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Kodi Ramakrishna is a veteran director and he had earlier brought out two big hits like Bharat Bandh and Ankusam with action and police stories in their backdrop. After a long gap, he had directed another police subject with Nagababu as hero. As usual, the story highlighted the police and there are many dialogues, which are nothing but sarcastic remarks on the police. Though the climax, which lasts for a few minutes claims that the police are superior than others, the entire film throws a bad light on them. By that time the audiences will fix in their minds that police are nothing but puppets in the hands of politicians as in reality it is impossible to happen the filmy end to such crooked politician characters.
ACP Jayachandra (Nagababu) is a sincere police officer. He could not control his emotion and wants to remain an upright officer. He will never backtrack or compromise in punishing the criminals. He leaves no stone unturned to catch the culprits or to encounter them. At one point of time, due to his emotional attack, an innocent (Ali) dies in the hands of goons. From then onwards, he changes his mindset and stops moving fast. Instead, he maintains cool and start gathering all the details about the culprit before going to arrest them are encounter them. He gets posted in Hyderabad. His wife Aruna (Lakshana) joins the college as a lecturer. There is another lecturer (Pruthvi) in the college, who has more social consciousness. When the leaders of government and the opposition quarrel over the privatisation of some sugar factories and 25 each from both the groups resign forcing the Election Commission to hold by-elections. The lecturer files a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the high court that holding of by-elections will cause a lot of expenditure on the exchequer and pleads for directions that no politician should resign and in case he resigns, he himself should bear the expenditure for the by-elections.
This point irks the politicians, who use goons and get him murdered. Incidentally, Aruna records the murder in her cell phone. By using the cell phone, ACP Jaya blackmails the goons and collects huge money from them. Not only from goons, he also collects money from the politicians, who abetted the crime. At the same time, he keeps all the evidence in a computer. Learning that the ACP cheated them, the students, who gave him the evidence, try to kidnap him only to find that the ACP is none other than their lecturer's husband and an upright police officer. The ACP chalks out a plan and gathers all the goons in one place and takes everyone into his custody. He keeps everyone in a secluded place. Realising the threat to them, if the goons were produced in the court, the politicians try to get them released with the help of a corrupt CBI officer (Satya Prakash). However, Jaya foils all those plans. As their plans foiled, the CBI officer kidnaps Aruna and make Jaya believe that she committed suicide. However, the group of students are informed that she is safe and she would be released only if they turn hostile witnesses. As a result, Jaya's argument gets defeated and the court recommends his suspension and at the same time hands over the case to the CBI officer. In the climax, Jaya realise that Aruna is alive and kill everyone with the help of people.
PLUS: Nagababu, though can't be called a hero of the film, has played the key role, albeit the title role. However, he has given a nice performance all through the film. The entire first half is stretched with unwanted scenes and only to make the audiences keep guessing whether the police officer is really sincere or corrupt. But for a few scenes in which Ali appears, the first half has nothing much to talk about. However, the film picks up momentum to some extent in the second half but the climax is very poor. It is very unrealistic.
MINUS: The director chose to highlight the corruptness of politicians and how they utilise the goons for their selfish needs. At the same time, the goons are highlighted as heroes who can dictate terms on the politicians. Though it is right or wrong in the reality, glorification of goondaism and politician is uncalled for. Though Lakshana has played opposite Nagababu, she has no big role to play. There are four young heroes and a heroine, but they are absolutely wasted by the director. Satya Prakash's role is also not etched well. The comedy is almost missing from the film, though the scenes involving the politicians has some sarcastic scenes. Music by Koti is average and the background score and re-recording is absolutely poor.
REMARKS: In a bid to give a message that police can do wonders if they are given freedom, the director has chosen a wrong path. He highlights the dark side of the police and the corruptness of politicians and the monarchy of goondaism, as a result the message almost is dead down. Moreover, the director has chosen a very old fashioned direction, thus missing any novelty. The scenes with college backdrop are also very poorly portrayed and the film can not attract either the students or the youth audiences, leave alone the mass audiences. The commercial success of the film is a big question mark and the chances are almost remote.
Cast: Nagababu, Lakshana, Krishi, Vijay Samrat, Bhushan, Dheeraj, Suryacharan Tej, Gayatri, Ali, Pruthvi, Satya Prakash, Dr Siva Prasad, Ashok kumar, Gundu Sudarshan, Visweswara Rao, Gundu Hanumanta Rao, Visweswara Rao, Kanumuri, Siva Subrahmanyam, Sadanand, Aravind, Koti, Ravi Acharya and others
Credits: Story - Vallabhaneni Janardhan, Dialogues - Swamiji-Vijay, Music - Koti, Camera - V Srinivasa Reddy, Editing - Nandamuri Hari, Art - JP, Presents - Baby Rushya Reddy, Producers - NH Bhaskar Reddy and MV Krishna Prasad, Screenplay and direction - Kodi Ramakrishna
Banner: NH Rushya Productions
Release date: November 28, 2008


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TURIN -- Beckie Scott was the reason to go to the cross-country skiing yesterday. If there was going to be a story, she was supposed to be it.
The sprints were her last chance to complete her Olympic medal collection. She looked to have an outside chance to win a bronze to go with her gold from Salt Lake 2002 and the silver she shared earlier in Turin with Sara Renner.
But a funny thing happened in the Italian Alps yesterday. A 22-year-old Canmore woman cost her the bronze by winning the gold.
"Beckie Scott meant so much for what she did in 2002," Chandra Crawford said of Scott becoming the first North American woman to put herself on an Olympic podium in cross-country skiing.
"The way she hammered off from the lead and challenged people to come after her was an attitude handed down to me," said Crawford, who won her heat, her semifinal and yesterday's final all with the same move at the same time on the backstretch.
Claudia Kuenzel of Germany won the silver with Alena Sidko of Russia the bronze, with Scott fourth in the four-woman final. Kuenzel won the silver medal at Salt Lake 2002. The defending gold-medal winner from four years ago, Juilija Tchepalova of Russia, and last year's world sprint champion Emelie Oehstig of Sweden did not make it to the semifinals.
World sprint leader Anna Dahlberg didn't make it to the final. Top-ranked skiers Lina Anderson of Sweden and Marit Bjorgen of Norway didn't even qualify for the semifinals.
It was all there for Scott. And a Canadian came out of nowhere to bump her off the podium.
"I'm happy for Chandra," said Scott, who hinted she may not return for the next World Cup season. "She's very young. A gold medal for her is sensational.
"I skied the final the fastest I could. Chandra did very well tactically and physically. I'm happy for our team because we are taking home two cross-country medals. We have very young athletes who are doing well and are the future of our team."
