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When you read an essay that begins, "I am an, Orthodox rabbi and gay," what can you say? I mean, this is not like, "I am a Trappist monk who snorkels." We have passed beyond the merely improbable to a world where language is capable of statements like, "I am a vegetarian butcher." It's not so much impossible as meaningless -- or meaningful only once words have divorced their definitions and begun to cruise the back alleys, looking for abuse.
To read the essays gathered in Bruce Bawer's new anthology, Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (Free Press, 325 pages, $ 25), is to experience, again and again, this sense of language broken loose, words unmoored from meaning. In 1993, Bawer -- a successful critic, poet, and columnist-published A Place at the Table, a book-length attempt to convince conservatives both that homosexuals naturally belong on the Right and that only their unnatural rejection by conservatives has pushed them into the embrace of the radical Left. Similar arguments had been made before, notably in a 1989 New Republic essay, "Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage," in which Andrew Sullivan claimed, "To be gay and to be bourgeois no longer seems such an absurd proposition."
One had the sense, however, that Sullivan didn't entirely believe it. There was and is an air of the disingenuous about Sullivan's argument, a feeling that he was merely floating a trial balloon for consolidating 1970s homosexual gains in a climate changed by AIDS and what in 1989 looked like endless Republican primacy. One heard less talk in the mainstream press of the gay bourgeoisie immediately after President Clinton's election in 1992, only to have it break out again after the Republicans captured Congress in 1994.
Bruce Bawer's problem is that he actually did, and does, believe it. At the end of his 1995 book on homosexual politics, Virtually Normal, Sullivan tipped his hand with a few sentences admitting that there is something finally and perpetually countercultural about homosexuality (though in recent debates with William Bennett he has claimed he didn't really mean it). But in his book, Bawer argued that male homosexuals are really just the boys next door, guys who just happen to like guys and want nothing more than to take out the garbage, pick up the paper, and kiss each other goodbye before their morning commutes to the office. If conservatives would only open their arms, understanding that gays are by nature deeply middle-class creatures, they would see less of the ACT-UP sort of demonstrations that so offend them -- and the whole homosexual issue would disappear, as the radical Left turned away in disgust and sought other groups to manipulate in the war against bourgeois society.
Rejected by the conservative press for proposing an absurd idea of conservatism and scorned by the homosexual press for proposing a craven notion of homosexuality, A Place at the Table managed to convince no one of Bruce Bawer's vision of the gay bourgeois -- noone, that is, except Bawer himself and a Chicago columnist named Paul Varnell. Between the two of them, they are the authors of nearly half the forty essays collected in Beyond Queer.
Bawer and Varnell are at least right that leftism is the orthodox politics of gays and lesbians, rigidly enforced, and that homosexuality itself may be something of a stalking horse for radicals. The current fight for same-sex marriage, American University law professor Nancy D. Polikoff recently bemoaned, is a betrayal of homosexuality's revolutionary challenge to the whole idea of marriage. Homosexuality, she declares, "does not place a monogamous relationship with one partner at the pinnacle of all human relationships." Bawer and Varnell are even right that there is real danger for homosexuals in linking their fate too closely to the radical politics that has been, outside the universities, steadily rejected by American culture since the early 1970s.
But what alternative does the gay bourgeois really pose to the radical homosexual? At last, conservatives and homosexual activists alike are right to refuse Bawer's lonely third way. What the authors of the essays in Beyond Queer typically understand as conservatism is a kind of sexualized libertarianism, with Barry Goldwater, Ross Perot, and Harvey Milk raised up as the true conservative heroes. What they typically understand as homosexuality is a middle-class sexual pattern whose deviance from the suburban norm is of social significance only because misguided bigots keep insisting upon the wrong and inessential components of traditional bourgeois life.


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Notice he wore a rubber with this chick. "80 or 90 guys" shes probably got it all.
"Anon She's a filthy fucking whore! Don't buy her shit. Just shove it in her ass and send her on to her next John. Innocent....LMFAO!" He's had more girls than she has men, yet you don't mention that. Bit dim are we?
Then what would you call Rick? Male slut? He's been with dozens of girls and he gets paid for it!
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@me, she fucked 80 or 90 guys, what do you mean innocent????
