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As state election officials scurry to prepare for projected record turnout rates in November, two reports issued this week suggest that efforts to modernize the American election system since the notoriously fraught presidential vote in 2000 are falling short.
Coming up short, too late to fix
A report issued by the Government Accountability Office Tuesday summarized the findings of a year-long performance audit of the Election Assistance Commission, established by the Help America Vote Act of 2000 to aid states in upgrading their voting systems. The Commission is supposed to act both as an information clearinghouse and as a certification and oversight body for voting machine manufacturers. On both counts, the report found significant problems with the agency's efforts to date.
The EAC is supposed to provide a federal-level certification process for voting systems, and though it currently has 12 certifications pending, it has yet to complete any—meaning states must rely on their own procedures. One reason for this, GAO found, is that EAC had failed to "define its approach for testing and certifying electronic voting systems in sufficient detail to ensure that its certification activities are performed thoroughly and consistently."
The need to reconcile differing interpretations of the commission's vague guidelines had "contributed to delays in certifying systems that several states were planning on using in the 2008 elections... forcing states to either not require EAC certification or rely on an alternative system."
This problem of vague criteria and procedures appears to plague EAC in a number of areas. EAC is responsible for responding to any problems or defects discovered after the fact in systems it certifies. Unfortunately, "it has yet to specify how this broadly defined approach will be executed, including what steps will be followed, what criteria will be used to reach decisions, how it will know if system problems have been corrected, and how it will use the information to improve its testing and certification program."
The agency is empowered to conduct periodic inspections of manufacturing facilities to ensure that the production process is up to snuff, but there don't appear to be any concrete guidelines specifying who is to conduct these inspections or what criteria they are to use in making their assessments. The EAC manual "does not include procedures or criteria for determining the credibility of reported defects, or any other aspect of the inquiry or investigation, such as how EAC will gain access to systems once they are purchased and fielded by states and local jurisdictions."
Moreover, the commission "has not established an effective and efficient repository for certified versions of voting system software, or related procedures and tools, for states and local jurisdictions to use in verifying that their acquired voting systems are identical to what EAC has certified." There doesn't appear to be any long-term plan to remedy this problem, but the commission's interim solution is distinctly low-tech: it told GAO that it will "maintain copies of certified versions in file cabinets and mail copies of these versions upon their request by states and local jurisdictions." There is no mention of whether anyone has introduced officials at EAC to the concept of a "hash."
The problem of ensuring that certified software is the same as that installed on the machines used on election day is not a hypothetical one. In numerous cases, voting machine manufacturers have shipped out systems with software different from the version certified for use in state elections. Last year, for example, Election Systems & Software was found to have sold almost 1,000 uncertified machines to five California counties.
EAC blames most of its shortfalls on lack of resources. The commission told investigators that the testing and certification program had only three staff, all of whom had other responsibilities, and all of whom were expert consultants limited to working half the year at most.
Any solution the commission did implement to fix these problems would not come in time to affect the election in November, GAO concluded.
Lag: it's not just a problem for video games
A second study issued Monday by the Century Foundation and the advocacy group, Common Cause, examined a broad range of potential electoral problems in 10 key swing states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Much of that report focused on longstanding, low-tech problems, such as poor poll worker training, the use of deceptive practices by partisan activists, insufficient allocation of voting machines or ballots to polling places, and restrictive voter ID requirements. But technological changes have presented new difficulties—often going beyond the familiar security and reliability concerns with electronic voting systems, on which Ars has frequently reported.
In an electoral dry-run conducted in Colorado earlier this year, for example, officials discovered "on-going problems with lag and connectivity" in the centralized voter registration system used to "check in" voters at their local polling station. While the problems did not rise to the level of "disasters," officials were moved to make backup plans in the event of a crash or excessive delays.
Even when machines function properly, the Common Cause study found that user confusion with new electronic systems could create a problem if states have not taken adequate steps to familiarize voters with the new machines. For example, some systems implement a "straight ticket" option, which automatically selects all the candidates from a voter's self-declared party at the outset of the voting process. A voter who then clicks on a specific candidate of that party may inadvertently deselect the candidate—and higher rates of "under-voting" (failure to select any candidate for one or more races) in counties with this option suggest that at least some voters do make this error.
Florida, whose electoral fiasco in 2000 prompted the drive to modernize state voting systems, was ranked "unsatisfactory" on 11 of 24 dimensions that the report evaluated.


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Saxo Direct API Solution With Strong 2012 Volume and Client Growth
12 Dec, 2012, 09:00 GMT
HELLERUP, Denmark, December 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Saxo Bank, the online mulit-asset trading and investment specialist, today announced an increase in monthly average FX volumes of nearly 600% compared to December 2011 on Saxo Direct, its cross-asset API (Application Programming Interface) solution for institutional clients. In the same period, CFD and Cash Equities volumes on Saxo Direct increased by 650%. New clients using the Saxo API service are primarily retail aggregators and asset managers. The number of active clients grew significantly in 2012.
Saxo Direct provides institutional clients with FX and CFD liquidity and an enhanced pricing and execution offer for their use or for their own clients. Saxo approaches the Direct API channel by leveraging the expertise gained over years of managing their own relationship with liquidity providers, and uses these same tools, metrics, and expertise to construct customised feeds to provide reliable high quality liquidity services to Saxo Direct clients.
Based on the FIX Protocol, the Saxo Direct API solution connects to clients FIX trading engines and Order Management Systems. Customers can trade FX, CFDs (Indices and Commodities), CFD DMA, Stocks and Futures using a single API. Saxo Direct also supports connectivity for a range of Metatrader 4 solutions and has added support for several new third party platforms in 2012
Lucian Lauerman, Head of API Business at Saxo Bank comments: "2012 has been a very successful year for our institutional offering, and Saxo Direct in particular has seen extraordinary growth. We have invested substantial resources into building relationships and connectivity with retail aggregators, asset managers and technical facilitators. We will now continue to further develop and enhance the functionality of Saxo Direct to provide a market-leading solution."
Saxo Direct is available for Saxo Bank's institutional clients worldwide. More information on Saxo Direct and Saxo Bank's offering for institutional investors can be found here: http://institutional.saxobank.com/
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Saxo Bank is a leading online trading and investment specialist. A fully licensed and regulated European bank, Saxo Bank enables private investors and institutional clients to trade FX, CFDs, ETFs, Stocks, Futures, Options and other derivatives via three specialised and fully integrated trading platforms; the browser-based SaxoWebTrader, the downloadable SaxoTrader and the SaxoMobileTrader application available in over 20 languages. Saxo Bank also offers professional portfolio and fund management through Saxo Asset Management who accommodates high-net worth private clients and institutional investors and provides banking services and advice to retail clients through Saxo Privatbank. The Saxo Bank Group is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Australia.
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Well its been a while again since my last post. Had an accident involving coffee and my laptop so im struggling to get online as much. At the moment im relying on the use of a friends laptop now and and then but hopefully i will have my new one some time next week.
It has been a hectic few weeks with the schools breaking for the summer holidays. My 3 nephews have pretty much became a permanent fixtue around here. Its great to see them but always tiring and i have lost count of the amount of spillages, breaks, snotty noses etc.
The Occupational therapist has been out again and it was another session mostly talking. The next time she is here we will be going out walking. In a bid to prepare myself for this i have started walking everynight. The first night i was nervous. This is mostly because im trying to break bad habits. One of these habits is that i usually dont go out at night at all, apart from a walk to the ice cream van. Now though i am trying to go walking and taking it further and further each time. The distance i can travel from my home is still extremely limited. The first night i was nervous simply walking around the block.. but i am slowly pushing the boundaries. At the rate which i am going it will be a year before i leave my town haha. Who cares though, as long as im workin on it and building my confidence. It is still very frustrating though. One day i can be out all day, walking with no anxiety and really enjoying myself. And the next day i am struggling to go outside at all. I dont let it get me down though. I know this comes and goes and the important thing is to make the most of those good days. I am also finding it hard to push the boundaries. I can go a walk and my friend will urge me to walk a little further. I can stand there and look at the target, for example a lamppost, but i cant physically make myself go any further! Again there is only one word for this... frustrating. I could think of many other words but they are too explicit! ****!!!
I will continue though. I know in the end the result will be so much worth it. An exercise i done recently was to write the pro's and the con's of staying home all the time... and then to write the pro's and con's of going out. Obviously going out wins everytime, but it was interesting to see my reasons for staying in... I can be lazy, I dont need to get dressed if i dont want to, how ridiculous!!!!
Anyway hopefully i should be on more when new laptops arrives. Its all being taken care of by the insurance compant and to be honest its taking waaaay tooooo long! I hope everyone is keeping well and i hope you are getting better weather than we are here in Scotland. I just checked the forecast though and its to be a nice hot weekend so i will be sunbathing every hour possible.... in a kid free zone. Yey! Untill next time... bye xxx
Friday, 11 July 2008
Well its been a while again since my last post. Had an accident involving coffee and my laptop so im struggling to get online as much. At the moment im relying on the use of a friends laptop now and and then but hopefully i will have my new one some time next week.
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As a group of veterans who traveled hundreds of miles gathered at the barricade surrounding the closed World War II Memorial in Washington Tuesday morning, congressmen moved the barrier and let these members of the Greatest Generation through to see their monument.
"We just opened the gates and allowed 91 World War II veterans to come see their monument that was erected in their honor, and it feels great," said Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), one of the congressmen who welcomed the vets.
The vets - many in their 80s and 90s, some in wheelchairs - visited from Mississippi and Iowa courtesy of the Honor Flight Network, which helps vets realize their dream of traveling to D.C. to visit the memorial.
Others joined them at the memorial after the barricade was moved, and police did not stop them, News4 Washington's Tom Sherwood reported.
"I was in here when I was 20 years old," said Jim Woods, who shot down German planes with the Army's 547th AAA Battalion. "None of this was here. I definitely wanted to see it … At my advanced age, I don't know when I'll get back here."
Honor Flights are planned almost every day, according to Carol Johnson of the National Park Service. Honor Flights from about 10 other states also were planned for Tuesday, Palazzo said, as well as another four or five Wednesday. The Park Service is still deciding how to handle other visits from veterans during the shutdown, Sherwood reported.
Barricades were placed around monuments at the National Mall as the government shutdown took effect Tuesday.
Republican congressmen questioned why an open-air monument would be closed because of the government shutdown.
"At first we thought this was a bureaucratic oversight," Palazzo said. "How could we deny our World War II veterans an opportunity to visit their memorial? But the more that we talk, it just seems that it might be more politics, petty politics, than anything else."


