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Your healthcare team
Cancer treatment often involves a team of different healthcare professionals – doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, social workers and others.
Your healthcare team is there to treat your cancer and to help you and your family. Among other things, they can:
- provide information about cancer
- help you manage side effects and emotions
- give you emotional support
- help you find your way through the healthcare system
- suggest services in the community for practical help or emotional support
You are the most important part of your healthcare team. Stay involved with your team by keeping track of and sharing information about side effects and how you are coping. Some of the people below will be members of your healthcare team.
Anesthesiologist, or anesthetist
This doctor gives anesthetics (drugs that cause a loss of feeling or awareness) to prevent or relieve pain during surgery and other procedures done in the hospital.
A dietitian teaches you about healthy eating and helps with eating problems that may be a side effect of cancer treatment.
Family doctor (general practitioner, GP)
A family doctor gives general, primary care and plays an important part in a person's general healthcare before, during and after cancer treatments.
Medical oncologist
This doctor specializes in diagnosing and treating cancer using chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy or supportive therapy. A medical oncologist is often the main doctor for someone with cancer. They give supportive care and may coordinate treatment given by other specialists.
Nurses give daily nursing care in the hospital or at home and often have the most contact with you. Nurses can answer questions and give you medicine and emotional support.
Occupational therapist
Occupational therapists help you maintain your daily activities. They can help you return to work and adjust your work activities. They can also make suggestions to modify your home while you have treatment or deal with side effects.
This type of doctor specializes in the treatment of cancer. Oncologists have received special training in surgery, radiation therapy or treating cancer using medicines such as chemotherapy drugs.
Oncology nurse
An oncology nurse has received special education to care for people with cancer. Oncology nurses may work in chemotherapy departments, radiation therapy departments, bone marrow transplant units, in-patient oncology units or the community. An oncology nurse will help you meet your physical and emotional needs and can connect you with the resources you may require.
Oncology nurse practitioner
An oncology nurse practitioner provides care to people with cancer and is involved in research, teaching, leadership and administration.
A pathologist is a doctor who studies cells and tissues under a microscope to make a diagnosis of cancer or to see how cancer is responding to treatment.
Patient advocate
A patient or client advocate helps you communicate or work better with others involved in your care, such as doctors, nurses or social workers.
Patient navigator
A patient or nurse navigator acts as a link between you and the healthcare system. They may coordinate services and address a variety of physical, social, emotional and practical needs.
Pharmacists prepare cancer drugs and other medicines and explain how they work. A pharmacist will tell you how often to take your drugs. They also explain any care you need to take such as eating certain foods or things to avoid while taking a drug. A pharmacist also tells you about side effects and how to deal with them.
Physiotherapist, or physical therapist
Physiotherapists, or physical therapists, help you maintain or restore a level of fitness through strength and endurance exercises. They teach exercises and physical activities to keep muscles strong and flexible or restore strength and movement.
Plastic surgeon
A plastic surgeon is a doctor who specializes in reconstructive surgery to reduce scarring, prevent disfigurement or improve appearance.
Psychologist or psychiatrist
Psychologists and psychiatrists help you and your family understand, manage and cope with feelings, emotions, thoughts, worries and behaviours. They teach you how to manage pain, stress and anxiety, or worrying.
Radiation oncologist
Radiation oncologists are doctors who specialize in the treatment of cancer using radiation. A radiation oncologist will develop your treatment plan.
Radiation therapist
A radiation therapist helps plan and deliver your treatment and manage side effects.
Radiologists are doctors who read and interpret x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, MRIs and other scans to diagnose diseases. A radiologist performs biopsies guided by x-rays or ultrasound.
Social worker
A social worker talks with you and your family about emotional or physical needs and can provide or refer you to support services like counselling, support groups, financial help and other resources.
Spiritual care worker
Spiritual care workers offer support and prayer according to your spiritual and religious needs.
A surgeon is a doctor who performs biopsies or surgery.
Surgical oncologist
A surgical oncologist is a doctor who specializes in performing biopsies and surgeries or other procedures involved in diagnosing or treating cancer.
Technical staff
Technical staff take blood samples and perform x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans and MRIs. They also test blood and other samples.
A drug that causes anesthesia (the loss of some or all feeling or awareness).
General anesthetics put a person to sleep. Regional anesthetics cause a loss of feeling in a part of the body, such as an arm or leg, but the person does not lose awareness. Local anesthetics numb only a small area of the body.
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I really like every beer I have tried so far from Green Flash Brewing.
Of those I am especially fond of, their Le Freak is a pretty cool beer.
However, their West Coast IPA is probably their flagship beer. "Extravagently Hopped", is how they describe it on the website, and I'd agree, though not to the extent of some, cough, other Southern California brewers.
Still smarting from last week's stew disaster, I decided to revisit, but with things I am comfortable with. Like Pork.
And Rancho Gordo Yellow Indian Woman Beans. Soaked the beans for a couple hours and set them to cook with some garlic and herbs.
Groceries for the stew.
Mmmm, Got some awesome country style spare ribs at Avedano's. Check out that marbling!
And some kale and tatsoi from a friendly face at the Allemany Farmers' Market.
Browned the pork, sauteed some aromatic vegetables, covered it with white wine, and put it in a 325 degree oven to simmer.
Also got some nice Chanterelles from Far West Fungii at the Allemany Farmers' Market. Roasted those off.
When the meat was getting towards tender, I removed the meat from the bone, degreased the cooking liquids, and combined the now tender beans, braising greens, and roasted chanterelles. Covered again and returned to oven.
That turned out tasty. Walnut Bread from the Noe Valley Bakery.
Oh wait, I seem to have forgotten to take a picture of the beer. Navarro Zinfandel with dinner this time, instead of Cabernet Sauvingon.

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ENelson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 86 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are changing the name of one of our established beachside restaurants. The new name- FISH HOUSE. Looking for a clean, simple, unpretentious logo. Prefer vector artwork. $100 prize.
The restaurant is currently an Italian Bar and Grill. It is a small, intimate restaurant with very modern decor. Very South Beach Miami chic. We are changing the name to draw in more seafood lovers. We are located one block from the ocean. To view an exterior photo of the restaurant go to: http://www.pepajrestaurants.com and click on "ANDIAMO".
- The name: Fish House. If using a color please try to stick with colors that would go well with deep purple/blue and yellow/gold. We would like the lettering to be elegant and not too modern.
- Not a lot of color. Keep it simple. No blue or teal coloring.