Barely had any tits.Amazing how many men she's had. She shouldn't be that tight after being pounded that much. Nope, she's not innocent. She wasn't that skilled in giving head. Interesting.
if she had larger tits; she would be the perfect fuck
I went to HS with her. I asked her to prom and she turned me down. I always had a fuck fantasy with her that i never got to have, now i can jerk off to this everyday(;
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The HG loves lembert, so whats next? If Adam records himself buying his own CD, The Media would be all over it. Please! All of you are bigotry and bias. Supporting Adam at any cost. LOL!!! Adam is a screechy, castrati-like, same old tone screamer...Annoying! Allison was the best. Matt second. Kris third. Megan fourth, and Danny fifth. Adam should have been kicked off the show for being just like all 1980's long hair screamers.
Wow, HG, you truly have shown your bias views. Just support Adam, and not Kris or Allison. Adam is not that great: Kris and Allison are. You said what most of think on what seems appealing, BUT LEAVE SUSAN BOYLE OUT OF EVERYTHING. Adam is an ankle biter in comparison to Susan's Great Daness. YOU DO FORGET THIS MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE NETWORK BUSINESS: THEY MUST KEEP OR GAIN THEIR VIEWERS. Business IS business. They would lose many viewers with Adam. Homophobic? Hardly. It's sick, it's sick, and most of us don't care much for sick, attention seeking gay men. He may be what he want's, but we don't have to support it.
Yeah, HollywoodGossip, we KNOW you're full of spite towards conservative values, so its clear whatever you post on Sarah or Prejean and such will be down right insulting. Geez! Get back to "Hollywood" gossiping. ANYONE OF EITHER PARTY would answer GENERALLY with most topics, and most would not pin point any speeches or policies. GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK!!!


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i have a stand alone application with one major method that takes 0.114 seconds to execute. Now i wish to convert this stand alone application in a multiuser - web based application. i expect the system to take same time to execute this method provided a single user has to be responded. By any means can i assess how much time it will take if 1000 users are accessing the application at the same time. how will the execution time be affected, how do i know this so that i can make changes if the performance turns out to be not upto the mark
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Your question is not answerable as it depends on how scalable your code is. Tools that mimic a system under load would be needed to get an idea, and real load may even turn up other issues. JMeter is one tool that should help.
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so should i create a small web-app using the same method. and then use the Jmeter to perform load
. Can Jmeter virtually create simulate a similar environment as if 1000 users are accessing the app. I need to do this to have a rough idea about how the application will performing under such a stress.
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I am not sure how you should proceed as I have never had to do that. Saying you have a 1000 users doesn't say anything about concurrency. What you probably care about is concurrent access. You may have 1000 users, but in such a case it would be unlikely that you would have 1000 simultaneous calls to your method. I would first estimate what the number of concurrent accesses would be. If it is an existing application a log, or database stats may help.
I am not sure how jmeter works you may be able to have it simultaneously call your method without creating a web app first.
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I am not sure JMeter can scale up to a 1000 users, with out adding quite a few load generators. And if you add multiple load generating machines you will have some issues after you collect the metrics, if you have to make any sense out of them. You will have to time sync, etc.. It is do-able though.
You will have to slowly and constantly ramp up your load to 1000 concurrent users, observe the metics as the load is being ramped up and after you reach the peak load of 1000 users; You might also want to put a few steady state periods in between to make sure there is nothing bad happening at a lower user load.
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is another option you can take a look at. I've used it for quite some time now, and particularly in case of huge concurrent user loads it's quite effective.
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Do we need to know some language for writing Test cases. I have no experience for testing except i theoretically know bout different types of testing what i read in my grads days. Well GRINDER seems to be something interesting. But it says it requires Jython. What do i have to do with Jython. How is it used ?
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Weell, for starters you
need to understand a bit of programming. Jython is a sort of alternative based on the Python language implemented for the
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However, if you want to stay completely away from programming, Grinder does offer the option of recording test scripts using a TCPProxy. But that works only in case you want to load test a web based application. Otherwise, you'll have to get your hands dirty if you wish to test a desktop based, standalone Java application.
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Published: Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
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Bert Franklin Sams, 46, of Greer, S.C., died Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003.
He was born in Bangkok, Thailand. He attended Montclair High School in New Jersey and Pratt University in Brooklyn, took his undergraduate degree at San Diego State University and completed his graduate and postgraduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also obtained a graduate degree in international business from Columbia and professional certification from Microsoft.
His professional career included several years as director of administration and research for American Leprosy Missions and as a private contractor in Web development and graphic design. He was an active member and sub-deacon in his church until illness forced him to curtail activity.
