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We have heard Ontarian clearly. Our focus now is on renewal of our party, which can only be achieved by actively reconnecting with Ontarians across the province.
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Meguiars Headlight Restoration Kit On 2003 Ford Mustang GT - Shine On Through!
Repair Your Aging Headlight Covers With Meguiar's Headlight Restoration Kit--The Result Will Pay For Itself.
We know you're not used to seeing coverage of ordinary car care products in a magazine dedicated to hard-core muscle, but hear us out. Meguiar's Headlight Restoration Kit is no ordinary car care product. Like a lot of you, our daily drivers have had to last a little longer, drive a little farther, and have seen a little more wear than usual as we stretch the life expectancy of our commuters in these hard economic times. Truth be told, we want a new '10 Camaro (see page 48), or a Dodge Challenger R/T (see our December '08 issue), and the old '03 Mustang GT is looking a bit dingy.
Getting top dollar for a 6-year-old trade-in is tough when the plastic headlight covers have been sand blasted white for 120,000 miles. We took a look in some of the Mustang mags and found the cheapest new headlight lenses for around $230 per set, and that isn't in the budget. We did have $25 in the budget for Meguiar's Headlight Restoration Kit, and figured that even if it didn't work all that well, we could still ask a few hundred more for the car. What we didn't expect is the miraculous transformation of our headlights to near new, and that's what we're here to talk about.
The active ingredient of Meguiar's Headlight Restoration Kit is a 6-ounce bottle of Meguiar's PlastX, which is a polymer-based cleaner and polish for hard automotive plastics. PlastX is sold separately for about $7 a bottle (street), and is described by Meguiar's as using "Microscopic Diminishing Abrasive Technology (MDAT) to remove light oxidation, chemical degradation, surface contamination, stains, and light surface scratches." PlastX is a water-resistant polymer too, which promises a long-lasting protection, according to Meguiar's. The Headlight Restoration Kit also includes a 4-inch polishing pad for a high-speed drill, and a microfiber polishing rag to finish the job.
The entire restoration took about 45 minutes, and besides the material in the kit, we needed a roll of automotive-grade masking tape, a high-speed drill (ours was a variable-speed Craftsman 3/8 -inch drill with a 2,500rpm top speed and reversible rotation--which came in handy), and a Craftsman roller stool that put us perfectly at work height. Not very much pressure on the drill polishing pad is needed to work the PlastX into the headlight lens, which was nice. We ended up using almost a quarter of the bottle, so the kit should be good for about four or five cars, provided the drill-mounted pad holds up (it did shed quite a bit at first).
The photographic results should speak for themselves. We used no photo trickery to make the "after" shots look better, in fact, we went out of our way to gussy up the "before" shots, and our passenger side lens had benefited from an earlier (non-effective) attempt at some fine wet sanding with some 2000 grit.
Selling the Mustang GT should be a lot easier now. Those horrible headlights stuck out like a bad case of acne, but now they look almost new. We should easily be able to get $500 more for the Mustang over what we would've otherwise, thanks to Meguiar's Headlight Polishing Kit and PlastX.

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After I left Oulu, I took the train to Rovaniemi. It's a city touted as the "gateway to Lapland." Most of the guidebooks described it as "bleak."
I arrived in town about 6pm. Hauled myself to the guesthouse where I was going to stay. I realized immediately that the streets where not going to be easy to navigate. The map I had made it guesswork to find anything. I read later that the city designer (Alvar Aalto) planned the streets in the shape of a reindeer's head complete with antlers. Fun concept; pain the neck for tourists.
My room was three blocks away from the train station, but I took a few wrong turns up the "antlers" before I found it. I'm one of those travelers that needs a room that is clean, safe, quiet and has a shower somewhere in close vicinity. Beyond that, I don't care. This place was perfect (and the least expensive place I stayed on an otherwise rather expensive trip).
So, I dropped off my luggage in my room and set out walking around the city.The city seemed to be full of concrete buildings. None of the style of Helsinki and none of the charm of Oulu. They did, however, have a quirky collection of moose sculpture. I came to a snotty conclusion that this city was in fact, bleak.
But then I was walking back to the guesthouse I was staying at and saw this sculpture up on a hill. I decided to check it out.
Next to the sculpture was this long concrete wall.
And on the wall was the story of the city in photos. The first two pictures showed the city in the early 1940's. You can see charming wood houses.
In October of 1944, at the end of World War II, retreating German forces received orders to destroy all buildings. I stood at that wall and looked at the photos for a long time. Stunning. I also felt more than a little guilty for being so snotty about the lack of architecture earlier in the day.
You may also remember that the 1952 summer Olympics were held in Helsinki. The Finnish government requested that Rovaniemi do it's best to pull the city up from ruins in time for the games. Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto developed the (earlier cursed) city plan and up a new city went. I suddenly had a new respect for all things Rovaniemi.
And then I discovered one of the best museums that I have ever visited. I bought an entrance ticket to the Arktikum thinking that I would spend a couple of hours inside. 4 hours later, they had to force me out of the building at closing. I loved, loved, loved this museum. I could have spent 3 more days there.
After getting kicked out of the museum, I was walking back to my hotel, when I spotted this building. It was obviously an old log house. The sign on the door said they sold local crafts. It was closed for the day, but the next morning I got up and made a bee line here.
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There's a really good chance that neither of these games will ever see the light of day.
The never fully titled Mercenaries game was in development by Pandemic Studio when Electronic Arts shut the studio down. Legends, it appears, was canceled back in 2008.
Artist Dorian J. Compo, who also worked on Lord of the Rings: Conquest, posted images from both Legends, original set for a PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 release in the summer of 2008, and the Mercenaries sequel, set for a PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 release in the winter of 2009.
Compo points out that there isn't much to show for the next Mercenaries title, but that the single graphic, seen here, at least gives an idea of what the studio was going for with the game.
The Legend images, seen at the top of this post and below, are all concept art for the canceled project, Compo writes.
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Years of development have produced the A380's intelligent galleys packed with computer-controlled cooling systems, steam ovens and smart energy management
At first glance, this could be a regular aircraft galley: a tidy but not overly spacious workspace stocked with trolleys and metal boxes, and done out in a pale shade of gray. But this is something else. The Lufthansa project management team and the engineers from Lufthansa Technik and Airbus will soon have spent half a decade planning it. How many ovens, how much refrigeration space, and how many coffee machines will an aircraft need to cater for over 520 passengers? How many trolleys, how much storage space? "We drew on all the experience we could," says Frank Vetter, who's responsible for developing the galleys for the Lufthansa group's new flagship aircraft, the Airbus A380. The Lufthansa cabin crews were also consulted about ergonomic factors: workspace height and amount of counter space, rounded corners so that nobody gets hurt, and lighting in the all the right places. Every little detail counts.
We take a look behind the scenes. Roland Hengartner, CEO of Bucher Leichtbau, takes us on a tour of his factory in Fällanden near Zurich, in Switzerland. In one of the rooms, workmen are putting rivets into aluminum strips. "Riveting is an art; the province of traditional craftsmen!" Hengartner exclaims. The lightweight aluminum profile galley frames – those skeletons of light industry – look rather fragile, but are nevertheless put to a series of tough tests. The red aluminum latches on the front of the trolleys, for instance, must be able to withstand centrifugal forces of 16g. That's like holding on to a 100-kilogram trolley that suddenly feels like it weighs 1.6 tons.
Nothing here is left to chance. Without undergoing all the prescribed electrical tests, water tests, and noise and rattle tests, a galley has no chance of being certified. A confection test determines whether the chocolate melts when kept beside the oven. And the plastic-coated aluminum panels have to pass a fire test before they are installed. The galleys are based on 3D computer models and some 800 2D diagrams each. Specifications for individual aggregates fill thousands of pages, and test results fill a catalogue of regulations that's about 800,000 pages long – a virtual bow wave of paperwork.
Some of the A380's functions are true innovations, like the computerized cooling system complete with compressors and heat exchangers. It can even chill different galley compartments to different temperatures, or more precisely: 8 degrees Celsius for beverages and 4 degrees for the food, which is cooked in steam ovens at a gentle 130 degrees, so it looks appetizing and don't dry out. Where necessary, dry heat of up to 170°C can also be activated. Coffee machines run on rails, making them much easier for technicians to access for maintenance and repair. Juice and other liquid residues are sucked into a waste disposal systems with a vacuum function, while solid waste is reduced to a fraction of its size in the trash compactor. In fact, these state-of-the-art galleys are almost one step ahead no matter where you look.
