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Dame Judi Dench fights to save her sight. UPDATE: NOT GOING BLIND
Posted 20 February 2012 - 12:08 AM
Very sad. Very brave.
Also means almost beyond a shadow of a doubt that Skyfall will be her last Bond. I do hope they don't kill her character off.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Skyfall was her last Bond film, but I expect she will continue acting for a very long time
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Some wishful thinking, Dana Elcar on the tv series MacGyver lost his eyesight due to glaucoma and it was written into the series as he character also develops the disease. He remained on the show for two more seasons until it ended. However unlike Dench he was only in his mid 60s. She will be pushing 80. If Judi Dench was still in excellent health despite her eyesight, and the producers were willing, I could see a scenario for Bond 24 where M has retired due to her blindness but Bond still visits her when he needs guidance and advice.
We'll have to wait and see how Skyfall plays out but it does seem likely that it will be her last Bond film.
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if this is her last film as M. do you think that it confirms that Ralph Fiennes will be taking over the role or do you think they still haven't considered replacing her?
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Posted 20 February 2012 - 11:31 AM
Her legacy and impact on the Bond franchise will go un-touched, however her career pans out after 'Skyfall' which I think will be her last, as some others do...but this isn't confirmed obviously, just all thoughts about the plot!
Let's hope things can be improved for her, but she just remains happy and well in herself enough for many more years either with 007 or in other smaller roles!
God bless, ma'am.
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She's released a further statement about this, talking about how reports are exaggerating her condition. As she says, this disease happens to thousands of people past a certain age and it will not lead to complete blindness...her vision will very likely be as good as its ever been after the competition of the operation http://www.reuters.c...E81J0X720120220
I was going to say she never mentioned it on Graham Norton's show the other night. We got it a week later than the UK, but it was only filmed on 8th February.
Hope she recovers from the condition. I wonder if this really will be her last Bond film? As mentioned above, 7 films is an amazing achievement, and she is the link between the old Q and the new Q.
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Suppose $P_1$ and $P_2$ are two diametrically opposite points of a circle $C$ in the complex plane and suppose $\sigma (z)$ denotes the image of $z\in\mathbb{C}$ on Riemann sphere due to the inverse of the stereographic projection. Then I need to prove that $\sigma (P_1)$ and $\sigma (P_2)$ are also diametrically opposite points of the circle $\sigma (C)$.
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5 Amazing Ways Animals Can Control Their Bodies
If you could borrow any ability from another species, what would it be? Did you take the obvious one (flight)? Maybe you thought outside the box and went for the ability to breathe underwater, or to eat tin cans like a billy goat. Well, let us submit some lesser known yet still amazing bodily functions that would be life-changing or, if nothing else, hilarious.
#5. Wood Frogs Can Survive Being Frozen Solid, Over and Over
Every autumn, the sanest animals head south, fleeing the encroaching winter lest they freeze to death or get torn apart by yetis. But then there's the wood frog, which manages not to give even a single shit -- when winter comes, it simply lies down and freezes solid. When it thaws, months later, it just hops away and gets right back to the business of frogging.
"It's pretty much just this, and the odd bout of hardcore pimpery."
And when we say "freeze solid," we mean just that -- one scientist reported, "When you drop it, it goes 'clink'." Apparently because drop-testing frozen animals is a part of somebody's job description.
So how do they do it? It's not like the frogs just slow down their metabolism and take a nap, like those cheating bears. The frogsicles are dead, in the sense that they have no brain activity. It's literally frog cryogenics -- when the spring comes, they slowly thaw out, everything starts up again, and the frogs find themselves a few months in the future.
"Where in fuck's armpit did these babies come from?"
The reason the frogs can do this and you probably can't is that living cells sustain damage when the water inside them freezes, so when the frogs feel winter coming on, their livers ramp up the production of sugar, which is then pumped into the cells in place of water. Since the sugar won't lose shape when it's frozen, the cells take exactly zero damage. If you're wondering what happened to the extra water that came out of the cells when the sugar went in, so did the scientists, so they threw their decency out the window and dissected a frozen frog to find that it had deposited the water under its skin as kind of an icy suit of armor, which explained the "clink" sound.
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Click here to watch a frozen frog unthaw.
Then one of them probably put a frozen frog in his scotch and they laughed and laughed.
#4. Sea Cucumbers Can Turn into Liquid Like the T-1000
Most people would say that the sea cucumber is possibly the lamest thing in the animal kingdom. The one thing it's known for (other than sitting on the sea floor looking like poop) is kind of amazing, but in a disgusting and sad way -- when attacked, it literally spills its guts out, then later regenerates all of its vomited body parts. It's true that if a human did that it would be considered a superpower, but you'd certainly never give that guy his own movie franchise.
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Not unless Marvel or DC starts returning our phone calls.
But the sea cucumber can actually do one other thing that is much cooler, and no other living being in the world can do it: The sea cucumber is capable of transforming itself into a liquid.
The sea cucumber will quite literally, through sheer "neurological control," transform its solid tissue structure into a liquid, and then transform back into a solid, just for kicks. It's thanks to the special collagen fibers in their tissues that sea cucumbers can liquefy at will, allowing them to literally pour their bodies into tight spaces and solidify again to hide from predators (who are probably too confused and grossed out to retain their appetite anyway, especially if the cucumbers barfed up their organs first).
Because they're just so appetizing to begin with.
Scientists think that, once they unlock the secrets of how the cucumbers actually do this, they might be able to sciencily reproduce the effect. Without reading any further on the subject, we are going to declare now that within five years science will have perfected the technology to allow any of us to liquefy our own bodies like the T-1000 so we can slide under doors and shit. You can quote us on that, science blogs!
#3. Some Squids Have Built-In Headlights
Now here's something we wish we had -- built-in lights that we could just click on and aim around the room to find our way in the dark. Note that we said we wish we had them -- if everyone had them, we're thinking that trying to watch a movie in a dark theater would suck. You know people wouldn't keep that shit covered.
"But how else am I supposed to find my cellphone?"
The Hawaiian bobtail squid does have these natural spotlights, however, and it's kind of genius how they work. As you may know, a lot of deep-sea creatures have natural bioluminescence -- a glow produced by a chemical reaction. The bobtail squid does not have this ability. It instead forms a relationship with a bacterium that does, called Vibrio fischeri. The squid hosts a pair of colonies of these glowing critters and can actually aim and focus the beams -- it literally uses the blobs of glowing bacteria like a pair of headlights.
