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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the updated measures specifications for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for the 2013 reporting year, which include changes to 3 measures of importance to physical therapists—Body Mass Index Screening (#128), Pain Assessment (#131), and Functional Outcome Assessment (#182). The measure specifications provide program participants with important information such as the measure definition, reporting instructions, and the qualifying case information (numerator and denomination definitions), which include the relevant quality data codes for reporting.
Practitioners also should note that additional quality data codes have been added to measures #128 and #131. CMS has made changes to the definition of an existing quality data code for measure #182.
Physical therapists who currently are participating or plan to participate in the Calendar Year 2013 PQRS program are strongly encouraged to review the 2013 measures specifications for those measures that they are planning to report in 2013. APTA will revise all podcasts for those measures with changes in 2013.
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Save The Islamic Academy of Manchester
Help Save the House of God (The Islamic Academy of Manchester). It is to be taken away from a religious organisation and given to a commercial property developer.
We strongly oppose the planning application (02531/FO/2013/N2 and 102532/LO/2013/N2 |) which has been submitted by Church Converts to MCC to redevelop the Islamic Academy into flats. We wish for this historical building (The Islamic Academy of Manchester) to remain as a place of worship, educational and community centre. We strongly oppose the plans to convert the place of worship into apartments. We wish for this building to remain as a place of worship and a community centre for future generations.
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As a visitor to manchester from preston, lancs, for its food and shopping i regularly use this islamic centre for prayers whilst travelling due to its convenient location and close proximity to city. It would be a real shame for locals and visitors alike to loose this great facility for more apartments which are found in abudnance nearby, whilst not having anything of the current facility in close proximity.
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I am a visiting student and its important for me and surely for many more like me to have a mosque near the university.
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The Darien Police Department is accepting rolling applications for full time certified police officers. Candidates must have maintained their certification for a minimum of two consecutive years and must have earned a minimum of 30 credits from an accredited college or university. No visible tattoos while in uniform.
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Armed Robbery Of Chase Bank
The Darien Police Department is currently investigating a robbery of the Chase Bank located at 165 Noroton Ave. Shortly after 4:00pm on 2/24/2015, a white female entered the establishment and approached a bank employee. The suspect then displayed a firearm and demanded cash.
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Darien Police D.W.I. Checkpoint
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Darien Police Arrest Two For Burglary:
Darien, CT- On 01/22/2015 this agency responded to a burglary of a Waldon Rd. residence that was under construction. Initial investigation revealed that the residence was forcibly entered and over $8,000.00 in contractors tools and compressors had been stolen. On 2/4/2015 Darien Police Detectives learned the whereabouts of the stolen tools and were subsequently able to recover them.
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Darien Police Department Seeks Re-accreditation:
A team of assessors from the Police Officers Standards and Training Council will arrive on February 27, 2015 to examine the Darien Police Department policy and procedures as they relate to Tier II, I Liability, II Professional, III General Management of the state accreditation standards. Verification by the team that the Darien Police Department meets the POST Councils state of the art accreditation standards is part of a voluntary process to gain accreditation, a highly prized recognition of law enforcement professional excellence.
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Is Heroin In Darien?
Definitely, according to Sergeant Jeremiah Marron of the Darien Police Department Selective Enforcement Unit, Not only is Heroin sold and used in Darien, but its severely addictive properties are motivating crimes such as burglary, larceny, theft from vehicles, and recently even Home Invasion. "Heroin is pummeling the Northeast, leaving addiction, overdoses and fear in its wake," said James Hunt of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Office.
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Darien Police received grant funding for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) enforcement
For the 6th year in a row, The Darien Police have applied for and received grant funding for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) enforcement.
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Overnight Parking Restrictions
Overnight parking restrictions are set to begin on 11/15/2014.
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Darien Police Partners With Local Organizations To Launches "Project Lifesaver"
The Darien Police Department has recently launched Project Lifesaver. This nationwide program is designed to bring people who are at risk of wandering, particularly the elderly, including those with Alzheimers, Autism, Down Syndrome and Dementia home safely.
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U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), is committed to protecting the public and ensuring that the rights of victims are observed.
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The Darien Police Detective Division is seeking assistance in a bank robbery investigation. On Wednesday April 30, 2014 at approximately 2:00pm, the Peoples United Bank located at 25 Old Kings Hwy North, was robbed. The suspect entered the bank using an open umbrella to shield himself from vestibule and ATM cameras.
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Phoronix: 5 Months And Still No UT3 For Linux
Five months ago from today, Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC was released in North America. Linux gamers around the world, however, were let down with the lack of an available Linux client and all UT3 gamers were impacted by the lack of any Linux server for this game...
It seems like Epic is looking for programs with OpenGL knowledge for future games... I can only hope it means Epic will have Linux ports for more games.
(Digg article: http://digg.com/pc_games/Epic_Games_...Games_to_Linux)
OpenGL is used in PlayStation3 console, it does not mean Linux games.
It means an easier path for someone to make one. While one doesn't mean the other, it doesn't always preclude the other. In the case of UT3, there's no good reason, apparently, other than their legal department not signing off on something- if it's a license, I might forgive them.
The hangup isn't an abstraction layer or portability of the game.....Its almost never those two things because those problems can be worked out(and we would likely be getting a steady stream of progress reports on top of it). Its a-holes and their copyrights or patents. Its the usual suspects using their government granted privileges to jerk us Linux users around and ensuring they don't actually have to compete in a true free market place.
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I know this happens, and moonlitfire actually gave a valid reason that could be used... I think it's legal department of Epic trying to get the legal department of the other company to let the game be released... just look at some of the integrated solutions that they have, i notice right away that at least 4 of em don't list linux anywhere on their site... anyways is Unreal tournament 3 actually playable with ease on linux using wine?