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If you've ever seen the old car parts ad with the slogan, "I'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler!", then you have a pretty good sense of how Frontline Wireless feels about the reserve prices set by the FCC in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. The company has just filed a paper (PDF) with the Commission in which it lays out its complaints about the auction rules, and "minimum price" is right at the top of the list.
Frontline, which counts two former FCC chairmen among its backers, wants to run the new public/private wireless network that must be built to public safety specifications and must give first responders priority access. It plans to pony up billions of dollars to build such a network; in return, it gets a guaranteed "anchor tenant" in public safety departments around the country, and it also gets the right to some extra spectrum over which it can offer private services.
Building a network to public safety specifications requires a far more robust infrastructure than a normal commercial network, and it requires an even better national footprint. Those things cost money. According to Frontline, the extra requirements of a public safety network will add at least $5 billion more to the normal cost of building out a new nationwide network.
Given the fabulous sums of money that could be required, Frontline argues that the FCC's proposed $1.3 billion reserve price for the D block of spectrum is far too high.
"Set at this high level, the prices will depress bidder interest and, coupled with the re-auction proposal, will incentivize strategic behavior by those who want us auction to fail, and thereby jettison the open access requirements and public safety sharing requirements," the group writes in its filing.
What Frontline is referring to here is the fact that the FCC has decided to run the auction again for specific blocks if the reserve prices aren't met, and it would also remove some of the restrictions currently imposed on different parts of the spectrum in order to make it more attractive to buyers. As Frontline points out, though, this could encourage those companies that want to get access to unencumbered spectrum to purposely let the auction fail. Setting the reserve price too high is one way to help make that happen.
Of course, Frontline has an obvious interest here that goes beyond concerns that the auction not fail: it wants to pick up the D block at the lowest possible price, use the prime spectrum to sell voice and data services to consumers and public safety groups, and then roll around in fat piles of cash.
The company has been a vociferous lobbyist at the FCC for its ideas throughout the entire year; in fact, Frontline did the most lobbying of any group interested in the auction and secured 3.5 times more meetings with FCC than did Google.
For its part, the FCC appears to be trying to head off accusations of another massive spectrum giveaway. Whether its new reserve prices will help or hinder this goal remains to be seen.


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This video is so ridiculous that you might assume it's a joke, but it's not. It's a very real gem of anti-Planned Parenthood propaganda put out by the American Life League. Did you know that Planned Parenthood is out to lure children into becoming sex addicts? You might wonder why that would even make sense, but let the very tightly-wound man in the purple shirt tell you why: Sex addiction requires birth control (cha-ching!) and all those slutty diseases girls catch require STD testing ($$$). Then, even though the girls are apparently on birth control, they're somehow all getting pregnant, which is when Planned Parenthood hits the motherlode: abortion—where the big money is. It just makes so much sense.
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Whirled Series
And now your Sports History Minute, brought to you by Cake Wrecks. Because they know soooo much about sports.
On this day in the year 1900, St. Louis chose a new name for its baseball team: the St. Louis Cardinals. This was a vast improvement over their last name, the St. Louis Perfectos, which I am totally not making up.
Little did the St. Louisianites know that "Cardinals" was nearly impossible for most bakers to spell.
Who ya gonna call?
(see what I did there?)
Also, it was soon discovered that their mascot, Fredbird the Cardinal (still not making this up), was nearly impossible to draw:
Although he does kind of look like a Fredbird.
(And that's a bird you cannot change!)
Skip forward 111 years to the day when, by a stroke of luck, squirrel-about-town Irving* happened to dash across the home plate during the pitch at a Cardinals game. When the Cardinals then won the game, it was decided that Irving should be their new, unofficial mascot!
Because that makes total sense.
*May not be his real name.
Everyone was thrilled, with the possible exception of Irving, who is a squirrel and therefore couldn't possibly give a rodent's posterior about the whole thing.
Most excited were the bakers, because now they could stop trying to draw cardinals!
And draw little red gumball machines on slightly demented "squirrels," instead!
They also shortened the impossible-to-spell "Cardinals" to "Cards," because "Cards" is much more squirrelly.
But most importantly, bakers were able to break out their favorite #2 tips and brown icing and finally squeeze out a mascot St. Louis could be proud of:
See? Totally killed it.
Plus, I think even Fredbird would agree that flaming/bloody tail is a vast "impoovment."
Thanks to Steve J., Diana W., Robin D., Hawaii B., M+G., and Hannah M. who tell me that's a cake only a Texas Ranger could love.


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With the growing number of social media monitoring and community management software products, the definition of a marketing dashboard seems to have taken numerous forms.
For the purpose of this article, a marketing dashboard will be defined as "the digital display of the most important information needed to track activity related to achieving one or more objectives."
In the context of social media, a relevant example was an article published by Search Engine Watch author Nathan Linnell nearly two years ago that resulted in one of the top five most popular SEW posts of 2010: "6 Key Metrics for a Social Media Measurement Dashboard".
Over a year prior to that article, two friends of mine, Tom Markiewicz and Derek Scruggs, also had a vision about tracking key metrics specific to social media.
While most marketing dashboard products of the time were helping to track various forms of field sales activity and common web analytics – Markiewicz and Scruggs recognized few were addressing the kind of real-time data and social media metrics that could facilitate a level of predictive analysis that might impact immediate decision-making.
The Plan Meets the Reality
In 2009, Markiewicz and Scruggs worked the business plan together, articulated the value proposition and delved deeply into the feature set. Their new company, StatsMix, was selected to participate in the TechStars (early-stage business) accelerator program, and quickly piqued the interest of investors who intuitively understood they were onto something big.
Sample StatsMix dashboard, combining web orders, customer phone support and social media metrics.
But as they raced to achieve their minimal viable product and continued to collect feedback from early beta customers, they soon became aware of a stark reality that completely altered their development roadmap over the following two years.
Beta customers began asking a common set of questions that seemed very rudimentary, and not relevant to what StatsMix originally had set out to do.
"How can we take the company data we have in our spreadsheets and chart it with your dashboard? This social media stuff is neat – but we've got other data sets we are already working with. Can't we get that aggregated and displayed first?"
Can You Handle the Truth?
Today, StatsMix is much closer to the original vision they had, but only after working tirelessly to develop a scalable platform that would start by answering what marketers were asking for first: tracking and display of any/all data sets.
About the same time StatsMix began pivoting around what they had learned, my business partner, James Clark, had taken his own deep dive into marketing dashboards – hitting the road to collect his own marketer feedback while delivering 2-day training events on "Data and Dashboards" for the American Marketer's Association.
StatsMix and Clark were on different paths, but discovering the same truths – most marketers often don't know where to begin when it comes to:
- The data they should be collecting, aggregating, and displaying to assist in decision-making among any given audience in their organization.
