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- 2 each large green, sweet red and yellow peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 large red onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 1 pound bulk mozzarella cheese, cut into bite-size cubes
- 1 can (6 ounces) pitted ripe olives, drained and halved
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Thread peppers onto metal or soaked wooden skewers; grill or broil for 10-12 minutes or until edges are browned. Remove from skewers and place in a large bowl.
- Add onion, mozzarella and olives; toss gently. Cover and refrigerate.
- In a jar with tight-fitting lid, combine vinaigrette ingredients, shake well. Pour over the pepper mixture just before serving; toss to coat. Yield: 10-12 servings.
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Love arts and craft fairs? Lucky you that Wisconsin is the proud home of many dedicated and talented artists. So many, in fact, that we have to keep track of all them in a directory! You can thank the Wisconsin Arts Board for producing the annual Arts & Crafts Fairs Directory.
If you are mapping out your trips this year and want to attend one of the many Wisconsin arts and craft fairs, you can download the directory online or order a hard copy!
And for your viewing pleasure, we've detailed out some of the can't-miss stops:
- Lakefront Artist Fair, Racine Montessori School – The first outdoor art fair of the season in Racine featuring more than 100 artists.
- Festival of Spring, Paine Art Center and Gardens – Paint, plant and landscape vendors show off their work in Oshkosh.
- Lakefront Festival of Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum – One of the country's finest juried shows, this festival puts the works of over 150 national artists on display.
- Strawberry Festival & Craft Fair, Cedarburg Cultural Center – Family friendly environment complete with a children's carnival, raffles and of course, strawberries!
- Namekagon Art and Music Fest, Cable Hayward Area Arts Council – Pottery and carving demonstrations in the Art Tent plus a poetry jam!
- Art Fair on the Square, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art – A Madison tradition, this is consistently rated among the best art fairs in America.
- Bergstrom Mahler Museum Arts Festival, Riverside Park – Held on the lakeside community of Neenah, you'll find the areas best fine artists.
- Midsummer Festival of the Arts, John Michael Kohler Art Center – Workshops are offered for all ages and features the works of over 135 artists.
- Art in the Park, Marathon Park – Part of Wausau's "Artrageous" weekend.
- Hidden River Arts Festival, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts – This Brookfield festival promotes the work of Wisconsin fine artists.
- Cranberry Fest, Vilas County Fairgrounds – Browse the flea market and tour a marsh or winery at this tasty crafts show.
- Old World Christmas Market, The Ostoff Resort – both international and regional artists are on display at this Elkhart Lake holiday tradition.
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Striker relishing Wolves expectation
Leigh Griffiths starts his pre-season with Wolves today keen to make his mark and build on a superb campaign with Hibernian last time out.
The 22-year-old striker arrived at Molineux in January, 2011, but has spent the last two seasons back and on loan North of the Border with Hibs, the latest of which saw him notch 28 goals and land the Scottish Young Player of the Year and Football Writers' Player of the Year awards.
He also landed his first Scotland start in the excellent summer win in Croatia, before which he was called by Wolves Head Coach Kenny Jackett to inform him he was very much in his plans at Molineux for this season.
Having been handed an extra fortnight's break due to his summer international commitments, Griffiths will today meet up with the other Wolves players as they kick off their pre-season training camp in Scotland.
"I had another wee boy in the summer which was great and I also picked up my first Scotland start as well when we won at Croatia," says Griffiths.
"I've managed to get a break and am just looking forward to getting back for pre-season now.
"The gaffer was great with me giving me some time off after the Scotland game and he wanted me to get a good rest which I have.
"I've then started working again in the last week and am ready to get back now and meet the boys up in Scotland today.
"I've been off on loan for the last couple of seasons and feel I've done well, especially last season scoring near enough 30 goals.
"From my own point of view I don't think I could have done much more and that form was rewarded by the Scotland call-up in the summer.
"It's a new chapter for me now and one I am looking forward to.
"I want to work hard and get into the team."
It was one of Jackett's early priorities to speak to Griffiths to let him know he was looking forward to working with him, a gesture appreciated by the frontman.
"The gaffer gave me a call just as I was boarding the plane with Scotland at Glasgow Airport," he says.
"He said he was looking forward to me coming back down to Wolves and work with me and I was delighted to hear that.
"I've not had the breaks at Wolves which maybe I could have had previously but I'm looking forward to the challenge now.
"I want to get back for pre-season, work hard to get myself in the team and score goals."
Within that of course were some mixed feelings given Griffiths' success at Hibernian, who are also his boyhood team.