I think it is about time to start demanding your money back if you purchased this game with the promise that there would be a Linux port.


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Johnson, Blue Jays hope to take series from Astros
Toronto has beaten Houston twice after seven-game losing streak
For the first time in more than a month, the Blue Jays have two straight wins.
After losing six in a row, they've set themselves up to take the series against the Astros if they can win one of the next two games.
Josh Johnson will take the mound for Toronto on Saturday and be opposed by lefty Dallas Keuchel of the Astros.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons says the next step for his team is consistency.
"We haven't played good enough in all areas of the game on a consistent day-in-day-out basis," he said. "We've had our stretches, but we really haven't strung anything together for any length of time. I mean, we had that [11-game winning] streak, but everybody has those. Bad teams have streaks. Maybe not 11 games, but everybody has streaks. But we really haven't gone on that roll, that consistent roll. You reel off a number of games, maybe lose a couple, but then you still play steady ball. Ours have kind of been the extreme."
The Blue Jays are 2-6 on their current homestand, but have only won three of their last 12 games.
"We just haven't played good enough," Gibbons said. "We haven't pitched well enough, our defense at times has been a factor, offensively we've been streaky."
Johnson (1-6, 5.66 ERA) has fallen victim to their streakiness, taking four straight losses with just 2.75 runs in support of him.
The Astros may not be winning many games lately, but three of their last five games have been decided by one run, so they're close.
"It speaks to the resilience of that group in there," Astros manager Bo Porter said of the tight games. "These guys, they're made right. They fight to the end. When you come to the park each and every day and that's your mindset, every once in a while good things happen, because you put yourself in position and keep fighting."
Keuchel should help keep this one close, as he's coming off his seventh quality start, Monday against Oakland. He is 4-5 in 20 appearances (13 starts) with a 4.42 ERA, but he has a 3.44 ERA in nine starts since May 31, with 31 strikeouts in his last 29 2/3 innings.
Blue Jays: Trouble at home
Despite winning their last two games, the Blue Jays have lost 10 of their last 14 at Rogers Centre, including six of eight in their current homestand.
After going 5-0-2 in seven series from May 14-June 23 (15-5), the Blue Jays have lost three of their last four series, going 2-10 in that span. It was the first time they'd been swept in back-to-back series at home since April 5-18, 2004.
Astros: Krauss adjusting to bench role
Outfielder Marc Krauss made his 11st start of the season on Friday and hit his second home run, a two-run shot off Toronto starter R.A. Dickey in the second inning, and added a two-run double.
After playing every day with Triple-A Oklahoma City, he's gotten sporadic starts since being called up on June 21.
"It's an adjustment, definitely," Krauss said. "It's the first time I've ever been a bench-type guy. It's a different preparation. Every day you've got to prepare like you're in there, even if you're not. I just always do my early work and make sure my swing feels good, because at a moment's notice you could be put in there, and every few days get to start and you have to take advantage of those days."
Worth noting
• Houston's Chris Carter has 17 walks in his last 22 games and has reached base safely in 27 of his last 30 games.
• Jose Reyes has seven multi-hit games in his last 11 contests.
Kathleen Gier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2014-03710 RIN CMS-3178-N DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Proposed rule; extension of the comment period. The comment period for the proposed rule published in the December 27, 2013 Federal Register (78 FR 79082 through 79200) is extended to March 31, 2014. 42 CFR Parts 403, 416, 418, 441, 460, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 491, and 494 This document extends the comment period for the Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers proposed rule, which was published in the December 27, 2013 Federal Register (78 FR 79082 through 79200). The comment period for the proposed rule, which would have ended on February 25, 2014, is extended to March 31, 2014.
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Suave yet troubled secret agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) returns for another action-packed outing. After a botched mission, he goes off radar and his no-nonsense boss M (Judy Dench) has her leadership skills called into question when compromising operational details are leaked onto the internet. Heading the investigation is bigger boss Mallory (Ralph Fiennes). While M feels the heat, Bond reappears to help dig MI6 out of the mud. Soon he is dispatched to find Raul Silva (Javier Bardem) a villain with very bad hair. How do we know he's evil? If No Country For Old Men taught us anything, it's that Javier Bardem + bad hair = terrifying. Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe add glamour while Ben Whishaw nerds up the screen as gadgetmaster Q.
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Evelyn takes care of five children at home. She joined One Acre Fund in order to access fertilizer and hybrid seeds and ensure food security for her family. In the recent 2011 season, Evelyn had a good maize yield harvesting 20 bags on one acre of land. Before joining One Acre Fund, Evelyn was only able to harvest 7 1/2 bags of maize on one acre of land.
With this loan, One Acre Fund will purchase fertilizer, seeds, and other important inputs to distribute to Evelyn and her group during Kenya's next planting season in February 2012. The distribution of farming inputs is part of One Acre Fund's integrated agriculture package, which includes training, reliable input supply (such as fertilizer and seeds), credit and insurance.
With income from her maize sales, Evelyn will educate her children, ensure food security and invest in livestock rearing.
In 2012, the members of Tumaini SHG group will each plant between ½ and 1 acre of maize.