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January 2007 Perry
Invited over to Mumbai International Film Festival India to promote King of Kommunication, a short film I made the summer before. While there I looked into the marketing and advertising of cigarettes.
Cigarettes on sale in a Chemists – Mumbai India 2007
Advertisement above the Chemist door – Mumbai India 2007
In a roadside kiosk cigarettes are sold alongside soda and sweets – Mumbai India 2007
Marlboro and Four Square cigarette advertisement above a roadside kiosk – Mumbai India 2007
Typical bar display cabinets of cigarettes – Mumbai India 2007
20 B&H cost less than £1.50 UKP in a bar – Mumbai India 2007
Having heard horror stories about wild-west attitudes to marketing cigarettes in India it was reassuring to see the Indian government had stringent laws and restrictions in place against this. Although you can smoke in bars and restaurants (only inconsiderate bastards smoke in restaurants but there are still people out there arrogant enough to do so – Wankers!) advertising is largely restricted to point of sale.
Anti smoking advertisements were also played before movies in all cinemas. The audience seemed to enjoy King of Kommunication. Well they laughed in all the right places!
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Family fireworks are on full display in a Utah courtroom where a judge is expected to decide next week whether a 12-year-old girl should testify in her father's upcoming murder trial after finding her mother dead in a bathtub in 2007.
Martin MacNeill, 58, a once-prominent doctor and former Mormon Sunday school teacher, is accused of killing his wife in April 2007 to pursue a relationship with his mistress, prosecutors say.
Investigators say MacNeill "intentionally overdosed" Michele MacNeill, 50, after she had plastic surgery, because she had approached him about his alleged affair. Martin MacNeill was arrested in September 2012 and charged with first-degree murder. He has denied the allegations.
Defense attorney Susanne Gustin argued Tuesday that MacNeill's youngest daughter, Ada, should not be allowed to take the stand. The defense says prosecutors allowed Ada's older sister, Alexis Somers, to interview her and potentially swayed her answers.
Prosecutors say there's no evidence Ada's testimony is tainted even though MacNeill's older daughters have long-believed their father is guilty of the alleged crime. MacNeill's other daughter, Rachel MacNeill, also believes her father is guilty.
"He had a plan to murder my mother, and this was just part of his plan," Somers told ABC News in 2012.
Somers and Rachel MacNeill are expected to be among the prosecution's star witnesses. Martin MacNeill's daughters and other family members have consistently been a presence in the court during pre-trial hearings, often clutching pictures of their mother as they glared at their father.
MacNeill's alleged affair with Gypsy Willis, who moved into the family's home as a nanny weeks after Michele MacNeill's death, is also on the witness list.
Utah Doctor Accused of Drowning Wife Appears in Court
The judge has also allowed Martin MacNeill's fellow inmates to take the stand and jury selection is expected to take place next week in a trial that pits a patriarch against his own family.
Investigators believe MacNeill drugged and drowned his wife, who was found unconscious in the bathtub. Prosecutors believe MacNeill gave his wife a dangerous combination of Valium, Percocet and Ambien while recovering from a facelift they say he compelled her to have.
"I think he drugged my mother and drowned her," Somers said outside court in 2012. "It's been horrifying, and horrifying that we had to wait for this day so long."
MacNeill says his wife drowned in the bath tub and he dialed 911 to call for help.
Somers described to ABC News' "20/20" what Ada told her on the day she found her mother dead.
"Ada said that my dad told her to check on your mother. My dad stayed in the kitchen while she went into the bathroom and found her," Somers said.
MacNeill also served three years in a Texas federal prison for fraud and was released in July 2012.


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Operating input menus
Many functions require you to enter data into the PCM. These functions include: SMS text, a telephone number, a telephone number, or a navigation destination, for example. The various input menus are adapted to the respective operating situation.
In addition to the letter fields, the input menus also provide a number of function fields for changing the character set displayed and for moving the cursor.
Deletes the last character entered (if the button is selected briefly) - or -
deletes all entered characters (if the button is selected and held)
Switches to positioning mode
Switches to uppercase letters
Switches to lowercase letters
Switches to numbers and punctuation marks
Switches to special symbols
Switches to insertion mode when composing a text message
Inserts a space
Deletes all entries in the input field
Calls up a stored list, for example when entering addresses for the navigation system
Confirms the entry and closes the input menu
Characters shown in gray cannot be selected.
Arranging letter fields in the input menu
The letter fields in the input menu can either be arranged alphabetically or in accordance with a computer keyboard. To find out more, please refer to the section "Setting the layout for the input menu keyboard" on page 17.


