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The name of the country is Éire. After prepositions, Éirinn - this is the dative case: tá muid inár gcónaí in Éirinn “we live in Ireland”, tá muid ag coinneáil cuimhne ar Éirinn “we are remembering Ireland”. In modern Irish, the nominative vs. dative differentiation is mostly dead, and for many dialect speakers Éirinn is the nominative form.The genitive form - “Ireland’s”, “of Ireland” is Éireann, which usually takes the definite article: Óglaigh na hÉireann “the Volunteers of Ireland”, Poblacht na hÉireann “the Republic of Ireland”.

Let me tell you about an ordinary life that had extrodinary consequences.There was a young man from Georgia who longed to get the hell out of his little town and see the world. He was a pretty good student, and when the time came, he got into Georgia Institute of Technology, then put in his name for Annapolis, and was a bit shocked that they took him. He left his family's business behind for his younger brother, and headed for Maryland.Four years later, a freshly minted Ensign volunteered for the submarine service. He rose in rank, and the service started changing over to nuclear subs, which required an infamous “Rickover interview”. Son of a gun if he didn't pass, and was accepted for nuclear training. Soon, he was a Leutanant on board an attack boat.But then, life caught up with him. His father died, and little brother wasn’t ready to take over the business. He felt that it was his responsibility to take on the business, but that meant the naval career had to go over the side. His little town depended on his family business, and he knew it. He transfered his commission to the Naval Reserve, and together with the wife and kids that he'd picked up along the way, returned to Georgia.Using what GIT and Annapolis had taught him, he worked at his family's agro business, and did well. He got involved with local issues, taught Sunday school at his church, and helped out wherever he could. Soon, he was asked to run for State Senator. Of course he won, those were small town positions.After a while, he decided to run for Governor, which he did, and lost. Time passes, he runs again, using what he learned the first time, and he won. A successful term later, and once more he cast his eyes for something that needed doing. They landed on the White House. If you haven't figured it out by now, his full name was James Earl Carter, Jr. But the story doesn't stop when his years in the White House were ended by Reagan.Remember, this was the man who had dragged Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin to Camp David, two men who couldn't stand each other, and walked away with their signatures on a peace treaty that endures to the day you read this. He had learned to reach for things others considered impossible, as he had already done the impossible twice.So he set up the Carter Center in Atlanta. Their purpose? To teach emerging democracies how to handle elections, and to provide the needed assurance that they were fair. In 2002, he received the Nobel Peace prize for this work, which the Carter Center still continues.As a side gig, he and his wife build houses each summer for Habitat for Humanity. When your business involves farming, you can bet your backside you know how to handle a hammer. Just another job he saw that needed doing.Then he heard of Guinea Worm. In Africa, it was a parasite that is passed via infected drinking water. It's been known for a long time how to prevent people from getting it, and how to remove it from those who had it. But it took Jimmy to figure out that it could be eliminated with the right kind of effort. In 2017, the final cases were cured, and the filtration systems to prevent it were in place. The average guy from Plains had eliminated it from the planet.Now, by my count, the man should have 3 Nobel Peace prizes: The one he should have shared with Sadat & Begin, but for the nomination forms arriving 2 hours late; The one he got in 2002; and the one he should get for his work on Guinea Worm.Not bad for a guy who just wanted to drive nuclear submarines, right?Average folks do the damnedest things. You can, too. And sometimes they change careers a few times along the way.

Before coming to whether Arvind Kejriwal can prove the “EVM Scam” or not, let’s talk about the various stages of EVM manufacturing where EVMs are most prone to manipulation.Stage 1 - When EVMs are physically manufactured : At this stage, various components (both electronic as well as physical) are assembled together to give shape to a device called EVM. Almost all the EVMs which are in use as of today, are manufactured in 00’s and it’s almost farcical to expect that some sort of manipulation would have taken place at this stage. The reason is, at that point of time, no one would be aware (not even political parties) that which candidate will be contesting from which constituency, how many candidates will be filing their nomination from a particular constituency etc.Stage 2 - When name of the candidate and symbols are feed : Upon the behest of EC, EVMs now get transported into the areas where elections are going to be held. At this stage, details like candidate name, party symbol etc get placed into the EVMs. Now, these details can not be entered into the machines until the nomination process is over because the exact number of candidates will be surfaced only when the entire nomination process is over. So no manipulation can be done even at this stage. For an instance lets assume EVMs were manipulated in such a way that it will transfer majority of votes to BJP. But in between, the candidature of BJP candidate gets cancelled by EC due to some mistakes in his nomination form or BJP itself calls off its candidate. In that event, the entire election process will become a joke if EVMs record vote for a non-existent candidate. So no one will take the risk of manipulating the EVMs at this stage.Stage 3 - Election : The duration between the day when nomination process ends to the day when actual election takes place, can be considered as the most ideal duration for EVM tampering. Because this is the time when EVMs will be having all the details e.g. candidate name, serial number , party symbols etc placed within them. But what are the possible ways to tamper the EVM? As EC had clarified earlier, EVMs are not connected to any external device nor are they connected to any network. Each EVM machine acts as an standalone device ,so if someone is going to change the settings, they will have to do it in every single EVM individually. Now, in a single constituency, more than 1000 EVM machines (and these are just estimates, numbers could vary) are used in the election process. So for a state like UP (which has more than 400 constituencies) , approx 5,00,000 EVMs will be operational during the entire election process. And the entire election process gets over in a month or two, so is it really possible to tamper around 5,00,000 machines in a span of just 50–60 days? If yes, then there must be hundred or thousand of individuals deployed by EC for this purpose. So if manipulation is going on at such a mass level (as so many individuals are involved) , that too, during the election month, don’t you think such manipulation will be surfaced within no time?Stage 4 - Counting : Once the elections are over, officials from EC (generally the district authorities) call upon the representatives of each political party/candidate and seal the EVMs within an area called “Strong Room” in their presence. On the day of counting, that strong room is opened, again in the presence of the same representatives. So if there is any tempering with the seal or something else, representatives of the political parties can identify that on the spot. Can’t they? Moreover, parties like AAP deploy their own volunteers outside the strong room to keep an eye on the EVMs (as they did it in recently conducted Punjab elections) because they think district officials can manipulate the EVMs. So if any attempt is made to rig the EVMs, do you think it will go unnoticed by these volunteers cum spies?Fact of the matter is, it’s extremely difficult (if not impossible) to tamper with the EVMs. Now-a-days it has become a fashion to blame the EVMs instead of gracefully accepting one’s defeat. Mayawati and Akhilesh did the same in UP and now AK is doing it in Punjab and Goa. I personally feel that EC should held a workshop and challenge the people to prove their point. The debate around this so called ‘Scam’ will come to an end only then.