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With this loan, One Acre Fund will purchase fertilizer, seeds, and other important farming inputs to distribute to this farmer group during Kenya's next planting season in February. This distribution of farming inputs is part of One Acre Fund's integrated agriculture package, which includes training, reliable input supply (such as fertilizer and seeds), credit and insurance. Clients enroll between July and October for the following planting season, which begins in February. By purchasing inputs during these months, One Acre Fund is able to take advantage of the historically low farm input prices during this time of year in Kenya.Members of One Acre Fund form groups in which each borrower guarantees the loans of all other borrowers in the group. One Acre Fund differs from a traditional microfinance institution, however, by allowing groups to split before the delivery of inputs at planting time. If a group were to split, each of the two new groups would have fewer members that could support a delinquency or default from a member. This may represent a different risk than that for a traditional MFI's group loan.
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One Acre Fund is not assigned a risk rating on Kiva. This is due to the fact that One Acre Fund's business model differs enough from traditional microfinance models that Kiva's current risk rating system is not applicable in accurately reflecting the risk assessment. Key risks and further information in making loans to One Acre Fund borrowers can be found on the organization's partner page.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Helen Hunt directs herself in this story of a brittle New York book editor who begins healing old wounds by learning how to surf.
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An essay on John Glen's 1985 Bond film, "A View to a Kill," in honor of its thirtieth anniversary.
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"Celeste and Jesse Forever" is a good-hearted romantic comedy about a likable couple — so likable, indeed, that it swims upstream against the current of our desires. The two have been happily married for years, long enough so their friends think of them as a unit, and now they've decided she'll stay in the house and he'll move into his studio in the backyard. "But we're still best friends," they explain to everyone. To me those are five of the saddest words in romance.
This decision upsets and even offends their friends, because after certain people become fixed stars in their firmament, they feel threatened if things change. If the marriage between Celeste and Jesse isn't working out, what can they expect to happen in their own lives? In a sense they have the duty to stay together just to set a good example.
Celeste and Jesse are played by Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg, who make an appealing couple. That doesn't come as a surprise about Jones, but Samberg shows a dimension here that would have been difficult to guess from "Saturday Night Live." The movie benefits from a sound screenplay by Jones and Will McCormack, who write dialogue and create supporting characters who don't seem like air-headed plot puppets, the way so many rom-com characters do. There's a certain respect for their feelings.
Of course they play opposites, but opposites attract. She's Type A, he's Type Zzzzzz. They comfortably occupy what seems to be the same double act, in which they can spin off in-jokes of indefinite length for their own amusement. Given their personality types, of course it's Celeste who asks for the divorce. Jesse would never arouse himself to such a pitch. She is ambitious for herself, ambitious for him, ambitious for their marriage, and incapable of staying in a marriage that has no particular problems except that she can imagine a better one. They've been married for six years, and she's closing in on the seven-year itch.
It appears they can coast along forever as best friends, especially if it were up to Jesse to initiate change. Their status quo is jolted, however, when Jesse receives a completely unexpected piece of news. No, it's not something like being told he has only weeks to live. That would place the story on a fixed trajectory. His new information, which I won't reveal, brings a sudden infusion of reality into their lives — especially into Celeste's, because it's the kind of one-upmanship she's temperamentally incapable of dealing with. Jesse, who is so conveniently passive, suddenly finds himself holding the winning card in their game of emotions.
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I'm not surprised that Rashida Jones took the lead in writing this screenplay; the way things are going now, if an actress doesn't write a good role for herself, no one else is going to write one.
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Quentin Hardy has a good story in The New York Times about how Google Maps' new fees for heavy users (previously covered here) are pushing some sites toward other, often open-source solutions.
The story doesn't get into the news organization angle (news orgs love maps), but ProPublica released SimpleTiles, its mapping library, last month. And Andy Hull at the New America Foundation detailed the stack of technologies they use to build maps for Slate.
BuzzFeed wants to find a better way to weigh its viral success, and it wants to convert clicks to Pounds.
At the NewFronts presentations in New York today the company unveiled its new proprietary system for analyzing how content races across the the web — and sharing that information with its advertisers. Specifically, the "Process for Optimizing and Understanding Network Diffusion" is meant to shed a little light into the hidden corners of the social web. BuzzFeed has said that 75 percent of its 200 million monthly users are visiting the site through social media, so it would only make sense the company would want to better understand the patterns and habits of social sharing.
What exactly does Pound do? BuzzFeed publisher Dao Nguyen:
It follows propagations from one sharer to another, through all the downstream visits, even across social networks and one-to-one sharing platforms like Gchat and email.
Pound is the Process for Optimizing and Understanding Network Diffusion.
Pound does not store usernames or any personally identifiable information (PII) with the share events. Each node in the sharing graph is anonymous. We are not able to figure out who a user is by looking at the graph data. Pound data is collected based on an oscillating, anonymous hash in a sharer's URL as a UTM code.
Instead of roping off social sharing into platform-based categories (how many came from Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Pinterest), Pound is designed to trace the way stories or videos are shared. It builds a pathway that shows all the routes a piece of content can take from being shared by one person over chat to exploding on Twitter.
What does it look like in action? BuzzFeed decided to examine the case of the infamous blue/black/white/gold dress that brought the Internet to a standstill in February. The initial post from BuzzFeed has been viewed more than 38 million times. Using Pound, they broke that down:
Nguyen said they plan to use Pound to gather more granular insights on the type of content that resonates with people and to optimize their sharing strategies. And since Pound made its debut at the marketer-friendly NewFronts, the company will use the tool to give advertisers a better picture of their audience. They've already used it to evaluate the effectiveness of sponsored content:
Pound data proves that sponsored content is shared just like editorial content. @Target's fanny basket content is great example. #NewFronts
— BuzzFeed Partner (@buzzfeedpartner) April 27, 2015
It should not be a surprise BuzzFeed wants to build a better machine for understanding how content performs in the wider world outside its own website, as the company has been laying out its vision for distributed content over the last several months.
