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U.S. May Seek $5 Billion From S&P
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, joins The News Hub to discuss the Justice Department's move to sue S&P over crisis-era credit ratings on complex mortgage securities. Photo: Reuters.
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Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." Update: More of the discussion here.

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New Zealanders being treated as so-called "second-class citizens" in Australia will be a hot issue when Prime Minister John Key meets his counterpart Julia Gillard over the weekend.
The pair will hold annual trans-Tasman prime ministerial talks in Queenstown on Friday and Saturday, with the meeting also marking 30 years of the Closer Economic Relations trade deal, which Mr Key says has made Australia and New Zealand two of the most integrated economies in the world.
Despite such strong ties and paying tax to the Australian government for years, an estimated 280,000 New Zealand residents who have arrived in Australia since 2001 are on temporary or special category visas, meaning they are denied voting rights, access to welfare benefits and student loans.
A joint productivity commission report last year said Australia's selection criteria and quotas for permanent residence may prevent more than 100,000 "temporary resident" New Zealanders ever getting it, recommending the Australian government make changes.
According to internal Australian immigration documents, one potential change is allowing New Zealanders who have lived in Australia for eight years or more to gain permanent residency.
Mr Key says he's raised the issue of Kiwis' rights with Ms Gillard previously, and Australian lawmakers have given it some consideration.
He has no doubt it will be on the agenda again this weekend.
"There are a number of factors they need to consider. One of them is obviously the financial implications but then there is whether they think there is fairness in the system as it currently sits," he said.
"We always encourage a situation where New Zealanders are treated well and fairly, but that can have different definitions in different places."
Ultimately, any decision rests with the Australian government, Mr Key said, adding that New Zealanders heading across the Tasman to live need to be aware of their obligations and entitlements.
Mr Key said New Zealand's treatment of Australians living here is clearly different, and his government has no plans to change that.


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Over the weekend, Nokia released a new feature phone, the 8110 4G - a re-imagining of the phone used in The Matrix. I really like the design of this phone, and at a price of just €79, it looks like a steal. The most interesting part of the phone, other than its lovely design, is the operating system it runs. It's called KaiOS, a distant cousin to Firefox OS.
KaiOS is not Firefox OS. Our platform is based on the original Mozilla project. We even have people from the original Mozilla team in our engineering and UX departments. But KaiOS has been developed into something much more robust and expanded than the original Firefox OS. Think of us as distant cousins, not siblings nor children.
It's a HTML5-based operating system already in use in a whole bunch of phones today - they claim it's already on 30 million phones in India and North America - and on the 8110 4G, it has that traditional, classic Nokia design with a modern touch. I'm really curious to see just how powerful or expandable (maybe even hackable?) this feature phone platform is.
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When hiring a criminal lawyer, a defendant should understand that the experience and capabilities of the lawyer will drastically affect his or her chances of a positive case outcome. Criminal defense attorneys greatly affect their clients' cases by directly influencing court proceedings.
One of the most important ways that a criminal lawyer influences a case is by researching and investigating, which serves an important purpose when building an alibi or when countering claims from the prosecution. Evidence is always essential in criminal trials, and by accessing police records, listening to the defendant and taking other important steps, a knowledgeable criminal lawyer can have this evidence on the ready for when court proceedings begin.
For instance, if a criminal lawyer claimed that their client was in a car accident on the night of a crime, the lawyer will also have to present evidence that proves this claim. Regardless of what the criminal lawyer claimed, he or she will need to convince the court with real evidence, and more often than not, this is only available with significant research and investigation.
Criminal lawyers also explain case options to their clients and work closely with them to develop a plan for representation. They avoid key mistakes that other non-specialized lawyers might make to drastically improve the defendant's chances of a successful case result. By hiring experienced attorneys, defendants can get peace of mind and much more thorough, dependable representation.


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I have developed some programs that are working well with 3D stereoscopic view.
But I am in trouble with a program which is not originally mine and I should work on!
Its functions of stereoscopic view work fine when I replace them in other programs but they do not work in the original one.
I have enabled GLUT_STEREO but when I get GL_STEREO it returns false!
My left and right back buffers seem that do not work. So when I draw the image once for the left eye and once for the right eye the second image is drawn on the first image. Thus nothing is 3D.
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Back in May, I had the pleasure of driving the Ford Focus Electric around the city of Portland, Oregon. It was a fun, albeit brief, drive that left me surprisingly impressed by Ford's first all-electric vehicle. Not only did it tout some truly impressive efficiency numbers (105 MPGe and an official range of 76 miles on a single charge), but it also managed to handle well and accelerate with a vigor not found in your standard gasoline-engine car.
But all is not well in EV land. Despite its early success with the Focus EV, Ford still refuses to throw sufficient resources behind its electric vehicles, and will continue to lag behind the competition until it does.
Unlike electric competitors like Mitsubishi and Nissan, Ford has refused to build a dedicated EV platform. Instead, Ford has made it clear it wishes to tackle this segment with a multi-faceted approach, offering different levels of entry to suit the needs of consumers.
For instance, on top of eco-boosted models — which feature smaller, more efficient, turbocharged engines — Ford will also introduce hybrid versions of many of its upcoming vehicles. This year alone marks the arrival of the Focus EV and the C-Max Energi, while the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi will begin cropping up in dealerships early next year.
Choices are good, but so is clear-cut game plan. And Ford doesn't have a real one when it comes to electrics.
Despite the growing green hue emanating from Ford's PR department, it's largely business as usual behind the scenes. For instance, the company recently announced it was opening a new "Electrification Center of Excellence" down the street from its Dearborn, Michigan headquarters. But as with the Focus EV, this "new" center is more of a refresh than an original creation. It's housed in Ford's old 285,000-square foot research and development lab, previously known as the Advanced Engineering Center.
Okay, so a little reshuffling is fine, smart even. But how much money will Ford actually dedicate to EVs? It has hired some 60 engineers to help populate its refocused facility, bringing the total tally of its investment to $135 million. At first glance this seems like a fair chunk of change, but considering that General Motors has spent almost $750 million on the Chevrolet Volt, it still seems Ford is content with dipping its toes in the pool, rather than just jumping in.
Using existing platforms might make sense from an accounting perspective. After all — researching, designing, and developing an entirely new vehicle from scratch is always going to cost a pretty penny. However, there are some drawbacks to merely repurposing existing vehicles with EV components.
Slapping an electric drivetrain might seem like a good idea, but unless a car is optimized with the right aerodynamics, structure, weight, and other design factors, you've already sacrificed some efficiency right off the bat. Electric vehicles also have to accommodate a rather large and heavy battery, so it's important for the initial design layout to take that into account. The Ford Focus, in all its incognito EV glory, hasn't really been optimized for any of these factors. Cars like the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi iMev might look quirky, but they look that way for a reason, not to simply stand out at a red light or make some lofty political statement. It's the same reason why you wouldn't slap a Ferrari engine inside a Camry; you'll lose a vast amount of what makes a car like that so special.