Man, why do freaking squids get all the cool bacteria?
"Wait a second," you might be saying. "That's a little squishy animal that lives under the sea -- why the fuck would it shine lights around and announce its presence to every predator within biting distance? And why announce to its own prey that it's coming, so that they have plenty of time to scurry away? This thing's a dumbass!"
Your problem is that you're thinking about how things are up here on land, where darkness hides you. Under the sea, darkness is the norm. If you're a tiny squid, predators and prey spot you by swimming under you and looking up -- it's your silhouette showing against the light filtering down from the surface that gives you away. So how do you hide your silhouette? You strap on a couple of on-board lights and adjust them with perfect precision to cancel out your own shadow.
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Suppose I have a subset $U\subset\mathbb R^2$ and a real number $r>1$ with the following properties:
- $U$ is compact;
- $U\subset rU$ (self-similarity);
- $0\in U$;
- there exists an open set $H\subset \mathbb R^2$ such that $0\in\partial H$ (boundary) and $H\cap U=\emptyset$.
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Question: Whether exists $H_1$ open such that $0\in\partial H_1$ and $H_1\cap V=\emptyset$.
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Riddle family
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- "Nobody wasted their breath pretending to feel very sad about the Riddles, for they had been most unpopular."
- —Description of the town of Little Hangleton's reaction to Thomas, Mary, and Tom Riddle Sr.'s murders.[src]
Riddle was the surname of a wealthy Muggle family that lived in a mansion overlooking Little Hangleton, of which they owned a great deal. They lived fairly close to the wizarding House of Gaunt.
Family History
The Riddle family was a very old Muggle family. Their members were snobbish, arrogant, and unpopular, all hated by the villagers of Little Hangleton, which is why nobody mourned their deaths, but were more interested in who murdered them and how. Thomas Riddle, his wife Mary, and their son Tom Riddle Sr. were killed in 1943 by Tom Marvolo Riddle, Tom's son by pure-blood witch Merope Gaunt, whom he had married while influenced by magic (which was theorized to be either a love potion or the Imperius Curse) and later abandoned. Tom Marvolo Riddle killed his father for abandoning his mother, and killed his paternal grandparents for good measure so as to obliterate his Muggle roots. The murderer framed his maternal uncle Morfin Gaunt for the crimes, and he was sent to the wizarding prison of Azkaban, where he died. The Muggle townspeople, however, suspected that the Riddles' gardener, Frank Bryce, had killed them, and therefore he was banished from the society of Little Hangleton.[1]
Tom Marvolo Riddle soon abandoned the name of his "filthy Muggle father", instead using an anagram to declare himself Lord Voldemort.[2] With the death of Lord Voldemort, the Riddle family, as well as the Slytherin family and Gaunt family, became extinct.
- Thomas Riddle - (1880 - 1943) Mary Riddle's husband and Tom Riddle Sr.'s father. Muggle. Killed by his grandson in 1943.
- Mary Riddle - (1883 - 1943) The wife of Thomas Riddle and the mother of Tom Riddle Sr.. Muggle. Killed by her grandson in 1943.
- Tom Riddle Sr. - (1905 - 1943) The son of Thomas Riddle and his wife, Mary Riddle. He was married to a witch, Merope Gaunt, under the influence of a Love Potion. Muggle. He had a son, who killed him in 1943.
- Merope Gaunt - (1907 - 31 December, 1926) The abandoned wife of Tom Riddle Sr., whom she married because Tom was under the effects of a Love Potion to which she has subjected him in. She had a son. Pure-blood. Died during childbirth on New Year's Eve in 1926.
- Tom Marvolo Riddle - (31 December, 1926 - 2 May, 1998) The son of Tom Riddle Sr. and Merope Gaunt. He later became the most feared Dark Wizard in history under the pseudonym of Lord Voldemort. Half-blood. Died in his final duel with Harry Potter in 1998.
Riddle family tree
|Cadmus Peverell
(fl. 1214)
|Salazar Slytherin
(fl. 993)
|House of
|Gormlaith Gaunt
(d. c. 1634)
|Rionach Gaunt
(d. 1608)
|William Sayre
(d. 1608)
|Corvinus Gaunt
(fl. 1700s)
|Thomas Riddle
|Mary Riddle
|Marvolo Gaunt
(d. late 1920s)
|Tom Riddle
|Merope Gaunt
|Morfin Gaunt
(fl.1925 - fl.1943)
|Tom Marvolo Riddle
A riddle is a statement or question with a double or veiled meaning, and they were very common to Old English literature and poetry. This may also be in reference due to the fact that the Riddle family died in inexplicable circumstances for the Muggles living in Little Hangelton. Riddle games also appear frequently in folklore and mythology as a matter of life and death, such as in the tale of Oedipus and the Sphinx and in the opera Turandot. The term "world riddle" was also used by philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche to encompass the idea of the meaning of life. This could all allude to the mysterious and hidden origins of Lord Voldemort, who disliked and hid his Muggle ancestry, and who was obsessed with life and death.


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We will release the payment to your host at 12 noon (CET) on the day after check in. Therefore, we strongly advise you to inform us immediately after check-in (i.e. before 12 noon (CET) on the day after check-in) if you are not completely satisfied with your accommodation. In any contact with us, please refer to your booking code please need help
A nice little house in a charming village. A few negative things to mention: Not enough kops and plates for 4 persons, nearly no toilet-paper on arrival and we never suceeded in making the TV work. Since none of us are spanish speaking it would have been nice with some written information in the house.
...but nvertheless: We enjoyed our stay on the wonderful Island, away from the main tourist spots.
The location is beautiful!, all what is stated in advertising it's true. I recommend.
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Alojamiento 100% recomendable. En muy buenas condiciones, instalaciones inmejorables y una atención excelente por parte del propietario. Relación calidad-precio muy buena. Repetiríamos sin dudar!
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I have had this issue for quite a while, and have found no info to help me. Also, the issue doesn't always show up. What is happening is when I select something with the marquee tool, the selection doesn't start at the position I click. It's usually a few pixels off. It also does this with the ruler tool. I'll click at a point to start measuring and the ruler starts at a completely different spot. Really annoying! Anyone else have this problem and/or know a way to fix it. I'm using Photoshop CS4 btw. Thanks!
I've seen this before as well. I was able to fix it by disabling "Use Graphics Processor" under Preferences / Performance (I'm using CS6, so the names may be slightly different).