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his counterparts in the Group of 20 nations have it within their power to contain the European debt crisis this week.
But only the boldest of gamblers would bet that they will do so. That's because some of the world's most powerful countries are locked in a game of chicken, and it's extremely difficult to guess which ones will blink first.
Economic leaders from the G20 will gather for the first time this year in Mexico City on Saturday and Sunday. As always, the agenda will be full, but one issue will dominate: an international rescue for Europe.
It's been a touchy subject since the Cannes summit in November, when the non-European members of the G20 turned their backs on European requests for help.
The European Union wanted loans to create a financial backstop that would be big enough to convince bond traders that countries such as Spain and Italy would be saved from collapse.
An infusion of cash from abroad would have gone a long way in calming global financial markets. Yet the response from Europe's allies was filled with ridicule. The EU was told to do more on its own, and come back only after it had put more of its own resources on the table.
Three months have passed and Europe is ready to give it another try.
The object now is to bolster the resources of the International Monetary Fund, which says it needs an additional $500-billion (U.S.) to confront the worst-case scenario of having to prop up a big European economy, while being left with enough cash to perform its mission of safeguarding poorer countries.
European countries have pledged to provide the IMF with the equivalent of about $198-billion. This weekend in Mexico City, the EU will press its G20 allies to provide the rest of the money that the IMF seeks, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing a leaked copy of an internal planning document.
It's unclear whether the Europeans will get a warmer reception this time. The host of this weekend's meeting, Mexican Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade, expressed doubts earlier this month that an agreement is at hand. The U.S. remains adamant that increasing IMF resources is unnecessary and that it will not participate. The Harper government says Europe has the means to clean up its own mess.
"These are some of the wealthiest countries in the world," Mr. Flaherty told Business News Network from Rome on Friday. "They're fully capable. They have the fiscal capacity to do so, instead of coming to the non-European G20 countries asking us to pony up, quite frankly, when they're capable of doing so themselves."
The U.S. and Canada aren't the only ones resisting fresh loans to the IMF.
Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister, Ibrahim Alassaf, said earlier this month after meeting with IMF managing director Christine Lagarde that he doubted there would be agreement on the issue in Mexico City. "The other member states believe that the main and first role should be the European Union's, and then the other states can provide support," Mr. Alassaf said in Riyadh on Feb. 7, according to a report by Reuters. South Korea's finance minister made similar comments this month.
On the surface, the position of the non-Europeans appears incredibly short-sighted. The debt crisis, which most forecasters assume has sunk the EU into at least a shallow recession, is undisputedly the biggest risk facing the global economy. A pledge to beef up the IMF's firepower would assure investors that Spain, Italy and other debt-burdened countries will avoid default. That would lower borrowing rates and relieve pressure. Stability should follow, and with it a little economic growth.
But Mr. Flaherty and others appear to have decided to risk a little turbulence in order to coerce Europe into making institutional changes that would lessen the risk of future crises.
It's not just the money. European nations formed a currency union without any means to redistribute wealth or keep member countries from running up their debt. Germany, France and other euro zone members are now talking about making these structural adjustments. The other members of the G20 appear willing to take a hard line until that talk becomes action.
"Agreeing to offer help too quickly only weakens the incentive on governments to do what needs to be done," said James Haley, a former senior Finance official who is now director, global economy at the Waterloo, Ont.-based Centre for International Governance Innovation.
A new rescue package for Greece, which could be agreed Monday at a meeting of European finance ministers, would go some way toward softening the opposition to upping the IMF's reserves of rescue funds. More important will be agreement by the EU on a bailout fund backed mostly by European countries.
With those measures in place, it's difficult to imagine Canada sitting out a G20 rescue. Doing so would be a blow to the country's international reputation. That's likely why Mr. Flaherty, among the most bellicose in demanding more from Europe, always leaves open the possibility that Canada's position could change. "The sine qua non is that Europe moves first," Mr. Flaherty said.Report Typo/Error
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The Housing Act of 1949 set national goals that included "a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family."
In struggling to reach those goals, U.S. policies have focused largely -- sometimes almost exclusively -- on home ownership, much of it in the suburbs and exurbs that mushroomed after World War II.
The recent mortgage foreclosure crisis kept U.S. housing policies centered on home ownership, even as it began to shake America's unquestioning faith in ownership as the only suitable housing option, or a foolproof way to build wealth. Increasing numbers of poor families and elderly people cannot afford single-family homes of their own. Meanwhile, a new generation of young professionals -- and older empty-nesters -- want to live in dense, diverse and walkable neighborhoods, especially in urban and downtown rental markets.
"We need a more balanced housing policy," Shaun Donovan, director of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, told the Free Press editorial board earlier this month.
Roughly two-thirds of U.S. adults still own their own homes; outside of New York City, where two-thirds of residents rent, home ownership will continue to drive the U.S. housing market. Even so, the rental share of the housing market is growing, even as rentals become increasingly expensive, said Denise Notice-Scott, managing director of Local Initiatives Support Corp. in New York City.
LISC, the nation's largest community development support organization with 29 local sites, has helped build hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, focusing on projects that give residents access to transportation, jobs, education and other needs.
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One way to do that is to expand federal low-income housing tax credits and fully fund federal housing subsidy programs like HOME, which was cut by 38% this year, and Section 8.
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To qualify for federal low-income housing tax credits, developers must rent to low- and moderate-income tenants. The developers, many of them nonprofits like Southwest Housing Solutions in Detroit, raise revenue to pay for projects by selling credits to investors, who use them as tax breaks. These are effective programs that also create thousands of good-paying construction jobs.
Before President Barack Obama took office, the U.S. had lost an estimated 350,000 of its 2 million units of subsidized housing over the previous decade. They either deteriorated or owners converted them to market-rate housing. Federal housing assistance programs serve only about one in four of eligible low-income families.
Under Donovan, HUD has improved occupancy rates, putting more than 100,000 families into vacant public housing. HUD has also rebuilt some deteriorating housing stock, but Congress must do more to preserve it, as well as authorize HUD to use innovative public-private partnerships to raise money.
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The ten best comedy events in Denver this April
April is a month of rejuvenation and light-hearted trickery, a season of pranks, afternoon showers and street-sweeping tickets. Only the truly foolish would miss out on the fine assortment of comedy shows in Denver this month. With everything from a visit from the reigning ice queen of late-night talk shows to a benefit for Down Syndrome, some great local showcases and an appearance by improviser, singer and all-round showman Wayne Brady, there's plenty of levity to carry local comedy fans through the month. Fortunately, many of these shows are free, which should provide at least a little relief to those unjustly ticketed for blocking street-sweeping operations.