From a cost perspective, Ford might be saving money up front, but it will end up spending more money in the long term, since small quantity conversions always cost more than a large-volume production line. Using the same platform as the standard Focus gives Ford a cheap start with the Focus EV, but the battery cost piles on an excruciating $12,000 to $15,000 per car – a cost that would be lower in greater volume.
People are often quick to criticize companies like Nissan, Tesla, and even Fisker, but the fact that these automakers are out there trying to innovate shouldn't be met with derision. Of course these companies could be doing more to lessen the criticism; Fisker has more problems than Jay-Z, Nissan isn't hitting its sales target, and Tesla can't seem build the Model S fast enough.
Don't think Ford is the only company skirting around the EV question. Equal scorn belongs at the feet of Honda, which has built an excellent all-electric vehicle in the Fit EV, but like Ford, refused to commit to a true EV platform. Automakers like Mazda, Volkswagen, Subaru, and even Toyota aren't doing enough nurture the EV market either. Other than Nissan and Mitsubishi, no other major automaker has a dedicated, high-volume pure EV (remember the Volt has an engine) out now or coming soon.
Ford's strategy is an admirable one, and it's clear the goal is to elevate its fuel-efficiency cache to traditional mileage kings such as Honda, Toyota, and the like. For that, we have nothing but praise. But to stay up to speed with electrification, Ford could do more, including developing a true all-electric vehicle platform and diverting more resources overall to its future EV projects. The goal here is to innovate, not stagnate. The company has the resources and ability to operate on the cutting edge, but right now it just seems content with keeping pace.
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ASUS M3N78 Pro Review
Recently, we have done several motherboard reviews featuring the NVIDIA GeForce 8200 chipset, which is geared towards mainstream computer users for projects like HTPCs, workstations, and casual gaming rigs. The GeForce 8200 chipset utilizes an onboard GPU - or mGPU - which brings DirectX 10 and HD playback capabilities to a user without the need for a discrete graphics card, which cuts down on costs and increases performance. Now, take all of that and add higher clock speeds and you have the newer GeForce 8300 chipset. Not long ago, computer builders shunned a motherboard with an mGPU, but these days the technology has erupted - mGPUs are becoming the norm, especially in PCs used for video editing and decoding.
Today, we are going to look at the ASUS M3N78 Pro, which is based on that newer GeForce 8300 chipset. The ASUS M3N78 Pro brings this great new technology to the AMD crowd, supporting both AM2 and AM2+ CPUs - including future 140w TDP Phenom CPUs (current Phenom CPUs max out at 125w TDP). Another interesting feature I found out about the ASUS M3N78 Pro is that it's the first AMD platform motherboard to natively support 1066MHz DDR2 memory. So do I have your attention yet? Well, how about we take a better look at the M3N78 Pro board now!
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At first look, this motherboard package gets my interest piqued - the front of the box shows off some of its great features, like HDMI support, Hybrid SLI, all solid capacitors, Express Gate technology, and it's even able to decode HD audio and video on the board! The back of the box expands on what's got me going, with a more in depth look at some of the main features of the ASUS M3N78 Pro.
Wow, after reading all of that I felt like a kid on Christmas, because I could not wait until I could get my hands on what was inside. Flipping open the lid of the box, you can see all of the goodies inside. ASUS has included everything you need to get up and running with the M3N78 Pro. Inside there's the motherboard itself, a manual, a driver CD, three SATA cables, two SATA power adapters, and IDE cable, a floppy cable, the I/O shield, a pack of Q-Connectors, an HDMI to DVI adapter, and a VGA bracket. The VGA port on the M3N78 Pro slides into an empty PCI slot on the case, and plugs directly into the motherboard. I will be taking a better look at this in the next section.
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U-M Library receives $1.25 million Mellon Grant for conservation
The U-M Library has received a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an endowed conservation librarian position.
The new position will enable the library to expand its well-established conservation program, which plays a vital role in ensuring that the library's vast print collection is available for research, exhibition, and digitization.
The library is to receive $1 million from the foundation, which it will match by raising funds to create a total $2 million endowment within three years. The foundation also will provide $250,000 in spendable funds to hire and support the conservation librarian for the first three years.
The grant is among the largest the library has ever received.
Shannon Zachary, head of the library's Department of Preservation and Conservation, says the Mellon-funded position will benefit scholars locally and worldwide.
"After more than 150 years of building collections to meet the educational and research needs of the university, the library has amassed a print collection of extraordinary breadth and depth. It has print holdings of over 8 million volumes, the largest collection of ancient papyrus manuscripts in the Western Hemisphere, and thousands of rare and special items," Zachary says.
"An exciting aspect of preserving materials in the U-M Library is the library's culture of sharing and commitment to open access. That means that materials preserved here are made available to as broad a community as possible and will support scholarship and the advancement of knowledge for centuries to come."
Zachary says that, in addition to supporting the preservation of both circulating and special collections print materials, the new conservation librarian will help the library to keep pace with the demand for digital access.
"The digitization of unique archival and special collections material requires substantial commitment from conservation staff, which evaluates and sometimes repairs items prior to scanning, and monitors the impact of the imaging process on the materials," she says.
Paul N. Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries, says, "We're enormously grateful to the Mellon Foundation for their support, which will enhance our ability to preserve the cultural and scholarly record and to share our holdings with the world."


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Hi Bro, Please comment or vote on my designs for Bright Futures Neon Art Contest, Thanks.
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Hi Bro, Please comment or vote on my designs for Bright Futures Neon Art Contest, Thanks.
Hi INDZ,
I was just going through your entry in The Dark Knight Rises contest and loved your design.. Hats off… so simple yet catchy.. Keep up the good work..
You should definitely take part in this Batman T-Shirt design contest.. I am sure you can design something creative and different from other entries.. Would love to see an awesome design from you..
Sir pls vote my design on Threadless hoody challenge, thanks!
Please vote & comment on my designs!
Hello INDZ!
I am Wagner Nogueira, Brazilian comics artist. I entered now this difficult and fun world of designs for shirts. I like so much of your designs and today, in addition to introduce myself, i came to ask a little help on a challenge that i am participating. See the post on my blog that you will better understand:
Thank you! You're awesome!
Big Hug!
Hey! have a look my new artwork, wish u like…thanks!
Hey INDZ, I would like to get in contact with you, really love your designs. Could you send me your details to email@example.com? Would be awesome. Thanks and have a nice day!
wah,edan tenan..wes menang ping 2 :D
bantu vote ndra hehehehehehe:
i LOVE your designs! i want them all!
I liked a lot your Red Moon t-shirt, one of my favs, Too bad I couldn't get it on time!
I will wait for reprint.
halo bro salam kenal….
anda kok sering menang rahasianya apa ya…hehehe :)
great designs
nice play of colors.
