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Milton Bass: A reason for GOP to cheer Obama
RICHMOND -- You would think that instead of excoriating President Barack Obama, Republicans would be clasping him to their bosoms while chanting "He's our boy. He's our boy." After all, they loved George W. Bush while he was OKing the torture of prisoners and sending them off to foreign countries where they were treated to the full hammer without consequences. And probably without gaining any useful information.
But here we have a president who has kept our Guantanamo prison at its Dick Cheney standards right into his second administration, who has a kill list of enemies that is updated every week, who loves to shoot skeet, and the Republicans persist in giving him a hard time. The belligerence of the Republican Party has made them popular with a large segment of the masses. They are all for guns, any type of guns, the bigger, the better, and they are comfortable with gun magazines that have 30 to 100 bullets available for immediate use no matter what the target.
They also would like to take the vote away from the untutored masses who only know how to take, take, take. And taking note of their leaders, such as Boehner, McConnell, Ryan and Cantor, do you think you will ever catch one of them smiling? Obama, on the other hand, smiles a lot and is always ready with a quick laugh. Enough of the public likes and trusts him enough to give him a second shot at being president of all of us. He delivers great speeches, has a loving wife and daughters and obviously gets along just fine with his mother-in-law.
But he is also the president who supervised the killing of Osama bin Laden, who had eluded President George W. Bush for his two terms. The Bush gang has been fruitlessly telling the public that it was its methods of interrogation that developed the lead to bin Laden, but it was Obama and his staff who sat in the ready room and watched the kill. If only we had a copy of the telephone conversation when Obama called Bush to tell him of the successful mission without the loss of one American. If only we had a videotape of Bush after he disconnected the call.
And we have practically completed the shutdown of our Iraq mission and seem to be adhering to the timetable for the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Things have also calmed down a bit in Pakistan but that is probably due to the sword-rattling with India rather than any softening of its attitude toward the United States. All in all, the president is doing well.
Oh yes, except for one thing. He had the gall and guts to order the killing of an American citizen living abroad. The man, Anwar al-Awlaki, moved to Yemen about five years ago, became a leader of al-Qaida and preached jihad (struggle) against the United States. Yemen tried him in absentia and issued a "capture or kill" order on him. Obama got a "get home free" document on al-Awlaki from his Justice Department and put him on the death list. A drone caught up with al-Awlaki's car and a Hellfire missile did the trick. A few weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, one of his five children, met the same fate.
Civil libertarians are terribly uncomfortable with this president's power to kill Americans in foreign countries. They feel strongly that in the future some unscrupulous U.S. president might arrange for one of his personal enemies to take a vacation trip abroad and then have him droned. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to get the paperwork that went with these killings. It claims that the killings violated the constitutional rights of al-Awlaki and his son. Republicans have been silent on this, letting the Democrats twist in the wind for a while. But how do you think they feel about this deep down in their guts? It's almost from the Republican playbook.
So here we have Obama acting more and more like a Republican every day.
Except for the guns. And the poor, the sick and the elderly. And minority groups. And the economy. And the deficit.
Who's on first. What's on second. I Don't Know is on third. I Don't Give a Damn is shortstop. Tomorrow is the pitcher and Today is the catcher.
Now give me the names of the outfielders and the men who are running to replace Sen. John Kerry.
Milton Bass is a regular Eagle contributor.
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RidgeRun Auto exposure/Auto white balance library for DM368 and DM365
The DM365 and DM368 support the H3A hardware accelerator for supporting auto white balance (AWB) and auto exposure (AE). CMOS or CCD sensor video capture quality can be enhanced with AWB and AE image processing:
- Auto exposure performs automatic adjustments of the image brightness according to the amount of light that reaches the camera sensor.
- Auto white balance automatically compensates color differences based on lighting so white actually appears white.
Some camera sensors don't include auto white balance and/or auto exposure processing, so RidgeRun offers a library with AE and AWB algorithms called librraew. This library was initially developed for the DM365/DM368 (DM36x) platform. The DM36x video processing front end (VPFE) has an H3A engine designed to support control loops for auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure by collecting statistics about the imaging/video data. There are two blocks in this module:
- Auto focus engine
- Auto exposure and auto white balance engine
The librraew library only uses the auto exposure and auto white balance hardware engine which requires the video frames to be in the Bayer color space. The DM36x does not allow the H3A engine to be used when the color space is YCbCr, which is common if you are using NTSC/PAL composite video input.
The H3A engine divides the frames into two dimensional blocks of pixels referred as windows. The engine provides image/video metrics:
- Accumulation of clipped pixels along with all non-saturated pixels in each window on a per color basis.
- Accumulation of the sum of squared pixels per color.
- Minimum and maximum pixels values in each window on a per color basis.
The DM36x H3A engine can be configured to use up to 36 horizontal windows with sum + {sum of squares or min+max} output or up to 56 horizontal windows with sum output. The H3A engine can also be configure to use up to 128 vertical windows. The width and height for the windows is programmable.
The librraew library was tested using an Aptina MT9P031 CMOS sensor. Support for other sensors was added later, thus validating the librraew design. If you provide the appropriate sensor-specific functions for the library, it can work with any sensor. The implementation is a plain C library and can be re-used with and integrated with any application capable of making C function calls. Image Pipe Daemon uses librraew to provide auto exposure/Auto white balance.
RidgeRun auto-exposure/auto-white-balance library (C) Copyright 2010 - RidgeRun LLC.
Evaluation and Development License
Subject to the terms and conditions of RidgeRun's SDK license, RidgeRun hereby grants to customer a product - based, non - exclusive, non - transferable, non - sublicensable, limited, worldwide license to install and use, for internal purposes only, an unlimited number of copies of the source and object code versions.
Distribution License
Subject to the terms and conditions of RidgeRun's SDK license, RidgeRun hereby grants to customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited, worldwide license to distribute RidgeRun Software in object code format only (no source code) in one product model sold by the customer.
There are some not-so-obvious limitations when using the H3A engine:
- AWB/AE correction limited to window sampling method listed above.
- Can not use H3A engine with YCbCr color space, which includes NTSC/PAL composite video input.
- Auto exposure can affect the video frame rate with dark images. Set a maximum exposure limit to keep the frame rate from dropping below an acceptable value.
- Only tested with Linux 2.6.32 and the RidgeRun MT9P031 V4L2 driver.
Auto white balance
When an image of a scene is captured by a digital camera sensor, the sensor response at each pixel depends on the scene illumination. Depending of the illumination, a distinct color cast appears over the captured scene. This effect appears in the captured image due to the color temperature of the light. If a white object is illuminated with a low color temperature light source, the object in the captured image will have a reddish tint. Similarly, when the white object is illuminated with a high color temperature light source, the object in the captured image will appear somewhat blue instead of pure white. The human eye compensates for color cast automatically through a characteristic known as color constancy, allowing the colors to be independent of the illumination. Auto white balance tries to simulate the color constancy for captured images.
Many auto white balance algorithms follow a two-stage process:
- Illumination estimation: this can be done explicitly by choosing from a known set of possible illuminations or implicitly with assumptions about the effect of such illuminations. The algorithms implemented in librraew use implicit estimation.
- Image color correction: this is achieved through an independent gain adjustment of the three color signals. Commonly only the blue and red gains are adjusted assuming the red gain is fixed.
Auto exposure
One of the main problems affecting image quality, leading to disappointing pictures, comes from improper light exposure. The image exposure is the amount of light that reaches the sensor. Exposure determines the lightness or darkness of the resulting image. If too much light strikes the image sensor, the image will be overexposed, washed out, and faded. If too little light reaches the camera sensor produces an underexposed image, dark and lacking in details especially in shadow areas. Auto exposure (AE) algorithms adjust the captured image in an attempt to reproduce the most important regions (according to contextual or perceptive criteria) with an average level of brightness, more or less in the middle of the possible range.