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10) Late Night Playtime with Ultra Sex Laser 10:30 p.m. Thursdays Voodoo Comedy Playhouse
The standup showcase format, while enduring and straightforward, can also get pretty stale from time to time. While synth-pop comedy trio Ultra Sex Laser is known for livening up any show on which it's featured, over the past few months the crew has quietly put together what may be Denver's most unique and vibrant comedy show. Late Night Playtime with Ultra Sex Laser sounds like the title of tastefully softcore erotica from the future, but is actually the name of a weekly variety show scored by USL's semi-improvised comedy songs and featuring some of Denver's funniest comics venturing outside their comfort zone. Each week, one comic opens the show and then hits the neighborhood for the "Ballpark Grand Slam," a challenge that includes taking video of themselves doing karaoke at the nearby Star Bar. The headliner customarily ends each show by eating a cupcake onstage. Late Night Playtime is always good for a giggle, but the comedians lined up for April's shows promise to kick things up a notch. With cupcake-filled headlining sets from Mara Wiles, Kristin Rand, Stephen Spinola and Stephen Ayegei; stints by special guests Werewolf Radar, and featuring Steve Vanderploeg and Bobby Crane doing Ballpark Grand Slams, there are plenty of reasons to play at night with Ultra Sex Laser this April. Particularly since these Thursday night shows are free.
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Encouraging his viewers to question authority, Hippieman outlines his humorous solutions our nation's ills.
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Well, we've got our first big horse heading to Churchill Downs following Scat Daddy's victory in the Florida Derby (gr. I), and judging from the other cards trainer Todd Pletcher is holding, he's going to have a full house come May 5. But who knows if runner-up Notional will be the first of four aces held by Doug O'Neill.
Not many owners can claim to have their ticket punched to the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) at 1:30 in the morning, half way around the world, and on a computer no less. Scat Daddy's owner, Jim Scatuorchio and his family, along with Pletcher and Pletcher's father J.J., having just hours earlier watched English Channel finish 12th in the Dubai Duty Free (UAE-I), were looking for a way to watch the Florida Derby, not an easy task in the middle of the night.
Even Sheikh Mohammed wasn't able to help out, so they wound up in the business center of their hotel, which had been left open for them. Huddled around one of the computers, they were able to watch the race live, but the picture froze just as the horses were heading down the stretch. So, with nothing to look at but the image of Scat Daddy frozen at the eighth pole, they listened to Gulfstream track announcer Larry Collmus' call of the finish.
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So, Pletcher has one in the books, and who knows how many more will follow, with Circular Quay, Any Given Saturday, Sam P., King of the Roxy, Cowtown Cat, and possibly Soaring By heading to their respective final Derby preps.
Many were down on Scat Daddy after his third-place finish in the Holy Bull (gr. III), where he uncharacteristically went to the lead, battling head and head with Nobiz Like Shobiz. A return to his normal come-from-behind running style followed in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. II), which resulted in a nose victory.
The Florida Derby looked to be similar to the Fountain of Youth, with Stormello and Adore the Gold the ones to catch. Going into the race, however, only one closer had won on the card, and that was in a seven-furlong race. Edgar Prado, who was to win six races on the day, took advantage of John Velazquez' trip to Dubai by winning four races for Pletcher, including the Florida Derby and Skip Away Stakes (gr. III).
Prado knew that Scat Daddy, who is not exactly a plodder, needed to be in relatively close striking range on this track, so he moved him up along the inside after the break, then eased him three wide, where he was able to sit comfortably in third and track Stormello and Adore the Gold.
The fact that the son of Johannesburg was able to sit right behind the two leaders and still unleash his powerful closing kick bodes well for his chances in the Derby, which not only tests a horse's talent, stamina, and toughness, but his ability to adapt to whatever scenario unfolds, and that scenario usually is not what a horse has experienced in the past.
Unlike the Fountain of Youth, when he passed three horses in the final sixteenth and just got up at the wire, Scat Daddy already was cruising to the lead by the time they turned for home, and was in complete control of the race.
Having had an old-fashioned type campaign at 2 and 3, finishing first or second in traditional races like the Sanford (gr. II), Hopeful, Champagne, Fountain of Youth, and Florida Derby (all gr. I), Scat Daddy has demonstrated his class and has built the kind of foundation that Derby winners years ago used to have.
Of course, there will be those who point to the final three-eighths in :38 1/5, which like the Fountain of Youth was a bit on the slow side. But on both these big Saturdays, the track was playing a bit odd, and horses were not coming home fast. The fact is, Scat Daddy not only ran three-fifths of a second faster than stablemate A.P. Arrow in the Skip Away Stakes for older horses, his final three-eighths was four-fifths faster.
Some also feel a mile and a quarter might be beyond the limit of a son of Johannesburg, but that doesn't seem to come into play as much any longer, considering the sires of recent Derby winners and the fact that Johannesburg never was given a chance to prove himself at 10 furlongs. He was sent into the Derby off one seven-furlong race on the grass in Ireland, had no conditioning at all, and still managed to beat more than half of the 18-horse field. He was injured shortly after and never got a chance to return to the form of his incredible 2-year-old campaign.
Johannesburg's sire, Hennessy, also never got a chance to prove himself at a distance, racing only at 2, and he is by Storm Cat, out of a Hawaii mare, and Hawaii didn't start running until a mile and a half. On the female side, his broodmare sire, Mr. Prospector, has sired a Belmont (gr. I) winner, and his tail-female grandsire is Nijinsky II.
Like many 3-year-olds, Scat Daddy will have his backers and his detractors. He's not as brilliant as some of the others, being more workmanlike. But whether you like him for the Derby or not, you can't help admire his consistency and toughness, while running against top-class horses from both coasts in seven consecutive graded stakes, including four grade I's. He's already defeated Nobiz Like Shobiz twice in graded stakes and has two grade I wins to his credit. So, even if you don't like him for the Derby, you certainly have to respect him.
Also punching his ticket to Louisville was Notional, who ran another bang-up race, but simply was unable to make up the three lengths he spotted Scat Daddy down the backstretch. He also was being pushed along much earlier than Scat Daddy. That makes three straight big efforts for the son of In Excess at three different racetracks in three different states since the addition of blinkers.
What is interesting about Notional is that he, like Scat Daddy, is a proven closer, but won his career debut going short in brilliant fashion and in fast time. Scat Daddy broke his maiden at first asking, winning by 5 1/4 lengths in a sharp 1:03 3/5 for the 5 1/2 furlongs. Notional won his debut beating the exciting Exhale by 2 1/2 lengths in a sizzling 1:09 flat for the six furlongs, while earning a monster 105 Beyer Speed Figure.