"Everyone knows I will always be very close to Hibs," he explained.
"I supported them as a boy and I will still try and get back there whenever I can to watch games.
"But now my focus is in Wolves and hopefully I can get in the team and show people there what I can do."
There is now plenty of expectation from the Molineux faithful keen to see Griffiths handed an opportunity in a Wolves shirt.
That process may start this week if Griffiths is handed some minutes either in Wednesday's friendly at East Fife or Saturday's game at his first club Livingston.
Whilst taking nothing for granted over his place next season, the striker is clearly relishing any weight being thrust upon his shoulders.
"There is always expectation in football and there was an expectation on me at Hibs to score goals," he says.
"I was handed the number nine shirt at Hibs which a lot of great players have worn before me.
"Thankfully I managed to live up to the mark and scored a lot of goals last season.
"Hopefully I can do the same and score goals at Wolves this year as well.
"I know it's been a difficult couple of years for the club and the league tables show that it's just not happened for Wolves.
"You only get relegated if you don't play well enough over a season.
"But I think everyone at the club will be giving it a fresh push in League One and we will all have to take the responsibility for what is needed.
"Hopefully we can get off to a good start and go on a good run and see where it takes us."
And after this week it will be all about settling back at Wolves and getting all in place for next season.
"I spoke to the gaffer again a couple of weeks ago when I came down and found somewhere to live so I'm looking forward to getting settled," he adds.
"Once that's happened I'll be able to look forward to the season which will hopefully be a successful one for me and for Wolves."
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April 13, 1977
St. Paul, MN US
Civic Center (St. Paul)
Includes: The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountain side, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Black Dog (?), Trampled Under Foot.
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Press Review: The Song Remains In Flux - Minnesota 1977
First of all, they should drop that opening theme song. It's a misnomer. Any Zeppy who's held control of their ears and brain over the past seven years knows that the song hasn't been the same since Zeppelin II. Live, the British bombardiers, themselves, revealed the title to be a lie during their two vastly different performances last week in the Twin Cities. If anything, they proved that the song remains in flux, from phase to phase, album to album or even night to night.
In the long run, this constant change has preserved vitality in their music which the blues R&R stagnation wished on them by their reactionary legions would have sapped. In the short run, from night to night, however, it meant the difference between the adrenaline explosion of their Civic Centre performance and the monotonous thud of the previous night's show at the Met Sports Center.
Both of these sold-out concerts (that's about 33,000 bodies paying a gross of $278,000) followed essentially the same program, opening with the aforementioned Song Remains the Same, and closing over three hours later with the encore, Rock & Roll. In between there were, of course, three 20-minute solos – guitar, drums and piano – and the musical emphasis for this tour seems to be on their 1975 album Physical Graffiti.
The main difference between the two shows was the group's energy levels (not to be confused with the volume level), which always remained at the same D-day.
Indicative of the Met show was Jimmy Page sloppily playing a grind-'em-til-you-find-'em guitar solo while slouching on a kitchen stool borrowed from Andy Williams. The next night he played the same solo, tightened up tremendously, accenting it with a twisting shuffle, smiles and a rock and roll leap. He had instant audience rapport, playing with and off the crowd rather than in spite of it.
The Met's slack-happy performance can be partially attributed to their weather-delayed departure from Chicago (their permanent shuttle home-base for this part of the tour.) They were detained at O'Hare Airport until 7:40; arrived in Bloomington at 8:35; made the Met at 8:50 and hit the stage at 9:10. By encore time, 12:15, their stamina reserves were obviously wasted, as evidenced by their shaky stage sauntering and pallid expressions.
The tour photographer, Neal Preston, gave a succinct after-show critique, remarking: "Well, it was probably the worst Led Zeppelin concert I'd ever seen". (He's travelled with the group since 1973).
But even this "worst performance ever" held some musical surprises for the less frequent spectator. Keyboardist John Paul Jones' extended, meaty-chord solo provided a moody bridge between No Quarter and Ten Years Gone. Page, taking most of the leads, led the group through an acoustic half hour. Their offering of English folk-style songs – Black Country Woman, Bron-y-aur Stomp, and Going to California – transformed these champions of heavy metal into a sort of Chieftains gone Haight-Ashbury. They played their wooden instruments proudly and expertly.
However, any momentum that could have been built during this section of obvious band conviction was quickly defeated when some peabrain threw a South Dakota stink-bomb special onto the stage.