Installing the electrics is a particular challenge, given that the galleys alone have thousand of contact connectors. To keep track of what goes where, system technicians lay out the wiring harnesses on specially marked sheets of plywood with finger-length nails holding the cables in place. Routing the electric wiring and the cable harnesses is like traffic planning in miniature. Every galley requires 15 meters of feeder cable. Each cable and each part is numbered to indicate where it goes. Then there is the freshwater and wastewater piping, plus supply lines for cooling compressors, lighting, ovens, extractor fans, air conditioning and water fixtures, as well as time switches, computer screens and coffee machines. And that's not all. The A380's five galleys were designed to be communicate with each other and to save energy by regulating electricity.
Well packed and fully certified, the galleys finally travel north to Finkenwerder in Hamburg where they are installed and connected with the cabin, but not as firmly as one would expect. Shock absorbers are used so that the aluminum frames can adapt to the movements of the air-cushioned body of the plane. It doesn't matter to them that the pressured cabin ever so slightly expands. Becoming an A380 galley really isn't easy. After all, you try catering to the needs of over 500 passengers while jetting around the world at 900 kilometers an hour!


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Hey gore, I'm having a problem
I installed all 3 cds with xorg and kde installed, but i login as root in console and I cant start the xserver. I tried xorgconfig and startx as well as looking for the xorg.conf and xinitrc.
I'm guessing I'm in the wrong runlevel?
Does slackware start in 3?
do I have to nano into innitab?
Omg, I just added e17 to my repos, and holy sh** it is the coolest thing ever!!! Talk about beauty and conserving resources!
It is easily the most beautiful interface I've ever used.
Thanks for the suggestion gore


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Committee of Ministers Recommendation Rec(2004)11 on E-voting
Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation Rec(2004)11 on E-voting
Recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30 September 2004 at the 898th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies) The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,
Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting the ideals and principles, which are their common heritage;
Reaffirming its belief that representative and direct democracy are part of that common heritage and are the basis of the participation of citizens in political life at the level of the European Union and at national, regional and local levels;
Respecting the obligations and commitments as undertaken within existing international instruments and documents, such as:
- the Universal Declaration on Human Rights; - the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; - the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; - the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; - the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ETS No. 5), in particular its Protocol No. 1 (ETS No. 9); - the European Charter of Local Self-Government (ETS No. 122); - the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS No. 185); - the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (ETS No. 108); - Committee of Ministers Recommendation No. R (99) 5 on the protection of privacy on the Internet; - the document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the OSCE; - the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; - the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters, adopted by the Council for democratic elections of the Council of Europe and the European Commission for Democracy through Law;
Bearing in mind that the right to vote is one of the primary foundations of democracy, and that, consequently, e-voting system procedures shall comply with the principles of democratic elections and referendums;
Recognising that as new information and communication technologies are increasingly being used in day-to-day life, member states need to take account of these developments in their democratic practice;
Noting that participation in elections and referendums at local, regional and national levels in some member states is characterised by low, and in some cases steadily decreasing, turnouts;
Noting that some member states are already using, or are considering using e-voting for a number of purposes, including:
- enabling voters to cast their votes from a place other than the polling station in their voting district; - facilitating the casting of the vote by the voter; - facilitating the participation in elections and referendums of all those who are entitled to vote, and particularly of citizens residing or staying abroad; - widening access to the voting process for voters with disabilities or those having other difficulties in being physically present at a polling station and using the devices available there; - increasing voter turnout by providing additional voting channels; - bringing voting in line with new developments in society and the increasing use of new technologies as a medium for communication and civic engagement in pursuit of democracy;
- reducing, over time, the overall cost to the electoral authorities of conducting an election or referendum; - delivering voting results reliably and more quickly; and - providing the electorate with a better service, by offering a variety of voting channels;
Aware of concerns about certain security and reliability problems possibly inherent in specific e-voting systems;
Conscious, therefore, that only those e-voting systems which are secure, reliable, efficient, technically robust, open to independent verification and easily accessible to voters will build the public confidence which is a pre-requisite for holding e-voting,
Recommends that the governments of member states, where they are already using, or are considering using, e-voting comply, subject to paragraph iv. below, with paragraphs i. to iii. below, and the standards and requirements on the legal, operational and technical aspects of e-voting, as set out in the Appendices to the present Recommendation:
i. e-voting shall respect all the principles of democratic elections and referendums. E-voting shall be as reliable and secure as democratic elections and referendums which do not involve the use of electronic means. This general principle encompasses all electoral matters, whether mentioned or not in the Appendices;
ii. the interconnection between the legal, operational and technical aspects of e-voting, as set out in the Appendices, has to be taken into account when applying the Recommendation;
iii. member states should consider reviewing their relevant domestic legislation in the light of this Recommendation;
iv. the principles and provisions contained in the Appendices to this Recommendation do not, however, require individual member states to change their own domestic voting procedures which may exist at the time of the adoption of this Recommendation, and which can be maintained by those member states when e-voting is used, as long as these domestic voting procedures comply with all the principles of democratic elections and referendums;
v. in order to provide the Council of Europe with a basis for possible further action on e-voting within two years after the adoption of this Recommendation, the Committee of Ministers recommends that member states:
- keep under review their policy on, and experience of, e-voting, and in particular the implementation of the provisions of this Recommendation; and - report to the Council of Europe Secretariat the results of their reviews, who will forward them to member states and follow up the issue of e-voting.
In this Recommendation the following terms are used with the following meanings:
- authentication: the provision of assurance of the claimed identity of a person or data; - ballot: the legally recognised means by which the voter can express his or her choice of voting option; - candidate: a voting option consisting of a person and/or a group of persons and/or a political party; - casting of the vote: entering the vote in the ballot box; - e-election or e-referendum: a political election or referendum in which electronic means are used in one or more stages; - electronic ballot box: the electronic means by which the votes are stored pending being counted; - e-voting: an e-election or e-referendum that involves the use of electronic means in at least the casting of the vote; - remote e-voting: e-voting where the casting of the vote is done by a device not controlled by an election official; - sealing: protecting information so that it cannot be used or interpreted without the help of other information or means available only to specific persons or authorities; - vote: the expression of the choice of voting option; - voter: a person who is entitled to cast a vote in a particular election or referendum; - voting channel: the way by which the voter can cast a vote; - voting options: the range of possibilities from which a choice can be made through the casting of the vote in an election or referendum; - voters' register: a list of persons entitled to vote (electors).
Appendix I
Legal standards
A. Principles
I. Universal suffrage
1. The voter interface of an e-voting system shall be understandable and easily usable.
2. Possible registration requirements for e-voting shall not pose an impediment to the voter participating in e-voting.
3. E-voting systems shall be designed, as far as it is practicable, to maximise the opportunities that such systems can provide for persons with disabilities.
4. Unless channels of remote e-voting are universally accessible, they shall be only an additional and optional means of voting.
II. Equal suffrage
5. In relation to any election or referendum, a voter shall be prevented from inserting more than one ballot into the electronic ballot box. A voter shall be authorised to vote only if it has been established that his/her ballot has not yet been inserted into the ballot box.
6. The e-voting system shall prevent any voter from casting a vote by more than one voting channel.
7. Every vote deposited in an electronic ballot box shall be counted, and each vote cast in the election or referendum shall be counted only once.
8. Where electronic and non-electronic voting channels are used in the same election or referendum, there shall be a secure and reliable method to aggregate all votes and to calculate the correct result.
III. Free suffrage
9. The organisation of e-voting shall secure the free formation and expression of the voter's opinion and, where required, the personal exercise of the right to vote.
10. The way in which voters are guided through the e-voting process shall be such as to prevent their voting precipitately or without reflection.
11. Voters shall be able to alter their choice at any point in the e-voting process before casting their vote, or to break off the procedure, without their previous choices being recorded or made available to any other person.