Cool stuff. ^^
Hello INDZ,
This design is very eye catching, with the bright colors and fierce look on the cat's face.
I have a favor to ask you…I am a researcher with the University of Minnesota in the apparel department, and we're currently surveying people who participate in co-design sites like this one.
We want to know what you like about it, what motivated you to start, and what you think could be improved.
If you are interested in participating, please access it at the below URL.
The most important part is describing in as much detail as you can, since we are really trying to understand the process from your perspective.
congrats bro bwt WILD PAINT, great work!!
salam kenal,
sukses selalu!! =D
one of the BEST animal shirts I've seen!
CONGRATS...that was a very nice print on your WILD PAINT design.


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Candice Swanepoel and Erin Heatherton get close at a Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Tour stop, held at the Victoria's Secret at Herald Square on Tuesday (March 13) in New York City.
The Victoria's Secret Angels have been making stops across the country to show off the Very Sexy Bra. Late last month, Erin and Candice met up with Adriana Lima for a tour stop in Miami, Fla.
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This is part of BabyCenter's new series: Question of the Day. Simply look for "QOTD" in the title and join us with your answer!
Today's question: We were all perfect moms before we had children. Can you recall something you swore you'd never ever do once you were a mom (i.e. co-sleep, feed your child fast food). How about something you promised yourself you'd always do (feed your child only organic foods, read books every single night)?
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Actress Eva Green is baffled by the controversy over her banned film poster for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For because she thought the raunchy shot was "really sexy".
The Casino Royale star hit headlines last month (May14) when officials at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rejected an advertising picture for the new film for featuring too much "nudity".
The poster showed Green brandishing a gun while wearing a sheer robe which displayed her breasts, but the actress can't understand why the shot was ruled to be offensive.
She tells Vanity Fair magazine, "Oh, my God, I heard about that. I find it a bit odd. It seems like it's all just publicity - a lot of noise for nothing. You have so many more violent things in the movie business and this is kind of soft. I'm not naked. It's suggested. I find it really sexy, actually. It's kind of beautiful. But if it shocks people, I don't know what to do about it. I don't want to upset anybody."


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Onward to a real impeachment
Enough with all the phony impeachment talk.
Onward to a real impeachment!
In the absurdist capital we live in, it would be good for all sides — in ways you may not have considered.
President Barack Obama's threat to bypass obstinate Republican lawmakers with executive actions — "I've got a pen and I've got a phone" — may have seemed a bit of a wimpy cop-out in January. But now he has a chance to turn it into a historic battle cry.
He gives a passionate address to the nation, channeling 2004 Obama, and asks, as the son of a foreigner who came to America to go to school, how our mosaic of immigrants soured into such a cruel place toward displaced children.
He defies the Republicans and shoots the moon on an executive order, giving backdoor amnesty to millions of undocumented Hispanic immigrants as well as all those suffering kids on the border who are afraid to live in their own violent countries.
The Republicans go absolutely nuts and realize that their lawsuit, the mini-me of impeachment, will not suffice. They hesitate to go as far as a Swiftian solution, selling the children to rich people as food. So they race back into session and try the president for the high crime and misdemeanor of abusing his power.
It gives the party, which is ripping itself apart trying to figure out what it stands for, a clear identity: You can count on Republicans to always impeach Democratic presidents in their second terms. GOP will become short for Gratuitously Ousting Presidents.
They won't be able to win the White House ever again after alienating every Hispanic in the country, but they can bask in presidentus interruptus.
Republicans could finally take on Obama to a degree that would make their crazed base happy — or as happy as this begrudging, seething crowd and their mindless, malcontent queen, Sarah Palin, are capable of being.
Presidential candidates who support impeachment would thrive in the primaries because the rabid anti-Obama base would reward them. A recent CNN poll reported that 57 percent of Republicans support impeaching Obama — and that is before any bold executive action on immigration or preventing corporations from fleeing America to dodge taxes.
Democratic candidates, struggling in this election season, wouldn't have to think of silly excuses not to appear on the trail with the president while Republican candidates jockey to get a blessing from Mitt Romney.
The biggest beneficiary, of course, would be Obama.
If Congress makes him the first-ever president removed by impeachment, his popularity will soar from its current nadir, maybe even approaching Bill Clinton heights. It would validate the president's whining that he could never work with the Republicans and cement their reputation as world-class thwarters.
It would endear him to Democrats for years to come because he lost the highest office in the land going to bat for them. They would finally forgive Obama for running for president — twice — when he scorned politics.
Fed-up Americans would decide to actually go vote this year for Democrats and save them from the losses they seem headed for.
Best of all, Obama could take an extra-early slide out of the job he doesn't seem to enjoy.
He and an ecstatic Michelle could move back to Chicago or up to New York, leaving the despised Washington in the dust. He could indulge in the speechifying, edifying and modulating that he loves so much.
As a master of narrative, the president knows that he lost control of his own. An impeachment would allow him to recast his story in a vivid new light.
Right now, his story is the boring — and bored — president who can't get Congress to do anything and is just coasting into irrelevance. After taking big risks early in his presidency, with health care and the bin Laden raid, he seemed to sink into disgust at the gnarled system, slacking off and playing golf.
But if he got thrown out of office for taking an audacious risk, showing he was willing to fight for something and stand up to the nihilists, racists and tea party loonies, his narrative would leap into "High Noon" drama.
Oh, and there's a final person it would be really good for — and he's owed one.
Joe Biden would get to be president — the shot that Obama and his strategists have been reluctant to give the loyal vice president, preferring to boost former rival Hillary Clinton.
Unlike Obama, Biden enjoys schmoozing, jawboning, logrolling, arm-twisting and deal-making with lawmakers 'til the cows come home.
And, as we learned in the new Ronald Kessler book on the Secret Service, Biden likes to swim in the nude. So he'd certainly be a president who believes in transparency.
Maureen Dowd writes for the New York Times.


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KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd July 2006
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDevelop gets new configuration framework functionality. The start of a Satellite tracks feature in KStars. Support for PDF data extraction, and speed optimisations in Strigi. New features in KPhotoAlbum (KPhotoAlbum is the new name for KimDaBa). Perspective grid support in Krita, with the implementation of a Bezier tool becoming feature-complete. More work on unit conversions in KRecipes. Porting of KRDC to KDE 4.
I see a lot of bugfixes !
By zvonsully at Sun, 2006/07/23 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 3.5.4 :))
reads like *breakthrough* technology :-)
By ch at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 3.5.4 :))
I agree. I especially like seeing all the KHTML fixes.
Also, it's nice to see the fix for Bug 128610: kscreensaver does not launch screensaver after x minutes.
By Elijah Lofgren at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: KDE 3.5.4 :))
I for one welcome our KDE 3.5-patching overlords.
By JVz at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
On the Webkit news.
So is this basically an admission that KHTML is being dumped in favor of Webkit? More's the pity.