He is survived by his parents, Dr. John Sams and Frances McCluney Sams of Hendersonville; and two sisters, Phyllis Sams Whitney of Milford, Pa., and Georgia Sams of Osaka, Japan.
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The Hashemites will not just surrender power and abscond to South Kensington.
Punishments may act as a deterrant, but once actually invoked, they make it psychologically difficult to surrender.
Can I surrender some lower-ordered priority to gain a higher-ordered priority?
But, per Escobar's terms of surrender, the only facility in which he could legally be detained was The Cathedral.
The proposal triggered a strike that shut down the city for a day -- and frightened Sarkozy into surrender.
He voluntarily proposed to surrender himself to the besiegers.
The other two inscriptions, however, refused to surrender their secrets.
This was to induce Jalaloddin to surrender without fighting.
We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it—now or ever.
This order was issued on the 8th of August, before the surrender of Boone.
early 15c., legalese, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre infinitive used as a noun, from Old French surrendre "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.)).


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EL PASO -- Several assaults, one incident of a woman exposing her breasts, stolen purses and a student trying to catch a ride on a firetruck were among incidents investigated by University of Texas at El Paso police during the big game against the Texas Longhorns on Saturday.
The game had a record crowd of 53,415 in a party-like atmosphere for one of the most-hyped football games in El Paso history.
A UTEP police log showed 29 incidents, 10 arrests and at least 10 other fans thrown out of the stadium.
UTEP Police Chief Cliff Walsh said officers were busier than usual because of the huge crowd but that the event went well and there were no major problems. El Paso police, sheriff's deputies and Texas state troopers assisted with security.
"I'd just like to thank all our fans because they make our jobs much more smoother than many other venues across the country," Walsh said.
Among those arrested was a woman charged by El Paso police with public intoxication-disorderly conduct for exposing her breasts in the Sun Bowl's Section 23.
There were four purses stolen from parked vehicles or during tailgating. Police advise fans not to leave valuables in vehicles or to lock them in the trunk and out of sight.
State troopers stopped a UTEP student who refused to get off an El Paso firetruck. The student said "he was tired and wanted a ride," the police log stated. A game ticket was confiscated, and the student was told to leave campus and referred to university officials.
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For the third straight season, the Davis High girls junior varsity soccer team completed an undefeated campaign.
With wins over Franklin and University high schools, the Blue Devils finished 19-0-2.
Avenging an earlier 2-2 tie with FHS, Davis prevailed 5-2 in the Delta Valley Conference finale at Yudin Field on May 3.
The Blue Devils got on the board first when keeper Margaret Lawson sent a long punt down the right flank against a strong breeze. The boot was carried deep into Wildcat territory by midfielder Ju-A Son, who then found striker Kalani Ratnasiri with a centering ball.
Ratnasiri beat the central defense and the keeper with several quick touches that left her wide open for an easy finish — her team-leading 21st goal of the season.
Franklin answered to tie 1-1 shortly thereafter with a penalty-kick conversion.
The Wildcats took the lead briefly when the Devil defense failed to clear a loose ball in the box following a corner kick.
Just before halftime, Emily Gao volleyed in a ball in the box following a corner kick from Kylie Tierney.
The Blue Devils took command in the second half with their best all-around team performance of the season, according to head coach Robert Smith.
The defense, led by central defender Jenna Farboud, completely throttled the Franklin attack, and the central midfielders — Ellarie Hernandez, Brooke Palmer, Makenzie DeLaughder and Della Woods — controlled the tempo and provided excellent distribution to create multiple scoring opportunities, he said.
Tierney's corner deliveries ultimately provided the key to unlock the Franklin goal, as she sent in three perfect corner kicks that all were finished one touch.
The go-ahead goal was provided by a charging Emily Barber, who deflected Tierney's corner off her chest past the keeper inside the near post. The second goal of the half was a thing of beauty as Tierney's corner floated past the far post directly to a waiting DeLaughder, who finished in clinical fashion with a powerful header inside the far post.
Barber combined again with Tierney to head in the final goal.
The win gave Davis the DVC crown with a league record of 9-0-1.
In a game that pitted the the Blue Devils vs. the Red Devils, Davis ended the year with a convincing 3-0 road win against University High School of San Francisco.
The Red Devils came into the game with only two losses on the season, but were no match for DHS.
The Davis defense — led by defenders Gretchen Huston, Gabby Gutierrez, Nelly Romero and Capriana Christian — stifled the UHS attack, limiting the Red Devils to but three meaningful attempts on goal.
