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Thanks for all your nice comments about libraries! They are really inspiring. We are all facing tough times, and it is great to hear that you appreciate your local library. Did you know that one easy way to support your library is by Going. To. The. Library. People love statistics, and high circulation and visits to the library really say a lot. So, please visit your library and check it out (get that pun? Yeah, library humor ain't so great...I'll stick to baking.)
I made some easy-peasy Chocolate Chip Scones. Most of my baking is done before work; I'm a morning person and wake up at some crazy hour. But, hey, it's morning and I don't have time to fuss. Thus, the Drop Scone. No forming in triangles, just scoop, drop and bake (and take a shower while they bake! :)
Today's library thing is WorldCat and Interlibrary Loan. Sometimes, your local library just doesn't have the book you want. So, here is a suggestion. Look up the book in WorldCat - a global collection of library catalogs. You can see if a nearby library has the item...perhaps it is worth the drive. If not, look into your library's Inter Library Loan (ILL) program. ILL is a worldwide system of borrowing books from other libraries. You start the process at your local library (there is usually a nominal fee). Even if your local library has a small collection, ILL can bring you books from all over the world!
To celebrate Day 5 of National Library Week, I'm giving away the following to one lucky winner:
a. Magazine subscription to Everyday Food OR Cooking Light (one year, U.S. addresses only)
b. Chef Set Page Tags (purchased from Girl of All Work)
To enter the Day 5 Giveaway, simply leave a comment below (one entry per person) and I'll pick the winner from a hat (aka Random). Deadline for all contests: Monday, April 19, 2010 at midnight PDT. If your comment isn't linked to a blog where I can find you, please leave your email. Shipping to U.S. addresses only. Librarian Action Figure not included.
Also, don't forget to all the giveaways! Deadline is Monday!
Day 1 Giveaway: Cookbook and Chef Post-its
Day 2 Giveaway: Loaf Pans
Day 3 Giveaway: Disney Stuff
Day 4 Giveaway: Cupcake Liners
Thanks soooo much for celebrating National Library Week with me! And a special Hello to all the librarians who stopped by the blog! - mary the food librarian
Chocolate Chip Drop Scones
Click here for printable recipe
Adapted from Bon Appétit, December 2000
Original recipe yields 6 triangle scones. I got 18 small drop scones.
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, diced
1 teaspoon (packed) grated lemon peel (I skipped this)
3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup chilled buttermilk
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Glaze: Milk and 2 T sugar
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Line with Silpat or parchment two baking sheets.
3. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. In a small mixing bowl or your measuring cup, blend together buttermilk, egg yolk and vanilla. Set aside.
4. Cut up cold butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture. (If you are adding the lemon zest, add here). Using your fingertips, rub in butter until the mixture is sandy or like rice grains.
5. Mix in the mini chocolate chips
6. Pour buttermilk mixture over the flour mixture and mix until dough comes together. Do not overmix. Dough will be moist and soft.
7. If you want to make triangle scones, gather the dough and press out on floured surface into an 8-inch round. Cut into 6 wedges.
8. If you want to make drop scones, use a scooper to scoop dough onto lined baking sheets.
9. Brush tops of scones with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
10. Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes until golden brown. (Mine were small so they baked in 18 minutes).


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While IP cameras and recorders in Fort Worth TX offer some of the latest features and advances in security technology, IP video has yet to be widely adopted. Why? The two most common reasons cited by our customers in Fort Worth TX are that it is either too expensive, or that it's just too hard to use. Fortunately, neither argument is valid today.
Additionally, IP video offers many advantages over traditional analog technology that many fail to consider:
1. Easy to Use
Can you use a computer mouse? If so, then you can use IP video. IP video systems have easy to use menus that can make first-timers look like experts.
2. Higher Resolution
IP cameras in Fort Worth TX are digital end to end, and use progressive scanning to make full use of camera imagers - providing up to 25% more resolution than analog cameras with similar imagers. IP is also available with Megapixel cameras, delivering super-high resolution real-time video.
3. Lower Cable Cost
IP cameras in Fort Worth TX can transmit video, audio, and power on a single network cable. Even better - cable is less expensive, and network cable is probably already wired throughout your building. That results in significant savings.
4. Future Proof
Like computers and other network devices, IP gear is easily updated for new capabilities and compatibility as technology advances.
5. Creates Efficiencies
IP systems in Fort Worth TX can easily alert you by sending live video to laptops or even cell phones for immediate review. This functionality can also be used for non-security applications, such as customer service, deliveries, work-flow monitoring and more.
6. Intelligence
IP video systems are equipped with on-board processors to analyze events in real-time, alerting you about suspicious activity while overlooking benign matters.
7. Secure Transmissions
IP video systems in Fort Worth TX encrypt your data to ensure your complete privacy, eliminating the need for expensive fiber optic cable.
8. Reliable and Redundant
IP systems in Fort Worth TX leverage decades of technical evolution to deliver proven reliability. IP video systems can be easily set up to store video at multiple remote locations for security against disasters and theft.
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IP video systems in Fort Worth TX can easily integrate with your alarm systems, lighting, environmental and access controls. Additionally, IP video systems are increasingly compatible across manufacturers.
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IP cameras in Fort Worth TX can be accessed, managed and recorded from across the room or across the world via the Internet.
As with any new technology, there is a learning curve to taking the leap to IP. As prices continue to become more competitive, we highly recommend that you take the time to learn this new technology, and start to leverage the many advantages of IP

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text: Whether you know the sunny talent of Nicole Parker from MADtv or her work on Broadway backing up Martin Short in Fame Becomes Me, you undoubtedly love her for her quirky sense of humor. Now she is getting a chance to pull out all the stops in her first big Broadway leading role—and it's not just any old part. Parker is bewitching Broadway as the high-flying Elphaba in the smash-hit musical Wicked. We caught up with the new green girl during her first week of performances at the Gershwin Theatre, as she graciously allowed us to sit in during the greenifying process in her dressing room. So hold on to your pointy hats, Wicked fans, this one's for you!


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The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) announced the national rollout of its advanced Home Energy Professional (HEP) certifications. The four HEP certifications--Energy Auditor, Retrofit Installer Technician, Crew Leader and Quality Control Inspector--demonstrate advanced competency through work experience prerequisites, as well as rigorous written and field exams. These are the only home performance certifications that are both supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
157 home performance and weatherization professionals who participated in BPI's HEP pilot exam program have already earned 230 of these elite credentials. Certified individuals are listed on BPI's certified professional locator at www.bpi.org/individual_locator.aspx.
Rebecca Arnold, Building Analyst with TerraLogos Energy Group, Baltimore, MD, earned the Energy Auditor (EA) certification through the pilot.
"I do a lot of tech work on a daily basis. I want to get better at what I do, so I can deliver the best work for my customers. It's great that the [Home Energy Professional] EA certification recognizes that. It will give people in the industry a higher bar to reach for," says Arnold.
Rob Minnick, CEO and President of Minnick's, an HVAC firm that has expanded into home performance in Laurel, Maryland. Minnick recently earned the Quality Control Inspector (QCI) certification.
"In the HVAC world, you have apprentice, journeyman and masters level designations. These new HEP certifications are equivalent to the journeyman/masters in the home performance industry. If people are serious about home performance, they should get these certifications to differentiate themselves from the entry-level workers in the field," says Minnick. "Also, with so many [government and utility] rebate programs it's important to employ people with advanced certifications as part of quality assurance efforts."
Last March the DOE Weatherization Assistance Program communicated its intent to require that all work performed with program funds be inspected by a certified Quality Control Inspector beginning in Program Year 2015.
Experienced professionals are encouraged to apply to take the exams and be among the first in the nation to earn these advanced credentials. As part of the application process, all candidates must document that they have met the prerequisite criteria, including industry-specific work experience, education and training. Visit www.bpi.org/HEP to learn how to apply, and review the FAQs for even more detailed information.
While the HEP certifications provide advanced certifications options, they will not replace BPI's existing certifications in the industry. These new credentials complement and build upon BPI's existing certifications in the home performance career ladder, where increased knowledge and skills lead to advancement. They are designed to allow professionals in the home energy upgrade industry to build both a stackable and lateral career path.
