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DeKALB – DeKalb Mayor John Rey's first year in office has been a fast ride of building relationships and making decisions, but one's been more trying than another.
"There are a lot of formal aspects of the position, and those were fairly easy to grasp and become involved in," Rey said. "The informal relationship-building has been one of the challenging dimensions, but at the same time those have been the most satisfying, too."
Rey was elected mayor April 9, 2013, garnering 1,500 votes to win a four-way race. Before his successful bid for mayor, Rey served as the president of the Ben Gordon Foundation, the DeKalb School District 428 board and the Kiwanis Club of DeKalb.
May 6 marked the official start of Rey's tenure. He replaced Kris Povlsen, who decided he would not seek re-election after 16 years on the City Council, including five as mayor.
"I think the transition was a good one," Povlsen said. "I think he's really doing the job he needs to do with the drive and motivation needed there."
Among the first things on Rey's and fellow council members' agenda was the selection of a new city manager to replace Mark Biernacki, who retired in June. They completed a nearly six-month search in December, selecting Anne Marie Gaura.
Rey called the selection process a balancing act between being involved in the search and selection while not becoming entirely absorbed by the process. He said while he knew he would be asked to consult on some issues in the interim, he also knew selecting a search firm would be the best option.
"It probably stands out as one of the most
important aspect of this past year, was to restaff that city manager position," Rey said. "I felt we wanted to develop a strong field of candidates, which I think we did."
The first year of Rey's four-year term also included approving the annexation for 458 acres near DeKalb High School, 501 W. Dresser Road, for the Irongate subdivision. Developer ShoDeen Homes plans to build more than 1,100 homes on the property over a 20-year period. Rey said he was pleased to reach a compromise on the long, often contentious process and move forward with development in the city.
Fifth Ward Alderman Ron Naylor, who served with Povlsen and Rey, applauded Rey's work with fellow aldermen as well as his stance as a visible mayor who takes part in community discussions and is accessible in the office.
"I think he does a good job leading the council and getting a consensus from the council," Naylor said.
Beyond his work at city hall, Rey said he's proud of the relationship he has built with Northern Illinois University President Doug Baker. Rey characterized the relationship as a collaborative one that is open and genuine.
Baker became president of the university in July, but said Rey was quick to connect after Baker's appointment in April.
"We met and discussed common ground," Baker said. "We tried to think about economic development, transportation and revitalizing some of the community."
Baker added, "I've been impressed with the energy he brings. I think he's really sincere about it."
Rey said although he knows the primary focus of student learning will be in the classroom or laboratory, he would like NIU students also to gain experience in the community. As part of his focus to strengthen the city-university bond, Rey attended both of the "Bold Futures" workshops hosted by the university to look at ways to boost student enrollment and improve the connection between NIU and DeKalb.
He plans to hold a town hall meeting Saturday to address concerns from residents about some of the university's ideas.
Financial concerns from the city will also be a focus for Rey in the coming months and through the rest of his term.
By 2019, the city hopes to have the reserves of its general fund, water fund and airport at 25 percent of their annual expenditures. Rey said reserves are around 17 percent, a slight gain from a year ago.
The city is in the thick of drafting a budget for the fiscal year that starts on July 1, and two outside financial consultants are reviewing the city's financial policies and budget as part of Gaura's financial responsibility initiative.
"[We're] focusing on financial reporting, financial procedures which are clearly a priority to get an understanding on those matters and to provide clarity and more accountability where its needed within those procedures," Rey said.


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Rockies Lose…Somebody Light that Fuse
D-Backs vs Rockies Game 3 of 4
Another Rockies loss at home. Just like the rain and the last month of crappy weather, I've had enough of that. ROCKIES…Somebody step and be that guy. We need one Rockies player to grab a big 'ole book of matches and start lighting fuses under each of these Rockies a-sses.
It's painful to watch. It's even more painful if you paid to watch it.
I took about 800 pictures at this game but due to upload limitations and the fact this game was a loss I'll have to cut it short.
Rantics in attendance today were Joy and Jim, Geoff, Dan, Emily, Douglas, Mike, Amy and yours truly.
I like Amezaga, he's one of the few Rockies this season that will sign autographs on the wall.
I'm not sure what happened but Joy has been bringing her Chris Iannetta bat to every game she's attended and the bat remains unsigned…Rockies what happened to the autograph luv on the wall?
15 days…Wishful thinking. He was having such a good season too.
Here's the final score. I'm curious to know how many games the Rockies have lost this season by one game?
C,mon Rockies, give the fellas a good win streak to talk about.
I'm "D" The Rockpile Ranter and if needed I've got matches.

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Blue Angel Roy Orbison
(Sha... la... [Am]la, dooby [Gm7]wah, dum dum [C13]dum, yip yip)
(F[F]um, sha la [Am]la, dooby [Gm7]wah, dum dum [C13]dum, yip yip)
Verse 1:
[F]Oh, Blue Angel [Dm] don't you cry
[Bb] Just because he s[C]aid goodbye
[F]Oh, ah-ah-[Dm]aah
[Bb]No, don't c[C]ry
Verse 2:
Oh, Blue Angel have no fear, I'll
Brush away lonely teardrops
Hey... hey
Whoa whoa... ooh...
(Yip yip, f[F]um, [Bb]wah wah wah w[F]ah)
Bridge 1:
[F] [F#] [G] [G#] [A] [A] (quarter-note triplets)
[Bb] Well, love's precious f[Gm]lame
[F] Just burned in v[Dm]ain
B[Bb]ut you're not to blame
[G7] You thought love was a game, it's [C7]oh such a shame
But don't you [Bb]cry, don't s[F]igh
I'll tell you [Gm]why
I'll never say good[Bb]bye [C]
Blue A[F]ngel
(Sha la [Am]la, dooby [Gm7]wah, dum dum [C13]dum)
(Yip yip, f[F]um, [Bb]wah wah wah w[F]ah)
Bridge 2:
[F] [F#] [G] [G#] [A] [A] (quarter-note triplets)
[Bb] We'll have lovin' so f[Gm]ine
[F] Magic moments div[Dm]ine
[Bb]If you'll just say you're mine
I'll love you till the end of ti-i-ime
Don't you... w[F]orry your p[Bb]retty head [F]
I'll never let you [Gm]do-ow-ow-ow-[Bb]ow-own [Gm]
I'll always be a[Bb]rou-ou-ou-ou-ound [C]
Blue An[F]gel
(Sha la [Am]la, dooby [Gm7]wah, dum dum [C13]dum, yip yip, f[F]um)
[Bb] (N.C.) [Fmaj7]
Blu-ue a-an-gel (Sha... la... la)
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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Added brackets around those chords that didn't have them only so that the song would transpose correctly (not many can sing at the Big O's range so I have to drop it down five semitones). Transposes properly now. Griff