12. The e-voting system shall not permit any manipulative influence to be exercised over the voter during the voting.
13. The e-voting system shall provide the voter with a means of participating in an election or referendum without the voter exercising a preference for any of the voting options, for example, by casting a blank vote.
14. The e-voting system shall indicate clearly to the voter when the vote has been cast successfully and when the whole voting procedure has been completed.
15. The e-voting system shall prevent the changing of a vote once that vote has been cast.
IV. Secret suffrage
16. E-voting shall be organised in such a way as to exclude at any stage of the voting procedure and, in particular, at voter authentication, anything that would endanger the secrecy of the vote.
17. The e-voting system shall guarantee that votes in the electronic ballot box and votes being counted are, and will remain, anonymous, and that it is not possible to reconstruct a link between the vote and the voter.
18. The e-voting system shall be so designed that the expected number of votes in any electronic ballot box will not allow the result to be linked to individual voters.
19. Measures shall be taken to ensure that the information needed during electronic processing cannot be used to breach the secrecy of the vote.
B. Procedural safeguards
I. Transparency
20. Member states shall take steps to ensure that voters understand and have confidence in the e-voting system in use.
21. Information on the functioning of an e-voting system shall be made publicly available.
22. Voters shall be provided with an opportunity to practise any new method of e-voting before, and separately from, the moment of casting an electronic vote.
23. Any observers, to the extent permitted by law, shall be able to be present to observe and comment on the e-elections, including the establishing of the results.
II. Verifiability and accountability
24. The components of the e-voting system shall be disclosed, at least to the competent electoral authorities, as required for verification and certification purposes.
25. Before any e-voting system is introduced, and at appropriate intervals thereafter, and in particular after any changes are made to the system, an independent body, appointed by the electoral authorities, shall verify that the e-voting system is working correctly and that all the necessary security measures have been taken.
26. There shall be the possibility for a recount. Other features of the e-voting system that may influence the correctness of the results shall be verifiable.
27. The e-voting system shall not prevent the partial or complete re-run of an election or a referendum.
III. Reliability and security
28. The member state's authorities shall ensure the reliability and security of the e-voting system.
29. All possible steps shall be taken to avoid the possibility of fraud or unauthorised intervention affecting the system during the whole voting process.
30. The e-voting system shall contain measures to preserve the availability of its services during the e-voting process. It shall resist, in particular, malfunction, breakdowns or denial of service attacks.
31. Before any e-election or e-referendum takes place, the competent electoral authority shall satisfy itself that the e-voting system is genuine and operates correctly.
32. Only persons appointed by the electoral authority shall have access to the central infrastructure, the servers and the election data. There shall be clear rules established for such appointments. Critical technical activities shall be carried out by teams of at least two people. The composition of the teams shall be regularly changed. As far as possible, such activities shall be carried out outside election periods.
33. While an electronic ballot box is open, any authorised intervention affecting the system shall be carried out by teams of at least two people, be the subject of a report, be monitored by representatives of the competent electoral authority and any election observers.
34. The e-voting system shall maintain the availability and integrity of the votes. It shall also maintain the confidentiality of the votes and keep them sealed until the counting process. If stored or communicated outside controlled environments, the votes shall be encrypted.
35. Votes and voter information shall remain sealed as long as the data is held in a manner where they can be associated. Authentication information shall be separated from the voter's decision at a pre-defined stage in the e-election or e-referendum.
Appendix II
Operational standards
I. Notification
36. Domestic legal provisions governing an e-election or e-referendum shall provide for clear timetables concerning all stages of the election or referendum, both before and after the election or referendum.
37. The period in which an electronic vote can be cast shall not begin before the notification of an election or a referendum. Particularly with regard to remote e-voting, the period shall be defined and made known to the public well in advance of the start of voting.
38. The voters shall be informed, well in advance of the start of voting, in clear and simple language, of the way in which the e-voting will be organised, and any steps a voter may have to take in order to participate and vote.
II. Voters
39. There shall be a voters' register which is regularly updated. The voter shall be able to check, as a minimum, the information which is held about him/her on the register, and request corrections.
40. The possibility of creating an electronic register and introducing a mechanism allowing online application for voter registration and, if applicable, for application to use e-voting, shall be considered. If participation in e-voting requires a separate application by the voter and/or additional steps, an electronic, and, where possible, interactive procedure shall be considered.
41. In cases where there is an overlap between the period for voter registration and the voting period, provision for appropriate voter authentication shall be made.
III. Candidates
42. The possibility of introducing online candidate nomination may be considered.
43. A list of candidates that is generated and made available electronically shall also be publicly available by other means.
IV. Voting
44. It is particularly important, where remote e-voting takes place while polling stations are open, that the system shall be so designed that it prevents any voter from voting more than once.
45. Remote e-voting may start and/or end at an earlier time than the opening of any polling station. Remote e-voting shall not continue after the end of the voting period at polling stations.
46. For every e-voting channel, support and guidance arrangements on voting procedures shall be set up for, and be available to, the voter. In the case of remote e-voting, such arrangements shall also be available through a different, widely available communication channel.
47. There shall be equality in the manner of presentation of all voting options on the device used for casting an electronic vote.
48. The electronic ballot by which an electronic vote is cast shall be free from any information about voting options, other than that strictly required for casting the vote. The e-voting system shall avoid the display of other messages that may influence the voters' choice.
49. If it is decided that information about voting options will be accessible from the e-voting site, this information shall be presented with equality.
50. Before casting a vote using a remote e-voting system, voters' attention shall be explicitly drawn to the fact that the e-election or e-referendum in which they are submitting their decision by electronic means is a real election or referendum. In case of tests, participants shall have their attention drawn explicitly to the fact that they are not participating in a real election or referendum and shall - when tests are continued at election times - at the same time be invited to cast their ballot by the voting channel(s) available for that purpose.
51. A remote e-voting system shall not enable the voter to be in possession of a proof of the content of the vote cast.
52. In a supervised environment, the information on the vote shall disappear from the visual, audio or tactile display used by the voter to cast the vote as soon as it has been cast. Where a paper proof of the electronic vote is provided to the voter at a polling station, the voter shall not be able to show it to any other person, or take this proof outside of the polling station.
V. Results
53. The e-voting system shall not allow the disclosure of the number of votes cast for any voting option until after the closure of the electronic ballot box. This information shall not be disclosed to the public until after the end of the voting period.
54. The e-voting system shall prevent processing information on votes cast within deliberately chosen sub-units that could reveal individual voters' choices.
55. Any decoding required for the counting of the votes shall be carried out as soon as practicable after the closure of the voting period.
56. When counting the votes, representatives of the competent electoral authority shall be able to participate in, and any observers able to observe, the count.
57. A record of the counting process of the electronic votes shall be kept, including information about the start and end of, and the persons involved in, the count.
58. In the event of any irregularity affecting the integrity of votes, the affected votes shall be recorded as such.
VI. Audit
59. The e-voting system shall be auditable.
60. The conclusions drawn from the audit process shall be applied in future elections and referendums.
Appendix III
Technical requirements
The design of an e-voting system shall be underpinned by a comprehensive assessment of the risks involved in the successful completion of the particular election or referendum. The e-voting system shall include the appropriate safeguards, based on this risk assessment, to manage the specific risks identified. Service failure or service degradation shall be kept within pre-defined limits.
A. Accessibility
61. Measures shall be taken to ensure that the relevant software and services can be used by all voters and, if necessary, provide access to alternative ways of voting.
62. Users shall be involved in the design of e-voting systems, particularly to identify constraints and test ease of use at each main stage of the development process.
63. Users shall be supplied, whenever required and possible, with additional facilities, such as special interfaces or other equivalent resources, such as personal assistance. User facilities shall comply as much as possible with the guidelines set out in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
64. Consideration shall be given, when developing new products, to their compatibility with existing ones, including those using technologies designed to help people with disabilities.
65. The presentation of the voting options shall be optimised for the voter.
B. Interoperability
66. Open standards shall be used to ensure that the various technical components or services of an e-voting system, possibly derived from a variety of sources, interoperate.
