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Acupuncture (PDQ®)NCI PDQ Summaries for Patients
Questions and Answers About Acupuncture
Current Clinical Trials
About This PDQ Summary
General CAM Information
Evaluation of CAM Approaches
Questions to Ask Your Health Care Provider About CAM
To Learn More About CAM
- Acupuncture applies needles, heat, pressure, and other treatments to one or more places on the skin known as acupuncture points (see Question 1).
- Acupuncture has been used in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years as part of traditional Chinese medicine (see Question 2).
- Acupuncture has been used in the United States for about 200 years (see Question 2).
- Acupuncture is used to treat many illnesses and ailments and in cancer patients. Patients use it to control pain and to relieve nausea and vomiting, fatigue, hot flashes, xerostomia, neuropathy, anxiety, depression, and sleeping problems. (see Question 2).
- Acupuncture may work by causing physical responses in nerve cells, the pituitary gland, and parts of the brain, affecting blood pressure and body temperature (see Question 4).
- Laboratory and animal studies of acupuncture for cancer treatment suggest acupuncture may also help the immune system be stronger during chemotherapy (see Question 7).
- The strongest evidence of the effect of acupuncture has come from clinical trials on the use of acupuncture to relieve nausea and vomiting, but acupuncture appears to be more effective in preventing vomiting than in reducing nausea (see Question 8).
- It is important that acupuncture treatment be given by a qualified practitioner who uses a new set of disposable (single-use) needles for each patient (see Question 9).
Questions and Answers About Acupuncture
What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture applies needles, heat, pressure, and other treatments to certain places on the skin, called acupuncture points (or acupoints), to cause a change in the physical functions of the body. The use of acupuncture is part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM is a medical system that has been used for thousands of years to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
Acupuncture is based on the belief that qi (vital energy) flows through the body along a network of paths, called meridians. Qi is said to affect a person's spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical condition. According to TCM, qi has two forces, yin and yang. Yin and yang are opposite forces that work together to form a whole. The forces of yin and yang depend on each other and are made from each other in an unending cycle, such as hot and cold, day and night, and health and disease. Nothing is ever all yin or all yang, both exist in all things, including people. Many of the major organs of the body are believed to be yin-yang pairs that must be in balance to be healthy. When a person's yin and yang are not in balance, qi can become blocked. Blocked qi causes pain, illness, or other health problems. TCM uses acupuncture, diet, herbal therapy, meditation, physical exercise, and massage to restore health by unblocking qi and correcting the balance of yin and yang within the person.
Most acupuncturists in the United States practice acupuncture according to the traditions of Chinese medicine. However, there are other types of acupuncture, including some used for medical treatment, that have different theories about meridians and acupoint locations.
What is the history of the discovery and use of acupuncture as a complementary treatment for cancer?
The oldest known medical book in China (second century BC) describes the use of needles to treat medical problems. The use of the treatment spread to other Asian countries and to other regions of the world, including to Europe by the 1700s. In the United States, acupuncture has been used for about 200 years.
Research on acupuncture began in the United States in 1976. Twenty years later, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the acupuncture needle as a medical device. Many illnesses are treated with acupuncture. In cancer treatment, its main use is to control symptoms, including the following:
- Pain.
- Fatigue.
- Nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.
- Weight loss.
- Anxiety.
- Depression.
- Insomnia.
- Poor appetite.
- Dry mouth.
- Hot flashes.
- Nerve problems.
- Constipation and diarrhea.
- Failure of gastrointestinal (GI) muscles to move food through the GI tract following surgery.
For cancer patients, acupuncture is used as complementary therapy, which is treatment given in addition to conventional (standard) therapy.
What is the theory behind the claim that acupuncture is useful in treating cancer?
According to TCM, qi can be unblocked by using acupuncture at certain places on the skin, called acupoints. Acupoints are places where the meridians come to the surface of the body. There are more than 360 acupoints on the human body, with specific acupoints for each condition being treated.
What physical effects may acupuncture have when used in cancer patients?
Acupuncture may cause physical responses in nerve cells, the pituitary gland, and parts of the brain. These responses can cause the body to release proteins, hormones, and brain chemicals that control a number of body functions. It is proposed that, in this way, acupuncture affects blood pressure and body temperature, boosts immune system activity, and causes the body's natural painkillers, such as endorphins, to be released.
How is acupuncture administered?
The acupuncture method most well-known uses needles. Disposable, stainless steel needles that are slightly thicker than a human hair are inserted into the skin at acupoints. The acupuncture practitioner determines the correct acupoints to use for the problem being treated. The inserted needles may be twirled, moved up and down at different speeds and depths, heated, or charged with a weak electric current. There are other acupuncture methods that do not use needles.
Some acupuncture techniques include the following:
- Auricular acupuncture: The placing of acupuncture needles at acupoints on the outer ear that match up with certain parts of the body.
- Electroacupuncture: A procedure in which pulses of weak electrical current are sent through acupuncture needles into acupoints in the skin.
- Trigger point acupuncture: The placing of acupuncture needles in a place on the skin that is away from the painful part of the body. Trigger points have to do with referred pain, pain that is not felt at the site of injury, but is sent along nerves and felt elsewhere in the body.
- Laser acupuncture: The use of a weak laser beam instead of an acupuncture needle to stimulate an acupoint.
- Acupuncture point injection: The use of a syringe and needle to inject drugs, vitamins, herbal extracts, or other fluids into the body at an acupoint.