The whole group, especially Robert Plant, seemed pissed off about the onslaught of fireworks that's been greeting them on this tour. On both nights he requested that the crowd keep the fireworks until the fourth. The week before in Chicago, he had reportedly threatened to leave the stage. At St Paul, he reached back to the past for a hippie attempt at communication. "How are we supposed to sing about flowers and love when you're all packing bombs? It's silly, isn't it?"
Led Zeppelin's music is itself built on distortion and flash, but they stand head and shoulders over their minor-league, bomb popping competition because they continue to connect it all into a purposeful extremely forceful musical whole. Basically, they are better musicians than they are schlock mongers. Although they do dabble self-indulgently in lasers, dry-ice clouds and white noise generators, they have enough integrity to keep them in their proper perspective. On both nights, most effects were followed instantaneously by an ensemble surge or more often by a tight-paced, dexterous guitar break from Page.
John Bonham, the most steady component both nights, drummed a heavy bottom, a tom-tom, and bass driven funk dance. The usually stoic John Paul Jones filled out the bottom doing a booty shaker bump off Page all the while.
Their St Paul finale of Stairway to Heaven was something that I wished those who'd sat through the show the night before or even in 1973 or January 1975 could have witnessed. They finally did this war horse right, with none of the rough draft doodling or uninspired mess that I'd come to expect from the song. They did it vinyl perfect, true to the record but with musical fire and spunk. Page augmented his usual break with a fierce fingered solo that it probably took countless performances to reach and as is the group's nature, will probably take as many more to hit again. Such is the life of a band in flux. [T.Carr-Live Licks | April 1977]
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St. Paul Civic Center, April 13th, 1977.
I was 15 years old when I went on a bus tour from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada to see Led Zeppelin play the St. Paul Civic Centre. For me, this was an amazing evening. I made it to the front of the stage quite easily to see Robert Plant, but my eyes were constantly averted to Jimmy Page.
They sat at the front and played an acoustic set. Later as I headed to the back of the arena, a laser-light show started during Stairway to Heaven. A magical evening.


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NRA's Response to Sandy Hook Massacre: Armed Guards?
Original post made by Sam, Oak Hill, on Dec 22, 2012
Here's the perspective of a US Special Forces soldier on the NRA's solution:
In the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, a friend of mine who was a longtime Special Forces operator before he was wounded in Afghanistan summarized in an online posting the general position of the NRA and its supporters: "If everyone had a gun, people would be able to kill a shooter before he caused too much mayhem."
The operator also offered a highly skilled and experienced good guy's view of this notion:
"This, simply put, is bullshit," he wrote. "There are people who train night and day to be good at shooting bad guys in situations where there are innocents in close proximity and even those people screw up because a gunfight is not a shooting range. People are dying and screaming and there is blood and all that silly shit you 'think' you're going to do goes right out the window when you are in that crazy environment."
He further tendered his opinion of the high-capacity magazines that the NRA has fought so hard to keep on the market.
"There is no reason for a noncombatant citizen of our country to have a weapon that can shoot 30 rounds of ammunition. I have been in many gunfights in 'bona fide' war-zones and only a few times did I have to use that many bullets. If you are a hunter or a sports shooter, you don't need a 30-round magazine to do either of those things."
(The Daily Beast website. Web Link)
a resident of Mohr Park
on Dec 22, 2012 at 5:11 pm
The schools would be safer from an attacker with an armed guard.They would be even safer with 2 special forces at every school.They would be safer yet with 5 marines posted at every school.
How about shopping malls,churches and restaurants?This could solve our unemployment problem.Set up some training programs and we can have armed guards on every street corner!
I am really starting to worry about the future of our country with so many people in elected office that have zero ability to be rational and compromise on anything along with the idiots in society that think they need and have a right to assault rifles.When our founding fathers who they all worship wrote the second amendment they had muskets not rapid fire killing machines, but it is too difficult for many to grasp the difference between then and now.Give me a break.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 23, 2012 at 12:13 am
Hoops, the government ALSO has muskets in 1700s. THE people were equal to the government. So the government was not / is not greater than the governed.