67. At present, the Election Markup Language (EML) standard is such an open standard and in order to guarantee interoperability, EML shall be used whenever possible for e-election and e-referendum applications. The decision of when to adopt EML is a matter for member states. The EML standard valid at the time of adoption of this recommendation, and supporting documentation are available on the Council of Europe website.
68. In cases which imply specific election or referendum data requirements, a localisation procedure shall be used to accommodate these needs. This would allow for extending or restricting the information to be provided, whilst still remaining compatible with the generic version of EML. The recommended procedure is to use structured schema languages and pattern languages.
C. Systems operation (for the central infrastructure and clients in controlled environments)
69. The competent electoral authorities shall publish an official list of the software used in an e-election or e-referendum. Member states may exclude from this list data protection software for security reasons. At the very least it shall indicate the software used, the versions, its date of installation and a brief description. A procedure shall be established for regularly installing updated versions and corrections of the relevant protection software. It shall be possible to check the state of protection of the voting equipment at any time.
70. Those responsible for operating the equipment shall draw up a contingency procedure. Any backup system shall conform to the same standards and requirements as the original system.
71. Sufficient backup arrangements shall be in place and be permanently available to ensure that voting proceeds smoothly. The staff concerned shall be ready to intervene rapidly according to a procedure drawn up by the competent electoral authorities.
72. Those responsible for the equipment shall use special procedures to ensure that during the polling period the voting equipment and its use satisfy requirements. The backup services shall be regularly supplied with monitoring protocols.
73. Before each election or referendum, the equipment shall be checked and approved in accordance with a protocol drawn up by the competent electoral authorities. The equipment shall be checked to ensure that it complies with technical specifications. The findings shall be submitted to the competent electoral authorities.
74. All technical operations shall be subject to a formal control procedure. Any substantial changes to key equipment shall be notified.
75. Key e-election or e-referendum equipment shall be located in a secure area and that area shall, throughout the election or referendum period, be guarded against interference of any sort and from any person. During the election or referendum period a physical disaster recovery plan shall be in place. Furthermore, any data retained after the election or referendum period shall be stored securely.
76. Where incidents that could threaten the integrity of the system occur, those responsible for operating the equipment shall immediately inform the competent electoral authorities, who will take the necessary steps to mitigate the effects of the incident. The level of incident which shall be reported shall be specified in advance by the electoral authorities.
D. Security
I. General requirements (referring to pre-voting, voting, and post-voting stages)
77. Technical and organisational measures shall be taken to ensure that no data will be permanently lost in the event of a breakdown or a fault affecting the e-voting system.
78. The e-voting system shall maintain the privacy of individuals. Confidentiality of voters' registers stored in or communicated by the e-voting system shall be maintained.
79. The e-voting system shall perform regular checks to ensure that its components operate in accordance with its technical specifications and that its services are available.
80. The e-voting system shall restrict access to its services, depending on the user identity or the user role, to those services explicitly assigned to this user or role. User authentication shall be effective before any action can be carried out.
81. The e-voting system shall protect authentication data so that unauthorised entities cannot misuse, intercept, modify, or otherwise gain knowledge of all or some of this data. In uncontrolled environments, authentication based on cryptographic mechanisms is advisable.
82. Identification of voters and candidates in a way that they can unmistakably be distinguished from other persons (unique identification) shall be ensured.
83. E-voting systems shall generate reliable and sufficiently detailed observation data so that election observation can be carried out. The time at which an event generated observation data shall be reliably determinable. The authenticity, availability and integrity of the data shall be maintained.
84. The e-voting system shall maintain reliable synchronised time sources. The accuracy of the time source shall be sufficient to maintain time marks for audit trails and observations data, as well as for maintaining the time limits for registration, nomination, voting, or counting.
85. Electoral authorities have overall responsibility for compliance with these security requirements, which shall be assessed by independent bodies.
II. Requirements in pre-voting stages (and for data communicated to the voting stage)
86. The authenticity, availability and integrity of the voters' registers and lists of candidates shall be maintained. The source of the data shall be authenticated. Provisions on data protection shall be respected.
87. The fact that candidate nomination and, if required, the decision of the candidate and/or the competent electoral authority to accept a nomination has happened within the prescribed time limits shall be ascertainable.
88. The fact that voter registration has happened within the prescribed time limits shall be ascertainable.
III. Requirements in the voting stage (and for data communicated during post-election stages)
89. The integrity of data communicated from the pre-voting stage (e.g., voters' registers and lists of candidates) shall be maintained. Data-origin authentication shall be carried out.
90. It shall be ensured that the e-voting system presents an authentic ballot to the voter. In the case of remote e-voting, the voter shall be informed about the means to verify that a connection to the official server has been established and that the authentic ballot has been presented.
91. The fact that a vote has been cast within the prescribed time limits shall be ascertainable.
92. Sufficient means shall be provided to ensure that the systems that are used by the voters to cast the vote can be protected against influence that could modify the vote.
93. Residual information holding the voter's decision or the display of the voter's choice shall be destroyed after the vote has been cast. In the case of remote e-voting, the voter shall be provided with information on how to delete, where that is possible, traces of the vote from the device used to cast the vote.
94. The e-voting system shall at first ensure that a user who tries to vote is eligible to vote. The e-voting system shall authenticate the voter and shall ensure that only the appropriate number of votes per voter is cast and stored in the electronic ballot box.
95. The e-voting system shall ensure that the voter's choice is accurately represented in the vote and that the sealed vote enters the electronic ballot box.
96. After the end of the e-voting period, no voter shall be allowed to gain access to the e-voting system. However, the acceptance of electronic votes into the electronic ballot box shall remain open for a sufficient period of time to allow for any delays in the passing of messages over the e-voting channel.
IV. Requirements in post-voting stages
97. The integrity of data communicated during the voting stage (e.g., votes, voters' registers, lists of candidates) shall be maintained. Data-origin authentication shall be carried out.
98. The counting process shall accurately count the votes. The counting of votes shall be reproducible.
99. The e-voting system shall maintain the availability and integrity of the electronic ballot box and the output of the counting process as long as required.
E. Audit
I. General
100. The audit system shall be designed and implemented as part of the e-voting system. Audit facilities shall be present on different levels of the system: logical, technical and application.
101. End-to-end auditing of an e-voting system shall include recording, providing monitoring facilities and providing verification facilities. Audit systems with the features set out in sections II - V below shall therefore be used to meet these requirements.
II. Recording
102. The audit system shall be open and comprehensive, and actively report on potential issues and threats.
103. The audit system shall record times, events and actions, including:
a. all voting-related information, including the number of eligible voters, the number of votes cast, the number of invalid votes, the counts and recounts, etc.;
b. any attacks on the operation of the e-voting system and its communications infrastructure;
c. system failures, malfunctions and other threats to the system.
III. Monitoring
104. The audit system shall provide the ability to oversee the election or referendum and to verify that the results and procedures are in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
105. Disclosure of the audit information to unauthorised persons shall be prevented.
106. The audit system shall maintain voter anonymity at all times.
IV. Verifiability
107. The audit system shall provide the ability to cross-check and verify the correct operation of the e-voting system and the accuracy of the result, to detect voter fraud and to prove that all counted votes are authentic and that all votes have been counted.
108. The audit system shall provide the ability to verify that an e-election or e-referendum has complied with the applicable legal provisions, the aim being to verify that the results are an accurate representation of the authentic votes.
V. Other
109. The audit system shall be protected against attacks which may corrupt, alter or lose records in the audit system.
110. Member states shall take adequate steps to ensure that the confidentiality of any information obtained by any person while carrying out auditing functions is guaranteed.
F. Certification
111. Member states shall introduce certification processes that allow for any ICT (Information and Communication Technology) component to be tested and certified as being in conformity with the technical requirements described in this recommendation.
112. In order to enhance international co-operation and avoid duplication of work, member states shall consider whether their respective agencies shall join, if they have not done so already, relevant international mutual recognition arrangements such as the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA), the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
[Source: http://www.coe.int/t/e/integrated_projects/democracy/02_Activities/02_e-voting/02_Recommendation/Rec(2004)11E_rec_adopted.asp#TopOfPage]
Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See other details in the news story "Election Markup Language (EML) Recommended to Member States by Council of Europe." General references in "Election Markup Language (EML)."