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Date: July 16, 2007
Description: Final Rule
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) (the agencies) have amended their rules regarding management interlocks (including OCC's part 26) to implement section 610 of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006 (FSRRA) and to correct inaccurate cross-references.
Section 610 of the FSRRA amended section 203(1) of the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act (12 USC 3201 et seq.) by raising the asset threshold of the small institution exception from $20 million to $50 million, effective as of October 13, 2006.1 Specifically, the final rule amends 12 CFR 26.4(b) to allow a management official of one depository organization to serve as a management official of an unaffiliated depository organization if the depository organizations (or their depository institution affiliates) have offices in the same relevant metropolitan statistical area and one of the depository organizations in question has total assets of less than $50 million.
The agencies' issued an interim final rule implementing section 610 on January 11, 2007. The agencies have adopted this interim final rule with no changes.
For further information contact the Chief National Bank Examiner's Office (202) 649-6550.
Julie L. Williams
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One of my customers' favorite aspects of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite is how new features appear every 6 weeks or so. This rapid pace of development means that the DPS team can respond to customer requests for new functions in the Overlay Creator and the Folio Producer parts of the solution. One of the recent changes was the addition of what are known as Nested Overlays.
Nested Overlays allow you to combine multiple overlays into one object. For instance, you can now include a buttons, videos or a Pan and Zoom Overlay in your slide show. This is very handy when trying to create an interactive slide show like you see on popular news sites: there's a photo with some text under it and six dots along the bottom, and when you touch a dot or swipe across the image, it takes you to the image or video that's in the slide show.
I have heard from customers that while this seems to work on the desktop Content Viewer, it often fails on the iPad. I was surprised, so I did some investigating and here's what I learned.
When you build a slide show, you need to create a Multi-State Object, or MSO. This MSO is a container for all of the different slides you want to present, with each state in the MSO representing a slide. Inside of each state, you can include DPS overlays. In my example, I have three slides in my slide show, so I have three states in my MSO. On the second slide, I have a Pan and Zoom Overlay, because the text is too big to fit in the space I've allowed. When I preview on the desktop, this works as expected. When I preview on the iPad, however, it doesn't work.
The solution is easy, and I came upon it after following some of my own advice. When I first began teaching about interactive features in InDesign CS5, I exhorted my students to "think like a developer!" This meant that they needed to start naming their design elements if they wanted to have a productive relationship with the Flash developer who would take their comps/projects and turn them into full-fledged apps. This reduced guesswork and established a workflow that fostered collaboration between the two. Until InDesign CS5, designers all worked in Photoshop and sent layered PSDs with layer comps and written instructions to the developers, who chopped them up and added interactivity. This Photoshop-centric is still prevalent today, and it is fraught with errors in communication. I promote the idea of using InDesign as an interactive comping tool, however, and make judicious use of the layers panel to name my design elements. The key here is how InDesign names objects when you don't.
By default, InDesign names all of its objects with the name of the primitive surrounded by brackets, like <rectangle> or <graphic frame>. If you place a graphic, the name becomes <nameofthisgraphic.psd> or whatever the graphic's file name is. If you type some text, the first few words of the text frame become the name of the object, plus those surrounding brackets. It turns out that these names look suspiciously like HTML tags, but as tags, they have no meaning. I think (and I expect to get either some dope slaps or back slaps for this) that the webkit part of the iPad Content Viewer gets confused when it sees these names in the nested overlays. If you change the name of the overlay from InDesign's default to something without brackets, your overlay will work as you expect.
In my example, I drew a box and pasted my text into it in order to make the Pan and Zoom overlay. InDesign named the box <graphic frame>. We can see this in the Layers panel. One of the great features of the Layers Panel is that we can use it not only to reorder the objects within a layer, but we can also use it to change the names of the objects. When I change the name to More Than Professors and update my folio, my overlay works as expected. It is not necessary to adhere to a strict Action Script naming convention, which would have a name like moreThanProfessors. The Content Viewer doesn't seem to be bothered by spaces in the name, but if you're going to be working with a Flash developer, then you should consider talking with them about how they want objects to be named.
Changing times require changing workflows. For interactive design and DPS specifically, it is time for designers and developers to share best practices. While naming conventions have never been a concern of a print designer, they are critical for a developer. In InDesign, these two worlds collide, and the collaborative workflow I have been preaching for the last two years is now paying off.


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Staff Nurse (RN) - Per Diem
Satellite Healthcare
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Satellite Healthcare is a successful, nonprofit organization that has improved the lives of people living with kidney disease since 1973. We earn our national reputation for excellent patient care each day by offering a complete range of dialysis therapy choices, personalized clinical services, and unparalleled wellness education.
The Staff Nurse actively participates in professional role development activities including continuing education, quality assessment and improvement, and the review and clinical application of research findings. The Staff Nurse develops ethically sound practice and confronts ethical challenges through application of the Nephrology Nursing Standards of Practice and Standards of Care.
All work performed by the Staff Nurse is under the direct supervision of on-premises Charge Nurse.
o Greets patients by name
o Speak English only in patient care area unless translating
o Listens to understand, not judge
o Focuses on the message being sent
o Uses reflective listening
o Allows patients to express concerns appropriately
o Manages conflict in a positive way
o Acknowledges problems/situations from the patient's point of view
o Empathizes
o Apologizes (without blame)
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Additional requirement for Texas: Six (6) months experience in the applicable modality (HD, PD, or HHD)
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All nephrology nurses must have a common knowledge base relevant to all aspects of care for adult kidney patients and their families. This knowledge base includes but is not limited to:


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Trippy shirts are back in style! Upgrade your fashion sense with our exclusive collection of trippy and hippie inspired T-Shirts. These t-Shirts are fitting and will have you looking extra dope. Match them with your denim jeans and you will surely stand out from the crowd.
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Audio System Maintenance Kit
Sold out.
Blue Ocean Megaphone accessories are no longer available on this website, but you can find the full line of Blue Ocean Audio Equipment at BlueOceanMegaphone.com
This small kit, packed in a waterproof bag, contains all the tools you need to take care of your Cox-Box and microphone! Along with laminated, full pictorial instructions for maintenance of the Cox-Box P5, Microphone BNC, and speaker harness connections, this Kit is a must have for every boathouse.The small investment in this kit will offer big returns in the condition of your equipment.
The kit includes:
- a Nyogel syringe,
- a container of silicone grease,
- a drill bit,
- a small screwdriver
- 10 grease applicators
- a small waterproof carry bag
- a laminated pictorial instruction card clearly showing the maintenance steps for every Cox-Box connector
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FREE SHIPPING & RETURNS (on Meters) on orders over $50 in the USA. (USPS)
Free Return policy: Domestic meters can be ordered risk free for 30 days.
If you would like to return it, simply email us and we'll email you a return label. You will be responsible for packing, taping, and getting it to UPS or US mail service. The meter must contain the original box and all that comes with it or there will be a restocking fee of up to 15%.
We ship via USPS or UPS shipping. You may choose at checkout.
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Scouting around the net I've noticed numerous blog articles mentioning terms like "The Opposite of Google". "Search Engine Alternative" and "The Explore Engine", being a bit of a netfreak this caught my attention.
I'm always looking for something new & useful on the net to add to my collection of frequently visited tools and sites, however an alternative homepage seems to have eluded me for years, its always been the google search box. Search Engines, Directories and Portals have been about for years, and frankly the last time I was inspired by one was, well possibly never! Often I jump on the internet to work, I use the internet to find information, to learn more about something I already know, all the normal things you use it for, but if your anything like me you probably visit the same 10-20 websites all the time, have a search engine as your homepage and can't remember the last time you "browsed the internet"
Here's my frustration, sometimes I just want to find something new, a site I've never seen, something I never new existed, something interesting and something to inspire me, realistically I'd quite like this in my life on a daily basis. Have you ever tried to find something new on the internet? Its virtually impossible.. this about sums up my point.. google something new i don't know and you get the iPod website
Anyways back to the point in hand, it appears these articles were talking about a new site called "The Explore Engine". Here we go, about to click yet another "alternative search engine" or another directory plastered in adverts, click, page rapidly appears and I'm confronted with a whole host of little green boxes that they like to call pixels. I clicked one and a little thumbnail of the site and its url was shown to me over on the left, clicked another and it was another website.
I was shocked to say the least, the concept was so simple but I'd never seen it before, its simply random websites, websites I've never seen before. Theres no search box or anything, just one button saying "explore more", click it and youre presented with another 250 websites to explore.
I spent over an hour just clicking about previewing websites and visiting them; according to my stats at the bottom of the page I have previewed 568 websites and visited 68.
Heres the bit that astounded me, I bookmarked 46 of the websites, and in the year leading upto this I think I'd possibly bookmarked a grand sum of 7.
In short after several years, I have a new homepage, I feel a breathe of fresh air in my internet life, I'm considering taking up photography and every time I open my web browser theres a new selection of websites to spark my imagination, and well if I want to search I just type it into my google toolbar instead of their homepage. To my mind it really is the opposite of google, and its brought new life to the internet.
And here it is, www.dbpixels.net


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E-Net (a network of Equipping Churches), is dedicated to awakening churches to the challenge of equipping ALL the saints for the work of the ministry, seeing every believer become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness in Christ. (Ephesians 4:11-16).
E-Net is the result of the work of an enduring visionary leadership community that was initiated at the 2010 FGBC Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, focusing on the leadership development dimension of our commitment to common ministry. For more information go to www.fgbc.org/e-net