- Microwave acupuncture: The use of a microwave device attached to an acupuncture needle to deliver microwave radiation to an acupoint.
- Acupressure: A type of massage therapy in which the fingers are used to press on an acupoint. In cancer patients, acupressure has been used to control symptoms such as pain or nausea and vomiting.
- Moxibustion: A type of heat therapy in which an herb is burned above the body to warm a meridian at an acupoint and increase the flow of blood and qi. The herb may be placed directly on the skin, held close to the skin for several minutes, or placed on the tip of an acupuncture needle. Heat lamps may also be used to warm the acupoints.
- Cupping: A procedure in which a rounded glass cup is warmed and placed upside down over an area of the body, making a vacuum that holds the cup to the skin. Cupping is used to increase the flow of blood and qi. It is believed to open up the skin's pores and allow toxins to leave the body.
What do patients feel during acupuncture?
Patients may have a needling feeling during acupuncture, known as de qi sensation, making them feel heaviness, numbness, or tingling.
Have any preclinical (laboratory or animal) studies been conducted using acupuncture?
Scientific studies on the use of acupuncture to treat cancer and side effects of cancer began only recently. Laboratory and animal studies suggest that acupuncture can reduce vomiting caused by chemotherapy and may help the immune system be stronger during chemotherapy. Animal studies support the use of electroacupuncture to relieve cancer pain. Laboratory and animal studies have also looked at how acupuncture works for cancer treatment, such as the role of acupuncture in stimulating nerve cells that trigger the release of hormones into the blood and immune functions, including increasing blood cell count and enhancing lymphocyte and natural killer cell activity.
Have any clinical trials (research studies with people) of acupuncture been conducted?
In 1997, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began evaluating the safety and effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary therapy for relieving cancer-related symptoms and side effects of cancer treatments.
Studies of acupuncture in cancer care also have been done in China and other countries, including England, France, Australia, Japan, and Sweden.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on the immune system
Human studies on the effect of acupuncture on the immune system have been done and suggest that acupuncture may improve immune response.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on pain
In clinical studies, acupuncture reduced the amount of cancer pain in some patients. In one study, most of the patients treated with acupuncture were able to stop taking drugs for pain relief or to take smaller doses. The findings from these studies are not considered strong, however, because of weaknesses in study design and size. Studies using strict scientific methods are needed to prove how acupuncture affects pain.
In four of five randomized clinical trials on pain after surgery, acupuncture reduced the pain. The studies included small numbers of patients and unknown additional treatments, and there was no placebo treatment in some of them. More trials are needed to answer all questions.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on muscle and joint pain from aromatase inhibitors
Aromatase inhibitors, a type of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women who have hormone-dependent breast cancer, may cause muscle and joint pain.
Studies of acupuncture for pain caused by aromatase inhibitors include the following:
- Four randomized controlled trials compared the effects of real and sham acupuncture in reducing these symptoms. In sham acupuncture, needles do not go as deep and are not used at the same points on the body. All four trials showed no side effects from either real acupuncture or sham acupuncture. One trial showed real acupuncture was much better than sham acupuncture in relieving joint and muscle pain, but the other three trials did not show that. In one of the studies, patients receiving real acupuncture had more pain relief than a control group of patients who were waiting to receive treatment later.
- An observational study showed that acupuncture is safe, patients are helped by both real and sham acupuncture, and both real acupuncture and sham acupuncture may relieve pain more than standard care.
- A review of 17,922 patients reported that real acupuncture relieved pain much better than sham acupuncture.
An ongoing randomized clinical trial of 228 patients is comparing real acupuncture, sham acupuncture, and standard care in breast cancer survivors with muscle and joint pain from aromatase inhibitors.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on nausea and vomiting caused by cancer therapies
The strongest evidence of the effect of acupuncture has come from clinical trials on the use of acupuncture to relieve nausea and vomiting.
Nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, surgery, and morning sickness:
- A 2013 review that included 41 randomized controlled trials found that acupuncture was helpful as a complementary treatment for nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.
- Another review, of 11 randomized clinical trials published between 1987 and 2003, found that fewer chemotherapy patients in the acupuncture groups had vomiting. Not all of the studies had a sham acupuncture group as a control.
- A comparison of studies suggests that the specific acupuncture point used may make a difference in how well acupuncture works to relieve nausea caused by chemotherapy.
Nausea and vomiting caused by radiation therapy:
- Patients who received either true acupuncture or sham acupuncture were compared to patients who received only standard care to prevent nausea and vomiting. The study found that patients in both the true and sham acupuncture groups had less nausea and vomiting than those in the standard care group.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on hot flashes in patients treated for cancer
Hormone therapy may cause hot flashes in women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer.
- Six randomized clinical trials studied the use of acupuncture to prevent hot flashes in breast cancer survivors. These trials found that acupuncture was safe and decreased hot flashes significantly. It was not clear in these trials whether real acupuncture works better than sham acupuncture.
- A 2015 randomized trial of electroacupuncture in breast cancer survivors with hot flashes had four groups for treatment: electroacupuncture, sham acupuncture, medicine, and a placebo. The trial looked at how well sham acupuncture worked compared to the placebo and also compared hot flash relief in all groups. The study found that sham acupuncture worked much better than the medicine or the placebo, and both electroacupuncture and sham acupuncture gave longer-lasting relief than the medicine did.