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Well, yesterday at Bandera Tejas Trail races I was proved I am wrong... and my twisted perception is, well, twisted.
I ran Bandera 100k when I just moved as part of Tejas-300 and "Run all TX races as soon as possible so you never have to again" project in 2010. Ever since I volunteered. My steady assignment is
a) take runners of the 50k to their race start (a quarter mile away from the main Lodge) and send them off on time after a short entertainment
|50k start
b) single-handedly (with always a help of one or few nicest random folks coming to help out at races) work the "unmanned water stop" for 25k and 50k at their first stop (mile 6 or so). This is where I get to yell "read race documents, water only!", or "you have to drink, it will be hot!", and so on while filling cups and bottles. This year my best friend Eman's son Hesham and Bearded Brother (healthy bars) owner Caleb were my right and left hands, and they were AMAZING!
|Hesham even imitated my words and intonation!
|Bearded Brothers
|Roger and Sarah
|Sharpie and Dave James
d) I get out of that AS as the biggest slam decreases, around 3 pm, to head to the finish line and see folks finish (or come for the loop turn-around) and have some fun just chillin' and talking.
|Henry Hobbs (left) - the trail marking guy and volunteer coordinator...well, and everything else.
|Top 3
|Best top 2
|2 of my coaching clients out of many more - PR's all around.
And I got to talk. Before all the madness (we arrived at 6 am, an hour and half before the start), at the AS's, between, to runners, to volunteers, to organizers, to people I have no clue who they are...I was pretty much embraced in an ocean of love, care, and support. What a dumbass I was as I un-friended so many nicest people when I was "crap I am no runner" one. Didn't show up for the events to offer my knowledge and support. Didn't reach out...I love these people, from fastest and elitite-est to mid-pack great friends to slowest "first time on trails" kind of peeps. I am sorry for being so self-absorbed in a pity-party. I am back. I need you in many more ways that I thought I do - and I am thrilled that I seem to be in need and "like" regardless whether I run next race, or next step, or not.
That said, part of my being busy (first paragraph) is due to actually taking care of myself, going to see various chiropractors, rolfers, LMT's, to tend to those little (and not so little) naggies we all have but dismiss as we train, and also to even indulge (I got a facial!). I am seeing my general physician and taking a new blood test on 21st, and plan, if all is well, to run as soon as I get results back - little, mind you! 10 min at a time twice a week! So yes, the Mt Mitchell 40M on February 21st is a bust (despite getting through lottery, paying entry fee, booking 2 flight tickets and a hotel) - in a few weeks, I will exchange those tickets for a flight to San Francisco, and take Larry on a vacation trip to see a few of our good friends. That' be good for the soul.
As for now - be good to yourself, cherish when you can be fit and strong, every step of it, live balance, and enjoy other aspects of life!


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On Wednesday evening November 16 the St. Joseph Valley Association of Wabash Men welcomed Dr. Stephen Webb '83, Wabash professor of Religion and Philosophy, to South Bend for a Wabash on the Road event.
Wabash alumni, parents, and friends met at the Holiday Inn-City Center for a fun evening of fellowship and discussion. Following a short reception and dinner, Professor Webb led a lively discussion on what was titled "President Bush and His Religious Rhetoric" and centered around Webb's article "Providence and the President" set to be published this winter.
Special thanks to Dick Barger '55 for organizing the evening which allowed Wabash alumni, their spouses, parents of current students, parents of alumni, and others to take part in a typical Wabash classroom type discussion.
There was a little wrinkle put into the plans for the evening. The date had to be changed from November 17 to November 16 when Dr. Webb learned that his book The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound had been selected as the RCA (Religious Communications Association) 2005 Book of the Year. Public recognition of this award would take place in Boston on November 17 and Dr. Webb would be attending.


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Cape of good things
Salty as the sea, savory as a stiff breeze – that's what South Africa tastes like. Now proponents of the wild-food movement are rediscovering the edible joys of nature.
It's always a race against time. Only twice a month, when the moon draws the massive waters of the Atlantic Ocean far enough out to sea, can chef Roushanna Gray collect her ingredients from the tidal rock pools left behind. Here, on wild Scar-borough Beach nearly 50 kilometers south of Cape Town, she gathers edible algae, kelp and mussels for her sea foraging workshops. As the word "foraging" suggests, it's all about searching for food out in the wild. "We need to hurry, the tide is coming in," warns Gray, handing out bags and gardening shears to a dozen rubber-booted helpers.
The workshop participants balance precariously as they step across the wet, glistening rocks in search of just the right edibles. Gray wades through the icy water barefoot, bending down here and there to inspect the dense growth. Bushes of algae wave fern-like to and fro and bluish-black mussels shimmer beside bright, colorful anemones. "You need to twist and pull to get the mussels off the rock," explains Gray as she slips a handful into her bag, elegantly sidestepping an oncoming wave.
A salt-laden mist hangs over the ocean and jagged mountains flank the beach. It was here, 350 years ago, that Dutch settlers spotted the Khoisan, indigenous South Africans, foraging for food. They called these curious little people strandloper (the Afrikaans term for "beach walker"). Recent archaeological finds suggest that the Khoisan are directly descended from homo sapiens; the fertile vegetation of the Western Cape provided modern humans with the ideal environment in which to develop. When the first Dutch ships cast anchor, the Khoisan were still living as hunter gatherers, much like Stone Age people. The land on the Western Cape was so fertile that for thousands of years, they required no technological developments in order to lead a good life. Foraging in the sea today, following in their footsteps, few South Africans realize how closely interwoven with nature indigenous people's lives actually were. Most of the Khoisan died of imported diseases or were enslaved and so denied access to their natural habitats, so their precious knowledge of the edible landscape of the Western Cape all but lost.
Gray, 37, founded the Veld and Sea organization to raise a new awareness for nature's wealth by reviving it with special cooking experiences. When she and her husband left Cape Town for the country and went to live at the Good Hope Gardens Nursery near Scarborough owned by her husband's parents, Gray didn't know much about cooking and knew little about botany, but her curiosity drew her to investigate her natural surroundings. Very soon, she was overwhelmed by the variety of flavors she found in the plants growing all around her. "I fell in love with this edible environment," she says enthusiastically.
In addition to sea foraging, Gray also teaches people how to identify and gather wild herbs, flowers and mushrooms. She passes on what she herself has learned from archaeologists and botanists about the edible potential of her surroundings. The more scientists discover, the more they realize that – contrary to their reputation as "simple" hunter gatherers – the Khoisan possessed a very complex knowledge of nature. At the nursery, an idyllically located spot almost in the middle of nowhere, Gray teaches this complexity in a playful way by foraging and cooking with her groups. The "Playground for indigenous plants" is announced on a weathered sign at the entrance to the driveway. Gray's guests can experiment to their heart's content here in her cozy kitchen amid wild gardens and nursery plants. "Foraging opens our eyes to our unique natural environment and connects us with an important part of our history," says Gray. The province of Western Cape, which surrounds the city of Cape Town, ranks third in the world for its biodiversity, and it's this incredible diversity of nature that Gray wants to help her workshop participants to appreciate.
A fascination with plant diversity was also behind the Botanical Bar in central Cape Town, whose unusual cocktails contain extracts of endemic plants, i.e. plants that grow nowhere else on earth. Kenan Tatt, 29, who is part of the team behind the unique bar concept, recalls: "None of us knew much about botanicals. So we decided to go on a big trip." They drove around the country in a van for two weeks, interviewing botanists, traditional healers and environmentalists. En route, they picked up typically South African flavors. Back home, they immersed their finds in local spirits or apple vinegar, pressed them into concentrates and poured them into large glasses. These colorful mixtures – the team's "aroma library" of botanicals – now adorns the bar. The main items on the menu are four cocktails named for the regions they toured: Kwazulu Coast, Cederberg, West Coast and Hawequas Mountains each reflect a specific region, like the arid Cederberg Mountains where the sweet honeybush grows or the tropical Kwazulu Coast, known for its full-bodied rum.