The Blue Devils pressured the UHS goal throughout the match with more than 20 shots on goal.
However, it was a PK that yielded the first goal for Davis, as Kylie Tierney buried the penalty following a hand ball in the box by UHS.
The second half was all Davis, and the pressure finally resulted in a goal. Tierney continued to break down the defense with her crosses from the left wing.
She finally connected with Emily Gao at the top of the box and Gao rifled in a left-footed shot from 12 yards out.
Emily Barber completed the scoring for the game and the season as she weaved her way through the right-side defense and finished with a blast from 15 yards out.
On the season the Davis JV outscored opponents 113-7.
Boys JV lacrosse
It was a valiant effort for the Blue Devils against powerful Piedmont, but the Davis High boys junior varsity lacrosse team came up short on the road last week, 6-4.
A defensive first half saw the Highlanders take a 3-0 lead at intermission.
Although the Blue Devils dominated the ball throughout the third quarter, they had trouble connecting with the net.
Eventually, Ryan Amesbury broke through for the Devils, followed by Logan Davis' assist to Shaun Smith, who fired a rocket home, bringing DHS within a tally.
However, Piedmont was up to the task and scored two quick goals to maintain control at 5-2.
But the Devils weren't finished… One goal each by Amesbury and Smith brought Davis to within a goal, but the Highlanders added one last goal to provide the margin of victory.
After the game, some of the team members had the chance to meet Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day. Armstrong's son plays for the Highlanders.
During Friday's game, the Blue Devils played tough in each zone — offense, midfield and defensive end.
Austin Leck won all of his 11 face-offs and Max Guida led in takeaways with three, followed by Smith with two, and Gus Realyvasquez, Davis, Aidan Delplanque, Michael Thompson and Nilesh Haile each stealing one.
Amesbury led the Blue Devils in groundball control followed by Davis, Realyvasquez, Leck, Connal Hart, Guida, Thompson and Daniel Pardee.
Amesbury and Smith — besides scoring the goals in Friday's game — were the top two scorers for the Devils on the season: Amesbury had 20 goals and Smith tallied 16 times. Delplanque and Andy Miller shared the No. 3 spot, both contributing six goals to the Davis arsenal.
Leck battled the Blue Devils' opponents in face-off situations 196 times, winning 108.
Amesbury showed strong leadership in ground ball captures, grabbing 93 this spring. Other players with strong ground ball statistics included Hart (58), Davis (49), Guida (39), Realyvasquez (37) and Smith (34).
Many of the Blue Devils contributed to the 894 ground balls captured this season, with Leck, Thompson, Haile, Pardee, Delplanque, Aidan Prien, Alexander Lutkenhouse, Miller, Blake Dunn, Vikram Prathap and Spencer Zenner all tallying double digits in ground balls scooped up.
The Blue Devils forced 144 turnovers — Hart getting 22 of them. Guida contributed to the season's defense with 14 takeaways and Haile forced 13 turnovers.
Many other players caused turnovers, including Delplanque, Prien, Lutkenhouse, Miller, Leck, Dunn, Pardee, Graham Linley, Realyvasquez, Ewing, Davis, Thompson, Amesbury, Weiss, Smith and Zenner.
Under head coach Josh Rottman and assistant Zach Mosle, DHS won five games.
DHS frosh/soph track
Davis High boys and girls frosh/soph track teams dominated their dual meet against visiting Laguna Creek last week.
The boys won 92-21 and the girls prevailed 101-6.
Reported winners for the Blue Devil guys included Patrick Bronzan in the 110-meter hurdles (18.69) and Benjamin Crook in the 300 hurdles (47.19).
Maito Okamoto (12.32) captured the 100-meter dash and Kevin Sorensen (24.55) earned first in the 200. Sugal Sigal Sutter's 10:57.56 captured the 3,200 and Tim Wright's 5-10 won the high jump.
For the local girls, Alicia Demaree won both the shot put (26-4) and discus (72-8) while Eva Dicker took the long jump (13-11 ½) and the 100 (13.70).
Lauren James' 6:00.89 won the 1,600 while Laura Daggett went 13:55.23 to win the 3,200. Damicela Grace Calhoun (2:45.69) won the 800. Kaz Angell (1:11.68) won the 400.
Charlotte Rock (29.47) won the 200 and Danielle Gantar won the high jump with a 4-6 effort.


