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A day late and a dollar....
The Republicans have finally gotten serious about health care reform. The bad news for them is that they are four years too late.
Earlier today, Senators Hatch (R-UT); Burr (R-NC); and Coburn (R-OK) released the details of their Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act (a.k.a. "Patient CARE Act). Hatch, in particular, is no stranger to health care issues, having co-sponsored the State Childrens Health Insurance Program back in 1997.
The bill largely follows the outlines of a health care reform proposal developed by a group of conservative policy wonks dubbed the "reformocons." In an article published in Commonweal's print edition in December, I questioned whether the wonks would find Republican politicians willing to carry their water. I am happy to have been proved wrong, as the return of Republicans to the actual work of legislating is a welcome development.
The bill genuflects in the direction of the Tea Party faithful in its first article, which repeals the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. Sort of. Except for all the provisions dealing with Medicare. And the provision allowing children to remain on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26. Oh, and several of the insurance regulations too. Did I mention there are subsidies to help people buy insurance? And….well, you get the idea.
This is not to say that the bill does not make major changes to the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates the standard benefit package, the individual mandate, and the federal health insurance exchange. While there are subsidies, they are channeled through the tax system and are less generous than the ACA's. It also makes significant changes to the federal Medicaid program, giving states considerably more flexibility to redesign their programs but also shifting more of the financial risk from the federal government to the states.
What is striking, however, is how much this "repeal and replace" proposal concedes to the essential structure of Obamacare. The bill retains the ACA's prohibition on lifetime caps on insurance coverage and requires that insurers allow individuals to enroll in a new plan without premiums being adjusted for their health status as long as they have been continuously covered for more than 18 months. While the bill eliminates the individual mandate, it contains a "soft mandate" in the form of strong incentives for individuals to remain continuously covered or risk losing the aforementioned protection from being re-rated when switching plans.
The overarching vision that underlies the bill is the shifting of more responsibility and risk to individuals. Rather than comprehensive insurance coverage (which they believe is largely responsible for the United States' excessive rate of health care cost growth), the drafters would clearly prefer a world in which more individuals were covered for truly catastrophic health care costs, but paid more routine costs out of pocket using medical savings accounts.
To give the reformers their due, they do not shrink from trying to move the current employer-based system in this direction. One of the most significant reforms in the bill would make a much larger portion of employer-provided health insurance taxable as income to employees as compared to the ACA. While embraced by many economists on the left and right, such a change will bring significant disruption to the employer-based system. Employers will be in the uneviable position of having to either scale back health benefits or see their employees face hundreds of dollars in tax liability on "income" they can't spend.
Many questions can be raised about whether the bill will work the way the drafters hope. Greater competition among health plans will not bring costs down unless we are willing to confront the challenge of local hospital and health system monopolies. Health Savings Accounts are usually modelled on IRAs, which have largely failed as a device to get lower and moderate-income families to save more for retirement. Malpractice reform (a cause I support) is a good idea for many reasons, but most studies have found that "defensive medicine" has little impact on the nation's health care costs.
Nevertheless, I give the authors of the legislation an "A" (well, perhaps a "B") for effort. The proposal is a serious one. The problem, as I suggested earlier, is that it is four years too late. The absolute earliest that this bill could be passed into law is 2017. By that time, tens of millions of people will have obtained coverage under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. At that point, the political costs of "repeal and replace" are likely to be more than even many Republicans will want to bear.
If Republicans are dissatisfied with this state of affairs, they have no one to blame but themselves. Back in 2009, the Democrats were desperate for Republican support to put a bipartisan imprimatur on the ACA. If the Republicans had been willing to bring a proposal like this to the table, the result could have been a productive dialogue about the appropriate balance between individual and collective responsibility when it comes to health care. There is much to be said for directing more of the resources that currently flow into health care into other productive uses.
But that was the road not taken. The Republican leadership, led by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), decided that the party's best course was intransigent opposition. They placed a large bet on the 2012 election that failed to pay off. Now the bill comes due.
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Would Democrats in the Senate even allow this bill to come up for a vote? I wish we could somehow lower the political temperature and step away from the all-or-nothing brink.
The salient fact seems to be that Americans aren't satisfied with Obamacare. So what to do? Of all the possible choices before our leaders, why isn't "Repair Obamacare" a mantra? Don't prop up an upopular and, apparently, deeply flawed program; don't repeal it and replace it with something else; fix it. There is a bipartisan opportunity here. Will any of our leaders seize it?
I agree that the three senators have put themselves in the position of sky divers who just jumped out of an airplane and have suddenly decided they would rather be water-skiing. I'd suggest they land first before trying any new stunts. This does give the Rs a "replace" to talk about after four years of "repeal and replace" without a replacement in sight. (Obamacare, you might recall, is basically what they suggested as a replacement for "Hillarycare.")
By removing the dreaded mandate, Hatchcare removes what would make their plan financially responsible. Obamacare needs near universality so the healthy can pay (while they stay healthy) for the ill. Hatchcare leaves the problem of the uninsured 20-year-old motorcyclist, riding freely without a helmet (since the law was repealed in a burst of freedom signed by Gov. Jeb Bush) who gets clipped by a white Mercury Grand Marquis and skids across the highway removing the skin and part of the skull from his uninsured head. I have been unable to figure out the funding for Obamacare, but at least it covers that yo-yo, which Hatchcare does not.
Frankly, I don't believe the Obamacare finances will ever work. I didn't think they would work when they were the Republican replacement for Hillarycare, either. But Hatchcare can't begin to explain its financial underpinning, which looks like subsidies for the rich and bribes for the poor which the poor won't have enough up-front cash to use.
But, in any case, I think we ought to analyze the failures we have before we set ourselves up for another round of them. Of course, we could copy some country that did it right, oh, 50 years ago, but that would be unAmerican. Anyway, I wouldn't give Hatchcare a 1 in 5 chance with the House crazies if it ever comes to a vote there.
The ACA has been in effect for four weeks. Granted the rollout was awful, but I think it's a little early to identify, let alone fix, any defects. And quite a few people seem to be pleasantly surprised by the coverage now available to them, often for the first time. Let's give it at least to the end of the first quarter before turning it over to the tender ministrations of those noted bipartisan lovers of universal health care, the Republicans. If I weren't such an innocent, I would say that this proposal by Hatch, Burr, and Coburn is more an effort in an election year to deflect criticism for having no policy but obstruction, rather than an honest attempt to improve the nation's health care and lower the cost. They've had four years to make constructive suggestions, and what we got was Hitler! Holocaust! Death Panels! Tyranny! Now they're scared that the thing might work.
