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A blog about my journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome including HHV 6, EBV, C. Pneumonia, Bartonella, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Biotoxin Illness
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Day Two
I'd been invited to celebrate a friends birthday while watching Obama's inagauration something I'd been looking forward to for awhile (seeing my friends and the inagauration). My anxiety eased up enough to go for a walk. One would think that going for a walk would be just what I should do to manage the anxiety but it wasn't like that. I was a bit dizzy and lightheaded at times along with the anxiety and was having increased brain fog as well so I didn't trust myself to go outdoors and not pass out.
I went out for a 10 minute walk thankful that I wasn't feeling as bad. I got home to two messages from one of my friends. The first was letting me know where and when to meet them. The second was canceling altogether. Then I got an email saying their phone was down and canceling again. I'm so confused but I'm remembering feelings of high school and being dissed. I'm bummed about it but trying not to dwell. I like seeing people who knew me when I was well. Somehow this seems to bring home the point that I'm ill.
I also got a response from my doctor's office. I'd sent them an email describing what occurred today. My CFIDS doctor says to stop the Valcyte, restart it Sunday and let them know how I'm doing on Monday. Although it's probably a good idea to restart since I had such an intense reaction, part of me wants to just power through this and get it over with. I don't want any more delays. But today was pretty horrible so I'll follow his instructions.
Sometimes this journey feels so lonely.
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- Paula said...
I know 2 people on Valcyte who had bad beginnings and now can't even tell they're on it. Hang in there. I'm glad you are trying it. This could be the answer! But you have summon every ounce of strength and hope you have in the meantime.. I know..
I don't get the whole anxiety thing. I have had more of that since starting Famvir. I wonder if it's a form of "herx"?????
- January 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Thanks Paula. I really needed to hear what you had to say. Did those two people have the bad anxiety?
I too wonder if it's some sort of "herx."
How long have you been on Famvir?
Do you feel it's helping or maybe too early to tell?
Thanks again for what you wrote. It's good to "hear" from you again.
- January 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Renee said...
You are not alone, Terri. Hang in there ~ listen to your doctor...listen to your body, your instincts.
The thoughts of those who care about you will carry you forwad.
- January 20, 2009 at 6:18 PM
- Paula said...
Terri - yes, those 2 people had what they would call "floating" anxiety. My is more disabling. I seem to get it when I leave the house and enter "the outside world" I'm letting it go for now, but if continues, I'm gonna need help. I've only been on Famvir a month. Too soon to tell, other than I'm really achy and feel worse. Doc said could be a good sign. Hard to tell with it being winter and all, I think the cold affects me a lot.
And if this helps too - aside from moving out of the moldy apt. (which was a great thing to do), look at all you have done and still no recovery. You HAVE to try Valcyte and throw everything you can at this!!! I may even ask for it if the Famvir doesn't come through.
- January 20, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- Shelley said...
Thinking warm and peaceful thoughts your way...
- January 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Thank you Renee! Your comment moved me. I really appreciate the blogging world. It's one of the few places I connect with people.
- January 20, 2009 at 7:23 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my blog! What a wonderful occupation you have!
Thank you for the warm and peaceful thoughts...
- January 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Did your anxiety begin with Famvir or with your illness or both?
The aches and feeling worse, although could partly be due to the cold weather (I too am affected by it) but also that the Famvir is killing some bugs.
I've heard that Valcyte can be more tolerable to people who have been on antivirals in the past so if you decide on Valcyte you'll have a head start.
What you said makes a lot of sense. It's true that I've tried just about everything at this point. It's similar to what my doctor said-time to bring out the big guns.
Thank you.
- January 20, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- HAPPY IN NEVADA said...
I think your friends who had to cancel; possibly the 'excuses' they used, is that they feel so much love and concern for you, they were afraid to suggest you might not be up to the celebration.
It was probably easier for them to e-mail you; shed their tears, and try to regain their strength because they are probably drained by your difficulties.
From what others have written, it seems if you just keep with the program, you will see positive results.
You don't need to celebrate an inauguration with anyone to be happy; nor a birthday - just be glad you're alive and able to share in the joy we all feel today.
- January 20, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- Paula said...
Anxiety was one of the 1st symptoms I had when this all started back in 2001. Actually, a dry cough and weird wheezing which was never diagnosed was the first, but then that went away and i was left with night time panic attacks and the heart arrythmias (sp?). I worked and functioned fine energy wise until my crash in 2005. Went back to work in 2 months and worked til summer of 2008. And now it's just even worse. Anxiety is through the roof and heart stuff coming back. I don't get it though, I was panic free for 3 years prior to my 2nd crash this summer which I've never been able to come back from. All I'm left with is ???? - question marks..
- January 21, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Sue Jackson said...
Terri -
It sounds like you found a new CFS doctor? I'm so glad to hear that! Hang in there with the Valcyte treatment and listen to your doctor (and your body). I know you've done lots of research and probably know this, but Valcyte can be fairly toxic so be sure your doctor is sending you for bloodwork every few weeks. And a bad reaction to anti-virals is usually a GOOD sign - I know you know all about herxes from your Lyme treatment. Lots of people with CFS who try anti-virals have bad herx reactions. The good news is that many people report the first improvement they notice is in cognitive function & increased mental clarity. You're in my thoughts. Let us know how it goes for you.
- January 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Happy In Nevada-
Thank you for your reminder to be grateful for being alive. You're right-I don't need to celebrate an inauguration or a birthday to do that.
- January 21, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- cfswarrior said...
This is the same CFIDS doctor I've been seeing. I was going to switch all my care to my local doctor since he was happy to follow me on Valcyte and knew the required bloodwork, etc...
Unfortunately, my CFIDS doctor isn't covered by insurance and costs a lot of money. I'll continue seeing him until I find someone on my insurance.