And then we come to the third-place finisher, Chelokee, who is attempting to get trainer Michael Matz back to the Derby. For those wishing to see Barbaro's trainer return to Churchill Downs, they can only wait and hope the $100,000 he earned is enough to get him in the starting gate. It's going to be nip and tuck, and we won't know much more until all the major preps have been run. It would be unfortunate if he didn't get in, considering some feel he may have been the best horse in the race after having to take up sharply turning for home, scraping the rail, and then coming on with a late burst of speed to finish three-quarters of a length behind Notional.
The son of Cherokee Run has now had two disastrous trips in a row, in which he has managed to turn sure out-of-the-money performances into a victory (in an allowance race) and a third. Despite breaking from the 6-hole in the Florida Derby, jockey Ramon Dominguez somehow managed to get him trapped down on the rail for the entire race, with the colt making an early move down the backstretch, just as he had done in his previous start. In both instances, he was forced to drop back when nothing opened up.
This time he continued to hug the rail, waiting for an opening. Stormello came just far enough off the fence to make it inviting, but when Chelokee tried to get through, Victor Espinoza, on Stormello, closed the door on him, forcing Dominguez to take up sharply. He finally was able to angle Chelokee out, and although winning was out of the question, he was closing in on Notional at the end.
Now come the questions: would Chelokee have won with a clean trip? How strong was this race in general? The feeling here is that Chelokee very well could have gotten second, but Scat Daddy just looked too strong and is too classy a horse. As for the strength of the race, it is unwise to judge the quality of a grade I field immediately after the race. Just ask all those who tossed out every horse coming out of the 2005 Santa Anita Derby. What you can do is look at the fifth-place finish by Boogie Boggs, who was coming off only three career starts, all sprints and no stakes, yet was beaten only 4 1/4 lengths. Boogie Boggs has shown potential and could be a good horse in the making, so you'll have to judge for yourself whether his performance here was any reflection of the quality of the field.
The big disappointments were Stormello and Adore the Gold. The former gave up the lead without a fight, which is unlike him. He obviously was a tired horse this time. Stormello was returning to Gulfstream after his fourth cross-country flight this year and a number of fast works, so who knows if that contributed to his regression. Imawildandcrazyguy and Birdbirdistheword were never in the race.
The other horse to watch from Saturday is Soaring By, who bounced back from his ordeal in the Louisiana Derby, in which he reared and broke through the gate and never got into the race. Dropping back to allowance company, he had little trouble winning by 3 1/2 lengths in 1:50.
In other races, Belmont Futurity (gr. II) runner-up C P West made his 3-year-old debut at seven furlongs and ran well, but was beaten a nose at 3-5 with no apparent excuse. He did make a wide early move through testing fractions of :22 1/5, :44 2/5 and 1:09 2/5, and appeared to simply come up a bit short. The final time of 1:22 3/5 was solid enough.
In the seven-furlong Aventura Stakes, Street Magician remained undefeated with a game half-length victory in 1:22 1/5 and now heads to the Withers Stakes (gr. II) and Preakness (gr. I).
Horses vs. history
Recent horses who have ended historical trends, curses, whammies, or whatever you want to call them:
Fusaichi Pegasus 2000 (First favorite to win the Derby in 21 years); Funny Cide 2003 (First New York-bred ever to win the Derby and first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929); Barbaro 2006 (first horse since Needles in 1956 to win the Derby off a layoff of more than four weeks).
Horses bucking history this year:
Street Sense, Great Hunter, Stormello, Curlin, King of the Roxy, Dominican (attempting to become the first horse since 1983 and second since 1947 to win the Derby off only two starts as a 3-year-old).
Curlin (attempting to become the first horse since 1882 to win the Derby without having raced at 2).
Curlin (attempting to become the first horse since 1915 to win the Derby off only three career starts).
Street Sense (attempting to become the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner to win the Derby).
How much is too much?
There has been a great deal of talk about the Tampa Bay Derby (gr. III) possibly taking too much out of Street Sense. If that race, in which he had an easy trip until he was put under pressure at the three-sixteenths pole, took too much out of him to the extent that it would hurt his chances for a race seven weeks away, then that's a sad commentary on today's Thoroughbreds.
That race was a stroll in the park compared to the gut wrencher Silver Charm had in the Santa Anita Derby when he went head and head every step of the way in :45 flat and 1:09 flat, battling with Sharp Cat, then was passed by Free House and fought back to be beaten a head in 1:47 3/5. He came back four weeks later and turned in one of the gutsiest performances ever in the Derby.
Was the Tampa Derby that much different than Barbaro's stretch-long battle in last year's Florida Derby coming off an eight-week layoff? True, he wasn't coming off a four-month layoff, as Street Sense was, but Street Sense had much more foundation as a 2-year-old.
It was only a few years ago that Funny Cide had a hard-fought battle in the Wood Memorial against Empire Maker, and they came back three weeks later to finish one-two in the Derby.
And don't forget about Thunder Gulch, who had two gut-wrenchers at Gulfstream. He won the Fountain of Youth by a neck and the Florida Derby by a nose under pressure the whole way in both races.
Going back a little farther, there was the battle between Lil E. Tee and Pine Bluff in the Arkansas Derby, in which they went head and head almost the entire race, with Pine Bluff winning by a neck. It certainly didn't hurt Lil E. Tee, who came back only two weeks later to win the Derby.


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Mortgage consultant: Scott Murray
Purchase price: $650,000
First loan amount: $520,000
Second loan amount: $50,000
Interest rate: 4.625 percent
Loan type: 30-year fixed
Backstory: A young couple had saved a significant amount of money while living in Los Angeles, Venezuela and the Bay Area during the last two years. They were ready to settle and put down roots in the East Bay, but it wasn't going to be easy.
They had a significant amount of money saved, but they did not want to use it all. So, to put less than 20 percent down, the young couple and Murray decided to incorporate a home equity line of credit second loan to finance the difference between the first loan and their desired down payment.
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On top of that, they accepted a gift from a family member to save even more of their own money. Now all that remained was qualification.
A mortgage is often thought of as a loan against a house, but this is not entirely true. A mortgage is a loan against your income, secured by a house. Consistency and longevity in the same line of work is viewed as a strength by the bank. When the young couple met with Murray, one spouse had been on her new job for only four days.
Prior to that, she had been unemployed for eight months.
Murray's solution: tell their story as it happened. The young woman wrote a letter explaining the previous two years of her work history. It showed how her new job is in the same line of work as her former job, and her employment was simply interrupted by accompanying her partner to Venezuela.