John, I hope the juxtaposition of my comment with Jim's didn't give the impression that I am ready to give up already on Obamacare. I'd say it would take at least a year -- that's next fall, after the elections -- to have any idea of what fixes it might need, and another year to be sure it won't work.
As I said, I don't think it will. But if we are going to talk about "salient" facts, the first one is that this is a Republican plan passed by Democrats, a good number of whom were doubtful all the way and are not likely to fall on their swords to protect it. I don't think we should kill a Republican plan only to replace it with another one which, by definition, is a watered down version of it.
The ACA has many parts - it is a complex document. It has been in effect for two years or more - examples of this:
- 19-26 year olds can now be covered on parents' plans
- annual limits have been removed
- pre-existing conditions limitations have been eliminated
- wellness coverage (annual visit co-pays removed; coverage of other wellness visits)
- last year, thousands of members received checks because their plans had to use 85% of premiums for healthcare costs and if they didn't, then members were reimbursed
- many large insurers have begun to move to *health home* approaches to treatment (these are best described as one stop approaches in which a patient's care is coordinated among PCP, specialists, etc.)
- many large insurers are moving to electronic patient records - effective, efficient, better outcomes, saves money
- many large insurers are transitioning from Fee for each Service to payment for outcomes (this is the most expensive part of US healthcare - we pay for every service rather than outcomes)
- roughly 50% of all states have expanded Medicaid coverage (reducing the number of uninsured)
- this is only a partial list - parity federal rules have come out; etc.
Sorry, but one of the major issues in this whole debate is that folks don't understand ACA, how it is structured, its many complex moving parts, and its impact on US healthcare delivery.
By what you posted above, we continue to provide misinformation.
No, Tom, I was not responding to your comment, which I didn't see until I posted mine, but to the idea that the ACA is already a failure. That judgment may depend on whether we measure it against what came before or against how much better it could have been if every Republican in Congress had not sought to kill it first in the womb and now in the cradle. If it is really as bad a law as they say, they should be content with the electoral reward they will win when it crashes. But they fear the opposite.
The idea that "Americans are not satisfied with Obamacare" is misleading if they have had little or no experience of it until very recently. They are dissatisfied, of course, with the horrors they have been told it will bring upon us, but very well satisfied with real changes like the one on pre-existing conditions, a change which this new proposal appears to at least dilute.
When I wrote, "Let's give it at least to the end of the first quarter...," I was being facetious. I don't think there will be any serious changes in the law until after the next presidential election.
I'm dissatisfied with Obamacare because it's not single payer. I doubt that's comforting to Hatch et al.
Angela, +1. Deep dissatisfaction here, but not for the reasons politicians on either side of the chasm want to hear.
A good analysis written by Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm's brother and a physician) is posted at the New York Times website. As always in the Times, the comments are also very good.
Do you think they're on to something about containing costs by having consumers pay out of pocket for more routine expenses?
On my medical insurance, I grit my teeth when I see the $$ amount of claims compared to what insurers pay. It just reinforces for me how self pay are getting hammered. My daughter's getting physical therapy for her knee; the therapist is submitting claims for @$300 per session, the insurer allows $45. Maybe it would be cheaper if insurance didnt cover this for anybodyy, and we all paid $45, with people who can't afford the cost getting some kind of direct subsidy/or reimbursement, rather than the money flowing from the insurer to the practitioner with the practitioner then charging $300 to uninsured people.
I think Irene's question is worth thinking about. I have always been able to pay for doctor visits, meds, and bloodwork (hospital allowed a payment plan) out of pocket (cuz I had no insurance), and these items, when I totalled them up at the end of the year, were far less than the $385 per month I would pay in insurance premiums for the cheapest policy available to me under Obamacare.
So: If I were able to pay LESS than $385 per month and be covered ONLY for hospitalization and more expensive diagnostics needed every few years, that strikes me as a fairly good deal.
In addtion, the lack of health care among many Michigan residents in my low-income rural area has actually caused many local docs to lower their doctor visit prices or set up clinics on Saturdays to do pro-bono work.
I also think Obamacare needs another year to redeem itself. The Web site is at least navigable now, but what's available to you and how much subsidy you get depends to a large extent on how you complete your application (yourself alone or your entire family), whether your state has expanded Medicaid and when that expansion kicks in. (Michigan's kicks in in March, so I really won't know the lay of the land until the Obamacare sign-up window is nearly closed.)
I realize the GOP line is that Obamacare is already a failure and spending more money keeping it open is just chucking more down the rathole. However--adn I say this as a low-income person deeply disappointed in Obamacare--I think it's going to be easier to streamline and amend what's already there than repealing it and starting over.
-I think it's going to be easier to streamline and amend what's already there than repealing it and starting over.
I agree. And it would be best if a bipartisan way can be found to do this.
Jean, I've found your comments on Obamacare, from the point of view of someone who previously lacked health insurance, to be very valuable. I've also spoken recently with a couple of friends who are from another category of Obamacare consumers: those who previously had individual policies which no longer are renewable, so they must now purchase plans on the Obamacare exchanges. I've read that most of those who have purchased Obamacare so far are from this category (rather than the previously-uninsured). My friends are somewhat disgruntled, as they were more or less satisfied with what they were buying previously, had some understanding of what the policies paid for and didn't pay for, and knew that the policies were within their budgets. One friend in particular has some serious health issues and is frightened that what he chooses will somehow curtail the quality of his care. And in all their cases, it appears that the premiums on the Obamacare plans will be considerably higher than what they were paying before.
Not all of these objections are show-stoppers; they may not be compelling reasons to kill Obamacare; they may all be solvable problems. But they're not trivial, either, and they add up to dissatisfaction. My friends are looking at this from the point of view of consumers, and they're asking, "Where's the value?" For them at least, Obamacare is delivering less, or at least they perceive or fear that Obamacare is delivering less, at a higher price. I don't know if there is a way to reswizzle the price points and feature packages to make them more appealing to consumers like my friends.
All this is anecdotal, so take it for what it's worth.
JP - OTOH, had family members who were in the same category as those you described. But, last year, one hospitalization revealed to them that their plan was *sub-standard* and left them with significant bills to pay.
There is always constant churn in insurance plans year in and year out. 80% of insured get coverage via employers. Large and small employers constantly change their medical vendors to get better cost savings, tweak plans and specific coverages to guard against risk from certain conditions, etc.
Some (if not most) ot those who are complaining about their plans ending (even without PPACA) would have seen either plans changing or getting even less coverage. Fact Checker has also found that some claiming that their plans ended and then signed up on Healthcare.gov and wound up paying significantly more are quoting a ACA plan without the ACA subsidy (so as to make their point even bigger).