By anon at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
Looks more like KHTML will (possibly) be resynced up with WebKit, which would greatly increase the number of developers working directly on the code.
By Corbin at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
given that webkit is a khtml fork which has had a good amount of cross pollination of patches with khtml, if it does occur (there's still more work to be done before that is a for sure thing of course) it mostly means bringing a greater number of developers working on the same branch of the code.
what are you concerned might be lost in this? (your message is a bit vague on the details =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
IIRC, after the apples had decided to use KHTML, the problem with webkit was that they only cared about some fubared websites being displayed correctly and added lots of quick hacks to webkit, making the code more complicated and cluttered and slowly killing KHTMLs clean design.
I have no clue of KHTML(s design), this is just what I remember. Not true?
By me at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
it is quite true that the kde khtml devs had a higher code quality standard in certain places than the apple webkit khtml devs did. not to the point of making webkit khtml unhackable or a nightmare. and working together should help improve that while bringing more people to bear on the codebase. this should result in more bugfixes (ours and theirs), more features (ours and theirs) and more code correctness.
or it could simply lead nowhere and we maintain the khtml root branch forever. we'll see in the next 4-6 months.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
The question is: What breaks khtml?
Maybe I am wrong but page rendering is not really a problem anymore. I did not come across pages which broke, some rendered better. Speed is a problem but as processor power grows solved by time.
Today we have four mature engines and all work pretty well.
The problems of konqueror are usabilitywise. E.g. ugly popups. This is what annoys users, not khtml. Khtml is good enough. So if webkit results in more patches even better. I wonder why nobody tried to write a safari clone yet.
By Itchy at Tue, 2006/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
> but page rendering is not really a problem anymore
yes, things are -very- good in khtml these days. there are still websites that bork, however (such as my hotel's gateway page last week which prevented me from getting an ip address). beyond rendering there are performance improvements and feature enhancements such as richtext editing and canvas.
> if webkit results in more patches even better
exactly the point =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2006/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
By Marc Driftmeyer at Fri, 2006/07/28 - 5:00am
Re: On the Webkit news.
> Speed is a problem but as processor power grows solved by time.
I don't give a **** what processor power is nowadays, I want software to run nicely on a 400Mhz.
By Nicolas at Tue, 2007/06/12 - 5:00am
Did you not get the Memo?
> KPhotoAlbum is the new name for KimDaBa
What was so wrong with the old name that a change of capitalisation couldn't fix? I can sort-of understand changing as it's not entirely obvious, but surely you could have found something better than yet another KWhatIAmName??? I think we're all in general agreement that we're past that now, surely? It's OK for the desktop utilities that are part of the main project, but for an add-on app a little originality wouldn't go astray.
If you're going to make the effort of re-naming everything, make sure it's worth the effort. I'm sure the peanut gallery can come up with a few suggestions? In a foreign language perhaps? Heck, feel free to drop the K entirely! Maybe run a competition, winner gets their name in the 'About' dialog?
By odysseus at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: Did you not get the Memo?
I agree. KPhotoAlbum is a very generic KDE application name, while KimDaBA has a certain unique ring to it and sounds much more like a full-blown application. KimDaBa is easier to pronounce, to type, to remember and is not so repelling for non-KDE users. I'm usually not the one to complain about stuff like that, but that change is not a good idea, IMHO.
By Michael Jahn at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: Did you not get the Memo?
These "unusual" names have a big advantage: If you have trouble, just put it in google and you won't be flooded with results. Besides, strange names are easier to remember since they stand out. And hey, there funny.
By Andreas Jensen at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: Did you not get the Memo?
I really had my troubles with remembering Kimdarba. It's like trying to remember some names from cultures that I'm not so familiar with -- like thai city names or asian dishes. So with respect to this I disagree.
Apart from that: People complained before the name change. There was a chance to voice up and suggest a better name to the author. And now some people complain again. Have we really turned into a group of complainers?
I don't think this is even worth a discussion. KPhotoalbum is unique and catchy enough to appear in google without any chance to mix it up with something else. And it's immediately clear what it's meant for.
Long live KPhotoalbum!
By Monkey Boy at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: Did you not get the Memo?
Well, I took the chance and suggested to stay at KimDaBa but I was overruled. This is ok with me, majority decides. But KPhotoAlbum may be unique, but searches get more fuzzy and may left the leading K out, since this makes it a regular word, and voila you're in trouble.
By Andreas Jensen at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
don't kill my sweet heart kde3.5
I read about the future release plan of KDE3.5.4 it says tagged on 23-07-06, but where is the plan for further release of KDE3.5 please don't tell me that 3.5.4 is the last release
I really love my kde3.5
By morphado at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: don't kill my sweet heart kde3.5
If you love 3.5, then keep using it! You don't have to stop using it just because no further releases are planned.
By LMCBoy at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: don't kill my sweet heart kde3.5
That's was really a funny answer.
By Ignacio Monge at Mon, 2006/07/24 - 5:00am
Re: don't kill my sweet heart kde3.5
I think people should care about the long lag between 3.5.4 and upcoming release of kde4,specially when most distribution who care about stability will wait till kde4 become really stable let says at last kde4.0.1
Gnome people should be really happy
By MORPHADO at Tue, 2006/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: don't kill my sweet heart kde3.5
It happened before: people were stuck on KDE 1.1.1 for _ages_ before KDE 2.0 came out, and it didn't have too much of an effect. Some people moved over to Gnome which had gained theming support, but they moved back to KDE when it came out. I imagine the same will happen once more, although I'm just moving _back_ from Ubuntu to Debian Sarge running KDE, as that is the system that works for me.
As for distributions waiting for stability, that's a bit of a joke: the only distributions that wait are Debian and the enterprise desktops (RHEL, SLED). Pretty much everyone else (Fedora, OpenSuSE, *Ubuntu) jumps right in at the earliest opportunity. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some installable live-CDs floating around with KDE 4-beta when it ships.
By Bryan Feeney at Tue, 2006/07/25 - 5:00am
New file in SVN causes exception in ViewCVS Diff
I clicked the _Diff_ link to read the flake-overview, and http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/libs/flake/flake-overview?r1=564922&... displayed "ViewCVS Exception Invalid path(s) or revision(s) passed to diff"
The r1 revision number is bogus. This may be happening because it's a new file, not a change. The exception also happens when I click the _Diff_ link for other new files, e.g. new Arev font
It would be nifty if the commit-digest could tell it's a new file so instead of saying "Thomas Zander committed a change to /trunk/koffice/libs/flake/flake-overview: ... _Diff_" it said "commited new file(s) ... _View_" with a link to View instead of Diff.
I really appreciate these summaries!
By S Page at Tue, 2006/07/25 - 5:00am


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By Kristen Welker
NBC News
It was far from a victory lap. Speaking from the Rose Garden Tuesday, President Obama called the plan to raise the debt ceiling, "an important first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means." Mr. Obama then proceeded to lash out at Congress saying, "it shouldn't take the risk of default – the risk of economic catastrophe – to get folks in this town to work together and do their jobs."