There's a little more discussion here: Photoshop: Inaccurate selections with Radeon graphics cards on Mac OS
Of course, disabling GPU will slow things down...
It's worth noting that I'm not seeing this issue now (CS6 / 10.7.3 / Mac Pro / ATI Radeon HD 5770).
I have had this problem myself in Photoshop CS5 running Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro. No graphics setting changes have permanently kept this issue from coming back up. However, when it does, pressing
May be the pixels from the marquee tool (select range). Start by selecting the inner pixels. For example, if a box is 250px wide, start by selecting from the 2nd pixel.


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I have created a signature in Mac mail. However, every time I send an email to a gmail account it enlarges the font size. Has anybody else come across this? Is there a workaround?
Here are the steps to make this work, even tried them on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion GM / Mail.app 5.0
In Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 and Mail 6.x,
Thanks to Haytham for the original solution on older versions of OS X.
If your mail is composed in plain text and the font in the signature is smaller than the mail default font you will lose control of font sizes when sending.
Also try changing your message fonts and signature fonts to several other common fonts (Helvetica, Times New Roman) to eliminate a font substitution problem.
Feel free to add a comment or edit the question to add some more detail on whether all mail clients show the sizes wrong, just on the web, or just in a certain mail client.
Just a reminder for those who don't see this embedded in the other great answers:
Mail 6.2 (Mountain Lion), when it launches, rewrites the signatures. It appears, though, that if you:
before launching Mail again, your changes will be preserved as Mail cannot rewrite the .mailsignature file
Now - if you run your mail on multiple systems and the signatures sync, you will need to do the edit and lock on each system. Fortunately the filenames seem to stay the same across systems, so I just make sure that Mail is not running anywhere, copy my cleansed files to the new system and lock the files before launching Mail again.
If you use non (web)standard font, receivers may watch mail with there own standard fonts.
@emmby's instructions did the job for me. However, I found that this still leads to weird signatures in mail clients like Outlook on Windows, since that renders my mail messages in Times New Roman by default, whereas my signature font is fixed in my Apple Mail signature to e.g. Helvetica.
Since I want my mail signature to look as if it's part of the e-mail itself (as if I typed it myself), I want the signature to adapt the font of the mail body. To achieve this, I removed all of the surrounding div's and body element. E.g. I changed this:
to this:
This works best for me across the mail clients I have checked so far.
I followed the instructions by emmby, 23 Sept.
Brilliant! The first instructions I found anywhere that actually work. I have been struggling with the Apple Mail complete lack of control of signature formatting.
I have sent my own Gmail address hundreds of mails, all of them arriving in a variety of abused formatting.
I replaced in a signature file all "font-size = medium" by "font-size = 13px", which is my default font-size. As a result, the mail as it appeared in Gmail is no longer in "Arial", but in "Lucida Sans", which is my actual chosen font. Also the line-spacing of the following part of the signature, which is in Times New Roman 11 pt, is now normal, instead of the line-spacing that it previously took over from the 13-pt or "medium" size.
I still have some experimenting to do, but at least this defies all comments in other threads that formatting of rich text emails is something that cannot be controlled, because it is (partly) managed by the receiving mail client.
I stick to my conclusion that Apple ignores this highly annoying lack of control of its mail programme.


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i tried to find it in books but i was unable to do so and i am not able to understand this and I couldn't think of a better example. i repeat. its just an example. if i punch someone's face with my arm having constant velocity, it will mean that the acceleration of my arm is zero. F=ma, therefore force exerted by my arm is zero. Now if the force applied is zero the why does the person whom i punched experiences pain. please help. thanks.
For simplicity's sake, let's start with punching a concrete wall. Let's assume you are not strong enough to actually damage the wall. So (again for simplicities sake) if your fist is traveling at 1 m/s, when it hits the wall it will be moving zero, so it DECELERATES as part of the process of colliding with the wall, and the force of that deceleration will be applied to your hands (possibly breaking your knuckles). The mass of the wall is not relevant; this is why your hand would take the same damage from a smooth rock as it would from punching a large lead weight, it's just about the deceleration of your hand.
If you start slowing down your hand slightly before you punch the wall, your hand will have to do less deceleration when it collides, that's why your knuckle bones would be less broken. The same would be true if you were moving slower to begin with.
Now let's say you're trying to punch Neo from the Matrix. He sees you coming and dodges backwards, and coincidentally he happens to quickly accelerates enough (which takes energy from his muscles) so that he is moving his face backwards at the same speed that your fist is moving. Your fist will never actually hit him, so there will be no force applied to your hand.
Now let's say you're trying to punch the guy that stole your girlfriend. The same deceleration will occur. Some of the force from the deceleration of your fist at collision will go into breaking his jaw. Some of the force from the deceleration will go into moving his head back (if his head moves, your fist and his face receive less damage, because the force of your punch went into moving his head backwards). And some of the deceleration force will still go into hurting your hand.
This is an example in which one needs to be careful to make the distinction between net force, which may vanish, and one of the individual, nonzero interaction forces that contributed to the net force
The fact that your knuckles are not accelerating does not mean that the contact force with the person's face is zero, it means that the net force on your knuckles is zero. The contact force with the person's face will balance the force exerted by your arm on the knuckles so that the acceleration of your knuckles is zero, but your knuckles and (by Newton's Third Law) the person's face will still feel the contact force itself.
Note. To maintain your knuckles at zero acceleration during the punch, your arm would have to provide extra force (relative to free knuckles) to balance the forces experienced by your knuckles.
Its not about your hand moving in a uniform velocity , the person's face was at rest before you punching him and when you did punch him , there was a change in velocity (it moves) , in other words these is acceleration . Hence force is acted upon.


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Giving a a fair coin, and tossing it N times, in how many possible outcomes would there be a point wherein there were more heads than tails tossed, ie, net heads.
The paths of length $N=2n$ such that this does not happen are the Dyck paths, enumerated by the Catalan number $C_n=(n+1)^{-1}{2n\choose n}$. The total number of paths is $2^{2n}$. Hence the probability you are after is $p_{2n}=1-2^{-2n}C_n$ (and $p_{2n+1}=p_{2n+2}$).
For example, $1-p_N\sim cN^{-3/2}$ when $N\to\infty$, with $c=2\sqrt{2/\pi}$.
