The invention includes both a method for acquiring the position of a patient’s anterior pelvic plane, and a patient positioner or holder for securing a patient and acquiring the position of the patient’s anterior pelvic plane. The graphics system receives parameters defining a primitive and performs a size test on the primitive. This enables the formation of low resistance contacts for both mobility enhanced PFETs with embedded SiGe and mobility enhanced NFETs with embedded Si:C on the same semiconductor substrate. The created update number is acquired from the first storage apparatus. An air stream component having a surface with favorable adhesive properties or coatings is exposed to a concentration of ozone-depleting catalytic particles, wherein the receptive surface of the coated substrate binds the ozone-depleting catalytic coating. An image compression device generates compressed data formed by compressing an image.