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It must be said the NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Jacksonville Jaguars tomorrow night, is not a marquee matchup. The Texans are two-and-10, the Jaguars look a little better, having won three of their last four games, but that was only after losing the first eight games of the season. In fact, these teams combine for the lowest-winning percentage in the history of the NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" games.
Still, as NPR's Mike Pesca reports, this is an NFL game and NFL games draw viewers and interest like nothing else on TV.
MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Since September, the most watched TV program of any kind - sitcom, drama, ill-tempered housewives, anything - was the first between the Chiefs and the Broncos. The second most watched TV show of any kind was an NFL game between the Broncos and Cowboys.
The third - you know what? I watch football with TiVo, so let's skip ahead.
Twenty-fifth most watched show, of any kind, like every show on this list was also a football game. It's easy to see why. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, old veterans, young gunslingers, championship ambitions. So what happens when the game on national TV isn't that good? When it's quantifiably the worst matchup in the history of "Thursday Night Football." What will people do?
JOHN OURAND: People still watch.
PESCA: John Ourand covers media for Sports Business Journal.
OURAND: I can pretty much guarantee you that this is going to get over six million viewers, 'cause all of these games get over six million viewers. And if it's close - if it's a close game, even with bad teams, it could be over seven million viewers.
PESCA: Those six or seven million will double, maybe even triple, tomorrow night's nationally televised Miami Heat game. Or consider that the Major League Baseball playoffs averaged 6.3 million viewers a game. But Jags Texans could beat that - on the NFL Network, a cable outlet not available in tens of millions of homes. Alex Reithmiller, vice president of Communications for NFL Network, knows the reason.
ALEX REITHMILLER: The fact is it's an NFL game, right? And there are millions of NFL fans across the United States. There are fans of Jaguars. There are fans of the Texans. And there also this thing called Fantasy Football that people love.
PESCA: Oh that, where Andre Johnson doesn't play for the two-and-10 Texans, but maybe the seven-and-five Mike's Marauders, or the eight-and-four Badonkagronks. The fact is that the NFL is paid almost $2 billion a year by ESPN for its games, and another billion a year each by NBC, Fox, and CBS. They want to give those partners the great games.
If it falls on the NFL to show the Jags versus Texans on their in-house network, that's OK. This game will be a winner as authored by two losers. And while the network is promo-ing tomorrow's game as a tense showdown...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: But the Jaguars are determined to take down rivals, "Thursday Night Football..."
PESCA: ...Reithmiller of the NFL Network was sure to remind me next week's game will feature the Broncos. They have Peyton Manning - you might want to tune in.
Mike Pesca, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Malmo and Rosenborg were among the high-profile names to progess beyond the first round of UEFA Europa League qualifying on Thursday.
Swedish giants Malmo had been held to a goalless draw away at Drogheda in the teams' first-leg encounter, but scored in the dying moments of the first and second halves to defeat their Irish opponents 2-0.
Rosenborg, meanwhile, faced Crusaders from Northern Ireland, but secured an infinitely more comfortable 9-3 aggregate victory with a 7-2 win on the night at home.
The Norwegian club had goals from six different scorers to thank for their success, with John Chibuike the only man to net more than once.
Though those two were the undoubted favourites going into their ties, Prestatyn Town were clear underdogs ahead of their second meeting with Liepajas Metalurgs of Latvia.
And the Welsh side's chances looked even slimmer as they fell 3-1 behind on aggregate following an early goal from Valerijs Afanasjevs.
However, Ross Stephens struck with 13 minutes of normal time remaining to give the visitors hope before Neil Gibson grabbed a goal in the 91st minute – and Prestatyn would go on to complete a shock 4-3 win on penalties.
Crowds in Riga and Skopje were also treated to the drama of a shootout on Thursday, as Skonto beat Tiraspol 4-2 following a 1-1 aggregate draw and Turnovo saw off Suduva 5-4 on spot-kicks after their tie ended 4-4.
Elsewhere in Europe, several teams saw their hopes dashed by the away goals rule.
Ventspils saw off Airbus UK despite the sides sharing a 0-0 draw, Mladost Podgorica's 1-0 win over Videoton helped them progress, and Vaduz, Dacia and Kukes beat Chikhura, Teuta and Flora respectively by the same means.
In other results, Irtysh, Xazar Lankaran and Pyunik secured their places in the draw for the next round with wins over Levski, Sliema and Teteks.
There were also a number of thrashings meted out in the first round, with Hungarian side Budapest Honved racking up the most impressive of those.
They beat Celik Niksic 9-0 to take a place in the second round while Gefle defeated Trans 5-1, Dinamo Minsk eased to a 5-0 win over Kruoja, and Botev Plovdiv smashed Astana 5-0.
Arguably the most intriguing contest of the round came in the form of Zilina's 3-3 draw at home against Torpedo Kutaisi.
The Slovakian hosts lost their lead twice during a thrilling fixture, but could take comfort from the fact that their place in the hat was secured by a 6-3 aggregate win in the end.
Many sides were not as fortunate, however, with Gandzasar, Bala, La Fiorita and Inter Turku going out at the hands of Aktobe, Levadia, Valletta and Vikingur.
Elsewhere, Breidablik, Milsami, Qarabag, Zrinjski, Tromso, Inter Baku, IBV and Astra clinched places in the next round, with Dudelange, Metalurg Skopje, UE Santa Coloma, Celje, Mariehamn, HB, Domzale going out as a result.
And in the day's later fixtures, Vojvodina, KR, Zalgiris and Sarajevo progressed at the expense of Hibernians, Glentoran, St Patrick's and Libertas.
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York, Alabama A West Alabama hospital is offering some advice after one person died and dozens were sickened from a foodborne illness.
Nurses at Hill Hospital in York say hand washing is one way to protect yourself. Also, if you have suspicions about food sitting out too long, especially during the summer time, don't eat it. The State Department of Health in Alabama says cross contamination led to a number of people being hospitalized after a funeral service.
"These things tend to spoil quickly," Registered Nurse Gus Weiss points out. "Mayonnaise, milk-based foods, egg-based foods, and raw meats tend to spoil in a hurry. So if you know they haven't been refrigerated in a while, the best thing to do is stay away."
The State Department of Health plans to do more testing on those who were sickened last week. An autopsy was performed on a funeral worker who died, but those results have not yet been released.


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SA softball fails to rally
"But there's coming a day very soon when we'll play a team that will make us pay for making those errors."
That was the message that Starkville Academy softball coach Jessica Dickens had for her team Monday afternoon after the Lady Volunteers rallied for a 7-5 victory against Oak Hill.
Little did the Starkville Academy players know that 24 hours later the words of their coach would come back to haunt them.
The Lady Vols fell into another hole against Pillow Academy on Tuesday, but this time were not able to come back and suffered an 11-6 loss at home.
Pillow Academy came out to score three runs in the top of the first inning and that put Starkville Academy in an immediate position of having to battle from behind.
"That's what we talked about after we came back against Oak Hill and won," Dickens said. "I told them it was a great job of coming back, but once again you put yourself in a position to begin with and there will come a day very soon when we will play a team that will make us pay for doing that and today was that day.
"When you play a team like Pillow, you've got to be ready to go on every pitch, pay attention and know what's going on. Our thing is we've got to be mentally focused and expect the ball to come to us every pitch. We didn't do that (against Pillow)."
The Lady Vols cut the margin to 3-2 by scoring a pair of runs in their half of the first.
After Megan Picard and Bailey Wofford walked, Julianne Jackson singled to load the bases. Picard and Wofford scored on bases-loaded walks to Megan Aucoin and Megan Jones.
The visiting Lady Mustangs used a run of five-straight hits, including a three-run home run, to push their advantage out to 8-2.
Starkville Academy chipped away with two runs in the third and two more in the fourth. Wofford and Jackson had back-to-back doubles in the third, then Jackson scored on a ground out by Lauren Ware. In the fourth, Wofford drove in Mary Austin Barber with a single, while Picard came home on a bases-loaded walk to Aucoin.
That was all of the scoring for the Lady Vols, but Pillow put the game essentially out of reach with one more run in the fourth and two more in the fifth.
"We would chip away at the lead and make a little run at it, then go right back out there and give them some stuff," Dickens said.
Jackson had a double and two singles of the seven hits by SA, while Wofford added a double and a single. Barber and Adrienne Futral had one single each.
The Lady Vols finished up the regular season with records of 18-10 overall and 4-3 in conference play.
Dickens said the team must now look ahead to the playoffs and a fresh start.
"The bottom line is it's a new season now," Dickens said. "The next game we play will be very important and I told the girls, you've got another chance to go out and make some noise and that's what we've been working on all spring, all summer and all fall for.
"I believe we are capable of beating any team in this league. It's a toss up in my opinion of who is the best team."
The bracket for the playoff competition is expected to be learn during a coaches meeting on Friday.