- Articulating the pros and cons of using a marketing dashboard (social media and/or other relevant data).
- Designating key performance indicators (KPI's) to track the most complete picture in the context of marketing objective drivers (not just outcomes).
- The tools best suited to match their requirements.
- Best practices for visualizing data for decision makers.
5 Lessons for Navigating Your Dashboard Success
The truth is we as marketers are more likely to succeed when building upon sound fundamentals. While we may be eager to pursue the horizon, we are also grateful when taught/reminded about the best place from which to start and excel. I hope the following offer a few coordinates for setting your own course.
Lesson 1: Understand Why You Need a Marketing Dashboard
Ultimately, your dashboard should "ladder up" to one or more of your current, overall business objectives (example: survival, growth, profitability). Associated goals should be:
- Assessing the health of your organization at a glance.
- Providing historical, as well as (as close to) real-time data to facilitate prompt decision-making.
- Making sound decisions based on relevant samples of data.
Lesson 2: Understand the Pros and Cons of a Marketing Dashboard
The common pros include:
- Saving time / streamlining data management.
- Real-time accessibility from anywhere.
- Ability to keep your eye on the prize/goals (front and center).
- Decision-making based on designated key performance indicators (KPI's).
- Organizational alignment.
- Greater opportunities to spot trends and/or correlations.
The typical cons include:
- You'll never get all the info you need or want.
- Tools can be cost prohibitive.
- The data won't be useful if it can't be made actionable (no clear objectives).
- Internal adoption rate can be slow if the value isn't articulated well or the user experience is poor.
- If data is incorrect or misinterpreted, decisions could be bad.
- Associated setup and optimization might be an unwelcomed process.
Lesson 3: Understand the Audience Your Dashboard Will Serve
This is important when considering the number of (digestible) metrics you'll display, based on the level of management reviewing the data. Tom Kawamoto's "Key Success Factors for a Performance Dashboard" article offers the following recommendations:
- CEO/Board Level: Six high-level metrics
- VP/Director Level: Between 12 and 20 metrics
- Strategic Level: Between 12 and 50 metrics
- Operational Level: Around 20 metrics each
Note: In my own experience, regardless of the level, people are appreciative of written summaries near or ahead of the data. Think in terms of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. This might be a consideration for dashboard tool selection (i.e., does the tool enable the entry of textual content near the data?).
Lesson 4: Understand Why and What You Choose to Measure
This is predominantly associated with matching the best KPIs to quantify objectives that reflect performance and illuminate insights to assess the direction in which those objectives are headed. The following are a few insights offered from Stacey Barr:
- Only measure what you're going to do something about.
- Measure drivers, not just outcomes.
- Measure not what you can control, but what you can influence.
- Measures impervious to change are useless.
- There is no "set it and forget it" with measuring performance.
- Use data and not opinion to determine causality.
- Performance measurement requires humility and transparency to work.
Lesson 5: Do Your Homework When it Comes to the Tools
Like any other software selection, some best practices include:
- Creating an evaluation/selection team to first understand requirements with respect to integration, data and KPIs.
- Consider dashboard providers who have worked in your industry.
- Consider sending an RFI (request for information) based on your requirements.
- Create a standardized process for evaluating multiple options.
- Ask for a proof of concept.
- Consider your desired type of dashboard (Victoria Hetherington identifies the following types of dashboards in her "The Dashboard Demystified" article:
- Strategic: Quick overview of company's health. Looks at what has been going on without requirement of real-time data
- Analytic: Drills into causes, and is used to set goals to correct issues (may include comparisons, extensive histories, performance evaluation)
- Operational: Monitors functions that need real-time, minute-by-minute attention – generally used by specific departments
- Vertical: Specialized for a specific industry (banking, healthcare, energy)
- Lateral: Designed for internal departments (financial, marketing, HR, etc.)
The tools range widely in functionality, customization and pricing; from Do-It-Yourself, Mid-grade and Enterprise level. Some of the tools include:
And the Truth About Social Media Measurement…
Depending on the community you and your competitors have developed, the data you need to inform your digital content and advertising strategy is now available for your taking.
To a degree, I've implied marketers need to get grounded in some of the basics, but this isn't in conflict with those who are advancing the discussion around social media measurement.
For example, I'd say the Linnell post referenced at the beginning of this article holds as much relevance now as it did then – and it's exciting to see how his thought (along with the technology) has evolved by reading his most recent post on "How to Move Your Social Media Analysis from the Platform to the Individual Level".
Talk about horizon.
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Expert Reviews
2013 Nissan Altima
The Nissan Altima is all-new for 2013. With a combination of innovative mechanical components, carefully tuned ride and handling, advanced cockpit connectivity features and sleekly contemporary styling that belies its price class, the fifth-generation 2013 Altima feels like it's a class above its mid-size segment while providing comfortable, efficient family transport.
Most 2013 Altima models will come with a 182-horsepower 2.5-liter four-cylinder, but a a vigorous, upscale 270-hp 3.5-liter V6 is available. The thrifty four-cylinder engine is newly redesigned and, combined with a vastly improved Nissan CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), the result of 20 years of refinement, this drivetrain results in a segment-leading 38 mpg EPA Highway rating. That's better than Ford Fusion Hybrid, Chevrolet Malibu ECO, Hyundai Hybrid or any other competing mid-size sedan.
We found the Altima 3.5 with the V6 engine a brilliant performer, but the Altima 2.5 with the four-cylinder engine delivered just average performance.
Inside, the top-of-the-line Altima SL trim was very luxurious, and the SV trim with cloth upholstery was also very nice. All of them are very quiet underway.
Combine headline-making fuel efficiency with a variety of features and creature comforts not generally found in non-luxury mid-size sedans, and the 2013 Altima, already shouldering its way into Nissan Maxima territory, makes a stylish, affordable and tempting choice for families working their way up the scale.
Nissan Altima competes with Volkswagen Passat, Honda Accord, Mazda 6, Toyota Camry, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima, Chevrolet Malibu and Ford Fusion.
Model LineupNissan Altima 2.5 ($21,500), Altima 2.5 S ($22,500), Altima 2.5 SV ($24,100), Altima 2.5 SL ($28,050); Altima 3.5 S ($25,360), Altima 3.5 SV ($27,780), Altima 3.5 SL ($30,080)
Walk Around
The 2013 Nissan Altima has a sleek, dynamic, cutting-edge stylishness that is decidedly imposing. The new Altima is in some way a class above its competitors. For instance, the 2013 Altima has the same wheelbase as the previous-generation model, but both its front and rear track are 1.4 in. wider, and its fenders are deeper. This gives it a muscular, sporting stance that sets it apart from some of the others.