I don't believe anybody said anything about a guard. Just that some adult teacher or admin or both, any who are properly trained and wants to defend themselves and others, has the right the shoot the bad guy in the shoulder or gut and distract & harm the perp allowing others to call or hide, most of all not get to 20 kids. The perp should be kept guessing....like the air marshalls on planes... hearby to prevent a problem from turning into a mass slaughter. How good it would have been if there were undercover in plain clothes in the planes on 9-11, maybe one shooting, but no mass problme. The plain clothes person could be any school personnel, who is trained. Any adult should be free to defend themselves....not a sitting duck. Every large building in every large city has had paid guards for several decades, since that 55 California street office employee who went wacko. Laws are for law abiding people, not mentally ill or law breakers. There is NO way to fix the mentally ill (mind altering prescriptions) or law BREAKER issues. There are other issues than guns that cannot be controlled, i.e. mental illness, prescribed drugs, etc.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Dec 23, 2012 at 9:37 am
The government had muskets too so the people and the government were equal in the 1700's?The govt has missles and drones and F16's today so are the people equal because they have an assault rifle?With all do respect that is a ridiculous statemant
You cannot prevent an incident like Sandy Hook unless you get lucky.We have how many tens of thousands of schools and there have been how many shootings in our history??Now we over react and want to arm everyone to stop a potential what, 1 in a million occurance from happening?
Ban the weapons and create stiff penalties for anyone owning one and you at least reduce the risk of another Sandy Hook as well as many other incidents.THERE IS NO REASON to own that type of weapon and that cannot be disputed by a rational human being.
Unfortunately we live in a dangerous world and sometimes a nut is going to do something horrible,but you cannot arm people in all public places and think that the world is now safe.
Even if you had a school employee that had a firearm,what are the odds that he would be able to do anything to stop a Sandy Hook.Say Mr.Jones is a teacher and is in his classroom and hears shots being fired somewhere on campus.He will be reacting long after people are killed and the odds of him at that point overtaking a heavily armed attacker are what?We are not talking a green beret but a lightly trained guy with a pistol trying to take out someone with an assault rifle.It is ridiculous.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 23, 2012 at 9:56 am
I say arm everybody, even the kids. That way more guns are sold and my investments are protected.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 12:22 am
Any school district that doesn't want to have a guard doesn't need to. Maybe there are 1 or 2 trained in the administration who would want to exercise their right to have a gun to protect self and others....,.like all office buildings.
It would simply be a tool to slow down the killer,delay, stall, many fewer deaths.
Don't be such a smart ass idiot. There is NO solution. Half of our country have arms. There are some steps that could employ.
Hoops, interesting you admit it's a potentional one in a million situation. You say ban the weapons...sort of like the drug ban, and the extremely costly, worhtless 'war on drugs', which is law enforcement current focus, although just feeble attempts and wasted $$.
Then we could add worthless, costly, wasted 'war on gun'. You say ban,...does that include illegal search and seizure of and in private homes ??? tsk, tsk, not very wise.
Doing something stupid, iw worse than doing nothing.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 9:13 am
The way I see it, if individuals are prohibited from arming themselves with automatic and semiautomatic weapons, then how am I do defend my family from foreign invaders? What happens if Canada declares war on the US? What happens if ACORN reassembles and decides to take over this country? They stole the last two elections for Obama. What's to prevent them from marching into my community and forcing us into submission with their shotguns and barettas with silencers? What happens if the government decides to invade all of our households for purposes of, who knows, inspecting us for anti-Obama literature? See what I mean? It's a slippery slope. And no one has mentioned the likelihood of alien invasions. Am I to allow my family to submit to Martians with ray-guns? Wake up, America. We'd be nowhere without our automatic weapons. They are our right, and we can make a profit from them. End of story.
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 24, 2012 at 9:29 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Libertarian capitalist, you are the enemy from within that people are arming up to resist. Your sarcasm provides a slight distraction from the fact that gun sales are way up after the election.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 9:40 am
So, let me get this straight. You're arming yourself in the face of all of us who think you are a fool? What have you purchased lately? Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
a resident of Mohr Park
on Dec 24, 2012 at 10:39 am
The U.S has 5% of the worlds population and 50% of it's guns.Look at the homicide rates in Japan,England,Australia and all the countries that have strict gun laws.The simple reason we have so many deaths is because we have so many guns.End of story.There is no argument,That is a FACT.
And by the way,these countries have just as many mentally ill people and violent video games.It is access.Pure and simple and any stupid argument about the right to bear assault rifles does not change that.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm
You are neither a real Libertarian nor capitalist, You're the sarcastic wacko who kept pestering every comment on every thread last year. So sorry you're back, adding absolutely zero to the conversation.
You just trash all other opinions offering both short and long term solutions, without you offering any realistic , pragmatic,potential possibilities.