Thanks for your input on herxing.It's helpful to know I might be on the right path.
I'll keep you posted. I almost emailed you yesterday to ask your opinion so I'm glad you stopped by!
- January 21, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- cfswarrior said...
Anxiety was also one of my first symptoms. It was confusing because I couldn't figure out why either. Then other symptoms started coming into play.
My doctor said it's due to brain inflammation from various triggers whether it's viral, lyme, mold, or all of the above.
Have you tried Hawthorne Extract for the heart stuff? I started taking that about 2-3 weeks ago and it's helping along with coQ10.
- January 21, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- Paula said...
Thanks for the suggestions on the heart stuff Terri - no I have not tried Hawthorn Berry. I hate the heart stuff more than anything else. It can be so scary..
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Y'all know how we feel about killing animals for "trauma training" by now, right? (Hint: It sucks—to put it mildly.)
Well, after learning that live pigs are reportedly being shot and stabbed in a California avocado grove owned by police officer David Bishop—all as part of trauma training exercises conducted by Washington-based Deployment Medicine International (DMI)—we were outraged. Not only is it unnecessary to mutilate and kill pigs—or any other animals—for trauma training, but to do so in an avocado grove may be illegal.
That's because Bishop's land isn't zoned for trauma or medical training exercises under the County of San Diego's zoning ordinances. Since San Diego County allows the director of its Department of Planning and Land Use to penalize zoning violators, we've fired off a letter to the current director, Eric Gibson, asking him to investigate Bishop and DMI for illegal activity.
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NOOOOOO! Poor pigs! Couldn't they practice shooting at dummies or scarecrows? I am not a doctor, but pigs definitely don't have the same anatomy as people. Therefore, it would be very confusing for the medics to help the pigs, and also problematic, when they do have to save a person. Pigs are cute, sweet, smart animals! Even if they weren't, they haven't done anything wrong. They are totally innocent. They don't deserve to die. D:
Thank you AH and Jared Dull for having enough of a brain to use logic here. Yes, pigs are living beings that can feel pain, but slaughtering another human being for this purpose is the only relevant alternative…which, of course, is illegal and horrible no matter which way you look at it. Not to mention that it would cause immeasurable psychological damage to every soldier involved.
Why are you even mad? now that the army is practicing on real pigs at least they have the experience to help save pigs from trauma. HAHAHHAHAHAHA
This is an outrage!! Pigs are smart wonderful creatures that don't deserve this torture.
OKAY! Can we not have a civil discourse about such terrible and vital issues without fear of reprisal?!! Which disicple of Dick Cheney covered by selfconverted 1987 biodiesel hybrid VW Rabbit with pig blood intestines and feces?!!! I would love to enlighten you to our cause. Please email me at summersunset100hotmail.com. Or just see me at open mic night at the Akron Ohio "Sing Soy In." Madou refuses to ride in my car. He tells me that it smells of the infidel.
LIES! LIES! LIES! There is no difference between what is going on here IN SECRET I MIGHT ADD than any other case of genocide. Created by white men behind locked doors in secret. Lets keep Guantanamo open and put the real criminals in there these so called "medics" completely different than so called terrorists we currently imprison there simply good family men trying to get back to their country. These issues and more will be addressed at our next "SINGSOY IN" at the Post Office in Akron Ohio on Veteran's Day 2009. My spitual life partner in body and soul Madou AlJihad will be enlightening people to the truth behind Dick Cheney and other evil conspirators to rid Mother Earth of her natural bounty such our friends the swine. Madou and I have come to know each other on so many levels he calls me his "Little Sharmuta."
Jeez…some of the people commenting here are INSANE I love pigs if you dont believe me you should see my desk but come on…putting another human being in their place? Even people on death row rapists etc. is completely against everything you supposedly stand for. As a human you are an animal. Putting another human in place of another animal is the same as killing that animal…military testing on animals is wrong and there are other methods of testing this that would be much more reliable on the field but come on…If you people are so "prolife" for animals the least you could possibly do for your OWN SPECIES is admit the fact that killing a prisoner would be the equal of killing a pig. Both are living creatures and neither should be killed by the military or anyone for that matter…..the way people speak here is laughable as I know none of you would actually be able to stand there and watch as a prisonerORpig is torn apart by another person. If you have ever seen another person being killed a million thoughts race through your head just like if you see an animal being killed. Please if you are going to "care" you should feel compassion for ALL living things including humans. Some death row inmates have been proven not guilty what happens if you watched one of them get torn apart just to find out they never hurt anything in their life?
Thank you soldiers for using animals instead of real humans all these idiots commenting on this saying to use humans can go test in place of the pigs.
Look Mister Jered Dull there is no need to go around stabbing pigs for this kind of training. It's emergency medical training if you're learning to act quick and fast while 13 other people are running around you trying to help the same guy those military doctors can find this work somewhere else oh like on real human patients that are already sick and injured. There is no need to have a pig stabbed when a man in the city was already stabbed and seeking help that doctor could be working on him instead of a perfectly healthy pig. Therefore it is NOT necessary to stab a poor pig that didn't do anything but be born.
The training done on these animals is necessary to train Medics and Corpsmen in battle field medicine. The anatomy is so very close to that of humans. So while they are saving wounded warriors on the battlefield you people complain about a pig.
MURDER! Why add to the body count of this illegal and unjust war by the senseless murder of these innocent pigs. Why can't the Army just shoot some more Iraqis civilians and then practice on them? Only someone as evil as Dick Cheney could fund this from his secret underground lair. These crimes against humanity should be tried in the Hague. I heard that McDonalds funds the whole atrocity so they can buy the pigs and use them to make sausage Mcmuffins and they process them while they are still alive. Me and my group will be marching on the post office in Akron Ohio on 0911 to bring this genocide to light. I also heard they are testing biological weapons on the pigs and thats where the new swine flu came from clearly seen in the photos the soldiers are wearing chemical warfare equipment to detect the new mutated viruses as they develop. Don't let them fool you we will all reap the whirlwind of their diabolical plot to mother earth to her knees. RISE UP! RISE UP! people before it too late.