For more information on applying to take the Home Energy Professional certification exams, go to www.bpi.org/HEP.


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Abdominal X-Ray
Test Overview
An abdominal X-ray is a picture of structures and organs in the belly (abdomen). This includes the stomach, liver, spleen, large and small intestines, and the diaphragm, which is the muscle that separates the chest and belly areas. Often two X-rays will be taken from different positions. If the test is being done to look for certain problems of the kidneys or bladder, it is often called a KUB (for kidneys, ureters, and bladder).
X-rays are a form of radiation, like light or radio waves, that are focused into a beam, much like a flashlight beam. X-rays can pass through most objects including the human body. X-rays make a picture by striking a detector that either exposes a film or sends the picture to a computer. Dense tissues in the body, such as bones, block (absorb) many of the X-rays and look white on an X-ray picture. Less dense tissues, such as muscles and organs, block fewer of the X-rays (more of the X-rays pass through) and look like shades of gray on an X-ray. X-rays that pass mostly through air, such as through the lungs, look black on the picture.
An abdominal X-ray may be one of the first tests done to find a cause of belly pain, swelling, nausea, or vomiting. And other tests (such as ultrasound, CT scan, or intravenous pyelography) may be used to look for more specific problems.
Why It Is Done
An abdominal X-ray is done to:
- Look for a cause of pain or swelling in the belly or ongoing nausea and vomiting.
- Find a cause of pain in the lower back on either side of the spine (flank pain). An abdominal X-ray can show the size, shape, and position of the liver, spleen, and kidneys.
- Look for stones in the gallbladder, kidneys, ureters, or bladder.
- Look for air outside of the bowel (intestines).
- Find an object that has been swallowed or put into a body cavity.
- Confirm the proper position of tubes used by your doctor in your treatment, such as a tube to drain the stomach (nasogastric tube), a feeding tube in the stomach, a tube to drain the kidney (nephrostomy tube), a catheter used for dialysis, a shunt to drain fluid from the brain into the stomach (V-P shunt), or other drainage tubes or catheters.
How To Prepare
Before the X-ray test, tell your doctor if you are or might be pregnant. An abdominal X-ray is not usually done during pregnancy because of the risk of radiation exposure to your baby (fetus). Many times an abdominal ultrasound is done instead.
You may be asked to empty your bladder before the test. You may need to take off any jewelry that may be in the way of the X-ray picture, such as if you have a pierced belly button.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form( What is a PDF document? ).
How It Is Done
An abdominal X-ray is taken by a radiology technologist. The X-ray pictures are read by a radiologist. Some other doctors, such as emergency room doctors, can also look at abdominal X-rays to check for common problems, such as a blocked intestine.
You may need to take off all or most of your clothes. You will be given a gown to use during the test.
You will lie on your back on a table. A lead apron may be placed over your lower pelvic area to protect it from the X-ray. A woman's ovaries cannot be protected during this test because they lie too close to the belly organs that are X-rayed. A man's testicles can sometimes be protected during the test.
After the X-ray machine is positioned over your belly, you will be asked to hold your breath while the X-ray pictures are taken. You need to lie very still so the pictures are clear.
Many times, two pictures are taken: one while you are lying down (supine) and the other one while you are standing (erect view). The erect view can help find a blockage of the intestine or a hole (perforation) in the stomach or an intestine that is leaking air. If you are not able to stand, the X-ray may be taken while you lie on your side with your arm over your head.
An abdominal X-ray takes about 5 to 10 minutes. You will be asked to wait about 5 minutes while the X-rays are developed in case more pictures need to be taken. In some clinics and hospitals, X-ray pictures can be made right away on a computer screen (digitally).
How It Feels
You will feel no discomfort from the X-rays. The X-ray table may feel hard and the room may be cool. You may find that the positions you need to hold are uncomfortable or painful, especially if you have an injury.
There is always a slight chance of damage to cells or tissue from radiation, including the low levels of radiation used for this test. But the chance of damage from the X-rays is usually very low compared with the potential benefits of the test.
For example, the radiation exposure from a chest X-ray is about equal to the natural radiation exposure received during a round-trip airline flight from Boston to Los Angeles (Montreal to Vancouver) or 10 days in the Rocky Mountains (Denver, Colorado).
An abdominal X-ray takes a picture of structures and organs in the belly (abdomen). This includes the stomach, liver, spleen, large and small intestines, and the diaphragm, which is the muscle that separates the chest and belly areas. In an emergency, the results of an abdominal X-ray are ready in a few minutes. Otherwise, a radiologist usually has the official X-ray report ready the next day.
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The pictures made by the X-rays show that the stomach, small and large bowel, liver, spleen, kidneys, and bladder are normal in size, shape, and location. |
No growths, abnormal amounts of fluid (ascites), or foreign objects are seen. Normal amounts of air and fluid are seen in the intestines. Normal amounts of stool are seen in the large intestine. |
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A blocked intestine may be seen because a portion of the intestine is larger than usual or areas in the intestine have abnormal amounts of air or fluid in them. |
A collection of air inside the belly cavity but outside the intestines (caused by a hole in the stomach or intestines) may be seen. |
The walls of the intestines may look abnormal or thick. |
The size, shape, or location of the bladder or kidneys may be abnormal. Kidney stones may be seen in the kidney, ureters, bladder, or urethra. |
In some cases, gallstones can be seen on an abdominal X-ray. |
Abnormal growths, such as large tumors, or ascites may be seen. |
A foreign object is seen or a medical device looks abnormal or out of position. |
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Being pregnant. If a view of a pregnant woman's belly is needed, an ultrasound test may be done instead.
- Not being able to lie still and hold your breath during the test.
What To Think About
- Your X-ray results may be different from earlier test results because you were tested at a different medical center or you had a different kind of test.
- Certain results seen on an abdominal X-ray may mean more tests are needed to find the cause of the problem. These tests may include endoscopy, ultrasound, a computed tomography (CT) scan, a barium enema, or intravenous pyelography (IVP).
- An abdominal X-ray can't find certain problems, such as a bleeding stomach ulcer.
- A chest X-ray may be done at the same time as an abdominal X-ray. To learn more, see the topic Chest X-Ray.
Current as of: March 28, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Martin J. Gabica, MD – Family Medicine & Howard B. Schaff, MD – Diagnostic Radiology
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firewalld - Dynamic Firewall
With Fedora 15 the dynamic firewall with firewalld was introduced with the proof of concept implementation in Python as an optional component.
The purpose of this feature request is to replace this proof of concept implementation with a more comprehensive version.
Features planned for this version are:
- D-BUS interface cleanup and extensions (especially for libvirt)
- Finalize firewall-applet and later on firewall-config
- Permanent and temporary firewall rules
- Network Zone support
- Name: Thomas Woerner
- email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: 2012-01-23
- Percentage of completion: 60%
Detailed Description
Replacement of the proof of concept implementation. Using firewalld as the primary firewall solution.
Why A Firewall Daemon
The current firewall model is static and every change requires a complete firewall restart. This includes also to unload the firewall netfilter kernel modules and to load the modules that are needed for the new configuration. The unload of the modules is breaking stateful firewalling and established connections.
The firewall daemon on the other hand manages the firewall dynamically and applies changes without restarting the whole firewall. Therefore there is no need to reload all firewall kernel modules. But using a firewall daemon requires that all firewall modifications are done with that daemon to make sure that the state in the daemon and the firewall in kernel are in sync. The firewall daemon can not parse firewall rules added by the ip*tables and ebtables command line tools.
The daemon provides information about the current active firewall settings via D-BUS and also accepts changes via D-BUS using PolicyKit authentication methods. SELinux access restrictions are also planned for a later version.
The Daemon
Applications, daemons and the user can request to enable a firewall feature over D-BUS. A feature could either be one of the predefined firewall features like services, port and protocol combinations, trusted interfaces/hosts/network areas, port/packet forwarding, masquerading and icmp blocking. The feature can be enabled for a certain amount of time or till it gets disabled again.
New chains for applications, zones a deny and allow model are added to make the firewall setup more flexible, safe and robust. The deny and allow model reduces the risk of intereference of rules. The order of the chains and how they are used is fixed.