If $N$ is odd, there is no possibility of equal heads and tails. Thus, the probability of excess heads is $\frac{1}{2}$
If N is even, the probability of equal heads and tails, $P_{equal}$, is given by:$$P_{equal}=\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^N\frac{N!}{\left(\frac{N}{2}\right)^2}$$The probability of excess heads is then given by$$P_{Heads}=\frac{1-P_{equal}}{2}$$
Tossing a coin N times is a binomial distribution and you want to solve the for the CDF=0.5.
You can work it out from the formula in the article but as a short cut ...
The chance of more heads is half the chance of unequal results.
If N is odd the chance of equal results is 0, so the chance of more heads is 0.5.
If N is even the probability of getting equal results is ${N \choose \frac{N}{2}}\frac{1}{2^N}$, so the chance of more heads is $\frac{1-{N \choose \frac{N}{2}}\frac{1}{2^N}}{2}$.


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Help on Game Design Challenge: RPG Battle Systems
The help I ask on this challenge is more grammatical-wise. I'd like to know if my grammar is correct, for short. Here it goes:
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It's very good. Everything is understandable. The changes I make just make it sound more like an English-speaker wrote it.
Bold text is something I changed. Red text I think should be deleted.
(The game is an action-RPG whose battle system is designed to work best with a PS3 controller because of its colored buttons).
The player is given 4 party members, each with a thematic color (purple, green, red and blue) that match with the PS3 buttons (□, ∆, O, X). From that, each of the latter action buttons controls the actions of the character that matches its color. By default, a simple button press commands the character with the matching color to use the attack action and holding the button commands him (or her) to use the magic action [COLOR="red"]button[/COLOR], though this can be changed later.
When in battle, the actions the player takes have two layers (I think you could use a better word here. Layers doesnt really make sense): the menu and the combat. The menu is always the first one to come up in a battle. From there, the player picks which enemies are going to be targeted by which characters and the battle plan for the battle.
A battle plan is a set of pre-determined commands that a player may generate to suit his needs without having to go through the complete process mid-battle. For instance, a player might prefer to substitute the attack command of the green character with the action Elemental Magic. From that point on, a triangle button press would result in the use of [COLOR="red"]an[/COLOR] elemental magic by the green character. Battle Plans save all of these command changes in a single set (option) in the menu.
After the player selects the targets that each character will take and the battle plan to be used the battle starts. If the player needs to change his strategy during [COLOR="red"]the[/COLOR] battle he can bring up the menu by pressing the SELECT button and dismiss it the same way after the strategy is selected.
When the battle starts the player is taken to the battleground: a 3D environment with a hovering camera that keeps all characters and enemies in the players view. Also, the characters movement is not controlled by the player. The actions that the characters can take are influenced by an ATB gauge that adds to a counter every time it fills. The speed at which it fills would be determined differently for each character and enemy.
All actions (except guarding or dodging) spend a single counter point, be it an attack, magic or whatever. When commanded to attack, for example, a counter point would be consumed and the ordered character would deliver a blow to his/her[COLOR="red"]s[/COLOR] targeted enemy.
Lastly, there is the guard/dodge command. While holding L1 and pressing a character button the player commands a character to block/parry an attack or dodge it. If timed right, the attack would be dodged at no counter points cost.
The idea of the system is mixing all the possibilities of a classical menu-based RPG with the speed of the action-based ones without having to give up the control of any of the characters actions to the computer. It also challenges the player to protect all the party members simultaneously.
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Hey, Bob! Thanks for helping me with my entry. I'm just sorry that I wasn't able to come here and read your post before submitting my entry. Anyway, I'm glad for what you did for me. I ended up trying to change some things on my own (specially the ones I found not clear enough). That's how it ended up (changes are in itallic, what should have been changed is in bold and red is what you pointed as "should be deleted"):
I also made the last paragraph more like the way I wanted it to be understood. Looking back, I should have named it "Single button command" instead of "button-based command" for obvious reasons... Well, I wish I could have corrected its writing based on what you posted here but now's too late. Thanks for helping me, anyway. =)
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How do you find the UDID for an iOS device on Mac and Windows?
You can follow the official how-to from Apple KB.
The same way works for iPhone, iPod and iPad.
The easiest way is to plug your iDevice, open iTunes, click on your device on the left panel of iTunes then click on the serial number. Your UDID will appear :
An alternative for those who don't actually run iTunes (yes there are alternatives) is to open the
On the iPhone listing there will be an entry that says
Note that on Lion, System Profiler has been renamed System Information and you can get the the USB information from the hardware portion of the System Report.
While all the methods described so far require the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad to be connected to a computer, there are a large number of free applications available in the App Store to find the UDID without needing to do this (and, thus, effectively working on Mac, Windows, and indeed anything else).
The one I use and generally recommend to remote clients is Erica Sadun's Ad Hoc Helper (screenshot, etc., at below link):
Which extracts the UDID and places it in an e-mail ready to be sent to whoever needs it, but a quick search of the iTunes store for "UDID" reveals half a dozen or so apps all intended to do this and any of which would do the job.


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6 Real Cyber Attacks Straight Out of a Bad Hacker Movie
#3. The Virus That Was a Spy (or the International Virus of Mystery)
Imagine a chunk of code that could do everything James Bond or Ethan Hunt are supposed to do, but better.
It was called Flame, and it was 20 megabytes of malicious programming that operated as a spy in several Middle Eastern nations, primarily Iran. While James Bond would be busy harpooning vaginas, Flame was doing the thing that spies are supposed to do -- that is, collecting information. Flame can copy data files, capture sensitive screenshots, download instant messaging transcripts and remotely turn on a computer's microphone and camera to record any conversations that are taking place near it.
"She keeps asking me to shit on her chest, and I'm like, 'I'm not your plaything, Grandma.'"
Flame receives commands and data via Bluetooth like a raiding party in Azeroth, but it also has the innate ability to fake credentials to avoid detection. It executes an obscure cryptographic technique called prefix collision attack -- basically, it wards off antiviruses by fooling them into thinking that it's supposed to be there, the binary equivalent of novelty glasses and a Groucho mustache.
In the movies, when a spy gets busted, he or she typically bites open a cyanide capsule hidden in a false tooth and chokes to death on selflessness. Flame totally has that, in the form of a suicide command that automatically deletes the virus and all traces of it from an infected computer. Flame doesn't just die when caught -- it disintegrates itself and burns its birth certificate.
And then executes its mother's obstetrician.