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In the big scheme of things, we're all renters, relinquishing our fancy cars, Picasso lithos, Droid X's, and other cherished possessions the hour we make our Final Payment. In the smaller scheme, temporary possession, especially in this declining economy, may not be such a bad idea. Have you forgotten where the American dream of homeownership has recently got us? Investment considerations aside, and no matter what Shakespeare had to say about neither borrowing nor lending, isn't there something comforting about letting others deal with the wear, tear, and storage space? Isn't there something thrilling about living beyond our means, even if just for a moment? They say you can't buy happiness, but it might be possible to rent it.
You can hire a family. The Tokyo agency Hagemashi-tai, meaning "We Want to Cheer You Up," is one of about ten outfits in Japan that supply clients with adult actors willing to impersonate any blood relation you require—a loving dad to pick up your kids from school; reputable parents to vouch for you at a matchmaking party; noncomplaining, huggable grandchildren to spend the day with you; a trial husband who leaves towels on your bathroom floor to help you practice for your upcoming marriage (telephone 09048388162; no English spoken).
Another Japanese company, Office Agents, provides wedding guests, at about $250 per head—a little extra if you want your rented chum to give a toast or sing and dance. Scott Rosenbaum, a thirty-one-year-old former Internet marketer who lives in New Jersey, read a newspaper article about this phenomenon and founded Rent-a-Friend, in October, 2009. The company has a database of more than three hundred thousand members around the world who can be employed, by paying subscribers, for platonic companionship (rentafriend.com; membership, $24.95 per month). "The friends make up their own pricing, anywhere from ten to fifty dollars an hour," Rosenbaum told me over the phone, "but we find we have a lot of friends who are willing to waive their fee depending on the activity, like if the other person has tickets to 'Jersey Boys.' " Agreeable strangers, the Web site states, are commonly contracted to go to the movies or out to dinner, give personal advice, go hot-air ballooning, attend a dance class, do pottery, teach manners, hang out, or go see "Jersey Boys." Occasionally, Rosenbaum said, the client's request is more unorthodox. When a college student was caught drinking on campus, he hired surrogate parents from Rent-a-Friend to accompany him to the disciplinary meeting with a dean. A friend in need is a friend in deed, indeed.
Maybe you're not a people person. Might you instead be a humanoid person? The machines built by Entertainment Robots are about the size of a five-year-old and look like the offspring of the Tin Man and a vacuum cleaner. They live on Long Island but will merrily spend the day at your trade show, store event, or birthday party, interacting with guests via a remote control operated by a roboteer hiding nearby with an audio link. "If there's a robot that walks up to you and says, 'Hi, Joanne'—because the operator's read her nametag—'how would you like to see some financial literature on our Dime Savings Bank portfolio?,' you're going to get a chuckle out of that," Frank Paris, the company's owner, said ($300-$400 per hour, plus expenses, with a three-hour minimum; 516-826-3806). The robots at Probotics America, most of which could pass for middle-aged Muppets, are "very talented and entertainment-oriented," David Jannke, the company's president, told me (proboticsamerica.com, 972-231-7744). The automated troupe includes suburban fellows who ride tricycles, trash cans programmed to make snappy remarks in synch with their swinging lids, mechanical-looking robots that engage in spontaneous conversation, and the RoboWranglers, a four-piece country-and-Western band. Rentals range from $450 to $1,100 per day, plus shipping, unless you can persuade the androids to march back home to Dallas, Texas, under their own steam.
Nothing says high-school prom more than an ill-fitting rented tuxedo, but parading around in someone else's clothes is no longer just for teen-agers. Jack Silver Formal Wear has been outfitting the young, as well as the not-so-young, for eighty years. "If you need a formal, we can get it. If we don't have it, we can get it," Darrin Gordon, a managing partner, said. "We'd say, 'No, we don't have purple but we have lavender.' " This unglamorous-seeming place in a run-down Times Square building appears to have everything, tux-wise—Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, period tuxes and shirts in wild colors, even a seventies powder-blue polyester number trimmed with black suède (250 West 49th Street, 8th floor; $160-$260, including the shoes). What's popular? "The James Bond look is the hippest—very less is more," Gordon said. "The long tie is good for meeting U2 at the W Hotel, but definitely a bow tie for an event with the President at the Waldorf."
There are lots of theories about the invention of the tuxedo, but the one I like best gives credit to a nineteenth-century tobacco magnate with the dashing name of Pierre Lorillard IV. Supposedly, Lorillard wanted something less stuffy than white tie and tails to wear at the Tuxedo Park Autumn Ball, an annual gathering of the ruling élite held across the Hudson River. Losing his nerve, he never put on the short black jacket he designed, but his son Griswold borrowed the coat and stunned the guests with his audacious attire.
Cinderella might have been less sulky if she had known that obtaining a gown and jewels was as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. Amanda Enowitz, a twenty-five-year-old fashion-TV producer, recently rented a few dozen dresses, all from Rent the Runway, a mail-order lender of frocks and rocks heavy on sparkle and color. "I'm always looking to wear the designers we cover, but I hate spending so much money," Enowitz said. For Fashion Week, she wore a different dress every day—"Buying them definitely would have busted my salary." Does she own up? "Usually I do," she said, "because I don't want anyone to think I have ten Hervé Léger dresses."
Rent the Runway was started last November by two Jennifers in their twenties (Hyman, C.E.O.; Fleiss, president), who met at Harvard Business School. "We mostly carry trendy styles that women look at and say, 'Oh, my gosh, I've always wanted to wear that, but I know I'll only wear it once,' " Hyman said, explaining that they acquire merchandise ahead of season, much as department stores do, and at the same wholesale rate. The number of units purchased in each style, Hyman said, is determined by an algorithm that is informed by past customer orders ("We hired one of the chief scientists from Oracle to be in charge of analytics"). At their office, in Tribeca, which is off limits to customers, I ambled past enough Robert Rodriguez black strapless stretch dresses with gold-sequinned belts to fill a night club, and they represented only a fraction of the twenty-two thousand dresses (from a hundred and twenty designers) and six thousand pieces of bling warehoused in their stockroom (black dress, retail, $525; four-day rental, $75). "Every girl is a celebrity now, and she doesn't want to be seen in the same outfit she wore on Facebook," Derek Guillemette, Rent the Runway's head buyer, told me.
That is, blessedly, not a problem I struggle with, but what the hell. I was cautiously game for a low-commitment trial run with clothes from a designer I'd never worn, Proenza Schouler. Online, at renttherunway.com, I selected a black fitted dress, with cutout shoulder details, to be delivered the next day by courier, a service that costs $15 extra and is offered only in Manhattan. The dress retails for $1,525; my total cost was $185.98 ($150 for the rental, plus $15 shipping, $5 mandatory insurance, and $15.98 tax). Every rental comes with a duplicate in an adjacent size to insure a perfect fit, but my backup size was not in stock (which entitled me to a full refund had the item not fit). The next morning, the package arrived, with a mailing envelope in which to return it, and, because I was a new customer, I also received a kit containing mascara, fashion tape, deodorant-stain eliminator, lint-removing sheets, and a Rent the Runway tape measure. The dress was fabulous, but it did make me feel, just a teeny bit, as if I were cheating on my wardrobe with an escort service.
"You can save so much money and feel like a million dollars," Madeline Passarelli, the founder of Wear Today, Gone Tomorrow, told me. W.T.G.T. is another schmatte-chartering venture, this one eight months older than Rent the Runway. Actually, you can feel like, at most, $5,390 in a red silk Valentino gown with ruffles, but usually you will feel like somewhere between four and five hundred bucks. The tab here, as at Rent the Runway, is roughly ten per cent of a dress's retail value, plus surcharges (at W.T.G.T., there is a ten-dollar cleaning fee, but shipping and insurance are included). "We specifically choose styles that are 'on trend' and that, for one reason or another, have a 'wow' factor," Passarelli said. The selection here contains a few designers hipper than those at Rent the Runway—for instance, Marni and Martin Margiela—but essentially it's six of one dress, half a dozen of the other.
Every garment at Albright Fashion Library is an exclamation point. This seven-thousand-square-foot loft on Cooper Square contains extravagant pieces by every top designer you've heard of and some you haven't (62 Cooper Square; by appointment only). A black Balmain showstopper with cutouts and gobs of lace, studs, stones, and zippers, retailing for thirty thousand dollars; a metallic Galliano trenchcoat worth its weight in gold; a Bill Blass cocktail number confected from ostrich feathers; a navy Chanel bathrobe, trimmed in spangles, that would look grand on Claudette Colbert; seven thousand pairs of shoes that surely are too sublime ever to touch the ground; and a lode of costume jewelry ("We don't want to be responsible for the real stuff," a sales associate, Layla Mashayekh, told me). The collection was amassed in 2003 by Irene Albright, and is partly the by-product of her work as a fashion collector and stylist in the eighties and nineties. "She's out in the field, buying, and I'm here," said Patricia Black, Albright's creative director, a tall woman with a wry and decisive manner, who looked chic in jeans, a white T-shirt, and heels. Most of Albright's clients are stylists looking for something to put in a magazine feature, print ad, movie, or TV show. Other clients include mothers of the bride, a board member of the Philadelphia opera preparing sartorially for the season, a fiancée from the wrong side of the tracks about to spend a week in the Bahamas with her wealthy future in-laws. It costs two hundred and fifty dollars just to walk in the door and browse, and a thousand dollars minimum to borrow an outfit assembled by Black and her team—shoes, bag, wrap, and advice on hair and makeup. Exiting will cost you even more, because when you return home you will look in your closet and throw out all your clothes.