While in South America, it was not possible to work since the Venezuelan government would not grant her a work visa. The bank now had the background and could see that she indeed did have a consistent work history and that her income could be used for qualifying purposes. Nevertheless, Murray didn't want the young couple to have any doubts that their loan would be approved.
With all the nuances and complexities of their life's situation documented, Murray submitted their file without a contract, a situation called a To Be Determined submission. This is a unique program offered by RPM Mortgage and allows a complete file to be fully underwritten and approved before an offer for a home is even written. The advantages of this allow for a quicker escrow period since the file is already approved. It also permitted them to offer without a loan contingency.
The loan approval came at exactly the right time. The day after they received loan approval, their offer was accepted and they were in contract thanks to David Reno, their Realtor from Alain Pinel Realtors. Reno found them a gorgeous home in the East Bay that fit their desires and the deal closed in 21 days.
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SingTel-Optus has warned that Labor's national broadband network roll-out forecast is at "significant" risk of being downsized in a submission to the competition regulator.
The comment are some of the strongest made by Optus on the NBN's rollout to date and came as a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) fixed line review.
Telstra's rivals are battling to keep its copper network regulated in a process called "declaration" until the NBN has been connected to all Australian homes.
Labor's NBN is due to be completed in 2021 while the Coalition's alternative would be forecast for completion by the end of 2019. Both policies would see a government's owned NBN Co take over from Telstra as the controller of Australia's core telecommunications infrastructure.
Optus described NBN Co's latest rollout plan as "a forecast which is likely to have significant downside risk", which would in turn reduce the number of homes and businesses on the NBN's fibre network.
"Given recent delays in the NBN roll-out it is possible that copper-based connections will be higher than anticipated and remain for a longer period," it said. "The fixed-line services declaration should continue for a the maximum five year period until 2019."
Optus also said any regulation of Telstra's fixed-line network must take the money it is being paid by NBN Co into account. The telco giant is being paid $11 billion to provide the NBN with access to its infrastructure to house fibre optic cabling.
"The payments to be received from NBN Co will likely cover a large proportion of the annual revenue requirement for the CAN," it said. "Failure to account for this in regulated rates will result in Telstra over-recovering its costs.
"Optus is also concerned by the lack of transparency over the details of the agreement regarding the actual assets to be purchased or leased by NBN Co and the timeframe at which this is expected to occur."
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"If you agree to get into a game then that's fine. If a child gets pelted with snow without consenting then they may have every right to feel aggrieved."
Peter Eldridge, county secretary for the National Union of Teachers, said: "With the litigious nature of the society we live in now, I can see where the head is coming from. It is a sensible thing to do."
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Cape Wine returns! After a four-year absence, the bi-ennial trade exhibition takes place in Cape Town this week. Here's a round-up of just-drinks coverage of the three-day event.
Comment - Wine - Cape Wine 2012: Quality Starts to Match Ambition 1 Oct 2012
How best to sum up Cape Wine 2012? The three words that kept cropping up over the course of this showcasing of South Africa's wine industry were optimism, ambition and quality.
S AFRICA: DGB "excited" about US market 27 Sep 2012
A senior executive at South African wine group DGB has said he is "very excited" about the US market, as its 'The Beach House' brand is continuing to show strong growth in the country.
S AFRICA: Foreign investment "a catalyst" for South Africa - Warwick MD 26 Sep 2012
South Africa's wine trade is attracting foreign investment at a significant rate and the trend shows little sign of declining, according to an industry expert.
S AFRICA: Africa a "growth opportunity" for wine - Accolade CEO 25 Sep 2012
Africa could be the next China for the world's wine producers, with South Africa poised to benefit if its wine industry develops its brand image internationally, according to Accolade Wines' CEO.
Comment - Wine - South Africa: The Only Way is Ethics 25 Sep 2012
Today is the first day of Cape Wine, the three-day bi-ennial trade fair for South Africa's wine producers. To mark the event, Chris Losh takes a closer look at the latest move by the country to highlight its ethical credentials.
Cape Wine 2012 - See you there 21 Sep 2012
Next week sees the return of Cape Wine, the three-day South African wine trade exhibition, after a hiatus of four years.
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Next week the wine producers of South Africa get to tout their wares at the bi-ennial showcase that is Cape Wine. The three-day Cape Town trade show, back after a four-year break following 2010's football World Cup, is expecting visitors from as far afield as China, Japan and Latin America. Here, just-drinks takes a look at the current state of the country's wine industry.
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A 6'9" Center (basketball) from West Texas A&M University, Halbert played five seasons (1946-1951) in the Basketball Association of America (later known as the National Basketball Association). He was a member of the Chicago Stags, the Philadelphia Warriors, the Boston Celtics, the Providence Steamrollers, the Washington Capitols, and the Baltimore Bullets (original). He averaged 8.8 Points per game and 7.9 Rebounds per game in his career and earned All-BAA Second Honors in 1947.
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I have a 17 year old boy who is a pain in the butt...but a very good kid. Being a single mom was not my choice, but I've been rewarded with a son who loves me and has a good heart. I'd love it if he started picking up after himself...I feel bad for his future wife!
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Groopt is a private space to collaborate and organize the groups in your life. No ads, no distractions... just what matters, your group.
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Each year, three residents are accepted into the program. The Otolaryngology Residency Program match is handled through the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). Students may register with the NRMP beginning in June. See the 2017 Main Match Schedule.
Students applying to our program will also need to register with ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service). Residency applications, recommendation letters, transcripts, etc., will be sent to our program through ERAS. A complete application will include: CAF, three recommendation letters, personal statement, medical school transcript. USMLE Step 1 transcript and Step 2 transcript (if available).
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Oven-Baked Tarantulas For Sale. Really.
Deep-fried tarantulas. (We were unable to obtain good photos of the baked version.)
Editor's Note: We just learned that Think Geek is now sold out of baked tarantulas til 2012.
Fried tarantulas are a Cambodian delicacy but Think Geek is offering a healthier alternative: Baked tarantula. Think Geek is sold-out until October 11th, so mark your calendar and place your order. It is curious that they ran out in the first place. Judging from this travel blog it is not as though Cambodia is hurting for tarantulas.
A bit of research indicates that this, er, unique dish is imported by Edible.com. These are the same people who brought us poop coffee, the surprisingly affordable pearl dust and chocolate covered scorpions -- so popular they're now fair food (that's coming to Phoenix next month, too).
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Vinnie2u, Jan 20, 2013.
Simple concepts for simple minds.