- Some studies have reported that acupuncture may relieve hot flashes in prostate cancer patients on androgen-deprivation therapy.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on fatigue in patients treated for cancer
Fatigue is a common symptom in patients with cancer and a frequent side effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- Several randomized clinical trials have studied the use of acupuncture in reducing cancer-related fatigue. These trials found that acupuncture significantly improved fatigue when compared to standard care alone. It is not clear whether real acupuncture works better than sham acupuncture.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on xerostomia (dry mouth) in patients treated for cancer
Several clinical trials have been done to study the effect of acupuncture in the treatment and prevention of xerostomia (dry mouth) caused by radiation therapy given to patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck cancer.
- Two studies compared acupuncture with standard care for preventing xerostomia in patients being treated with radiation therapy. The studies found that patients treated with acupuncture during radiation therapy had fewer symptoms and increased saliva flow.
- In studies that compared acupuncture to standard care for treating xerostomia caused by radiation therapy, acupuncture improved xerostomia symptoms better than standard care.
- Two randomized controlled trials compared real and sham acupuncture for the prevention and treatment of xerostomia. These trials found that both real and sham acupuncture increased the flow of saliva.
- A prevention study compared acupuncture to standard care for xerostomia and found that patients treated with acupuncture reported fewer symptoms and had better saliva flow than the standard care group.
- A study on the long-term effects of acupuncture on xerostomia found that patients had better salivary flow at 6 months compared to before treatment. Patients who received additional acupuncture had increased saliva flow at 3 years compared to patients who did not continue acupuncture treatment.
Other trials are ongoing.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on peripheral neuropathy caused by anticancer drugs
Peripheral neuropathy is a nerve problem that causes pain, numbness, tingling, swelling, or muscle weakness in different parts of the body. It usually begins in the hands or feet and gets worse over time. Peripheral neuropathy may be caused by chemotherapy or other treatments or conditions. It can become serious enough that cancer treatment has to be reduced or stopped. If left untreated, it can disable the patient and lower the quality of life.
Several small studies have been done on the use of acupuncture in treating peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy or other anticancer drugs. Most of these studies found acupuncture decreased pain and improved nerve function. A randomized controlled trial, however, found that acupuncture did not work better than a placebo. Larger randomized controlled trials are needed.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on lymphedema in breast-cancer patients
Lymphedema is a condition in which lymph fluid builds up in tissues and causes swelling. It may occur in an arm or leg if lymph vessels are blocked, damaged, or removed by surgery. Lymphedema is a lifelong concern for many breast cancer patients.
There have been a number of case reports and studies that show acupuncture is safe and may decrease swelling and relieve symptoms in patients with lymphedema in the arms and legs. In one randomized clinical trial, acupuncture was found to keep lymphedema from getting worse but did not decrease swelling or symptoms. More studies are needed.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on ileus caused by cancer surgery
After cancer surgery, some patients develop ileus, the failure of gastrointestinal (GI) muscles to move food through the GI tract. Three randomized clinical trials studied acupuncture for this condition and had different findings:
- A trial that compared acupuncture to standard care reported that acupuncture was not effective.
- A trial that compared real and sham acupuncture found no difference between the two.
- A trial that compared real acupuncture, sham acupuncture, and no acupuncture found that real acupuncture shortened the length of time ileus lasted.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on sleeping problems
A study that compared acupuncture with the drug fluoxetine (used to treat depression) found that acupuncture worked better in relieving depression and improving sleep. Another study found that acupuncture improved sleep slightly better than standard care. More studies are needed.
Studies of the effect of acupuncture on other symptoms of cancer and side effects of cancer treatment
The aim of most acupuncture clinical observation and clinical trials in cancer patients has been to study the effects of acupuncture on cancer symptoms and side effects caused by cancer treatment, including weight loss, cough, coughing up blood, fever, anxiety, depression, proctitis, speech problems, blocked esophagus, and hiccups. Studies have shown that, for many patients, treatment with acupuncture either relieves symptoms or keeps them from getting worse.
Have any side effects or risks been reported from acupuncture?
There have been few complications reported. Problems are caused by using needles that are not sterile (free of germs) and from placing the needle in the wrong place, movement of the patient, or a defect in the needle. Problems include soreness and pain during treatment; feeling tired, lightheaded, or sleepy; and infections. Because chemotherapy and radiation therapy weaken the body's immune system, a strict clean needle method must be used when acupuncture treatment is given to cancer patients. It is important to seek treatment from a qualified acupuncture practitioner who uses a new set of disposable (single-use) needles for each patient.
Is acupuncture approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?
The FDA approved acupuncture needles for use by licensed practitioners in 1996. The FDA requires that sterile, nontoxic needles be used and that they be labeled for single use by qualified practitioners only.
More than 40 states and the District of Columbia have laws regulating acupuncture practice. The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (www.nccaom.org) certifies practitioners of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Most states require this certification.
Current Clinical Trials
Check the list of NCI-supported cancer clinical trials for integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies clinical trials on acupuncture therapy, acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, electroacupuncture therapy and acupressure therapy that are actively enrolling patients.
General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI website.
About This PDQ Summary
About PDQ
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Purpose of This Summary
This PDQ cancer information summary has current information about the use of acupuncture in the treatment of people with cancer. It is meant to inform and help patients, families, and caregivers. It does not give formal guidelines or recommendations for making decisions about health care.
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The information in this patient summary was taken from the health professional version, which is reviewed regularly and updated as needed, by the PDQ Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies Editorial Board.
