ralcorp Holdings Inc. rallied early Tuesday, as an acquisition deal for the packaged-foods company overshadowed the release of its quarterly financial results.
Meanwhile, special dividends continue to be all the rage, with four more companies — Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS, +1.20% Dillard's Inc. DDS, +2.53% Brown-Forman Corp. BF.A, +0.31% BF.B, +0.14% and SL Industries Inc. US:SLI — declaring payouts.
St. Louis-based Ralcorp US:RAH agreed to be acquired by ConAgra Foods Inc. CAG, +2.25% in a $90-a-share deal, the companies said. The buyout price works out to a 28% premium over Ralcorp's closing stock price Monday.
The acquisition, valued at nearly $5 billion excluding assumed debt, would create one of the largest North American packaged-food companies and the biggest North American player in private-label packaged foods, Omama-based ConAgra said. It's expected to close by the end of March 2013.
Ralcorp's shares surged 28% in the premarket, although hovering below the buyout price. ConAgra shares also gained ground, as the company said Ralcorp is forecast to contribute to earnings in the first year. See more: ConAgra to buy Ralcorp.
Dollar General Corp. DG, +1.36% made headlines as well, as Standard & Poor's said the deep-discount retailer will take the place of Cooper Industries PLC US:CBE in the S&P 500 index, effective after the close on Nov. 30. Eaton Corp. ETN, +0.57% is close to completing the acquisition of Cooper Industries.
Also late Monday, Clean Harbors Inc. CLH, +0.72% said it plans to sell $550 million of senior notes due 2021 in a private placement, coinciding with a secondary public offering of 6 million common shares in which underwriters will have the option of buying up to 900,000 additional shares if needed to meet investor demand. Net proceeds will be used to fund in part the acquisition of Safety-Kleen Inc. by Clean Harbors, a $1.25 billion cash deal announced at the end of October.
Results for the third quarter showed Clean Harbors had nearly 53.4 million weighted average common shares outstanding. The Norwell, Mass.-based company anticipates closing on the Safety-Kleen deal by the end of 2012.
And in a reversal of a move it announced just hours earlier, Generac Holdings Inc. GNRC, +0.07% decided against proceeding with a secondary offering of common stock, citing "market conditions." Certain selling stockholders had been looking to offer as many as 13.2 million of the generator manufacturer's shares, which slumped more than 9% in Monday's trading.
Later Tuesday, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. US:GMCR is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings of 45 cents a share, on average, according to a poll by FactSet. The company's shares have risen roughly 18% over the past couple of months, even after hedge-fund manager David Einhorn warned of the potential for significant downside at an investor conference in October.
Guidewire Software Inc. GWRE, -0.80% Analog Devices Inc. ADI, -1.33% and PVH Corp. PVH, +2.23% also are on deck to hand in their quarterly report cards after the close.
Companies of note that posted results after Monday's bell included Hillenbrand Inc. HI, +2.12% as well as Berry Plastics Group Inc. BERY, +2.65% the first report for the Evansville, Ind.-based company since going public in October.


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Monday night, as part of the XIX International AIDS Conference, held in Washington D.C., the World Bank and partners will co-host a debate on global health funding allocations for HIV/AIDS
The debate will take place on during the night of 23 & 24 July, 2012, from 12:30 am to 2:30 am, live from the World Bank headquarters.
As growing evidence attests to the impact of the global economic crisis on development aid, it has become more important to allocate and utilize development assistance as efficiently and effectively as possible. Governments, development agencies, civil society organizations, communities of people living with HIV/AIDS, and others need the best evidence and knowledge available to make development dollars go further.
The event will feature a panel of renowned thought leaders in HIV/AIDS and development economics, who will debate for and against the motion: "Continued AIDS investments by donors and governments is a sound investment, even in a resource-constrained environment."
Submit a question for the panel in advance on the website, join a live blog during the event, or follow on Twitter at #WBLive. In addition, follow International AIDS conference events on Twitter at #AIDS2012.
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Lots of folks are having trouble accessing Gmail today, and today's outage is just one in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application. However, you don't have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done. Here's how to get your Gmail even when you can't access Gmail.com.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating a Mediterranean diet may prevent or even reverse metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, according to a new study.
The Mediterranean diet includes an abundance of fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, olive oil, poultry and fish, with very little red meat. Scientists believe that eating this way has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on the body.
"This study reinforces guidelines over the past 10 years, stressing the need to reduce consumption of refined carbohydrates and saturated fats" from meat and dairy products, Dr. Robert S. Rosenson of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York told Reuters Health. He was not involved in the work.
Metabolic syndrome is a recent catchall for unhealthy traits that spell bad news for the heart, such as belly fat, high blood pressure, low levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, elevated fat levels in the blood (triglycerides), and high blood sugar. The condition is diagnosed when a person has at least three of those risk factors.
Reviewing 35 clinical trials, Dr. Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos at Harokopia University in Athens, Greece, and his team found that faithfully eating a Mediterranean diet can improve each of those traits.
For instance, those who stuck with the Mediterranean diet as compared to eating their regular foods or a low-fat diet trimmed their waistlines by about 0.43 cm (0.16 inches) on average.
They also showed slashed their blood pressure by 2.35 points on the top reading, and their fasting blood sugar by 3.89 milligrams per deciliter.
While these benefits may seem small, Dr. Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, who was not involved in the research, said they show a Mediterranean diet might be beneficial.
"So it's reasonable to recommend the Mediterranean diet to patients," she said. But she added that "we can't say that this diet reduces the risk of diabetes."
Nor does the study, published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, show that the diet cuts the risk of death from heart disease, which has been linked to metabolic syndrome.
Mayer-Davis, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also said she was concerned that cost could be a barrier to adopting a diet that emphasizes fresh foods, olive oil and fish.
"This speaks to the need to improve availability of these kinds of foods to people who don't have a lot of extra money to spend," she told Reuters Health.
Olive oil is an important part of the Mediterranean diet because it is a so-called monounsaturated fat, which "protects" levels of HDL cholesterol.
However, it can cost a lot more than other cooking oils on supermarket shelves. Rosenson said that when he suggests this diet to his patients, he makes the point that the much cheaper canola oil is also high in monounsaturated fats.
Dr. Robert Eckel, a former president of the American Heart Association who reviewed the study for Reuters Health, noted that the Mediterranean diet "is part of a dietary pattern consistent with guidelines from the AHA, the USDA, and other bodies, that overall is consistent with reduced risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes."
In other words, he added, "there's nothing really new here."
He noted that people often misconstrue the concept of a Mediterranean diet as simply adding olive oil. "If they continue eating a lot of saturated fat and refined carbohydrates, they're mistaken in what the dietary pattern is all about," he said.
Eckel, of the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, also had several criticisms of the new review. For instance, he pointed out that the comparison diets and other lifestyle modifications varied broadly, and some studies were very short.
"Follow-up in the clinical trials varied from 1 month to 5 years - it's hard to make conclusions after 1 month!"
SOURCE: bit.ly/hNLotz Journal of the American College of Cardiology, online March 7, 2011.