Flacco the hero. All he had to do was score 14 points on offense to win the game. LOL
Give Romo a defense that shuts down Brady at home in the championship game and well be heading to the SB. The funny part is that Romo could have thrown for 400 yards 3 TD's and no picks and he still probably would have lost. Thats what he did against the Saints and they lost.
Flacco could have sat back there and built a fire all day long with the time he was getting. No need to take chances because his defense all but shut down Brady. Thats called loosening the load and the pressure on your QB. Need we mention the solid running game he had?
The list just keeps getting bigger and bigger with each passing season.
Ryan has earned it. Yes..for the last 2 years in arow..they have at least gotten in the playoffs.
Romo is so far down the pecking order on QBs its ridiculous.
Winning is what rates QBs. Not hollow stats and wanna-be rhetoric from the guy.
Can't wait until this crazy sad Romo period is closed out. Looks like we will need to have Jerry Jones re-do his contract at a crazy cap number and then we'll all watch Romo crater some more before the Cowboy nation calls for the absolute hook.
I remember when this was going on with Don Meredith and Danny White. It was painful and damaging to the franchise for years.
But whatever.
:starspin RedBaLL ExPreSS:starspin
No, its actually the same list over and over again, nothing changes.
Oline actually gets worse. Coaching gets worse. Defense got worse.
Do you honestly think another QB will come into Dallas and lead us to the playoffs if these other things dont change? Time to wake up.
REball express. LOL You should change your name to RedBall Depressed.
No offense, its more about Garrett than your name.
I am in no hurry to rush into a rookie QB behind this pathetic team and coaching. Lets at least waste Romo's last few years on strengthening the team around the QB so that when we do go to a rookie, he has the help that a Kapernack and Wilson have had.


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Volume 14, Issue 2: Poimen
Joost Nixon
When Peter concluded his sermon at Pentecost, the conscience-smitten Jews asked, "Brethren, what shall we do?" To
which question Peter replied, "Repent . . . and be baptized" (Acts 2:38). But what
is repentance? The question is a weighty one
indeed. Hell is teeming with men who have answered it carelesslyaccording to their own fancy, and not the Word of God.
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By Richard Valdmanis, Reuters
NEW YORK, May 15 Record-high fuel prices and a slowing economy will shrink travel in the United States over the coming Memorial Day holiday for the first time since 2002, auto and travel group AAA said Thursday.
Some 37.87 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home for the holiday, which falls this year on May 26. That would be down 0.9% from 38.23 million last year, according to AAA's survey which was conducted on more than 2,000 Americans.
"This is the first time we've seen a decrease since 2002, after the downturn that followed the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001," said AAA spokesman Michael Pina.
Of those travelers, 31.7 million will go by automobile, down 1% from last year's 32 million road travelers, according to the survey. Some 4.35 million people will fly, down 0.5% from the 4.37 million people who took to the skies last year.
"Because of the convergence of high fuel costs and economic trouble, there's some softness in people's confidence. But all things considered, this still reflects pretty robust travel," said Mark Brown, executive vice president of AAA.
The national average of U.S. retail gasoline prices has jumped about 21% since a year ago to more than $3.77 per gallon. On Wednesday, Alaska became the first state in which the average price for regular gasoline hit $4 a gallon, according to AAA.
The dim outlook for travel over the first holiday of the summer driving season comes amid growing evidence of softening fuel demand in the world's biggest energy consumer as high prices at the pump combine with the effects of an economic slowdown.
Gasoline use has already slipped about 1% so far this year compared to last year, according to government and private reports. And the U.S. Energy Information Administration said last month it expects American gasoline usage to shrink during the summer for first time since 1991.
ExxonMobil Corp chief executive Rex Tillerson said Thursday the price of gasoline in the United States is at or near the level where people begin to curb their usage.
"We're already seeing some demand slackening in gasoline demand in terms of miles driven," Tillerson told NBC's "Today" program. "So I think we're very near, if we're not already at, the price where people clearly are altering their daily behavior."
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Nokia N82 review | Introduction
Nokia N82 mobile phone
N okia has introduced a couple of new software additions in the past few months for various Nokia mobile phones. Remember for example the Nokia Ovi Internet browser and the new NGage games. Besides these new software additions, the N82 has also been equipped with an integrated GPS receiver, navigation software and a five Megapixel digital camera with Xenon flash. The N82's digital camera is able to exceed any other camera phone with ease thanks to its superior image quality, speed and user-friendliness. The Nokia N82 can even serve as a substitute for a normal digital camera. We must admit we have heard these words before and so far this promise has not been fulfilled yet. But looking at the specifications of the Nokia N82, it is at least a very promising and enhanced handset. Nokia awaken some high expectations here and the question is; can Nokia live up to these expectations? How well the Nokia N82 performed can be read in the LetsGoMobile Nokia N82 review.
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Nokia decided to go for the candybar design. It makes the N82 rather big though. The N82's housing is entirely made of plastic and to me it doesn't feel too solid. Still the Nokia N82 has a perfect hand-fit for calling as well as photographing. The buttons of the Nokia N-82 are a bit on the small side which makes it hard to quickly dial a number. The function buttons on the other hand are of a better size hence the easier operation. The camera lens is covered by a small plastic cover that has to be opened manually.
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The Nokia N82 has been equipped with a 3.7 Volt 1050mAh battery. The BP-6MT battery has a standby time of 225 hours and a talk-time of more than four hours according to the specifications. It also offers taking around 290 pictures and 10 hours of non-stop listening to music. The times indicated by Nokia are similar to the times we measured in practice. However, when a combination of functions is used these times will alter. If you plan to use these functions a lot, you might want to purchase an extra battery.


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Hundred of people, including six presidential candidates, have been arrested in the former Soviet republic of Belarus for protesting the announced results of the country's presidential elections, the BBC reports.
Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 16 years, was declared the winner in what the opposition says was a rigged election. Lukanshenko won a fourth term in office with 79.8% of the vote, according to the officail results.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe called the voting "flawed" and said it fell well short of democratic standards, the BBC reports.
Security forces moved in as 10,000 protesters gathered in central Minsk. At least one opposition figure, presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev, was arrested in a hospital where he had been taken after being severely beaten, the BBC says.
The U.S. Embassy has condemned the beatings and the arrests of the candidates.
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Rihanna showed off some love for the US of A when she was spotted attending the Los Angeles Clippers vs. Miami Heat basketball game in LA on Wednesday night.
Rihanna, 22, wore an American flag t-shit tucked into a pair of high-waisted jeans. Once she was settled in her court-side seats, Rihanna sipped on orange juice and cheered on the players.