Flame was operating clandestinely for five years disguised as a Microsoft software update (yes, computers at the highest level of government run Windows Vista) until the shenanigans of a separate virus resulted in a crackdown that led to its discovery in Iran. Iran alleges that Flame was created by the U.S. and Israel, but, of course, both nations have disavowed all knowledge.
#2. In One Shot, a Tech Journalist Has His Life Deleted and All His Gadgets Frozen
The 1995 Sandra Bullock trivia question The Net tried to teach us the dangers of storing too much of our lives on the Internet and depicted hackers as being able to use computers to completely erase a person's existence in a matter of days. Specifically, by crashing an airplane and poisoning Dennis Miller (both done with hacking).
Well, laugh all you want, but in reality, Mat Honan, a senior writer at Wired.com, had his entire life shanghaied in less than one hour. It started with the typical stuff -- hackers deleted Honan's Google account (including eight years of emails) and then used his Twitter account to vomit out racist and homophobic garbage. But hey, that's the kind of hacking a bunch of you have probably endured. But then the attackers used his Apple ID to turn his iPhone, iPad and MacBook into shiny catatonic bricks. For someone who makes his living communicating and working online, they had effectively shut down his life. In minutes.
"Dammit, I know the correct password is 'fl0pd0ng69L0Lfart'."
One of the hackers got in touch with Honan later and told him how they did it, presumably while Honan stabbed a voodoo doll to death. Basically, all it took was Honan's billing address and credit card number, information that you give out on a frequent basis if you've ever ordered anything on the Internet (even a pizza). So pay attention:
First, they followed a link to his homepage from his Twitter account and used the information they found there to do a quick Internet search for his address. Next, they used his Gmail address to do an account recovery, which allowed them to see his partially obscured (but easily guessed) alternate email, which was his Apple ID. Then, they called Amazon's tech support to add a bogus credit card to Honan's Amazon account, which they were allowed to do after providing his email and billing addresses (two things that anyone on the Internet can see). Finally, they called right back and told tech support that they couldn't access their (Honan's) account. By providing Honan's name and email address and the newly added bogus credit card number, they were allowed to add a new email address to the account and have a password reset sent to it.
The hackers now had access to Honan's Amazon account, and access to all the credit cards on file -- just the last four digits of each card, mind you, but all Apple tech support requires is a billing address and those last four numbers. With that information, they had his Apple account, which they used to brick his devices and burn his digital life to the ground.
The best and/or saddest part is that Honan himself was targeted for absolutely no reason. The hackers had no idea who he was -- they just liked his Twitter handle and wanted to use it to troll for a while. They went through that whole complicated process and fucked his life over just so he wouldn't be able to log back in to Twitter and disrupt their hijinks.
Wait, when did hackers become such pussies that Twitter accounts became desirable targets?
But don't worry -- unless you have a Google account, an Amazon account and an Apple account, you're totally safe from something like this ever happening to you.
#1. Stuxnet Breaks Iran's Nuclear Plants
As we mentioned in the first entry, it turns out that real-life hackers can do the "run a virus that makes the enemy's shit explode" trick that we thought was Hollywood bullshit. So how do you top a virus that turns gas pipelines into giant smoking craters? How about crippling a country's nuclear capability?
In June 2010, a virus called Stuxnet was found lying dormant in the networks of factories, power plants and traffic control systems worldwide. Stuxnet had the disquieting ability to disable major energy networks (like switch off an oil pipeline or cripple a nuclear reactor) without alerting the operators, but in every system where it was found, the virus wouldn't do a single thing. It just kind of sat there, possibly collecting disability. As it turns out, Stuxnet was waiting.
"Don't mind me. Just come closer so I can see you better."
Viruses, in general, tend to be indiscriminate. They just burst through the door like a werewolf and start destroying things. Stuxnet was different. It had a specific target -- in this case, the centrifuges in Iran's main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. Its destructive programming would only activate under certain conditions, which could only be met while in Natanz. Once those conditions were met, Stuxnet would take complete control of the system.
So, what, it freezes up their computers? Maybe displays a little animated skull to let them know they'd been hit?
"Damn it! Why do you always have to attack my tiny, tiny laptop?!"
Hardly. The plant needs thousands of spinning centrifuges as part of the uranium enrichment process. Stuxnet was programmed to take over the machines and make them spin themselves to pieces.
A thousand of these centrifuges were deactivated by Iran in short order just around the time Stuxnet was believed to have been most active, accounting for 30 percent of the Natanz facility's uranium enrichment ability. Iran did not admit to Stuxnet's involvement, but did state that the virus' presence in a separate nuclear facility still under construction prevented them from turning on the reactors there for fear of causing a nationwide blackout.
A blackout caused by hacking.
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Super Talent 64GB SDXC Flash Memory Card Model Class 10 for $34.99 + free shipping
$34.95 w/Code: MLC110RN For First 200 Orders
($39.95 is today's price - use code for $5 off)
Limited lifetime warranty, the data storage solution you can trust
SD 3.0 and Class 10 compliant, read/write up to 20 MB/S, speed of 10MB/S
Only compatible with SDXC-labeled host devices (Not compatible with standard SD & SDHC devices)
With Error Correction Code to correct transfer errors, easy plug-and-play operation
Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
Supports auto standby, power-off and sleep modes
good reviews!
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I am waiting for the super DUPER talent cards to go on sale, not a deal.
Bought a 16gb class 10 SuperTalent on a different deal before to test.
My Lumix GX-1 gives me the message that the card is not optimal for video when it is put in, yet I was able to take a video without problems. Take of that what you will.
above decent price for a 64gb card though.
I'd be curious how it benchmarks using Flash Memory Toolkit. I got an Amazon Basics card that was complete crap. Transcend has treated me VERY well.
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The total number of mobile subscriptions grew to around 54.3 million at the end of first quarter of 2012, with a penetration rate of 188.5%, the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) reported today. Despite the high growth rates, growth is expected to continue albeit at a slower pace, CITC reported.
The estimated number of Internet users in Saudi Arabia has also seen dramatic increase, with Internet penetration reaching 49.1% of population or 14.2 million users by the end March. CITC expects that demand for Internet services will increase significantly in the next few years driven by the rapid growth of handheld smart devices and applications.


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The same as this question ( http://gadgets.stackexchange.com/questions/9/what-do-i-need-to-do-to-sell-my-iphone-3gs ) except with the UK in mind.