Auto exposure algorithms involves three processes:
- Light metering: this is generally accomplished using the camera sensor itself or an external device as exposure detector.
- Scene analysis: brightness metering methods use an estimation of the scene illumination according to image metrics. Using the oerall illumination value, brightness adjustments can be calculated to produce the best exposure.
- Image brightness correction: this ensures that the correct amount of light reaches the image sensor by adjusting the illumination and shutter time parameters. The image sensor parameter is often called the exposure time. The exposure time is defined as the amount of time that the sensor integrates light. In other words, it determines how long the sensor photo diodes array is exposed to light.
- Librraew 1.1 (current version)
- Librraew 1.0
Using the demo version of librraew
You can request at email@example.com for a demo version of librraew in order to test the auto-white balance and auto-exposure algorithms to see if the technology meets your needs. This library will allow you to use all the features that comes with the full version of the librraew but with the following limitations:
- The algorithm will darken the image periodically.
- After awhile the algorithm will stop working and the image capturing will be done with the last values calculated by the library. In order to test the library again you will need to restart the algorithm.
How to Buy
You can use commercial version of librraew using purchase through our online store RidgeRun Store or contact firstname.lastname@example.com
- Battiato, G. Messina, and A. Castorina. Exposure correction for imaging devices: an overview. In Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras, chapter 12. Rastislav Lukac, October 2008.
- Lee J.S., Jung Y.Y, Kim B.S., and Ko S.J. An advanced video camera system with robust af, ae, and awb control. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 47:694–699, August 2001
- Edmund Y. Lam. Combining gray world and retinex theory for automatic white balance in digital photography. Consumer Electronics, 2005. (ISCE 2005). Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on, pages 134–139, June 2005.
- Edmund Y. Lam and George S. K. Fung. Automatic white balancing in digital photography. In Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2009.
- Nitin Sampat, Shyam Venkataraman, Thomas Yeh, and Robert L. Kremens. System implications of implementing auto-exposure on consumer digital cameras. Proc. SPIE. Sensors, Cameras, and Applications for Digital Photography, 3650:100–107, March 1999

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Bucks playing Hawks right now. Here hoping the Hawks take this one and keep the bucks on there skid. I expect J Smoove to come strong with almost being traded to the Bucks.
Bucks playing Hawks right now. Here hoping the Hawks take this one and keep the bucks on there skid. I expect J Smoove to come strong with almost being traded to the Bucks.
You know things are going well in Raptorland when fans want to watch other games because of playoff implications...
Philly also down 9 to Miami at halftime
Henson really reminds me of Davis....Just blew a point blank layup
Hawks look like crap right now
I'm diggin the Bucks jerseys
this is what happens with two off days. great to see. go hawks (that sounds so odd)
these bucks look big. not sure about how we'll match up
It's funny how big of a deal the bucks rim protection has become -- wasn't it just last season when they had like the worst rim protection in the league? Running Drew Gooden out at center if I recall?
Man Hawks cannot buy a shot right now.... Should have traded Bargs for Dalembert when we had the chance hes very gritty may not be the most talented guy ever but he hustles.
Also, Hawks are looking rough. Al Horford may have some raw skill, but he comes with a whooole lot of baggage.
Dunleavy is the leagues best kept secret. Mike "silent assassin" Dunleavy?
I forgot how terrible josh smith's bball IQ was.. I thought he had grown up a bit.. guy makes some stupid decisions
Anyone think Dalembert would be a good fit for us next year? He's an FA(I believe) and could play Gray and Bargs minutes? Him, Amir and JV as a big rotation
there he goes tryin to be pg when theres a pg right beside him
Milwaukee has such good chemistry.. chances aren't looking good
one point game!
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Optical illusion
October 28th, 2010 7 comments
Here is a couple of very bizarre pictures. At first look just at the first picture. What do you see? Woman right? That's what I thought too. Then slowly scroll down and look at the second picture. The woman is kind of strange right? And finally look at the third picture. My first thought was wow this is so weird and at the same time this is very interesting. What was yours?
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Hi. I've seen people naming their variables as m_*. What does the m_ mean? And why do you use it?
Hi. I've seen people naming their variables as m_*. What does the m_ mean? And why do you use it?
It usually indicates that this is a (class) member variable.
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
As explained, m_ (or m) means "member" variable for classes, assuming it actually means anything.
There are MANY ways to name variables, and the "where does this belong" naming convention is just one of those. It does make sense to indicate that a variable is part of a class, to differentiate it from for example function parameters or local variables in the function.
Where I work, arguments to functions are prefixed with a, so you can tell the difference between an argument and other local variables too.
Many people also prefix globals with g or g_.
Other naming conventions indicate what the type of a variable is, and I've seen prefixing of the type "ui32" to indicate that it's a "unsigned integer" that is 32 bits long. I don't find that particularly helpful most of the time (especially when you have an editor that allows you to jump to the declaration/definition of a variable easily), but I can see the logic.
Whether you use a prefix naming convention or not, make sure that you follow a consistent system - there's nothing worse than looking at code that has three different naming conventions in the same project. You never really know what you are looking at...
Compilers can produce warnings - make the compiler programmers happy: Use them!
Please don't PM me for help - and no, I don't do help over instant messengers.
It is nOthing, JUst a Microsoft Naming Convention..
m_ = Member variable of class,
_ = Public variable of class ...
So on....
I do this:
As pointed out, it is all preference rather than essentials. But like matsp said, be consistant.Code:class Foo { private: int m_data; // data member of a class int *pm_data; // data member of a class that is also a pointer };
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We're not picked by many to rise to the top of our division, but I think we're well-balanced with a lot of talent. I think this is the best team we've had here in a while. So I'm really excited about our season. The ingredients are here and now it's time to produce on the baseball field.
I think we have a lot of hitting and a lot of pitching. We have always seemed to hit the ball well. We have only gotten better from the offensive standpoint when you talk about adding guys like Sammy Sosa, Kenny Lofton and Frank Catalanotto. Kenny and Cat will be great as table-setters before our studs come up. I think our lineup, one through nine, is real solid.
When you look at our rotation, I'm pretty impressed with two young pitchers that we have. Brandon McCarthy came over this winter from the White Sox and Robinson Tejada came up for us last year and secured a spot. We know what we're going to get from Kevin Millwood and Vicente Padilla. They battle and win games for us. Our fifth starter, Jamey Wright, pitched real well in camp.
Our bullpen, meanwhile, has a lot of talent. It's going to be exciting to see them work. C.J. Wilson has some experience now, as does Scott Feldman. Kameron Loe has battled back and made the team, and when you combine those guys with Joaquin Benoit, that's a pretty good setup group.
At the end of the bullpen we have Akinori Otsuka and Eric Gagne. We have high hopes for Gagne's return from the DL. I caught him in Spring Training and his stuff is electric.
When you look at our competition in the AL West, you can't say enough about the Angels. They have really good pitching and a good club overall. They're deep and well-balanced, especially in the bullpen. You have to battle them
Oakland is Oakland. They always seem to be in it at the end. They get just enough runs across and they pitch. They say that pitching wins games. That's why they win so many games. They're going to be real tough again this year.
Seattle also did some things in the offseason to improve. It seems all of the teams in our division did that. It's going to be real competitive and whichever team plays the most consistent baseball will probably win.
To win our division, you have to beat these good teams. When you face these clubs, you are set for a tough series. At the same time, you can show what you and your club can do, and you can make a statement.
Gerald Laird is in his first season as the starting catcher for Texas after serving as a backup catcher for the Rangers the past four seasons. The 27-year-old Laird threw out 43 percent of would-be basestealers last season.
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General Information About Pain
Cancer or treatment for cancer may cause you to feel pain.
Tumors, surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy may cause you pain. Patients with advanced cancer have more severe pain, and many cancer survivors have pain that continues after cancer treatment ends.
Pain control can improve your quality of life.