Finally, one of the driving principles behind PPACA was the fact that US healthcare costs were continuing to increase (at times in double digits). Ex;perts agreed that the inclusion of wellness (no co-pays) can start to address the upside down nature of US healthcare - basically, 80% of costs go to emergency care for conditions that have been ignored or denied (obesity, heart disease, diabetes, chronic pulmonary diseases, etc.). So, a huge chunk of our medical dollars go to last minute solutions rather than a more comprehensive approach that pays for health vs. pays for sickness.
There is always constant churn in insurance plans year in and year out. 80% of insured get coverage via employers. Large and small employers constantly change their medical vendors to get better cost savings, tweak plans and specific coverages to guard against risk from certain conditions, etc.
Good point. When I had employers that offered health care insurance, the percentage of the premiums I was required to pay as well as coverage changed on a yearly basis. The ACA does not control all the market and societal forces that drive health care costs up. One of the big health care changes that's already upon us is the aging Baby Boom generation. Many of us are already getting knee/hip replacements and having our first bypass surgeries.
My guess is that as we age, we will be increasingly discouraged from highly invasive treatments to extend length but not quality of life.
"My guess is that as we age, we will be increasingly discouraged from highly invasive treatments to extend length but not quality of life."
As someone in that upper age category, I agree that the finite resources are better spent on those with longer lives ahead of themselves and a better chance of actually improving, not just "living" a bit longer.
Most of us have seen way too many people "dying in place" surrounded by equipment but with no chance over leaving, improving or actually living. To be kept alive is not the same as living, no matter what anyone says!


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WHEELING - Since rejoining the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference before the 2009-10 campaign, Parkersburg South has made WesBanco Arena its home away from home in winning the last three conference wrestling tournaments at the downtown facility.
And while first-year Head Coach Donna Dixon will bring her Patriots back to the arena in mid-January to go for a fourth consecutive team title, this weekend South returned to WesBanco for a little different business, and again left with a first place trophy.
Saturday night the Patriots capped off a dominating 9-0 performance with a much easier-than-expected 49-24 victory over Harrison, Ohio to capture the championship of the 22nd annual Wheeling Park Duals.
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WINNER — Steubenville 106-pound wrestler Tariq Wilson grapples with an opponent from Woodward Academy during the Wheeling Park?Duals Saturday. Wilson won the match.
That win came on the heels of a 42-33 victory over Steubenville, which finished third in the this weekend's event, and came down to the heavyweight match, with a Parkersburg South pin fall enough to hold off Big Red.
The loss was the only one of the two-day event for Coach Mike Blackburn's squad, which defeated Woodward, Ga., for third. Host Wheeling Park won 6 of 9 matches for an eighth place showing.
Dixon's squad wasted very little time getting going against Harrison, which finished 7-2 in the duals, racing to a 49-0 lead before allowing a pair of forfeits and late pins for the final margin.
"No question, we are very, very happy with the way things turned out here," a smiling Dixon admitted. "The boys really wrestled their hearts out this weekend and this is their reward. And the fact that it happened here, where we hope to return and defending our conference championship, is even a little more special.
"We gave us some points having to forfeit two weight classes all weekend long, but those two boys are out with an injury and an illness and will be ready to wrestle when we come back (Wheeling).
"Repeating as OVAC champions is always a good thing, but the main goal is ultimately winning our fifth state championship and I believe right now we are heading in the right direction for that."
Steubenville, meanwhile, battled back from its loss to the Patriots to beat Woodward Academy by a 41-32 margin, using a victory at heavyweight to secure that decision.
Blackburn's squad has a similar goal next month as South, winning the OVAC. And while recent history says that the Patriots will again be tough to overtake, Big Red has been on a steady progression towards the top. Steubenville fourth in the team standings in 2010, third in 2011 and runner-up last year.
"I thought we really battled Parkersburg South (Saturday)," Blackburn commented. "Both teams have a couple of injuries and I think it could be interesting when the conference tournament rolls around. They are still the top dog right now, but we hope to get that title.
"This meet is great competition and really helps, but we have been in some nice tournaments on our schedule and the kids are really getting to wrestle a lot, and some top-notch competition. I think the end result shows how these kinds of tournaments help, and it also lets you know what you need to work on."

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I've recently been interested in the following type of functions. A total computable function f:N→N is effectively closed if there is a computable function p such that f[N \ We] = N \ Wp(e), where We is the e-th c.e. set.
Have effectively closed functions been studied? If so, what are they normally called?
I would also appreciate pointers to some uses and/or alternative characterizations of effectively closed functions.
Motivation. It is well-known that there is a near-perfect analogy between the adjectives computable and continuous. For example, a total function f:N→N is computable if and only if it is effectively continuous, i.e. there is a computable function p such that f-1[We] = Wp(e). [For the backward implication, let q be a computable function such that Wq(n) = {n} and use the composite p∘q to enumerate the graph of f.] A similar trick shows that a total function is effectively open if and only if it is computable. However, a total computable function is not necessarily effectively closed since that entails that the range of f is computable and, indeed, that f maps every computable set onto a computable set. Also, the notion is nontrivial since non-constant polynomials and increasing functions are effectively closed.
Update. Joel David Hamkins gave the following characterization of effectively closed computable functions: they are the computable functions f:N→N for which there is a computable b:N→N such that f-1(n) ⊆ {0,1,...,b(n)} for every n ∈ N. Although I accepted Joel's answer, the main question is still open.


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Project Max Effort Custom Fender Flares - Dare To FlareWritten by on July 1, 2011 Add extra inches for more quarter-panel clearance!
In the May issue of PHR, we showed you how to gain inward wheel clearance for big meats on just about any car by using a custom mini-tub. But what if that's just not enough for your rolling-stock ambitions? That's the case we found ourselves in with Max Effort; at ride height we had no room left for wheel travel during suspension compression. Compromising on size wasn't an option, and lower control arm clearance limited our offset, so that only left one alternative: It was time to create a little more outward clearance with some custom flares.
In spite of its Trans-Am and Grand Am inspired execution beneath the skin, we want to keep Max Effort's aesthetics simple and true to the Cougar's distinctive body lines. No trucklike or generic-looking flares would do, and we certainly weren't about to simply attempt to porta-power the sheetmetal into submission. To do it right, the plan necessitated a from-scratch approach to create an entirely new wheel arch that exactly mimics the Cougar's flares, just larger.