The barmen's personal history is also reflected in the cocktails. Former working musician and passionate surfer Tatt developed the West Coast cocktail. "I wanted to conceptualize something which would remind you of this feeling you have when you walk with cold feet over warm rocks," he explains. The main ingredient is Amari Atlantic Ocean Gin, a Cape Town gin distilled with seawater and seasoned with plant extracts from the West coast. The beaten egg white is reminiscent of sea foam and the oddly shaped glass in which it is served lies in your hand like a stone smoothed by water, its rim rubbed with a mix of seaweed and sea salt, conjuring thoughts of the ocean with every sip. "These days, we bring back new ideas from every walk," says Tatt. "Using endemic plants to mix drinks, we can give people an experience that they would not have anywhere else in the world."
I wanted to conceptualize the feeling of walking over warm rocks with cold feet
Guests at the slow-food restaurant Wolfgat, which made the best restaurant lists in South African restaurant guides after only one year in business, also get to taste things they have never tried before. Wolfgat is in Paternoster, a fishing village and sleepy oasis in the middle of a barren, sun-scorched, windswept landscape 160 kilometers north of Cape Town. Chef Kobus van der Merwe uses the fruits of this harsh environment to create a seven-course menu. Cooking lies in the van der Merwe family, but only after working for years as an editor for the South African restaurant magazine Eat Out, did Kobus eventually trade in his laptop for a stove. The 39-year-old has been living in Paternoster for ten years and that's where he developed his "hyperlocal" cooking style. "The thing with the West Coast landscape is, you have to notice the detail," he says, laying out the spoils from his morning round on a large counter. Van der Merwe wants his guests to understand what they are eating using all of their senses, so instead of turning plants into sauces or pestos, he plays with taste, structure and texture, but still maintaining their natural characteristics. For example, he beds oysters, to which he has added Cape fig juice, in the succulent plant's own fleshy leaves. Raw soutslaai, a low-growing plant, is served with fish because its natural saltiness and acidity obviate the need for lemon juice. The tender leaves of the kiesieblaar plant are roasted in the oven and served whole like baked chips.
"The menu is a snapshot of our natural environment. The dishes change from day to day. They are affected by the seasons and the weather," explains van der Merwe, who was experimenting with wild flavors long before foraging became a trend. He had always been interested in sustainable living and sustainable economics in a country that needs to make radical changes after many years of intense drought if it is to be able to feed its people in the future. Agriculture, the way it is practiced in Europe, has its limits in South Africa, where water shortages are only likely to become worse. The local plants are adapted to the climate, require far less water and no pesticides. That's why van der Merwe is so interested in cultivating endemic wild plants. After all, if every South African went out to forage for food, there would soon be nothing left. The amounts you can pick are already strictly regulated and poaching carries a heavy fine. Van der Merwe doesn't gather plants in the dunes in front of his restaurant either, but on abandoned properties or in his own garden. His dream is for cultivation to turn what's now a trend into a sustainable lifestyle. The fact that his restaurant is so successful gives him hope. "Many people feel disconnected from nature due to the modern way of life," he observes. "For many, it's a romantic idea to live off the land like our forefathers did."
Explore nature on the Cap
Try your hand
Blend indigenous plants into teas and oils at a Fynbos Experience workshop.
Step out
Enjoy a nature walk on the Phyllisia circuit in the Cape Point Nature Reserve.
Indulge in a massage to the sound of the waves – on the Twelve Apostles' terrace.
Come and marvel
Join the South African National Biodiversity Institute for a tour of the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden.
Getting there
Lufthansa is operating up to five weekly flights from both Frankfurt (FRA) and Munich (MUC) to Cape Town (CPT) in January. Use the app to calculate your miles: www.miles-and-more.com/app


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Eighteen percent of the workforce could retire within the next five years.
The finding, in a recent report by the ADP Retirement Research Institute, a research arm of the global provider of human capital management solutions, is an appropriate reminder of the heft of the Baby Boomer generation and the impact their aging will have on society.
The report examined six industries industries including hospitality, public administration, manufacturing, health care, education and retail. The percentage of individuals anticipated to exit the workforce ranged from 9 percent in hospitality to 28 percent in public administration.
Many have contended that due to the financial crisis and increased life expectancy among various other factors, people will be working past traditional retirement age. For the purpose of the study, ADP assumed that the average retirement age was 61. Researchers concluded that in many industries, individuals will retire at 61 despite theories suggesting otherwise.
Although the run-off of Baby Boomers could help bring down a disproportionately high youth unemployment rate, many industries value their older, experienced workforce and fear the impending retirement wave.
"Retirement data provides a critical glimpse into the future of a company's workforce. Businesses will want to assess how their workforces compare to the averages and consider strategies for recruitment and training in order to replace the significant loss of knowledge, experience and company culture that can be expected," according Ahu Yildirmaz, Sr. Director, Market Insights at the ADP Research institute.


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True love isn't lost. It is just misconstrued.
It's when Ted sees the mother for the first time, that words bereave him. His heart stops and he keeps staring. It is just one of those moments when somebody beautiful falls on your eyes and time stops. You are rendered speechless and you forget living for a while. The reason it wasn't stretched was probably because creators ran short of time, also because it was just a moment and like any other such gazillion moments, we always let it pass by, without actually doing anything about it. So did Ted.
The Farewell:
I always thought I was as strong as a mountain. But then I encountered goodbyes.
I just feel like a hug isn't enough.
Ted replies, "E.T. goodbye?" Although everybody knew Ted was going to leave them, nobody had given it a serious thought. When reality hit them and Ted humored his way through farewells, Lily was the most emotional one. It struck Barney too. He knew what he would miss the most about Ted – high fives. And the 'high infinity' was born.
The Absence:
We know this moment. We have lived it all our lives. The absence of someone dear. As Marshall explained to Lily how everything seemed different without Ted, and how he could feel his absence, Ted sits down with a beer at MacLaren's with a smile on his face only to break it to them that he had found someone.
The Divorce:
What would have really bummed us out? If Barney would have ended up being any less legendary. Yes. We find him up at his game. To believe Robin and Barney ending up with a happily ever after would have been a stretch. The creators made sure of that, by ending their short lived legendary run with a quick amicable divorce. Reality sucks. Nothing pans out the way we want it to be. It was a hint and we knew right there, we were in for a twist.
Big moments:
"This right here, this is why we can't fall out of each other's lives."
Lily is broken because nothing would remain the same. Even though Robin makes a vague promise to hang in for the big moments, it is hard for her to abide. A blast from the past when she finds Ted wearing his old hanging chad costume:
How do you do this, Ted? How do you sit out here all night on the roof in the cold and still have faith your pumpkin's gonna show up?
It is shattering for her to see Ted, the guy who she was supposed to end up with, doing great with another woman. Watching the tainted possibility, the 'it-could-have-been-me', gives her a hard time. She knew she had thrown it away, the chance she had for a happy ending with Ted, and yet there is nothing she could really do about. She chooses to stay away from their lives. It is shattering to see a sad Lily, who looks adorably cute in her white whale costume, when she is hit with the disheartening truth:
It's just never gonna be how it was. It can't be.
Judge Fudge:
Really great to see how things finally pan out for Marshall. Great to see 'Judge Fudge' in action. Eventually we find Marshall ending up with an even more awesome title 'Fudge Supreme'.
Barney wraps up his life with a 'please-let-me-be-me' and scores himself a verdict. That is how we always saw Barney. It wouldn't have been legendary had Barney really walked the distance. Besides three years was a really long time for him. He makes himself clear with:
If it wasn't gonna happen with Robin then it's just not gonna happen with anyone.
Barney finally has his epiphany, with his accidental daughter, the only girl to whom he says, while intending it:
You are the love of my life. Everything I have and everything I am is yours, forever.
The Mother:
We finally discover mother's actual name which was subtly wrapped up under the umbrella story. All those moments where Ted had missed her finally breathe alive and they connect instantly. Her blanks are filled by Ted's story to which she says:
Funny how sometimes you just find things.
All those memories of her have been wrapped up perfectly in heartwarming photographs. She was just so perfect for Ted.
You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom, I knew I have to love this woman as much as I can, for long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.
The Disease:
It is exactly at this moment we realize that those kids hearing the story are in a motherless world. That the mother had died of some disease and that Ted has been living without her for six years.