The netfilter firewall helpers, that are for example used for amanda, ftp, samba and tftp services, are also handled by the daemon as long as they are part of a predefined service. Loading of additional helpers is not part of the current interface. For some of the helpers unloading is only possible after all connections that are handled by the module are closed. Connection tracking information is important here and needs to get into account for a future helper interface.
Benefit to Fedora
The dynamic firewall mode with firewalld will make it possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and will make persistent connections possible. This is for example very useful for services, that need to add additional firewall rules. libvirtd is one of them and also openvpn in the future. With the static firewall model these rules are lost if the firewall gets modified or restarted. The firewall daemon holds the current configuration internally and is able to modify the firewall without the need to recreate the complete firewall configuration; it is also able to restore the configuration in a service restart and reload case.
Another use case for the dynamic firewall mode is printer discovery. For this the discovery program will be started locally that sends out a broadcast message. It will most likely get an answer from an unknown address (the new printer or printer server). This answer will be filtered by the firewall, because the answer is not related to the broadcast and the port of the program that was sending out the message is dynamic and therefore a fixed rule can not be created for this. With the dynamic firewall mode a time limited rule could be requested by the discovery program to allow the receival of the answer.
The iptables and ip6tables services will not be enabled by default anymore. The required changes in the init scripts are simple.
system-config-firewall will not be installed by default anymore, but firewalld will be installed by default. The needed changes in comps are simple. Services which are adding firewall rules directly with iptables commands need to be changed to benefit from firewalld. These are: libvirtd
How To Test
- Install firewalld and firewall-applet
- Start the firewalld service
- Start the tray applet firewall-applet
- Use firewall-cmd to enable for example ssh:
firewall-cmd --enable --service=ssh
- Enable samba for 10 seconds:
firewall-cmd --enable --service=samba --timeout=10
- Enable ipp-client:
firewall-cmd --enable --service=ipp-client
- Disable ipp-client:
firewall-cmd --disable --service=ipp-client
- To restore your static firewall with lokkit again simply use:
lokkit --enabled
You can also use the D-BUS interface directly. This is required for libvirt (and later on also NetworkManager).
User Experience
Connections will be persistent even after changing firewall settings using the firewall daemon.
- system-config-firewall (no changes needed)
- iptables (simple changes needed)
- libvirtd
Contingency Plan
The current static firewall will still be available as a fallback firewall solution.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/
The fedorahosted site is here: https://fedorahosted.org/firewalld/
Release Notes
Fedora 17 adds support for firewalld daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus interface.


text: Neuroblastoma is a cancerous tumor that begins in nerve tissue of infants and very young children. The abnormal cells are often found in the nerve tissue that is present in the unborn baby and later develops into a detectable tumor. Neuroblastoma is rare in children older than 10 years of age, however, it does occur occasionally in adults. The tumor usually begins in the tissues of the adrenal gland found in the abdomen, but may also begin in nerve tissue in the neck, chest, or spinal cord. The adrenal glands are positioned on top of the kidneys. These glands secrete hormones and other important substances that are required for normal functions in the body. In the U.S., approximately 700 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year. It is often present at birth, but not detected until the tumor begins to grow and compress the surrounding organs. Most children affected by neuroblastoma have been diagnosed before the age of 5. In rare cases, neuroblastoma can be detected before birth by a fetal ultrasound. It is the most common solid tumor cancer in infants. Neuroblastoma cancer cells can spread (metastasize) quickly to other areas of the body (for example, lymph nodes, liver, lungs, bones, central nervous system, and bone marrow). Approximately two-thirds of all children diagnosed with neuroblastoma will have some metastatic disease. What causes neuroblastoma? The only risk factor that has been established for neuroblastoma is heredity, although the vast majority of neuroblastomas are not inherited. Recent research indicates that certain genetic variations double the risk of this disease. Also, having this particular variation increases the chance that a child will develop a more aggressive form of the disease. The average age at diagnosis in genetically linked cases is younger than those cases that are not inherited. Cancer that presents in several different areas of the body at once is a sign that it may be a genetically inherited cancer. What are the symptoms of neuroblastoma? The following are the most common symptoms of neuroblastoma. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. The symptoms of neuroblastoma vary greatly depending on size, location, and spread of the tumor. Symptoms may include: Abdominal mass either felt during an examination or seen as swollen abdomen Painless, bluish lumps may be seen under the skin in infants Trouble breathing due to tumors in the chest or abdomen Tumors in the face or head can cause swelling and bruising of the area around the eyes and uncontrolled eye movement or bulging eyes Compression of kidney or bladder by the tumor may cause changes in urination Bone marrow involvement may present as pain, fatigue,limping, paralysis, or weakness Diarrhea may be present; diarrhea is caused by a substance produced by the tumor (vasoactive intestinal peptide or VIP) Fever High blood pressure and increased heart rate may occur depending on location of tumor and the organs the tumor compresses The symptoms of neuroblastoma may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis. How is neuroblastoma diagnosed? In addition to a complete medical and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for neuroblastoma may include the following: Blood and urine tests. This includes a complete blood count, blood chemistries, kidney and liver function tests, and a 24-hour urinalysis test that detects substances secreted by the tumor. Neurological exam. This is a part of the physical exam used to check brain, spinal cord, and nerve function. Multiple imaging studies. These are done to evaluate primary tumor and determine extent/location of any metastases, including: Computed tomography scan (also called a CT or CAT scan). A diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial,images (often called slices) of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general X-rays. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body. X-ray. A diagnostic test that uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film. Ultrasound (also called sonography). A diagnostic imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves and a computer to create images of blood vessels, tissues, and organs. Ultrasounds are used to view internal organs as they function, and to assess blood flow through various vessels. Bone scans. Pictures or X-rays are taken of the bone after a radionucleotide (chemical with a small amount of a radioactive tag)has been injected that is absorbed by bone tissue. These are used to detect tumors and bone abnormalities. MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine) scan. A small amount of radioactive material called MIBG is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream. Neuroendocrine tumor cells take up the radioactive materials and can be seen on pictures. Scans may be taken over a few days. Bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy. A procedure that involves taking a small amount of bone marrow fluid (aspiration) and/or solid bone marrow tissue (called a core biopsy), usually from the hip bones, to be examined for the number, size, and maturity of blood cells and/or abnormal cells. Biopsy of primary tumor and/or metastatic lesions Diagnosing neuroblastoma also involves staging and classifying the disease that determines treatment options and prognosis. Staging is the process of determining whether cancer has spread and, if so, how far. There are various staging systems that can be used for neuroblastoma. Always consult your child's doctor for information on staging. One method of staging neuroblastoma is the following: Stage 1. This involves a tumor that does not cross the midline of the body, is completely resectable (removable by surgery), and has not spread to other areas of the body. The lymph nodes enclosed within the tumor may contain neuroblastoma cells, but lymph nodes outside the tumor are free of cancer. Stage 2A.This involves a tumor that does not cross the midline of the body, but is not completely resectable. This stage of tumor has not spread to other areas of the body, and lymph nodes on the same side as the tumor do not have tumor cells present. Stage 2B. This involves a tumor that may or may not be completely resectable, has not spread to other areas of the body, but lymph nodes on the same side of the tumor have tumor cells present. Lymph nodes on the opposite side of the tumor must be negative for tumor cells in this stage of disease. Stage 3. This involves a tumor that crosses the midline of the body and is not completely resectable; it may have spread to nearby lymph nodes. This stage also includes a tumor that does not cross the midline, but the lymph nodes that are nearby or on the opposite side also contain tumor cells. A tumor at this stage may also be found in the middle of the body, but is growing towards both sides and cannot be completely removed with surgery. Stage 4. This involves a tumor that has metastasized to distant lymph nodes, bone marrow, liver, skin, and/or other organs (except as defined in stage 4S). Stage 4S (also called "special" neuroblastoma). A child is younger than 12 months and has a tumor that may have metastasized (spread) to liver, skin, and/or bone marrow (includes minimal bone marrow involvement; more extensive bone marrow involvement should be classified as stage 4). The tumor is on 1 side of the body and is localized. It may have spread to the lymph nodes on the same side of the body. Treatment for neuroblastoma Specific treatment for neuroblastoma will be determined by your child's doctor based on: Your child's age, overall health, and medical history Extent of the disease Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies Expectations for the course of the disease Your opinion or preference Treatment may include (alone or in combination): Surgery (for tumor and/or metastatic resection, and removal of lymph nodes involved) Chemotherapy Radiation therapy Biologic therapy Targeted therapy Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Retinoid therapy Supportive care (for the side effects of treatment) Continuous follow-up care (to determine response to treatment, recurrent disease, and late effects of treatment) Treatment options should be discussed with your child's doctor. Long-term outlook for a child with neuroblastoma Prognosis greatly depends on: The extent of the disease. The size and location of the tumor. A presence or absence of metastasis. The tumor's response to therapy. The age and overall health of your child. Your child's tolerance of specific medications, procedures, or therapies. New developments in treatment. As with any cancer, prognosis and long-term survival can vary greatly from individual to individual. Prompt medical attention and aggressive therapy are important for the best prognosis. Continuous follow-up care is essential for a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Side effects of radiation and chemotherapy, as well as recurrence of the disease, can occur in survivors of neuroblastoma. New methods are continually being discovered to improve treatment and to decrease side effects.