Pain can be controlled in most patients with cancer. Although cancer pain cannot always be relieved completely,there are ways to lessen pain in most patients. Pain control can improve your quality of life all through your cancer treatment and after it ends.
Pain can be managed before, during, and after diagnostic and treatment procedures.
Many diagnostic and treatment procedures are painful. It helps to start pain control before the procedure begins. Some drugs may be used to help you feel calm or fall asleep. Treatments such as imagery or relaxation can also help control pain and anxiety related to treatment. Knowing what will happen during the procedure and having a relative or friend stay with you may also helplower anxiety.
Each patient needs a personal plan to control cancer pain.
Each person's diagnosis, cancer stage, response to pain, and personal likes and dislikes are different. For this reason, each patient needs a personal plan to control cancer pain. You, your family, and your healthcare team can work togetherto manage your pain. As part of your pain control plan, your healthcare provider can give you and your family members written instructions to control your pain at home. Find out who you should call if you have questions.
This summary is about ways to control cancer pain in adults, including the following:
- Medicine.
- Physical therapies.
- Psychological support.
Assessment of Pain
You and your healthcare team work together to assess cancer pain.
It's important that the causeof the pain is found and treated quickly.The first step in controlling pain is to assess and measure it. Your healthcare team will help you measurepain levels often, including at the following times:
- After starting cancer treatment.
- When there is any new pain.
- After starting any type of pain treatment.
- During pain treatment.
To learn about your pain, the healthcare team will ask you to describe the pain with the following questions:
- When did the pain start?
- How long does the pain last?
- Where is the pain? You will be asked to show exactly where the pain is on your body or on a drawing of a body.
- How strong is the pain?
- Have there been changes in where or when the pain occurs?
- What makes the pain better or worse?
- Is the pain worse during certain times of the day or night?
Thisinformation will be used to decide how to help relieve your pain. This may include drugs or other treatments. Your healthcare team will work with you to decide how much pain you can stand and how much improvement you should expect. After pain control is begun, the doctor will continue to assess how well it is working for you and make changes if needed.
The family or caregiver may be asked to give answers for a patient who has a problem with speech, language, or understanding.
A physical exam and tests will be done to help plan pain control.
The assessment will include the following:
- Physical exam and history: An exam of the body to check general signs of health, including checking for signs of disease, such as lumps or anything else that seems unusual. A history of your health habits and past illnesses and treatments will also be taken.
- Neurological exam: A series of questions and tests to check the brain, spinal cord, and nerve function. The exam checks your mental status, coordination, and ability to walk normally, and how well the muscles, senses, and reflexes work. This may also be called a neuro exam or a neurologic exam.
Your healthcare team will also assess your mental and spiritual needs.
Using Drugs to Control Pain
The doctor will prescribe drugs based on whether the pain is mild, moderate, or severe.
Your doctor will prescribe drugs to help relieve your pain. These drugs need to be taken at scheduled times to keep a constant level of the drug in the body to help keep the pain from coming back. Drugs may be taken by mouth or in other ways, such as by infusion or injection.
Your doctor may prescribe extra doses of a drug that can be taken asneeded for pain that occurs between scheduled doses of drug. The doctor will adjust the drug dose for yourneeds.
Acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be used to relieve mild pain.
NSAIDs help relieve mild pain. They may be given with opioids for moderate to severe pain. Acetaminophen also relieves pain,although it does not have the anti-inflammatory effect that aspirin and other NSAIDs do.
Patients, especially older patients, who are taking acetaminophen orNSAIDs need to be closely watched for side effects. See Treating Pain in Older Patients for more information. Most NSAIDs affect the blood platelets so that it takes longer for blood to clot and stop any bleeding. Aspirin should not be given to children to treat pain.
Opioids may be used to relieve moderate to severe pain.
Opioids work very well for the relief of moderate to severe pain. Some patients with cancer pain stop getting pain relief from opioids during long-term therapy. This is called tolerance. Larger doses or a different opioid may be needed if your body stops responding to the same dose.Tolerance of an opioid is a physical dependence on it. This is not the same as addiction (psychological dependence). Opioid doses can be safely increased by your doctor as needed for your pain, without causing addiction.
There are several types of opioids:
- Morphine (the most commonly used opioidfor cancer pain).
- Hydromorphone.
- Oxycodone.
- Oxymorphone.
- Methadone.
- Fentanyl.
- Meperidine.
- Tapentadol.
- Tramadol.
The doctor will prescribe drugs and the times they should be taken in order to best control your pain.
Most patients with cancer pain will need to receive opioids on a regular schedule.
Receiving opioids on a regularschedule helps manage the pain and keeps it from getting worse. The amount of time between doses depends on which opioid is being used. The correct dose is the amount of opioid that controls your painwith the fewest side effects. The dose will be slowly adjusted until there is a good balance betweenpain relief and side effects. If opioidtolerance does occur, it can be overcome by increasing the dose or changing toanother opioid.
Sometimes, the opioid dose needs to be decreased or the opioid is stopped. This may be done whenyou no longer have pain because of treatments such as nerve blocks or radiation therapy. The doctor may also decrease the dose if it makes you too sleepy or if your kidney function decreases.
Opioids may be given in different ways.
Opioids may be given by the following ways:
- Mouth: If your stomach and intestines work normally, medicine is usually given by mouth. Opioids given orally are easy to use and usually low-cost. Oral opioids are sometimes placed under the tongue or on the inside of the cheek to be absorbed.
- Rectum: If you cannot take opioids by mouth, they may be given as rectal suppositories.
- Skin patches: Opioid patches are placed on the skin.
- Nose spray: Opioids may be given in the form of a nasal spray.
- Intravenous (IV) line: Opioids are given into a vein only when simpler and less costlymethods cannot be used, don't work, or are not wanted by the patient. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps are one way to control pain through your IV line. A PCA pump allows the patient to control the amount of drug that is used. With a PCA pump, you can receive a preset opioid dose by pressing a button on a computerized pump that is connected to a small tube. Once the pain is controlled, the doctor mayprescribe regular opioid doses based on the amount you used with the PCA pump.
- Subcutaneous injection: Opioids are given by injection into the fatty layer of tissue just under the skin. The small needle used for the injection may be left in place for up to one week.
- Intraspinal injection: Intraspinal opioids are injected into the fluid around the spinal cord. These may be combined with a local anesthetic to help some patients who have pain that is very hard to control.
Common side effects are nausea, sleepiness, and constipation.
Your doctor will discuss the side effects with you before opioidtreatment begins and will watch you for side effects. The following are the mostcommon side effects:
- Nausea.
- Sleepiness.
- Constipation.
Sleepiness and nausea most often occur when opioid treatmentis first started and usually get better within a few days.
Opioids slow down the muscle contractions and movement in the stomach andintestines, which can cause hard stools. To keep the stool soft and prevent constipation, it's important to drink plenty of fluids. Unless there are problems such as a blocked bowel or diarrhea, you will be given a treatment plan to follow to prevent constipation and information on how to avoid problems with your intestines while taking opioids.
Other side effects ofopioid treatment include the following:
Talk with your doctor about side effects that bother you or become severe. The doctor may decreasethe dose of the opioid, change to a different opioid, or change the way theopioid is given tohelp decrease the side effects. See the following PDQ summaries for more information about coping with these side effects:
Other drugs may be added to help treat your pain.
Other drugs may be given while you are taking opioids for pain relief. These are drugs that help the opioids work better, treat symptoms, andrelieve certain types of pain. The following types of drugs may be used:
- Antidepressants.
- Anticonvulsants.
- Local anesthetics.
- Corticosteroids.
- Stimulants.
- Bisphosphonates.
There arebig differences in how patients respond to these drugs. Side effects arecommon and should be reported to your doctor.
Bisphosphonates are drugs that are sometimes used when cancer has spread to the bones. They are used to decrease pain and reduce risk of broken bones. However, bisphosphonates sometime cause severe side effects. Talk to your doctor if you have severe muscle or bone pain. Bisphosphonate therapy may need to be stopped.