I am a Buddhist who believe that all sentient beings should be respected and treated in a humane way. Harming or killing animals is a moral crime that should be stopped as soon as possible.
The military has obviously not progressed out of the dark agestorturing and killing poor defenseless creaturesall in the name of Trauma training?! I dare say that pig anatomy and human anatomy are 100 different what possible use for this could the military haveother than being intentionally cruelbecause after allit's "just a farm animal"things have got to changefor the better.It's time everyone stepped forwardnot backward.Farm animals need better protection!
Animal abuse is awful. As a new vegan I am just so thankful that there is good people like you guys out there!
we can learn to save people by killing pigs or we can kill people to learn how to save people your choice.
This is why every country on the planet thinks the USA are a bunch of assholes! I wonder sometimes and reading bullshit like this makes me ashamed to be American. "ARMY Be all you can be." "And torture animals too?" Hopefully the jackass who came up with this idea drives over an IED. Oh and I guess we can stop buying California Avocados too!!
It is not nice to know how US military is training soldiers. I'm from Finland and I've never heard about this "trauma training" before. We don't have such concrete training in Finnish military. Okay I can understand that your country is having many situations in other countries and your soldiers have to be prepared for the real thing. But still I hope you'd find another way for this. Because in my opinion eventhough how bad you'd need an example of a screaming patient it is not right to make animals suffer just because humans can't live in peace in this world. Animals can.


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Shump in??? takes out chandler??? im getting tired of woodson ****!!.. Novak shouldnt EVERRR!!!!!!!play against the miami heat... kmart or copeland should have had novaks minutes
Woodson took Priglioni spot-minutes and gave them to White so Jason Kidd could enter the game during the 2nd Quarter to build us a 14 point lead by Halftime .. Jason Kidd gets BIG-Props for taking over the 2nd Quarter!
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JR 18 shots for 13 points without getting to the foul line once .. plus taking 14 3-ball shots
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Shump in??? takes out chandler??? im getting tired of woodson ****!!.. Novak shouldnt EVERRR!!!!!!!play against the miami heat... kmart or copeland should have had novaks minutes
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I suppose I am missing the logic.........Why start White if the truth is you have no faith in him and he will never see past the 4 minutes of the first and 3rd quarters........Is there someone who can serve us better ....
I do not think there is another NBA team who uses a guy solely to start a game in the first and 3rd quarter and then never enter back into the game and better yet when he does not start he see zero playing time.
I do not understand Woodson's starting line-ups and in game player rotations. As someone already noted, we certainly have enough proof that Novak is useless agianst Miami. Why did he get so much time? Prigioni has had two DNPs Coach's Decision. Felton had 2 assists and although he had two nice drives at the end, I do not like him playing hero-ball. We must et the ball to Melo, even if he is eing guarded by Le Bron. JR might as well have handed the ball to LeBron on at least two occasions -- the last one a killer. But we do need JR. At least he is capable of getting off a shot.
And STAT can't handle more than 20 minutes? Really? Shouldn't we be working him towards 28-30 minutes a night so he and the team are comfortable with that in the playoffs? Or are we seriously using STAT in a less than 6th man role from now on? :S
I think STAT should be getting more minutes
But anyway, why are you guys so upset? I didn't expect the current Knicks to beat the Heat..99-93 isn't a blowout
Favorite Team: Knicks
Favorite Player: D. Rose
Favorite Position: PG
This was a very exciting game not only bc the Heat won (on my side) but the back and forth baskets was just really good.
Im looking at the boxscore and many of you guys asked how did yall lose and I see that jr took 14 3s and made 3 and shot 5-18 overall. Then to add insult to injury the bone head pass right in the hands of lebron for the dunk that iced the game. You guys could have cut the lead and made it a realllllllll close ball game. He just has to be more versatile. He had a sequence when he shot a pull on the break.....bricked it...then got raped by Lebron at the basket. Jr is one of my fav Knicks. He needs to be better than that. Srsly
On a good note, he had 12 rebounds. More than the girly Bosh
Shumpert just isnt himself and I really feel for the kid. More time he needs and patience.
Felton is just ehhhhh. I really dont know if the pinky injury can make him look so bad on defense. He's not playing well and thats hurting you guys too. He doesnt even bring the ball up that much anymore. Whats up with that?
Amare had some nice glimpses but is still a body on defense and only had 2 boards.
Coming into the game I knew what Melo was gonna bring. He brings it every time. But does anyone else have a issue with him only having 3 ast and 2 rebounds? He carried the team almost the whole game and by time the 4th quarter crunch time is here, he's worn down.
Issues still persist with the knicks. Living and dying by the 3 ball is a tricky game. And i cant believe Miami beat yall in the rebounding battle. 41-40 isnt much but should it even have been tht close on the boards?
March is a tough month for you guys. I dont see ATL passing yall and I hope yall get above Indy for the 2 seed tho.
sidenote, what was up with James White starting? I really did not understand that move.
There were some logic in starting White ..
1) Lebron & D.Wade average 20+ plus points from the foul-line per game.
2) White's role was to defend and pickup early fouls (Brewers role in our two 20 point wins).
3) The Heat outscored us in the first qtr. by 1 point (23-22), because Woody's philosophy has been all season to bring NO-DEFENSE JR.smith into the game with 8 minutes remaining in the first qtr., which was way to early to take White out, while we owned a 4 to 5 point lead while White was on the court.
4) White & Shump tandem defense were an unexpected team-defense than Lebron & Wade were prepared for, our tandem were always back on defense providing STOPS.