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3...2...1...We have anxiety liftoff
Raise your hand if you love believing that The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Bachelor Pad are real. My hand is raised. Therefore, when a movie like this comes out, I am all over it like white on rice. I immediately figure out a way to trick my brain into believing that what I am watching does not star actors, nor did it have a camera crew or craft services. Apollo 18 makes it easy to play this adult game of make-believe, and really delivers a fun, tense experience.
For all you NASA nerds out there, you know that missions to the moon wrapped up with Apollo 17 in 1972. But what's that? There was another hush-hush trip to the big rock in the sky after that, and this movie consists entirely of found footage from that mission? Take my money, please, and make it snappy. Anyone who can suspend their disbelief and play along with this premise is going to have a fantastic time watching this movie. Some spoilers follow, so please just go see the movie and leave this page open on your computer. We'll regroup soon.
The footage used in the movie was an amalgam of actual NASA clips, as well as new clips that were filmed…er, found…for the movie. To this civilian in her movie theater seat, they fit together seamlessly and could all been from NASA for all I know. This helped keep me entirely within the world of the movie, and kept sucking me in like space quicksand. The guys in the movie looked like astronauts, too (which means that they are photogenic while experiencing G-Force). Technically, the movie was so flawless that I had no trouble accepting that maybe they did find this footage, and that the man on the moon is not alone (and in fact, I hope he has locks on his doors).
The movie isn't perfect, unfortunately. It suffers just the slightest bit from "Build Me Up Buttercup" syndrome, because everything leading up to the reveal of what really lives on the moon is so great, when you see what they are, they let me down. Granted, only a little, but I still felt that pang of dismay that has ruined so many other movies of the same nature. Luckily, there were enough other disturbing things about the movie that it all averaged out in the end.
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If you want to change your life and realise your dreams it is easy to make the decision to do so; but it often turns out to be difficult to see where to begin and what to do; and what if it doesn't work?
Today I will give you the main areas that form your foundation of healthy habits and resources to make a good decision.
1. Make a decision and a contract
The first and most important thing you have to do to succeed is make a decision that you really want to do this. You have to decide that no matter what happens you are going to do this; you will make this healthy habit. Then make a contract with yourself where you promise to make this healthy habit. This habit is the most important thing in your life! E.g. if you decide to get up at 6.30am every day – then shut out everything else, even emotions, and just get up!
If you can convince yourself that you are going to do this, then you are half way there. It will take a lot of self-discipline, but you can do it.
2. Choose a healthy habit
There are four main areas that you have to master:
I. Sleep
II. Exercise
III. Diet
IV. Clean up
Each area is subdivided and encompasses a wide range of habits to implement, but as long as you stick to a healthy habit within these areas you are on your way to better life.
I think most people have problems making a decision; it can be terrible hard to do. I found a good article about making a decision and stick to it, written by Natalie Lue on her blog 'Baggage Reclaim'. The article is about relationships but she has a good description of how to make a decision that can be used in any situation. I think you will benefit from reading this.


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Bengals Ditch Script And Dump Eagles
So much for the pregame analysis.
I think most of us expected the Bengals defense – currently number one in the NFL in sacks – to tee off on Philly's rookie quarterback Nick Foles on Thursday. But it was Andy Dalton who was running for his life all night as he was sacked six times and forced to fumble twice.
"The run blocking was pretty good, but boy, the pass protection was struggle city," said my broadcasting partner Dave Lapham. "The Eagles were running a lot of twists and stunts and when the Bengals went to help, there was nobody there because of those stunts. It isn't anything that you don't see on a weekly basis in the NFL, but you usually don't see it that much. Once Philadelphia started having success, they went to it again and again and again."
But the inability to protect Dalton didn't spell doom thanks to a brilliant performance by the Bengals defense.
With roughly eight minutes to go in the first half, the Eagles had a first-and-goal opportunity at the three yard line and settled for a field goal. Then with 39 seconds left in the half, Philadelphia had a first-and-goal at the two yard line and settled for another field goal.
Instead of taking a 21-10 lead and abundant confidence into the locker room, the Eagles were only up by three points.
"As a defense, we pride ourselves in not letting them score near the goal line," said Manny Lawson. "That's a critical area because it can change the momentum of the game. Our guys stepped up and made plays."
The biggest play of the game came in the third quarter. After the Bengals offense opened the second half with a pair of three-and-outs, Leon Hall came up with his first interception of the year and returned it 44 yards.
"That was huge," said Reggie Nelson. "We needed that and that's what playmakers do. Leon is a playmaker and he showed up. That was a big play to get the momentum back because we were kind of dead and that gave us that spark."
Hall's interception gave the Bengals a short field and led to an 11-yard touchdown run by Dalton that gave Cincinnati a 17-13 lead. It also opened the floodgates, as the Eagles fumbled three times in the next 2:04, leading to 17 more points.
"It wasn't a pretty win, but defensively it was very pretty," said Lapham. "The only thing they didn't do was get a bunch of sacks. They did get one, but forced several fumbles including one taken for a touchdown … a lot of things went right."
"We shut them out in the second half and that's what counts," said Jones.
What really matters is that the Bengals took a half-game lead over Pittsburgh in the wild card race. If the Steelers lose at Dallas on Sunday and the Jets lose at Tennessee on Monday, Cincinnati could clinch its second straight playoff trip with a win at Pittsburgh next week.
"This wasn't our best performance but we won the game," said Jones. "That's what good teams do."
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Submission + - Nokia Siemens To Buy Motorola Unit For $1.2B (informationweek.com)
sylverboss writes: Acquisition of Motorola's mobile network infrastructure business gives Nokia an entry to the U.S. market, where it has long struggled. After several months of failing to break itself up, Motorola finally succeeded Monday as it sold off most of its mobile network infrastructure unit for $1.2 billion to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The deal gives Nokia — the world's leading supplier of mobile handsets — an invigorated entrance to the U.S. market where it has lagged far behind other handset suppliers such as Apple.