The use of bisphosphonates is also linked to the risk of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis (BON). See the PDQ summary on Oral Complications of Chemotherapy and Head/Neck Radiation for more information.
The use of cannabinoids given with pain medicine is being studied for cancer-related pain.
Radiation Therapy for Pain
Radiation therapy may be used to relieve bone pain.
Radiation therapy is used to relieve pain in patients with cancer that has spread to the bone. This is called palliative radiation therapy. It may be given as local therapy directly to the tumor or to larger areas of the body. Radiation therapy helps drugs and other treatments work better by shrinking tumors that are causing pain. Radiation therapy may help patients with bone pain move more freely and with less pain.
The following types of radiation therapy may be used:
External radiation therapy
External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation toward the cancer. External radiation therapy relieves pain from cancer that has spread to the bone. Radiation therapy may be given in a single dose or divided into several smaller doses given over a period of time. The decision whether to have single or divided dose radiation therapy may depend on how convenient the treatments are and how much they cost.
Stereotactic body radiation therapy
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a type of external radiation therapy that uses special equipment to position a patient and give a single large dose of radiation to a tumor. This type of radiation therapy causes less damage to nearby normal tissue. SBRT may be used to treat tumors that have spread to the bone, especially spinal tumors. SBRT may also be used to treat areas that have already received radiation.
Radiopharmaceuticals are drugs that contain a radioactive substance that may be used to diagnose or treat disease, including cancer. Radiopharmaceuticals may also be used to relieve pain from cancer that has spread to the bone. A single dose of radioactive agent injected into a vein may relieve pain when cancer has spread to several areas of bone and/or when there are too many areas to treat with external radiation therapy.
Radiofrequency ablation
Radiofrequency ablation uses a special probe with tiny electrodes to kill cancer cells. Sometimes the probe is inserted directly through the skin and only local anesthesia is needed. In other cases, the probe is inserted through an incision in the abdomen. This is done in the hospital with general anesthesia. This procedure may relieve pain in patients who have cancer that has spread to the bone. More studies are needed to learn about possible risks and benefits.
Radiation therapy with bisphosphonates
The use of radiation therapy given together with bisphosphonates is being studied in patients with cancer that has spread to the bone. More studies are needed to find out if this relieves pain better than radiation therapy alone.
Other Treatments for Pain
When radiation therapy does not relieve pain, other treatments may be used.
Other therapies can be used along with drugs and radiation therapy to manage pain. You can help decide whichmethods work best to relieve your pain.
Nerve blocks
A nerve block is the injection of either a local anesthetic or a drug into or around a nerve to block pain. Nerve blocks help control pain that can't be controlled in other ways. Nerve blocks may also be used to find where the pain is coming from, to predict how the pain will respond to long-termtreatments, and to prevent pain after certain procedures.
Neurological treatments
Surgery can be done to implant a device that delivers drugs or stimulates the nerves with mild electric current. In rare cases, surgery may be done to destroy a nerve ornerves that are part of the pain pathway.
Physical treatments, such as heat, cold, and exercise, can help relieve pain.
Physical methods to treat weakness, muscle wasting, and muscle and bone pain include the following:
- Applying heat (a hot pack or heating pad).
- Applying cold (ice packs).
- Exercise to strengthen weak muscles, loosen stiff joints, help coordination and balance, and strengthen the heart.
- Changing position (for patients who are not able to move on their own).
- Limiting the movement of painful areas or broken bones.
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), a procedure in which mild electric currents are applied to some areas of the skin to control pain.
Integrative treatments include massage therapy, acupuncture, and music.
Integrative therapy combines conventional (standard) medical treatment with complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies that have been shown to be safe and to work. CAM therapies treat the mind, body, and spirit.
Massage therapy
Massage therapy has been studied as supportive care in managing pain related to cancer. Massage may help you relax and improve your mood. Studies show that massage therapy may do the following:
- Cause the body to release endorphins, which relieve pain and give a feeling of well-being.
- Increase the flow of blood and lymph fluid.
- Increase the effects of drugs used for pain.
- Decrease inflammation and swelling.
- Decrease pain caused by muscle spasms and tension.
Massage has a direct effect on body tissues and should be used with care in patients with cancer. Studies show that massage therapy may be safe in patients with cancer. However, when massage is used in cancer patients, the following precautions should be taken:
- Avoid massaging any open wounds, bruises, or areas where the skin has broken down.
- Avoid massaging directly over the area where the tumor is.
- Avoid massaging areas with deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in a vein). Symptoms may include pain, swelling, warmth, and redness in the affected area.
- Avoid massaging soft tissue when the skin is sensitive following radiation therapy.
(For more information on massage, see Exercise 2 in the following section.)
Acupuncture is an integrative therapy that applies needles, heat, pressure, and other treatments to one or more places on the skin called acupuncture points. Acupuncture may be used to manage pain, including pain related to cancer. See the PDQ summary on Acupuncture for more information.
Music has been used to relieve pain and anxiety caused by cancer and cancer treatments. Studies have reported that music may work on areas of the brain that increase pleasant feelings and decrease unpleasant responses. Your favorite music may help you the most. Music is more helpful if you begin listening before a procedure than it is during or after a procedure. Music may be used along with pain medicine.
There are two main types of music treatments—music therapy and music medicine:
- Music therapy is given by a trained specialist called a music therapist. The music used may be live or recorded. Therapy may include music improvisation (making up music), song writing and singing, and relaxing to music. The music therapist bases treatment on your needs, such as controlling pain, decreasing anxiety, or learning new coping skills.
- Music medicine is listening to music (usually recorded music) to take attention away from the pain. Music medicine is guided by a medical professional who does not have special training in music therapy.
The use of music for pain related to cancer is still being studied.
Music is also used in relaxation exercises.
Some methods help relieve pain by changing how you think about pain and teaching you ways to relax.
Treatments that change how you think about pain and respond to it are also helpful in treating pain. These are called psychological interventions. Psychologicalinterventions give you a sense of control and teach you coping skills to deal with the disease and its symptoms. Staying calm when you feel pain may keep you more comfortable. You may try several methods and choose one or more to use regularly.
- Hypnosis: Hypnosis may help you relax and maybe combined with other thinking and behavior methods. Hypnosis to relieve pain works best in people who are able to concentrate and use imagery and who are willing to practice the technique.
- Redirecting thinking: In redirecting thinking, you focus your attention away from pain by thinking about other things. Methods may beinternal (for example, counting, praying, or saying things like "I cancope") or external (for example, music, television, talking, listening tosomeone read, or looking at something specific). You can also learnto replace negative thoughts withpositive thoughts and images.
- Talk therapy: Talk therapy may help you focus your attention away from the pain.
- Support groups and religious counseling: Support groups help manypatients. Religious counseling may also help by offering spiritual careand social support.
- Imagery: Imagery is imagining positive, calming images. This can help you relax, reduce stress, and give you a sense of well-being.
- Relaxation exercises: Simple relaxation exercises may be used for short periods of pain (for example, during cancer treatment procedures).Short, simple techniques are helpful when it's hard to concentrate because of severe pain, high anxiety, or fatigue.
The following relaxation exercises may help relieve pain:
- Step 1. Breathe in slowly and deeply, keeping your stomach and shoulders relaxed.
- Step 2. As you breathe out slowly, feel yourself begin to relax; feel thetension leaving your body.
- Step 3. Breathe in and out slowly and regularly at a comfortable rate. Let your breath come all the way down to your stomach, as it completely relaxes.
- Step 4. To help you focus on your breathing and to breathe slowly and rhythmically:Breathe in as you say silently to yourself, "in, two, three." OR Each time youbreathe out, say silently to yourself a word such as "peace" or "relax."
- Do Steps 1 through 4 only once or repeat Steps 3 and 4 for up to 20minutes.