5) Plus assistant coach Jason Kidd wanted to come off the bench with Stat to add fire in the 2nd qtr., and not be taken out of the game 4 minutes into the first qtr. to be replace by JR.
The last time Detroit won the Championship they started C-Cambell for 6 minutes throughout the regular-season, and thats all the playingtime C-Cambell receive, the first 6 minutes of the game. A strategic-strategy.
Did u notice the Miami Heat had NO-Answer to stop Stat from scoring inside, after Stat got his shot block?
But we would rather have JR.smith shoot 5-18 and not go to the foul line, rather than Stat shooting 5-7 plus two trips to the foul line.
And to all the Novak-haters, get it right 85% of all Melo, JR, and Felton shots are from the peremeter.
Right now Ray Allan is averaging 7 to 9 shots per game as the Heats peremeter shooter .. Novak is our peremeter shooter averaging 3 to 4 shots per game, think Woodson-Woodson-Woodson for not forcing players to set up plays in certain places for a catch n shoot Novak, like we did for Allan Houston.
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I liked the way we played in the 1st half from an effort standpoint. The ball was moving nicely and aside from a few questionable 3s, it was good. I knew that 14 point lead wasn't going to last because MIA is just too good right now. HOWEVER, it didn't help that the knicks came out in the 3rd quarted living from the perimeter and launching 3s when they should have been trying to get easier baskets near or inside the paint. When MIA was making their comback, all I wanted was for Woodson to make it a priority to keep pressuring them with drives to the basket. Novak for whatever reason keeps seeing playing time against this team when it has been proven that he's just not effective. Kidd played great but once again too many 3s for my taste.
JR Smith was his usual low basketball IQ self. He's high risk / high reward as we all know but when he took that contested 3 when were only down 2, I knew that was the game. During that point, both teams were trying to keep or break ahead on a 2 point lead. The temperature of the game called for well executed shots, or at least shots to be taken by your finisher. This is something JR didn't understand and it cost us the chance to win the game. On the other end, the Heat were very disciplined and knew who they wanted to finish the game with when it mattered. I'm still a JR fan but he can't be the robin to Melo's batman. He just doesn't have the IQ to thrive in a close game that requires execution.
Woodson is making a big mistake with Amare. You have a talented guy whose efficient and apparently feeling great and you use him like a role player??? His confidence is extremely high right now and you have to allow him to become Amare again. He made some nice defensive plays yesterday and even though his rebounding was weak, he's still our best low post threat. On the other hand, JR was able to shoot whenever he wanted without consequence. The fact that Camby or Martin didn't see any minutes for defensive purposes is also weird. Kidd shouldn't be playing more minutes than Amare nor Shump.
The game was very winnable but this just proves that we aren't there yet. Also, Woodson is showing a lot of weakness in his coaching ability to get players to understand situations, possessions, and time management. Woodson said in the post game interview that JR needs to have better shot selection. REALLY?? Where was that talk DURING the game when he was on his way to 14 3 pt attempts???
Real Talk
Woodson is fool of crap ..........He talks out of both sides.....JR shouldnt take those shots is one side but then he leaves him in to continue to do so...........Woodson did this in the playoffs last year............
Woodsons philsophy is maybe JR will get hot ....its like 5th grade bball coaching.....
Kiya Thank you for the White explanation. Wish we has ronnie brewer for that role....


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Looks like it's the time for oddball sensors. Or for me to write about them anyway. I've just finished updating PhotoRaw for the Fuji X-Pro1, and I thought it was worthwhile to document the journey, and what it means for the X-Pro1's X-Trans sensor. Specifically, whether it will deliver on the claims that Fuji has made for it.
BTW, the new version of PhotoRaw will be out early next week, assuming there are no glitches on Apple's side.
This is my personal view-point. It's based on spending a lot of time writing code, and more time pixel peeping X-Pro1 images than any sane person ought to do, but it's still just my personal view.
If you happen to live anywhere a lab where people develop software for decoding raw images hang out, you've probably been hearing a whole lot of swearing and cursing recently. You've probably also been hearing a lot of jokes with punchlines about "there's a reason why Fuji is a four letter word starting with f". Here's why:
Fuji has introduced the X-Pro1 a while ago, with a novel "X-Trans" sensor. A conventional bayer sensor is a two by two rangement, but the X-Trans has a six by six layout, intended to mimic the random grain structure of film. The layout is in the image below.
The advantages of the X-Trans sensorThe big advantage of the X-Trans layout is moire suppression - because the layout isn't as regular as the conventional layout, moire (nasty colored pixels on sharp edges) isn't nearly as much of a problem as it would otherwise be. Fuji claim that moire is eliminated - that's probably optimistic, but I'd guess that moire would be suppressed by three to four times. That's a LOT. In turn, this means that while a sensor with a conventional layout needs an anti-aliasing (AA) filter to avoid moire, a camera built with the X-Trans sensor doesn't need an AA filter, or at least can use one that's a lot weaker. An AA filter is basically a filter that slightly blurs the image. No AA filter (or a weaker AA filter) means less blurring, and higher effective resolution.
End result is that the the Fuji X-Pro1, which has a 16 MP sensor, should out resolve cameras with larger full-frame sensors.
This is all sound theory, and there have been a fair number of rave reviews of the X-Pro1 in the press. So why all the the unhappy developers? And does the sensor really deliver?
The problems
The easiest way to see the challenge that the X-Trans sensor poses is to take a look at the blue pixel in the first column of the diagram above. To interpolate effectively, the ideal situation is to have pixels that you can interpolate from close by. In addition, the best kind of pixels to interpolate from have their centers aligned - in other words, you can draw a line between a pair of pixels that passes through the center of of the pixel you want to interpolate. So, e.g., let's say you want to interpolate the red value of that blue pixel. Vertically, the closest other red pixel is three down, and three up, aka, a gap tof two pixels. In the conventional array, its two up and two down, a gap of one. Take a look at where the closes same color pixel, another blue pixel, is and it get worse - it's six pixels away vertically, versus two for the conventional bayer array. If you take a look at green pixels, in the conventional bayer array, any green pixel is between 4 other green pixels at a 45 degree angle, and has a gap of one in any direction vertically or horizontally. In the X-Trans sensor, the spacing is uneven - one pixel in one direction, two in another.