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England's Scott Parker is delighted to have finally overcome his injury troubles ahead of next month's European Championships.
The Tottenham midfielder was a major doubt ahead of the tournament, with the 31-year old struggling to shake off a niggling Achilles injury that ruled him out of Spurs' end of season run-in.
But Parker has allayed those fearing that he would be forced to watch from the sidelines, after coming through 56 minutes of England's recent friendly international win over Norway in Oslo.
And the former West Ham man, who joined from London rivals Spurs for £5.5million in August 2011, has revealed he feared the worst, with the prospect of suffering international heartache hard to take.
However, by carefullly managing his injury, Parker has given himself the best possible chance to be fighting fit as England's opening Euro 2012 match against France draws ever nearer.
Speaking to The Sun, Parker said: "I can't lie, I was extremely concerned I was going to miss out. I didn't play in the last four Tottenham games, I was having injections and the injury was taking time to respond.
"But perhaps my luck was changing because it eventually started to get better and I felt my chances of being selected were increasing if I was fit enough to play.
"The injury is fine and being treated by the England medical team. The biggest challenge is regaining full match fitness.
"I played against Norway and I'm getting stronger and have 10 days of training to get me in shape, so fingers crossed I'll be fully fit when the tournament gets underway."
Until recently, Parker's opportunities at international level have been few and far between, with an England career that can at best be described as stop-start.
But, after being overlooked by Fabio Capello for World Cup 2010, the combative midfielder has gone from strength-to-strength, establishing himself as a key member in the heart of England's midfield.
And Parker has praised the influence of the newly-appointed England manager Roy Hodgson, admitting that life under the new boss has given everyone in the camp a lift.
He added: "To be honest, the previous manager struggled to get his point across because of the language barrier.
"Fabio Capello was a bit distant whereas Roy Hodgson is very proactive and interacts with the players.
"He's extremely well organised and you have a far better understanding of what he requires from you. He's an old-fashioned type of manager, the type you know is very approachable and hands-on."
With England having consistently failed to live up to the hype in major international tournaments, many consider the Three Lions to be long-shots for Euro success in Ukraine and Poland this summer.
However, Parker insists that England have as good a chance as anybody, with the current squad willing to do all they can to buck the recent trend of disappointment, providing the nation with a team to be proud of.
"As a player I'm not going to the European Championship with the mindset it's all right if we perform reasonably well. And I'm quite sure I can say the same for the other players - we are going to the tournament to try and win it.
"I will be 33 when the World Cup comes around and this may be my first and only chance of winning something with England."
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Video RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video) 171
Tim: Aaron, could you introduce yourself please?
Aaron: Hi, my name is Aaron Higbee. I'm Co-Founder and CTO of PhishMe
Tim: Okay. Now explain PhishMe. It is a funny name.
Aaron: So every organization is worried about getting spear phished. So we provide a software-as-a-service that allows organizations to send real mock spear phishing emails to their employees and as soon as they may fall victim to one of our emails, they are immediately funneled to training about why you need to be worried about this, why people are targeting you at work, and why a spear phishing email at work is a little different than the phishing email you get at home.
Tim: So walk me through this a little bit. They are at their desk, they open their corporate Gmail or their corporate email account, and what happens?
Aaron: Well, there is a variety of things. An attacker might be motivated just to send them a malicious link and hope to take them to a website that is booby-trapped with malware. They might put together a lookalike website that is trying to solicit credentials to get them to log into a fake website. Or they might be including a malicious attachment where the payload is embedded in the attachment and trying to get them to do that.
Tim: How far do you let people go before you let them in on the game?
Aaron: We do it right away. The value in this is the experience, and the person realizing that, hey if they are not vigilant, if they are just mindlessly clicking through emails as fast as they can, they can be victimized by this. And that there really are people out there. So we want to funnel them into the training and awareness portion of it right away, to close out the example, to let them know that this wasn't to make fun of them, to make them feel bad
Tim: It sounds like it could be embarrassing.
Aaron: Right. We just were trying to empathize and let them know that this was designed to help you get good practice on identifying and spotting this.
Tim: Now you have it for spear phishing specifically over email.
Aaron: That's right.
Tim: There a lot of threats though over various social media, over Facebook, they can get their account hacked, and send messages through that. Are you addressing things like that yet?
Aaron: Yeah, we are still focused I mean this is the number one attack vector, if you read the recent APT 1 report by Mandiant, they said spear phishing is the most prevalent, aggressive way that people are trying to get in. But I do keep up on those trends. Google was compromised via an instant messaging vector and so that's interesting to me and I try to keep on top of that.
Tim: The malicious messages that people get, they've evolved over the years. I know the ones I get certainly have changed, and now there is something a lot more competent sounding than they used to be.
Aaron: Sure, sure. They might have researched you, they might know your interests, but there are certain emotional triggers that are going to be in all of these emails. And it is up to us as humans to figure that out. They are either going to be baiting you with curiosity, with fear, with a reward, one of those triggers. And if you look at it, and you see the sense of urgency in the email, you should have some spidy senses that tingle that say, wait a minute, I need to spend a little bit more time, this might not be legitimate.
Tim: Now do employees know in advance that the system is even in place within their company?
Aaron: Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Because we are a software-as-a-service, organizations choose to run their PhishMe program anyway they like. We encourage that. We tell people that they should be upfront with their staff to let them know that the purpose behind this isn't to make fun, or belittle anyone. And that we are going to be doing this for the next 12 months to give people experience in spotting and identifying these.
Tim: Now how long has PhishMe been around? Where did it come from? Is this academic research or?
Aaron: So where PhishMe came from was, I used to be a pentester, and I did a lot of pentesting work, and I noticed in about 2005, the way that attackers were getting into organizations was starting to shift towards spear phishing instead of your traditional vulnerability scanning and finding some vulnerable service to compromise. So I started offering this as a pentesting service, and in about 2006 and 2007 that light bulb went off where I realized I am actually damaging a valuable teaching opportunity, that the way to correct this is through user awareness education. That the attackers are always going to come up with some new technical tactic, and so we really need to focus in on the social and the human aspect to go after this problem.
Tim: Speaking of the way the stuff has changed, what have you observed about that? What are the trends you see in how have the spear phishing things have changed?
Aaron: Well, one of the things that we've noticed is when an attacker is going on a spear phishing campaign, two to three years ago, they would lob in one or two emails to certain employees inside the organization, and they would wait to see if they would respond. What's happening now is they are sending batches of 10, 20, 30, or 50, because they know those emails are getting analyzed and they know that the command and control infrastructure that the malware connects to is going to be burnt. It is not going to be _____4:59. So they are being a little more tenacious about the volume that they are sending in, which is good; that means some of our preventative technology is working, and also that means user initiative reports are valuable, because now they are going to be sending more of these emails into the organization.
Tim: It gives you a bigger corpus to write your own too.
Aaron: Sure, sure. We are building our human sensors to help fight this problem.
Tim: And who are your customers?
Aaron: Anyone that has been in the news, that has a spear phishing breach, it is likely that they are one of our customers. Our customers are people that have bought all of the technological solutions. They have good information security practices. Yet people are still getting in. And they are frustrated by this. And they want to change. And so if you look at who are the big targets of spear phishing, it is the people that you would imagine, the financial, the government contractors, the oil and gas industry, manufacturing, anyone that has got intellectual property to protect.
Tim: And you are based in Northern Virginia, so that gives you a pretty good access to the various hackable governmental offices there?
Aaron: Yeah, absolutely. I have some interesting lunches with my colleagues in Northern Virginia, and there is always some spear phishing incident that we are talking about that has come up.
Tim: Now Aaron, have you ever personally been tempted or actually clicked on a spear phishing link?
Aaron: You know I might have. Given the nature of our business, we know that we are targets. It would be good bragging rights to be able to phish someone here. And it has changed the way that we do business. Email is not really a very useful tool to us. We have to use a lot of other collaborative software and other internal tools in order to get work done and anytime something comes in to email, we have this very strict process on what we do before we interact with it. I don't think anyone in my company would say, we are impervious to this. We know that this is a human condition. People can make mistakes. And that is one of our training messages, is even if you did something, and you have that uneasy feeling afterwards, that this might not have been legitimate, it is still something that you need to report to your IT department. Maybe it was benign, maybe it was okay, but it still should be reported as soon as you have that uneasy feeling.
Tim: Anything else you want to tell us about? You mentioned something to me earlier about your Slashdot effect.
Aaron: Oh okay. So we try to offer PhishMe as a true-to-life example. So we send spear phishing emails from the internet, our spear phishing websites are hosted on the internet, and our customers want to make it accurate, but they also want it to be contained. So they don't want a situation where an employee receives one of our training emails and then forwards it to Slashdot, hey look what my employer is doing to me. So we actually designed our phishing pages to self-destruct. So that we don't get on the cover of Slashdot.