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Actor Ian Ziering nearly missed the chance to star in cult horror "Sharknado" as he had reservations about working with troubled star Tara Reid.
Ziering plays Reid's onscreen estranged husband in the movie, which took America by storm when it aired on the Syfy channel earlier this month and became an instant sensation on social networking websites.
The film's leading man has now revealed he wasn't sure about signing up to star opposite Reid, due to the "American Pie" star's reputation as a party girl, but he was pleasantly surprised by her work ethic.
He tells "Access Hollywood," "We came in, did our work, she was honestly very sweet, prepared, ready to do her stuff and did a great job. I've gotta hand it to her – she was professional."
Ziering adds of the filming, "It was an 18-day shoot, it was miserable, we were soaking wet the whole time, it was cold."
The TV movie, about a violent storm that carries vicious sharks into the city of Los Angeles, was so popular, channel bosses have confirmed a sequel is in the works. The flying sharks will hit New York City in the follow-up.


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Shares of Chinese internet company Sina (SINA) have jumped 11% to $55.83 after news broke that Alibaba has bought 18% of Sina Weibo, the company's Twitter-like site, for $586 million.
Why the surge? It comes down to valuation, says ABR Investment Strategy's Heny Guo. He writes:
...this deal suggests Sina Weibo is worth $30-$35 per share to shareholders, which is about $10 higher than street consensus (excluding management's 16% of share of Sina Weibo). Overall, this values Sian Weibo at $3.3B, versus current street estimates of $1.5B to $2B.
Alibaba can also increase its ownership stake to 30% in the future.


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Phoenix eats dirt
TEGA oven finally full
The Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars lander finally has an ovenful of dirt for anlaysis, following various attempts to shake the "clumpy" Martian soil into the instrument.
The "high-temperature furnace and mass spectrometer" TEGA packs eight miniature ovens, each protected by a filter screen to prevent the entry of particles larger than 1mm. However, the Red Planet's surface resolutely refused to play ball when NASA tried to fill oven number four last Friday, and the infrared beam designed to detect particles falling into the oven showed no activity.
NASA then deployed the "whirligig mechanism that vibrates the screen to help shake small particles through" and vibrated the oven's screen on 6, 8 and 9 June, which resulted in just a few particles surrendering to the chamber. However, NASA yesterday announced the oven was full, although it's not quite sure why, with Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona offering that it "might have filled because of the cumulative effects of all the vibrating, or because of changes in the soil's cohesiveness as it sat for days on the top of the screen".
Nonetheless, Boynton declared: "We have an oven full. It took 10 seconds to fill the oven. The ground moved."
Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith, of the University of Arizona, said: "There's something very unusual about this soil, from a place on Mars we've never been before. We're interested in learning what sort of chemical and mineral activity has caused the particles to clump and stick together."
While TEGA can now get on with "sniffing" the soil to "assess its volatile ingredients, such as water", Phoenix's tasks today comprise "sprinkling Martian soil on the delivery port for the spacecraft's Optical Microscope and taking additional portions of a high-resolution color panorama of the lander's surroundings". ®


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