The car features a blacked-out grille with a chrome surround, very a la mode, and a zoomie, striking headlight cluster. A short hood blends with a steeply canted windshield in what was once called cab forward styling. A pronounced character line runs high along the side of the cab towards the rear, but the Nissan stylists have avoided using multiple character lines and cluttering Altima's look, as some others do. The profile is clean and elegant. Chrome trim around the windows and bright, dressy 10-spoke wheels give the Altima a near-luxury glamour.
At the rear, a bold chrome bar, almost startling in its impact, rides above the ending of the side character lines at the bottom of the trunk. The trunk lid reveals a conveniently low lift-over height of only 26.9 inches, and there are dual chrome tailpipes, de rigeur these days, no matter what the engine.
Side mirrors with redundant turn-signal lights are a nice safety provision.
Overall, the Altima looks stylish, aggressive and sporting. In the upper level of trim packages, it looks more expensive than it is. Nicely done.
The 2013 Altima lineup offers a broad range of interior furnishing levels. The SL trim is positively elegant and richly equipped. In the SV, the interior is a step down from the top-end SL but still highly satisfactory.
The 2.5 SV we used for our test drive had fawn cloth upholstery. The white-on-black gauges were handsome, immediately legible, and were surrounded by excellent soft-touch dashboard padding. The tachometer displayed a 6600-rpm redline for the 2.5. We missed the paddle shifters, available only on the 3.5 models. But in the 2.5, intelligent circuitry and the CVT continuously variable transmission regulate engine speed automatically. The power driver's seat had 6-way adjustability, and a nice leather-wrapped steering wheel presented the usual audio and cruise controls, plus controls for the navigation system. The Navigation system in our SV delivered good information via simple, effective graphics. A one-touch open/close moonroof with a manual sunscreen was included as part of the SV Convenience Package.
One point particularly worth mentioning about the Altima is its quietness. Considerable effort was made to rigidify the body structure and soundproof its panels. This contributes strongly to the car's class above impression, quietness being one sure hallmark of luxury cars. But the materials that silence cars also add weight. Nissan was nonetheless able to reduce the 2013 Altima's weight from that of the previous model by 79 pounds, no mean achievement.
Nissan's Zero-Gravity seats are designed to provide uniform support from pelvis to chest. The benefits of these seats are said to be felt on long motor trips. They seemed comfortable enough to us, but we didn't take a long enough trip to notice anything exciting.
More exciting is the new Altima's electronic connectivity packages. All models are furnished with Bluetooth hands-free phone systems and streaming audio. Also available is hands-free messaging assistant, Pandora integration, USB connection for iPod interface and satellite radio. The advantages of managing text messaging hands free are so enormous, we can't begin to say enough about them. You can reply with pre-set texts like "driving, can't text," "on my way," or a custom message. Invaluable.
And there's more. Advanced Drive-Assist Display, standard on every model, is located between the speedo and tachometer, a four-inch color display that is much easier for the driver to use than the console-mounted navigation monitor. It delivers mpg, audio information, trip computer, tire-pressure information, and importantly, turn-by-turn navigation.
Perhaps the most likable of the Altima's provisions is a fully automatic tire-pressure monitor that tells you exactly which tire is low, by how much it is low, then tells you when you are beginning to refill it, and gives you a little toot of the horn when you've reached the proper inflation! Goodbye tire gauge.
All in all, regardless of the trim level you choose, the 2013 Altima interior feels like anything but a skimpy car. And the higher trim models are positively lavish.
Driving Impressions
The 3.5-liter V6 Altima, with its 270 horsepower and sporty paddle shifters, can accelerate from zero to 60 mph, Nissan says, in 6.2 seconds. That's very quick for the class in our book and Nissan proudly notes it's fastest in class.
The 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, with 182 hard-pressed horsepower, is considerably slower. Nissan says the Altima 2.5 can perform 0-60 in just 7.14 seconds. We're skeptical. AutoWeek reported this feat took 8.0 seconds, and we think that's closer to reality. Of course, achieving 38 mpg, one necessarily must accept a bit of huffing and puffing, and with the 2.5, we got it. As the song says, it works hard for the money.
On the other hand, if you don't mind a bit of yowling from underneath the hood, or better yet, if you're not in a breathless hurry, as many hundreds of thousands of Altima drivers before you have not been, the 2.5 will be satisfactory. Not vigorous. Satisfactory.
And startlingly efficient. The secret of the Altima four-cylinder's thrift is a quantum leap in efficiency and reduced internal friction in its very unusual CVT continuously variable transmission. Nissan has fought long and hard to develop this transmission, and for a number of years, it delivered woozy forward progress that made you feel like you were being dragged behind a huge rubber band. But the potential of the CVT was always there, chiefly that when an engine reached its cruising speed, the transmission could drop the engine down to an extremely low engine speed and deliver stunning fuel mileage. The 2013 Altima is there. At 70 mph, with the help of its CVT, we saw the Altima's engine speed maintain an ultra-low 1650 rpm, barely a pulse, barely sipping gasoline. While the competition is loading up its invoices with the expense and complexities of hybrids, Nissan sneaked under the wire and beat them all.
In keeping with its upscale aspirations, the Altima's ride and highway behavior are suitably quiet and refined. All models of the new Altima have Active Understeer Control, a system which applies small amounts of braking to the inside front wheel to overcome the Altima's tendency to resist vigorous turning into a corner. Cornering poise is further aided by stabilizer bars front and rear and new ZF Sachs shock absorbers that provide sturdy body control. We weren't in driving circumstances where this hardware could be fully tested, though in forceful driving on normal roads, the car's turn-in and stability were good.
Similarly, the new Altima rear suspension is a fully redesigned multi-link system with firm bushings, providing solid lateral response. Overall, the Altima is a family sedan with little sporting character. It is assuredly a safe over-the-road package, but it lacks the agility and fun-to-drive spirit of a true sports sedan. But the active presence of understeer control, vehicle dynamic control (VDC) and traction control, each fully automatic and self-activating, combine to give this car the full degree of modern safety and security.
The four-wheel disc brakes, too, are equipped with ABS and electronic brake distribution, delivering minute degrees of braking control in slippery conditions that even the most skilled driver would be hard pressed to match. And when the rains come and the Altima's wipers are switched on, the headlights come on automatically, complying with laws in effect in many states.
The 2013 Nissan Altima is a social climber in all the right ways, more comfortable, attractive and better-equipped than its price suggests. It is also an extremely frugal fuel user, while still providing full five-seat family accommodation. We found the standard four-cylinder engine sluggish and the sedan offered only average dynamics and feedback on the road.