The duality of the President's remarks capped off a long process that has been rife with heated debate and partisan wrangling. After the speech, Mr. Obama signed the compromise plan with just hours to spare before the nation would have defaulted on its loans.
The President also seemed to want to turn the page on the debt limit debate by focusing on the future. He reiterated his call for Congress to take some immediate steps which he says would create jobs including: extending tax cuts for middle-class families, passing patent reform, and passing a set of trade deals. The familiar remarks were an indication that the President is trying to steer the conversation back to jobs and the economy and away from the ugly debate that has dominated the nation's Capital for the past several months.
But, it's not clear if the nation is ready to move on. According to a recent Washington Post, Pew Research Center poll, almost three quarters of Americans had a negative word to describe how they viewed the budget negotiations. The top words included, "ridiculous, disgusting and stupid."
Acknowledging that public frustration, the President reiterated another familiar sentiment: "Voters may have chosen divided government, but they sure didn't vote for dysfunctional government." When White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, was asked if the President felt that he bore some of the responsibility for the "dysfunction," Carney would only say, "I think that this President from very early on in this process made abundantly clear his willingness to compromise, his willingness to accept the fact that he would not in this environment, in this divided government, get everything that he wanted."
The compromise plan will increase the nation's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit through 2012 and will be matched with about $1 trillion dollars in deficit reductions. Under the second phase of the plan, a bipartisan, bicameral "Super-Committee" will be charged with identifying about $1.5 trillion dollars more in deficit reductions (through entitlement and tax reform). If the committee does not act by Thanksgiving, mandatory across the board cuts go into effect to defense and discretionary spending. Many Democrats are upset because they say the plan will unfairly target the poor and the middle class, and some Republicans argue the cuts don't go deep enough.
In essence, few were celebrating the passage of the bill, but everyone was breathing a sigh of relief having averted what many economists warned would be a global financial crisis if the debt ceiling were not raised. "We've got to do everything in our power to grow this economy and put American back to work" Mr. Obama warned. He and everyone else in D.C. hopes the nation can now, finally, move forward.
President Obama delivers a statement on the bipartisan debt bill that recently passed in both the House and Senate. The legislation pairs an increase in the government's borrowing cap with promises of more than $2 trillion in budget cuts over the upcoming decade.


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We regularly receive queries from individuals to find out if their scores qualify for World or Regional records.
Although the IFAA By-Laws Article III section F mentions what records are recognized, it is often not clearly understood why some record scores are recognized while others are not.
The principle behind recognizing a record is quite simple:
- The archer who shoots the record must be a member in good standing with the IFAA member association.
It goes without saying that "guest" archers cannot shoot IFAA records.
- 2. The tournament must be IFAA sanctioned.
Qualifying for World records currently are:
- The Field Rounds and Hunter Rounds of the World Field Archery Championships
- The World Indoor Archery and Regional Indoor Championships
- The Field Rounds and Hunter Rounds of the Regional Field Archery Championships
The principle of giving IFAA sanction to a tournament is that the tournament must be an international tournament, meaning that at least two member associations compete. However such tournament does not necessary qualify for breaking World records as such qualification also depends on the type and quality of the ranges, the number of nations competing, the type and quality of technical control and others.
- 3. Conditions other than climatic conditions and topography must be the same for each Round.
Even though the Field and Hunter rounds differ greatly in degree of difficulty and endurance from region to region, country to country and even from range to range, they all have regulated fixed distances with regulated fixed target sizes with fixed dimensions of the various score areas.
Indoor Rounds do not differ at all and are the same everywhere.
This however does not apply to the Marked Animal round.
Shooting distances are only defined by a maximum distance and a minimum distance which varies 20 yards in distance in the Group 1 faces and 10 yards in the Group 4 faces.
Although the "Kill" area is defined for each group, the size of the printed animal is not defined which allows for a great variation in the "Wound" area.
In fact, measurements have shown that the ratio between "Kill" area and "Wound" area can vary over 100% between targets of the same group.
This anomaly influences the score greatly, especially in the various unsighted styles.
Scoring conditions therefore differ from range to range depending on the brand of target faces that are used.
A similar problem exists with unmarked Rounds where unmarked shooting distances result in one more anomaly than the marked rounds.
The IFAA therefor does not recognize World or Regional records for these types of rounds. There is simply too much variation that allows a tournament organizer to set up a very difficult or a very easy range by simply manipulating target sizes and distances.
We therefore can only speak of "Best" score, not "World Record".
The only recognition by the IFAA for these rounds is for the "Perfect" score of 560. Fair to say that those scores in the unmarked rounds so not happen that often and can be seen as a real achievement.
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Once our client reviewed and approved the images of Alexander the Great [from a vast selection of photographs of every Alexander bust and full figure sculpture ever done] sourced from the internet and various books, then the sculptor went to work using just a limited number of images - so as not to get confused as to which sculpture to recreate. This would seem obvious enough, but often times too many pictures is worse than too few. So sticking with one or two images, and maybe a third at most, to base the final artwork on, helps everything turn out as expected.
Our sculptor began resculpting the masterpiece by applying flat sections of clay for the chest muscles and trapezius muscles and filled in the neck to get the proportions right for the upper body to match the head - as only a true master sculptor can do through minor anatomical and muscular exaggerations. Usually a chicken wire oval ball is made to attach directly to the armature for form of the head. The basic shape of the face and head is therein formed. Chinese terra cotta warrior style hollow clay sculpting would require the head to be made by rolling clay into long rolls, or strips, and then built them up layer by layer by blending and smoothing each clay roll into the next without leaving any air pockets. The simularity in the two sculpting styles is because the Chinese terra cotta warriors were fired in a kiln after they were sculpted and they had to be 100% clay to keep the sculpture cracking or even exploding during the clay firing process. As you can imagine hollow sculpting is a very tedious process and requires that the sculptor almost be a structural engineer, as much as an artist, to keep their artwork from accidentally falling over, or collapsing, when sculpting such a large statue.
That's why most of your modern sculpting is done with a throw away concept in a inexpensive and easy to work temporary material, that only needs to last long enough for a mold to be completed. Otherwise, most permanent original sculptures are better when carved in marble, or other stones, or using different types of imported hard woods. The advantages of wood or marble carvings is that they immediately avoid the mold making labor costs and associated material costs are eliminated.
Most of the artists in the world don't have access to much in the way of technology so they use what's at hand: wood and stone. The obvious disadvantage is that it may take longer for an artist to carve out of hard wood, marble, granite, or stone, and the cost to ship the heavy artwork from the artist, often located overseas, to the client can add up. Whereas a typical professional sculptor in North America, or Europe, these days uses either inexpensive clay, foam, or plaster to make a quick original artwork out of an easy to work material which is then converted to a mold of the opposite shape using modern chemistry which is thereafter used to cast quick reproductions for our clients.