Even then, in what can only be called the worst of times, all I could do was look at her and thank God, thank every god there is, or ever was, or will be, and the whole universe, and anyone else I can possibly thank that I saw that beautiful girl on that train platform, and that I had the guts to stand up, walk over to her, tap her on the shoulder, open my mouth and speak.
Robin, the one:
Whilst most of us are sniveling over the fact why it didn't end then and there, the creators decided to trickle down the climax into the story. We all know Ted has been telling us a quite intricate story ever since 2005. His kids point out the apparent – "Mom's hardly in the story." Why would Ted take the trouble to tell such a detailed tale unless he had a point to make? His kids see through it and throw the obvious at his face. Ted was looking for an approval – his children's take on his decision to go after Robin.
Admit it! It has always been Robin right from the start. We all have secretly wished it to be Robin. The moment Ted stole that French blue horn for her. The moment he looked at her and said, "I love you" for the first time. The moment he missed that interview just because she needed him. The heights he went just to give her that locket. It is hard to find a lover like Ted. Even Robin had realized that, but only at the verge of her wedding.
Robin's happily ever after signs off in style once again with that old French blue horn we had seen in the pilot. The background fades with a happy ending and an apt song – "Heaven" by The Walkmen that goes:
Remember remember….all we fight for.
Now that the story has found its conclusion, we are going to miss it forever. There are a lot of things that I am going to miss about the show. One of the greatest bits about it was that it never lost its amazing sense of humor. Ted's love stories were always drenched with the right amount of love and fun. It was always great to see Barney building make-believe stories to score and then later icing it with, "True Story!" Marshall had always been an honest and loyal lover. His way of telling a story would just light you up. Lily was the backbone of the gang and the sane one. Robin was the best thing that had happened to the group, more importantly to Barney and to Ted.
Even though the story was pulled out of context, and there were dispensable bits of exaggeration engulfed, I felt it was one of the finest runs that TV had ever encountered. Like any other death of an era, a TV show, or a movie, HIMYM, you too have imprinted memories in our head. Now we feel your absence. You shall be missed. You shall be missed badly.


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Financial literacy: It's the thing we all know we should master and yet so few of us truly monitor and pay attention to our finances as much as we should. The truth is that being able to understand what it means to have a good (or bad) credit score, knowing what the best credit card APR is, or learning how to contribute and manage a 401(k) is essential in the financial success of our futures. Here are five financial numbers that you should add to your vocabulary to ensure you're maximizing your financial knowledge to its fullest potential.
1. Credit Score
Your credit score impacts many facets of your life including getting a loan for a car or house and being approved for a credit card. Because a poor credit score can have such a negative impact on your life, it's important that you frequently check your credit score. Experts recommend checking your credit report at least once a year to catch errors or identity theft.
APY — or annual percentage yield — is your yearly compounded interest generally associated with a bank account. Every year, your financial institution will pay you a certain percentage of the money you keep in an account and the APY determines how much you receive.
APR — or annual percentage rate of interest — works the other way around. APR is the interest that you pay a financial institution or creditor on loans or credit cards. Therefore, if you know you won't be able to pay your credit card bill in full each month, choose a card with a lower APR.
4. Mortgage rate
A mortgage rate is the interest rate charged by a mortgage lender, in this case regarding home ownership. Before getting a loan, shop around for a financial institution that has a low mortgage rate because a house is a large investment, and paying an above-market interest rate is a waste of money. Once you've obtained a loan, you should know your mortgage rate so you can make sure you're getting the best deal out there. If you happen upon a lower rate, consider refinancing your home to save money. Before you make your decision, calculate the "payback period" because refinancing fees can be expensive.
5. 401(k) Fees
Recently, NerdWallet published a study that calculated fees associated with companies' 401(k) plans can actually reduce a two-income family's return on investment by as much as $155,000 in a lifetime. Many of us are unaware of these costly fees. How it works is when you invest in a company's 401k plan, the money is often used to purchase mutual funds, some of which charge high fees and front-end loads. These high fees are associated with active funds using managers who make the stock purchasing decisions. On the other hand, passive funds that follow a market index without an active manager generally have lower fees. Do some research to learn more about your company's 401k plan and the funds it selects to ensure you're getting the most out of your hard earned money.
Remember that improving your financial literacy won't happen overnight, and it doesn't mean you have to become a finance professional or master complicated math. The trick is to simply enhance your basic understanding of how money management works and the state of your own finances so that you maintain good credit, stay or work toward getting out of debt, and feel financially secure overall.
More Great Advice From Manilla.com:
- 5 Financial Corners You Should Never Cut
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- 11 Financial Lessons to Avoid Learning the Hard Way
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Nature abhors a vacuum. And apparently, so do evolutionists. When shown scientific evidence that disproves portions of their beloved theory, they simply change directions and prune the "evolutionary tree of life," reworking the alleged common ancestors in the process. Never mind if the new "replacement" is correct, or even has any validity to it—as long as there is a suitable alternative. Take, for instance, the coelacanth. For years, this lobed-finned fish was touted as the creature that took us out of the water onto the land. It was allegedly the ancestor of modern tertrapods. Prior to 1938, the coelacanth was known only from fossils, which afforded scientists a great deal of speculation when they tried to extrapolate a physiology from the record of the rocks. Certain structures, such as fins, were determined to be the forerunners of amphibians' legs. With joy abounding, evolutionists designated this as the single animal that allowed fish to crawl out of the muck and mire in order to live on dry land.
Textbooks were quick to point out this "missing link" as a transitional animal between water-dwelling and land-dwelling creatures. For instance, one book explained: "The coelacanth is the only surviving member of the ancient group of fishes from which modern four-footed land animals are thought to have evolved" (Maton, et al., 1997, p. 105). Another biology textbook contains a beautiful picture of this amazing creature, with the following caption:
The living coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae. Discovered in the western Indian Ocean in 1938, this coelacanth represents a group of fishes that had been thought to be extinct for about 70 million years. Scientists who studied living individuals in their natural habitat at depths of 100 to 200 meters observed them drifting in the current and hunting other fishes at night. Some individuals are nearly 3 meters long; they have a slender, fat-filled swim bladder. Although Latimeria is a very strange animal, its features mark it as a member of the evolutionary line that gave rise to the terrestrial tetrapods (Raven and Johnson, 1989, p. 857).
It seemed a good fit at the time. The funny-looking fish with lobed front fins appeared to be the perfect candidate for the evolutionists' transitional creature. Yet, the actual facts of the matter have shown this to be completely wrong.
In December 1938, a living coelacanth was caught off the coast of Africa. Soon thereafter, the joy previously expressed by evolutionists turned to consternation, once it was determined that the soft anatomy of the coelacanth was nothing like that of an amphibian. A 1999 book review in Nature provided the following commentary regarding the anatomy of coelacanths: "…it shares very few advanced characteristics with the tetrapods, and this puts it somewhere near the base of the sarcopterygian [vertebrates in which the fin/limbs portion of the skeleton articulates to the girdles by means of a single bone—BH] tree. In a sense, the coelacanth tells us more about the primitive condition of all bony fishes than about the origin of tetrapods" (Janvier, p. 856). Subsequent discoveries of this special fish soon made it quite apparent that these fish did not live in shallow areas "ready to crawl out onto land." As Peter Forey observed, "Comoran coelacanths live at about 180 meters, below the 18° C isotherm, and inhabit submarine caves formed through recent volcanic activity" (1998, 395:319). These animals, which allegedly were supposed to have crawled out on land, are actually deep-water fish.
But, as I mentioned earlier, evolutionists abhor a vacuum. Their beloved transitional creature was proved to be wrong. So what did evolutionists do? Did they own up to the mistake, and tell the thousands of biology students that their textbooks were wrong? Did they try to "set the record straight?" Or, did they call in the "spin doctors"—reassuring the public that they have a response to the data that are in obvious conflict with their theory? Science is supposed to be "self-correcting," which would seem to suggest that these "mistakes" would be corrected (and admitted). Instead, in the case of the coelacanth, this once-prized "transitional" creature has simply been replaced. Move over coelacanth—hello lungfish.