I have a 16GB iPhone 3G and have recently upgraded (we don't need to argue if it's an upgrade :p) to the iPhone 4. What's the recommended way to sell it in the UK? It has one small crack on the back near the vibration switch so it probably doesn't count as near new (depending on your definition of near).


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Do not iron
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Hello everyone.
My question is concerned with the following statement.
"Having a grothendieck topology on a category C is equivalent to having a full reflective subcategory Sh(C) in the category PSh(C) of presheaves, whose reflection is left exact."
What i need is a reference for this containing a proof. I tried google but could not find anything besides citations of this result.


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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in Washington today to receive the Congressional Gold Medal she was awarded four years ago will still under house arrest.
That's pretty cool, but you know what's cooler? That lawmakers in the newly reformed Burma have been learning how to be more democratic with the help of Aaron Sorkin's political drama The West Wing.
In her speech to medal ceremony attendees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who paid Burma a historic visit last December, recalled a conversation about democracy building with the Burmese Speaker of the Lower House.
"[The Speaker] said to me, 'help us learn how to be a democratic congress, a parliament,'" Clinton said. "He went on to tell me that they were trying to teach themselves by watching old segment of The West Wing. I said, 'I think we can do better than that, Mister Speaker.'"
Not when it comes to walking and talking you can't.
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What do you like to eat when you travel?
For me, there is nothing better than sampling local cuisine. When I'm in Germany, this isn't as adventurous as some locales, but here's an example of a good meal for me:
That ham was more than just ok.
Anyone have any delicacies they enjoy while globetrotting, or any horror stories of accidental ordering?
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I don't like to travel because I suffer from Agoraphobia. However, when I do have to travel for work or a death in the family, I try not to eat anything at all.
I get very nervous when I'm not at home and "what goes in must come out" (if you know what I mean). I'll get sick if I eat anything so I fast before the trip and during the time I'm there and try not eating until I get home.
I like to be adventurous and try the local dishes. I haven't been to many really exotic places so I haven't eaten anything truly weird, but I did find out in Montreal that frog legs and snails really are as disgusting as I expected.
I have no idea what sorts of meat I was putting in my mouth in Singapore, but everything was delicious.
EVERYTHING. Then my clothes don't fit when I get back home. Once I found these Polish chocolates that were amazing. I haven't found them since, and can not begin to try and pronounce or spell their name.
So word of advise, if you like it, find its name. With the powers of the internet and Amazon you'll may find it again.
When I travel around Germany I usually default to schnitzel, in Italy I mix it up between pizza and pasta, in Belgium I go for steak and fries, and in the Netherlands I tend to try to find curries. Really good curries in the Netherlands.
hot dogs
I love hot dogs, from dirty dogs in NYC, to New England Hot Dogs, Coney Dogs or west coast at Pinks, I love hot dogs. A few years ago I was on tour and we were in Madison Wi. We travel about an hour out to a little town called RIO, WI, Small is an understatement. 1 main road, 4 bars, a bowling alley with 4 lanes, laundry center and a small store. I asked them for the local hot dog. I bought a few packs and froze them till I got home. WOW, they were incredible, almost like a combunation of a hot dog and kielbasa. Anytime I travel and I have a little down time, I look for rhe best hot dog places
I always try to eat something local (local speciality or local dish), or at least something different than what I'd get at home, or have had before.
As much as I'd love to sample local foods, I also have food allergies, so I definitely need to be careful what I'm eating.
Any place that serves seafood, I'm out. I've dealt with the fallout of cross contamination, and to deal with the consequences for NEARLY A WHOLE YEAR for that one meal isn't worth it.
My rule when I travel is that wherever I eat has to be a place I don't have access to at home. For example, I won't eat at Applebee's when I travel. I like to check sources like Trip Advisor or Urbanspoon to get suggestions based on other people's reviews.
The local foods, I try to avoid Mcdonalds and any American fast foods/ restaurants as much as possible.
Like fried chicken skin in Taiwan, delicious! But couldn't bring up the courage to try the other fried stuff (like fried chicken butt... how do you even make that?)
@jaaayzhu: You cut that little tail off the chicken and then fry it. You'll know what I mean if you've ever broken down a whole chicken. I always liked getting chicken feet on top of my black bean spareribs. Not that I'd eat them because what's the point? I just thought it was always kind of funny.
When travelling to Philippines for the summer I would typically avoid things that would upset my stomach (ie: dairy and some other questionable things) since bathrooms there are either unsanitary (no toilet seats and/or water) and nonexistent altogether. I guess I have a weak stomach (and why I bring myself a package of immodium from Costco).
+1 to local foods too. But I kind of enjoyed the tropical fruits offered there more.
There are so much good things to eat in the Philippines!
tags for posterity: food - travel - what-the-hell-is-that-thing-on-my-plate?
Whatever the locals eat. From a club sandwich with a whole fried egg in the sandwich at Le Deux Magots in Paris, to a guinea pig in Lima, to a pastrami sandwich larger than my head at the Carnegie Deli. I did go to a McDonalds in France, but only to order a Royale with cheese. What a letdown. It tasted just like a quarter pounder.
I like to try local foods where I'm traveling. When I was in the Caribbean, we stopped at a local rum brewery. Some of the best rum I've ever had in my life! Then I ate at a picnic style barbecue. Had to try the local hot sauce and some of their other local foods. Well worth it! When I was in Germany, I ate mostly local foods and teas as we stayed either in nursing-type homes or ate with local families. It was good eating, and I'm glad I tried it all. It's always interesting to try local foods, and I will continue to do so as long as my body doesn't retaliate!
We don't travel much, but we experiment when we do. We also have a rule about eating something different than what's available at home. Some of the best restaurants are the dumpy-looking local places.....it's trial-and error.
Hot dog or chips is OK.
@mkentosh: You went to Wisconsin and you had hot dogs instead of bratwurst?
Thanks, it seems you can eat just about any part of a chicken.


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June 24, 2013
Feel the warmth at Iziko Museums this winter
Winter in Cape Town can mean cold and wet days. But Iziko Museums is providing lots of comfort to keep families warm this winter.
Budget-friendly family ticket
A day out with your family has never been more affordable. A family ticket at Iziko Museums (two adults and two kids) is discounted by 50% during government school holidays.
Free entry every Friday
Iziko is making Friday an even happier day. Pensioners and students qualify for free entry at all Iziko museums, except the Castle and Planetarium, every Friday upon presentation of a valid student or pensioner card.