In March, it was reported that the company, along with The New York Times and National Geographic, was considering hosting content on Facebook. At SXSW, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti offered a glimpse of the "cascade" of data that Pound provides. (Indeed, compare Pound to The New York Times' similar-in-spirit Cascade project.)
Peretti told the audience then: "For us, it increasingly doesn't matter where our content lives," he said. "That can actually be a huge advantage."
One measure of that success has been BuzzFeed's success with video, reaching 1 billion monthly video views, with only 5 percent of that coming from BuzzFeed.com.
The Guardian's Wolfgang Blau has an interesting piece up at the European Journalism Observatory asking a question about the new Politico Europe, the D.C.-based site's expansion into Brussels and the broader continent:
Politico Europe — the new Brussels-based site covering European politics — is doing important pioneer work in establishing the notion of there even being such a thing as a 'European public sphere'.
For European publishers, this is not necessarily a space where you have to or want to be the first mover. It seems advantageous to first let Politico — backed by the politically very conservative, but entrepreneurially very aggressive German publishing giant Axel Springer — do some of the hard work of not only having to introduce its own brand, but with it — and more importantly — to establish the very idea of there being a European mid-layer between domestic and international journalism.
In the old world, you mostly had the choice between regional and nationwide publishers addressing domestic audiences and the few globalists who 'cover the world for those who run it', as my friend Dan Gillmor once put it, describing The Economist, the Financial Times or The Wall Street Journal.
It is quite likely that domestic newspapers, especially the 'papers of record', are culturally over-invested into the idea of the nation state as it only underlines their own importance and the value of the political access they enjoy in their respective capitals.
The usual — and very plausible — argument against launching pan-European publications thus far has been that there is no pan-European ad market yet and that paywalls are a terrible model to build an audience from scratch, especially outside of your domestic markets.
Politico, with its mix of ad revenue, paid industry newsletters, print ads and paid events might help break the old chicken-or-egg dilemma which has held back domestic publishers from venturing into this promising space for many years.
Blau is both well positioned to comment on this (as a German journalist helping run one of the U.K.'s top news brands) and a walking conflict of interest (since Politico Europe will be a competitor for The Guardian). And he's right that political conglomerations line up with audience interests in inconsistent ways. (While the EU and NAFTA hardly make for a fair comparison — nowhere near same level of economic or political integration — one imagines a "North American" media outlet dedicated to covering the U.S., Canada, and Mexico probably wouldn't go very far.)
There's a long line of academic interest in the core of what Blau is talking about — to what degree do news outlets arise to cover communities of interest, and to what degree do news outlets create communities of interest? I'm reminded of a 2011 study by Krissy Clark and Geoff McGhee that asked a similar question: "Did the West Make Newspapers, or Did Newspapers Make the West?"
Finally — and because we haven't hit our 2015 quota of Jürgen Habermas mentions on Nieman Lab yet — his thinking about the public sphere is an obvious point of reference:
@wblau Habermas, founder of public sphere theory, spoke of it first having a "carrier class." Maybe Politico only has to succeed with them.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 21, 2015
@jayrosen_nyu yes, and concept of 'european' or 'pan-european' sphere probably too vested in industrial age mass media thinking. Am…
— Wolfgang Blau (@wblau) April 21, 2015
@jayrosen_nyu 2/2 ..am hoping instead for emergence of many more transnational spheres / networks in Europe to 'de-silo' the debate about EU
— Wolfgang Blau (@wblau) April 21, 2015
@wblau Yep. Habermas's view was that public sphere starts with a "carrier class" behaving like a public-in-miniature. Then it breaks out…
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 21, 2015
More on the Habermasian carrier class here.
Our old friend (and former Nieman Fellow) David Skok got a nice promotion at The Boston Globe yesterday, being bumped up from digital advisor to the editor to both managing editor for digital and general manager of BostonGlobe.com. He also spent part of the day here on campus, giving a talk at the Shorenstein Center on his work there.
A few highlights:
The challenge is, on the Internet, I can write the best lede or nutgraf for a story in the world, but if you can't read it on your phone within 0.1 seconds, it's irrelevant, it's invisible, and it doesn't exist. If you're going to be a digital product-driven organization, the user experience has to be the first and foremost [priority].
As newspapers were disrupted by Craigslist and other things, yes, there were technological reasons for why this happened. But it would be incredibly naive and arrogant of us as legacy publishers to suggest that we weren't also responsible for our own demise, in our structures, in our cultures, in our processes that we have in our newsrooms.
There's a great need to have a content management system that allows for the flexibility that reporters need and want to do their jobs. Whether it's improving the content management system, getting better analytics…improving the resources that we give our people ultimately will help us as well.
Where does the culture of the Internet come from? One important origin point, according to Kevin Driscoll: the mid-1970s standardization of phone jacks.
While the core technology behind today's Internet was developed through the U.S. government-backed ARPANET, the things that define the culture of today's Internet — sharing information, connecting with new people, playing games, even shopping — developed more through the bulletin board systems that proliferated before the advent of the World Wide Web. As Driscoll, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, argued in a talk he gave at MIT last week:
We can think of this as a parallel world. There are parallel tracks here where the ARPANET is developing really robust ways of doing Internet working over a long distance with various types of media. Sometimes it goes over the wires, sometimes it goes over the airwaves, sometimes it goes through a satellite.
At the same time, there are hobbyists who are using just the telephone network that had been in place for decades — but they're developing all this social technology on top of it. Figuring out how you should moderate the system, administer it. Who's in charge? Who makes the rules? What are good rules? What are bad rules? How do you kick people off if they're being a jerk? How do you get cool people to join you? All of this is happening on this "people's Internet" layer.