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Buchholz struggled through a 30-pitch first inning and escaped a bases loaded/1 out jam. With one out in the second, he gave up a single and hit a batter. But he righted the ship, retiring the 14 of the next 16 batters and finished with a 6.2-3-0-3-4, 106 line. Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon closed it out.
Boston took a quick 1-0 lead in a very odd half inning that saw two infield singles, an error, a stolen base, an intentional walk, and two wild pitches. In the third, David Ortiz drove in Marco Scutaro with a fly ball to right. ... Dustin Pedroia had two singles, a triple, a stolen base and a run scored.Hiroki Kuroda / Clay Buchholz
The Yankees beat the Mets 4-0 thanks to a grand slam by Mark Teixeira, while the error-prone Rays lost to the Marlins 4-1. As the Red Sox take the field tonight, New York is 1 GA of Tampa Bay and 1.5 GA of Boston.Scutaro SS
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Live in Nannies are not fun. Especially if they tell you "C Didi to apnar theke double mota chilo" ( C Didi (her previous employer) was doubly fat than you)
While Bong Mom wonders if she should be thankful that her fatness quotient hasn't reached the full potential, the Nanny continues, "M Didi to apnar theke koto slim, monei hoyna duita bachcha" (M Didi(apparently the most favored of all past employers) is so much slimmer, doesn't look like she has two kids)
Bong Mom hastily drops the cookie she was munching on and proceeds to make some soup in mortal fear of her bulging anatomy being discussed in the next Didi's house.
Now to the Thai Vegetable Soup which is a delicious one that I first had at my friend N's place. I was apprehensive at the thought of consuming so many "good for me" veggies at one go. But my fears were allayed after the first spoonful. It was warm, delicious, with the subtle hint of spice and very comforting with the thought that consuming such liquids might put your waistline back to there rightful position.
I am out of sync with most events in blogosphere but just saw this one and thought this soup would be a good entry as it has Red Lentils as one of its main ingredients.
So this goess off to My Legume Love Affair brainchild of Susan and hosted this time by dear Srivalli
Also since I am getting comments saying "Yellow" this goes off to Sunshine Mom' FIC Yellow
How I Did It
Heat 3 tbsp of Peanut Oil.
Add 2 tbsp of grated fresh Ginger and 1 small Red Chilli pepper finely sliced. I added 3 hot green Indian Chillies. You can also add 2 crushed dry red chili pepper.
Add 1 small Red Onion chopped and saute till translucent
Add 1 small parsnip roughly chopped, 4 large carrots chopped, 2 stalks of celery thinly sliced and 1 medium potato peeled and sliced. You can play around with the veggies, I added turnip instead of parsnip.
Edited on 01/31/11: Roasted a butternut squash with olive oil, salt, pepper and little honey. Instead of above vegetables used the roasted squash and potatoes
Add 1/4 tsp of Cumin powder and 1/4 tsp of Curry Powder and saute for a couple of minutes. I added about 1 tsp of Curry Powder
Edited on 01/31/11: Use a pinch of Garam masala in absence of curry powder
Add 1/2 cup of Red Lentil (our very own Masoor dal). Mix well and add about 6 cups of water or vegetable stock. Add salt.
If you have Kafir Lime Leaves add two of them. Instead 1 tsp of lime zest will do just fine
Cook till the veggies and lentil is done.
Cool and puree in batches in a blender
Bring back to a boil on the stove top. Add 1 cup of coconut milk (less is fine).
I added about 1 tbsp of fresh lime juice at this point, add according to your taste. Garnish with fresh corriander and basil leaves.
Trivia: Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition developed by the British during their colonial rule of India. Yeah they made everything fanous from "Curry Powder" to "Slumdog Millionaire"


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New York City Subways & Car Services To Get Free Wi-Fi
After three years of stalled progress, New York subway riders will soon be able to surf the Web via free Wi-Fi. Transit Wireless, a conglomerate of wireless and construction companies that was awarded a contract back in 2007 to embark on a Wi-Fi project with New York Transit, has come up with the money it needs to move forward with the project.
Broadcast Australia will foot the bill that is expected to cost $200 million. As part of the deal, Broadcast Australia will take a majority stake in Transit Wireless. In 2007, Transit Wireless promised to complete the job in 10 years. Now, it will have two years to wire six subterranean stations near 14th Street on Manhattan's West Side to transmit mobile-phone signals to passengers on the platform. It will also have as many as four more years to complete the remaining 271 underground stations.
The Wi-Fi will come by means of smoke detector-size antennas which Transit Wireless will begin installing within the next two months. Once the project is complete, riders will have mobile service on the platform, mezzanines and portions of the tunnels. Because the work on the subway system is limited to the platforms, it is not expected to interfere with regular train service.
As early as this fall, car passengers and anyone else who happens to be within 400 feet of Internet-enabled vehicles may be able to surf as well. Venture capitalist Alex Mashinsky plans to outfit 1,000 livery cars in New York City with free, ad-supported Wi-Fi. The mobile hotpots will enable car passengers as well as anyone who is within 400 feet of the Internet-enabled vehicles to surf the Web.
In the beginning, cars from LimoRes Car & Limo Service, UTOG Corporate Car Service, and Velocity Limo will get the Wi-Fi service. Eventually, Mashinsky hopes to be able to offer Wi-Fi beyond just the inside of cars. Since livery cars idle extensively, many people on foot will be able to take advantage of the initial free Wi-Fi offering. Once a person walks beyond the range of the hotspot, however, the individual must find a new hotspot or stop surfing. Mashinsky hopes next-generation wireless technology will address this and make it easier for cars to provide Wi-Fi to the streets of Manhattan.


text: Impetigo is a superficial infection of the skin, caused by bacteria. The lesions are often grouped and have a red base. The lesions open and become crusty and have a "honey-color," which is typical of impetigo. Impetigo is very contagious and can be spread throughout a household, with children reinfecting themselves or other family members. What causes impetigo? Common bacteria, some of which are found normally on the skin, cause impetigo. When the bacteria enter an open area in the skin, the infection can occur. The most common bacteria that cause impetigo include the following: group Aß - hemolytic streptococcus Staphylococcus aureus Impetigo is more common in children than adults, but adults may also have the infection. Impetigo is made worse by poor hygiene and warm temperatures. What are the symptoms of impetigo? Impetigo usually occurs on the face, neck, arms, and limbs, but the lesions may appear on any part of the body. Impetigo starts as a small vesicle or fluid-filled lesion. The lesion then ruptures and the fluid drains leaving areas that are covered with the honey-colored crusts. The lesions may all look different, with different sizes and shapes. Your child may also have swollen lymph nodes (small lumps that are located mostly in the neck, arm, under the arm and in the groin area). The lymph nodes become enlarged when your child's body is fighting an infection. The symptoms of impetigo may resemble other skin conditions. Always consult your child's physician for a diagnosis. How is impetigo diagnosed? Impetigo is usually diagnosed based on a medical history and physical examination of your child. The lesions of impetigo are unique and usually allow for a diagnosis based simply on physical examination. In addition, your child's physician may order a culture of your child's lesion to confirm the diagnosis and the type of bacteria that is present. Treatment for impetigo: Specific treatment for impetigo will be determined by your child's physician based on: your child's age, overall health, and medical history extent of the condition your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies expectations for the course of the condition your opinion or preference Treatment may include: For a child with many lesions, oral antibiotics may be prescribed. If your child only has a few lesions, your child's physician may prescribe a topical antibiotic applied directly to the lesions. Your child should wash daily with an antibacterial soap to help decrease the chance of spreading the infection. Proper handwashing technique by everyone in the household is very important to help decrease the chance of spreading the infection. Keep your child's fingernails short to help decrease the chance of scratching and spreading the infection. Avoid sharing of garments, towels, etc. to prevent the spreading of the infection.