You'd just send storm troopers to search all homes looking for weapons to confiscate, as a solution, and wasting paper writing unenforceable bans. Get at least one foot in the real world and
deal with reality or drop out.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 12:34 pm
In other words, since you didn't have a response when you posted as lib is a disease, you've now decided to post as realist. I'm so ashamed. But we all are still wondering what guns you're buying to resist the likes of Obama and all the other tyrants you've so eloquently discussed in the past. Please edify us. We hang on every one of your words.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 12:41 pm
If a trained and armed professional was present at the school in Connecticut, many of those children and adults that were killed would be alive today.
Credibility is lacking in the leadership of our country that gave automatic weapons to criminals (Fast and Furious) that resulted in many Mexican lives lost, not to mention the U.S. Border Guard who was killed.
Although the leftist media refuses to publish the data, the number of lives saved by people who have the means to defend themselves and their friends and family far outnumbers those lost through the horrible acts of violence such as the recent one in Connecticut.
a resident of Valencia
on Dec 24, 2012 at 1:02 pm
There were two armed men at Columbine and that did nothing... Their weapons couldn't keep up with the assault weapons the two boys had.
More guns are not the solution. Having military grade weapons in the hands of civilians is unnecessary.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 2:35 pm
FYI Libertarian capitalist(neither), in the past I've made the assumption that Lib disease is TP, which I am not. I know in the past, you have had coversations with yourself....I have never. Look around Realist is on other threads. You know nothing about anything you speak.
You have fantasies for what live would be like on your perfect cloud. However, most of those fantasies can not happen in the real world.
Maggie, I'm not aware of any mass shootings being with "military grade weapons"". Sandy was not. It and the SOME of the others were military 'STYLE',,,meaning 'looks' like, but the trigger has to be pulled for EACH shot. I can't really blame you for that blunder, since you get your false info from msnbc flame throwers and they try to 'fan' with scary words...maybe they are too ignorant, since they 'talk' rather than listen. Military assult is 'different'.
Listen to the word 'style'not function next time, less emphasis on military. Otherwise, we'll have to call you Misinformation Maggie!
Va Tech was with handguns, which are in every block in US.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Maggie and Lib Cap, you really should have watched Sound of Music, last night. Hitler, elected by the brilliant voters choice, moved in, took over freedoms, people were helpless, except those few who reacted quickly and escaped over the alps.
Our lives in US could be temporary, if you start tossing our freedoms, and spitting on our founders. There are adjustments if we think and discuss. Until then, districts that 'want' to, could have 1 or 2, maybe a guard, plus an administrator who's trained in defense....short term, and in the long run.
a resident of Oak Hill
on Dec 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Realist wrote: "Maggie, I'm not aware of any mass shootings being with "military grade weapons"". Sandy was not. It and the SOME of the others were military 'STYLE',,,meaning 'looks' like, but the trigger has to be pulled for EACH shot. I can't really blame you for that blunder, since you get your false info from msnbc flame throwers and they try to 'fan' with scary words...maybe they are too ignorant, since they 'talk' rather than listen. Military assult is 'different'."
Really, "Realist", Maggie had a valid points and instead of addressing them you simply resorted to ridicule. The "Bushmaster" weapon used at the Sandy Hook massacre didn't simply "look like" a military weapon. Essentially, it was as every bit as deadly as a real military weapon used by our armed forces (thanks to the demand by gun enthusiasts for "authenticity") with the exception of the fact that it cannot fire in the "full automatic" mode. But soldiers often don't even use the full automatic mode in firefights. As I understand, they often fire in a semi-automatic mode with bursts of three rounds, similar to the mode used by the Sandy Hook shooter. But you knew that, right?
BTW, good job at ducking out from the point made by Maggie that Columbine HS had armed guards on the day of their shooting massacre.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 24, 2012 at 4:27 pm
So, you get your history from Sound of Music, eh? I like the part about the escapees going over the alps, blowing their horns and yodelling. Change your name all you desire, the stench coming off your varied 'contributions' is unmistakable.
a resident of another community
on Dec 24, 2012 at 9:44 pm
Just as in wake of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords and the Aurora, Colorado theatre gun murders, gun nuts are buying up the shooter's weapon as fast as the gun makers can turn them off the assembly line. The sales are driven in part by sick fascination with owning a murder weapon and also from fear that the Congress will actually do the sensible thing and ban or restrict these weapons.
By the way, the Bushmaster is called the Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle). It's adaptive because you can change out the barrel for a different caliber.
According to the manufacturer of the Bushmaster ACR, Magpul Industries, the rate of fire is estimated to be in the range of 600-800 rpm (depending on which caliber of barrel is attached to the weapon).
600 to 800 bullets per minute. This is not a weapon for hunting animals. This is not a weapon for self-defense. This is a weapon for military use, a device that has one purpose: killing a whole lot of people really fast.