Right now: @desconcentrado is either explaining the origin of the Internet, or trying to sell me a modem for the C64. pic.twitter.com/SRaWJQ9d8T
— Mikael Jakobsson (@hopfka) April 9, 2015
According to Driscoll, the deregulation of the phone industry and the standardization of phone jacks allowed individuals to hook up things like fax machines and modems to the phone network and use it to communicate in new ways. Similarly, the popularity of CB radio in the 1970s helped introduce the concepts of communicating semi-anonymously over long distances — so as technology advanced, many avid CB radio users migrated to BBS.
The barriers to entry to BBS were relatively low. Computers were becoming more affordable, and it wasn't too difficult to hook them up to the phone line, where you could find conversations relevant to your interests and, in many cases, safe spaces where you could discuss sensitive information that you couldn't discuss elsewhere:
This was extremely important to communities who were using these systems and were otherwise facing oppression, or were marginalized, or their communication was being suppressed in other systematic sorts of ways. The Gay and Lesbian BBS list, which was compiled and circulated monthly, was organized by area code, so you can easily find and locate a system that's near to you. You could think of lots of reasons why a system that is geared toward gay and lesbian users in the 1980s, it would be helpful to know if a system was nearby. Not only is it cheaper to call — you have an economic reason to do it — but there's a chance that those people are dealing with conditions that are unique to that region.
And though bulletin boards eventually faded, those conversations and online social norms were carried elsewhere on the Internet. Even as the Internet continues to spread globally and splinter into countless messaging apps, social networks, and more, the DNA of those early bulletin boards lives on in today's connected world.
The plight of the local American newspaper is well known at this point: Circulation is shrinking, print ad revenue is shrinking, and papers haven't been able to make up the difference digitally.
But in a new paper released last week, Shorenstein Center fellow Matthew Hindman, an associate professor at George Washington University, says newspapers are far worse off digitally than most people think.
News sites attract about 3 percent of all web traffic, Hindman writes, and about 85 percent of that traffic goes to national news sites. That leaves local news organizations with about 15 percent of online news attention, or about half a percent of overall web traffic. And that terrain is further split among local papers, TV and radio stations. The average local newspaper only gets 5 minutes per month per web user, Hindman writes: "Local newspaper traffic is just a rounding error on the larger Web."
The bottom line is that any successful strategy for digital local news requires sites to grow their audience. This is obviously true for sites relying on ad revenue — though local newspaper sites cannot expect the same level of ad revenue per person that larger websites earn. Audience growth is just as essential for plans that rely on selling subscriptions. The current core audience of local news sites is too small to provide digital sustainability. Visitors who spend just a few minutes a month on a site are not good subscriber prospects. Even nonprofit journalism efforts need to demonstrate that their work is reaching a broad audience in order to ensure continued funding.
In order to grow their audiences, Hindman says local newspapers must answer two related questions: How can they make news "stickier" compared to all the other content on the web? And how can local news sites attract some of the audience that currently only reads national news sites?
Hindman offers a number of possible solutions. His top priority: improving the technical experience of local news sites, speeding up load times and making them work well on mobile devices. He also recommends improving content recommendation systems and simply producing more content to populate their websites. Additionally, he suggests local news sites do more A/B testing, optimize content for social media, and produce more videos and multimedia.
All of these suggestions, of course, cost money and resources; Hindman acknowledges that "for newspapers money is exactly the issue, and everything-at-once is not a viable strategy."
Newspapers need to think marginally, to identify the changes that provide the most stickiness for the least additional cost. Some strategies are so important that they should be implemented immediately. For any editors reading this: If your site is slow, you are bleeding traffic day after day after day. If your site does not work seamlessly on mobile or tablet devices, drop everything and fix it. If your homepage does not have at least some visible new content every hour, you are throwing away traffic. Fix
these problems first.
If you'd like more details on Hindman's specific suggestions, here is a link to the full report.
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Boris Adveev, 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan, was found dead at about 3: 30 p.m. last Thursday at Cocaine Chute, a popular backcountry ski descent on Mt. Dana, which is located west of Lee Vining and near the eastern border of Yosemite National Park. His body was recovered last Friday afternoon, May 4, by Mono County Search and Rescue team members.
Steve Searles says the town's wildlife is doing just fine.
A Crowley Lake bookkeeper was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of embezzlement and grand theft, after a client reported that large sums of money were missing from various business and personal accounts.
The Mammoth Lakes Fire Department lost one of its finest this past week when Billy Anderson, 65, announced his retirement.
The Town Council on Wednesday evening got to the down-and-dirty, but apparently the general public had better things to do than discuss town finances.
The Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, in conjunction with the Inyo National Forest, will be conducting an art competition as part of the Grand Opening Celebration for new Bristlecone Pine Forest Visitor Center.
The Sierra Summer Festival (a nonprofit 501(c3) organization) is currently seeking donations of housing for its orchestra.
Shira Dubrovner, artistic director of the Mammoth Lakes Foundation, this week was accepted into the well-respected Directors Lab West.
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Big government in a small town is bad.
Fido doesn't know from wildlife.
"What the heck?!?" Fido said.
It was supposed to be a done deal.
There was a time, back in the boom years, when the Mammoth Lakes town offices were crowded with staffers sizing up every new wrinkle in town.
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To say something is or was good. (Along with 'Sick' 'Phat' 'Bad' etc)
I believe short for 'Hectic'.
I believe short for 'Hectic'.