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LOST AND FOUND SOUND Vol. 2 (Double CD)
Two complete CDs from this remarkable and unique American national public radio sound-documentary programme. Includes: Sam Phillips and many others speaking about the early days of the Memphis Recording Service - from funerals and weddings through black R 'n B and Blues to early Presley; 'Electronic Memories', about the technological leanings and sound recordings made by black American photographer R.A Coleman in the middle of the last century; Sofia, Francis & Eleanor Coppola chat for posterity; Mohawk Indian steelworkers (famed for their ability to handle heights, and their work on New York's great skyscrapers) speak about their lives, and about putting up, and clearing away, the ruins of the twin towers; a remarkable history of steelband music and the experiences of the Tripoli Steelband, on tour in America for two years under the wing of Liberace; a portrait of the artist as an answering machine (stunning); voices from the dustbowl - historic recordings, spoken and sung, collected in 1940 for the library of congress); the soundscape of electric fans; Harry Truman opens a mall, not what you expect; CKLW - a portrait of top 40 AM radio, and Vietnamese nail shops in America. Two and a half glorious hours. L
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WELCOME, N.C. (November 23, 2011) — Richard Childress Racing has made organizational changes to its competition department in preparation for the 2012 NASCAR season.
Long-time RCR crew chiefs Shane Wilson and Gil Martin have taken new assignments with the 14-time championship-winning organization.
Wilson has been named the crew chief of the No. 29 Budweiser/Rheem/Jimmy John's team with driver Kevin Harvick after three seasons in the same position with RCR's No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper team. Martin, the No. 29 team crew chief since May 2009 and a crew chief at RCR since August 2000, has been named director of team operations, reporting to director of competition Kent Day.
"Kevin (Harvick) came to me after the Phoenix race a couple weeks ago and asked for a change in the leadership of his team for the 2012 season," said Richard Childress, president and CEO of Richard Childress Racing. "The expectations at RCR are to win championships so the decision was made to move Shane Wilson to the No. 29 Budweiser/Rheem/Jimmy Johns program. Shane did a great job for RCR in the Nationwide Series when he first got here, and built on that success the past three seasons with our No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper team, so we feel he will continue do a great job with the No. 29 team."
This is not the first time Wilson and Harvick have worked together. They joined forces in 2006 to earn 10 wins, 24 top-five and 31 top-10 finishes on the way to that season's NASCAR Nationwide Series championship. The team's 824-point margin of victory is a series record.
"Shane is a good friend of mine and we had a lot of success together in the NASCAR Nationwide Series," said Harvick. "He has a lot of experience now in the Sprint Cup Series and I look forward to working with him again."
Further personnel changes within RCR's competition department will be announced in the coming weeks.
About Richard Childress Racing Richard Childress Racing (www.rcrracing.com) has earned more than 190 victories and 14 championships in NASCAR and ARCA Series competition, including six in the Sprint Cup Series with the legendary Dale Earnhardt. RCR was the first organization to win championships in the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series. Its 2011 Sprint Cup Series lineup includes Paul Menard (No. 27 Menard's Chevrolet), Kevin Harvick (No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet), Jeff Burton (No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet) and Clint Bowyer (No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet). Its Camping World Truck Series program includes 2010 Rookie of the Year Austin Dillon (No. 3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet) and Joey Coulter, Jr. (No. 22 RCR Development Chevrolet). Tim George Jr. (No 31 RCR Development Chevrolet) and Ty Dillon (No. 41 Chevrolet) will compete in the 2011 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards.


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Laurel Farrin: No Particular Order
Iowa City artist Laurel Farrin mixes elements of hard edge painting with references to pop culture in her humorous paintings, drawings and videos. By pulling inspiration and techniques from various sources, Farrin explores how viewers relate to abstract forms. Farrin's paintings confound the viewer with visual riddles, contradictions, and comic juxtapositions, while convincing the viewer to feel sympathy for abstract shapes.
In Farrin's work geometric forms take on a humanlike presence while performing Sisyphean tasks. Some of these struggles are documented in videos which show the assemblages being thrust into motion by the wind. The same breeze which allowed these figures to move inevitably thwarts their struggle by blowing them over, leading to an endless cycle of fruitless gestures.
Similar abstract figures inhabit seemingly empty frames in Farrin's paintings. When these frames are combined they seem to form a comic strip which the viewer must piece together. Viewers are led to believe that if the frames are assembled correctly the punchline to the joke will be revealed, if there is one. Laurel Farrin is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. She splits her time between Iowa City and New York City.
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Washington – The United States Helsinki Commission will hold a briefing on the critical human rights and humanitarian situation in war-torn Chechnya, Russian Federation.
The Critical Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Chechnya
Thursday, April 24, 2003
10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
2200 Rayburn House Office Building
Eliza Moussaeva, Director of the Ingushetia office, Memorial Human Rights Center. Memorial provides legal consultations to Chechen refugees and is involved in cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Bela Tsugaeva, Information Manager, World Vision, Nazran, Ingushetia. Ms. Tsugaeva previously worked with internally displaced persons for the International Rescue Committee and the Danish Refugee Council.
Ms. Moussaeva and Ms. Tsugaeva will be accompanied by Maureen Greenwood, Advocacy Director for Europe and Eurasia, Amnesty International, USA.
The U.S. State Department's 2002 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices notes, "The indiscriminate use of force by government troops in the Chechen conflict has resulted in widespread civilian casualties and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of persons, the majority of whom sought refuge in the neighboring republic of Ingushetiya." According to the report, "Command and control among military and special police units often appeared to be weak, and a climate of lawlessness, corruption, and impunity flourished." The report also cites Chechen fighters for "serious human rights abuses."
This briefing follows yesterday's defeat, by a vote of 15-21 at the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, of a U.S.–supported resolution expressing "deep concern" about reported human rights violation in Chechnya. In a recent letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Members of the Helsinki Commission had urged U.S. support for a strong resolution on human rights violations in Chechnya.


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KDE today celebrates its semi-annual release event, making available new releases of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Development Platform and a large number of applications available in their 4.5.0 versions.
In this release, the KDE team focused on stability and completeness of the Desktop experience. More than 16,000 bugs have been fixed, and many feature requests have been filled. The result for the user is a system that feels faster, takes less time to "think", and works more reliably. The large number of bug fixes goes accompanied with many parts that have got an extra portion of tender loving care. Plasma 4.5.0's new notification system is one example here. It is designed to get less in your way, yet to support your workflow as smoothly as possible. Visually, the striking monochromatic icons make for a more consistent look in the notification area. A highlight of the KDE Applications 4.5.0 is surely Marble, which can now be used for map routing as well as viewing. The Konqueror web browser can now also use the WebKit engine to render its content. The KDE Development Platform 4.5.0 offers a new generic cache for applications that need high-speed access to certain data, such as icons or other pre-rendered artwork. The new KSharedDataCache speeds up loading of many components, while the new HTTP scheduler is optimized for concurrent access to web servers, and makes loading of pages in Konqueror and other parts using the KIO HTTP mechanism faster.