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We enjoy creating opportunities for learning that come from a child's idea. After watching a few ants in the yard, my daughter decided she wanted to make an Ant for her Egg Carton Craft. I gave her the supplies and she went to work. She knew she wanted legs, antennae and eyes for her ant. She needed a little bit of help to start a few holes for the pipe cleaners but that was about it. She played with the ant all afternoon once she created it, and I found her singing the "Ants Go Marching" song as she was playing. She asked how do you spell "Ant" and I saw this as a teachable moment!
Here's where I want to give my little "Teacher's Spin On" Playtime. Sometimes play is just play and it's so important for children to have opportunities throughout their day for imaginary play.
There are sometimes that you can build upon your child's play and artwork to make it a teachable moment. We took the opportunity to learn more about Ants and the letter A with the activity. We found the song, The Ants Go Marching song online to print out. While I was there I noticed a little math activity for Ants, so I just clicked print on that too. Now we have environmental print added into our playtime and math added to our playtime. I had her draw a picture of the ant she created and I wrote the text A is for Ant and then she wrote her own upper case and lower case A.
Here are The Educators' Spin On It we encourage you to take a simple art project and turn it into a learning opportunity. You can incorporate fine motor skills, literacy, writing, math and science all into an art project and make it an overall hands on experience that is developmentally appropriate for your child.
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Today is Aug. 4, the 215th day of 2013.
The temperature at Baxter County Airport at 7 a.m. is 71 F with 94 percent humidity.
Weather forecast
Forecast according to the National Weather Service website is:
Today: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1 p.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 84 F, with east wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch are possible.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1 a.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69 F, with southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 ercent. New rainfall amounts between 1/4-1/2 of an inch are possible.
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Local dams generation
Planned generation at local dams according to the Southwest Power Authority are:
» Bull Shoals -- not available
» Norfork -- Not available.
These generation schedules do not include normal generation by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Generation also may change due to power demand.
Lake Levels
4 a.m. -- 660.34
Top flood pool is 695
Top power pool is 661.03
Bottom power pool is 628.5.
4 a.m. -- 555.28
Top flood pool is 580
Top power pool is 552
Bottom power pool is 510.
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text: 3 Jan. 46 WISLICENY: To the Chief of the Security Police and SD, that is, to the office of the Chief of the Security Police and SD. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Was there any other addressee on this order? WISLICENY: Yes, the Inspector of Concentration Camps. The order was addressed to both these offices. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Did the order bear any classification for security purposes? WISLICENY: It was classified as "secret." LT. COL. BROOKHART: What was the approximate date of this order? WISLICENY: This order was dated April 1942. LT. COL. BROOKHART: By whom was it signed? WISLICENY: By Himmler personally. LT. COL. BROOKHART: And you personally examined this order in Eichmann's office? WISLICENY: Yes, Eichmann handed me the document and I saw the order myself. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Was any question asked by you as to the meaning of the words "final solution" as used in the order? WISLICENY: Eichmann went on to explain to me what was meant by this. He said that the planned biological annihilation of the Jewish race in the Eastern Territories was disguised by the concept and wording "final solution." In later discussions on this subject the same words "final solution" appeared over and over again. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Was anything said by you to Eichmann in regard to the power given him under this order? WISLICENY: Eichmann told me that within the RSHA he personally was entrusted with the execution of this order. For this purpose he had received every authority from the Chief of the Security Police; he himself was personally responsible for the execution of this order. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Did you make any comment to Eichmann about his authority? WISLICENY: Yes. It was perfectly clear to me that this order spelled death to millions of people. I said to Eichmann, "God grant that our enemies never have the opportunity of doing the same to the German people," in reply to which Eichmann told me not to be sentimental; it was an order of the Führer's and would have to be carried out. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Do you know whether that order continued in force and under the operation of Eichmann's department?


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It's depressing but true that most of the e-mail directed to your company is e-mail you don't want. Overall, about 70 percent of the e-mail most businesses receive is spam, but that percentage can vary widely, depending on how well-known your business is, how available its e-mail addresses are, and how often employees submit their e-mail addresses on other websites. For a visible company with widely available e-mail addresses, the percentage can be much higher -- 95 percent or even more. "At one company we worked with 99.7 percent of the e-mail received was spam," notes Peter Firstbrook, research director at Gartner.