Max Effort's lead fabricator Ryan Kertz of Kertz Fabrication is no stranger to crafting custom wheel arches and flares. He immediately recognized the challenge at hand; '67-68 Cougars have a very complex double reverse body curve that creates the flare. Reproducing it per factory with correct body lines in a timely manner was going to require specialized tools and lots of experience with compound shaping. Unfortunately, Kertz's schedule was consumed with SCCA racers waiting for his work, but lucky for us he did know just the right old-school metal shaper to call in for assistance: Norm Archer.
Archer has been sculpting sheets of metal into complete panels, and even complete cars, for over 30 years. If you hang around the high-end custom cars at Goodguys shows or the Grand National Roadster Show, or immaculately restored vintage racers at the Monterey Historics, you've likely seen his work. Actually, since he relocated his shop to the peace and quiet of Sonoma County Airport, quite a few vintage and antique planes are now sporting his handiwork, too. Luckily, it just so happens that one of Archer's specialties is creating custom flares. Custom flares can make or break a car, so if you've ever pondered crafting some, pay attention as Archer shows the work involved in making others wish they had your wheelwells.
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Looks cool, right? The problem is fairly obvious, though; ride height is 1-inch further down, and at that point we've got less than zero room for wheel travel even with a flattened wheel lip.The second rule of fl aring: Set your ride height exactly where you want it, and make sure full suspension travel is taken into account. Ryan Kertz and Filip Trojanek of CorteX Racing took measurements and determined our wheel flare needed to be 1-inch wider and moved 1-inch upward on the body.We want Max's flares to look like Mercury intended them, so Norm Archer began by taking an impression of the stock front flare. The arch differs slightly front to rear, and we opted to copy the more graceful front version.To create the skeletal shape of the flare, Archer begins with 1/4-inch hot-rolled round bar, which is easy to hand-form. Note the fuselage shape of the Cougar's body; we want to mimic this in the new flare so that it flows naturally with the body.Archer has an eye for spotting the shape he needs; oddly enough the quarter-panel from the vintage Porsche Speedster sitting next to Max Effort was exactly what he was looking for to create a consistent arc.After measuring the height of the Cougar's large body line and the angle at which it rolls inward, Archer tacked on an appropriately tall piece of round bar and checked its inclination with a level.Using some wood shims to hold the round bar away from the tire to account for clearance, Archer used a large pair of calipers to draw the arc that would be the new location of the beginning of the flare. Note the old flare has been cut away.To fill in the flare, a second arc was bent to form the upper edge of the lip. The outward curve was formed with small bits of welding wire. Note the varying severity of the curve in the wire; that's necessary to create a flare that is larger, but still meets the stock body lines.
To create the template for the flare itself, Archer first stretches masking tape across the framework. By laying the tape diagonally he gets longer, more fluid lines. The upper green tape marks the attachment point of the flare to the body.Once peeled off the body, Archer cuts slits along the flare to release the arch and lay the template fl are on a sheet of steel to cut the basic shape. The cuts tell him where lots of shrinking will be necessary. An awl is taped along the edge of the lip so the shape transfers to the steel.Look closely at the metal and you can see all of the Cougar's body lines flattened out. This is critical for making sure everything lines up proportionally as the flare is shaped.Using a pair of fl at-jawed shaping pliers, Archer begins the bend between the main arch of the fl are and the body line.To begin bringing the arc around, Archer uses the contracting jaws of a metal shrinker along the body line. This effectively shortens this area relative to the opposite side.Though the progression of the flare looks good, this is actually the last stage of it being a single piece. To be able to create the complex flares necessary to mimic stock, the flare will be cut in two just above the bend for the body line.Now the serious shaping work begins; Archer pulls on a set of ear muffs and puts the upper section of the flare through the first of many runs on the power hammer. The relentless pounding against a sharply rounded surface under the flare speeds the shaping and forming process dramatically.Archer also employs the English wheel to add shape, as well as smooth out any dimples created by the hammer or shrinker. Reverse curves are notoriously diffcult, so Archer actually moved back and forth between these machines to coax the steel into shape.
Satisfied with the progress on the upper section of the fl are, Archer began the equally tricky body line section of the flare by bending the edges over on an anvil with a mallet.Were you wondering how he was going to get that concave look? Much of it comes via the English wheels and a moderately aggressive die that will slowly press it in as Archer rolls the steel through.With the majority of the work finished, Archer very lightly tacked the two pieces together and attached them to the quarter- panel as a test so he could stand back and see exactly what areas still needed work.We're about 95 percent there on the shape of the flare, but Archer determined a little more reverse curve was needed on the flare and lip. We're out of space here, but head over to PopularHotRodding.com to see the final flare fully molded into the body lines (as well as larger versions of these photos).


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A lot of people were upset when they found out Snow Leopard was reporting hard drive capacity "correctly" in base 10; if you were one of them, here's how you can fix it.
In a nutshell, the base-2 numbering system—a.k.a. binary numeral system—is how computers actually use space (zeroes and ones). Hard drive manufacturers use base 10 when calculating space because it makes for bigger numbers. Snow Leopard's tweak to calculating hard drive space in base 10 rather than base 2 made hard drives appear more consistent with what users read on the hard drive's box, but it's not how software actually uses space. Rather than dive head first back into this debate (read through the previous post for that), let's just agree that some people like the change, some people hate it, and a lot of people don't really care one way or another.
If you're one of the people who hate it, however, a user on the MacRumors forum offers a solution with a simple executable that changes "the base number [Finder] uses to calculate sizes from 1000 to 1024." After that, Finder, Disk Utility, and a few other default apps should be back to the classic base 2.


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Have an SEO question. I have been checking the progress of my site indexing in Google, for some bizarre reason best known to itself, there is a very random URL indexed against my domain which doesnt exist.
Is there a way I can forward the url and querystring to www.footballadvisor.net as a 301 in my htacess file?
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Saudi Arabian law enforcement authorities yesterday announced that four men have been arrested in connection with last Monday's bombings. The suspects are believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda cell that was responsible the bombings. Saudi authorities believe the individuals in custody
According to Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan: "We are making progress in this investigation. Our country is still reeling from these horrible attacks and our people demand quick action. And, they will get it."
Currently, more than 60 FBI agents are in the Kingdom working with Saudi law enforcement authorities. More are on the way. In addition, a team from U.K.'s Scotland Yard is also in the country. "We welcome the assistance of two of the finest investigation teams in the world," stated Prince Bandar. "There is full and complete cooperation at all levels between Saudi and American investigators."
Saudi Arabia has increased security throughout the country. The terrorist threat level remains high and the country continues to be on a heightened state of alert. Special forces have been deployed and other measures are being taken to protect residents as well as Saudi citizens and residents.