Free entry days
Iziko extends free entry to all visitors at all sites, except the Castle and Planetarium, on:
- Youth Day – June 16, 2013
- National Women's Day – August 9, 2013
Hot specials to keep out the cold
While at Groot Constantia, Jonkershuis Restaurant is running the following winter special:
- Two courses for R140 per person, exclusive of gratuity
- Three courses for R160 per person, exclusive of gratuity
Please note:
- Available Monday to Saturday
- Not available on Sundays and public holidays
- Subject to availability
The Iziko South African Museum Café will be running a winter-warmer special for patrons (subject to availability).
Discover and learn at Iziko South African Museum
Between July 1 and 12, 2013, daily activities are planned at the museum's Discovery and Activity rooms. Enquire at reception.
While at the V&A Waterfront
Visit the Iziko Maritime Centre – next to Absa bank at the V&A Waterfront (first floor, Union Castle House, Dock Road).
For ship and maritime enthusiasts, this specialist museum at the bustling V&A Waterfront puts a unique spin on Cape Town's history, focusing on the city's relationship with the sea. The museum also houses the earliest existing model of Table Bay harbour, completed in 1885 by prisoners and warders of Breakwater Prison.
- Open to the public from 10h00 to 17h00 daily (closed on Workers' Day and Christmas Day)
- Entry: R20 for adults; children R10; family ticket R50 (two adults and two kids)
Moms and dads of teens: story corner at the Iziko Maritime Centre
Does your teen have a keen interest in maritime history? If so, then this should be music to their ears.
The Iziko Maritime Centre will host an hour-long story corner where the curator and educators at the museum will share the fascinating story of the RMMV Capetown Castle mailship.
In case you've never heard of her, she arrived in Cape Town on May 13, 1938 carrying mail from Europe. She continued with the mail service until she was requisitioned as a troop ship in 1940, and in 1943 transported American servicemen from the United States to the United Kingdom. Capetown Castle ventured worldwide as a trooper.
Book now to avoid disappointment:
- Time: 13h00 to 14h00
- Date: June 28; July 3; July 5; July 10; and July 12
- Ages: 12 to 16 years (recommended)
- Cost: children R10; family ticket R50 (two adults and two kids)
Book your seat with Lindi at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Celebrating a special milestone?
Do it in one of Iziko's museums ... special birthdays, weddings, private planetarium screenings, gala functions, cocktail events, etc. Please send Kashiefa Millward an email on email@example.com to arrange a customised solution.
Planetarium shows
(Suitable for children)
Davy Dragon's Guide to the Night Sky
Come and join Davy Dragon while he learns all about the sky above so that he can fulfil his dream of becoming the world's best flying dragon! This is a playful introduction to astronomy, especially for the under 10s. Just right for inquiring young minds.
- July 20 to September 15
- Saturday, Sunday at noon
- Especially for children aged five to 10
Morris and the MeerKAT
Our little furry hero, Morris Mouse, goes to visit his cousin in the far away Karoo. Once there, he meets a most unusual MeerKAT who tells Morris all about himself and the SKA. What is so special about this MeerKAT and what on earth could the SKA be? Join us and find out!
- June 22 to July 14
- Monday to Friday: 11h00, 12h00 and 15h00; Saturday and Sunday: 12h00 and 15h30
- Especially for children aged five to 12
Note for moms and dads: workshop for the June/July school holidays!
Make your own Star Wheel and learn how to use it to identify stars and constellations.
- Dates: June 26; July 3; July 10
- Time: 09h00 to 10h30
- Age: eight to 12 years
- Cost: R20 per workshop
- Please bring your own torch
- Tickets available at the Iziko South African Museum
The Sky Tonight
(Suitable for adults and teens)
An interesting live lecture on the current night sky is presented every Saturday and Sunday. You will receive a star map and be shown where to find the constellations and planets that are visible that month.
Saturday and Sunday: 13h00
A Basic Guide to Stargazing
This presentation will give you a basic understanding of the night sky and how it changes through the year. We introduce some easily recognisable constellations, explain the nature of stars and the galaxy in which we live, and give basic information in using binoculars and small telescopes.
- June 22 to September 20
- Monday to Friday: 14h00 (excl. August 5 and 9, September 2); Tuesday: 20h00 (and sky talk); Saturday and Sunday: 14h30; August 9: 14h30
The Longest Day
Days come and go and we take them for granted, but an outside force is putting a brake on the Earth's spin and the days are getting longer. Life on Earth will have to continue to adapt to the lengthening of the day, until we finally reach ... the longest day.
- June 24 to July 12
- Monday to Friday to 13h00
The Difference Loom, curated by Winnie Sze of August Art Gallery, London
August 21 to September 14
An exhibition of contemporary craftwork and visual art by South African and international artists, and a day of cross-arts and cross-disciplinary talks. The aim is to explore beyond the visible form of the material to consider the process that made it. In short, we aim to explore technology not just as a manufacturing process, but the product of a thinking process, and textiles not just as a material, but an embodiment of cultural values.
- Venue: Iziko South African National Gallery and Annexe, St John's Road, Gardens
- Age: Adults
- Saturday August 24
For more exciting holiday options, have a read through our blog post on things for kids to do in Cape Town these holidays.


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I have an ArcSDE server serving some poly layers through a map service running on ArcGIS Server 10.0. The service appears to be working--I can navigate to it just fine in the REST view and I can see the data when I do the View In ArcGIS JavaScript option.
However when I load up ArcMap and attempt to add the service to a layer it appears to succeed but does not show up; the screen remains white no matter what extent I'm viewing. The layer is set to be viewable at all extents and appears to be the correct spatial reference so I'm a bit confused why the javascript viewer can see it but not ArcMap.
edit I should add that I have a Silverlight app pointing at the service as well and that also does not show the data.


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The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts welcomes two prominent art lawyers to discuss what it means to represent visual artists. Nancy Wolff, partner at Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard and John Silberman, founder of John Silberman Associates will discuss their practices and the unique issues that their clients face.
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Minnesota Health Information Clearinghouse
The Minnesota Health Information Clearinghouse is a resource for health-related information and publications. We answer questions and make referrals when necessary to sources who can provide further information or assistance. Our clients include consumers, employers, providers, health plans, government agencies, and others. We provide information and publications mainly about the following topics.