Clinical Trial Information
A clinical trial is a study to answer a scientific question, such as whether one treatment is better than another. Trials are based on past studies and what has been learned in the laboratory. Each trial answers certain scientific questions in order to find new and better ways to help cancer patients. During treatment clinical trials, information is collected about the effects of a new treatment and how well it works. If a clinical trial shows that a new treatment is better than one currently being used, the new treatment may become "standard." Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
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General CAM Information
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—also referred to as integrative medicine—includes a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies. A therapy is generally called complementary when it is used in addition to conventional treatments; it is often called alternative when it is used instead of conventional treatment. (Conventional treatments are those that are widely accepted and practiced by the mainstream medical community.) Depending on how they are used, some therapies can be considered either complementary or alternative. Complementary and alternative therapies are used in an effort to prevent illness, reduce stress, prevent or reduce side effects and symptoms, or control or cure disease.
Unlike conventional treatments for cancer, complementary and alternative therapies are often not covered by insurance companies. Patients should check with their insurance provider to find out about coverage for complementary and alternative therapies.
Cancer patients considering complementary and alternative therapies should discuss this decision with their doctor, nurse, or pharmacist as they would any therapeutic approach, because some complementary and alternative therapies may interfere with their standard treatment or may be harmful when used with conventional treatment.
Evaluation of CAM Approaches
It is important that the same rigorous scientific evaluation used to assess conventional approaches be used to evaluate CAM therapies. The National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) are sponsoring a number of clinical trials (research studies) at medical centers to evaluate CAM therapies for cancer.
Conventional approaches to cancer treatment have generally been studied for safety and effectiveness through a rigorous scientific process that includes clinical trials with large numbers of patients. Less is known about the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative methods. Few CAM therapies have undergone rigorous evaluation. A small number of CAM therapies originally considered to be purely alternative approaches are finding a place in cancer treatment—not as cures, but as complementary therapies that may help patients feel better and recover faster. One example is acupuncture. According to a panel of experts at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) meeting in November 1997, acupuncture has been found to be effective in the management of chemotherapy-associated nausea and vomiting and in controlling pain associated with surgery. In contrast, some approaches, such as the use of laetrile, have been studied and found ineffective or potentially harmful.
The NCI Best Case Series Program which was started in 1991, is one way CAM approaches that are being used in practice are being investigated. The program is overseen by the NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM). Health care professionals who offer alternative cancer therapies submit their patients' medical records and related materials to OCCAM. OCCAM conducts a critical review of the materials and develops follow-up research strategies for approaches deemed to warrant NCI-initiated research.
Questions to Ask Your Health Care Provider About CAM
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- What side effects can be expected?
- What are the risks associated with this therapy?
- Do the known benefits outweigh the risks?
- What benefits can be expected from this therapy?
- Will the therapy interfere with conventional treatment?
- Is this therapy part of a clinical trial?
- If so, who is sponsoring the trial?
- Will the therapy be covered by health insurance?
To Learn More About CAM
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilitates research and evaluation of complementary and alternative practices, and provides information about a variety of approaches to health professionals and the public.
- NCCIH Clearinghouse
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CAM on PubMed
NCCIH and the NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM) jointly developed CAM on PubMed, a free and easy-to-use search tool for finding CAM-related journal citations. As a subset of the NLM's PubMed bibliographic database, CAM on PubMed features more than 230,000 references and abstracts for CAM-related articles from scientific journals. This database also provides links to the websites of over 1,800 journals, allowing users to view full-text articles. (A subscription or other fee may be required to access full-text articles.)
Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The NCI Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) coordinates the activities of the NCI in the area of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). OCCAM supports CAM cancer research and provides information about cancer-related CAM to health providers and the general public via the NCI website.
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Where: Kühtai, Austria
Flo Merten: Rocker of the Week
Pic: Rasi
Around two weeks ago, eager shredheads and pro's showed up in Kühtai Autria, to enjoy a week of fun n' games. The main feature of the week, as the name suggests, was the enormous airbag type of landing cushion a.k.a, the 'Bagjump'. On this baby, one could try out any trick that came into ones feeble mind, without having to fear dire consequences. In addition, there were other fine features and obstacles, which included the perfectly groomed park, and four special 'IOU' jib features scattered throughout the nearby backcountry.
One of the secret backcountry features
Pic: Jens Anselstetter
Campers, daily visitors and anyone else for that matter, had a new chance everyday to win prizes and goodies from Zimtstern, Völkl and X-Double. What did you have to do to win? Take part in one of the few hundred different mini competitions that were going down, such as poker tournaments, a 'bagjump' best trick session, various night sessions or the XBOX360 'guitar hero' comp.
There was also a unique photo&film comp, where teams could either film or shoot photos of themselves, and their shredbuddies. Here are the links where you can check out the submitted video clips and play judge!
Völkl Team
Flash Horton&Niki Korpela
100 Clicks are equivalent to 100 views, which equal 1 judging point! Go check 'em out!Results
1. Kevin Gähn
2. Michi Stanschitz
3. Martin Rasinger
1. Flo Merten (Double Cork 1260)
2. Daniel Mösl (One-footed 720 Mute)
3. Benny Mösl (Triple Backflip Indy)
Flo Merten
More info about the 'Bagjump' here.

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The Nuggets' drive-and-kick game: They haven't solved all of their offensive execution issues in the half court, but this has been an effective cure for many of their ills – and has been a good counter to teams looking to simply plug the lane against the Nuggets and take their chances. The Nuggets just keep the ball in constant motion, probing the defense until they either get a lane to the basket or get the defense to help and leave a shooter open.