I decided to take a test-drive: Let's make-believe I am off to an evening bar mitzvah at Per Se. Ms. Black ruminated. "How about the Burberry?" she said, referring to an ivory silk sheath hanging from a rack ten feet away—a piece I feared might cling to me like Saran wrap. "Women of a certain age"—that would be my age—"I keep them out of black," she said. "In a roomful of little black dresses, color is refreshing." Wouldn't the dress be too long on me? "Long? I don't mind that," she said. "It takes a killer heel." She knew just the shoe, the YSL "Tribute": a platform sandal with a five-inch elevation. "You should have this shoe," she said. "Get it in camel. It's the color of the season." For the record, I believed Black's every word, although the Burberry was too big on me, and a short violet Victoria Beckham with cap sleeves was too tight. Don't turn your nose up at Beckham: she's a designer to lose weight for. She may be a soccer wife but, according to Black, my new guru, Beckham's clothes are well crafted and well proportioned. "They give you a figure without being overt." She gestured toward her midriff. "It's about this," she said. "A woman needs to feel taken care of here. It's what the corset was about." The Beckham black knit sleeveless sheath flecked with gold was flatteringly snug. Black complemented it with a Chanel evening bag and an Ohne Titel mink-and-leather cropped coat that was so divine God would feel bested at the bar mitzvah. The retail cost of the outfit would be approximately $8,000 (dress, $3,100; bag, $2,000; shoes, $760; coat, $2,000). The rental price? About $1,500. Black recommended that I wear sheer black hose with the ensemble, and pull my hair back or have it layered. "Go to Joey at Blackstones" (19 East 7th Street). "Joey's your guy, but first try on the Alaïa. Who could afford an Azzedine Alaïa? You could buy a car!" she said.
Or a pocketbook. Avelle sounds as if it might have something to do with feminine-hygiene products, but it is one of the oldest (founded in 2005, as Bag Borrow or Steal) and largest online rental operations, seeking to answer the question, as the company's Web site puts it, "Why should women have to endure the emotional and financial sacrifices that accompany the endless search for the 'right' accessory for every event, wedding, and dinner party?" I'm pretty sure the answer is "Why not?," but never mind. Avelle has lots of premium designer handbags, jewelry, watches, and sunglasses. I asked a customer-service representative if they ever had a problem with bags being returned damaged. "I'm sorry, but even if I didn't use names, that would compromise customer confidentiality," she said. Regarding the most expensive pocketbook the company offers—a $42,000 vintage Hermès crocodile Birkin that rents for $4,800 a month—she let slip that Avelle does not let just anyone get her paws on it. There are evaluations to make and credit histories to consider. I can report to you only that the number of times a year the Birkin is lent out is "limited."
I went to Avelle's Web site and rented a Chloé "Paddington" shoulder bag (avelle.com; retail, $1,575; weekly rental, $66, plus $29.95 overnight shipping and $10 insurance). I would have preferred something from Balenciaga, but the waiting lists for my favorite styles were closed. My Paddington arrived looking brand-new. It even had that new-car smell. How could I be expected to use something in that condition? What if I scratched it, or my lipstick stained the lining? The strain was too much. So I printed a shipping label and return receipt, enclosed them in a box with the Paddington, and dropped the package off at UPS.
Adorn.com deals in diamond jewelry with sobering amounts of sparkle. There's a necklace with six-plus carats' worth of yellow princess-cut diamonds: retail price, $73,500; for you, $1,900—but you have to give it back. The company has humbler pieces, too. You are probably wondering—it is, after all, a Frequently Asked Question on the site—"I see a lot of bridal imagery on your site. Is it O.K. to rent jewelry for other occasions?" Next question.
The wedding's over, the jewelry's in the mail, now get ready for the next rental phase: kids. They're for keeps, but the playthings and baby equipment that will be littering your former guest quarters-cum-Pilates room need not be fixtures. My Busy Bucket will ship a plastic tub containing two hundred dollars' worth of books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, crafts, and toys (mostly wooden ones from Europe) to your offspring, and after twenty-one or thirty days, depending on your plan, a very nice FedEx man will make the package go bye-bye (mybusybucket.com; $52.99 for twenty-one days, $54.99 for thirty days, plus $10 shipping). The exact assortment of amusements is tailored to the munchkin's age (newborn to six) and the customer-selected theme (such as dress-up, sports, superheroes, princess/fairy).
The service was started by a former social worker, Audrey Zardkoohi, and a former elementary-school teacher, Elizabeth Baumgarten, who, as stay-at-home mothers in Denver, hated how much they spent on toys that went unused. "We noticed our kids were more entertained when they were playing with toys at someone else's house," Zardkoohi said on the phone from Walnut Creek, California, where she now lives. In July, 2009, the mothers opened shop with goods purchased mainly online at full price. Most of their customers, as it turns out, are not children weary of their own playthings but vacationing children in need of diversion while they do time in boring, grownup hotel rooms. "We ship a bucket to the hotel, and before the parents leave they send it back," Zardkoohi said. The survival rate of toys? "Surprisingly, they've held up. We clean them between rentals with nontoxic cleaner." On the rare occasion when a toy is broken or lost, the breaker or loser is charged fifty to a hundred per cent of its cost. My Busy Bucket currently has an inventory of about a thousand toys. "Your kids must be thrilled to be living in a toy warehouse," I said. "Actually, we keep everything sealed up in the basement," Zardkoohi told me.
When your child quits piano lessons the day after she started, you'll feel especially bad if you just made the last payment on the concert grand she was supposed to be practicing her scales on. You will feel even worse when I tell you that Steinway & Sons rents $23,400 uprights to the tune of $90 and up per month.
Once there was an agency called FlexPetz, through which you could, for a hefty sum, arrange to have a playdate with a canine. Animal-lovers labelled it "a four-legged escort service." In 2008, pet-rental companies were banned in Boston, and soon thereafter FlexPetz put its operation on hold. (Visit flexpetz.com for the company's rebuttal: "The law . . . is ineffective and a waste of taxpayers' money—and is likely to lead to the death in shelters of hundreds of dogs that could have been put in homes by FlexPetz.") Though leasing a pet is frowned upon in this country, a firm called Rent-a-Ruminant has a hungry herd of goats in Vashon, Washington, that'll polish off your brambles for a fee (rentaruminant.com or 206-251-1051; $725 per day and a minimum $325 mobilization fee). In Japan you can rent not only dogs but also turtles, monkeys, ferrets, and beetles. Or you can stop by one of the popular cat cafés in Tokyo and, for a few yen, choose a cat to stroke while you have a cup of tea.
You don't take a photo, a saying goes; you ask, quietly, to borrow it. You can borrow the camera, too (to preserve the memory of all the other things you've borrowed). Borrowlenses.com stocks all the lenses from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and Sony that you've been dying to look through, as well as loads of cameras and equipment, including underwater gear and DSLR video bundles (super telephoto zoom lenses, $12 to $342 for three days; other durations offered).
Amateur astronomers: Now there is a cheap and simple way to expand your universe by light-years while you sit in front of your computer. Global Rent-a-Scope, founded by Arnie Rosner, a retired Sears washing-machine technician whose hobby was stargazing, enables members to rent viewing time on a number of research-grade telescopes mounted in observatories in New Mexico, Australia, and Spain. For as little as forty-five cents a minute, you can observe and photograph planets and stars and distant overcast skies (global-rent-a-scope.com; free trial membership, and monthly plans starting at $19.95).
Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Well and good, but eternal insurance on it is going to cost you. If you are satisfied with a shorter unit of joy, Sande Maslow, an art consultant based outside Philadelphia, claims he can track down a Botticelli or a Dali or anything else you wish to rent—or lease with option to buy (610-529-3098). For monthly expenditures ending in fewer zeroes, several museums throughout the country have programs that enable their members, for a reasonable amount of cash, to hang original art on their walls, temporarily. The Seattle Art Museum, for instance, offers some admirable canvases by emerging and established Northwest painters (seattleartmuseum.org; starting at $35 for three months), and the Portland Museum makes available works by regional painters, printmakers, photographers, and sculptors (portlandartmuseum.org; usually less than ten per cent of purchase price). The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, in Spokane, Washington, even delivers and installs the art for no extra charge (northwestmuseum.org; $90-$165 per art work for three months). Oberlin College and the University of Minnesota lend students framed paintings and prints ($5 per semester at Oberlin; $12 at the University of Minnesota).
Generally speaking, you cannot rent intangibles—copyrights, reputations, trade secrets, memories, honesty, deliciousness, and so forth—but there are exceptions. Don't lobbyists rent power? Or, rather, are they leasing legislators? You cannot rent education, but there are some enticing semester-long rental deals on textbooks, a welcome gesture, since last year college students, on average, spent $1,122 on books. At the nifty site cheap-textbooks.com, you can compare conditions and prices of textbook rentals from online purveyors. If your local library has been closed owing to lack of funding, and your funding isn't so hot, either, BookSwim, a literary Netflix trafficking in hard- and softbacks, will deliver the latest Stieg Larsson to your mailbox (bookswim.com; monthly plans from $23.95). A firm called Booksfree does not carry hardbacks, but it has forests of paperbacks as well as a cacophony of audiobooks (www.booksfree.com; monthly plans from $10.99).
Remember all those stages of life ago when you were young and your parents admonished you to share—or else? In those days, the arrangement seemed to involve a lot more giving than taking. Now that we're adults, sharing pays. There is a growing number of online communities made up of neighbors who own stuff they rarely use or are interested in using stuff they'd prefer not to own. Searching in my vicinity for goods that I could transitorily call my own, I found hundreds of items, including a bicycle (zilok.com; $15 per day), a Nintendo Wii system ($25), a guitar amplifier ($5), a kayak ($25), a leather punch (rentalic.com; $3 a day), office space (snapgoods.com; a penny), an iPad ($15), You-Vision video glasses ($7.50), a six-foot aluminum ladder ($20), and a D.I.Y. seafood-boil kit ($20, all per day). I did not find a casket, but not to worry. They're rentable—for movie shoots and for families who want to display their dead relatives before they are cremated—at the Greenwich Village Funeral Home (199 Bleecker Street; starting at $795), as well as at Horne-Dannecker Funeral Home (445 West 43rd Street; forty per cent of sale price). Time it right and you won't have to pay. ♦