In a real demosaicing engine, things are more complex than what I laid out in the previous paragraph - a modern engine uses information from all the pixels near it, not just one color, and also takes decisions on the fly about what pixels to use to get the best result. But the the basic rule is still that close, aligned pixel give better results, and the X-Trans layout is short on close, aligned pixels.
To insult to injury, many interpolation implementations optimize based on the sensor pattern repeating on a power of two - two, four or eight. That allows you do bit masks rather than division/remainder operations. The X-Trans sensor repeats on a six pixel basis, not a power of two.
Finally, Fuji sprang the X-Pro1 on the market without providing pre-launch information (or indeed post-launch information!) to raw developers. Take a look on forums frequented by Adobe staff, and those close to Adobe, and you'll find a number of negative comments abouts Fuji's handling of the X-Pro1's launch.
Bottom line is, the X-Trans sensor trades off freedom from moire for a considerably more complex interpolation problem. And Fuji openly admit this. The question is whether the tradeoff is worth it - will the combination of better sensor level resolution because the AA filter isn't required anymore actually translate into a real advantage once the image is demosaiced. Which brings us to PhotoRaw's demosaicing engine.
Implementing X-Trans interpolation in PhotoRawPrevious generations of PhotoRaw mainly used a modified AHD interpolation engine. It wasn't limited to two by two patterns, but it did make some assumptions about where it could find pixels. I say "mainly used" because not every sensor went through the AHD engine - some special cases were processed separately. Unhappily, the X-Trans sensor breaks the old engine's assumptions about pixel locations.
So PhotoRaw needed a new way of processing X-Trans images.
Attempt one - modified VNG: My first try at a solution was to find a quick and easy fix. Looking at the X-Trans sensor, it looked like it would be well suited to a gradients-type approach. The uneven pixel distances could be handled via weighting without much change to the underlying algorithm. Broadly speaking, calculating a gradient can be done similarly regardless of pixel distance. So I modified a VNG interpolation algorithm - VNG is threshold-based Variable Number of Gradients interpolation. The good news was, the solution worked, and worked a lot better than bilinear interpolation, which is the fallback when all else fails. The bad news was, it didn't work too well. Specifically, it fell over badly on large sharp transitions - in fact, it looked little better than bilinear interpolation there - blocky edges, etc.
Attempt two - generalized AHD: When the easy approach didn't work well enough, I had two choices. Either continue working the VNG solution, or try something new. I chose to try to implement an AHD (Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed interpolation) solution instead. This was for a number of reasons. Firstly, I know AHD better than I know VNG, so there would be less work on understanding how to modify the algorithm. Secondly, PhotoRaw already has a well proven AHD interpolator that's multithreaded, etc, etc. And I mean really multithreaded as in multiple threads working on one image, as opposed to thread safe. Finally, I prefer AHD to other interpolation methods - I've tried most of the others, and my experience is that AHD is more stable.
What I ended up implementing is a generalized AHD engine. It's table driven, so the way that it works is that initially PhotoRaw analyses the sensor pattern, and sets up a number of tables that describe how to interpolate the sensor. The advantage of this is that the analysis algorithm can be quite complex, and not necessarily efficient, because it only runs once. Then the multi-threaded core can just run through the tables very efficiently. The way its implemented, the analysis algorithm is general - it can analyze pretty much any sensor pattern and come up with a optimized set of interpolation tables. In essence, the analysis portion looks for optimal pixel combinations, how close the pixels are, whether the pixels are aligned, etc and choses the best combinations it can.
And that's what will be running Fuji X-Pro1 conversions in future. It won't be running the majority of conversion however - the way PhotoRaw now operates is that it uses a hard coded, very efficient, engine for two by two patterns (95% plus of cameras), and goes to the general engine for more complex patterns.
The results
<< UPDATE: Part two of this post has results for beta versions of DCRaw and RPP as well, and this post shows results for Adobe's Lightroom 4.1 final >>
Important note: these are 400% crops, and they are of an area on an image that I know will be really troublesome with raw converters - so bear in mind that we're looking at imperfections you probably won't ever see in practice. Also, the ACR crops below are a beta version of ACR.
The original image, and the ACR conversion is from DPReview's preview of the Fuji X-Pro1. You can check out the originals there.
All of these have default sharpening, etc, etc :
ACR beta 7.1 is a bit different. At first glance, it's doing better than PhotoRaw. The paperclips are entirely clean - really impressively so. However, take a look at the "Product of Italy" text, especially the insides of the "A" and "Y". Lots of chroma smearing, and the letters are quite desaturated. This is an understandable trade-off by Adobe - ACR runs on the desktop, and so can implement complex filtering, and the resulting chroma smearing is less noticeable than PhotoRaw's pixel noise.
Thirdly, the Fuji in-camera JPEG - no problems with the paperclips, and while there is still some chroma smearing, it's less than the ACR beta. But the in-camera JPEG loses a little resolution to both the PhotoRaw and ACR rendition. E.g., take a look at the marks between the letters - in the PhotoRaw and ACR versions they're clearer.
Finally, SILKYPIX. SILKYPIX is currently the only officially supported raw converter for the X-Pro1. Again, no problems with the paperclips, and while there is still some chroma smearing, it's less again than the in-camera JPEG, and a lot less than ACR. Resolutions appears slightly lower than PhotoRaw or ACR, but the difference is slight, and may be due to SILKPIX sharpening less by default. Really, the only issue here is that slight remaining chroma smear on the "A" and the "Y", and a slight loss of saturation in the red of the lettering.