One of the Nuggets' favorite reads is a backside 3-point shooter, and when he's on the court usually that player is Arron Afflalo. An initial screen is set for a point guard, and that screen is set so the point guard drives away from the side Afflalo is on. The guard uses the screen, and as he gets into the lane looks for the cross-court pass to the open shooter on the backside of the play, whose man has collapsed into the lane for help defense. More often than not, that player gets an uncontested or lightly-contested shot. For a weak jump-shooting team like the Nuggets this action is gold because NBA players – good jump shooters or not -– can knock down open looks.
Afflalo is also the Nuggets best player at attacking closeouts. So if the defense does scramble to him, he shot fakes and drives into the lane, where he then has a read to make. If the defense is slow to collapse, he's got the green light to get to the rim or take a floater or short jump shot of some sort. If the defense walls him off, he moves the ball again, and usually that player (Danilo Gallinari/Ty Lawson/Al Harrington) has an open shot.
This is the foundation of the Nuggets offense, particularly in the last month, and has helped give them some semblance of a half court game.
Ramon Sessions vs. Ty Lawson: If the Nuggets have an advantage anywhere on the court, it's here. Lawson is the engine that makes the offense go, and he does it at lighting speed. And yet Lawson went 4-for-14 in the only matchup between the two on their current teams. But his poor shooting performance had pretty much nothing to do with Sessions' defense, which was, let's just say…barely there. The Nuggets unmercifully ran Sessions through screen after screen, testing his stamina and an injured shoulder. Lawson got good looks – he just didn't make the shots, something that probably won't happen to that degree again. If the Nuggets can get him the same looks and Sessions' defensive presence doesn't improve it would be a big series-long victory that, given Lawson immense importance to his team's fortunes, could put the Nuggets in position to steal the series.
Nuggets' second unit lob pass: This has come about over the course of the last two or three weeks. Coach George Karl's tinkering with how best to play center JaVale McGee ended when the seven-footer found immediate chemistry with Andre Miller via the lob pass. It has quickly become a staple of how the Nuggets' second unit manufactures easy buckets. It works often because Al Harrington is on the court to keep defenders honest by keeping the court spaced. A quick fake to Harrington – a 3-point threat – while McGee rolls to the bucket creates the space needed for the long-limbed center to go up and get the pass from arguably the best lob passer in the NBA.
Kenneth Faried vs. Pau Gasol: This has all the earmarks of being a nightmarish matchup for Gasol, who doesn't particularly like to expend a ton of energy on every single play. Well, Kenneth Faried does. And no matter how much of the game he's successfully boxed out by his opponent his motor never stops. Gasol, who will be matched up against him, has noticed.
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It has sometimes been claimed that for several hundred years without interruption there has always been a major poet writing in the English language Perhaps there have been some dull decades, for which the word "major" would need to be stretched a little, when the already established resources of the language were just being steadily mined, without any new discoveries being made. Mr. Auden began to publish in a decade that was very far from being poetically dull. He was almost immediately recognized as likely to prolong the necessary line into the future. We have now arrived at the future, Mr. Auden is still writing, and the continuity holds.
The mature poetry of Eliot and Yeats surrounded Mr. Auden's beginnings, nearly forty years ago, when the first bright-jacketed Faber volumes began to appear. He was an intruder with a harsh voice, and, in The Orators and elsewhere, dramatized himself as an enemy of established poetical good manners. In his Preface to the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, Yeats showed his distaste for Auden's new reductive style, like a metaphysician of that time deploring the logical positivists. There was a respectful, veiled hostility between the generations. In the Thirties every English undergraduate who cared at all for contemporary writing kept these early Auden volumes with him, because they were the living, and also lyrical, language of restlessness and dissent. One stands in a peculiarly intimate relation to a poet, and even perhaps to a philosopher, whose work develops in parallel with one's own experience. A two-way running commentary is established, and one is either grateful to the poet for expressing what needs to be expressed at the right time, or one is censorious because he has failed to rise to some occasion (unknown to him), and because he has perversely taken a path of his own and failed to understand what was expected of him.
Mr. Auden has always left his followers behind. Not least in the Preface to this carefully prepared and revised collection, he looks back to his own public history in a disclaiming spirit, with a mild and elderly gaze and with some surprise. He seems to dislike some of the ungentlemanly opinions and political prophecies in his early verse, and he has repudiated the untidy involvements of the Thirties. But having been, for good reasons, the poet laureate of one disheveled generation, at least in England, and having so far found no successor in full possession of the title, he cannot now easily slip away into an eccentric privacy even if he is no longer representative and is no longer a public voice.
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The 15 high-speed (150 to 800 strokes/min.) stamping presses at the ARaymond Tinnerman fastener-manufacturing facility in Brunswick, OH, produced 488 million pieces last year —800 part numbers stamped in lot sizes of 50,000 to 500,000. Those are big numbers, and any production hiccups can cause big problems. Until 2009, production hiccups are exactly what plagued plant manager Jim Stith and manufacturing manager Justin McCullah.
"Before ARaymond acquired this facility in 2009, we struggled to keep our outdated equipment running productively," says McCullah. "Unscheduled press-maintenance issues and an epidemic of die crashes had us working thousands of overtime hours. And we were spending thousands of dollars per week on die maintenance to recover from recurring crashes, scrambling to maintain a 97-percent on-time delivery rate."