Today's releases are the first in the 4.5 series and will be followed with updated versions approximately monthly that will focus on fixing bugs. The next feature releases are planned for January 2011. If you would like to test-drive 4.5.0, you can do so by installing the packages that should be made available by your operating system vendor. You can also choose to build 4.5.0 from source, the nitty-gritty of that can be found on TechBase. For the impatient, there is also a Live CD available.
Where are kdepim, kdepim-runtime?
they will come in 4.5.1, since the change to akonadi isn't polished enough yet — and noone wants to risk that KDE users lose their emails…
Sounds like a good plan. Compiling as we speak.
I tried KDE PIM 4.4.92 (Beta 2), and I must notify you that it has, depending on your point of view, finally reached beta quality. It qualifies, indeed, for a Beta 1 moniker, but it needs a lot of testing, because several betas should be done and the whole thing isn't expected to be stable until KDE 4.6.0.
Can you test? I make a pledge to test this, because this is the first of a new wave of features that will surely put the KDE desktop ahead of the curve.
I'm with you. I don't see why there should be any hurry in releasing it as stable. To have it tested by many users the important part is having it packaged, distributed and promoted. Mplayer was being used by tons of people in its Beta and RC days, long before it was promoted to stable. I remember everyone installing a Beta of KDE 2 that came with some SuSE release a long time ago.
So just make it possible to install these Betas along with the latest stable, and get distros to distribute it as an option during the KDE 4.5 life cycle.
System is already running at full force to get the new version!
Got to see the improvements over RC3!
Many thanks to all KDE hackers (including documenters, translators, PR people and all the others) for getting 4.5 done!
KDE PIM was been delayed and was not part of the 4.5.0 release of the Applications modules. the new version of KDE PIM is expected to be made in tandem with the 4.5.1 release.
for a summary and links to sources on the matter, see: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=89366&p=165898
Better safe than sorry. :)
On the other hand - the message has been "delay from 4.5 to 4.5.1" and therefore your message "still this year looks realistic" is not a very good signal.
It leaves me with the impression that it is quite probable that the release will not be available before 4.6.
If they now targets KDE SC 4.5.3/4/5 or even 4.6 I find the "delay to 4.5.1 message" to be really awkward.
It's the communication bit I'm after - not the potential delay. :)
Wouldn't it make sense just to finish it properly and to get rid of as many regressions as possible then ship it with 4.6?
I agree. I rather see it released as part of KDE 4.6.
IMHO, it was a terrible idea to move release of the Akonadi-based KDEPIM suite to 4.5.1. Doing that, it misses all the testing it would have received from the 4.5.0 betas and RCs.
It's big enough of a change that it should get this testing. I don't want to lose my e-mail!
In tone with the Akonadi/KMail testing, can you provide us a tarball with Lion Mail? I really want to exploit some of the advantages of the new framework.
Would it be possible to provide seperate feature packages, so that we can already test it? I don't want to switch to the full KDE trunk to get PIM 2, but I do want to test KMail 2.
(I'm on Gentoo packages)
And there's still one application that holds me back on KDE 3.5.10: KSensors.
Temperature Sensors from KDE 4.x show only temperatures, so, please stop advising them.
I would also become happier if someone ported KNetStats (yes, I know about KNemo, but the former application is more lightweight).
And I expect KDE developers to start working on optimization and solving old bugs (and there are hundreds of them) for KDE 4.6 and onwards. Most of us need a stable and fast DE, not a shiny bug-ridden and prone to crashes one.
Can't you simply use KSensors from 3.5.10 in KDE 4.5?
I want to get rid of Qt3/KDE3 libraries once and for all.
That's the only reason of not willing to use any KDE3 applications under KDE4.
I can understand that, just like getting rid of GTK+/Gnome libraries and all that. But needing a particular Qt3, KDE3, GTK, or Gnome application isn't really a reason not to move to KDE4.
Gnome is a whole different matter, they care about compatibility. GTK applications circa 2003 will still be working in year 2010.
KDE3/Qt3 are *officially* abandoned, thus it makes zero sense to have them installed once I've upgraded to KDE4.
Your chain of reasoning just ended up justifying sticking to KDE 3.5.10 with the fact KDE3/Qt3 are officially abandoned.
I get your point, that said in practice for your case none of that matters. For now KSensors of KDE 3.5.10 works better for you, so use it.
BTW, he said that KDE4 sensors show only "temperatures". I see the sensor list in KSysGuard and I can get a full list of status indexes. Really... what am I missing?
> Gnome is a whole different matter, they care about compatibility.
Ugh. implying KDE doesn't?
All 3.x releases are compatible.
All 4.x releases are compatible.
That's the point of the first number anyways, for a lot of projects. They only increment the first number to start a whole new series (in our case, the 4.x series). KDE guarantees compatibility between those versions. An application that's compiled for 4.2, will still run when you install kdelibs 4.5.
Same logic applies to GNOME: their 3.x isn't going to be compatible with 2.x
As far as I know that's not entirely true. Packaging KDE 3 and 4 at the same time (well, just the libs) is not as easy as it may seem, and not all distros did it 100%.
At the pre-4.0 times, much work was done in trying to make that not as painful, but still is not as easy as with plain Qt applications.
KDE3/qt3 are stable and mature. For stable and mature software maintenance is marginal. So even when they are officially abandonned upstream you can still use and run and fix them, like you can run applications with DOS 5.0 as many in industry do.
Even this seemingly innocuous message gets modded down.
I love KDE fanboys. Keep on voting!
I think KSysGuard's sensor sheets can do everything KSensors can - and more.
can we? or at least for some websites, like browser identification?
Settings ---> Configure Konqueror ---> File Management ---> File Associations ---> html ---> goto Embedding tab and there put WebKit (kwebkitpart) on top. Hope that helps :)
I have been using 4.5 since its first RC and it has been a breeze. The last remaining annoyances have been fixed in the final version (thanks for the delay). :)
So thank you to all KDE developers. You are doing amazing work!
All KDE developers and contributors for this great release.
What is the plan for 4.6 BTW ? :)
See the Feature Plan, but keep in mind it may be incomplete and these are always subject to change.
"More than 16,000 bugs have been fixed"
Does this count the duplicated bugs?
I don't know, but I would guess it's basically the count of all bug reports that have been closed since 4.4.0. That likely includes many duplicates.
Still, it's an awe-inspiring number. Even if many of the bug closings represent relatively little in the way of improvements to the code, try just sitting down and counting to 16,000 some afternoon. I bet it would heighten the appreciation for how much work has gone into this release :-). Go KDE team!!
I also am fine with the idea of KDE-PIM releasing with 4.6. I've always thought it was a bit odd the idea of making a major change at 4.5.1, so in a way I find this more satisfying.
That would be highly misleading and I hope it's not the case. You can close bugs with WONTFIX, INVALID, WORKSFORME, DUPLICATE, etc. Counting all of those as fixed bugs would be pretty ridiculous ... "nah I won't fix this one, there you go one more bug fixed!".
Whatever metric is used in the release announcement, it is wrong. A lot of bugs are never reported, yet fixed. So how do we count those? If we would only count reported bugs which have been fixed by a code commit, yes, the number is smaller. No, it is not more accurate. Many bugs are closed because they have been fixed in the mean time - WORKSFORME is often used there if the developer who fixed the bug never saw the actual bugreport...
So the marketing team simply uses the number of bugs closed in the period between releases. Works fine - you also credit the work of the bug squad with that number. Even on WONTFIX bugs you have to spend time...
The fact that there isn't any accurate metric doesn't make this approach acceptable. It's so bad that it's not even funny.
If you're going for that number better claim "bugs reports closed" instead of "bugs fixed". Or else chose only the ones marked as "fixed" and use that as a lower bound.
Face the reality.
On the other hand, they will release beta after beta during the KDE 4.5 cycle (with every minor release, a beta, starting with Beta 2/KDE 4.5.0). And if we don't test these betas, then Akonadi/KDE-PIM release is going to be a flop.
So, IMHO the message is clear. Download and install Akonadi/KDE-PIM Beta 2. Test it. Report bugs. Hammer it.
(and also, Sebastian... could you release a tarball of Lion Mail to sweeten my Akonadi/KDE-PIM testing?)
Yes, it includes all bugs that get closed, for all projects that track their bugs on the KDE bug tracker, i.e. it also includes koffice, amarok, digikam, kdevelop, etc.