Ted West filed this report after his test drive of the Nissan Altima near Nashville, Tennessee.


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Ninken (忍犬, English TV: Ninja Hounds, Literally meaning: Ninja Dogs)[1] are essentially dogs that have heightened senses and abilities, and as such, are able to work alongside shinobi. Although the dogs belonging to the members of the Inuzuka clan are ninken, the phrase is usually used in reference to the pack of eight ninken summoned by Kakashi Hatake.
Kakashi's ninken have shown the ability to use human language, walk on water, develop combat strategies, and track down targets through their enhanced smell. They are supposed to be quite dangerous in combat, as Kakashi notes in the anime that they can tear their opponents apart on his command. He can summon them separately, as he commonly does so with Pakkun, or all together. He can also summon them for special purposes, like he does with his Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique. With this technique, the dogs can travel through the ground following the scent of their target, emerging when the target is found and holding them in place. They all have a face-shaped design on their backs called Henohenomoheji (へのへのもへじ) — which is the sound made when all the characters in the face are put together. Appropriately enough, children use this design as the face for their scarecrows, which is "kakashi" in Japanese.
In Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire, Ni had two ninken-like beasts at her disposal, that appear to have been mutated through the Chimera Technique.
Known Ninken
Kakashi's Ninken
- Pakkun (パックン)
- Bull (ブル, Buru)
- Urushi (ウルシ)
- Shiba (シバ)
- Bisuke (ビスケ, English TV: Biscuit)
- Akino (アキノ)
- Ūhei (ウーヘイ)
- Guruko (グルコ)
Inuzuka Clan's Ninken
- Akamaru (赤丸)
- Akemaru (朱丸)
- Kuromaru (黒丸)
- Three Haimaru Brothers (灰丸三兄弟, Haimaru Sankyōdai)
- Gaku Inuzuka's ninken (unnamed)
- Chamaru (茶丸)
- Giant Multi-Headed Dog (summoned through Pain's Animal Path)
- Ni's Dogs
- ↑ Third Databook, page 128


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On Friday, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs announced the opening date of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train.
The ride is a roller coaster aimed at the whole family. It does have a height requirement of 38 inches (97 cm).
It takes guests throughout the forested world of the dwarfs, then plunges them into a mine with glowing gems. Scenes and songs from the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" play during the ride, and animatronic dwarfs and animals also make an appearance.
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Pumpkin cake rolls is perfect for holidays and is a yummy dessert You can make it well in advance. It is thin sheets of spiced pumpkin cake sheets filled with sweet cream cheese frosting.
Recipe source from here
All purpose flour- 3/4 cup
Sugar- 1 cup
Pumpkin puree- 2/3 cup
Baking Soda- 1 tsp
Ground Cinnamon- 1/2 tsp
Ground ginger- 1/3 tsp
Ground Clove- 1/3 tsp
Salt - a pinch
For the filling
Cream cheese- 8 ounce
Butter- 2 tsp
Lemon Zest- 1/3 tsp
Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
Confectionery sugar- 1 cup
Pre heat oven to 375 degree. Grease a 15-in x 10-in baking pan or a jelly roll pan.Line it with wax paper and grease the top of wax paper again and keep aside.
ix all the dry ingredients,flour,ground cinnamon,ground ginger,ground clove,salt and baking soda and keep aside.
In a large bowl beat egg till it is light and pale ( you an also separate egg yolks and whites and beat separately). Gradually add sugar one spoon at a time till it is thick and lemon colored. This will take five minutes. Gradually add pumpkin puree and fold in.Combine ad fold in gently the flour mixture in little additions. The batter at tis stage is light and will be little runny.
Pour this into the greased baking pan. Spread evenly with a spatula. bake this for about 10-12 minute or till tooth pick inserted comes out clean. The cake will spring back when touched.
Take a clean kitchen towel and lay it on the counter. Dust generously with confectionery sugar.As soon as the cake comes out of the oven flip it over the towel. Loosen the edges of the wax paper from all four sides and gently and slowly peel off the wax paper. Roll the cake up in the towel starting from the end that is towards you. Allow this to cool and refrigerate for about an hour.
Mean while using a hand mixer beat cream cheese and butter and vanilla essence till light and fluffy, Gradually add lemon zest and confectionery sugar till light and fluffy.
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Active participation by academic staff members in external activities that enhance their professional skills or constitute public service can be beneficial to the University as well as to the individual. Because such activities can lead to conflicts of commitment or interest with regard to one's University responsibilities, it is necessary to measure and monitor the non-University activities of staff members.
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Director: Charles Barton
Genres: Comedy
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Paul J. Mular | 09/16/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A classic A & C film. The boys play two employees of a NY department store. Lou's claim that he can draw a map from a famous big game hunter's book, gets them involved with an unscrupoulous gang of fortune hunters who are organizing a safari to Africa, to hunt for diamonds. Two of the film's BEST highlights are the team's encounters with then famous big game hunters Clyde Beatty and Frank Buck. The film also teams them with Hillary Brook (who co-starred with them in the film "ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD", and later co-starred with them in the first season of their TV series "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW"), and Joe Besser and Shemp Howard ( of "THE THREE STOOGES". Howard co-starred with the team in their films "BUCK PRIVATES", "IN THE NAVY", and "IT AIN'T HAY". Besser co-starred with them in their TV series "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW" playing the part of 'STINKY')."
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Paul J. Mular | San Carlos, CA USA | 09/06/2006
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This is the same excellent master film used by Image for their Laserdisc release. The only thing missing here is the Bloopers & Out-takes that were on the Laserdisc.
This movie is the best of the five independent films that Abbott & Costello made in my opinion. And it stands up better than most of their 1950's Universal films. Where else will you see Bud & Lou teamed up with some of the THREE STOOGES? Shemp Howerd and Joe Besser join Abbott & Costello's safari to add to the laughs!
Besser would later join Bud & Lou for their 1950's TV show as "Stinky" before becoming a Stooge!"
David W. Wagner | 05/28/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"AFRICA SCREAMS has been in the public domain for years. This dusted-off version looks and sounds the best of a-n-y version I've seen. This is the first version I've seen with the Nassour Studios logo opening the film and it has closed-captioning, as well. I skip the colorized version, as I oppose that sort of thing. However, Legend Films has made this one worth the wait. The scene where the tribal chief is scared white by the giant gorilla is here intact, as well, whereas I've often seen it where his face has been blurred over with darkness. I've found this to be a fine film of the team's, as opposed to, say, MEXICAN HAYRIDE or LITTLE GIANT. If you're still hunting a fine print of AFRICA SCREAMS for your A & C collection ... well, here it is."