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Jun 10 2008
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Big Iron - Wagner Ware Pie Logo #14
8 comments:
- MtnRubi said...
Beautiful Skillet!
What's the "electro" tank? Does that strip all the old oils and such off the skillet so you can start seasoning anew?
- June 12, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- LilacCottageGoats said...
I have a Griswold 14 size pan. I bougth it out of a old restauant, that was going out of business. It is one of my favorite frying pans. It's so large that I have to put it over two burners. I like to make baked steak in it. I brown it on top of the stove and finish baking it in the oven. Mine isn't warpe or bowed. It's in perfect shape. I have wonder what it would be worth. It is marked with the name Griswold in the cross with a circle around the cross and the words Erie PA under the circle.
- June 12, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- Scott said...
It's a beauty!!! I received a 14 incher once, but unfortunately it was too warped to use:( One can dream:)
- June 12, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Greg said...
Don - Electrolysis Tank. I put links in the text of the post.
It is the best way to clean cast iron.
Kelly - $150 to $800.00+ depending on the details.
A slant logo with heat ring is the most valuable. See my Griswold post for pictures.
Scott - Bummer. People ruin these by getting in a hurry and cranking the heat to high rather than waiting 5-6 minutes for the piece to come up to temp.
Update - 2 large russet spuds and a yellow onion only took up 1/3rd of the cooking surface this morning.
The skillet did great.
- June 13, 2010 at 9:03 AM
- LilacCottageGoats said...
Oh, I'm sorry to report that it is a block lettering, but it dose have a heat ring. Thank you for the info. I really love cooking with it. My husband saw how much you said it was worth and now thinks I should sell it. haha I don't think so haha. :o)
- June 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Chilebrown said...
That is one piece of black iron to be proud of.
- June 14, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- The BBQ Guy said...
I need to find me one of these!
- July 24, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- will said...
I have this exact same pan.i used to drive a roll off dumpster truck about five years ago.I went to a house to drop a container off.The man who had rented it asked me if I knew anyone who would want some cast iron cookware.Thats when he showed me THE PAN.He said his wife was making him get rid of it.I wish I would have had more room in the cab of the truck.It was a whole set.I didnt know what I had until yesterday!
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Anyone over the age of 12 that dresses up for Halloween needs to get a life.
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I also think this would be a great idea! But, if it needed to be part of the forum software, I don't think EHellDame really has control over that.I always start with "OP here" when I reply in my own threads, and I appreciate it when others do something similar.
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Who's suggesting an high-level OS? Assembly code can be Open Source, too.
Who's suggesting an high-level OS?
I mean besides MS.
It should run as minimal as possible
Personally, I would take one step further. Electronic voting machines should be based on either a microcontroller or FPGA. The source code for whichever one would be available for public review. It would be carefully written and validated to ensure that the ports to which the user (voter, election worker, etc) has access cannot be used to reprogram it. It would be enclosed in a truly tamper-resistant, tamper-evident box. Of course, it still needs to have a voter-verified hard copy.
I think too often we
Qtopia comes to mind actually.
It would do the job extremely well.
Lots of the problems described occur because a voter must actually punch a bunch of buttons in just a few minutes -- matching a (hopefully predetermined) set of things they wanted to vote for. It seems like there's lots of room for error because of the time crunch that everyone feels in this situation.
What if you could actually do the ballot on your computer at home, carefully making sure that the buttons you push are what you intended, and then bring a printout with something like a barcode or other digital encoding of your selections? (This wouldn't have to be tied to your name -- that can still happen in the booth.) Then you bring that barcode to the booth, and it scans it after you walk in, and that "preloads" your selections. Then, you're just down to a verify step, under less pressure.
Seems to even open a new market for various parties to distribute the barcodes of their respective positions...
Just a thought...
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Uhhh works great for planes here in Australia.
Used the system for the first time a few weeks ago.
Go online, choose what seat you want, hit print.
You get a page with all your info along with a couple of 2d barcodes.
Works fine even with crinkles in the page.
It replaces the boarding pass. You just walk right on to the plane.
The problem with that is a lot of people don't have/don't use printers.
Spoken like a true geek who uses hard copy printouts as little as possible; and does not support people who can only think with a piece of paper in their hands. Paper printouts are the predominant technology; and more people understand paper technology. Non-technology people will spend more time and effort ensuring the paper printout is perfect than maintaining the system which creates the paper printout. And they will expend lots of eff
What about public libraries? Libraries generally charge around ten cents to print a page, which isn't very much. Even so, I'm sure that libraries would be willing to make printing out ballots free-of-charge.
If swift-boat politics were actually fueled by problem solving -- you would be on to something here! Sadly, it's about disaster capitalism... and therefore it's better when the voting machines have wide open security holes. But nice try!
What if you could actually do the ballot on your computer at home, carefully making sure that the buttons you push are what you intended, and then bring a printout with something like a barcode or other digital encoding of your selections? (This wouldn't have to be tied to your name -- that can still happen in the booth.) Then you bring that barcode to the booth, and it scans it after you walk in, and that "preloads" your selections. Then, you're just down to a verify step, under less pressure.
Bad idea, for many reasons:
The possibility for buying votes and coercing the voter is also why Internet voting must not be allowed to take place unless and until we can open a connection between our mind and the Internet. The voting booth is there to ensure privacy. Please do not take that privacy away in the name of security. I think Ben Franklin had something to say about that trade-off.
Actually, Internet voting must not be allowed unless you can make a connection that can't be eavesdropped between your mind and the voting machine. If third parties can listen in (even if they need your consent to do so) - vote buying will again be possible.
Imagine you manage to get this part right. Now you would only have to trust the voting machine to accurately store your vote, without the benefit of a voter-verifiable paper trail or anything you can possibly show to third parties to demonstrate that yo
I'm for the entire process being online, but one would have to guard the system against things like man-in-the-middle and phishing attacks.
The issue of fairness comes up right away. Not everyone has a computer at home. Those that do are not necessarily a true representation of the general electorate.
One fundamental tenet of any fair voting system is that it must be equally easy or hard for every voter. Sure - the US fails on that score today - but introducing a system that benefits people who can afford a computer is not the way to solve this issue.
Next step would be firing the so-called "technology experts" in the popular media, who apparently lack the the tech saavy to google for what "open-source" means.
Coverage of the G1 launch was a beautiful example of their ignorance. Many times I heard the fakers pontificate about the "security concerns" in using open-source software, while not even knowing meaning of the term.
Yeah. They're doing it wrong.
I don't think I came across anyone discussing security concerns w.r.t the G1 being "open source" - but rather, that you'll be able to install anyone's application on the phone. (For "analysts" that are under the influence of Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field, this sounds very scary).
By popular media, I meant non-web sources like cable news and radio.
These faux nerds would not even be able to understand the distinction you just made; i.e., they used the term "open source" inappropriately when talking about other issues, of which they were also ignorant.
It's not just Jobs' Reality Distortion Field, not by a long shot. The seemingly-purposeful ignorance of analysts makes me suspicious, too, but Jobs wasn't the first name to come to mind. Apple has only the most recent of the walled garden
The moment you give the voter the ability to check their vote afterwards you give their abusive husband a way to check they voted correctly. Or the employer that wants you to vote for his buddy. Or the local mob...
Bad plan.
``Honestly, how hard is it to write voting software?''
Not incredibly hard, but that's not the issue. The issue is how easy it is to convince the right people that your voting system does what they want it to do.
I think the problem is either that's it's too easy to convince the right people that a voting system works, or that the right people aren't the people we want it to be.
It's been done.
http://www.openvoting.org/ [openvoting.org]
Now please go and support them.
Just stick to paper. It works.
<car analogy>Yes. But the fact that walking 'works' has not stopped us from inventing cars. And mind you, the first ones were not exactly 'secure', and could claim much more than your vote.</car analogy>
On the serious side, yes, don't substitute paper until you have an alternative that's superior on all counts. But keep in mind that there's a lot of drudgery and automatable effort behind voting, and that many simply can't vote because of physical problems.
Just stick to paper. It works.
Just curious, but why do you Americans vote for so many things all at once? It's like you have federal, state, county, and municipal elections all at the same time. Plus you vote on things like sheriffs, prosecutors, and a gazillion different propositions.
And what's with all of these "propositions"? In Canada, if we have a question put to the general population (we call it a "referendum") then it's pretty big change. They generally only happen once a decade or so.
No wonder things are so complicated: people
The main problem with e-voting is that the average citizen can not reasonably check the ballot counting. With paper, even a seven-year-old can check if it is counted correctly. No one can look into the computer, so even if you have paper ballots, they still need to be counted. Nothing won there.
This is not that hard, and it sure isn't rocket science.
Strip down a distro to the kernel then ad the following:
Please a driver for something I missed....
The device has only enough ROM to POST and is hard coded to boot from the thumb drive which contains the OS & drivers and voting software with a modified USB connector that is a different shape then standard. This is a mild security feature.
An additional thumb drive will hold the data, again with a different shape so that the two cannot be confused, and both are encrypted using a two key scheme of some sort, suggestions?
Insert the drive one, power up the machine, it will then POST itself and ask for the data key and will go no farther until it validates the Data Drive. Voting commences and when voting is complete, the machine is shut down, drives are pulled and returned to the registrar for counting.
You have some good ideas, but I feel obliged to point out that your solution does not obviously ensure that
1. Your vote gets counted correctly
2. Your vote is not traceable back to you
3. You cannot vote more than once
I still have more faith in casting votes on paper and counting them by hand than I have in your solution. Actually recording your vote on the paper ballot can be done by machine, of course, as long as you get to inspect the ballot to check that the machine did what you wanted it to.
the easy part is only 1 vote. there are 2 options. 1. a second screen with a 'press to allow vote now' system kinda like the cashier pressing the 'credit' key at walmart. maybe even screen less, just an led... or something.
not traceable back to you is harder, but not impossible ultimately this suggests that the poll workers don't get access to the voting machines ever, they're handled by someone else entirely etc.
as for correct counting, that's not impossible either, you just have the machine have 2 copie
whoops forgot number 2 on the only 1 vote... the second option was to say have unique bar codes scanned in that only work once, and the voting machine won't let you vote without scanning in a new bar code.
Ramms+ein is right: Open source will not solve the problem of computerized voting, which transforms the ballot from a physical object that can be read by any poll worker, into an electromagnetic blip that cannot be verified except through extremely indirect and convoluted means using teams of hard-to-find experts.
As you may know, the 'normal' transactions we perform on computers every week are coming under increasingly successful attack. And that is WITH the benefit of the transactions carrying the identiti
Yes, FOSS cannot, by itself, make things completely secure. But showing the audience that there's nothing up your sleeve is surely a good sign anyway. I say use voter-verifiable paper trails -- and, for good measure, release the software so that it is harder to monkey with the system.