ConclusionsI mentioned above that Fuji X-Pro1 images are a pig to interpolate. They are. Whatever you may think of PhotoRaw, ACR is a very,very good raw converter, and here it's having trouble with the Fuji X-Pro1 images. That may be because it's a beta, but the hard truth is that any interpolation engine is going to have trouble with pixels that are spread out, not aligned, and unevenly spaced. SILKYPIX, the official raw developer for the X-Pro1, does a much more credible job, but still shows slight chroma smearing.
It's worth going to the DPReview site and using their image comparison tool to compare the ACR conversion for the Nikon D7000 versus the Fuji X-Pro1 conversion, and the SILKYPIX conversion shown here. The Nikon and the Fuji X-Pro1 have virtually the same number of pixels (16.2 M versus 16.3 M), and approximately the same sized sensor. The Nikon D7000 conversion doesn't have the chroma smearing you see above.
So my conclusion is, sorry to say, that the Fuji X-Pro1 X-Trans sensor doesn't deliver the Fuji promise of outperforming similarly sized sensors. In fact, it underperforms similar DX sensored cameras - with the official SILKPIX raw developer, the underperformance is too slight to be noticeable under normal circumstances, but is still there if you look closely.
This is not to say that the Fuji X-Pro1 is a bad camera - far from it - the camera has great lenses, a really attractive viewfinder and design, and in many ways the sensor is great, with low noise and clean data, in the class of the recent Sony and Nikon sensors. If you use it with the official raw converter, it's within a whisker of the competition. But in my opinion, it would have been a better camera with a conventional two-by-two sensor layout.
Maybe tomorrow Fuji will send me an email that explains how to interpolate Fuji X-Pro1 images such that they deliver on the promise. And I'm certainly interested to see how a final version of ACR performs, and also how Dave Coffin's DCRaw handles the Fuji X-Pro1, once Dave updates DCRaw to handle it. (Update: part 2 of this post has results from a DCRaw beta.) But right now, I don't see the performance that's been claimed for the X-Pro1. (Second update: part three shows how a modified form of PhotoRaw gets very, very close to the performance of SILKYPIX.)
NOTE: This post has been updated with SILKYPIX images since it was first published.
Part two of this post is here
Part three of this post is here
Finally, if you're interested in my (somewhat cynical) view on the relationship between camera manufacturers and software developers, you can read this post


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- Title
- The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue
- Author(s)
- Croom, Scott M.; Richards, Gordon T.; Shanks, Tom; Boyle, Brian J.; Sharp, Robert G.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry; Brunner, Robert J.; Cannon, Russell; Carson, Daniel; Chiu, Kuenley; Colless, Matthew; Couch, Warrick; De Propris, Roberto; Drinkwater, Michael J.; Edge, Alastair; Fine, Stephen; Loveday, Jon; Miller, Lance; Myers, Adam D.; Nichol, Robert C.; Outram, Phil; Pimbblet, Kevin; Roseboom, Isaac; Ross, Nicholas; Schneider, Donald P.; Smith, Allyn; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; Wake, David
- Abstract
- We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in detail the faint end of the broad line active galactic nuclei luminosity distribution at z≲ 2.6 . The candidate QSOs were selected from SDSS photometry and observed spectroscopically with the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This sample covers an area of 191.9 deg2 and contains new spectra of 16 326 objects, of which 8764 are QSOs and 7623 are newly discovered [the remainder were previously identified by the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and SDSS]. The full QSO sample (including objects previously observed in the SDSS and 2QZ surveys) contains 12 702 QSOs. The new 2SLAQ spectroscopic data set also contains 2343 Galactic stars, including 362 white dwarfs, and 2924 narrow emission-line galaxies with a median redshift of z= 0.22. We present detailed completeness estimates for the survey, based on modelling of QSO colours, including host-galaxy contributions. This calculation shows that at g≃ 21.85 QSO colours are significantly affected by the presence of a host galaxy up to redshift z∼ 1 in the SDSS ugriz bands. In particular, we see a significant reddening of the objects in g−i towards the fainter g-band magnitudes. This reddening is consistent with the QSO host galaxies being dominated by a stellar population of age at least 2–3 Gyr. The full catalogue, including completeness estimates, is available on-line at http://www.2slaq.info/.
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 392, no. 1 (Jan 2009), pp. 19-44
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 020103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
- Keyword(s)
- 2dF-SDSS LRG survey; Active galaxies; Catalogues; QSO (2SLAQ) survey; Quasars; SDSS; Seyfert galaxies; Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Surveys; White dwarfs
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- Wiley
- 0035-8711
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- Copyright © 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2008 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
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- The authors acknowledge the support of National Science Foundation grant AST06-07634, an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship and a J G Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science.
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UW-La Crosse's chancellor invited students and their families to go for a jog around campus.
The seventh annual 'Run with the Chancellor' 5 or 10k is part of UW-L's family weekend.
Runners met at the Hoeschler Clock Tower on campus Saturday morning with UW-L's Chancellor Joe Gow.
The run is an opportunity for people meet the chancellor and see the campus.
Gow said the run is a great way for him to meet his students while starting his day with some morning exercise.
"I started this when I was inaugurated my first year and I thought, 'What better way to start the day then run,' because that's what I would normally do. And you know this is a big running culture here at UW- La Crosse so it works pretty well," said Gow.
Gow said this weekend not only shows students and their families what makes UW-L so special, but reminds him of how it's grown since he started working at UW-L.
"The essence of UW-L is family. We really are a close-knit group. So this weekend reminds us of that, and it's real special for me, I've been here seven years and it gets better every time," said Gow.