Still the number is a good indication about how much work the team did, as each of those 16000 bugs is usually closed individually.
On the other side there is the number of bugs opened. It is a good indication about the work YOU did :) And comparing those numbers, you did a better job then the KDE team: Around 16000 bugs closed, around 18000 bugs opened in the last 180 days, so you could say that we have 2000 more bugs :)
You can use bugs.kde.org search service to find how many bugs really got closed as fixed. For example, in the last 180 days around 4600 bugs have been closed as FIXED. Again, this includes all projects. Plasma alone has 700 of those fixes. Additionally, around 600 feature requests have been closed as FIXED (50 in Plasma).
But only mathematicians care about numbers. What really counts is that bugs continue to get reported and continue to get fixed. That's the heartbeat of the KDE project.
Keep beating!
Thanks very much to the KDE team for it's time dedication and hard work.
The first thing that I tested was Dolphin, which seems to be good now, stable (after RC3) and fast.
KDE SC 4.5 seems to be quite stable and polish. The only two little problems that I have are the start up time and Bball is still not fixed. Although it's a very responsive Desktop it seems to start up a bit slow. KDE takes longer to start up on my systems than openSuse 11.3 itself.
Haven't noticed it taking any longer than 4.4 did on Fedora. Certainly nowhere near booting time. Sounds like you have some particular issue.
thanks for this nice release. I use Kubuntu 4.5-backport packages for Lucid and notice that Klipper does no auto-collapse anymore. Is this a bug or a feature (or Kubuntu ;-)?
ctrl-alt-v doesn't bring it up anymore...?
Nope, nor in Kubuntu - https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/616370?comments=all
I wasn't really comparing the login time to that of KDE 4.4. I really meant the general login time of KDE 4. OpenSuse 11.3 takes 30 seconds to reach the login screen on my laptop and KDE 4.5 takes 38 seconds to boot the desktop after that. However, if I log out and then log in again then it takes only 10 seconds. It's only the boot up login that seems to be so slow.


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Segregation is Good
Have you ever noticed how high school physics classes rarely take place at Fermilab? Or how rarely you see brilliant physicists sitting in high schools listening to the teacher stumble his way through the concept of an equal and opposite force? This is segregation. Self-segregation. There are distinct areas and groups and people separate themselves among them. Veterans go here, students go here.
At this time I think that's the greatest weakness of WoW. It mixes the players too much. We cannot easily self-segregate into appropriate groups. This leads to problems. What problems?
The noob in your heroic. Or, the eltist jackass in your heroic.
People in groups should be of about the same experience level, of about the same skill, with about the same gear, and about the same goals. In this situation no one is being carried and everyone is inclined to work together because they have shared goals, or at least compatible goals. Anyone still learning is not wasting time because they're all still learning, and can learn from the mistakes of the others.
Leveling instances do a decent job of this. While they do mix veteran alts and new players, they are at least of similar gear and level. At lower levels veteran players may be more inclined to be patient, being able to believe that they are playing with new players who are 'allowed' to be still learning, rather than noobs who have been 85 for who knows how long and are still awful so let's call them noobs and call it day. You won't see many level 85 characters in your Stockades run berating you for being carried.
How would we get this player segregation? Well, let's look at what leveling is: linear. Linear content naturally separates players. A level 10 has played less than a level 20, unless the level 20 is a speed-leveled alt, in which case he's probably still played more, just not on that character, so it still works.
Get rid of all this "we want players to see content" crap. It's not working out so well. It's fundamentally incompatible with challenging content and good community. If player misses raid Z, but they are able to actually enjoy raids X and Y, I think that's better than stumbling through raids X, Y, and Z half-seeing the content and getting blamed for everything.
Bring back linear raiding.
While we're at it, bring back linear heroics. Linear heroics? Well sure. Let's not pretend that Mechanar and Arcatraz were of the same difficulty. Were they perfectly linear? Not at all. But there was some known gradient of difficulty. There is in Cataclysm, and there was in LK heroics as well, but those have the random dungeon problem. If people are not picking their instance, they're also not picking their difficulty level. Someone who queues for Mechanar is there for easy quick badges while someone who queues for Arcatraz is there for harder badges and maybe a raid attunement.
Linear content naturally separates players. This isn't a bad thing. It puts players with their peers. When people know they are more or less equal, they're not such dicks about everything. Contrast that with the current system which vaguely pretend we're all equal, when we're clearly not, so conflict arises.
This also means that heroics cannot be the elevator that they are now. That use of them pushes players who have long outgeared them back in, and int conflict with the newer players, or players who aren't good enough to play past heroics.
I expect that merely by putting players with others of the same experience and power level, many of the LFD problems could be reduced. I see the ideal tool as a mix of the BC system, pick a few and people can see you, and the LK system, randomly random with randoms. We'd pick the heroics that we think are suitable for us and then be put in a random one of those. But no random dungeon bonus reward. I think a system where people are doing appropriate level content, in terms of challenge and reward, could lead to a better community, even with cross-server. In fact, since this is likely to reduce the pool slightly, by removing the more advanced players and slightly separating the rest, the cross-server function may be necessary.
To clarify, I don't think we should return to the almost perfectly linear raid structure of vanilla. That was a problem. For starters, I'd have two raids per tier, at least, so that there are no gatekeeper, guild-killer bosses. Major challenges are great, but when a guild is stuck one one single boss for months, with no real alternative content, that's a great way to make people not want to play. Even if the alternative content won't help get past the gatekeeper, it can at least offer an alternative activity to break up the potential monotony.
I'm sure this won't be a popular idea. And I'm sure "come back and do it in a higher level group next expansion" isn't much consolation, since it won't be the same. But consider this: if you're playing trivialized content endlessly with players who are sick of being there, it also won't be the same. Or, perhaps it will be the same. Even worse, while the progressive badge/point structure gets people into the last raids, it also means newcomers miss the first raids, since everyone has moved past them. Wouldn't it make more sense to have veterans in the latest raids with other veterans, new players in the older raids with other new players, and not have the constant conflict between skill and dedication levels?
There will, of course, still be the alts and rerolls going through, veterans in with new players, but that will be the exception rather than the rule.
So if you're sick of playing with noobs, give this idea try. And if you're sick of playing with elitists, give it a try as well.
P.S. Do not relate this to real-life segregation, beyond the example I used.
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- Nils said...
Although I have had a different opinion in the past, I agree with your core point. I think I'll write a post, too.
- May 10, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- Hyperian said...
Raid attunements rocked. They were annoying as hell to get, and sometimes I had to barter parts of my soul away to get into groups to get them done, but hot damn it was worth it. Being "one of those guys who run Hyjal/BC" was a good feeling, almost like I was some mystical hero who'd "done his time" in the trenches and rewarded with wiping for weeks due to wave after wave of undead haha. The progression leapfrog by twos was a good method, and it tied into the lore aspect very well. More people per capita id say understood the worldly politics better in BC than any other Xpacs. Simply because you were forced to unmask Kael for the douche bag he was in Tempest, and you got to lop Vashjj's whorish head off in SSC. The raid/gear progression was well tailored for the situation. Wrath was a tougher sell because it was the Arthas show…… he was the big kahuna, anyone else was just fodder slowing our progression to knife that mofo.
- May 10, 2011 at 8:13 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Nils: Get your own idea! And then let me uh, borrow it.
@Hyperian: I like attunements, but attunements for raids that require raids can be a bit of a logistical problem and overall, probably not worth it. Unless the raid is something everyone is doing anyway, like Karazhan. - May 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Justisraiser said...
I've been thinking about this a lot with the release of ZA/ZG. I queued in LFD to run them several times a day. They were a lot of fun the first handful of times but then I got totally burned out on them given how long they took and how difficult they could be if you queued in LFD by yourself.
A lot of people look back fondly on BC heroics, but in my opinion that's probably because we didn't need to grind them to death. You ran them to get the loot/badges/attunements you needed, and sure, that was very time-consuming. But it's a lot less time-consuming than to run the same heroics over and over and over again during the course of an expansion just to get some Valor Points. In BC I felt I generally logged in to a run a dungeon because I wanted to do run a dungeon, not because I wanted to 'get it out of the way.' In LK I did dungeons purely for emblems, but at least it took an easy 12 minutes and then I could go back to playing whatever I wanted to play. Cataclysm basically just has a bad mix of the two, as I think Shintar described in her recent blog post.