A similar point can be made regarding transparent vs. opaque ballot boxes. A transparent box doesn't mean you can't stuff things if you are quick enough - but it does make things harder. Hacking logic gates is harder than writ
I've got a better one. Don't trust the machine, trust the paper ballot - and let people bring in their own ballot-checking machines.
So, yes - build your linux-powered machine (no need for special USB connectors; just make sure there's good physical security). Don't use any electronic recording mechanism - just print a piece of paper with the vote on it. Optically and humanly readable.
And let there be as many machines as possible, from several providers (or even bring-your-own) that can read, display and i
Create an account for each item on the ballot.
Have voters register their bank accounts when registering to vote.
Only votes from registered bank accounts are accepted.
Only deposits of 1 cent are accepted.
People can vote at ATMs, online banking, or at a teller.
Check the balance at the end of the day.
Everyone has a paper trail.
*Just an example of using a solution for a solved problem for an unsolved problem.
**The system can be implemented without the banks cooperation, but why not have them cooperate - they're nationalized now anyway.
[yes, just joking]
That doesn't solve the problem of voter fraud by faked identities. Include the requirement of "1 vote per person per issue/office", and you plug the "multiple vote" fraud.
Of course, the work involved in pulling off voter fraud by forging a bunch of false identities, as well as the risk of being discovered, arrested, etc., probably outweighs the 'benefit' of getting your buddy in office.
On the other hand, this doesn't rely on a verifiable residence, so this method will be resistant to caging.
Republicans* wil
Thought of another potential flaw: Some banks are really terrible at discarding you when you leave them. So if you change banks and re-register under a different institution, you might be denied because your old bank insists you're still with them.
Some banks, for whatever reason, make it really painful to try to leave them.
At least in my country, the traditional paper method works well, is easy to implement, and what is most important in a democracy: easy to understand and easy to check for everyone.
No matter if the electronic method is opensource or not, only a very small percentage of voters will actually understand how it works, how it is kept secure and safe from manipulation.
So what immense advantages would electronic voting have to make up for this fundamental problem, that will never change, no matter what the electron
So what immense advantages would electronic voting have to make up for this fundamental problem, that will never change, no matter what the electronic solution will be?
Well, if you use a computer to print a paper ballot, you get easy to understand, easy to check, with a fallback.
What advantages does it provide?
1) Truly secret ballots for the blind
2) Multi-Lingual ballots
3) The ability to provide much greater detail about things like voter propositions. In Arizona, the "gives teachers raises" prop really wa
1. Take vote electronically.
2. Assign a randomly generated UUID.
3. Print UUID+vote on internal paper tape for backup.
4. Print UUID+vote on paper receipt for voter to keep.
5. Post UUID+vote on a public web site anyone can view.
Now, anybody can see the tally, do the math themselves, etc. And everyone who cares can look at their own UUID and see if the public tally is accurate.
1. Take vote electronically.
2. Assign a randomly generated UUID.
3. Print UUID+vote on internal paper tape for backup.
4. Print UUID+vote on paper receipt for voter to keep.
5. Post UUID+vote on a public web site anyone can view.
Now, anybody can see the tally, do the math themselves, etc. And everyone who cares can look at their own UUID and see if the public tally is accurate.
I implemented this precise system several years ago at ICANN (www.icann.org), to support policy votes and elections to various positions in the organization. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well.
A later poster notes that it is susceptible to coercion.
That's true for any system that gives a verifiable record of the vote to the voter. It is very difficult to eliminate coercion entirely -- your evil boss could require you to take a picture of your signed ballot, bribe election workers to report on yo
Your system makes vote buying very very easy.
"Bowen also believes that a ubiquitous Internet voting system could not work without the use of a national ID card system."
For someone who seems to have a clue, she lost a lot of credibility with that statement. There is absolutely no need for a "national ID card system" to have secure and accurate voting. Voting is handled by the States, not the Federal Government.
The voting system shouldn't need to be open-source. In fact I'd go so far as to say that any electronic voting system that requires the voting machines to be open-source is fundamentally flawed and shouldn't be trusted. The system should be designed so that it doesn't matter whether the machines themselves are recording correctly or not, it's still possible to determine whether the counts are correct (ie. match the intent of the voter) or not and ideally to be able to reconstruct the correct count.
Yes, it c
More info on the Indian EVMs here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines [wikipedia.org]
The solution should start by simplifying the elections itself.
Its always going to be confusing when you have to vote for dozens of things at the same time. I mean come one, what do I care who is elected to the school district board when we are talking about presidential elections.
We should have to vote for 3 things max on national elections:
The president.
The senate.
The house.
Thats it... Then we can go back to old school, simple paper ballots with 1 name on it, And one ballot box for each. Then they are all
Congress has no intention of approving electronic voting or putting any effort into finding reasonably secure options. Were they to do something like that their jobs suddenly become meaningless in the long run. We would have no need for elected population representatives if the population was able to vote on virtually every subject themselves. Of course then it would become a partisan issue because we would have to give a computer to every single low-income family (government funded through your tax doll
It is supposed to be impossible for me to show someone how I voted. I can't be given a receipt or anything (it would be too easy to buy votes).
With that as a given, how does a paper trail help? If I as a voter can't be sure that my specific vote is the one on the paper, then it seems like there are still thousands of ways for someone to change it out.
The machine could print fake info first of all, so it would HAVE to be something I see and validate. Since it has to be a public record, it can't be tied to me by any kind of key though--so after it's printed it out for me to see, there is no saying that it doesn't print a second or third line for another candidate at some other time...
If the paper trail disagrees with the digital tally, do you just assume that the paper wasn't messed with or substituted?
I'm guessing people have thought about this more than I have, and I see the mention of "Paper Trail" a lot so I just thought I'd ask.
"It is supposed to be impossible for me to show someone how I voted. I can't be given a receipt or anything (it would be too easy to buy votes)."
It always amazes me that American general elections have anonymity and unprovability of your vote as a hard requirement, and yet to vote in a *primary* election you have to publically register your party affiliation!
Maybe that's okay if elections are a gentleman's contest between independents, but when you have a bitterly divided, utterly partisan electorate made o
I don't really see primaries as part of the legal process--as anything the government should be involved in.
The whole party system is a crappy add-on to democracy (that happens to break it pretty bad), and should not in any way be required by laws of any sort.
That said, the people in power (parties) have a vested interest in excluding others, so I can't guarantee it's not legislated somewhere.
use open source software, stop delivering e-voting machines to polling places weeks in advance of an election
Voting machine hijackers won't need the machines weeks in advance when they have the source months in advance.
Paper trails are bad. What we need are PAPER BALLOTS. The machine can help by helping voters fill out the damn form correctly and printing the ballot in COMPLETELY human readable form. Then an OCR can read it AFTER the voter has had a chance to make sure they are casting the votes they intended. The ballot helper MUST be completely independant of the OCR and the voter is the only link between the two.
No receipt, no tracking, no paper trail. Just a paper ballot. And of course we keep the ballots just a
If there needs to be a truly reliable paper trail to audit, why even bother with e-voting? At that point the only difference I can see is whether you push a pencil through paper or push a button, and one is far less trustworthy. Quicker tabulation can't be worth that much to the lazy voting public, can it?
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Mormon President's Wife Dies
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement on its web site that Frances B. Monson died at 6:35 a.m. Friday at a hospital in Salt Lake City. She was 85.
Thomas S. Monson says his wife was the family's beacon of love, compassion and encouragement.
The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. The church says she had been hospitalized for several weeks and was surrounded by her family at the time of death.
Frances Monson grew up in Salt Lake City during the Great Depression. The couple was married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1948.
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Bike News
Ducati at EICMA 2012
Shows a tourer's Diavel, a track-oriented 1199 Panigale, the 2013 Hypermotard and an entirely new (and confusing) product
EICMA, every year, is the biggest show for motorcycle manufacturers, and they do tend to take it very seriously. As one would expect, all top bike-makers would be present with all their latest offerings, and this year hasn't been any different. Ducati has been showing off its machinery at the show, and here are the bikes that caught our attention:
Ducati Diavel Strada
If the current Diavel range consisting of the base, the Carbon and the Cromo wasn't sizeable enough, Ducati have seen fit to unveil a touring version of the Diavel.
Called the Diavel Strada (Italian for 'road'), it comes equipped with a larger seat with improved cushioning, a touring windscreen, higher-mounted handlebar with heated grips, revised tail-lamp assembly, two extra power outlets, passenger backrest and capacious 41-litre saddle bags.
All the additional equipment means the kerb weight goes up by a few kilos, but apart from that, the bike remains unchanged. Expect it to cost a bit more than the standard Diavel as and when it hits Indian showrooms in the near future.
Ducati 1199 Panigale R
The 1199 Panigale is already such a maniacal bike, why would one want a much more hardcore version of it? If you do, however, Ducati will not disappoint you. With the 1199 Panigale R, it now has a flagship for the track enthusiast, which will also be useful for World Superbike homologation purposes.
The Panigale R is essentially a Panigale S, but with lightened, titanium-based components, a full-fledged racing kit, adjustable swingarm pivot and ABS as standard. The engine remains the same, but thanks to the new Termignoni exhaust and remapped ECU, the engine can now rev up to 12,000rpm and produce a little more horsepower and torque at the top of its rev range.
We don't really expect Ducati to bring this version to India, but in case they do change their mind, expect it to be the most expensive Ducati of them all.
Ducati Hypermotard 2013
If you've ever wanted a Hypermotard 796 or 1100, this is the time to grab one, because come 2013, both will meet their end, and in their place will land a new Hypermotard. Yes, just 'Hypermotard', with no additional numbers suffixed.
The reason for that is the all-new 821cc liquid-cooled V-Twin Testastretta engine that will feature in the 2013 Hypermotard. Next year onwards, the Hypermotard will only be available in two versions - base and SP. Both will be powered by the same engine that can produce up to 110bhp in Touring mode, the only difference being the SP's reduced weight compared to the base Hypermotard, with lighter alloys and better suspension. ABS and traction control are available on both bikes as standard.
Pricing might be in the same ballpark as the current Hypermotard prices in our country, and we expect it to be here sometime next year.
Ducati Hyperstrada
Now, for those of you who think the name is a glaring typing mistake, let us sort it out for you. The Hyperstrada is an all-new bike that Ducati has come up with. As the name suggests, the Hyperstada takes the good bits from the Hypermotard (the brand-new 821cc Testastretta V-Twin, for starters) as well as the Multistrada.
So what this bike is, is a slightly more touring-friendly Hypermotard, which is not quite as touring-friendly as the Multistrada. It boasts of power figures that are similar to the new Hypermotard's, but gets stuff like a wider seat, raised handlebars, touring windscreen, larger mudguards, centre stand, engine sump guard, two additional power outlets and two 50-litre saddle bags as standard, which will make life on the highway that little bit easier. Again, the extra bits and bobs mean the Hyperstrada weighs more than the Hypermotard, but is still lighter than the Multistrada. See how neatly they've positioned it?
It will slot somewhere in between both bikes in Ducati's range, and will cost a little more than the Hypermotard, and a little less than the Multistrada. Question is, is it too fine a niche to target?
Which of the new Ducatis excite you most, TopGear.commers?
Tags: ducati, diavel, eicma, hyperstrada, 1199 panigale, diavel strada, hypermotard