A sensible country, with a national legislature not corrupted by the power and money of the gun manufacturers (the NRA is just a front for the gun manufacturers, after all), would have acted long ago to keep such weapons out of civilian hands. I only hope that the Sandy Hook Massacre is the turning point in this debate.
By the way, the 2nd Amendment has the phrase: "a well-regulated militia...."
Private individuals are not a member of a "well-regulated militia." The 2nd Amendment does not guarantee unrestricted private gun ownership and the Founders never intended it as such.
The true history of the Second Amendment is that James Madison introduced it to assuage the fears of Southern slave-owning whites that they would not have local well-armed militias to suppress slave rebellions, which were a lot more frequent than our high school history textbooks have led us to believe.
By the way, there was an armed guard on duty at Columbine High. The guard didn't stop the massacre. And the next NRA fantasy is....?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 25, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Libertarain capitalist has his diseased head in the sand. Read a little bit of history and you'll learn about how the Nazis chased the Swiss across the Alps. But then your not really interested in history or facts. Just trying to lord over everyone with elitist pontefecations.


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My new T500 (model 2082-9HG) apparently causes a strange cricket-like high-pitched computer-sound everytime something changes on the screen. It's pretty loud and chirpy at times. Seems to come from somewhere under the [Insert] button or maybe even from the right-channel speaker but I did not trace it with a directional microphone yet.
I was wondering if this is normal, and if and how it can be eliminated. I'm prepared to open the T500 myself, if that is what is required. I'm not prepared to send it away for this, because I don't expect Lenovo to 'solve' this, since it seems hardware-related. They probably used cheap parts or bad shielding somewhere in the T500 and I doubt they will admit to such fault in their design.
I've 'denoised' ans silenced strange noisy computer-electronics before, using foam and kit and glue and such things, but perhaps a manual for this particular noise-source already exists. Can't imagine being the only or first one with this complaint.
Any and all info on this highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Hi Benedict!
I've just recieved my T500 an I know exaclty which sound you are talking about
I would be very happy if theres a fix to "silence" this noise. Sounds... baaaad!
Best regards
10-11-2009 03:33 PM - last edited on 10-11-2009 05:27 PM by bananaman
Well ain't that cute, no response from anyone at lenovo whatsoever.
Moderator edit: Removed abuse from this post.
This is a user-to-user community. Although Lenovo employees do fly by from time to time, it is not a monitored Lenovo support channel.
So apparently me and win5hit are the only ones with ears, and all T500 owners are 'fine' with it?
Really, I'm amazed that such pricey notebooks come with such obvious flaws in this day and age. Doesn't lenovo have some type of clearance and quality control before their product leaves the factory?
I have the same problem. I did some research and it suggests that in certain power saving states the processor can make this whining/buzzing sound. My first HP machine had a similar buzz which they refused to accept as a problem. in that case it turned out to be a capacitor with a bad join i believe.
For such an otherwise quiet machine I really wish this problem would be solved! Has anyone else had experience with this?
Mine does it too. You can BARELY hear it though on mine, so I don't mind at all.
I don't have that issue so I can't hear it at all. Of course mines a 2081-CTO from last year, which could explain why. The only time my system beeps is in a BIOS, doing something wrong, when the power is low or when I'm connecting my power cable to it.
Odds are, IT IS cheap parts that's causing the problem.
And I really tend to dislike Lenovo for letting this pass their tests. Sorry to say this, but this does not make them look too good. I have been using a lot of different notebooks through work and friends the last ten years, but none made a sound like this. It's stupid too, since the rest of the T500 is really quiet, so this ruins the effort put in the fan and such.
Purposely bumping this thread. Lenovo should read this and listen.
I emailed lenovo directly, but - of course - they did not even respond, except for automatically saying they received the message. And that has been two weeks ago.
I have another issue with lenovo: They refuse to support Windows XP Pro x64 Edition, which is ridiculous. I'm not among those who 'like' the Vista or Windows 7 UI, it is annoying and slow.


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Although radiocarbon dating is usually applied to organic remains, recent work shows that it can also reveal the age of some inorganic building materials
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Åland Revisited
When Ringbom, still working on the Åland churches, learned of
the promising results from the Newport Tower, she resolved to
abandon the earlier approach and start over again using only AMS
14C dating. After doing so, the age determinations proved
plausible and consistent. Mortar dating indicated that the naves of
all eight churches had been completed during a very short interval,
from 1280 to 1300, matching the age that ecclesiastical activity
began at Kökar. Studies of the tree rings in timbers found in
the bell tower of one of these churches (at Jomala) dated the
structure to 1281. Five samples of mortar from that tower yielded
14C dates of 1279 to 1290—the most remarkable
bull's-eye yet achieved with the newly developed method.