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Last June, Twitter hopped on the transparency train and released its first report indexing information requests, copyright takedown notices, and removal requests from governments around the globe. Now the second report is out, with its own site and some new details on what the U.S. government in particular is doing. And weirdly enough, copyright takedown requests are actually down from the past six months.
When it comes to transparency reports, you'll usually find that requests of all kinds are on the rise. And for the most part, that's true with Twitter as well. Globally, government information requests are up 19 percent (20 percent in the US), and non-copyright removal requests are up a whopping 600 percent worldwide, with the US going up from zero to four. But when it comes to copyright takedowns, the total amount of requests is down, though admittedly by a scant 3 percent. And the accuracy of these requests seems to be getting better, nearly 20 percent higher than before.
All in all, there seems to be a slow climb that's typical of these kinds of services over time, but it's worth noting that government requests for information or removal are totally dwarfed by the copyright requests. It looks like your inane tweets are safe from scrutiny by johnny law for now, but big media is scrutinizing just a little more. [Twitter]


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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones has broken the news college football fans all over the country have anticipated, and he did it from the Columbus High basketball gym: star teammate Johnny Manziel is headed to the NFL.
"Johnny's gone," Seals-Jones told the Sealy High boys basketball broadcast team on Friday night. "He's gone."
Seals-Jones, a former Sealy star, had stopped by to visit with the Sealy broadcasters when dropping the bomb that everyone's expected – but has not been made public by Manziel, his coaches or teammates. Until now.
Seals-Jones was discussing A&M's future quarterbacks starting in 2014, but didn't mention Manziel. An acute observer chimed in, "Do we have a scoop? Did I just hear Johnny Manziel not being mentioned for next year?"
A chuckling Seals-Jones responded that Manziel was "gone." The Sealy broadcast can be found here, and Seals-Jones offers up his Manziel scoop starting at about the 53:30 mark. And a tip of the lid to "FTABAGG" on TexAgs.com for first mentioning the Sealy broadcast on a forum thread.
Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, is expected to make his NFL declaration official in coming days – perhaps Saturday – especially now that Seals-Jones has let the (scat) cat out of the bag. Manziel wrapped up his spectacular college career in stunning fashion, in leading the 9-4 Aggies to their largest comeback in history. A&M overcame a 21-point second-half deficit to defeat Duke 52-48 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on New Year's Eve in Atlanta.


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Be good, Mike McCoy. Be extremely good – you and all 20 of your assistant coaches.
"Extremely well-coached" is how the previous coach, Norv Turner, described the 2012 Chargers.
Once the new coaches studied the film, Norv said on the day he was fired, they'd see it to be true.
Maybe it was Norv's way of saying that the '12 Chargers, who went 7-9, were short on talent.
Now it's McCoy's turn. And it's Tom Telesco's turn, too.
Whether Norv's comment about the coaching was on the mark or just plain hooey, Telesco will be importing several new players for the coaches to mold.
The general manager has the 11th pick in the draft. It's the highest pick the Chargers have owned since they took Eli Manning first in 2004 and dealt him for Philip Rivers and two Giants draft picks.
The day McCoy was hired to replace Turner, his first order of business was to assemble a coaching staff, which was a new task to him. He retained seven of Turner's aides. He hired 13 outsiders, one a former Chargers intern. The assistants are headed by offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, who coached the Cardinals for the last six years and recommended several coaches hired by McCoy.
"I'm excited about the group that we've assembled because we got a great group of football coaches who are also outstanding men," McCoy said via email.
As for the challenge of matching wits with other coaches in the AFC West, Norv actually appeared to have had it pretty easy last year.
The Raiders were breaking in Dennis Allen, who had never been a head coach at any level.
The growing pains were evident in Oakland.
Allen's hand-picked offensive coordinator, Greg Knapp, contrived an offense built on zone blocking and zone running. The scheme fit neither Oakland's blockers nor its best running back, Darren McFadden. Allen fired Knapp after the season, and rookie GM Reggie McKenzie said the team will go to a power attack more suited to its personnel.
In Kansas City, Romeo Crennel had assumed the head coach's job after going 2-1 as the interim coach in 2011, following Todd Haley's dismissal.
Crennel brought in a new offensive coordinator, Brian Daboll, and remained the defensive coordinator. Neither move panned out. The offense was a turnover-prone mess, and Crennel acknowledged during the season that the whole operation was out of whack. He said he needed to devote more time to overseeing the team, and less time to micro-managing the defense.
In the end, the Chiefs went 2-14, costing Crennel his job.
Crennel has won Super Bowls as a defensive aide and is an excellent mentor to young men; as a head coach, he is 28-55 (.337).
The Chiefs replaced Crennel with Andy Reid; his 14-year record is 130-93-1 (.583).
McCoy the last four years was an offensive assistant with the Broncos. Each of the last two years, he reported to head coach John Fox and called plays for Peyton Manning, who had the option of changing them after he surveyed the defense. Of the three offensive coordinators to oversee Manning, McCoy is the first to become a head coach.
With his former Broncos colleague Allen entering year two, McCoy is the lone rookie head coach in the division.
"I think he's ready," Manning said. "I think he's paid his dues. Mike's a good leader. He's had some good coaches that have been mentors to him, different coaches that he's worked with in his years in the NFL. I think he's incorporated some of their leadership philosophies (with) his own philosophy."