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Dec 2012 18:14 UTC
"We've joked about its refusal to die before, but today, finally, the console begins its march into the history books. Having sold over 150 million units since its release in 2000, the PlayStation 2 has today ceased shipping to Japanese retailers, meaning once remaining stock is gone, it's gone. The console was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, and in those twelve years has become - by a longshot - the biggest-selling home video game console of all time." I should play Shadow of the Colossus again.


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The No. 15 ranked Denison men's lacrosse team improved to 9-2 overall and 4-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference following a 15-3 victory over Kenyon College on Saturday from McBride Field in Gambier, Ohio.
Denison jumped out to a 5-1 lead after the first quarter and held an 8-2 advantage at the half en route to the 12-goal victory.
The Big Red got a career-high three goals from Porter McKay. His goals, all of which were unassisted, came in the first, second, and third quarters. Senior Emmett Jones, who moved past Mike Riehl and into third place on the DU all-time goal scoring leaderboard, scored twice on Saturday running his career total to 126 goals. Jones trails only Andy John and former teammate Brady Burton on the list of DU's most prolific scorers.
Also finishing with multi-goal outings was Colin Molloy and Davis Lukens who each added two, apiece. Tanner Smith had one goal and two assists while Cory Couture turned in two assists.
Two of Kenyon's three goals came from David Clark. Face-off specialist Chris Pappalardo went 12-for-18 and had 11 ground balls. DU was led in the face-off game by Tyler King who was 6-for-12. He had four ground balls, tying Smith for the team lead.
Big Red goalie Nick Petracca posted 13 saves in the win while Kenyon goalie Austin Anusbigian finished with five saves.
DU outshot Kenyon 36-26 and both teams were 0-for-2 in extra-man situations.
Denison will travel to Otterbein on Tuesday (April 26) for a 7 p.m. clash with the Cardinals before returning to Granville for the heavily anticipated rematch with No. 1 ranked Stevenson, next Saturday (April 30).