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CAD techniques refine CT colonography
By: Hiroyuki Yoshida, Ph.D., And Abraham Dachman, M.D
Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., with approximately 60,000 deaths per year.1 The compliance of the population with current screening strategies is poor, and the development of a new structural examination of the entire colon has attracted the attention of patients and physicians alike. CT colonography, also known as virtual colonoscopy, has emerged as a viable alternative for examining the colon for polyps and masses and as a potential screening tool.2 The test typically involves supine and prone CT scans of the cleansed colon, after insufflation with air or carbon dioxide to a level that the patient can tolerate, and interpretation with specialized software of both 2D and endoluminal 3D images.
Advances in image software allow radiologists to interpret CT colonography by various means, but the large amount of data generated and the steep learning curve for interpretation create problems. Accumulating evidence supports the promise of high-detection performance for polyps in CT colonography,3 but three difficulties must be addressed: Interpretation of an entire CT colonography examination is time-consuming (10 to 40 minutes even for experts), the interpretation is prone to perceptual errors, and the diagnostic performance is variable among readers.2,4,5
Computer-aided detection of polyps has been generating considerable excitement. CAD is attractive because it has the potential to overcome these difficulties in CT colonography.6-11 A CAD system automatically detects polyps in CT images and provides the locations of suspicious ones to radiologists. The "second opinion" offered by CAD has the potential to reduce radiologists' interpretation time because they can focus on the small number of regions indicated as suspicious by CAD and quickly survey a large portion of the colon that is likely to be normal. Like CAD for mammography, high-performance CAD in CT colonography has the potential to reduce perceptual errors and variability among readers, improving detection performance.12,13
Studies suggest that, for CT colonography to be cost-effective for colorectal polyp screening, the interpretation time needs to be reduced substantially to the range of three to five minutes while a high sensitivity of more than 80% is maintained.14 CAD can be a key technology in moving CT colonography from the research arena to routine clinical practice and, especially, to the screening setting.14 In the past several years, researchers have developed prototype CAD systems for the automated detection of polyps with CT colonography.6,7,9
Most CAD schemes consist of the following steps: extraction of the colon from 3D volume generated from axial CT colonographic images, detection of polyp candidates in the extracted colon, removal of false positives from the polyp candidates, and display of detected polyps. Key techniques for the first three steps are described below.
- Extraction of the colon. Several fully automated methods for extraction of the colon have been developed.15,16 One of the most effective approaches is the extraction of a thick region that encompasses the entire colon.17 Although several investigators use a surface-generation method for extraction of the inner surface of the colonic wall,15,18,19 this risks losing a part of a polyp, in particular, the internal structure. The approach based on a thick region can extract a major portion of a polyp, including its internal structure, and thus can detect polyps more accurately than is possible by the surface-generation method.
A group at the University of Chicago has developed a two-step method of knowledge-guided segmentation20 for fully automated extraction of the thick region encompassing the entire colon. The first step removes the normal structures that are not connected to the colon, such as the area surrounding the body region ("outer air"), the osseous structures (spine, pelvis, and parts of the ribs), and the lung bases, based on thresholding of the 3D volume with the CT values characteristic of these structures. The colon is then segmented from the remaining region by thresholding of the CT and gradient magnitude values corresponding to the colonic wall. The resulting segmentation contains extracolonic structures, such as the stomach and small bowel, that are connected to the colon. The second step applies a self-adjusting volume-growing method to the colonic lumen surrounded by the colonic wall identified in the first step. Because most parts of the small bowel and stomach adhering to the colon are in contact with the colonic wall, but not with the colonic lumen, intersection of this grown region and the colonic wall removes these adhering extracolonic structures and thus determines the final region encompassing only the colon. A further advantage is that this approach can reliably extract a partly collapsed colon. Figure 1 shows an example of the knowledge-guided segmentation process.
-Detection of polyp candidates. After the entire colon is extracted, polyp candidates are detected by extraction of geometric features that characterize polyps at each point in the colonic wall. The colonic wall appears as a large, nearly flat, cuplike structure (Figure 2). Methods for detection of polyps need to characterize these shape differences among polyps, folds, and the colonic wall. Various methods address this need, including volumetric shape index,7 surface curvature,19 surface normal overlap,21 and sphere fitting.11
The volumetric shape index is shown to be highly effective in characterizing these shapes. The shape index analyzes the vicinity of a voxel and places a voxel in one of five topologic classes: cup, rut, saddle, ridge, or cap. The highest shape index values that correspond to a caplike shape are of particular interest because many polyps exhibit this shape. Color coding of the anatomic structures in the colonic lumen based on the shape index can differentiate among polyps, folds, and colonic walls (Figure 3).
After calculation of the geometric feature, the polyp candidates are detected by hysteresis thresholding, which extracts sets of spatially connected voxels having shape index and curvedness values characteristic of polyps, followed by conditional morphological dilation,22 which extracts the entire region corresponding to a polyp by iteratively adding a layer of voxels to the surface of the region extracted by hysteresis thresholding.
-Removal of false-positive detections. The polyp candidates thus detected may include false positives, and methods for reducing their number include CT attenuation,6 random orthogonal shape section,10 optical flow, and texture analysis.24
Studies have shown that prominent folds and stool are major sources of false positives.8,9 A gradient-based feature called gradient concentration is particularly effective for reducing false positives due to folds.24 This feature measures the degree of concentration of the gradient orientations of the CT values in the vicinity of a voxel. Generally, polyps are hemispherical objects on the colonic wall, and the gradient vectors at voxels on the boundary between the polyp and luminal air converge to a point deep in the center of the polyp. Folds, on the other hand, are elongated and ridgelike. The gradient vectors at voxels on the boundary between the fold and luminal air converge to a line. Because of these differences, the distribution of the gradient concentration at a voxel can be an effective means for differentiating folds from polyps.
Stool differentiation is based on differences in the internal density variation between polyps and stool. These density variations are caused by the tendency of stool to contain air bubbles that can be recognized on CT images as an inhomogeneous textural pattern, or mottle pattern. In contrast, polyps tend to have a homogeneous textural pattern, or solid pattern, without intratumoral air. Thus, the use of the variance of CT values that characterize the homogeneity of the CT density within a polyp is helpful.24
The final detected polyps are obtained by application of a statistical classifier, which is based on the image features extracted in these steps, to the differentiation of polyps from false positives. Researchers use nonparametric classifiers such as neural networks11 and a support vector machine.10 Any combination of features and a classifier that provides high classification performance, however, should be sufficient for the differentiation task. The group at the University of Chicago developed feature-guided analysis22 for determination of a representative subregion of a polyp for calculation of the above two textural features and then applied quadratic discriminant analysis to the feature space generated by the shape index and the textural features. Quadratic discriminant analysis is a parametric classifier that generates a decision boundary that optimally partitions the feature space into a polyp class and a false-positive class based on supervised learning.