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May 27, 1949
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Charles Barton
David S. Garber
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Earl Baldwin
Martin Ragaway
Leonard B. Stern
Bud Abbott.....Buzz Johnson
Lou Costello.....Stanley Livington
Clyde Beatty....Himself
Frank Buck....Himself
Max Baer....Grapple McCoy
Buddy Baer....Boots Wilson
Hillary Brooke....Diana Emerson
Shemp Howard....Gunner
Joe Besser....Harry
Burt Wenland....Bobo
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Charles Van Enger
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Frank Gross
Art Direction:
Lewis H. Creber
Set Decoration:
Ray Robinson
Assistant Director:
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Special Effects:
Carl Lee
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Norman Abbott....dialougue director
Albert Deano....wardrobe manager
William Nassour....executive in charge
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Buzz and Stanley are booksellers in a department store. Several people start asking about a map in a book about Dark Africa. Stanley claims to know the map from memory. Buzz cons a female customer, Diana Emerson, into thinking Stanley knows a great deal about the map and insists on going to Africa knowing riches await him. After encounters with lion tamers, giant apes and a wild river, Buzz returns to America. Stanley finds diamonds and buys the store they once worked for, hiring Buzz as its elevator operator.
Lou fears gorilla while eating
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Alzheimer's disease what is a day to day life like?
What Is Daily Life Like With Alzheimer's Disease?
This question originally appeared on Quora.
Answer by Jae Starr, 15-plus years working with Alzheimer's and related dementias:
This is an excellent question, and one I've considered often in the last decade-plus of working with such folks.
First, it depends upon the stage of dementia: mild, moderate, or severe.
In mild dementia, it seems to be like being a functional alcoholic's day, as far as cognition goes. You're able to do what you need to do, but some little things get missed, such as your T-shirt is on backward, but you don't notice, or you can't find the sugar bowl, so you start taking apart cupboards and end up going without coffee and the kitchen is a mess. Later, you swear you did not do that. You have no memory of doing it, and the more another person argues that you did indeed make that mess, the angrier you get. You did not. He or she is lying.
The whole day goes like this—close to normal, but not quite. Routines are easy, but anything new is more difficult. And, if asked about someone or thing from earlier in the day, you may or may not remember the event. By the end of the day, you're tired of thinking, but your brain keeps throwing up odd thoughts and ideas—things like, "I can't find the car keys. Someone must have stolen them! I need the car keys." You may wander, rummage, pull things out of drawers for a couple hours, at the end of which you may be unable to tell anyone what it was you were searching for. Even more telling, you may not have driven a car for the past five years.
During moderate dementia, each day is more moment to moment, and routine is your friend. Anything that is routine is easier for you to experience. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—that's how your day is scheduled. But something out of the ordinary, like a doctor's appointment, can throw you. You may balk at going, at getting dressed and getting in the car and going. There's so much mental stimulation involved in such a nonroutine event that you prefer to stick to what you know: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and maybe sitting in the sun, watching the world go by.
Activities like taking a shower can become difficult for you. If you think about it, a shower is an event that is very high in stimulation of all sorts. The bathroom is very separate from your normal living space—usually hard-edged and cold-seeming. Then you must take all your clothing off—that's just a lot of stimulation itself, and the memories loosely associated with nakedness are also fraught with stimulation. The shower makes noise, the temperature difference is apparent, there's soap and shampoo and the scrunchie thing, water in your eyes, your ears, the space is confined, and by this time someone is usually in there with you, "helping," which is just weird, no matter how much you understand and accept that you need help. It's one diagnostic sign of moderate dementia: You may start to not like to be washed and clean—shower or bath.
I remember a gentleman in the facility I worked at in Washington state. He was new and hadn't been showered at the hospital, so on his first full day, the aides gave him a shower. He spent the rest of the afternoon in tears because, "They threw me in the corner and pelted me with rocks like a piece of trash!" That's what he felt like. Another woman would walk up and down the corridors but stay far away from windows, saying "There's Indians out there! They're going to attack!" It took a long time to figure this one out. She would pace and pace and could not sit still, always talking about Native Americans shooting arrows at us. Finally a nurse asked her if she had been hit by an arrow. Yes, she said. Where'd they get you? Right here, and she clutched her low back: Arrggghhhh! It hurt so much! Going through her medical history a bit closer, we discovered she had been in a car accident years before and suffered a low back injury. She'd been telling us for weeks what was happening to her, but not in a way that made sense to us. To her, it made perfect sense: It felt like an arrow in her back. And who used arrows? American Indians.
You are losing words, but it doesn't matter much since those around you ignore that loss and fill in the blanks. Sometimes you cannot understand what someone else said, like he is speaking a foreign language, and this can make you automatically refuse whatever is being spoken about—that, too, makes a certain amount of sense. Someone babbling to you in a foreign language and making "Come with me" motions is someone to view with suspicion, don't you think? Moderate dementia is usually the longest part of the disease, which is why I'm spending so much time on it.
The slow slide into severe dementia is sometimes difficult to spot as far as an actual line of demarcation, but one sign is sleeping more and more often. Even during formerly pleasurable activities, such as familiar and enjoyed music, the damage to your brain is so profound that the stimulation is not enough to keep you awake. You sleep, perchance to dream, but we don't know. We know that damage to the areas that are usually lit up like a Christmas tree during dreaming is profound, but since we don't really understand sleep or dreaming, it seems rather cruel to take someone who doesn't do well in new situations into a sleep lab and wire his brain for sound and color, stick him in a tube, and say, "Don't move." So we don't know. But that is one of the things I've always wondered about; it seems to me by the time you are in severe dementia, the difference between awake and dreaming is invisible.
Speech is limited. You may have a full thought in your head, but only one or two words come out, if any. Caregivers learn to listen for the first two or so words and try to discern what the thought is from there, because that's usually all we get. Eyesight is odd; you don't know what it is you are seeing. My current furthest-along-in-Alzheimer's resident recently did not recognize a puppy. She saw it, she gazed at it, I placed her hand on it, but she looked at her hand and not the puppy, and there was absolutely no engagement between her and the stimulation provided. She no longer hears music, which is a shame, because she loved music her whole life long. We still play it for her, and we still put on her favorite musicals, but there's no engagement anymore. She does not hear or see any of it other than perhaps a fleeting spark of memory, now gone.
In severe dementia, everything is moment to moment. Routine means nothing anymore, because there is no past or future, only now.