This year's run also serves as way for friends and family to honor the life of UW-L student Neala Frye.
Police found Frye's body last February in Onalaska after she left a bar and never returned home.
On Saturday, the marketing club Neala was director of did fundraising to keep her memory alive.
The club is selling T-shirts and bracelets to raise money to put toward the Neala Frye Scholarship fund.
Each year, a marketing student will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship.
The club hopes to give the scholarship to students who embody Neala's uplifting personality.
"Neala was just a really special person, very unique with her personality, just always made everyone happy. It was impossible not to smile when you were around her. So it's something we really want to keep that spirit alive," said UW-L's American Marketing Association president Danielle Wiedmeyer.
The club hopes to raise $25,000 to put towards the scholarship fund.
If you would like to donate to the fund visit, http://www.uwlax.edu/ama/scholarship_fund.htm


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Illinois districts in status that did not submit a district improvement plan last year must submit a district improvement plan as required by Public Law 107-110, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Section 1101 et seq. and Section 2-3.25d of the School Code, 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d. Revisions are then required at the expiration of the two-year plan while the district remains in academic status. Districts are required to submit restructuring plans on behalf of schools after the fifth calculation of not making Adequate Yearly Progress.
Response to Intervention (RtI):
All Illinois districts must submit a Response to Intervention (RtI) plan by January 1, 2009. Districts are to incorporate the RtI objectives and activities that address the required components in the District Improvement Plan (DIP) template at the Interactive Illinois Report Card website (http://iirc.niu.edu/). The RtI expectations are defined in Section 226.130 of the Illinois Administrative Code and details regarding the RtI plan components are available on the ISBE website at http://www.isbe.net/RtI_plan/default.htm.
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This document addresses questions that relate to the federal and state improvement plan requirements and provides web links to related resources and technical assistance.
District Improvement Plan Guide
The District Improvement Plan Guide includes instructions for completing the District Improvement Plan (DIP) template at the Illinois Interactive Report Card site (http://iirc.niu.edu), provides guidance for plan developers. The template and this accompanying guide are to be used together to ensure that users include all requirements of federal and state law for revised district improvement plans. Plan developers will find these questions and the District Improvement Plan Monitoring Prompt useful in plan development, revision, and peer review.
District Improvement Plan Monitoring Prompt
This checklist is used by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) for DIP monitoring in compliance with NCLB, Section 1116, and state law. It addresses the requirements for DIPs in Illinois e-Plans as described in the District Improvement Plan Guide. ISBE staff comments are intended to provide feedback on the plan to ensure that all groups will make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), meet Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO), and address the areas of special education compliance, if applicable.
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Single school districts are to complete the single school district improvement plan (SSDIP) on the IIRC. The District Improvement Plan Guide and School Improvement Plan Guide are to be used to develop the plan. Sections III and IV of the single school district improvement plan (SSDIP) align with the School Improvement Plan requirements.
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This tool provides assistance to district representatives with the development and refinement of the plan. Once the local board approves the district plan, the contents can be "cut and pasted" into the district's IIRC e-Plan.
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View the district and school improvement status charts.
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Being a kid is all about mindless self-indulgence and tiny, meaningless acts of rebellion. And that's totally fine: Your wee child-brain hasn't even finished solidifying -- of course you're going to whine about having to clean up your room (and then rebelliously blast One Direction a little bit too loud when you're done). You're a 12-year-old outlaw. You cannot be contained. Besides, what are they gonna do about it? Arrest you?
Friggin' absolutely yes, they will.
5Handcuffed for Doodling on a Desk
The day began normally enough for Alexa: She was bored in class and decided to exert a little of her inner artist. She knew it wasn't permitted to draw on her desk, but it was either that or pay attention to math. Besides, to a child artist, all desks are just a canvas waiting for a heart with some initials (or at the very least a "Slayer" spelled with an anarchy sign). Alexa unsheathed her green magic marker and wrote "I love my friends Abby and Faith" and "Lex was here. 2/1/10." She ended this flagrant act of vandalism with a smiley face.
There's an "A" in "Abby." At least make an attempt to do this right.
That is by far the friendliest graffiti that has ever been laid down. That's what Mr. Rogers would encourage you to write if he found you in an alley holding a spray can. What's the worst that could come of simply noting that you exist, that you're happy, and that you love your friends -- all in erasable marker, no less?
Alexa was immediately arrested.
She was dragged out of class and straight to the police station, where she was put into an enclosed room and reportedly terror-puked during her interrogation. Alexa was then suspended from school and sentenced to eight hours of community service, where she presumably cleaned slightly less-friendly proclamations of love off of the side of a bowling alley.
Nothing discourages graffiti like eight hours of looking at kickass, colorful street art.
412-Year-Old Kid Arrested for Opening Christmas Present Early
Christmas was invented solely to torture children. What two things do kids love the most?
Surprises and gifts.
What two virtues do they absolutely lack, above all else?
Patience and restraint.
And yet, every single year, we promise them surprise presents if they can only control themselves while gaily wrapped bundles silently mock them from beneath a giant, glowing, flashing tree.
Move along, folks; nothing to see here.
And so we peek. Obviously. Oh, it starts innocently enough: We rattle the box, measure the heft, and scrounge for receipts in the garbage, but eventually, when that fails to yield results, we unfold a little flap and try to make out some telltale text. Then, because it's already unfolded some, what's a little more? Before you know it, you've got the new Nintendo plugged into the TV at 4 in the morning and you're frantically trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for what you've done -- maybe terrorists broke into your bedroom and challenged you to a game of Smash Bros. in exchange for your parents' very lives? Yeah, yeah -- that might work!
"Dammit, Timmy! You know we don't negotiate with the enemy!"
Probably not, though: We know we're going to get yelled at, but it's all worth it. And besides, even if your parents look mad now, surely they understand the impulsive nature of a child, right?