The 15 high-speed stamping presses at ARaymond Tinnerman produced 488 million fasteners last year—800 part numbers stamped in run sizes of 50,000 to 500,000.
Almost immediately after the plant, formerly known as Tinnerman Palnut, came under the ARaymond umbrella, the top-down decision was made to bring order and clarity to its chaotic operations. The directive from ownership was to invest in technology as a long-term solution not only to cure current production woes, but to position the plant for future growth.
"We used to tell our crew on the floor, 'Just get it running,'" adds Stith. "Every setup was different; we were constantly reinventing the wheel. Now we tell them, 'Get it running right.'"
Before this renaissance, there simply was no opportunity for growth, as the cramped facility already was running three shifts/day just to keep up. Now, as a result of an aggressive campaign to upgrade its press lines as well as quicken the pace through the plant, McCullah has been able to decommission seven presses since 2009, while maintaining throughput. The extra floor space has allowed the plant to expand its shipping and receiving department, while leaving plenty of room to accommodate future growth. Further, the plant now meets its production goals working just two daily shifts. Overtime has decreased by 90 percent and die-repair costs have been cut nearly in half. With its production environment so finely tuned, the plant's focus is shifting to sales, where a recently fortified sales team is working to attract new customers in new markets. That's welcome news to McCullah and Stith, who relish the opportunity to, finally, have new customers join its solid base of existing customers.
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McCullah notes that the plant's die-protection efforts were championed by a press technician/setup person, "rather than it coming from me. He was trained by Wintriss, then came back and shared the knowledge gained with the rest of our crew. Since then, our maintenance staff has completed a more advanced class at Wintriss on diagnostics and other features of the controls."
With its new focus on press-line electronics, "any time a job goes into a press, it is not allowed to run until it has sufficient die protection," insists McCullah. "We have some 300 active dies that make our 800 different part numbers. Although a die may not run for 2 or 3 yr., when it does get scheduled for production we not only make sure it's sharpened and cleaned, we also ensure the setup includes sensors—either added to the dies when physically possible, or added to the press."
The plant's approach to integrating sensors mirrors its press-overhaul approach—everything is standardized to simplify plant-floor decisions and help avoid errors. In the middle of the pressroom sits an 8-ft.-tall shelving unit that serves as the plant's "sensor toolbox." On it, press technicians can find stock-feed sensors, ring sensors, proximity sensors and laser sensors.
Driving Plant CadenceWith more reliable equipment and controls on board and with sensors now protecting its dies, Stith and McCullah have raised the bar on throughput. And they note that the bar has not stopped rising.
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ARaymond Tinnerman has invested $50,000 per press line to make the necessary mechanical and control upgrades to bring the lines up to snuff. The return on investment comes quickly and easily when you consider a few key process improvements that have been realized:
• Die-Repair Costs—Decreased from $1.13/1000 pieces to $0.65/1000 pieces
• Overtime Hours Worked—Decreased from 5600 hr./yr. to 500 hr./yr.
• Average Run Rates—Increased from 11,000 parts/hr. through the shop to 15,000 parts/hr.
How successful is the plant at realizing the lofty goals set by McCullah and Stith? "We set management business objectives (MBOs) for every employee, hold them accountable and reward them for success," says McCullah. "In 2011 we asked our employees to reach the efficiency-improvement goals we established on 80 percent of our work orders. We upped that to 85 percent last year and 90 percent this year." Employees were rewarded for their efforts with a performance bonus in 2012.
Of course when it comes to press run rates, just cranking up press speed does not easily nor automatically translate into increased throughput. Most notably, the accompanying adjustments made to the coil-feed line represent a critical success factor. And here's where another unique capability of the Wintriss SmartPac 2 comes into play—it's called Feed Advisor.
With SmartPAC 2's Servo Feed Interface (SFI) option, available for most brands of servo feeds (including the Rapid-Air feeds that ARaymond has added to its upgraded press lines), users can program, store and automatically download feed parameters for each tool. With a programmed feed length, feed arc and press speed, the SmartPac determines whether or not the feeder can operate in the time available. It then calculates the minimum feeder acceleration rate required.
"Feed Advisor helps our press technicians and setup people by analyzing when the feed occurs relative to die closure," says McCullah. "Without this feature, we would spend countless hours on trial-and-error feed setups to match new press-speed objectives. Feed Advisor instantly provides feedback on whether or not the feed window is sufficient, or if we need to increase the window to meet the established feed velocity and acceleration profile."
Die Staging a Plant-Cadence ContributorBefore the plant began to upgrade its presses, at least one job per week would fail to start on time, launching the scramble to get up to speed to meet delivery times. That's no longer the case. "Through all of last year, only two work orders failed to start on time due to unplanned machine downtime," says McCullah.
As the shop has become leaner and meaner, with no excuses accepted for not starting and completing production runs on time, plenty of attention has steered toward reducing changeover times. And as lot sizes have dropped in the last few years, the frequency of setups performed has doubled; setups can average 3-4 hr. This includes time to tool up a die, as well as sharpen punches and perform other maintenance tasks. To quicken the pace, 2 years ago McCullah and Stith instituted a pre-changeover team.
"We've shifted five people into proactive setup roles on the floor," says McCullah. The extra labor became available as the additional use of die protection has allowed one press operator to now cover four or five presses, compared to two or three presses before. "This pre-changeover team uses our production schedule to prestage dies to help minimize changeover time. About 65 percent of our dies are prestaged, with the goal being 80 percent."