And then you start your last slide into end-stage dementia; you sleep 23½ hours out of 24, and when you are awake, you may as well be dreaming. You do not meet anyone's eyes. You do not react in any manner to much beyond very painful stimulation. You are almost gone. We try to feed you, but you don't seem to know what to do with the food in your mouth, and you may choke, which could result in aspiration pneumonia—never a good thing. Your urine output drops, peristalsis decreases, and your body temperature may rise. And as your organs start to shut down, you sleep, and sleep, and sleep, and slip away, very peacefully. You're gone.
That's what Alzheimer's-type dementia is like.


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The importance of bonding and grounding in commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings cannot be overstated. The grounded circuits of machines need to have an effective return path from the machines to the power source in order to function properly. In addition, non-current-carrying metallic components in a facility, such as equipment cabinets, enclosures, and structural steel, need to be electrically interconnected so voltage potential cannot exist between them. The benefits for the building owner are many — maximized equipment protection, elimination of shock hazard potential, increased process uptime, and reduced costs through avoiding expensive machine servicing. However, troubles can arise when terms like "bonding," "grounding," and "earthing" are interchanged or confused in certain situations.
Earthing is the attachment of a bonded metallic system to earth, typically through ground rods or other suitable grounding electrodes. The NEC prohibits earthing via isolated ground rods as the only means of equipment grounding. Nevertheless, some manufacturers of sensitive machinery actually encourage this practice in their installation manuals, in order to reduce "no problem found" service calls associated with machine errors and rebooting.
An Illustration
Understanding the differences between bonding/grounding and earthing is best illustrated with an example. A manufacturer of molded components was replacing failed printed circuit boards in a computerized numerically controlled (CNC) machine. After a thunderstorm, the machine's self-diagnostic system occasionally registered a component problem. The machine would not start, delaying the day's production cycle. Plant electronics technicians identified and replaced failed circuit boards, then returned the CNC machine to operation. However, each occurrence cost thousands of dollars in repairs and lost production.
Called upon to rectify the problem, personnel from the engineering services organization of a major electrical distribution equipment manufacturer observed that although the plant had grounded the CNC machine in accordance with the manufacturer's installation manual, the ground was in clear violation of the NEC. This apparent contradiction demonstrates a disturbing fact: Some grounding practices that are designed to decrease data errors in sensitive machines can actually violate grounding codes and standards, causing equipment damage and introducing safety hazards. It's also important to note that the conflicting requirements can be overcome, but never by compromising employee safety.
Key Concepts and Terms
Understanding the difference between bonding/grounding and earthing requires implicit understanding of several important concepts and terms, including those outlined below.
Safety Grounding and Machine Operation
The problem experienced by the plant in the example is not uncommon. Manufacturers of sensitive machines have discovered that isolated ground rods can decrease the number of nuisance problems, such as rebooting, data errors, and intermittent shutdowns. This decrease is due to the reduced amount of voltage transients or "noise" on the ground rod, as compared to a common building grounding system. Because of the reduction in data errors attributed to the ground rod, some manufacturers include isolated ground rods in their installation instructions. Some even imply the machine warranty will not be honored if the ground rod is not installed.
During thunderstorms or ground faults, however, an isolated ground rod becomes a liability, creating shock hazard potential for employees and high potential rises on sensitive machine components. Figure 1 illustrates the extremely large transient voltages that can develop between driven ground rods due to lightning currents and earth resistance. Although ground faults in the machine itself may not draw enough current to trip overcurrent protective devices, they can create touch hazard potential for employees.
Article 250.54 of the 2008 NEC specifically prohibits the use of isolated ground rods, or earthing, as the sole means of equipment grounding, although some have used other sections of the NEC to justify this practice. The "NEC Handbook" provides the following commentary associated with Art. 250.6 (Objectionable Currents):
"An increase in the use of electronic controls and computer equipment, which are sensitive to stray currents, has caused installation designers to look for ways to isolate electronic equipment from the effects of such stray circulating currents. Circulating currents on equipment grounding conductors, metal raceways, and building steel develop potential differences between ground and the neutral of electronic equipment.
"A solution often recommended by inexperienced individuals is to isolate the electronic equipment from all other power equipment by disconnecting it from the power equipment ground. In this corrective action, the equipment grounding means is removed or nonmetallic spacers are installed in the metallic raceway system contrary to fundamental safety grounding principles covered in the requirements of Art. 250. The electronic equipment is then grounded to an earth ground isolated from the common power system ground. Isolating equipment in this manner creates a potential difference that is a shock hazard. The error is compounded because such isolation does not establish a low-impedance ground-fault return path to the power source, which is necessary to actuate the overcurrent protection device."
Bonding/Grounding vs. Earthing
Isolated connections to earth are not required for sensitive machine operation. Issues crop up when equipment bonding/grounding and earthing are confused. In the United States, the term "grounding" is used to refer to at least five or more grounding-related systems, including:
• System Type. This refers to the means by which power source voltage relationships are established. Power sources fall into four general categories: Transformers, generators, electric utilities, and static power converters. These systems may be configured as wye or delta, and the means by which they are interfaced with the grounding system determines the system type. The most common 3-phase system type is the solidly grounded wye, which is established by connecting a properly rated conductor (also known as the main or system bonding jumper) from the X0 terminal of the source (usually a transformer) to the grounding system.
• Equipment grounding (bonding). The best means of equipment grounding is to route a grounding conductor, suitably sized, along the same route as the power and neutral conductors, from source to machine. The NEC does allow use of metallic conduit and other substitutes, but some industry experts believe these systems are less effective and should be avoided.
• Grounding electrode (earthing). This term refers to the method by which the facility grounding system is connected and referenced to earth. The most common grounding electrode for small facilities is a metallic ground rod, but earthing systems for larger buildings can — and should — be more elaborate and include the means by which to inspect and test these systems periodically. A grounding electrode system that is buried in earth or encased in concrete and then forgotten is often the source of increasing problems as the building ages and the grounding electrodes deteriorate.
• Lightning abatement. Some facilities use air terminals (also known as lightning rods) to direct lightning strikes away from power equipment, but these devices are often connected to the grounding system in such a way that they have the opposite effect — unintentionally bringing lightning energy into facility structural steel, low-voltage transformer windings, and, subsequently, sensitive building loads.
• Signal-reference grounding. Sensitive electronic machines rely on the grounding system for reference of low-magnitude signals. Therefore, it's often crucial to provide multiple grounding paths, rather than rely on a single equipment grounding conductor between the power source and the sensitive load. This ensures that spurious voltages on the grounding system are maintained well below the level at which they might be confused with sensitive machine reference signals. The best guide for signal-reference grounding is IEEE Standard 1100-2006, "Recommended Practice for Powering and Grounding Electronic Equipment."