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John Houghton gave me a link to a website which shows how to straighten buildings etc in Ptgui using T1 control points. I've done that with the vertical columns in this attached image but as you can see the roof is not level nor is the foreground.
Is there one way of levelling verticals and one for horizontals.
I'll try to contact John but if anyone see's this and can help I'd appreciate.
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We're doing some testing with openib btl on a system with Solaris. It looks like Solaris can return POLLIN|POLLRDNORM in revents from a poll call. I looked at the manpages for Linux and it reads like Linux could possibly do this too. However the code in btl_openib_async_thread that checks for valid revents is only checking for POLLIN and in the case it gets POLLIN|POLLRDNORM the btl ends up throwing an error. I think erroring out on the POLLIN|POLLRDNORM case is a bug.
Does anyone feel otherwise and can explain to me why we should not consider POLLIN|POLLRDNORM as a valid condition? I have the same question pertaining to POLLRDBAND too but I don't believe we've seen this set.
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What the heck?! boxofrandomness
Please tell me it is not so. Have you seen this site?
Is there a chance you will buy? personally...no way!
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Wonder where they are based? Seems kinda strange.
Whois yields nothing much. Since they make absolutely no claim about the minimum value of what they send you, if you receive a 1" pencil stub you'd still have no grounds for complaint or a dispute with your credit/debit card issuer. Really ripe territory for a simple, easy, potentially lucrative scam.
I pass.
Seems like there would be more chatter out there about what people are receiving. One person did post this on their Facebook page:
our box #1 contained 2 plastic balls (approx 2 in in diameter and spikey) a 1/4 inch plastic top, a 1/3 inch plastic camera, and a fish ring about 1/2 inch wide (also plastic)- while i get that this a random grab-bag kinda thing, i didnt expect to get $2 worth of plastic junk...literally
box #2 - was a bit better...2 blu-ray discs (always sunny in philly -season 5, and my name is earl -season 3). this seems a bit more like what i'd expect for a $15 grab bag.
but box 1 was a horrible disappointment.
won't be ordering again based on box 1"
The whole thing kinda screams scam in my opinion. I looked at the Whois as well and no information there, no solid information on who's receiving what, and I love how they say they are an LLC, but there's really no solid info on their company.
Also, on their twitter they are following 1908 people, while 511 follow them. Looks like they just randomly added, or used a "follow" service, which also makes me question them.
Also, here's an interesting tidbit from their Terms and Conditions
You may contact Box of Randomness LLC by filling out the message box located on our 'Contact Us' page. You acknowledge that the provision of customer support is at Box of Randomness LLC's sole discretion, and that we have no obligation to provide you with customer support of any kind. We may provide you with customer support from time to time, at our sole discretion.
Box of Randomness LLC is the seller for a mystery box known as the Box of Randomness or BOR. All items purchased from the Box of Randomness LLC website are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon delivery to the carrier.
In short, this is the reason that "mystery box" deals are not allowed to be posted. By and large they have been a huge scam, and were causing too many headaches for the Deals staff. Perfect example here. Stay far, far away.
Good God. Every single thing about that site screams run far, far away. I can't believe anyone would ever give them money..
I could draw up a site like that pretty quickly. The only thing I can see as a bonus is that you pay via paypal.
I'd rather dig a hole in my back yard and throw $15 in.
Their business plan is simple. 400 people buy a $10 grab bag ($4,000). I'm ignoring shipping as I assume they priced out shipping and handling to = no more than $5 per box. Spend $400 at a dollar store to fulfill 99% of the boxes. Spend $2000 on a couple good items. Profit $1,600.
Total number of BOR is estimated, as they do not state how many must sell, only that if they do not reach that number, all of the orders for that period will be canceled.
I would suggest that it's our old friend Brandon, but I don't think he's smart enough to hide all of his information this well.
Anybody/site that has this as their sole business model is going to provide most people with cheap junk. The reason Woot's crap is slightly better is because they are using it as a loss leader as a part of their larger business model.
But it's sooooo tempting!!
They're bragging about 2 out of 400 boxes having a 28 dollar mp3 player...
Maybe it's the BKI guy from deals.woot fame.
@bogie21: They actually do say that they are giving away the following:
@ 10 BOR's sold - iPod Shuffles*
@ 20 BOR's sold - iPod Nano*
@ 30 BOR's sold - iPod Touches*
@ 50 BOR's sold - iPad 3G*
I'm not entirely sure if that's what they're giving away total, or those are the items they'll give away if they reach their sales goal. If they can't outline the details up front, then what makes you think they'll be able to outline the results fairly?
Pass. Mystery boxes that guarantee someone will receive a big ticket item also guarantees that everyone else will receive garbage.
The interesting thing is I found this as one of the flashing advertisements while at Deals.woot.
"If you are unhappy with the outcome of the purchase, buy another Box of Randomness for your chance to receive the next featured high valued item(s)." Haha, they're encouraging us to gamble.
@xdavex: His name is Brandon. That's who I was talking about in my comment above.
@thepenrod: I see that now, dunno how I missed it. Sure sounds familiar though doesn't it?
I have also seen this ad on the right side of DW and wondered how it was allowed.....money talks I suppose.
@capguncowboy: They can claim they gave away the Kohinoor Diamond for all I care; since there's absolutely no way to verify such a claim, the words are worthless.
@jsimsace: As I understand it, the side deals are simply space sold, with Woot having no connection or oversight regarding which ads are placed there by the agencies that buy the usage of the space.
But I could be wrong.
An iPad 3 16GB black is like around $450 (give or take a few, if the iPad is even new) and I'm sure the rest of the money is used on wholesale randomness.
Not sure how much one can profit from this though, unless the iPad was like either stolen or dirt cheap newly used.


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6 Things Movie Characters Always Seem to Forget
#3. Failing to Remember That Bulletproof Vests Exist
The victims: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Firefly, Human Target, multiple Lethal Weapon movies
If your job typically puts you in front of waves of rampaging gunfire, one would think you would be keen on wearing some kind of protection between your ZZ Top T-shirt and your chest. And, in fact, during some crucial dramatic scene where you see the hero take a bullet, you'll inevitably find he's pulled a Doc Brown and hidden a vest under his clothes. Only the hero does this, and only on special occasions.
"Remember Akmed: Torso shots only!"
For some reason, the onslaught of nameless goons employed by every evil organization in the history of the world, no matter how well-funded, apparently skipped the "bulletproof vest" section of Kohl's on their way to murder John Rambo.