Also helping to minimize changeover times is standardizing on sensor setups at the press. While developing a sensor strategy on its existing dies the first time around can take 2-3 hr., once a die-protection strategy has been developed, the technician documents the approach. This speeds the die-protection portion of the overall setup job the next time the die enters production.
All of these moves have added up to a 50-percent reduction in setup times, and McCullah expects at least another 50 percent reduction to come soon. He notes that while setup time might not have been such a critical measurable a few years ago, when run size regularly topped 500,000 pieces, today "we're operating more like a job shop. The goal is to have no excess inventory, and more and more often we're averaging release quantities of 50,000 to 100,000 pieces."
"Now that our production-planning department has seen the productivity gains we've realized," adds Stith, "they're pushing us further. While in the past they might have bundled two or three releases from a customer into one huge job, now they give us separate releases. Inventory turns on core products have gone from nine to nearly 15 per year. In 2012 we processed 1300 work orders, hundreds more than we ran the previous year. And this year I expect we'll run 1500 jobs, and probably 2000 jobs in 2014."
More Efficient, All the Down the Line
Of course, more work orders for smaller batch sizes adds stress to the shipping and receiving department, particularly since every box of stamped fasteners goes out for heattreating and plating. "We have a lot of work-in-process inventory," notes Stith. "As productivity has skyrocketed and we've been able to remove seven presses from the production process, we've leveraged the gained floor space to improve our shipping and receiving operation. We can pack parts more efficiently, the work flow is more organized and logical, and it's much safer."In fact, since we've gained so much additional floor space, we're exploring opportunties to become a more vertically integrated and streamlined supplier," Stith shares. MF
See also: Bruderer Machinery, Inc., Nidec Press & Automation, Wintriss Controls Group LLC
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based home builder Levitt and Sons has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, following a housing downturn and credit market disruptions.
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In its bankruptcy filing, the company lists assets of less than $1 million with more than $100 million in debts. In an earlier filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Levitt and Sons said it had defaulted on more than $300 million in loans with several lenders, including Bank of America and Wachovia.
Levitt and Sons, the home building subsidiary of Levitt Corp., said in a statement the move was a response to "unprecedented conditions in the homebuilding industry, which have severely impacted the company." Options in the restructuring process include the sale of the company.
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Within the last year, Levitt and Sons downsized operations in Tennessee and exited the Memphis and Nashville markets, reduced staffing and worked with subcontractors to help reduce costs. However, the company's financial position took a blow in August when credit market disruption led to more cancellations and fewer buyers, the company said.
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Daniel "Crazy Dani" Köllerer has been banned from tennis for life and fined $100,000 by the ATP. Harsh. What'd he do?
He came under fire for verbally abusing a ball-boy and other players accused him of having made racist remarks.
Fellow Austrian tennis players found harsh words for their disgraced colleague.
"I don't care whether he's playing or not, but he has terrorised the ATP and the players long enough with his behaviour," Martin Slanar said.
They still let Lleyton Hewitt play, so that's not enough.
The former Davis Cup player is accused of trying to manipulate matches. Köllerer attempted to get opponents not to give their best, according to investigations by the TIU.
That's kind of vague. I hope they have more than that.
The committee said its verdict was based on three confirmed cases of attempted match-fixing.
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Austrian sport newspapers report that the 27-year-old also broke ATP regulations by setting up hyperlinks leading to the websites of sport betting companies on his homepage.
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Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada and the new Soulcalibur director Daishi Odashima confirmed yesterday that the latest offering in the venerable fighting series is under development.
That image accompanied a tweet from Odashima saying "SC is back!" on Christmas Eve; Harada followed late last night with "Soul Calibur is back!!" We'll take that as confirmation.
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California's budget system is already full of these kinds of whips and chains -- they are precisely what makes the budget so hard to balance and manage. Such restrictions, however, get included in initiatives either because the sponsors want money for a particular item or because political consultants want to be able to tell voters that new taxes will go to a specific, popular purpose. Or both.
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Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) Urban Land Use - 1966 to 1976Entry ID: Canada_GeoGratis_CLUMP
Abstract: The Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) was established in 1978 by the
Lands Directorate of Environment Canada to provide researchers, planners and
managers with a database on land use change. The program complemented the land
capability and land use surveys of the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). However,
most data sets associated with CLUMP were compiled at a higher ... level of detail
than the CLI.
Designed to monitor both spatially and sequentially land use change in
various areas of Canada, the CLUMP program had the following objectives:
1) to provide improved awareness of the state of the land resource.
2) to identify land use trends of national and regional importance.
3) to determine major areas of rapid change that could potentially
create land use problems.
4) to analyze land use change in terms of causes and consequences,
particularly with respect to the impact of government policies and programs.
The four major components of the CLUMP program were urban-centered
regions, prime resource lands, rural areas and wildlands. The Urban-Centered
Region (UCR) component (the component presented here) examined land use in the
rural-urban fringe of major Canadian urban centers.
The UCR program was coordinated nationally but undertaken through the
five regional offices of the Lands Directorate. Information on land use change
was originally classified according to the CLI land use scheme and applied at a
scale of 1:50,000. Interpretation consisted of mapping from aerial photographs
augmented with field checks and supplementary information sources such as
municipal planning maps, street maps and satellite images. Maps were scanned
and attribute data entered into the Canada Geographic Information System, a
pioneer computerized map storage, analysis and retrieval system.