Note that earthing is not required for sensitive machine operation. Modern aircraft, for example, are packed with sensitive computers and electronic devices, which operate correctly without an attachment to earth. They rely on a bonded metallic system — the airplane framework, skin, structural supports, raceways, and grounding conductors — to serve as the ground reference. If this bonded system rises in voltage with respect to earth, all machines onboard experience the increase together. The net result is that the machines see no voltage potential differences with respect to each other. Once the airplane lands, any voltage potential between the plane and earth must be discharged by an electrode that bypasses the rubber tires.
Resolving the Issue
The immediate solution to the example plant's illegal ground rod (Fig. 2) was to remove the shock hazard. This was done by connecting a grounding conductor (1/0 copper) from the ground rod to the nearest part of the building grounding system — in this case, the structural steel. This connection eliminated the shock potential during storms by reducing the resistance between the ground rod and the building grounding system.
The next step was to eliminate the wiring errors and install a ground wire from the source to the CNC machine (Fig. 3). The primary reason that the isolated ground rod was effective in decreasing operating problems was the building's bonded system experienced voltage transients, imposed on it due to wiring errors. One common error is the improper connection of neutral wires to ground buses or ground wires to neutral buses. This error allows neutral currents to flow on the bonded system, thereby creating voltage transients. Neutral wires are only allowed to be connected to the bonded system at a service entrance or at a step-down transformer (called a separately derived source by the NEC). Notice in Fig. 2 that the plant had installed both a voltage regulator and a noise suppression device ahead of the CNC machine. These devices are often applied to solve the nuisance operating problems brought on by ground system transients. Suppression devices are not a cure-all, however. In fact, they're sometimes unnecessary when wiring and grounding problems are corrected first.
Once the spurious ground rod had been connected to the rest of the bonded system, operating issues had to be addressed, which involved correcting the wiring errors identified in the site survey. For the example facility, these steps were adequate. For other situations, you should refer to the following checklist:
1. Connect the ground rod to the bonded system and install a grounding conductor from the power source to the sensitive load to eliminate the safety hazard and allow an effective ground-fault return path.
2. Correct wiring and grounding errors on the power system serving the sensitive machine.
3. Install a step-down transformer (i.e., a separately derived source) to serve only the process machine. Derive a new neutral to the ground bonding point at the load side of the transformer.
4. Any remaining operating problems are probably caused by communications ground loops. Ground loops, which are introduced by communication wiring between sensitive machines fed from different power sources, may require more elaborate correction schemes, such as optical isolation.
Taking the Next Step
In summary, the plant in the example had installed a CNC process machine in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations. Unfortunately, those recommendations included the requirement for a separate ground rod to serve as the only means of equipment grounding. While this practice may reduce data errors in sensitive process machines, it violates the NEC, creates a shock hazard for employees, and causes a potential difference that may damage sensitive electronic components.
Electrical engineers and contractors can help customers avoid situations like this by providing proactive counsel in this area. The best place to start is to gather as much information as possible — from the 2008 NEC, seminars/conferences, trusted electrical equipment manufacturers, and online sources. With that knowledge in hand, you have yet another reason to call on a customer and resolve an issue of critical importance.
Ray, P.E., is director of Schneider Electric's Square D Engineering Services, Raleigh, N.C. He can be reached at [email protected]. Waterer is an Engineering Fellow for Schneider Electric's Square D Engineering Services, Norcross, Ga. He can be reached at [email protected].
Sidebar: Knowledge is Power
An electrical engineer or contractor who understands the various elements of proper grounding, bonding, and earthing systems is best positioned to counsel customers on appropriate practices in this area. A keen understanding of NEC requirements could also help you develop a reputation as being the one to contact with any bonding/grounding-related questions. Such expertise could also lead to future business.


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MILWAUKEE – Chrysler Group, LLC will pay $60,000 under a consent decree resolving a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) which was entered by the federal court in Milwaukee today. The EEOC sued Chrysler in December 2009 for unlawfully retaliating against two women after they opposed sex discrimination at Chrysler's national parts distribution center in Milwaukee. (EEOC v. Chrysler Group, LLC, No. 08-C-1067 (E.D. Wis.).
The events underlying this lawsuit, the EEOC said, began when Chrysler's second-shift supervisor at the Milwaukee facility removed one of the women from the coveted position of driving a power sweeper and assigned her to gather parts in the "back order release" area. When this woman and a female coworker questioned why a male employee with less seniority was not assigned to the less desirable job of "picking" parts, the EEOC said, Chrysler's plant manager accused each woman of disrupting the work force and threatened them with discipline, up to and including termination. Further, the EEOC said, Chrysler's facility manager allegedly delivered these warnings in separate, closed-door meetings with each woman where he pounded on the table, raised his voice, and forced them to compose written statements recanting their allegations.
Retaliation for opposing sex discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
On Feb. 17, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied Chrysler's motion for summary judgment on the EEOC's retaliation claim. Magistrate Judge William F. Callahan, Jr., while not deciding the case, concluded that the EEOC had alleged enough facts for a reasonable jury possibly to conclude after trial that Chrysler retaliated against the women by engaging in actions that might have dissuaded a reasonable worker from pursuing a charge of discrimination.
Judge Callahan entered the consent decree resolving the lawsuit earlier today, May 25, 2011. The decree provides for monetary relief to the victims and requires Chrysler to report to the EEOC all complaints of discrimination, harassment or retaliation at the Milwaukee facility for the next two years. Chrysler is also required to train managers and supervisors at its Milwaukee facility on prohibited forms of employment discrimination under Title VII. Finally, Chrysler must adopt a new policy informing employees of their right to oppose unlawful discrimination without fear of retaliation.
"The decree ending this case is a message to employers who act quickly to silence complaints of discrimination: this 'nip it in the bud' approach is a losing strategy," said John Hendrickson, the EEOC's regional attorney in Chicago. "Any adverse job action that might deter an employee from pursuing his or her rights is unlawful. Title VII protects employees who oppose discrimination even when their complaints do not take the form of an EEOC charge or written grievance. The proper and legal way for management to 'nip it in the bud' is to solve the discrimination situation, not punish the complainants."
In addition to Hendrickson, the EEOC's litigation team included Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory M. Gochanour and Trial Attorneys Bradley S. Fiorito and Grayson S. Walker.
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With two concerts highlighting African, Spanish, and original compositions in flamenco and jazz traditions, last week was one to celebrate world music at Wabash.
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