Indeed, AMS-based mortar dating appeared to yield a full history for
these previously enigmatic structures. The bell tower at Jomala was
later copied in the other parishes. Hammarland church got its west
tower in 1310 and Lemland in 1316. Then after a long gap, towers
were added to the other churches between 1381 and 1467. Porches were
added later still. Thus earlier conflicts about the ages of the
churches could be explained in part by incremental building, a
practice fully revealed by AMS dating of the mortar.
Initially it seemed surprising that all these churches should have
been established in one great burst of concentrated energy,
considering the costs, effort and expertise involved. But Ringbom
found a possible explanation. In about 1280, these islands began to
enjoy an economic boom as the Ålanders supplied timber and
lime mortar for the building of two new cities: Stockholm to the
west in Sweden and Åbo (Turku) to the east in Finland. The
financial fruits of this windfall seem to have found their way into
the eight monumental churches, symbols of the Ålanders'
communal pride and pious gratitude.
This work on the Åland churches brought important refinements
to the mortar-dating method. For example, finer meshes than had
previously been used aided the mechanical separation of pure fired
lime from contaminants, as did adding the steps of dry and wet
sieving. And a technique called
cathodoluminescence—essentially bombarding a sample with
electrons and viewing the light given off—allowed impurities
that could affect the date to be made readily visible. Also, it
proved worthwhile to produce a sequence of subsamples of the carbon
dioxide released from the mortar after the application of an acid so
as to test the consistency of dates derived from various fractions.
It turned out that for most of these samples the very first gas
fraction came from rapidly dissolving carbonate in the hardened
lime, thus yielding the correct date of the building. The second gas
fraction was contaminated with carbon dioxide from slowly dissolving
fossil limestone, thus giving an erratic result that tended to be
too old.
With promising results from Kökar, the Newport Tower and the
Åland churches, the mortar-dating method was securely
established. But from an archaeological point of view, the work was
just beginning. Ahead lay the application of this method to mortar
samples from different periods and environmental settings (including
under- water structures) and the development of precise procedures
for collecting the samples. It was already clear that success might
require site visits by a number of specialists to verify the
original position and condition of each sample: where it lay in the
structure, whether it remained chemically pristine, what the local
sources of raw materials and potential contamination were and so on.
Beginning in 1999, we formed an interdisciplinary team to test this
method on mortars from more ancient sites. Our group includes a
physicist (Heinemeier), an art historian (Ringbom), a geologist
(Lindroos) and two archaeologists (Hale and Lancaster). Our focus
has been on the Mediterranean and the territory of the Roman Empire.
By the time we assembled our group, the method had proved reliable
on sites from the medieval and early modern periods; yet it remained
to be shown that it could work equally well on material from the
classical age. Moreover, the Romans were famous for having used an
alternative to normal sand as aggregate, and there was interest in
seeing how this Roman mortar would behave during analysis.
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Can any of your breeder give me some info on the Carni/Italian Hybrid, disposition, hygienic etc..
Can any of your breeder give me some info on the Carni/Italian Hybrid, disposition, hygienic etc..
I run alot of Carni X Italians in my hives. They are very gentle; I can work them without protective clothing. They also exhibit good hygienic behavior and great honey production.
Thanks Benjamin
Sounds like good ones to work with,or to be more accurate good ones to work me.
G'ville, I run 100 hives just north of you, all Carni/Italian cross. They are excellent honey producers and winter well.
That sounds wonderful, been told by several folks that it is a good mix. I can say that the queens are very fast, hehehe
I was trying to make sure the new queen was still in the hive and not killed off by these little vicious ladies,well during my several locating methods she ends up outside of the hive and under the screened bottom board, after several attempts I finally had her in hand and finally got her to walk back into the hive. If my neighbors were watching I am sure they enjoyed themselves, me chasing the queen, yelling come back came back, on my hands and knees finding her back under the bottom board.
After all that confusion, if she leaves , couldn't much blame her. She is a beauty for sure


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Next Traviss Gears novel hitting August 31
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Title Update 6 goes live today for Gears 2
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Gears 2 update possible thanks to continued community support
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Rumor – Xbox 360 10th Anniversary Bundle hitting Europe March 9
Thursday shorts: Battlefield Heroes, Glitch, EVE Online, Twisted Metal
Gaining Achievements in previous Gears games will net you goodies in Gears of War 3
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Yep. Totally wasted character imo.
quote:pretty sure she is Dutch or Scandinavian.