The complexity and size of an artwork must be assessed before sculpting begins to determine the best medium for the artist to work in. Whether its going to be sculpted out of clay, worked in plaster, or even carved out of foam is based on the intricacies of the project. Plaster may not be an ideal sculpting medium, even if the final casting will be in plaster, unless it is a repair to a damaged plaster sculpture. Often a softer material is required to shape a sculpture when you don't want to unnecessarily battle with a hard sculpting surface. That is what makes clay the preferred sculpting medium for artworks in the small to medium size range. However, the moisture level of clay must be monitored very closely to avoid over drying, or the opposite: swelling of the clay medium making it disintegrate and become too soft to hold any shape. Sometimes an artist will allow the clay to dry in stages from the ground up so that the lower, weight bearing, portions of the sculpture have time to harden and firm up. Building medium to large size clay statues without an internal armature is an art, perhaps perfected by the hollow Chinese terra cotta warrior sculptors. Only an expert sculptor should attempt such an ancient art technique without ending in disaster, when either the sculpture tips over like fallen tree by being too heavy on one side, or too soft and wet (or a combination of both).
The base for the Alexander the Great Bust is a regal column with a faux marble finish and gold leafing on the lower ring of the column and the gold on the capital leafing. See the unpainted casting next to the faux marble painted reproduction of Alexander. Notice the comparison between the original Alexander the Great sculpture and the resculpted Alexander the Great bust by our art department head sculptor Karoy. See for yourself the remarkable similarity in the silhouette profile of Alexander even before the clay sculpture's hair was completed.
This Hercules statue, actually two statues oriented upside down to each other, was made using a technique similar to the terra cotta warrior sculptures of China. The reason for this is simple: Both our sculpted clay Hercules statue and the terra cotta warriors were built to be fired in a kiln. This makes for a very challenging task because the legs, torso, arms, and head of each individual male figure of the Hercules and Diomedes statue must be built from the bottom up, as a continuous and interconnected hollow structure. The knee and shoulder of the clay Hercules sculpture are left open, as seen in the progress photos, so that the moist air inside the statue can escape allowing it to quickly harden.
Once the general shape of the statue of Hercules and Diomedes was formed in clay, then the artist could sculpt the musculature and bring out the individual muscle definition within his arms and back. All sides of the combined sculpture of Hercules and Diomedes, in an inverted wrestling position, had to be built in a careful and balanced manner because if too much clay was added to one side, and not the other, it could tip over. So both the front and back sides (and the left and right sides) had to be constructed rather symmetrically from the bottom up. If a clay sculpture tips over it can set a sculptor back days, if not weeks, worth of sculpting. Sometimes this is for the better, since the second time a sculptor recreates an artwork it many times will turn out better than if the artwork had never been destroyed in the first place. "Misfortune and good luck are often two sides of the same coin." - credited to an unknown author.
If this statue wasn\'t sculpted hollow on the inside it may have added up to over half a ton of clay. When completed the actual hollow clay Hercules sculpture weighed between 400-500 lbs. That\'s why before a sculpture like this is ever begun it must have a base, or platform, for it to be sculpted on that ideally should be made mobile, preferably with wheels. Also, the final casting work should be done near to where the artwork was made so that no transportation is required. Otherwise you risk damaging a clay sculpture [with no armature] just from the road vibration encountered during driving.
At the base of the statue, between the feet of Hercules is a finely detailed lion face [fitted with a water fountain spout in the final casting] with a flowing mane placed over a tree stump on which Hercules sits on in the final artwork. Part of the technique of making a successful sculpture is to incorporate scenic elements, in this case a tree stump, below your statue so that it has something to support the awkwardly positioned wrestling figures and provide counter balance to the weight of any sculpted details. Our art department is skilled at making almost any sculpture imaginable!
All of the statue details must be decided upon before any art sculpting begins. The use of a couple photographs only is usually enough for our sculpting team to have enough information to make a marble masterpiece. When we get commissioned to make a marble carving, in this case an angel statue holding two babies, our clients may want to make comments and suggestions after receiving photo updates via email to ensure that the sculpting goes along according to their preferences. Since carving a marble statue is so permanent it is best to refine the artwork concept in clay first, whether oil based (plasticine) or water based clay. In the process of both making a clay sculpture and carving a marble block right next to it, two sculptures have actually been made, one is used temporary to make the other more permanent version. This is a theme repeated many times when it comes to making a masterpiece, it is the way of a master sculptor. There is an additional charge for the clay sculpting service, but its worth it if there are particular details that you want to refine after the sculpting has begun.
"I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally well made." Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Italian Baroque goldsmith and sculptor, in a letter to Benedotto Varchi, January 28, 1547.
Sculpting a maquette is the equivalent of a rough draft for a book, or a pencil sketch for a painting. The more preparation that goes into an artwork, and for that matter this is true for anything in life,the more perfected it becomes. The results even become more impressive for the sculptor to make a small figurine sized sculpture first, then a two to three foot tall sculpture version, then move up to a life-size statue five feet to six feet tall. Every time a sculptor is sculpting the same statue again from scratch they learn more about the proportions, fine details, and things that can be improved on since the last time. Depending on the size and final material the maquette could be sculpting out of wax, clay, plaster, and even foam depending on the project requirements.
When a classical statue is commissioned, especially (as in this case) a female Venus De Milo figure with flowing clothing, instead of sculpting every fold of the fabric's texture, as would be the case if the only material used to make the statue was clay, the most dramatic drapery effects can be achieved by dipping specially cut sections of canvas into freshly mixed batches of plaster and then placing the canvas onto the Venus De Milo statue where the ancient Greek toga clothing should be with every fold included. Incredible and impressive cloth draping effects can be engineered in this way fold by fold.
First our sculptor had to build an armature out of two by four wood planks and steel rods at the core surrounded by chicken wire attached to the wood with staples. The trick to building a proper armature is to get the basic angles and proportions of the statue absolutely correct. Then the outer surface is built with the aid of cutout sections of fiberglass matte dipped into small batches of carefully mixed plaster - just like a paper machete project in school, only with plaster instead of flour and fiberglass instead of newspaper. The trick at this stage is to leave room for the towel, or dress, wrapped around the waist of the Venus De Milo - that must be added later on. One major fold and crease must be created one section at a time by dipping, folding, and nailing the canvas into place and allowing it to dry until the entire clothing of Venus De Milo is finished. In this manner, any dress imaginable can be sculpted and painted with any finish faux texture and color imaginable.