- Step 5. End with a slow deep breath. As you breathe out, say to yourself, "I feel alert and relaxed."
- Touch and massage are traditional methods that caregivers use to help patients relax. Someexamples are:
- Brief touch or massage, such as hand holding or briefly touching orrubbing the patient's shoulders.
- Soaking the patient's feet in warm water or wrapping the feet in a warm, wettowel.
- Massage (3 to 10 minutes) of the whole body or just the back, feet, orhands. If the patient is modest or cannot move or turn easily in bed,just the hands and feet can be massaged.
- Use warm lotion. A small bowl of hand lotion may be warmed in amicrowave oven or a bottle of lotion may be warmed in a sink of hot waterfor about 10 minutes.
- Massage for relaxation is usually done with smooth, long, slow strokes.Try different amounts of pressure along with different types ofmassage, such as kneading and stroking, to find out what the patient likes.
Especially for the elderly person, a relaxing back rub may be no more than 3 minutes of slow, rhythmic stroking(about 60 strokes per minute) on both sides of the spine, from the crown of thehead to the lower back. Keep one hand on the body at all times by starting onehand down the back as the other hand stops at the lower back and is raised. Set aside a regular time for the massage. This gives the patient somethingpleasant to look forward to.
- Something may have happened to you a while ago that brought you peace orcomfort. You may be able to remember that experience to bring you peace orcomfort now. Think about these questions:
- Can you remember any situation, even when you were a child, when you feltcalm, peaceful, secure, hopeful, or comfortable?
- Have you ever daydreamed about something peaceful? What were youthinking?
- Do you get a dreamy feeling when you listen to music? Do you have any favorite music?
- Do you have any favorite poetry that you find uplifting or reassuring?
- Have you ever been active religiously? Do you have favorite readings,hymns, or prayers? Even if you haven't heard or thought of them for manyyears, childhood religious experiences may still be very soothing.
- Step 1. You will need the following:
- An MP3 player, CD player, or iPod®.
- Earphones or a headset. (This helps focus the attention better than aspeaker does, and avoids disturbing others.)
- A recording of music you like. (Most people like fast, lively music,but some select relaxing music. Others like comedy routines,sporting events, old radio shows, or stories.)
- Step 2. Mark time to the music; for example, tap out the rhythm with your finger ornod your head. This helps you think about the music instead of yourdiscomfort.
- Step 3. Keep your eyes open and focus on a fixed spot or object. If you wish toclose your eyes, picture something about the music.
- Step 4. Listen to the music at a comfortable volume. If the discomfort increases,try increasing the volume; decrease the volume when the discomfort decreases.
- Step 5. If the music is not helping enough, try adding or changing one or more of thefollowing:
- Massage your body in rhythm to the music.
- Try other music.
- Marktime to the music in more than one manner, such as tapping your foot and fingerat the same time.
Many patients have found listening to music to be helpful. Ittends to be very popular, probably because playing music is a part of daily life and easy to do. If you are very tired, you maysimply listen to the music without marking time or focusing on a spot.
These exercises were adapted and reprinted with permission from McCaffery M, Beebe A: Pain:Clinical Manual for Nursing Practice. St. Louis, Mo: CV Mosby: 1989.
Treating Pain in Older Patients
Older patients with cancer pain may have special needs.
Some problems are more likely in older patients. For caregivers of older patients, the following possible problems should be kept in mind:
Having more than one chronic disease and source of pain
Older patients may have more than one chronic disease and take several drugs for different conditions. This can increase the risk of drug interactions. Drugs taken together can change how they work in the body and can affect the patient's chronic diseases.
Problems with vision, hearing, movement, or ability to communicate
Older patients may need simplerand more frequent tests to find out how much pain they are having.
Side effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Side effects of NSAIDs, such as stomachand kidney damage, memory problems, constipation, and headaches, aremore likely in older patients.
Effects of opioids
Older patients may be more sensitive to theeffects of opioids. This can give better pain relief that lasts longer. The dose of the opioids may need to be adjusted.
Patient-controlled pain relief
Patient-controlled pain relief must be used carefully in older patients,since drugs are slower to leave the body and older patients are moresensitive to the side effects.
Changes in living arrangements
When older patients move (for example, from hospital to home ornursing home), their needs for pain control may change. These needs should be checked so that pain control methods can be adjusted if needed.
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a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Nov 16, 2007 at 3:16 pm
$400 to $450 a night? That's outrageous. Why are there no BMR rooms? Why are there no "affordable" rooms? Why are there no government subsidized rooms? Why is this hotel not next to a Caltrain/high speed rail station to reduce car use (TOH: transit oriented hotel)? I certainly hope that they don't have enough parking. Are they going to provide soccer fields on their roof, or not? If you want the answers to these pertinent questions, honk your horn as you drive by on Sand Hill Road.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Nov 19, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I think this is a fabulous project. Menlo Park/Palo Alto is under served with decent hotels. This project is tastefully done,provides jobs to hundreds of construction workers, and hundreds of ongoing jobs.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Nov 20, 2007 at 9:51 am
I think it is great that we are finally getting a local hotel. I've watched and waited for years for a hotel to be built in this location. However, I do have to admit, $400-$450/night seems a bit excessive. This is not San Francisco. Are these prices comparable to the Palo Alto Sheraton and the Westin? I realize it will mostly cater to the business traveler's who are able to expense the costs. Curious, any news on if they will offer discounted rates for local residents? It's would be great to have a local hotel for family and friends to stay when they visit, not to mention a treat to get away for a night.
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on Nov 23, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Since when do we need to have bmr's associated with EVERY project? If one doesn't want to pay that much for a night then don't stay there... If there are not enough people to pay that amount for a hotel room then they will be foreced to lower prices or go out of buisness. I am tired of vocal bloggers feeling as if they have a "right" to help determine what others do with their property. If you are not paying for it... then who cares what you think. Sorry, thats just a reality. If you want to build a hotel full of BMR's do it with your own money. I thought we lived in America?
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Hotel supporter, take a deep breath, go to the dictionary, and look up the word "satire." I think you'll conclude that Zerious poses no threat to the Free Market and a Free America.
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on Nov 26, 2007 at 11:15 am
I'm amused that with all the builder's blather about the difficult terrain of the site, no one bothered to mention its biggest constraint -- it's almost entirely surrounded by freeway and freeway on-ramps.
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And almost completely surrounded by big money, real or imagined.
Watch for the specials at $199. a nite right after Conde Nast and Trip Advisor complain about the deafening freeway noise. Where's the volume control on this darn TV remote?
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Notes: Rockies shake up the lineup
With offense struggling, Taveras sits while Tulo moves up
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
Rockies manager Clint Hurdle, after seeing his squad score a mere two runs while losing the first two games of the World Series at Fenway Park, sat leadoff man Willy Taveras for Game 3 at Coors Field, the first home Series game in franchise history.
Sullivan replaced Taveras in center field. Second baseman Kazuo Matsui moved from the second spot to leadoff, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki moved from No. 7 to No. 2, catcher Yorvit Torrealba moved up one spot to seventh and Sullivan slid in at No. 8.
Sullivan appeared in all three games of the National League Division Series against the Phillies, going 1-for-2. He had just one at-bat in the National League Championship Series against the Diamondbacks. Sullivan, however, felt prepared for the possibility of Series jitters.
"I think the games that we played toward the end of the season prepared us over and over for this," Sullivan said. "Our backs were against the wall. I'm just trying to do my job and help the team win a ballgame."
Taveras, who missed much of the season's final month and the NL Division Series with a strained right quadriceps, is 0-for-7 with a hit-by-pitch and a run scored in the Fall Classic. Taveras never gained his offensive footing in the NLCS, either.
Manager Clint Hurdle said Taveras was not wholly to blame for the poor offensive start. Tulowitzki entered Game 3 hitting .212, Todd Helton .182, and Garrett Atkins .171 in the postseason. But Hurdle said the team needed a change, so he went to the lineup he used much of the time while the Rockies won 21 of 22 to make it to the World Series.