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'08 Van Prices Slashed As Launch Ramps Up
Sniffing around Chrysler's Windsor Assembly Plant this week, looking for clues as to how the launch of the '08 minivans are going.
The company says everything is peachy, natch. But there are rumours the line conversion didn't go as smoothly as hoped. They say the construction drawings provided from a recent conversion done at Sterling Heights Assembly in Michigan stunk, and that work continues in the midst of the launch because of their poor quality.
We have an interview later this afternoon with the new WAP plant manager, Marcel Breault, who's been good enough to spare us a few minutes in one of the busiest weeks of the year for him. I met him briefly during the HBPO plant opening a few weeks ago, so I'll ask him after he tells me about how the launch is going.
Yesterday I asked a Chrysler spokes guy how many of the new vans have been produced, and he wouldn't say. Propriety information, etc. etc. So I spent a little time prowling around the secure impound areas, counting grilles.
2008 Chrysler and Dodge minivans in Pillette Road impound lot in Windsor
I figured at least 500 vans had left the plant as of yesterday morning. But a source says it is probably twice that number. Several have been spotted around town wearing Michigan license plates — they being driven by executives as test mules. A couple of dozen more new vans are probably being burned out this minute on the dynamometers in Auburn Hills and at the Automotive Research and Development Centre in Windsor.
There will be more details in tommorow's Star about the blockbuster price slashing announced by Chrysler today; $6,500 off a Town and Country? Holy cow.
That would put it $15,000 approximately cheaper than a Honda Odyssey. Talk about a game changer. Will CAW President Buzz Hargrove now denounce the fact that a strong dollar has made transportation cheaper for Canadian families?
Could this be the first of a raft of automotive repricings in Canada due to the strength of the Canadian dollar? I'll try to find out.
It figures things would get busy on a day I wanted to get out early; tonight is Windsor's annual Bluesfest on the riverfront terrace. The kickoff show is a concert I've been waiting for for more than 20 years — Los Lobos.
Their first album (now there's an antique word) How Will The Wolf Survive, was the last vinyl record I bought in 1985, just before I got my first CD player. (An NAD. I still use it).
Thanks to early airplay on WDET, I was immediately smitten by Los Lobos' fabulous guitar work and rythyms, and haven't grown bored with them in two decades of listening. Not even their brush with Hollywood, La Bamba, turned me off. A band's gotta make a few bucks if the mainstream radio won't play their stuff due to programming corruption.
They're latest album, The Ride, is one of those brilliant pieces of work you never hear on radio . . . (I keep an MP3 copy of it on my Treo phone so I can listen to it at work when the boss thinks I'm interviewing somebody).
And luckily for me, The Windsor Star is sponsoring tonight's show, so I was able to beg some VIP tickets for Da Wife and I from our promotions department.
They request a donation from us to CanWest's literacy charity for the tickets, which I happily doubled for the chance to see Los Lobos. See you there.


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Little children may not know as much as adults, but they can teach us a lot. In fact, Jesus said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3). Mom and Bible teacher Kendra Graham often uses stories of parenting—chaotic, hilarious, heartbreaking—to help people understand the truths of God's Word.
Being a mom is tough! My kids are 11, 9 and 6, and as they get older and I see their struggles, I want to step in to protect them and help them through the hardships. But that is not my assignment as a parent. God has said in Deuteronomy 6:5-7: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children." What a task.
I love pearls. I had two favorite strands of pearls before they were pulled from my neck and broken by the little hands of my children when they were toddlers.
Pearls have been quite the talk around the Graham house in recent days. We had watched a movie about undersea life, and afterward, we happened to talk about oysters and how pearls are formed. I didn't pay much attention to that discussion, but little did I know God was actually preparing us to think differently about the personal challenges and struggles He allows us to deal with.
One of our daughters was recently diagnosed with dyslexia. I knew she was having problems in school, even as early as kindergarten, but not until she was in the second grade did I push for further evaluation. The results left me glad that we know what the problem is, but incredibly anxious for the sweet girl who is going to have a hard road academically.
What does dyslexia have to do with pearls? Well, a pearl is formed in an oyster because of an irritation that finds its way to the inside of the shell. The oyster wraps the irritation with a coat of mother of pearl. The larger the irritation, the more coats of this substance are used to wrap around the point of pain until, in the end, the irritation is gone, but a beautiful, costly pearl is formed. Often the things for which we have to work hardest are the things we treasure the most.
Revelation 21:21 says: "The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl." One pearl for an entire door of Heaven! Oh, the suffering that went into making Heaven available for us! We serve a God who understands suffering.
My sweet girl works hard, harder than either of her siblings. She has to work on something one day, and that same thing the next day and the next, until it sticks. She gets frustrated. She gets mad. I get frustrated. I get mad. Why her? Why not me? When I see her struggle through something that should take 10 minutes but takes her an hour, it breaks my heart.
One day, as we worked and worked and worked on a school assignment, I decided to just do it for her. She had already done most of it. I said, "Let me finish it; let me make this load easier for you."
She looked up at me and said, "Don't steal my pearl! It's my treasure!" Oh my heart! Our discussions about pearls had helped her understand how her own struggles truly can produce a treasure. I apologized to her and to the Lord. What kind of mom am I to steal my child's treasure? Wow! Letting our children struggle is hard, but God had entrusted this testimony to my daughter. I can stand beside her and support her, but the battle is hers—as is the treasure. What a lesson from an 8-year-old! Who is discipling whom here?
Just last week, when she was yelling and throwing her pencil at the wall while doing her multiplication tables, I called out, "I'll be there in a minute to help."
She yelled back, "Don't! I'm making pearls in here!"
Can your heart break and swell at the same time? Mine did.
We need to allow our kids to struggle for their pearls as they embark on this great journey of being molded and shaped more into the image of Jesus. God has entrusted them with a story that will bring Him glory in the end.
Lord, help me to trust You with my precious children. May we become a family with a treasure chest of pearls to offer You as we allow You to guide, mold and train us all in our irritations. Now when we wear our pearls, we can look at them as trophies of God's more-than-sufficient grace. ?©2012 Kendra Graham
Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New King James Version.
Kendra Graham is a Bible teacher, the wife of Evangelist Will Graham and mom to three kids.


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Smoothing With Holt-Winter
In one of his talks at QCon, John Allspaw mentioned using Holt-Winter exponential smoothing on various monitoring instances. Wikipedia has a good entry on the subject, of course, but the basic idea is to take a noisy/spikey time series and smooth it out, so that unexpected changes will stand out even more. That's often initially done by taking a moving average, so say averaging the last 7 days of data and using that as the current day's value. More complicated schemes weight that average, so that the older data contributes less.
Twitter FollowingRank With Lapack
At the recent PHP UK Conference 2012 I had the opportunity to chat about machine learning and IR with a bunch of very smart people. One of the conversations included the always enlightening Rowan Merewood, and was around ranking Twitter friends. It's reasonably well known that Google used to use a variant of PageRank based on who-follows-who to rank it's Twitter search results (back when it had them). The question is, could the same kind of thing work over a much smaller set - say using it to rank the influence users I follow, in order, perhaps, to prioritise tweets?
Presentation Tips From Benelux
I had a great time at the recent PHP Benelux Conference in Belgium. There was a real mix of very interesting people to talk to, and I came away from it buzzing with new ideas (and a ridiculously long todo list). Some of the conversations I had during the weekend were around technical presenting at conferences and usergroups, so I thought I'd collect a handful of the tips that were discussed into a post, and use a few of my favourite speakers at the event to illustrate them.
Expecting The Unexpected With Good-Turing
A lot of interesting techniques involve taking statistical samples, and using those to predict what we'll see in the future. Usually this works pretty well, but when we're dealing with a lot of options or if we have some options that are very rare that approach can go pretty wrong. If we go down the street and note down how many men and women we see, we'll probably be able to use that to predict the chance of the next person we see being male or female pretty well. However, if we were counting all the species of animals we encounter, and trying to use that to predict what we'll see in the future, we'd likely run in to a couple of problems.
Linear Regression In PHP (part 2)
In the last post we had a simple stepping algorithm, and a gradient descent implementation, for fitting a line to a set of points with one variable and one 'outcome'. As I mentioned though, it's fairly straightforward to extend that to multiple variables, and even to curves, rather than just straight lines.