"Holy shit, what are bullets doing here?"
Usually this only affects the anonymous henchmen, like the ones hunting Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The pair has been described in the movie as the world's top assassins, probably because they're the only ones who remember to wear bulletproof vests.
"Thank God these were the last two Wal-Mart had on sale."
But even the good guys seem to forget from one week to the next. The TV shows Firefly and Human Target both featured bulletproof vests in their pilot episodes, coming to play in critical moments that save two major characters from death. But after those episodes, none of the principal characters ever wear one again, despite plunging headfirst into frantic gunfights two to three times a week.
We loved the show too, but it's pretty clear that none of the writing staff had ever been in the same room as a real gun.
Likewise, Mel Gibson gets saved from a shotgun blast partway through Lethal Weapon by a vest, but is never seen wearing one again. His partner, Murtaugh, nearly dies at the end of the second film from a gunshot because he wasn't wearing one.
Oddly, Rene Russo is saved from ultimate destruction in Lethal Weapon 3 by wearing two bulletproof vests (the plot involved special anti-bullet proof vest bullets), but in virtually every other scene, no one else can think to wear even one. Guys, you live in Lethal Weapon. At some point today you're going to be involved in a car chase that involves machine gun fire. Don't leave the house without that shit.
Taking it to the bathroom might be overkill, though.
#2. The Dust-Gathering Superweapon
The victims: Star Trek TOS, Star Gate SG-1, Dr. Who, any movie or show with time travel
Have you ever spent three hours trying to put up a shelf with a butter knife before remembering you have a Phillips-head screwdriver in a drawer in the kitchen? This is a memory lapse frequently seen on any show or movie that relies on technology. Remember the first time Tony Stark breaks out the Iron Man suit, and he uses a tiny little forearm missile to destroy a massive tank?
That sure would have come in handy in the final battle. Could he only afford one of those rockets?
But nothing compares to Star Trek when it comes to life-saving device amnesia. During its many travels, the Enterprise has encountered and promptly forgotten about a plant that can cure any illness and re-grow lost body parts, a drug that grants psychic powers, and an advanced cloaking device and a Warp 11-speed engine. Fans have suffered through entire story arcs that could have ended by simply utilizing some Deus ex Machina the writers put into the show no more than two weeks prior.
But hey, why waste high technology when a good scowl usually does the trick?
Dr. Who, meanwhile, at one point introduces a colossal laser emerging from underneath London and then never mentions it again. Stargate SG-1 sweeps neat little things like immortality pills under the rug, not to mention the fact that they ignore after just two episodes that the titular Stargate can blow up suns.
And don't even get us started on time travel. From Harry Potter's Time Turner to Superman's ability to rewind the universe, no one ever remembers that every single problem they have could be solved by just jumping back to before it started.
An albatross J.K. Rowling will take to her grave.
#1. Assuming That The Hero's Super Powers Won't Work On You
The victims: Superman, RoboCop movies... basically any superhero film ever made
We've all sat and watched henchmen fire an endless stream of bullets at the likes of clearly bulletproof heroes like Superman and RoboCop and wondered what the hell they were expecting to happen. RoboCop deals with this problem in virtually every action sequence in the original film, even after the bad guys learn who he is and what his capabilities are. It's like the thugs all have the Memento disease and can't remember the last 800 bullets they shot into RoboCop's armored chest had no effect. Or maybe they just figure his armor is designed to fail on the 801st, and it's just a matter of being persistent.
"...maybe one of us should aim for the face?"
In Superman Returns, when the Man of Steel flies back to Metropolis after a several year absence, he is almost immediately greeted by gunfire. Regardless of how much time had gone by, a bulletproof alien zipping through the air in bright blue tights is something we imagine would stick out in the minds of Metropolis's criminal underworld.
"...maybe he's a copycat superhero!"
Yet we watch as some guy empties a machine gun into Superman's chest, and after that doesn't work he pulls a pistol out and shoots him in the face only to have the bullet flatten out against his eye. You would remember that for the rest of your life.
"Goddamned hard contacts!"
Not that the villains of Gotham learn any faster. They'll keep charging at Batman one at a time, even with 13 of their cohorts lying on the ground with broken collar bones. We're not suggesting they just walk away and give up their life of crime--we understand that anybody who's signed up to be a henchman for The Joker probably isn't qualified to do anything else. But maybe you should fall back and try a new strategy. You're not going to be the first guy in history to punch Batman into submission. Leave until you can come back with some dogs.
Attention Henchmen: Mace in the mouth really hurts.
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Arrested: Robert Smith, 37, 1516 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, driving while suspended and failure to appear, Tuesday.
Arrested: Shawn Thomas, 29, 2508 Crabbe Blvd., Steubenville, contempt, Tuesday.
Arrested: Chad J. McKeever, 32, 46395 Old Hopedale Road, Cadiz, possession of drug paraphernalia and contempt, Tuesday. McKeever also was cited for driving while suspended.
Cited: Kenneth W. Baker, 27, 349 Reserve Ave., Steubenville, following too closely; Stephen M. Breen, 56, 2402 county Road 56, Toronto, red light violation; Holly Hughes, 40, 935 county Road 56, Toronto, speeding; Gregory J. Stephens II, 31, Apartment 4, 1527 Plum St., Steubenville, driving while suspended and loud exhaust; Tylee C. Ferrell, 23, 631 Allegheny St., Follansbee, failure to signal; Joshua A. Doty, 26, 4070 Stratford Blvd., Steubenville, no seat belt; Louis E. Mowder, 26, 385 Terrace Ave., Steubenville, driving while suspended and no seat belt; and Dallas Kennedy, 21, 642 Grandview Ave., Steubenville, stop sign violation.
Shots fired: Police received a report of juveniles firing at other juveniles with BB guns in the 300 block of Summit Avenue about 4:44 p.m. Tuesday. The area was checked and no one found.
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Cited: Brittany N. Henderson, 20, Wheeling, failure to control; and Roger Jones, 54, Cadiz, speeding.
Theft: Two vehicles at a residence on Malone Drive in Wintersville were entered and ransacked Monday night and a newspaper rack and change were taken.
Theft: A vehicle on Union Street was entered and a wedding ring and engagement ring were taken late Tuesday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol
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Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Myrna Georgetti, 34, 252 B McAdoo Ridge, Wellsburg, domestic battery, Monday.
Theft: A tile wet saw was taken from outside a home on Lee Road on Hooverson Heights, Monday.


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Is it possible to do FEM using hexahedral elements in Mathematica? If it possible, is there any help to do that?