"I felt it's time to try a little something different," Hurdle said. "Unfortunately, Willy's the odd man out. But Willy's not the cause of the offensive problems. When you look to make changes and not try to reinvent the lineup, we were going to revisit a lineup that's had success.
"Look at the reasons why we're here. To try and rearrange the furniture is one thing. Totally trying to remodel a house is another."
The Rockies are facing right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka in Game 3. Interestingly, going with the left-handed-hitting Sullivan is not playing the percentages. During the regular season, lefties hit for a lower average against Matsuzaka, hitting .238 to right-handers' .253. Lefties hit more homers, 14-11, but that's not a factor for Sullivan, who has eight career homers.
But the right-handed options weren't viable. Ryan Spilborghs started the first two games at designated hitter and went 0-for-5. Jeff Baker is 2-for-3 in limited postseason duty, and is a corner outfielder.
He doesn't have to like it: Taveras, who said he hasn't been missing pitches by much, certainly didn't want to sit, but he didn't complain.
"What can I say?" Taveras said. "It is what it is. We're just trying to win a ballgame.
"Placido Polanco [of the 2006 AL champion Tigers] did not get a hit the whole World Series, and he played in every game. But I'm not trying to make trouble. I'm just the unlucky guy that got taken out of the lineup, and I can get into the game."
Hurdle said being in a National League park means Taveras has a chance to be a factor.
"That was part of the discussion that I had with him," Hurdle said. "'You're not going to start this one. Who knows who will finish? Who knows who will be involved along the way?' When you have good players, you have more options, and we have players that can help us win games off the bench, getting spot starts, picking people up when they're injured."
From a new vantage point: Manuel Corpas, the father of Rockies closer Manny Corpas, was on the field at Coors on Saturday preparing for the first time seeing his son pitch since he signed a pro contract.
The father said it's been tough finding his son's games on regular television in Panama because telecasts there are "Yankees, Yankees, Yankees. No Rockies." The Yankees, of course, have star closer Mariano Rivera, a Panamanian.
But the Rockies have been on during the playoffs, and Corpas Jr. has been the talk of the country. On Saturday night, "Nobody's on the street, everybody will be watching the game," his father said.
The dad will be with his son for the rest of the Series.
Asked about Corpas' calm demeanor, which has been one of his best traits, the father used a Panamanian term that translates into "chicken blood." Evidently, the chickens there handle pressure well.
What time is it? Saturday's is the first World Series game played outside the Eastern or Central zones since 2002, which the Angels and Giants played entirely on Pacific Time.
Also, Coors Field is the 51st ballpark to play host to the Series.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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AUSTRALIANS treated themselves to more than 1,112,032 new cars in 2012, bucking retail trends with a 10.3 per cent surge to an all-time high, official VFACTS figures released today have confirmed.
But taking some of the shine off the result is the revelation that a record number of "dealer demonstrators" were registered in the final months of the year, confidential figures show.
The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries compiles sales data based on the number of new vehicle registrations. The information is voluntarily supplied by each car brand, rather than the roads authorities in each state and territory.
To meet sales targets some car companies have been pushing vehicles onto showroom floors, offering dealers drastically discounted wholesale prices if cars are registered.
This means a new car can be reported as "sold" even though it is not yet in customer hands.
A confidential source told News Limited: "The definition of sold is the key issue. It clouds the waters to say the auto industry is booming when it really isn't.
"There are dealers with hundreds of reported cars on showroom floors. They're still paying floorplan interest on those cars, and they have to sell them before they sell another car.
"The other issue is that if the dealer goes bust, the factory won't take the cars back. And finance companies don't count them as new cars any more. In reality they're used cars and have a depreciated value."
Most dealers have a handful of demonstrator models for test drives. But the system has been rorted in recent years, with a significant number of franchises having brand new registered cars on dealer forecourts.
It's good news for buyers because the savings are typically passed on and you can drive home in a new car the same day.
The industry argues the figure still counts because, ultimately, the car will be sold to a customer in the following months.
The only downside for buyers is that the warranty of a new car starts as soon as it is registered, not the day they take delivery of a demonstrator.
The chief executive of the FCAI Tony Weber said: "There is some discussion about the VFACTS numbers but we stand by them and we have no reason to doubt them at this point in time. Ultimately these [demonstrator] cars are sold in the market."
After further questioning, the FCAI said it would review the reporting of dealer demonstrator models.
"We can have a look at that through 2013 but at the moment the VFACTS system will remain in place," Weber said. "Demonstrators have always been part of the market and they'll continue to be in place."
The VFACTS data shows it is the fifth time in six years the 1 million mark has been passed – and the highest since the original 1 million-plus record was set in 2007.
The historic Holden versus Ford rivalry fell by the wayside as a trio of imported cars topped the sales charts for the first time in close to 100 years.
The Mazda3 small car outsold the Toyota HiLux utility to become the top-seller for the second year in a row, having toppled the homegrown Holden Commodore in 2011 after its record 15-year winning streak.
But in a further blow to the Commodore, in 2012 it was knocked off the podium by the Toyota Corolla.
Both the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore posted their lowest sales in the history of their respective nameplates; the Commodore dropping below 1983 levels, when Bob Hawke was elected as prime minister, and the Falcon dropping to below levels when the model was introduced in 1960.
Buyers bought a record number of SUVs – sales were up 25 per cent and the cars that were once the scourge of the suburbs now represent more than one-in-four new cars sold.
Driven by the mining boom, sales of utes and vans also hit record highs – up 12.5 per cent they represent one in five new cars sold.
Showing our changing tastes, regular passenger cars represent 52 per cent of new-vehicle sales, down from 76 per cent 20 years ago.
New-car affordability (thanks to the strong Australian dollar and low interest rates) in the most competitive market in the world helped drive the record result.
There are now 67 brands on sale in Australia, with a market size of 1.1 million. In North America, 38 brands compete in a market of approximately 12 million sales.
Toyota was the biggest-selling brand for the 10th year in a row, but its tally of 218,176 sales is still less than its all-time record of 238,983 set in 2008.
Holden managed to hang on to second spot despite posting its lowest sales in 19 years. Holden delivered 114,665 cars in 2012, the first time it has fallen below the 1994 tally of 118,808 sales set in 1994.
The big movers were Mazda and Hyundai, both of which squeezed Ford off the podium for the first time since the blue oval badge was established locally in 1925.
Pushed back to fifth place, it was Ford's seventh straight year of sales decline despite an aggressive sales push in December which saw low interest rate offers on discounted drive-away prices.
Although the mining sector says it has fallen on tough times, sales growth was strongest in the resources states.
Sales of new vehicles in the Northern Territory and Western Australia were up by more than 16 per cent, and Queensland was up by 11 per cent.
The increase in sales in South Australia, NSW and Victoria was slightly lower than the national average (8.3, 8.5 and 9.5 per cent respectively).
But NSW was still by far the largest new-car market, with 341,211 deliveries ahead of Victoria (293,778) and Queensland (235,025).
This reporter is on Twitter: @JoshuaDowling
Top 10 cars in December
- Mazda3 4649 (record)
- Toyota Camry 3586
- Toyota Corolla 3543
- Toyota HiLux 3120
- Nissan Navara 2691
- Hyundai i30 2250
- Holden Commodore 2198
- Toyota Yaris 1948
- Ford Focus 1915
- Holden Cruze 1904
Top 10 cars in 2012
- Mazda3 44,128 (record)
- Toyota HiLux 40,646
- Toyota Corolla 38,799
- Holden Commodore 30,532
- Holden Cruze 29,161
- Hyundai i30 28,348
- Toyota Camry 27,230
- Nissan Navara 26,045
- Toyota Yaris 18,808
- Ford Focus 18,586
Top 10 brands in 2012
- Toyota 218,177
- Holden 114,665
- Mazda 103,886 (record)
- Hyundai 91,536 (record)
- Ford 90,408
- Nissan 79,747 (record)
- Mitsubishi 58,868
- Volkswagen 54,835 (record)
- Subaru 40,189 (record)
- Honda 35,812
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new state investment program that's offering Ohio school districts, cities and libraries higher yields and easier access to their invested income has surpassed the $1 billion mark, the state treasurer said Tuesday.