The CLUMP UCR program operated from 1966 through to 1986 on a 5-year
basis corresponding to Canada's census years. In 1981 the original CLI based
land use classification was replaced in favor of a more comprehensive land
activity and land cover classification scheme. The UCR program was abandoned
after that. Nevertheless Canada's largest urban centers were mapped in every
There are two main data collections as a result of this UCR
sub-program: the CLUMP 1966-1976 cycle and the CLUMP 1981-1986 cycle; this
metadata entry is only for the earlier 1966, 1971 and 1976 cycle.
CLUMP UCR 1966-1971 data represents a relatively simple,
CLI-compatible set of land use and land cover classes applied to Canada's 23
largest urban areas. It is distributed through the GeoGratis site on the basis
of an "urban-centered region" (UCR). A UCR is delimited by the original CLUMP
program boundaries defined for each urban center. These urban limits should not
be interpreted as administrative, census or otherwise legal limits of an urban
area; they are merely the extent of the mapping.
In addition to the UCR land use centers are detailed maps of
agricultural and recreational land capability. These were originally compiled
at a scale of 1:50,000 but are aggregated to map sheet boundaries that extend
beyond the UCR limits. These CLI data can be used for analytical purposes with
or without the land use data.
- Three of the Urban Centers (St. John, N.B., Calgary and Edmonton)
span more than one UTM zone; these centers were assigned to the UTM zone in
which most of the study area occurs.
- The white surround has not been removed on the quicklook GIF files.
This is to ensure that all GIF files are the same size regardless of the
spatial extent of the UCR. The GIF files incorporate a browser-safe color
- The GIF files and WMF files use the same color palette and attribute
definitions of the respective Canada Land Inventory themes; if need be, the
same Canada Land Inventory HTML legend files can be utilized.
"S "+ map number refers to CLI Shoreline, in lat/lon co-ordinates.
"A "+ map number refers to CLI Agriculture, in lat/lon co-ordinates,
or provisional UCR boundaries.
"R" + map number refers to CLI Recreation, in lat/lon co-ordinates.
"L" + map number refers to original CLI Land Use, in lat/lon
co-ordinates, or to the CLUMP 1981 (uncorrected) base year, or to a CLUMP
provisional land use year.
"C" + map number refers to a correction overlay (to be applied to one
of base years)
"U" + map number refers to an update overlay (to be applied to the
previous (corrected) CLUMP cycle).
"M" + map number refers to the CLUMP corrected version of CLI 1966
Land Use
"N" + map number refers t o the CLUMP derived 1971 Land Use
"O" + map number refers to the CLUMP derived 1976 Land Use
"P" + map number refers to the CLUMP corrected 1981 Land Use
"Q" + map number refers to the CLUMP derived 1986 Land Use
a ".DBF" extension implies a dBase metadata table.
A ".ZIP" extension implies to a PKZIPped PC ArcInfo E00 file with it's
corresponding README.TXT file.
A ".BAT" extension implies a DOS
The following Urban Center Abbreviations (UCRAbbr) are utilized:
SJSNF refers to St. John's, Newfoundland
HFXNS refers to Halifax-Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
STJNB refers to St. John, New Brunswick
CHIQC refers to Chicoutimi-Jonquiere, Quebec
QUEQC refers to Quebec, Quebec
MONQC refers to Montreal, Quebec
OTTON refers to Ottawa-Hull, Ontario/Quebec
OSWON refers to Oshawa, Ontario
TORON refers to Toronto, Ontario
NIAON refers to St. Catherines-Niagara, Ontario
HAMON refers to Hamilton, Ontario
KITON refers to Kitchener, Ontario
LONON refers to London, Ontario
WINON refers to Windsor, Ontario
SUDON refers to Sudbury, Ontario
THBON refers to Thunder Bay, Ontario
WINMA refers to Winnipeg, Manitoba
REGSA refers to Regina, Saskatchewan
SASSA refers to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
EDMAB refers to Edmonton, Alberta
CALAB refers to Calgary, Alberta
VANBC refers to Vancouver, British Columbia
VICBC refers to Victoria, British Columbia
UCRAbbr +"RU" refers to CLI Recreation, in UTM projection UCRAbbr
+"AU" refers to CLI Agriculture, in UTM projection UCRAbbr+"66A" refers to
CLUMP 1966 Land Use, in UTM projection
UCRAbbr+"71A" refers to CLUMP 1966 Land Use, in UTM projection
UCRAbbr+"76A" refers to CLUMP 1966 Land Use, in UTMUCR land use data
gathered at different time periods makes it possible to evaluate the rate,
extent and location of land use changes as well as the nature of the land
resources being affected by these changes.
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Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid Name: Clarke 1866
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Government of Canada, National Archives of Canada
Dataset Title: Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) Urban Land Use - 1966 to 1976
Dataset Series Name: Canada Land Use Monitoring Program
Dataset Release Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dataset Publisher: Government of Canada, National Archives of CanadaOnline Resource: http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/download/clump
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1966-01-01Stop Date: 1976-12-31
Location Keywords
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Access Constraints none
Use Constraints Licensing information located at
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html copyright
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Data Center
Fees: Gratuit-Free
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Fax: +01-613-947-2410
Email: info at GeoGratis.cgdi.gc.ca
Contact Address:
615 Booth Street, Room 650
City: Ottawa
Province or State: Ontario
Postal Code: K1A 0E9
Country: Canada
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DIF Creation Date: 2002-06-28
Last DIF Revision Date: 2018-12-06
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