This concept can be applied to window drapes, or door drape box coverings, and can be sculpted to look like the real full shape of fabric drapery while actually being only a sculpture. Many times real fabric drapes get old, fade, become soiled, and are too flat - lacking the fullness that can be created with sculpted drapes by our artists. If you would like our art department to make custom sculpted draperies of your home, or custom drapery boxes for your windows, we will need the measurements for each drapery window section you want, and we will either complete the drapery sculpting on-site (to ensure everything fits as it should) or we can sculpt the draperies in our art workshop and carefully pack and ship them to your location ready for installation by your people, or you may choose to have our staff install them for you. Since we also provide a wide array of faux finishes you can pick a faux texture to paint your drapes with and choose to have them painted before they are shipped, or we can paint your drapery sculptures after they have been installed on-site, just in case there needs to be any touch-ups later on.
Many times in the art creation process it is difficult to put the name of just one artist to an artwork since a sculpture is rarely worked on by just one sculptor, unless it is a relatively small sculpture, and even then two or three sculptors may be utilized to finish it completely. Multiple sculptors commonly work together on an art piece in a skill based hierarchy with the master sculptor doing much of the bulk shaping and refining work until it gets to a point where the apprentices can provide help and reduce the work load on the master sculptor by helping sand, fill, and prepare the final texturing to an artwork. Often a single sculptor tends to lose energy, and momentum, on an art project after spending weeks, or even months, perfecting a single sculpture. Instead of forcing the already spent artist to continue working, a nearly equally skilled sculptor, or an apprentice, can step in to put the finishing details together with a fresh perspective, and insure the artwork is symmetrical and finalized. Often it takes an outside perspective of at least two sculptors to see the things that an isolated artist "in the trenches" might otherwise unintentionally overlook. We view the creation of art as a collective process, as it has always been since the time of Leonardo De Vinci, with a better end product resulting by having more skilled people involved than just one artist. When several sculptors put their heart, soul, blood, and sweat into a sculpture it is not unlike a piece taken from the body and life force of a master sculptor... that's why they call it a masterpiece!
Notice the subtle differences between the three statues of battling male figures wrestling at the top of the page. The one on the left is a faux marble painted small version of the statue, the one on the far right is the actual famous original sculpture in a museum in Italy, and the one in the middle is our sculpture enlargement based on the ten inch tall small version enlarged to sixty inches tall - a six times statue enlargement! Technically, this was a third generation sculpture [a sculpture of a sculpture of a sculpture], all sculpted by completely different artists. The beauty of having a different artists remake a masterpiece each go around is that they can put their own sculpting style into it, giving it a slightly modernized look, while at the same time retaining its original classic art appeal.
One of our clients requested an enlargement of the famous classic wrestling sculpture of Hercules and Diomedes grappling. Because there weren't any large versions of this statue available for sale we decided to have it sculpted from scratch by our art department. If you look carefully at the old carved bone plate picture you can see one standing male figure holding another male figure upside down while four man-eating horses are chewing on him. Fortunately, our sculpture enlargement was based on the smaller statue already in existence, and not the rather grotesque plaque art scene. Our sculptor worked on the enlargement using a ten inch tall version of the Hercules wrestling Diomedes statue by placing it at the same angle of perspective while sculpting each side of the enlarged artwork. By using a previously existing statue we could skip the step of make a maquette and go right into creating the final sculpture enlargement directly in clay.
When a sculptor is working in clay [that will later be fired later on] it must be made as hollow as possible to reduce the weight and increase the ventilation when using clay almost exclusively as your support material. As you may well know, wet clay provides virtually no structural support until it dries, but it must be wet to easily sculpt with it. Therein lies the skill of a clay sculptor that must manage the dryness and wetness levels of various sections of their artwork in addition to sculpting. A sculptor must be patient when creating an all clay sculpture so as to build it only as fast as it can harden and provide structural support for additional clay that must be added on top, especially for a statue of such large proportions. Originally, the enlarged sculpture was going to be fired in a kiln, but then it became quite difficult to find a kiln large enough to fit the statue. Instead, the enlarged Hercules wrestling Diomedes sculpture was molded and reproduced in reinforced concrete with a classic faux bronze painted finish and delivered to our client. Let us know if there is a sculpture that you want made and we will check with our art department what it will take to have it done.
Our custom art client made a suggestion for the Hercules artwork to be more classical in terms of the facial hair, with an older and more aged look, plus more leanness in his muscles. So we put two of our best sculptors on the task. It is interesting how just sculpting shorter facial hair alone can modernize the look of a sculpture! By hollowing out the statue's facial features, especially around his cheek bones, Hercules is given a more realistic muscle tone more akin to the period. As you can see, there was also an enhancement of the definition in the abdominal's, oblique's, back muscles, biceps, triceps, forearms, with additional separations to their thigh muscles.
Choose to have our marble carvers make the same sculpture in any size you wish in one solid piece of imported marble. Buy a custom base, or column, along with any statue and receive a bulk discount - call for current offer.


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A Peer Review System (PRS) for Prospective Registry, Peer Review, Quality Assurance and Clinical Outcome Studies in Proton Therapy
Suche in Medline nach
|24. September 2009
Purpose: To implement a web-based PRS for prospective registry, peer review, quality assurance and clinical outcome studies in proton therapy. The system is designed to store not only treatment plans but also information on planning strategies employed to get an optimal plan for each patient. There is a dire need to provide such a complete system in proton therapy because some information regarding an approved plan is implicit instead of being fully explicit. "What you see on paper or computer screen is not what the patient gets." Furthermore, laboratory results, diagnostic images, and radiotherapy data are located in disparate locations and are not readily accessible. Since data is frequently unavailable, patients are at risk for repeat diagnostic procedures or suboptimal therapeutic intervention due to a lack of knowledge regarding their medical disposition. A central repository of patient records can minimize repeat diagnostic testing while enabling the highest quality and safety of patient care at a reduced cost.
Method and materials: We have designed and deployed a web-based clinical data submission and retrieval system to implement a successful peer review and clinical QA paradigm for proton therapy treatment plans. Our proprietary local DICOM server automates the communication between the TPS and our web-based secure client application. The TPS outputs the clinical treatment plan as DICOM-RT objects, which are then uploaded to the central server via a secure web-based link. The data sets are automatically anonymized based on one-to-one mapping that is known only to the submitter of a patient plan. It is often necessary to supplement this data set with additional information in order to appraise the plan reviewers of clinical rationale used in the plan evaluation and selection. The information that is not part of the DICOM Ion Plan includes; proximal and distal margins used to account for range uncertainty, smearing and smoothing margins for compensator design, distal blocking to spare organs at risk, etc. The submitter may generate screen captured views of a plan and add comments, instructions, and provide planning criteria by adding multimedia data. This information is converted to DICOM objects and is submitted to the server as a part of a plan. The reviewers can use our web-based client application to retrieve part or all of the submitted data set and use their own TPS for more comprehensive plan evaluation.
Web-based Peer Review System: Figure 1 [Fig. 1], Figure 2 [Fig. 2], Figure 3 [Fig. 3], Figure 4 [Fig. 4], Figure 5 [Fig. 5] show the Peer Review System, the case submission, retreival and review processes. Also illustrated is our unique One-to-One mapping scheme for anonymization.