Spam overall continues to grow, experts say, driven by a simple economic reality: spamming is a pretty good way to make money. "The spam industry, if you can call it that, has evolved over time," notes Bill Kasje, vice president of development for spam solution Abaca. "There are now development programs for spammers and people and organizations who specialize in different areas of enabling spam. There are people who control botnets and rent time on their botnets to spammers." A "botnet" is a group of computers that have been taken over by malware, usually without their owners' knowledge, and can be set to secretly send out spam or perform other tasks.
"Spam exists because it continues to provide real economic benefit to spammers," Kasje says.
Spam-fighting tools have grown more sophisticated as well, with two important weapons now available in the never-ending fight against spam -- these should be components of whatever ant-spam solution you choose:
- Reputation Filter: A reputation filter examines the behavior of a website, automatically blocking those that send spam so that not only e-mail, but even mail connections are blocked;
- Tarpit: A tarpit slows down an incoming message, forcing the sending server to wait and retry after a few minutes. A legitimate e-mail application will do this, but spam generally won't, since reaching the largest number of addresses in the shortest time is essential to spammers' success.
When it comes to fighting spam, there used to be three viable options, Firstbrook says: using a hosted anti-spam service, using a gateway device to block spam, or installing spam-blocking software. Though software solutions such as SpamAssassin remain quite popular, the need to constantly maintain the software and update information means software may not be the best approach for a small company, according to Firstbrook. Instead, he recommends either a gateway device that filters all incoming e-mail, or a hosted service, which filters your e-mail at its servers, and passes legitimate messages along.
Gateway device
The advantage of a gateway is that it may give you better control over spam filtering, and may provide some peace of mind if, for security reasons, you're uncomfortable having your mail on someone else's servers. On the other hand, you're responsible for the hardware, and for providing enough bandwidth to handle ever-growing mail volumes. If you're considering a gateway device, here are some questions to ask:
- How frequently do you update? Gateway devices generally come with a connection to the maker's servers, which automatically download new spam definition lists. You should find out how often these new definitions go out. Spammers often use the window between when a vulnerability is discovered and when that hole is closed to launch as much spam as they can.
- Real or virtual gateway? These days, virtualization means never having to buy specific hardware, so it might make sense to consider using virtualization to create a virtual email gateway instead.
- What if I increase bandwidth? Limited bandwidth can act as a tarpit, discouraging spam because access to your system is too slow. Therefore, it's best to make sure spam is under control before increasing that bandwidth. "I've talked to companies that scaled up their bandwidth to help handle spam volume -- and their spam percentage immediately went up," Firstbrook says.
Hosted anti-spam service
The argument for a hosted anti-spam service is that these services can respond to new spam threats instantly, with no delay while new information downloads to your gateway. They take most of the hassle out of fighting spam because you no longer have to worry about maintaining hardware or increasing bandwidth to handle e-mail. On the negative side, their system may not integrate quite as seamlessly with your e-mail application as a hardware solution would. If you're interested in using hosted anti-spam, here are some questions to ask the provider:
- What are your guarantees? Does the provider offer a service level agreement (SLA) or other form of guarantee? If you can get one, an SLA provides added assurance that the service will work, and keep working.
- Is it customizable? Some services allow you to separately set filtering levels for messages that contain sexual words compared with, say, messages bearing business propositions from Nigeria. Given the particulars of your business, this might be handy: a medical practice, for instance, might not want to aggressively filter out messages mentioning body parts.
- What if I need other services later? Many anti-spam services have ancillary products such as archiving of (non-spam) e-mails, backup e-mail systems in case you are unable to use your usual e-mail software and other services. Even if you don't need any of these right now, it's a good idea to plan for the possibility that you might need them in the future, and negotiate option prices for the possible purchase of ancillary products at the same time as you make your original deal. "If you wait two years after you sign your contract, they'll be less motivated to offer you a good deal," Firstbrook says.
SIDEBAR: Popular Spam-Fighting Products
Here are some popular gateway appliances that fight spam:
IronPort, now part of Cisco, provides gateway appliances for large corporations, but its lower-end boxes are both effective and affordable for small businesses.
Secure Computing, recently acquired by McAfee, uses multi-layered techniques for added safety.
Abaca's gateway security comes with a 99 percent accuracy guarantee.
There are also some hostedanti-spam services:
Postini, now owned by Google, offers low-cost and flexible spam solutions for even the smallest of companies, with the ability to scale as your company grows.
MessageLabs, recently acquired by Symantec, can both block spam and enforce company policy. The site keeps a monthly tally of spam percentage overall (69.7 percent in October).
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering (formerly FrontBridge) blocks both inbound and outbound spam, as well as disaster recovery.