Crossing that threshold is evidence that the STAR Plus program has soared in popularity since its inception in June, Republican Treasurer Josh Mandel said. He said it's attracted 320 government accountholders from around the state.
Many local officials were concerned that the traditional investment program, in place since 1985, was not producing results they wanted "to help fund the education of our kids, cops and firefighters to keep our streets safe, and services for our senior citizens," Mandel said.
Unlike STAR Ohio, which is a local government investment pool, STAR Plus is a bank deposit program backed by the federal government. State lawmakers unanimously authorized the first-of-its-kind program in 2011.
Mandel said the public investment fund offers the same flexibility to access cash as some private-sector investment programs while securing public cash deposits through carefully screened, federally insured banks. He hopes it will become a model for other states.
"We believe we're the first state in the country that's using the concept for local governments," he said. "It's important to note that this isn't happening in a vacuum. It's happening at a time when local government funds are being cut and local governments and schools are really struggling. And so we think it's coming at a good time for the state and the country."
The program drives more public deposits to community banks, which are the drivers behind many small-business loans. Thirty are now participating in STAR Plus, Mandel said.
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Mandel said the highly rated STAR Ohio, begun under Democratic State Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow, is still going strong, and will continue. Its assets stand at $3.25 billion.


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Vienna, 7 November 2012 - Austria's development cooperation has always been based on a three-year programme. "With the new three-year programme, a real multi-annual strategy has been laid down for the first time", State Secretary Lopatka explained. "This is going to significantly improve the planning of our development cooperation."
Another innovative step is a mission statement that has been defined for the three-year programme and beyond. "All public actors in development cooperation, i.e. ministries, the Austrian Parliament, social partners, NGOs, businesses, and scientific institutions, have developed this mission statement in the course of a one-year discussion process ", Lopatka said. The three-year programme is presented on the occasion of the Development Policy jour fixe of the Foreign Ministry today.
"Development policy is part of the general policy we pursue; we want to bundle the interests of Austria." With this in mind, the three-year programme will in future also take account of Austria's economic interests in addition to the development and foreign policy objectives. "Businesses as the drivers of development and as political forces are central stakeholders in international cooperation", the State Secretary said. "The most recent report of the World Bank says that eight out of ten jobs in developing countries are created by the private sector."
"Our focus is on the special priority issues where Austria is able to contribute particular expertise", Lopatka continued. "These include the areas of water, energy, food security, matters of human safety and human rights." This is the only way for Austria to flesh out its profile as a donor in future and to benefit from comparative advantages. Austria's commitment is always oriented along the priorities of the partnering countries and the requirements of the people.
Austrian Development Cooperation is also proving its expertise in the Indirect Centralised Management, ICM. The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is one of more than 20 European agencies that have been accredited and is now successfully employing some 60 million euros on behalf of the EU in partner countries. State Secretary Lopatka: "We aim for a further increase of these funds and have already contacted EU Commissioner Piebalgs in this matter." Austria has also successfully established itself in terms of project financing. To date, the Austrian Development Bank OeEB has concluded contracts for about 100 projects; Austrian companies are involved in nearly fifty percent of all financing projects. With ADA and OeEB, Austria can avail itself of two bodies to strengthen bilateral development cooperation.
As in 2012, the ADA will have some 77 million euros available for development cooperation in 2013. Curtailments as demanded in all other departments were successfully averted. Due to the debt relief for Sudan, the public development spending quota will increase to 0.41% with 1.36 billion euros. "We are still far from our objective of reaching 0.7%", Lopatka said. "It must also be said, however, that only four of the 27 EU member states have already reached this goal. The quality of development cooperation is good as has been confirmed only recently by Talaat Abdel-Malek, former chairman of the working group for effective development cooperation in the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD", Lopatka concluded.
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Smashin' The Homie: A Gallery Of Hollyweird Friends Or Family Who Got It Poppin' With The Same People
Celebrity Friends Or Family Who Slept With The Same People
It's a small world. And no one knows the reality of this better than people in Hollyweird.
While it might seem like there's plenty of fish in the land of the limelight to choose from in terms of dating, some celebs just can't manage to steer clear of the people who are off limits by default.
Six degrees of separation is more like one for these high paid peen and panty pandering peeps, cause they have just as much in common between the sheets as they do in public.
Jermaine Jackson and Randy Jackson
Not only did these two brothers date the same chick, they also both have children by her.
Trey Songz and Lil Wayne
These two have done more than a few songs together, in addition to the fact that Trey is good friends with Weezy's right hand man Drake. Lauren London has a baby by Weezy and Trey finally admitted earlier this year that he chopped down her caramel cakes at some point in their "friendship."
Denise Richards and Heather Locklear
Denise allegedly started gettin' her sideline swerve on with BFF Heather's husband Richie Sambora while they were still married.
Tami and Evelyn
Tami and Evelyn might be butt buddies now, but Ev dropped a bombshell on her frenemy before they became friends when she revealed that she'd had an affair with Tammi's husband back when they were still married.
Karrueche and Draya Michele
Hard to tell whether or not these two became friends before or AFTER Kae got with Breezy, but they're certainly friends with a whole lot in common now.
Nick Cannon and Nick Lachey
These two Hollyweird homies are both rumored to have smashed Kim Kardashian's colossal cakes to smithereens once upon a time.
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LeBron James and Delonte West
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He was born July 6, 1934, at Hector, to Troy Franklin and Elpha Alice Duck Epperson. Ray was a truck driver and worked for Bibler Lumber Company for 42 years before retirement. He loved to hunt and fish. In retirement, he and Anna Belle spent their time hunting, fishing, camping and enjoying their family. This coming March will be 62 wonderful years together. When Ray was not working, it was extremely rare to see Ray without Anna Belle by his side. He was a member of the Rock Springs Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Kerry Dean Epperson, age 5 months; a twin sister, Floy Mae Blanchard; and two sisters, Lucille Morris and Lorene Bryce.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Anna Belle Epperson; a son and daughter-in-law, Terry and Janice Epperson of Hector; a daughter and son-in-law, Ranee and Nick Yarber of Hector; four grandchildren and their spouses, Amber and Toby Havens of Sherwood, Clint and Kim Yarber of Hector, Casey Yarber of Hector, and Brianna Epperson of Hector; and six great-grandchildren, Keeli, Gus and Isla Belle Havens, Caleigh Jo Yarber, Ricky Liebich and Kourtney Clayton.
The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at the Rock Springs Church, officiated by the Rev. Troy Coffman and the Rev. Larry Don Smith. Burial will be in Rock Springs Cemetery, by Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville.
Active pallbearers will be Clint Yarber, Casey Yarber, Billy Joe Crouch, Toby Havens, Tim Dover and Donald Kinslow.
Honorary pallbearers will be James Coffman and all of the past and present Bibler Lumber Company employees.
The family will receive friends from 5-6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Western Arkansas Chapter, 2408 South 51st Street, Suite F, Fort Smith, AR 72903.
The online obituary and guestbook are available at www.shinnfuneral.com.


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The New England Patriots look like they're planning on not having wide receiver Wes Welker as part of their offense beyond 2012. Looking back at Sunday's 34-13 win over the Tennessee Titans, ESPNBoston.com reports that Welker was spelled by fellow slot target Julian Edelman on 24 of the team's 67 offensive snaps.
The result was Welker's paltry output of just three catches for 14 yards. Tom Brady looked more often to new outside receiver Brandon Lloyd. Tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez (a touchdown each) were heavily involved in the passing game as usual.