In the April 6, 2004 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Henner Brinkman and his colleagues reported that they had definitively determined that the lungfish is the closest living relative of land vertebrates. They begin their report by admitting: "The colonization of land by tetrapod ancestors is one of the major questions in the evolution of vertebrates" (101:4900). They went on to observe: "Since its discovery, many comparative morphologists and paleontologists considered the coelacanth to be the closest living relative of the land vertebrates" (p. 4900).
The researchers compared DNA sequences of nuclear-encoded recombination activating genes (Rag1 and Rag2) from three major lungfish groups, as well as the Indonesian coelacanth. In summarizing their results, they concluded: "The phylogenetic analyses of two RAGproteins presented here were based on the biggest nuclear sequence data set collected so far on the tetrapod origin question. These data strongly support the hypothesis that the lungfishes and not the coelacanth are the closest relatives of the land vertebrates. This result emphasizes the importance of study of all aspects of the biology and genomics of extinct and extant lungfish; our closest 'fish' relatives" (p. 4904, emp. added).
So now, textbooks will begin featuring the lungfish as the animal that pulled us out of the water and onto the land. Forget the fact that there is not one shred of scientific proof that this actually occurred. And forget the fact that twenty years from now we may have to exchange the lungfish for some other creature. The important thing to remember is that evolutionists have everything under control, and they have an answer for everything. This recent revelation mirrors what occurred regarding horse evolution. For decades, horses were one of the evolutionary pillars, as textbooks showed the alleged stages (e.g., Eohippus to Equus). After that information was proven false, these images were simply replaced with camels. At some point, the plasticity of the evolutionary theory should be called into question by right-thinking people. And at some point, evolutionists should admit they "got it wrong." But not today. For now, they have a replacement waiting in the wings.
Brinkmann, Henner, Byrappa Venkatesh, Sydney Brenner, and Axel Meyer (2004), "Nuclear Protein-Coding Genes Support Lungfish and not the Coelacanth as the Closest Living Relatives of Land Vertebrates," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 101[14]:4900-4905, April 6.
Forey, Peter (1998), "A Home Away from Home for Coelacanths," Nature, 395:319-320, September 24.
Janvier, Philippe (1999), "Coleacanth a' la Marseillaise," Nature, 401:854-856, October 28.
Maton, Anthea, Jean Hopkins, Susan Johnson, David LaHart, Maryanna Quon Warner, and Jill D. Wright (1997), Exploring Life Science (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall), second edition.
Raven, Peter H. and George B. Johnson (1989), Biology (St. Louis, MO: Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing), second edition.


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Species In-Depth
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This shark is no longer on exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Geographic Distribution
Tropical and subtropical coastal waters worldwide. Also river systems and some freshwater lakes. Off the Pacific coast, bull sharks are found from Southern California (rare) to the Gulf of Mexico.
Bull sharks live in a variety of habitats—salty, shallow, coastal waters in depths of 1-150 m (3.3-492 ft); bays and harbors; low salinity estuaries, lagoons and river mouths; and freshwater lakes and rivers. Although they can spend long periods of time in freshwater, it is doubtful that they spend their entire lives in such a habitat. Juveniles stay in estuaries and shallower coastal waters, gradually venturing out into deeper waters as they mature.
Physical Characteristics
Bull sharks are robust-bodied with a blunt, rounded snout. They have two dorsal fins. The first is large and triangular with a pointed or rounded tip. The second fin is about one third the height of the first fin. There is no skin ridge between the fins as is common in many other sharks. Their upper teeth are broad, triangular, and heavily serrated while those in their lower jaw are narrow, triangular, and finely serrated. The rounded eyes of these sharks are small compared to those of other gray sharks.
These sharks are countershaded. They are pale to dark gray on their upper bodies, fading to white on their undersides. The dark tips on the fins of juveniles fade as the sharks mature.
Females are slightly larger than males, averaging 2.4 m (8 ft) in length and 130 kg (285 lb) in weight. The average length of males is 2.3 m (7.5 ft) with a weight of 95 kg (209 lb). The maximum length of bull sharks is believed to be about 3.5 m (11.5 ft) and the maximum weight, 230 kg (507 lb).
Their extensive diet includes many prey items: bony fishes, turtles, crustaceans, cephalopods, marine mammals, birds, mollusks, and almost anything else they find, including garbage. While juveniles prefer bony fishes, the preference of adults is for cartilaginous fishes such as rays and other sharks, especially juvenile sand sharks that they seek out in shallow nursery grounds.
These sharks usually breed in the ocean and in estuaries, but there is evidence that mating can take place in freshwater as well. Bull sharks reach sexual maturity when they are 5-6 years old. At this age, males measure 1.6-2.3 m (5.2-7.4 ft) in length, and females 1.8-2.3 m (5.9-7.5 ft). After a gestation period of 10-11 months, the female bull shark moves into an estuary where she delivers 1-13 live, free-swimming pups. The pups are 55-80 cm (21.6-31.5 in) long at birth.
They are solitary hunters, swimming sluggishly close to the bottom until prey appears. Then they can accelerate to a swimming speed of 19 km/hr (11.8 mph). They rarely show themselves at the water's surface.
On the east coast of the United States, bull sharks migrate as far north as Massachusetts when the waters are warm, returning south to subtropical and tropical coastal waters as the water becomes cooler. They also migrate from the ocean up freshwater rivers in several areas of the world.
Bull sharks are a rarity among sharks, in that they can tolerate great variations in water salinity, ranging from marine to brackish to fresh. Migrating back and forth among these waters, the gills, rectal glands, blood, hormone system, and kidneys of these sharks are involved in a complex process called osmoregulation. They cope with freshwater by lowering the urea content in their tissues and removing excess water from their bodies as very dilute urine.
Females are believed to have a lifespan of about 16 years and males, about 12.
Bull sharks are categorized as low risk/not threatened on the IUCN Red List. However, because of their habitats in areas heavily impacted by human activity, destruction of their nursery grounds by development, target and bycatch in many inshore fisheries, and popularity as a recreational fish, they may move to the threatened list.
Commercial and recreational fishing regulations are in place for bull sharks on the U.S. Atlantic coast where they are included in the larger coastal shark management group, which is overfished. On the Pacific coast, where there is no commercial or recreational fishing of this species, there are no management measures.
Special Notes
Bull sharks are well known for their ability to live in salt, brackish, and freshwater. Single individuals are found in the brackish water of the Indian River system, 3000 km (1864 mi) up the Mississippi River to Illinois, and as far inland as 3,500 km (2175 mi) up the Amazon. Populations are found in several lakes, among them Lake Nicaragua, where they breed and were once thought to be landlocked. However, it has been determined that they find their way to the Caribbean via rivers and estuaries.
The bull shark has numerous common names, many depending on its geographic location. Among these are Ganges shark (India), Nicaragua shark (Central America), Swan River whaler (Australia), and Zambezi River shark (Africa). Other names include the shovelnose, freshwater whaler, square-nose, river, slipway, ground, and cub shark.


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Muscle strain to sideline Kershaw at least a month
SAN DIEGO -- Injured Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw is likely to be sidelined for a month or longer, the club revealed Tuesday.
"After consultation with Dr. Neal ElAttrache and a review of the MRI scan, Kershaw will be placed on a rehab that includes a submaximal throwing program for the next two to three weeks," the team said in a release.
"He will then be reevaluated by ElAttrache to determine when he can start throwing at increased velocity. The timetable on when he might return to Major League competition will be determined when he is reevaluated in two to three weeks."
Kershaw was placed on the disabled list Saturday, retroactive to March 23, with a strained Teres Major muscle strain near his left armpit, with which he apparently pitched in the Australian season opener.
Kershaw was eligible to return April 8, but manager Don Mattingly said he believed the two-time Cy Young Award winner would be out longer than that and will probably need a Minor League rehab assignment.
"We'll let him throw his way back," Mattingly said. "He's gotten far enough away that he'll need a progression [to return]. This is going to take some time."
Kershaw's absence from the rotation means Hyun-Jin Ryu is the likely starter in Friday's home opener against the Giants, with Paul Maholm expected to start Saturday and Zack Greinke on Sunday.
Injured starter Josh Beckett, who threw a 48-pitch simulated game on Monday, could be activated soon, Mattingly said, even though he is not built up for a 100-pitch start.
"If we need him, it would be a shorter outing," Mattingly said of Beckett.


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