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Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul J. Gains and his challenger, city Prosecutor Jay Macejko, touted their credentials and traded barbs in a live, one-hour televised debate.
The debate was Wednesday evening on 21 WFMJ-TV, less than two weeks before the March 6 Democratic primary, in which Macejko seeks to oust Gains from office.
Gains, county prosecutor since 1997, is seeking a fifth consecutive four-year term in the $105,703-a-year job.
"Crime is down. Convictions are up. Prison commitments are up. We are a safer community than when I took office," Gains said.
He cited the decline in Youngstown homi-cides from 62 in 1996 to 23 last year and a simultaneous drop in felonious assaults from more than 1,200 a year to fewer than 300.
"Nobody's going to question my integrity," Gains said, adding that he has given the county prosecutor's office 15 years of scandal-free leadership, with no lawsuits alleging discrimination and retaliation having been filed against him.
Gains cited his experience as a criminal defense lawyer and prosecutor, in supervising a staff of 42 in the county prosecutor's office, and in defending the county from civil lawsuits.
In contrast, Gains said Macejko, who has been city prosecutor for six years, lacks civil-law experience and supervises only six employees, two of whom have sued him.
Macejko said that if he's elected, he'd enter the office with 14 years of experience as a prosecutor, compared to zero for Gains when Gains became county prosecutor.
"There's a reason that people feel unsafe. It's because we need better performance from the prosecutor's office," Macejko said. "We need to bring victims and their rights into the forefront. We need to support the good efforts of law enforcement."
Macejko criticized Gains for giving his staff pay increases while deputy sheriffs are on layoff and parts of the county jail remain closed, but Gains said he did it within his budget and with the goal of reducing staff turnover.
Macejko repeated his assertion that he's never discriminated against anyone. Bassil Ally, the assistant city prosecutor who filed a successful federal religious discrimination lawsuit against Macejko and the city, is "permitted to worship as he chooses on city time," Macejko said.
Gains said, however, the city confessed a $100,000 judgment in the Ally case, and Gains cited a recent written finding by a federal judge that Ally was a victim of religious discrimination and retaliation.
Gains said he believes recent text messages between Macejko and Bret Hartup, an assistant city prosecutor, including a derogatory text message about President Barack Obama "are authentic."
He added: "No prosecutor should condone any type of racism or other bigotry. No prosecutor should accept that type of conduct."
Macejko, who has denied sending the Obama text, countered: "It's something that, if we were able to authenticate it, that I would have dealt with as a supervisor. However, the reality is that these were on private phones and there's no way of authenticating" the text messages.
Gains and Macejko also clashed concerning Lexter Williams, the armed home invader who fled to Philadelphia after his bond was reduced to zero and was captured there.
Gains said his office made a plea bargain in which Williams would serve a 13-year prison term and be released to house arrest pending his sentencing after the victims had moved to Texas and were "extremely reluctant" to return here to testify against him in a trial.
But Macejko said the victims were not notified Williams would be released and were willing to return here to testify.
"That little vacation cost him 67 years," Gains said of Williams. Gains said Williams was sentenced to 80 years in prison after his capture. The actual sentence was 831/2 years.
U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko ruled earlier Wednesday that Atty. Scott Cochran, lawyer for the Islamic Society of Greater Youngstown, should not have released any case documents to The Vindicator, before filing them with the court, with the court-ordered redactions of Social Security numbers and medical information.
Cochran, a Gains supporter, sought to unseal all court documents in the discrimination lawsuit by Ally against Macejko and the city. Cochran released to the paper the text messages between Macejko and Hartup that included the derogatory reference to Obama.
Could it be that the homicide rate has dropped and the felony rate has dropped because they are pleading homicides down to a lesser crime and pleading felonies down to misdemeanors so that their stats for convictions look so much better?
I watched the debate and was curious about Attorney Macejko's characterization of his treatment of Attorney Ally as "bumping"heads...as happens in all offices when people work together. Attorney Ally was awarded $110,000 ..thats quite a bump on the head. Attorney Macejko is either in denial or can no longer recognize the truth.
Even if they plead a first degree murder charge down to a manslaughter charge, is the victim any less dead? So, if all homicides in Y-town are reduced, then the murder rate is zero?
My God, the voters are idiots!