Several academic institutions are conducting early clinical trials to demonstrate the performance of their CAD schemes. They compare the locations of the polyps detected by CAD with the true locations of polyps that are determined visually in CT colonography data sets. In a by-patient analysis, the CAD scheme developed at the University of Chicago yielded 100% sensitivity with 1.3 false positives per patient. In a by-polyp analysis, the sensitivity was 95% (20 out of 21), with 1.5 false positives.
These preliminary results indicate that CAD in detection of polyps is promising, with high sensitivity and a low false-positive rate. Extension to a larger database, retrospectively and prospectively, will be needed for confirmation of the performance of these CAD schemes.
The types of pitfalls included in the CAD results are similar to those experienced by radiologists.8,9 Most of the CAD schemes assume that a polyp appears to be a polypoid lesion. Sessile polyps that do not protrude sufficiently into the lumen, those distorted by normal structures, and those that lose their parts due to the partial volume effect may be missed by CAD. Figure 4 shows an 8-mm polyp missed by our CAD scheme. The polyp was located at a narrow valley where two folds merged, and thus the shape of the polyp was distorted from a polypoid shape.
Studies conducted at the University of Chicago show the major causes of false positives detected by the CAD scheme:7,25 Approximately 40% were caused by folds (Figure 5). These consisted of sharp folds at the sigmoid, folds prominent on the colon wall, two converging folds, ends of folds in the tortuous colon, and folds in a colon that was not sufficiently distended. About 20% were caused by retained stool (Figure 6), which is often a major source of error for radiologists. Around 15% were caused by residual materials inside the small bowel and stomach, and 10% were caused by ileocecal valves.
All of these false positives exhibited polyplike shapes,8,25 but most could easily be distinguished from polyps by experienced radiologists. False positives due to stool, for example, are distinguishable from polyps by comparison of both prone and supine views and by examination of the cut-plane view to visualize the mottle pattern characteristic of stool. False positives due to ileocecal valves can be differentiated from polyps based on the characteristic location and appearance of the valve.
CAD for CT colonography is still under investigation, and a number of challenges must be met.26 Although the preliminary results are promising, the detection performance of CAD needs to improve, along with the determination of the optimal CT colonography protocol for CAD, including CT parameter settings. The resulting CAD should be evaluated based on multicenter, prospective clinical trials, rather than on a single-center, retrospective study. The ultimate goal of CAD is to improve the diagnostic performance of radiologists in the detection of polyps. Therefore, observer performance studies should be conducted for evaluation of the diagnostic performance of a radiologist with and without computer aid in a prospective fashion. Such studies have been conducted for CAD for mammography12 and chest radiography,13 successfully demonstrating the benefit of CAD.
Considerable interest has accompanied the application of stool subtraction techniques15,27 and low-dose CT scanning.28 Stool tagging changes the CT values of liquid stool, and thus it may improve the performance of CAD in differentiating polyps from stool. New CAD algorithms need to be developed, and fecal tagging will provide new challenges for CAD. Low-dose CT colonography is especially important for colon cancer screening, but low-dose CT scans come at the cost of increased image noise. Therefore, we need to investigate the effect of noise due to low dose on the performance of CAD. No research has yet been performed on this problem.
CAD for CT colonography is still under investigation. It shows potential for detecting polyps with high sensitivity and with a clinically acceptable low false-positive rate. If the preliminary results of CAD can be translated into a larger number of cases, radiologists will need to interpret only the few regions indicated by the CAD scheme in a CT colonography examination. Such an aid is expected to reduce the interpretation time substantially while maintaining or improving the diagnostic accuracy. CAD has the potential to bring CT colonography one step closer to cost-effective clinical practice, and especially to the screening setting.
DR. YOSHIDA is an assistant professor of radiology, and DR. DACHMAN is a clinical professor of radiology, both at the University of Chicago.
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Cheswick continues to explore water service options
Getting water for Cheswick residents while keeping the borough's collective head above it is the challenge council will wrestle with until next September.
That's when the initial three years of its contract to buy water from Harmar will expire. Cheswick pays Harmar $2.55 per thousand gallons.
However, the borough has an option for two more years at a cost of $2.65 per thousand gallons.
Councilman Frank Meledandri wants council to make a decision about supplying water to the borough into the future before the current contract ends.
"I think right now we are open to anything," he said Tuesday night.
Right now that cost of buying water is folded into a charge of $7 per 1,000 gallons that residents pay, which includes debt service on a previous bond issue for the water treatment plant.
That facility has been out of commission since March 2011 when filtration problems forced officials to close it.
Only Meledandri, president Vicki Roolf and Sherman Kephart were on hand when council discussed the situation at a non-voting meeting on Tuesday.
But they concurred that the borough should move ahead on all fronts regarding the options for securing water service for its residents.
Council agreed with Solicitor Tony Colangelo's suggestion, "if you want to get a ballpark on where you're at," that council seek proposals from neighboring municipalities to supply water on a long-term basis.
But it won't be just to supply bulk water.
Meledandri said the borough would ask interested water suppliers for proposals on taking over Cheswick's supply system and treatment plant.
That would mean the borough would bow out of the water business for good, but council members are concerned about what might happen to residents' water rates in the future.
"What we want is to come up with a proposal that gives security to the Cheswick residents," borough Treasurer Tom Cale said.
"What I want in there is something that says, 'Give me a proposal that makes the Cheswick residents the same as Oakmont customers, the same as the Harmar customers or the Springdale customers,' " Meledandri said.
Paul Jack, a borough resident and former councilman who was involved in building the water treatment plant, pointed out, "The only sure thing you have is developing your own water plant."
Renovating the borough's water plant is among the options.
Cale provided a water plant analysis sheet that he claims provides a rough estimate of that cost.
Cale estimated it at $1.042 million. For residents, Cale said that would translate into rate increase of $2.03 to $2.30 per thousand gallons, depending on the lending institution and interest rate.
However, Meledandri thinks that would be too much for residents to pay.
Holding up the sheet, he said that what it reported was enough for him to seek proposals from other water systems.
Jack, who serves on a special committee created by council to address the water issue, said council has to do its due diligence in evaluating all options.
"You need a total line-by-line breakdown of these costs. Otherwise, how do you evaluate them?" Jack said.
Meledandri said he would welcome the opportunity to incorporate Cheswick's water system with those of Harmar, Springdale and Frazer, governed by an authority that would make all the participants equal partners.
Tom Yerace is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-226-4675 or email@example.com.