"Bob Beauprez today was declared the winner over Mike Feeley in the whisker-close 7th Congressional District race.

The announcement came after 36 days of post-election court fights and recounts.

Beauprez led by 121 votes, down one vote from the results before the recount. "

It's final.

"Since moving to live near London a few years ago, one of my interests has been the London Underground, the oldest and one of the busiest underground railway networks in the world. I'm not a train spotter by any means, but I find the history and background of London's subterranean railway fascinating.

One of the things I find most interesting is the changing history of the railway, of which there is still much hidden evidence. For example, look through the window as you travel between Tottenham Court Road and Holborn on the Central Line and you'll see a station - where no passengers have alighted since 1932. This used to be British Museum station. Or perhaps you may notice the the tunnel wall change from cast iron tubing to bricks as you travel on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. This also used to be a station. Down Street, closed in the same year as British Museum. These stations are often referred to as ghost stations.

There are about 40 abandoned stations on the Underground network along its entire 255 miles (408Km) of trackway - some subsurface and some above ground. Some have vanished without trace whereas others are almost intact, grimy time capsules of the era when they were closed. "

Nifty.

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"If the "Sopranos" season overall was somewhat of a disappointment, the fight scenes between Tony and Carmela were worth the price of admission alone: They were more brutal than any whacking and astonishingly gimlet-eyed. The day the divorce is announced is a key moment in the lives of roughly 50 percent of Americans (and Westerners in general), yet it's hard to think of another TV scene that sets its sights on the moment it all comes unglued and never turns away. "

Salon agrees and points to what season 4 was meant to be all about:

"Beyond the clever "two families" conceit, "The Sopranos" has always been in a class of its own when it comes to alarmingly realistic portrayals of middle-class family dynamics. At the beginning of the season, Chase announced that season four would focus on Tony and Carmela's marriage, a somewhat bewildering statement given all that had come before.

Now it seems clear that what Chase meant to say -- but couldn't -- was that season four would focus on the end of Tony and Carmela's marriage (whether or not they stay separated, because that story is far from over.) The only thing missing from last night -- possibly apart from a scene where Meadow stops wanting to sleep with her boyfriend -- was a scene in which the ducks come home to roost. But it now seems like a sure bet they'll be back next season."

"Unless you've built your OS from source (more than likely you have not),the executable applications from the original distribution should never change in content, and/or size. The checksums in this database can quickly tell you if a file has been modified since it was first installed from the distrubution. "

This is a useful tool for helping determine if a system compromise has occured.  Sun has provided similar information for a few years through its Fingerprint Database and its proved helpful to me in many situations, and this database extends these benefits to several other operating systems, including FreeBSD, Linux and OS X.

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