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A tally system desgined to measure last minute flaking on extra marital affair planning
Well thats another tic for Tom. He is flaking on me to have dinner with his wife!
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May 11, 2011
v. to postpone payment of drugs until a suitable date
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February 28, 2005
Trafficking In a Controlled Substance
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March 26, 2012
Tic is a word for involuntary actions. Most people who have tourettes have tics but it isn't unheard of for people without tourettes to have tics.
Shaun was walking down the streeet and twitched his head as he mumbled some inaudible word.
by Trevin
November 01, 2004
The drug phencycledine, more commonly known as PCP or angel dust, in a powder form. Tic is either snorted, or sprinkled on a marijuana or tobacco cigarette, and smoked. This form of PCP was very common in the 1970s and 1980s, where as, in recent years, it has been replaced by a liquid form of the drug known as "wet" (e.g. "Dippers," "sherm sticks")
Back in the 80s we used to snort that tic, now all I can find is "wet".
by Cowboy Stanley
October 21, 2012
Marine Corps radio chatter for 'troops in contact"! In sight of or in a firefight with the enemy.
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40 Watt Laser Cutter
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- 1 Calendar
- 2 Specifications
- 3 Overview
- 5 40W Full Spectrum Deluxe Hobby Laser
- 6 Retina Engrave Power Settings
- 7 Raster Engraving Setting Suggestions
- 8 Vector Cutting Setting Suggestions
- 9 Software Notes
- 10 Proposed Upgrades
- 11 Images
- 12 Full Spectrum Website Resources
- 13 Software Resources
- 14 Software
- 15 More Stuff
- 16 Other More Stuff
Acrylic Order
- I (Candleknight (talk)) will be ordering a bunch of acrylic and polycarbonate soon. Anybody who wants in on the action to save some money should contact me.
- I plan on placing the order during the first week of July, since there are a few members who asked me for some time to figure up how much material they'll need for their projects. So I'll need to hear back from you as to exactly what you want to order before then. Probably by July 3rd or 5th-ish. I'll send out another email to warn stragglers to get their orders in when the time grows nigh.
- I'm going to split the shipping as a direct proportion of each person's order cost relative to the whole order. So, for example, if the total order is $1000, and the materials you order are $100 of that, then you would be responsible for $100/$1000 = 1/10th = 10% of the shipping cost.
The following is a section to keep track of who's ordering what.
- Josh Pritt (Ramgarden)
- 24x48 1/8" Polycarbonate
- Brimstone
- ???Some acylic???
- Tyler Crumpton
- ????
- Daniel Valdez
- ????
- Bob (korc)
- ET0500047536 : 5" od x 4 3/4" id x 35 7/8" long - Clear Extruded
- Acrylic Tube : Price: $30.99
- ET0500047536 : 5" od x 4 3/4" id x 35 7/8" long - Clear Extruded
- January 31 2012, 7:00pm - 9:00pm: Laser Cutter Class - Learn to use our Laser Cutter!
Outside Dimensions (LxWxH): 31.5"x20"x12"
Net Weight: 70lbs
Maximum material size: 13"x16"
Maximum engrave-able area:9.5"x14.5"
Standard Lens: ZnSe 2" FL
Maximum material thickness: 2.75" (with Z table removed and 2" FL lens, 3.25" with optional 1.5" FL lens)
CO2 Laser Wavelength: 10.6um
Maximum Laser Power: 40W
Maximum Power Requirements: 660W (main laser unit only; excludes water pump/fan/computer/ accessories)
This is How to Use the laser cutter.
- Treat the Laser Cutter like an angry cobra and you should be just fine.
- As long as the safety mechanisms are working the laser is perfectly safe. If you defeat the magnetic safety interlock switch and run the laser with the case open, then you are exposing yourself to Class 4 Laser Radiation and you deserve what you get. Class 4 means that a coherent reflection can cause "DEVASTATING AND PERMANENT" eye damage with less than 1/100th second exposure, and even diffuse reflections are harmful within a certain distance. Add to that the fact that this is an infrared laser, which means the beam is invisible, and it falls more along the lines of an angry radioactive cobra. DO. NOT. DEFEAT. THE. SAFETY. INTERLOCK.
- Do Not Adjust The Current via the Control Knob. Use the Software Settings.
- DO NOT run the laser at greater than 15mA. Doing so will shorten the life span.
- >20mA will drastically shorten the lifespan.
- Replacement laser tubes are $300 a piece. Don't be a doofus.
- DO NOT run the laser at greater than 15mA. Doing so will shorten the life span.
- The big red E-STOP button is there for a reason. Use it if things go awry.
40W Full Spectrum Deluxe Hobby Laser
HAVE A PATTERN TO CUT (the computer has internet and a couple of programs for editing images)
- Turn on the Laser and dedicated Laser Control Computer via Power Splitter. (classy? yes!)
- Make sure the Laser Control Computer boots into Windows, it really wants to be a linux box.
- Transfer the Pattern to the LCC
- On the Taskbar, click the RetinaEngrave icon (it looks like a blue triangle)
- When it has loaded, check to see that it is connected to the Laser Cutter (bottom left corner should say "Connected")
- Minimize it
- Open the Pattern
- Inkscape is suggested for Vector Mode
- Corel Draw is available, as is GIMP and a number of other programs
- Print the Pattern and make sure the "Full Spectrum Engineering Driver" is the selected printer
- RetinaEngrave should receive the pattern.
- See the table below for RetinaEngrave settings
- Insert the Material to be cut.
- Set the Laser's height based on the ruler. (picture below)
- Manually turn the height adjust wheel to raise or lower the bed.