Nope: Young Master Ervin [first name withheld], from South Carolina, was arrested for opening his Christmas present early. His great-grandmother bought him the aforementioned Nintendo of Fate, but because he didn't wait for it to be formally gifted to him -- opting to sneak it out of his relative's room early, unwrap it, and callously enjoy it with little to no regard for tradition -- the boy's own mother, Brandi Ervin, ended up pressing larceny charges against him.
Careful, Junior; take more than three and it's a category B misdemeanor.
Hopefully the strip-mall strip club where all "Brandi-with-an-I"s invariably work let her have the afternoon off to fill out the necessary paperwork.


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On Thursday, a Honolulu judge sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery to the maximum 10 years in prison.
Alika McShane turned himself in after surveillance video was released clearly showing him robbing a Makiki convenience store in June 2012.
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McShane's attorney said his client used crystal methamphetamine and robbed the store to feed his addiction.
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Supporters of two new bills in the state legislature gathered at the capitol on Tuesday, concerned about the future of Hawaii's early education system.
Hundreds of supporters in favor for change said less than half of Hawaii's public school kindergartners attend preschool, leaving many keiki entering the classroom unprepared.
Keiki from preschools across O'ahu sang and spoke on behalf of future keiki.
The state's youngest citizens put their best foot forward in support of early learning.
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I've been taking fenugreek now for about 1.5 weeks and have noticed a significant increase in my milk production. I've been taking 3 pills 3x a day. how long do i continue this? once I stop, will my milk reduce?
I've been taking fenugreek now for about 1.5 weeks and have noticed a significant increase in my milk production. I've been taking 3 pills 3x a day. how long do i continue this? once I stop, will my milk reduce?
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I took fenugreek 3 pill, 3x a day and didn't notice an increase. I was then told that I should take blessed thistle along with the fenugreek. So I would take 3 pills of fenugreek along with 1 blessed thistle 3x a day. After 2 wks and I still didn't notice an increase, I called and got reglan. I'm new around here and don't know what the feelings on that is, but I tried EVERYTHING before going the Rx way. It didn't help me, but I've heard other moms swear by it.
I took fenugreek a couple of times over the course of my breastfeeding. Both times, I took it long enough to boost supply (which it DID), then stopped. Both times, my supply stayed up. You might be different--you might need to continue taking it, but for me, I only had to take it for a limited time.
i've taken fenugreek with great success. i'm currently taking it - 3capsules 3times a day. i stopped taking it after 2-3 weeks and noticed that my milk supply stayed the same. i started taking it again because i noticed a slight decrease in supply...and it's worked again! i guess it really depends on your body....but from what i've read, it seems that a woman's supply doesn't necessarily decrease if she stops taking fenugreek.
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I started taking Fenugreek several weeks ago because I was EPing and not getting enough for each bottle. I took it alone and it seemed to help for a few days and then went back down, I combined it with the blessed thistle and I got sick so I stopped the blessed thistle and it came back up. After another week down it went again and I went and was put on Reglan. I've heard there are PPD side effects with Reglan but speaking from my experience I've been ok, and I've been very prone to PPD in the past. I take the fenugreek 2 pills 3 times a day. The recommendation on the bottle says 2 pills 4 times but if I do my blood sugar becomes too low and unmanagable. Just keep in mind that it can lower your blood sugar levels so if you take it and then about an hour later feel a little shakey or dizzy you might want to start taking just one pill and make sure you eat something sugary or have some OJ. Good luck!
Thank you so much for your responses. I am returning to work in a month (sigh) and I will be pumping. I was just scared to stop taking Fenugreek just incase my supply decreases. I think maybe i'll slowly wean myself off and see what happens.
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Re: Go Brad Go
Glad to see Mr Penske finally get a Cup Championship Very much deserved!!
Races, tracks, drivers and all the drama that comes along with it
michaeljohn wrote:ya he did better than tony
michaeljohn wrote:ya he did better than tony
michaeljohn wrote:ya he did better than tony
wolfgang wrote:Tony never won a title one on one against JJ !
racer1 wrote:BTW--FIRE the idiot tire changer regardless as mistakes like that in the most important moment under pressure can NOT be acceptable for sure, but the mechanical issue-- well--it happens. Either way it wasnt meant to be for JJ.
racer1 wrote:"Oh, and the obligatory congratulations to the #2 team. Next year I hope Tony wipes the floor with you."
Oh my god--you really are immature--how is "tony going to wipe the floor with me" exactly--go take your meds.
As for the Brad congrads youre right --as I really could care less--the guy has no class.
Brad K may have won but its because he had luck on his side and the 48 team crew member made costly mistakes and then a mechanical failure that really gave it to him--end of story-- but doubt it will be forgotten anytime soon by Hendricks. The tire changer should be washing cars next yr.
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The FASB's proposal, expected in June 2013, on accounting for insurance contracts could fundamentally change earnings patterns for insurers and some banks.
The FASB and IASB expect to issue exposure drafts on accounting for insurance contracts by the end of June 2013 with a 120-day comment period. The boards have developed a comprehensive proposal that would address recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure. "Insurance contracts" would be broadly defined, and the guidance would apply to contracts as opposed to a class of entities, unlike current U.S. GAAP, resulting in implications for entities that are not insurers, such as banks.
Given the potential implications of the changes being considered, entities should be engaged in assessing the impact to their products, systems, and investor reporting and consider commenting on the proposal.
Key aspects of the proposal will include the requirement to use a "current value" discounted cash flow measurement for the insurance contract liability. Any excess of expected premiums over expected claims and expenses would be deferred as "margin" and amortized into income over future periods. Expected losses would be recognized immediately. A modified approach would apply for short duration contracts (e.g., property/casualty contracts) meeting specified criteria, similar to today's unearned premium approach.
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