The free Imtek Mathematica Supplement IMS ( https://simulation.uni-freiburg.de/downloads/ims ) does include hexaedron elements for FEM. As far as I know it has Not been updated in several years, therefore I do not expect all of it to work in Mathematica version 8 or 9. Here is an example of a calculation with tetrahedral elements ( http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/jose.luis.gomez/research/fem2/index.html ). As you can see in that example, IMS does not use Mathematica for meshing, but other external meshing programs. Therefore, eventhough the hexaedron element does exist in IMS, you further need to create the mesh either with another program or to implement that yourself in Mathematica. If you install IMS in your computer, you will find the IMS documentation in the "Installed add-ons" section of Mathematica's documentation center. Then, the documentation about the hexaedral element can be found in ComputationalGeometry->Graphs->MeshElementLibrary, at the bottom of the page. If you decided to use IMS, I suggest you review carefully the application examples of FEM named "Quick Example(Mixed Elements 2D)" and "Quick Example(Periodic Boundaries 2D)", also in IMS documentation


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Home Care and Night Care Services
Supporting you to be as independent as possible at home
The Home Care and Night Care Services offer a range of personal care and practical support to help you live as independently as possible in your home.
The home care and night care staff work together with other professionals who may also be involved in caring for you (such as social workers, district nurses and occupational therapists).
The Home Care Service
This service is available between 7am and 10pm, seven days a week. It specialises in short term support, to help you regain independent living skills you may have lost through ill health or a stay in hospital, or to learn new skills. We will always try to help you to do things for yourself, rather than do them for you, unless this is not possible. This service usually lasts for a maximum of six weeks. We also provide some longer-term care in certain circumstances.
The Night Care Service
This service provides three different night time services between 10pm and 7am:
- a carer to stay through the night. This service is available for a maximum of two nights a week, Mondays to Fridays only, to provide a break for the person who usually stays with you
- night carers who visit your home up to three times a night to provide vital personal care that cannot be provided in any other way
- carers at night to support you if you live in an Extra Care Sheltered Housing scheme.
How do I arrange a home care or night care service?
Please contact us to find out if you are eligible to receive support from our home care or night care services. Our contact details are below.
A social worker will visit to help you complete a full assessment of any support you need. If you meet our criteria for a service from home care or night care, the social worker, and sometimes an occupational therapist, will agree with you the support you need. This is called your support plan. This will say what days and at what times our home care assistants will visit, and what they will do to support you.
A home care organiser will then visit you to arrange the best way to give you the support that has been agreed. Home care assistants will then start visiting you to give you that support.
What happens after six weeks of home care service?
Your social worker and home care organiser will keep in touch with you and your home care assistants, throughout the six weeks that you receive home care, to see how you are getting on.
By the end of the six weeks, your social worker will talk with you about the choices that are available to you, if you still need support. If you do still need support, your social worker can help you to arrange this.
What kinds of support can the Home Care and Night Care Services give?
We can give support with things like:
- help to get in or out of bed
- personal care, which means things like help to wash, shower, bathe, dress, use the toilet, or eat meals and
- practical support to make simple meals and drinks.
Our staff are not allowed to:
- do anything for you that is different from what was agreed in your support plan
- keep or use your bank Personal Identification Number (PIN) or use your bank card to take money out for you
- collect your pension or benefits using your card
- keep the keys to your house or
- accept gifts or money.
For more information about our standards for home care and night care services, and what to do if your home carer does not arrive or you need to cancel the visit, please see the Important information about Home Care and Night Care Services page.
Do I have to pay if I use the Home Care or Night Care Services?
There is a charge for having support from the Home Care and Night Care services. The amount you will have to you pay depends on how much care you receive and your level of income and savings.
When your service has started, a member of staff from our Fairer Charging Team will visit you to work out how much you need to pay. They will also check what state benefits you may be entitled to and support you to apply for any that you are not getting.
You will not be asked to pay for any home care or night care service you receive before you have been told how much the charge is.
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Dark matter doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation, but it, at least, participates in gravitational interactions as known from the discovery of dark matter. But does dark matter exist in a spiral shape around our galaxy?
In current cosmological models, the Milky Way resides in a 'halo' of dark matter. Halo is a technical term - in this case, it means a spherically symmetric collection of dark matter. Since dark matter is not self-interacting and does not interact with other matter, it doesn't experience any sort of collisions or friction, and therefore never flattens out into a disk the way normal (baryonic) matter does. So, dark matter does not trace out a disk and does not follow spiral arms.
The 'spiral arms' do not contain a lot more matter than the 'not spiral arms'. Rather we pick these out as they glow bright with new star formation. The density distribution is fairly constant throughtout the disc.
According to the latest modelling the dark matter component is a spherical shape on small scales but forms threads between conglomerations centered on galaxy clusters. Given dark matter forms 5x the mass of light matter it makes sense to reverse this and say light matter congregates within dark matter structures.
Disclaimer: I don't do dark matter, I don't work with anyone whose does and I haven't read enough papers to make an difference. I have seen a colloquium and a couple of seminars by people who do do dark matter.
Take what follows with that in mind.
Dark matter either not having been observed or having served up exactly one unconfirmed observation there is no widely agreed theory of its behavior yet.
There are models of cosmological evolution that posit certain traits for the dark matter and when run forward from the presumed conditions of the early universe give something that resembles the universe we see today.
In those models, the dark matter distribution is roughly spherical and rather larger than the luminous portions of the galaxy.
The main way I know of for studying dark matter distribution (I actually just wrote a grant application for research relating to it! :P) is gravitational lensing. Depending on the geometries involved, one can fairly precisely model dark matter distributions by looking at distortion of "nearby" (as far as arc-seconds on the sky, not actual physical distance in space) galaxies by weak gravitation lensing. A nice example (with a pretty picture) is available here.
Since dark matter is 96% of the matter in the universe, the question is complicated. In fact we're distributed around dark matter, if anything. That's a bit in general, and is covered a bit in analysis of Millennium I and II (which are incredible search for Cosmography of the Universe and stick with the twenty minutes video). Schneider More appropriately there has bee work to constrain the model of the exact subject of your question [Vera-Ciro][2].
The shortest version is no, the shape of dark matter halos is for the most part elliptical, with the eventual relaxation into a spherical halo as time runs.
Disclaimer: this is not my particular field, but I've been reading recent papers on it because it provides quantitative data for something I'm thinking about.