However, I disagree about the linear progression of raids. Going back to the BC model just meant gearing up the same recruits and then seeing them guild hop to the next more progressed guild. And what if your guild needed you to bring your alt? The model of "Tier X is current and everything else is Tier X - 1" isn't ideal but it works a lot better for guild stability and progression.
TL;DR: I like whatever model that doesn't make me do content for reasons other than wanting to do the content. - May 10, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
"that's probably because we didn't need to grind them to death"
Exactly. I'm trying to work on this concept for a later post, about how the badge and heroic systems are linked and how we need to recognize that.
The guild-hopping thing to me is a non-issue. If the players can go on to more advanced content, so can the guild. I don't want to see players getting carried by more advanced guilds, but instead play with similarly experienced players. As for alts, why not invite another player if you frequently need other classes?
I think a more linear system would work better for you, based on your TL;DR. People would do the content that fits them. - May 10, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Strawfellow said...
Pardon me for picking out a sentence here, but...
"Contrast that with the current system which vaguely pretend we're all equal, when we're clearly not, so conflict arises."
I've found a good portion of WoW players with the mindset of "I pay $15 a month, therefore I'm entitled to everything in the game." I feel like this is a good portion of the problem, at least within this community. The self-segregation doesn't happen because the precedent was established that everyone deserves to raid and see the Lich King in WOTLK. The problem being, the proponents of that mantra forgot the most important part of that: Everyone who puts in the work deserves to see the Lich King.
MMORPG's require an investment of work to achieve goals, normally either time or cooperation, sometimes both. And because there is an expectation that everyone should see end-game content, for some reason that throws cooperation and time out the window as well. - May 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
Slight tangent here: I don't like how people use the word "deserve" these days. Someone gets hacked and the response is "they deserved it for having bad security." Someone pays their sub and now they "deserve to see content."
I don't think the highly exclusive model of vanilla is the way to go, with barely any raiders seeing Naxx, or even much into BWL, and supposedly not many people even raiding, though that part I cannot believe. But at the same time, "everyone sees everything" cheapens it. There must be some happy middle somewhere. In fact, if we assume these to be real numbers, there is even a proof that there must be a happy medium, though the actual proof doesn't relate to the happy part. - May 10, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- Masterlooter said...
I agree 100%.
The vanilla structure of linear raiding was only bad in about half of the instances. The other half were good as you could skip bosses if you needed to - to alleviate the "guild killer" type scenarios.
Ulduar I think has a good mix of required and optional bosses.
Attunements done right are a good thing. Karazhan was an example of a good attunement process (except the first couple parts of the chain). The SSC attunement was an example of a bad one. Plus - IMO - you should only need to get attuned to the first tier raid, not sucessive ones.
I would hope veteran players understand that having players "go through the ranks" of raiding benefits everyone in the long term.
The "guild hopping" issue that Justisraiser brings up is more an issue of bad instance design and horrible attunement processes, rather than an issue of linear progression. - May 10, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Strawfellow said...
I'm inclined to think Cataclysm is at that happy medium right now. You can freely pick between 10 and 25 man, content is challenging and require more than just a PuG to take it down, but not too much that we see only a small minority in those brackets.
I think the issue of why this isn't a "happy" medium is because of the precedent set by WOTLK that everyone should see it. Goes right to your deserve tangent. People believe they deserve to see it based only on their $15, not due to any work organizing and pulling their weight in a raid group. - May 10, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Masterlooter: Vanilla did have ZG and AQ20 as side paths, and AQ40 was sort of co-progressive with Naxx, but the 20-40 split didn't make them quite as alternative as they could have been.
@Straw Fellow: I can't say too much about cata raiding, having not next to none. I was already sick from the heroic system and maybe just playing too long. That's something I should have made more clear, my complaints are not aimed much at cata raiding, more at cata heroics and LK raiding/heroics and how the flaws have been carried over. - May 10, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Aracos said...
This post is spot on. I'm not sure I could have put it any better. There were a lot of things to like about raiding and dungeons in vanilla and BC, but there were problems too. Klep does a great job of highlighting the things they did well as well as their flaws. All too often people either have "rose colored glasses" for the good old days and forget the parts that were bad. Or they simply trash them and forget that there were things that worked pretty darn well back then.
- May 10, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Masterlooter said...
w should have specified, I was more refering to an instance being linear within itself. Like BWL, you have to kill the bosses in a very set order, you can't skip any, or do them in a different order. But in ZG and AQ20, you can pick the order in which you attempt some - or skip some altogether. This helps alleviate a guild being "stuck one one single boss for months, with no real alternative content" as you said in the post.
Of course having multiple instances in a tier also helps, but I don't think it's mandatory if a raid is setup such as Ulduar was - killing 3 mandatory bosses, gave access to 7 of the remaining 9 bosses, needing to kill 4 +1 more to have access to the last boss. You could in theory, kill the last boss without killing 3 of the other encounters. It's not necessary to kill those 3 ever - you could have moved on to the next tier when it was available (or the group is ready to move on). - May 10, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Aracos: Thanks a lot. Though I know I definitely have worn those glasses in the past.
@Masterlooter: I see what you mean now. I'd say it's best to both both alternative raids and bosses. Having alternatives within a raid offers ease of transition: just walk over to try something else. But it's not really a change of scenery. Even within Ulduar, one of the most varied raids, there is a noticeable consistent theme. - May 10, 2011 at 5:17 PM
- Hyperian said...
Straw definatly makes some good points. In Vanilla i was new, even though i was a lvl 60 i had no idea what the raids were and frankly sucked and didnt have the skill to see it. In BC i busted my ass and got raid worthly. The "entitlement" mindset is a weird but very prevalent thing in Wrath, and was an obvious change especially making it friendly to brand new players. 15 bucks a month gives you the right to waste as much time as humanly possible in this pixalated world... Just as we have the right to purse happiness, nowhere in the "terms of agreement" does Blizzard state that "YOU WILL be handed a handed happiness in the form of a Lich King heroic kill" But that will never stop people from expecting it.
Im liking Cata raiding as it is. The content is hard enough to make you work for it, but nowhere near the roflstomp ICC became after its the buff hit. Hard modes offer some tricky changes and they seem to be focusing on making the raid content make sense with the flowing politics/world events. - May 11, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- Sthenno said...
I think raid attunements caused some big problems in BC because you had to kill KT and Vashj to get into Black Temple, but KT and Vashj were *much* harder than quite a few Black Temple bosses, so when a person left a BT guild, it was almost impossible to find a replacement. But raid attunements overall were a good idea - just don't make them require beating the end boss of the previous raid.
One of the worst mistakes made along the lines of forcing desegregation of players was giving out top tier badges for daily heroic runs. Making the best players who were pretty much done with heroics a few weeks after release feel like they have to keep running them every day to stay competitive really made the atmosphere of heroics much worse. The worst part is that going back wouldn't fix it now. The problem with heroics isn't that there are a bunch of very good players who just want to quickly and silently do their job and get out. The problem is that other people have gotten used to being in groups with strong players who smash the content, come to assume that they are responsible for the success of their group, and come to expect that every group they are in should be fast and easy. If you get rid of the top tier rewards, the heroic raiders will go away, but the people who have had the expectations artificially inflated by them won't. - May 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Phelps said...
Part of the problem is that blizzard seems to have the opposite goal for the LFG tool. It seems apparent that blizz wants a half geared half non group as much as possible. Frankly, blizz wants the haves to boost the nots. It's one of the philosophies contributing greatly to my burnout right now. (world of tanks is fun though.)
- May 12, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think the biggest issue that Blizzard has with linear Raiding is that guilds are not static. Most of them are always loosing members and taking new ones on. This combined with linear raiding forced guilds to run through content they were entirely sick of running through because they needed to gear up new members.
Any suggestion as to how to restructure raiding needs to address this issue. - May 18, 2011 at 3:38 PM
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