The one thing we do know for sure is that Gains has done a terrible job. Thumbing his nose at tax payers with his raises to his staff, constantly pleaing cases down to nothing and constantly letting criminals back on the street with probations, paroles and lack of sufficient bail. You have the chance to change this in the election. Question is, will you or will the same old party hacks get their way and get this incompetent person reelected?
An allegation of racism has arisen in the prosecutor's race based on a text critical of the president's stimulus in 2009. The allegation was leaved without any examination of the content of the text. Before one can say the author of the text is a racist or had a racist motivation you have to ask have I inferred what the author implied. The author of the text was mocking the presidents stimulus package and clearly skeptical that the stimulus would have the economic impact claimed by the president. The author of the text stated that the value of the stimulus was worth very little, 3 pieces of fried chicken some cool aid and a dime bag. To claim with certainty that the text is racist one must be certain that the items available for purchase by the stimulus are purchased only blacks or synonymous with the black community. This requires three assumptions'; first that non blacks do not like fried chicken, Second, non-blacks do not drink cool-aid, and Third that non-blacks do not smoke the content of a dime bag. I would submit that the life experiences of us all clearly establish that those assumptions are false. SO since the author of the text did not include an item synonymous with or exclusive to the black community, I ask you who's the racist the author or the text or the person hoping to benefit by the accusation of racism?


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Margaret Thatcher and the London rental market
We asked Rentonomy to give us an exclusive quick overview of how the rented sector in London has changed by Prime Ministers before and after the Iron Lady (we looked at house prices by Prime Minister at the end of last week).
"Like much of Margaret Thatcher's legacy, her impact on the housing market will be vigorously debated," says David Butler of Rentonomy. "However, we expect all will agree that the impact of the Housing Act 1988 was as profound as it was transformative, particularly to the private rented sector in London.
"The chart [see above] looks at the terms of each Prime Minister since 1963. We've looked at how the rented sector in London changed in size per year in office. Over the course of the Thatcher government, the sector did shrink on average. However, when viewed in the longer-term, it's possible to see her term in office as the point where the sector stopped shrinking and began growing."
At the beginning of the twentieth century more than three-quarters of the UK population lived in private rented accommodation with 'Protected and Statutory' tenancies which gave tenants considerable rights and protected them from eviction. The Housing Act of 1988 aimed to change the balance of power to attract landlords.
The results can be seen in Rentonomy's chart below – the 1991 census shows the ratio of owner occupiers to social renters to private renters in London was 60:30:10 and by 2011 it was 50:25:25.
"The sector got an extra supply-boost following the housing market crash of 2008/9," says David. "Many people active in the market were lumbered with properties that they were expecting to sell on, but had to let them out, thus becoming 'accidental landlords'.
"It would seem that all this increase in supply should lead to lower rents for all, but in reality the general trend is the reverse. While the amount of rented stock has increased, demand has increased even more so because the relative scarcity of properties to buy, given the reluctance of the above landlords to sell, and large mortgage deposit requirements have made renting the only option for many."
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Dr John Pierce
PhD Toronto
Contact Information
Office: Watson 421
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E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Research Interests
Romantic poetry (especially Blake and Shelley), late 18th- and early 19th-century fiction (especially the work of Amelia Opie).
Recent Publications
- The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, co-edited with Shelley King (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing (Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2003).
Author of The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing (Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2003), Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (McGill-Queen's U P, 1998), and of articles on Blake in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly,Philological Quarterly, and Studies in English Literature, and on Shelley in the Keats-Shelley Journal. Also co-editor with Shelley King of Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray (Oxford World's Classics, 1999), of Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry for Broadview Literary Texts Series (2003), and of Amelia Opie's collected poems for OUP. Currently co-editing the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson.
Winner of the W. J. Barnes (ASUS) Award for Excellence in Teaching.


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A pair of eagles are nesting along the Ohio River near where the east end bridge might be built. Surprisingly, the call of the eagle consists of weak chirping whistles. Hawks and bluejays make louder sounds. Eagles produce between one and three eggs per year, but it is rare for all three chicks to successfully fly. Both the male and female take turns incubating the eggs. April 2, 2012
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The eggs and any baby eagles apparently are expendable.
Eastern Ohio River bridge crews cannot, however, do anything that might kill the parents of a nesting pair of bald eagles with a front-row perch to the construction.
With pre-construction activities getting under way on a new Ohio River bridge, federal officials have issued a "takings permit" that shields the Indiana Department of Transportation from penalties if its construction activities cause a pair of eagles to abandon any eggs or young that might be in their eastern Louisville nest. ...