Results and conclusion: The treatment plans for several proton therapy patients have been successfully submitted to and retrieved from the prototype system at UFPTI. In all cases, the restored plans maintained the integrity of all clinical information as submitted. We found that the supplemental information uploaded with each plan was extremely important and useful for the plan reviewers. We believe that a Web-based electronic peer review system will dramatically improve the quality of care of proton therapy patients while providing opportunities for comparative effectiveness research. Figure 6 [Fig. 6].


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Or might it be corporations taking advantage of consumers who don't like brown rice? I actually really like brown rice, more than white in fact. But I also am growing fond of haiga-mai. Plus it's much simpler to cook. I don't really care if it has less fiber because sometimes I think I get too much anyway, but I don't want to take a major hit on nutrients. Also, does anyone know its glycemic index compared to brown rice? Thank you!
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I just compared ordinary white rice with brown rice on Wolfram Alpha. There's not really a huge difference in nutrients anyway, so there's no way you're going to malnourish yourself by eating haiga-mai rice instead of brown as part of a balanced diet.
If you have a look at http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/6/1034 you will see that there is a huge variation in GI between different strains of rice. As far as I can figure out, the more "sticky" the rice is, the higher the GI. So it rather depends on what variety of rice your haiga-mai was half-milled from as to what GI it has. I'd think it would have a very similar GI to fully milled white rice of the same variety.
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On the Williams Rice Milling Co. of California website there is a chart comparing Haiga rice against white rice:
This is the rice I use for everything. I'd forgotten that it wasn't white rice.
From the nutritional information that Folly posted I would think that it would not be a low GI food, since it appears there is only slightly more fiber than regular white rice. My reasoning would be that the fiber in brown rice is what slows the digestion, so the body would take longer to break down the food into the carbohydrates that the body can use unlike white rice which is rapidly broken down into simple carbohydrates and often leads to spikes in blood sugar.
However haiga-mai basmati rice (if there is such a thing) would have a lower GI than haiga-mai glutinous rice. By the looks of things, white basmati (high amylose starch) rice even has a lower GI than brown glutinous rice (nearly all amylopectin starch).
Thanks everyone. I think I will just stick to brown rice from now on then, since I like it as much. I do have low blood sugar so its important for me to avoid insulin surges.
Brown basmati sounds as though it'd be best for you then. That should be about the lowest GI rice.
It's delicious, too!
I don't understand the big deal about the Haiga-mai; I bought some, along with a package of short-grain brown rice from the same company. The Haiga-mai's instructions are more complicated than the brown rice. The nutritional stats on the package are about equal in all aspects, except slightly higher fibre in the brown. I think I'll stick with brown.
True, but I like brown short grain better. Basmati tastes like stinky socks to me=)
I haven't seen a study on this, so this is merely speculation. A lot of the nutrition is in the germ, not the bran. The bran is what provides the fiber. There is the possibility that the bran part of brown rice serves to help block some of the nutrients. That is to say, the nutrients may be more bio-available in haiga than in brown rice.
I think it's reasonable to continue eating brown rice as the staple, and simply replace white rice with haiga.
That sounds like a good idea (replacing white with haiga).
I just thought I'd say a little about the rice bran. As you say, it can slow the absorption of nutrients. This is why you wouldn't give any kind of all-bran cereal to an infant just starting out. But this slowing, caused by the soluble fiber of the bran, actually is beneficial when the grain is eaten in its entirety. As some other posters pointed out, the fiber helps you digest the carbs more slowly, and this is helpful when you want to avoid sugar spikes and crashes. These spikes and crashes wear the pancreas out over time and can lead to type 2 diabetes and overweight. So while haiga retains nutrients, its lack of fiber is a significant point.
One of the reason that people have success when they restrict carbs for weight-loss or blood-sugar control is that they are restricting the "bad" carbs along with the good--this includes white bread, white rice, etc. These carbs, bereft of both the nutrients of both the germ and the fiber of the bran, release a lot of glucose into the blood stream with negligible health gains (and because of the lack of insoluble fiber and the addition of synthetic nutrients, they lead to constipation and other problems). In the long run, it's better for most people to have the slower (and more thorough) absorption of nutrients that you so logically suggest occurs with brown rice.
Just some thoughts. I do use the haiga sometimes. I think it's an improvement over straight-up white rice, but I tend to stick mostly with the brown, esp. for myself and my kids. I'll serve withe rice or haiga mai for guests sometimes.
Well, wouldn't that be a moot point unless you were eating the rice alone? If eating it with a healthy meal with vegetables, other sources of fiber, protein, and fat the glycemic index of the rice will go waaaayy down.
Truthfully, though, how many people do eat an adequate amount of vegetables? Although I would think people who buy haiga mai are probably already very health-conscious and would tend to eat other sources of fiber, I tend to shun things that aren't "whole" foods--because I'm already at risk for diabetes, and because so many "advances" in the processing of grains have shown themselves, generations down the road, to have deleterious effects. Plus, the fiber in grains is not precisely the same as vegetable or fruit fiber.
That said, I don't think haiga mai is the death knell for healthy diet. Mostly I just wanted to point out the reasons for keeping the bran on grains. I still don't get the attraction to haiga; my short-grain brown rice doesn't require soaking, and it cooks faster than the haiga-mai, and is less expensive (at least here) to boot.
Yes, I definitely agree that brown rice is ideal for those with blood sugar issues. My main problem is that I do eat tons of vegetables, plus a lot of beans, so I usually get over 50 grams of fiber a day. Sometimes that causes digestive issues for me. So haiga is a good solution for me to help lessen the fiber load a bit. I do love the taste of brown rice, but I also love Haiga. Sometimes I just want a very soft, clear taste and I like haiga better for that than white because I like the faint nutty accent. I found this article interesting from Dr. Ben Kim about white rice and brown rice:
Thanks for the link. The doctor's comments were interesting! Your diet sounds similar to mine, but if I don't eat brown rice or whole grains, I have digestive problems! My son has inherited this, too. When he was a baby, I made his cereals at home by grinding grains in the blender and making a porridge for him. We ended up having to visit my mom one week, and in a few days, despite eating the same number of veggies and fruits plus water, he was really having problems with his diet. The only thing that had changed was that I only had white rice at my disposal for grinding. Our shared propensity for these kinds of problems makes me a little fanatical about whole grains. I do like the taste of the haiga, though, as you mentioned, and it has a lot going for it, esp. in terms of people who might only eat white rice otherwise.
Thanks again for the link. There are some things I wouldn't think to consider, but I definitely should, since I am cooking for other people who might benefit from other plans.
aww, poor baby=). I know what you mean. I can be very fanatical when it comes to healthy foods, so sometimes I have to force myself into believing that haiga might occasionally be a better choice.
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