- Be sure to click the "Perimeter" button in Retina engrave to verify that the Material is properly spaced, move the laser head as needed.
- Set the Laser's height based on the ruler. (picture below)
- Click the "Go" button to begin cutting.
- You can do a test run by leaving the door open. The laser head will move, but the laser will not engage.
- There is a 'Shutdown' link on the desktop that turns the computer off
- Flip the power button on the Power Splitter
- Blow the water out of the Laser Tube in the Orange Bucket (to prevent freezing)
Retina Engrave Power Settings
- High Density Fiberboard (HDF) 1/8"
- Vector Mode: POWER: 100% | SPEED: 90% | NUM CUTS: 30 to 35
Raster Engraving Setting Suggestions
S= Speed
P= Power
R= Resolution
A Note About Power Settings:
blah blah blah, I need to fill this in
Acrylic: 1/4"
Acrylic: 1/8"
Tempered Fiberboard: 3/16"
Tempered Fiberboard: 1/8"
Cardstock: 110 lb, white
P:0.75-2 turns of the knob
Vector Cutting Setting Suggestions
S= Speed
P= Power
N= Number of repetitions
A Note About Height Settings:
blah blah blah, I need to fill this in
Acrylic: 1/4"
Acrylic: 1/8"
Tempered Fiberboard: 3/16"
Tempered Fiberboard: 1/8"
Luan Wood
Cardstock: 110 lb, white
Fold Lines
Other Instructions: In Pepakura, set the dotted line settings to be ~ Line= 0.1, Gap= 0.5 or 0.4 for the mountain/valley fold lines. This will produce a nice dotted line down to even very small scales and doesn't burn too much material, so the joint still remains fairly strong.
Reminder: When cutting out Pepakura shapes, make the cut lines and the fold lines different colors so they'll show up as separate layers in RasterEngrave's vector setup screen.
- These numbers seem a bit high. Might want to experiment some more... --Candleknight (talk) 14:40, 13 June 2012 (CDT)
Sugar, Table, Granulated
- Don't go over about 15-20% power on vector cutting or it starts to taste like burnt wood 8P
- 10% seems to do a decent job
- Putting the laser about 2mm out of focus also seems to help it not burn as badly.
- I've heard several opinions as to whether or not it is safe to cut polycarbonate on the laser cutter, so I've tried to look into it a bit.
- I have determined that, with the recent upgrade to the ventilation system, polycarbonate should be safe to laser cut here at the makeshop.
- I have also read, but not verified, that freezing the material before cutting may help achieve better results. (ie. cleaner edges, less browning, etc.)
- A few references:
- US Plastic Corporation: Can polycarbonate be laser cut?
- cnczone.com forums
- epiloglaser.com
- ponko.com
- instructables.com Post from "pedalmonkey" about halfway down has some good advice on cutting/polishing
- CR4 forums
Software Notes
- Snapping is your friend.
Making perforated lines:
(for creating perforated fold lines on cardstock paper)
- Draw the lines
- Select the line you want to be perforated
- Got to "Object->Fill and Stroke"
- Under "Stroke Style" set:
- Width = 0.1mm (remember to set unit to mm in the box next to it)
- Dashes = 5th to 7th dashed line down in the selection box
- go to "Extensions->Modify Path->Convert to Dashes"
- try to do this as close to printing as possible, as moving and editing the lines after you convert to dashes is
a pain in the assinconvenient.
- try to do this as close to printing as possible, as moving and editing the lines after you convert to dashes is
- Suggested laser settings: S:100% P:0.5-10% (0.5% will make perforations most of the way through the page. 10% will go all the way through. Both usually leave enough material between the holes to maintain material strength, but sometimes the higher power one can be easier to fold, though slightly weaker. Tweak depending on how close your dots are, application, and personal preference. My personal preference is 0.5)
Making gears:
- Go to "Extensions->Render->Gear"
- Pick your gear's properties and hit "Apply"
- Notes:
- Pressure Angle controls the shape of the tooth.
- 20 degrees is industry standard for general use gears.
- Circular Pitch controls the distance between teeth. Changing this usually just has the effect of scaling the size of the gear up and down.
- 20 seems to make a modest size gear.
- To make a gear with the teeth on the inside(like for a planetary gear set) just use the same process, but maybe put a circle around the outside.
- Protip: As long as pressure angle and circular pitch are the same for two gears, their teeth will fit together regardless of how many teeth each has.
- Caution: If you scale the gears after their creation, then you are effectively changing their circular pitch, and they won't fit together with any other unscaled gears
- Pressure Angle controls the shape of the tooth.
- Notes:
- To add holes to the center of gears, make a circle(or what ever shape) and use the "Snap to and from centers of objects" button on the far right toolbar to line it up to the center of the gear.
- 8mm circles for holes seem to work rather well as a starting point
- 1 unit == 1mm in HyCad
- to print accurately sized shapes, go to "File->Print Preview" and make sure that "Scale" = 1
- To print perforated joints, go to "Settings->Other Settings" and set the dotted line settings to be ~ Line= 0.1, Gap= 0.5 or 0.4 for the mountain/valley fold lines. This will produce a nice dotted line down to even very small scales and doesn't burn too much material, so the joint still remains fairly strong. Suggested laser settings: S:100 P:0.5
- blahblahblah need to add some stuff about setting up the print settings and color layers blahblahblah --Candleknight (talk)
Proposed Upgrades
Beam Combiner
Function: Combines the aiming laser beam in with the cutting laser beam. This makes the aiming laser take the same path as the cutting laser and pass through the lens aperture. This takes the beam from a slopy 0.25" beam that shoots in from the side to a very tight 0.001" beam that comes from the cutting aperture and illuminates the exact spot the cutting beam will hit.