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The nominees for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced yesterday in Los Angeles by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. PBS programs garnered an impressive 32 nominations, including outstanding program nominations in Nonfiction Series (3 of the 6 nominees were PBS programs); Miniseries; Made-for-Television Movie; Children's Nonfiction Program; and Reality Program categories.
Dame Judi Dench, Sir Patrick Stewart, Michael Gambon and Jonathan Pryce all received nominations in the acting categories for their performances in PBS programs.
* MASTERPIECE received 12 nominations, including 7 for "Return to Cranford" and 4 for "Emma";
* THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA received 5 nominations;
* AMERICAN EXPERIENCE received 3 nominations;
* GREAT PERFORMANCES received 2 nominations;
* IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE received 2 nominations; and
* POV received 2 nominations.
In addition, AMERICAN MASTERS, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, THE BUDDHA, CELTIC WOMAN: SONGS FROM THE HEART, WHEN FAMILIES GRIEVE and INDEPENDENT LENS all received nominations.
PBS' 32 nominations are more than A&E, Bravo, Discovery Channel and History combined. Last year, PBS received 26 nominations and won 9 Primetime Emmys.
Winners in the creative arts categories will be announced on Friday, August 27; this awards presentation will be televised on E!. The Primetime Emmys live telecast for the remainder of the categories will be Sunday, September 29 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.


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I have a spare nuketown 2025 that I got from amazon (my friend gave me all the dlcs) with my original purchase of black ops 2. If this isn't allowed - I'm sorry. I'm only trading with regulars on touch arcade; I don't want to be scammed.
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text: Reports are that Kyle Lohse is bringing down his contract demands, maybe to 9 a year for 4 years. I wonder if anybody thinks a $36 million for four years for Lohse would be worth while for the Reds. According to Dougdirt's stats posted a while back on the redsminorleagues.com site, Lohse was almost a perfect league average #3 last year. He'd strengthen the rotation for 2008 and give us some time to evaluate Bailey, Cueto, Maloney, Volquez (and any others). If the young uns get good enough by 2009 or 2010, Lohse could be moved. If they get really good, Lohse could provide insurance while we move Arroyo. He'd also open up the possibility of a move of Belisle. 2008: Harang, Arroyo, Lohse, Belisle, one of Bailey, Volquez, Cueto, Maloney etc. (or more if they prove up to the task). Best possible scenario for 2009: Harang, Bailey, Cueto, Volquez, Maloney, with Lohse, Arroyo, and Belisle all available to be moved. It's likely that wouldn't quite be possible, but we might well be able to move 1 or 2 of those 3.


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By Brendan Conway
Who's afraid of the Federal Reserve?
Not Tuesday's ETF traders. An apparent rush of self-styled bargain hunters drove funds for mortgage REITs, miners and battered Indian stocks to notable gains. All three have spent the last few months suffering investors' interest-rate worries.
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), PowerShares India Portfolio (PIN) and iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF (REM) rose by 2.7-38%. Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NUGT), the three-times leveraged ETF, surged nearly 11%. Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) gained 2.3%.
Funds of homebuilders and related stocks, recent laggards after months of sharp gains, also performed well. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) advanced by 2.7% and iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) jumped by 3.1%.
The good times for battered sectors also extended to SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME), which rose 1.8%.


text: Due to supply shortages and continued cost increases of the raw materials used to manufacture phthalocyanine blue and green pigments, Sun Chemical Performance Pigments will raise global prices for phthalocyanine blue dry pigments up to $0.65 per pound, phthalocyanine green dry pigments by $0.85 per pound, and all other physical forms including preparations depending on pigment content, effective immediately. "We continue to see a challenging marketplace where supply shortages and increasing demand across the chemical industry are leading to significant increases in raw material prices," said Mehran Yazdani, vice president marketing, Sun Chemical Performance Pigments. "At Sun Chemical Performance Pigments, we continue to work on controlling our own costs closely with our supply chain partners and improve our internal operations. While these efforts have helped to offset some of the rising raw material costs, current market conditions have forced us to pass some of these costs on to our customers." The price increase applies to all markets that purchase pigments including the ink, coating and plastic industries.


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Former governor Mitt Romney & President Obama
Team Obama "named and shamed" eight private citizens for donating to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, The Blaze reported two weeks ago.
Frank VanderSloot, one of the eight men detailed by the president's "Truth Team," is discovering what it means to be on a president's "enemies list."
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
VanderSloot has run a wellness-products company called Melaleuca Inc. out of Idaho Falls, IA, for the last 26 years, the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley A. Strassel reports. By all accounts, it's a healthy and prosperous company — something of a rarity in this current economy. But that doesn't matter to certain members of "Team Obama." VanderSloot gave $1 million to the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future and that was enough to land him a spot on the enemies list.
Watch the latest video at The eight donors are "wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records" and some of them have even been on the "wrong side of the law," according to President Obama's Keeping The GOP Honest site.
And as for VanderSloot, he is a "litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement," the site claims.
But that's not all. This is where it starts to get dicey. Strassel gives us details:
About a week after that post, a man named Michael Wolf contacted the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls in search of court records regarding Mr. VanderSloot. Specifically, Mr. Wolf wanted all the documents dealing with Mr. VanderSloot's divorces, as well as a case involving a dispute with a former Melaleuca employee.
Mr. Wolf sent a fax to the clerk's office — which I have obtained — listing four cases he was after. He would later send a second fax, asking for three further court cases dealing with either Melaleuca or Mr. VanderSloot. Mr. Wolf listed only his name and a private cellphone number.
Wait — an anonymous investigator contacted court officials and requested documents dealing with VanderSloot's divorce cases? That sounds familiar.
Some digging revealed that Mr. Wolf was, until a few months ago, a law clerk on the Democratic side of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He's found new work. The ID written out at the top of his faxes identified them as coming from "Glenn Simpson." That's the name of a former Wall Street Journal reporter who in 2009 founded a D.C. company that performs private investigative work.
The website for that company, Fusion GPS, describes itself as providing "strategic intelligence," with expertise in areas like "politics." That's a polite way of saying "opposition research."
Although there are no records indicating that Fusion or Wolf have been paid by the Democratic National Committee, Strassel notes that "it is not uncommon to hire a less controversial third party, which then hires the researchers."
Frank VanderSloot
Strassel tried contacting Wolf to ask him about his investigation.
"It's a legal thing," is all Wolf would say at first. Later, he sent the Wall Street Journal reporter the following statement in an email:
Frank VanderSloot is a figure of interest in the debate over civil rights for gay Americans. As his own record on gay issues amply demonstrates, he is a legitimate subject of public records research into his lengthy history of legal disputes.
Well, that's kinda' true. VanderSloot has been a "figure of interest" in the gay-rights debate ever since he became the target of liberal bloggers and activists back in January when the first PAC disclosures were released.
When activists dug into his past looking for dirt, all they could do was accuse VanderSloot of being a "gay bashing thug."
The 63-year old has since addressed these accusations, saying that he has "many gay friends whom I love and respect" and who should "have the same freedoms and rights as any other individual."
But despite his clarification and the rebuttal to his detractors, Team Obama is running with the narrative and accuses the businessman of being a "litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement."
"[W]hen I first learned that President Obama's campaign had singled me out on his 'enemies list,' I knew it was like taping a target on my back," VanderSloot said.
"[But] the public beatings and false accusations that followed are no deterrent. These tactics will not work in America," he said, adding that he's "contemplating a second donation."
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