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In this week's State of the Union address, President Obama did more to reset the political debate than the policy debate. He offered only a modest menu of new ideas. But he moved ambitiously to politically reposition his agenda. Most important, he continued the transformation he has undertaken since November--an evolution from prime minister to president. It was the speech of a leader with diminished legislative ambitions and expanding hopes of reelection.
Obama's first two years were dominated by the grueling and frequently grimy struggle to pass legislation. Partly, that was by necessity: The enormity of the economic collapse he inherited demanded a substantial legislative response. But he signed his stimulus plan (like it or not) into law less than a month after he took office. From that point forward, he chose to focus his presidency largely on wrangling with Congress. Those prolonged and persistent legislative fights, particularly the forced march to health care reform, shaped his public image more than anything else he did. In that, Obama continued the tradition of Democratic presidents who tend to see themselves, particularly when they first arrive, mostly as prime ministers measured by their success at passing their party's program.
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Obama emerged from his months in the legislative trenches with many successes. In signing comprehensive health care reform, he succeeded where Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton had failed. His financial-reform legislation, though diluted, still provided a major modernization of federal oversight. In all, he probably signed into law more consequential legislation over the course of a single Congress than any other president had done since Lyndon Johnson during the heyday of the Great Society in 1965 and 1966.
For that, Obama paid a substantial political cost. The party-line struggles over Obama's principal initiatives portrayed him to the public as a much more partisan figure than he had pledged to be during the campaign. The horse-trading and deal-making that legislative achievement demands effaced his promises to change the way Washington does business. And the sharp ideological backlash among many white voters against health care reform undermined Obama's effort to portray himself as a centrist. Combined with frustration over a stubbornly sluggish economy, these diverse streams converged to produce the deluge that swamped Democrats in November.
Bill Clinton also spent his first two years operating as a prime minister. In the summer of 1994, as Clinton careened toward a similar electoral debacle, he lamented to an aide in the Oval Office, "I've lashed myself to Congress like Ahab to Moby Dick." History will have to tell us whether Obama, in his private counsels, has erupted in similar frustration. But his speech this week suggested he has taken the same lesson as Clinton did: To win reelection, he must broaden his definition of the job.
Obama's address was notable for its legislative modesty. On the budget, he maintained a pointed distance from the ambitious recommendations of his Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction panel. On energy, he lowered his sights from passing comprehensive legislation to limit carbon emissions to establishing a "clean-energy standard" that would promote essentially all sorts of ways to generate electrical power except through conventional coal and oil. On education and health care, he spoke almost entirely about defending the initiatives of his first two years.
Obama broke the most new ground in framing and tone. As he previewed in an early-December North Carolina speech, he described the public investments he has long supported in education, infrastructure, and research (particularly in clean energy) as foundations of America's response to the new "Sputnik moment" created by rising economic competition from China, India, and others.
Slapping an "investment" label on federal spending in such areas isn't likely to mollify Republicans. At an Atlantic/National Journal event I moderated on Wednesday morning, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the House Republican Conference, dismissed Obama's investment agenda as an effort to "double down on the stimulus." But it's not clear that most Americans will agree with Hensarling, especially when the president links such investments to the rest of his competitiveness agenda: expanding free trade, reforming corporate taxes, and (modestly) streamlining federal regulation. This retooled program carries echoes of Abraham Lincoln and the first Republicans, with Washington focusing its effort on fortifying the nation's productive capacity.
Obama hasn't fully grappled with the implications of that shift: To do that would require redirecting federal tax and spending policies from consumption to investment far more than he has contemplated so far (for instance, by trimming entitlements). But even these first steps could help him connect with groups that have resisted him, particularly business leaders.
Just as important, Obama's emphasis on competitiveness reframes the nature of his leadership. It repositions him from leading one party into battle against the other to leading the entire nation into economic competition against foreign challengers. That is the mission of a president, not a prime minister. Obama's speech this week suggests he believes that if he wants to remain the former, he must mostly retire the latter.
This article appeared in the Saturday, January 29, 2011 edition of National Journal.
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Kathleen Wynne to become Ontario's first female and openly gay premier
Sandie Benitah, cp24.com
Published Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:15AM EST
Last Updated Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:54AM EST
Kathleen Wynne has won her battle for Ontario, becoming the province's first female premier and the new leader of the Liberal Party.
Wynne grinned and cheered as she heard the results, which were read out at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on the floor of the Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention.
The Don Valley West MPP beat runner-up Sandra Pupatello by winning more than 50 per cent of the vote.
The openly gay Toronto politician was a front-runner from the start of the leadership campaign though she was continuously bested by Windsor's Sandra Pupatello in early polls and the first two rounds of voting at Saturday's convention.
Wynne got the boost she needed after the second round of voting when fellow leadership candidates Gerard Kennedy and Charles Sousa threw their support behind her, leaving her and Pupatello as the only remaining candidates on the ballot.
"I have a pretty strong appreciation for her," he told CP24. "I think she'll make a terrific premier. Sandra Pupatello, maybe for another instance. We need a lower key approach with the ability to mobilize a lot of people."
Sousa said he chose to support Wynne because he wanted to work for a government that prioritized people over politics.
Only two votes separated Pupatello and Wynne after the first round of voting, but after the second ballot, Pupatello's lead widened by 67 votes.
Eric Hoskins was the first leadership candidate to drop off the ballot and he was the first to throw his support behind Wynne.
Harinder Takhar threw his support behind Pupatello.
After the result of the second ballot was read out, Gerard Kennedy and Charles Sousa both withdrew their names from the race and took about 20 minutes to cross the convention floor towards Wynne's camp.
Pupatello and Wynne both gave passionate speeches Saturday morning, explaining to their peers their vision for party renewal, their determination to work with the opposition and their vision for Ontario's future.
Wynne's speech was called "gutsy" by pundits as she told the room of more than 2,000 people if Ontario was ready for a lesbian premier.
"Can a gay woman win? When I ran in 2003, I was told that the people of North Toronto and Thorncliffe Park weren't ready to elect a gay woman. Well, apparently they were," she said.
Pupatello's speech was energetic and passionate, with one pundit likening it to an election speech rather than a convention speech.
"To those who say Ontario's best days are behind us I say you're wrong," Pupatello said during her speech, pointing directly at the TV cameras filming her. "Together we can do this. I know Ontarians don't want an election but if we're forced into one we'll be ready and I'm the candidate that can win."
Wynne has vowed to recall legislature from their extended winter break on Feb. 19 and get back to work on mending relations with labour unions and the opposition.
Pupatello does not currently sit in legislature and would have to win a byelection to gain a seat.


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Two recent moves by the Winder Police Department can only be viewed as positive as chief Dennis Dorsey and his staff continue to combat crime and other issues within the city.
The first move actually occurred several months ago but already it has paid dividends. The addition of Joey Lovinggood as code enforcement officer shows city officials, as well as the WPD, are serious about property maintenance as we move into 2013 and the response I've heard from several people has been "it's about time."
Already Lovinggood has made a solid impact in holding property owners responsible. No free passes will be given anymore. Yes, there are still numerous areas within Winder that need work, but Lovinggood is making progress with each day. One reader relayed a call he made to code enforcement and the result which came from it.
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