New England also rediscovered a consistent running game with second-year back Stevan Ridley carrying the load.
Welker signed his franchise tender at $9.5 million for this season, but there are doubts whether the Patriots will want to sign the 32-year-old long-term when he becomes a free agent next year, despite the prolific production he's given them over the years.
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Pennsylvania Police Probe Alleged Horse Poisonings
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Pennsylvania law enforcement authorities are hoping the public can help unravel a mystery surrounding the alleged poisoning deaths of nine horses in two of that state's counties.
Lower Windsor Township Police Chief Tim Caldwell said that at 7 a.m. on March 22, his department received a 911 call from a man who reported that four horses at Allimax Farm had been poisoned. The caller identified himself as Joseph Meyer, the horses' owner, the owner of Allimax Farm, and a Morgan horse breeder, Caldwell said. Police personnel responded to the farm and discovered the dead horses' carcasses lying in a field, Caldwell said, but Meyer was not at the property.
"He said he was on route to Harrisburg," Caldwell said. "Since then, all we've been able to do is leave business cards at the farm."
On March 29, a man identifying himself as Joseph Meyer of Allimax Farm, appeared in a video posted on YouTube. In the video, Meyer says that a total of nine of his horses were poisoned in York and Lancaster counties. Meyer alleged that the poisonings were done by animal welfare activists, and that he and his family fled the farm for their own safety.
"Animal rights activists have been ganging up on my business because they don't believe horses should be used for work," Meyer said. "My family was threatened and we went to a safe place."
In the video Meyer also alleged that whoever was responsible for the poisonings specifically targeted the horses used for breeding and riding at the farm.
"Whoever did this knew me and knew my operation," Meyer said. "This was no accident."
Meyer was unavailable for comment; calls to the telephone number listed on the Allimax Farm website were answered by a recording which said that the person connected to the number "was not accepting phone calls at this time."
Caldwell said that one of the allegedly poisoned horses was taken to a state laboratory near Harrisburg for necropsy. The cause of the horse's death remains uncertain, he said
"We're still waiting for some tissue sample analysis results," Caldwell said.
But the cause of the horse's death is just part of the mystery connected to the case, Caldwell said Police are not even sure that the caller and the man in the video are, in fact, Joseph Meyer.
"It looks like Meyer (in the video), but it wouldn't be the first time someone looked like somebody else," Caldwell said. "And anyone can make a phone call."
Caldwell said that police personnel continue to investigate the circumstances connected to the alleged poisonings. Anyone with information about the case should call the Lower Windsor Township Police at 717/244-8055.
"There are a lot of questions about this case that need to be asked and answered," Caldwell said.
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i just use the gps from my car on the bike when i need one.
i just stick it on with a bit of velcro.
thing is, i cant't hear the voice very well.
it does not have an audio output plug.
so this 65 year old low tech type of guy wants to know,
is there a simple cheap way to get gps audio to a speaker in my helmet if i put one in there?
not interested in music or phone. could do without a lot of wires also,
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Having a highly ranked recruiting class and a bunch of four-star signees sounds good in the spring and summer, but it's a different story when the season begins. The freshmen who are game-ready are the ones who get the playing time, no matter their star rating. Here's a look at the five Big 12 schools getting the most from their true freshmen:
1. Texas Tech: The Red Raiders practically earn this top spot by default by relying on two true freshmen at quarterback. Baker Mayfield made a big first impression, but it seems the battle is opening back up after two solid games from freshman Davis Webb, and the imminent return of Michael Brewer. Still, going 4-0 with two rookies behind center makes coach Kliff Kingsbury's bunch a worthy No. 1 on this list.
Tech has played eight other true freshmen in 2013, and a few are making solid contributions. Receiver Dylan Cantrell has six catches for 56 yards, linebacker Malik Jenkins has recorded five tackles and a pass breakup and receiver Carlos Thompson already has a 73-yard kick return and 35-yard punt return.
2. Oklahoma: Is it possible Oklahoma's best running back is its fourth-string freshman? Keith Ford, the gem of the Sooners' class, has rushed for 66 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries and wowed in OU's last game against Tulsa.
Fellow freshman Stanvon Taylor earned his first career start against Tulsa, and he's one of several newcomers contributing in the secondary along with Hatari Byrd, Ahmad Thomas, L.J. Moore and Dakota Austin. Linebacker Dominique Alexander has also chipped in six tackles through three games.
3. West Virginia: Of all the new skill players who joined West Virginia's offense this year, who would've expected Daikiel Shorts would be the Mountaineers' leading receiver and Wendell Smallwood would be their No. 2 back? Shorts has 12 catches for 151 yards and two touchdowns, and Smallwood has 139 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries thus far.
A total of seven true freshmen have played for WVU this season, and four of them are defensive backs. Corner Daryl Worley is off to a nice start with six tackles, a tackle for loss and a pass breakup.
4. Oklahoma State: Many expected Ra'Shaad Samples to be OSU's breakout true freshman receiver, but so far that distinction belongs to Marcell Ateman. He has hauled in eight passes for 92 yards, good for fourth-best on the team.
Freshman kicker Ben Grogan has hit all 19 of his extra-point attempts and is 1-for-2 on field goals, and defensive backs Jordan Sterns and Deric Robertson have combined for eight tackles this season.
5. Baylor: Baylor might have two of the conference's most talented true freshmen in receiver Robbie Rhodes and defensive tackle Andrew Billings, but they haven't had to do much so far. Rhodes has 65 receiving yards and Billings has recorded three tackles, including one tackle for loss. Kiante' Griffin is also contributing at linebacker with three tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss.
TCU can also make a case for the No. 5 spot. The Frogs don't have a Devonte Fields-caliber breakout star yet, but receiver Ty Slanina has two reception and is currently listed as a starter, and former ESPN 300 prospect Tevin Lawson is breaking into the rotation at defensive tackle with two stops already.


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Game from yesterday in the Lithuanian League Playoffs
JUST SKIP TOO 1:00 mark!
Other than the nasty dunk you see him always fighting down low for position on the offensive class. The kid has a motor and a nose for the ball(Just like ED). You put Ed Davis and Jonas V. in the front court you get extra possessions and great rim protecting. The team with the most possession usually win the the game. I know what your saying that's too skinny of a front court. That's why you sign a veteran center with girth at chip price(Jamal Magloire, Jason Collins, Kwame Brown, Narz Mohamed, Ryan Hollins, Dan Gadzuric all free agents serve able and chip). I really don't care if we can get scoring from the Center position but, a defense and rebounding presence are more important out of that Center position. That's why favor Jonas he has more of a defensive upside than Enes but, this has the upside to be a offensive threat.
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I got love for Enes Kanter too though. Read up on this article and watch the video to know the full story about the mysterious Big Man from Turkey.
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i think Leonard is exactly what the raps need when it comes to defence, rebounding, scoring, and toughness at the wing. I am not sure if i would take kanter or even irving given the choice. all depends on where we fall in the lottery. Leonard is the best player that is being overlooked
Just a note on rebounding, I want a good rebounding center like everyone else, but more possessions don't necessarily garner more wins.
If I'm not mistaken the best rebounding team last year was Minnesota, how did that turn out for them?
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More possessions doesn't necessarily garner more wins. More made shots doesn't necessarily garner more wins. More opponent missed shots doesn't necessarily garner more wins. I'm not sure what your point is really when there's not one thing that necessarily means more wins.
But if you look at the top 15 teams in defensive rebounding rate and compare them to the bottom 15 teams in the same, you'll notice that 11 of the 16 playoff teams are in the top 15. It should be pretty clear that preventing your opponent from getting offensive boards (and thus, easy points) has a pretty big effect on keeping your opponent from scoring, which also has a pretty big effect on winning.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, 11 of the 16 playoff teams were also in the top 15 in offensive rebounding rate as well.
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