Use: I think it would be especially useful for precision alignment of work or for jobs that require multiple stages. (ex: print a design off on a normal printer, then line the laser cutter up to precisely cut out the pattern)
Cost: $300
Current Pledges:
- Candleknight: $100-150
- Phil: $50-100
Ventilation Improvement (Completed)
***UPDATE*** Project finished and installed! It works like a charm. You can stick your nose right up to the laser cutter while it's cutting acrylic, and you can't smell a thing.
No more stinky shop! No more lung damage!! Huzzah! HUZZAH!
Function: Improve the ventilation of the laser cutter's exhaust, both in how hard it sucks and where it lets out.
- Not dying a slow death from deadly laser fumes.
- General not stinky-ness of the electronics room.
- Help keep inside of laser cutter cleaner.
Possible Materials:
"Finalized" Materials List:
- 1x 8" InLine blower Fan @ $120
- 3x 8" ducting @ $25 each = $75
- 1x Blower Speed Controller @ $22
Total cost ≈ $217 = $215.95
Project Financing Signup:
- Phil: $80
- Jeff: $15 ( I WILL forget about this, please ping me )
- Scott Savage: $22
- David Reimer: $???
- Static Pressure Calcuations
- McMaster Carr page on Fume Exhaust Fans
- McMaster Carr page on Fume Exhaust Enclosures. In particular, look at the cfm flow rate for the fume exhaust hood that looks about the same size as the laser cutter (item 20995K61). It takes 200CFM @ 0 Static Pressure
Full Spectrum Website Resources
40W Hobby Laser User Manual
RetinaEngrave User Manual
40W CO2 Deluxe Hobby Laser Product Page
FullSpectrumEngineering Forums
Software Resources
123D (by AutoDesk)
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Shadow Clone Technique [1] | |||
Name | |||
Kanji | 影分身の術 | ||
Rōmaji | Kage Bunshin no Jutsu | ||
Literal English | Shadow Clone Technique | ||
Viz manga | Art of the Shadow Doppelgänger | ||
English TV | Shadow Clone Jutsu | ||
Other | Art of Shadow Body Splitting | ||
Debut | |||
Manga | Chapter #1 | ||
Anime | Naruto Episode #1 | ||
Novel | Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky | ||
Movie | Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow | ||
Game | Naruto: Clash of Ninja | ||
OVA | Find the Four-Leaf Red Clover! | ||
Appears in | Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie | ||
Data | |||
Classification | Ninjutsu, Clone Techniques | ||
Rank | B-rank | ||
Class | Supplementary | ||
Hand seals | Clone seal or Tiger seal | ||
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The Shadow Clone Technique is a technique developed by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.[2]
[show]Overview Edit
Similar to the basic Clone Technique, this technique creates copies of the user. However, these clones are corporeal instead of illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force. The clones can also disperse on their own or be dispelled by the user of the technique. Shadow clones can't be distinguished from the original with Sharingan, Byakugan, Rinnegan or Rinne Sharingan.[3][4][5][6] Shadow clones also seem to be able to think for themselves and feel the original's pain to some extent, as evidenced by Naruto's clones feeling pain when the Nine-Tails' cloak awakened while he and Kakashi were fighting Deidara.[7]
Usage Edit
Because of the manner in which the clones are created, the user must divide their chakra among the clones, potentially using up all their chakra fairly quickly if the user is low on chakra, or makes too many clones. This is especially problematic when the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique is used; whereas the normal version will only create a few clones, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique can create hundreds.
A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone disperse itself without returning, to pass the information back to the user.[8] Similarly, because they are clones of the original, any chakra that the clone possesses will return to the original after being dispelled.[9] Conversely, the reverse is also true and the original is still able to manipulate the chakra of the clones.[10]
It's also useful for training purposes, since the total amount of experience the user gains is multiplied by the total number of clones being used to train. For example, if a user creates one shadow clone and trains together with this clone for one hour, then dispels the clone, the user gains two hours of training in one hour by adding the hours of clone and the user together. This particular feature is not revealed until Part II by Kakashi Hatake.[11] When done with several hundred, like Naruto does, training that could take weeks or months can be completed in a few hours.[12] While the technique can be extremely beneficial, attempting to use multiple clones for training purposes can be mentally harmful to the user, as not only is all the experience collected by the user, but so is all the mental stress from training each clone.[13] Kakashi stated that Naruto is the only person able to can do this type of training, due to the amount of chakra that Naruto has.[14]
Trivia Edit
- Due to Naruto Uzumaki's extensive usage of this technique, Sasuke Uchiha sees it as a symbolic way for Naruto to avoid loneliness.[15]
- In Naruto episode 129, Sasuke Uchiha claims that the Sharingan can distinguish clones from the original. This contradicts the manga and other anime episodes.[16]
- An ostrich named Condor appears in the anime using this technique, but in reality, it was just other ostriches.[17]
References Edit
- ↑ First Databook, page 170
- ↑ Chapter 644, page 14
- ↑ Chapter 100, page 5
- ↑ Chapter 260, pages 8-9
- ↑ Chapter 428, page 5
- ↑ Chapter 684, page 17
- ↑ Chapter 277, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 315, pages 3-7
- ↑ Chapter 433, pages 6-8
- ↑ Chapter 644, page 15
- ↑ Chapter 315, pages 8-9
- ↑ Chapter 319, page 7
- ↑ Chapter 318, page 4
- ↑ Chapter 315, pages 10-11
- ↑ Chapter 696, page 9
- ↑ Naruto episode 129
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 185