- Health coverage options
- Health economics, health policy, health reform
Also see Minnesota's Health Reform Initiative
Also see Health Reform in Minnesota, A Better State of Health
- Action plans and collaboration plans submitted by HMOs and other managed care companies
- Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
- Alphabetic Publication List
- Subject Publication List
- Resource List
New publication: "Minnesota Health Care Spending and Projections, 2010" (PDF: 348KB/24 pages), July 2012.
An annual report to the legislature providing detailed estimates of actual health care spending in Minnesota in 2010 with projections of future spending. Shows health care spending grew at a rate of 2.2 percent in Minnesota in 2010 totaling $37.7 billion.
New publication: "Fact Sheet, March 2012, Health Insurance Coverage in Minnesota, Early Results from the 2011 Minnesota Health Access Survey" (PDF: 165KB/8 pages). This latest survey shows about 9.1 percent or 490,000 people were uninsured statewide in 2011. It compares this survey's results with previous years and discusses trends in the rate of uninsurance in Minnesota. Includes demographic and employment characteristics of uninsured Minnesotans compared to total population. The Minnesota Department of Health, Health Economics Program publishes this Fact Sheet.
HMO Service Areas
Health Maintenance Organizations in Minnesota has service area maps for each HMO.
Medical Records
"Maximum Charges for Patient Records," (PDF: 37.89KB, 1 page) lists the new 2015 copying and retrieval charges. When copying and retrieval charges are allowed, the maximum copying charge is $1.34 per page and a $17.79 retrieval charge. The fact sheet provides references to the Minnesota statute, Minnesota Rules, and the federal HIPAA Privacy Rule that address copying charges for patient records. It states copying charges for worker's compensation medical records are different and to contact the Minnesota Department of Labor at 651 284-5032 for that information.
Lower Cost Prescription Drug Resources
"Low Cost Options for Prescription Drugs," (PDF: 28.45KB/5 pages) has been updated. It is a list of resources for obtaining lower cost prescription drugs. It is published by the Managed Care Systems Section at the Minnesota Department of Health.
"Minnesota's Official Source for Health Reform Information"
In 2008 Minnesota passed a state health reform law and in 2010 the federal government passed a federal health reform law. This new website on health reform includes specific information on how the new health reform laws affect individuals and businesses in Minnesota. There is also information on health insurance and options for coverage, the health insurance exchange, health care costs, quality and coordination of health care delivery, preventing disease and promoting health, paying for home care and nursing home services, and building the future health care workforce. The website is a project of the Minnesota Office of the Governor, the Minnesota Department of Commerce, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The "Health Care Choices for Minnesotans on Medicare" (PDF: 4.2MB/199pages) publication is now available in print and on line. This comprehensive publication provides information about Medicare, lists Medicare plans available to Minnesotans with details about each plan, and provides information on long-term care and many topics of interest to seniors. Call the Minnesota Senior LinkAge Line® at 1-800-333-2433 for a print copy. The 199-page publication is produced by the Minnesota Board on Aging, Senior LinkAge®.
Federal HealthCare.gov website
Lists health plans available in each state. The web site is also available in Spanish at www.CuidadodeSalud.gov. Provides information so consumers can find insurance options, learn about benefits, compare care quality, and understand the provisions of the new health reform law.
Federal Health Reform Law, signed March 23, 2010
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), Public Law No. 111-148
For summaries, details, effective dates of the law see the following web sites:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HealthCare.gov
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Minnesota Department of Commerce
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners
NAIC chart showing reform and effective dates
Minnesota Health Reform
Minnesota's Health Reform Initiative provides information on recent legislation that deals with health reform. Sections of the site include information on Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP), health care homes, payment reform including quality measurement and cost/quality transparency, e-Health, insurance coverage and affordabilty, and information on other bill requirements.
Collaboration Plan 2015 - 2019
Collaboration Plans provide information on what health maintenance organizations will do during the next four years to meet identified public health goals for the communities in the areas they service. Minnesota Statute 62Q.075 requires that collaboration plans be filed with the Commissioner of Health and describes the filing requirements, the information to be included in the plan, and the details of the review process.
The Minnesota Council of Health Plans (MCHP) on behalf of its members prepared this collaboration plan from information provided to them by the health plans. The health plans include Blue Cross Blue Shield/Blue Plus of Minnesota, HealthPartners, Medica, Metropolitan Health Plan, PreferredOne, Sanford Health Plan of Minnesota, and UCare.
To request a printed copy of the Collaboration Plan for 2015 - 2019 contact the Clearinghouse at (651) 201-5178 or 1-800-657-3793.
For more information or to request a publication, contact the Minnesota Health Information Clearinghouse:
By telephone:
(651) 201-5178 or 1-800-657-3793
By mail:
Minnesota Department of Health
Minnesota Health Information Clearinghouse
Health Regulation Division
85 East Seventh Place, P.O. Box 64882
St. Paul, Minnesota 55164-0882
By email:
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A Creative Way Of Using The Rewrite NameTrans SAF in WS7.0
By Janice on Oct 05, 2009
When creating a reverse proxy mapping from a pattern like "/abc" to a file resource like "http://remoteserver/abc.jsp" on the remote server, the map function creates an undesirable effect of adding a slash "/", to the end of the URL that is being rewritten. While this is per design, and adding the slash "/" is intentional behavior of the reverse proxy functionality, this can be problematic when the mapping is to a file resource rather than to a file path.
The first problem with this is that the path gets rewritten to "http://remoteserver/abc.jsp/", causing a "404 Not Found" response from the remote server. Another problematic effect of this is if the request to "/abc" was for a POST request. When the request is for a POST to "/abc", the path gets rewritten to "http://remoteserver/abc.jsp/" via a "302 Redirect" response from the map function, resulting in the POST entity body being dropped from the request.
Web Server 7.0 is highly configurable and contains configurable features that can help remedy a problem like this in our reverse proxy functionality. Here is a quick and easy way to do it - add the following configuration to the default object in the obj.conf before your general map NameTrans line to your reverse-proxy object :
<If uri="/abc">
NameTrans fn="rewrite" path="/abc/"
NameTrans fn="map" from="/abc" to="http://remoteserver/abc.jsp"
<If defined $vars{'escaped'} and $vars{'escaped'} =~'(.\*)/$'>
Route fn="set-variable" $vars{'escaped'}="$1"
By utilizing the above configuration, the rewrite NameTrans SAF will append a slash "/" to the end of the request path so to avoid the undesired behavior of the map NameTrans SAF. The usage of the set-variable Route SAF is to remove the slash "/" for the escaped variable.
Documentation for the rewrite SAF.