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What it does:Allows you to plan future critters without looking up 1 app at a time on the Wiki. Also allows players to compare their actual skills to the expected ones and improve the Wiki
How to use it:To use the calculator, just put a 1 in the blanks next to the critter or desired apps, on the Input page.(You need to remove the 1s already in place on apps or critters you don't want.) After your critter is all setup, you click the results page to see the information.(the other locked pages are just there for macros and debugging)
How to improve the calculator:The information on the wiki(and the calculator) isn't complete or fully accurate. If you notice a difference between your critter and the result you can post a screenshot displaying the critter, it's skills, and it's traits. Anyone wanting to do actual work on the spreadsheet can just message me and we can talk about getting you moderation permissions.
The current link:http://tinyurl.com/26y8ayv (The spread sheet changes in real time, so multiple users inputting critters at the same time will conflict. I will create more copies and links if needed. You can always download it for your own private version if needed)
Vandalism: The calculator will probably be vandalized often like the real wiki. In reality fixing this is much faster than it takes the vandals to break it. So to the first vandal who just wasted 5 mins of his life :P
(Thanks to Birdspirit,Hilotaka,Jeremy,Jon, and Rabisu for all the feedback and help)


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Troy agreed to continue and had to undergo more procedures. That's when he found out.
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I drove home and packed up my favorite fishing gear then headed back to the dam. In the short time I was gone, a few more fishermen had taken up position around the fish ladder. I made my way toward the river on the west end of the dam and approximately halfway down the steep slope, I stepped onto a very loose rock. The rock turned and I took a ride down the slope on my back and through some very heavy weeds.
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I currently have a HDMI cable hookup on my computer, I was wondering if I could play my Xbox on my computer via HDMI cable?
Is this just a terrible idea? Any help will be appreciated.
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No, you cannot, unless your computer has a video input, which most do not. If your monitor is separate from the computer you can plug your Xbox into it instead. There are internal and external capture cards available that could allow you to input the video and audio your Xbox produces.
Here's a video tutorial that explains how to use an external capture card.
I use my laptop as a TV all the time, well at work. I pack my laptop and xbox, and play at work. It is possible, it's a portable TV for me. I just plug in the HDMI from the xbox to my laptop.
The HDMI port on the laptop is only a output port for plugging in a external screen. If you want to use the laptop as the screen and play the xbox on the laptop you need a capture card.
One of my favorit youtubers posted a video with a promotion for some sort of discount on a capture card in collaboration with Machinima.
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Also it is clearly a payed advertisement from ZackScott if it changes anything.
You need a HDMI input to do so. It's the only way i know. Or you can spend a couple hundred bucks on an HD PVR.
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Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name "Fronckensteen" and denies interest in replicating his grandfather's experiments. But when he is lured by Frau Blucher (Cloris Leachman) to discover the tantalizingly titled journal "How I Did It" in his grandfather's castle, he cannot resist. With the help of voluptuous Inga (Teri Garr), wall-eyed assistant Igor (Marty Feldman), and a purloined brain, Frankenstein creates his monster (Peter Boyle). Igor, however, stole the wrong brain, and the monster tears off into the countryside, encountering a little girl and a blind hermit (Gene Hackman).
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im using a R10 for my 5DII with EF 8-15, 7,5° tilted up. In this NN-document (http://www.nodalninja.com/Manuals/QR...non-8-15mm.pdf) there is referenced a rail-stop-plate marked with "103" on it suitable for R10 7.5° with EF 8-15.
So i ordered this but what i received instead is what i attached below. A Plate without any markings but with some tiny bricks, marked by their widths. No manual included :-(
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I am rather useless at writing formal English and sometimes find that I can come across informal with my choice of words. So I wondered what common words and phrases should be avoided when writing an essay.
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I'm not sure if there's a good, quick fix for this. I learned how to write English in an intelligent, formal manner from learning German, and reading lots, and lots, of English.
Anyhow, avoid "kind of" and "sort of." That used to drive my English teachers crazy.
Also avoid the verb "to be" when possible. Sometimes "to be" is the best option, but not as often as many people use it. If you can restate some "is adjective" as a verb, do it and see if it works. If it does, keep it. If it's too painful...still try to think "it hurts" before you give up. ;) The same can be said of "is verbing." Sometimes that's the best construction to use, and if you think it is, don't hesitate, but if you think using just a single verb works just as well, do that. If nothing else it will give your sentences a little more variety.
Furthermore: Not having lots of unnecessary "to be"s scattered around your paper will make it cleaner, and by extension, more "formal." As can be seen in the comments, there are a number of people who don't agree with me on this, or the converse that having too many "to be"s can make your writing seem immature. So, Note: I'm not saying "to be" is some hideous disease that needs to be rooted out of all writing. It's a good verb. I'm rather fond of it myself. I'll give you an example of what seems to me an unnecessary "to be":
"Bob is always careful when driving his kids to school." I think this would be better rewritten without the is: "Bob always takes care when driving his kids to school." or "Bob always drives carefully when taking his kids to school." It's a small thing, and the effect is negligible in one sentence, but imagine reading how Bob "is" 50 different adjectives. I, personally, would grow to dislike Bob rather quickly. Reading that Bob does 50 different things is not the same thing at all, in my opinion. I hope I've made myself clearer on that. :)
Avoid the first and second person like the plague... I would honestly advise against bringing the anonymous "one" and that poor, exhausted "reader" into it as well. Find some way to rephrase the sentence. There seems to be some odd stigma against passive voice, but I, personally, prefer it to using "one." IMHO, "it might be thought that..." sounds better than "one might think that..." but "it might seem that..." is even better. (Another case where replacing "to be..." with another verb is an improvement, both because it gets rid of the passive voice, which will make some people happy, and because it's just that slightest bit easier to read.) Better yet would be to leave all "might"s out of it. Imply every action you can to the author/whatever and be definite about it. "It seems (based on blah) that..." is better than "it might seem that..."...Being specific gets rid of a lot of ambiguity wherein lies much informality. (...Or should I have said "specificity?" Which one sounds more "formal?" ^.^)
Finally, as I noted in a comment, use the word that works best, regardless of origin, apparent intelligence, etc..
To get a better handle on what word works best, I suggest reading some classics. The best way, IMHO, to learn "classy" vocabulary, is to read classy, English fiction....Anything (and everything) will help, but it's pretty safe to consider Dickens and his ilk to be a crash-course in good "formal" writing.
Good luck!
Here are some guidelines that might help:
Avoid clichés. Use the right word, and make sure each word is doing work. Keeping your prose clean is one of the best ways to achieve a formal style.
And focus on your audience: formal to an editor may not be formal to a committee or an employer, etc. If you're writing for a class or for work, see if there is a style guide or manual that you use.
When there's a choice of particular word, favor the Latinate one.