Van Alden has a daughter with Paz and a son with the Russian chick
someone save me some research and remind me why Eli is pissed at Nucky? I remember on the finale where they killed Jimmy he was there and i thought all was good and now they are at it again? also why was he is jail?
yeah I didnt like him at first but he is a good character. I think he sticks around for a while, he seems pretty swift.
I just finished the episode. Gyp is definitely an interesting character. I think the conversation with Jimmy's mother held some clues as to where his story will go. He is very fond of her and she tells him that Eli tried to kill Nucky. He then asks, "If you lose your own flesh and blood, what do you have?" She responds, "You don't have anything." Because of Nucky, she no longer has her son(the only flesh and blood she's ever cared about) and may turn to helping Gyp.
Gyp may also try to pry Eli into helping him get rid of Nucky. They make a point of the two meeting at the end of this episode and thus Gyp putting a face to the brother that tried to kill Nucky. They showed in the first episode that Eli's relationship with his family, espcially his son, is strained after returning home from jail. Eli was always big on spening time with his son but now that he's back, his son looks down on him. Eli could blame Nucky for forcing him to serve time and in the end losing his relationship with his family.
1. What did "bone for tuna" mean?
2. What was the significance of the bacon?
Ash Williams
And great episode. However, Nucky needs to stop thinking with his dick and getting caught up with these terrible chicks.
Eli isn't pissed at Nucky, as far as I know.
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IRL: Popped down to London yesterday and eventually managed to find a couple of trousers I liked which means my mother shouldn't moan at me any more about the state of my old trousers. I also managed to pick up a set of juggling clubs to practice with. I seem able to juggle them but I could really do with improving.
We also went to Highgate cemetery where Karl Marx and George Elliot are buried. It is quite a peaceful place, but it costs 2GBP to get in and you can't take in cameras. We also attempted to see the Matrix Reloaded at the IMAX theatre but it was sold out for the first showing and we couldn't really wait for the next showing as we would have missed our train back home. We will have to book it for another weekend.
Well I fixed #202628 last night. I just need to find someone to sponser and upload it now.
I need to set up my workstation today and get pbuilder working correctly on it. I wonder if it is possible to specify a woody or a sid pbuilder envirnoment. That would certainly be useful.


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Jenkins Tree Lighting location changed
Due to complications with light hanging, the Jenkins Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place at Jenkins City Hall, instead of at its normal location off Highway 371.
The ceremony's date and time will remain the same, from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30. City hall is located at 33861 Cottage Ave.
The ceremony will feature its usual hayrides, hot dogs, bonfire and hot cocoa.
Jenkins City Council approved the annual tree lighting ceremony at its regular city council meeting Tuesday, Nov. 13.
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[quote user="MattMeyerBud"]honestly losing Mario sucks, btu im not sweating it. If anything the Giants have shown that they have an eye for talent at WR and we may get a value on Steve Smith or somebody else
I'm looking for Barden to have a healthy season and see if we can get a better sample size of his talent.
Afterall, it took Manningham 2 seasons to get into our offense at all, so now's the time. I do kinda hope we get Smith actually, although i dont see him getting a ton of playing time. But, never know.</p>[/quote]
as sick as it sounds, i think a healthy Steve Smith makes us better at WR than Mario did...
Smith's big play ability was underrated... he also HEAVILY improves our underneath passing game
[/quote]i dont think smith has any big play making ability. hes fantastic in the short passing game though. but then again so are cruz and nicks. i dont want smith back, rather see what jj and barden can do
14 plays over 20+ yards (top 20) in 2009.... just sayin, it was underrated
having Nicks and Cruz around him would obviously open that up as well


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Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger of disaster. A bitter political rivalry between men who had once been allies and two surging issues that inflamed the nation led to grim talk of breaking up the union.
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The first United States Congress was in session and George Washington had just completed his first year as president when a sudden threat struck his office. It became clear that his two top aidesSecretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamiltonwere starting a deadly feud. Their views of the country's future were appallingly different. Jefferson and his closest friend, James Madison, father of the Constitution, wanted the old thirteen states to keep many of their former powers while Hamilton insisted that the federal government be supreme. As new plans for the growing nation were being made, Jefferson and Madison opposed Hamilton's daring proposals at every turn. Washington warned them that their feud put the country in danger of collapsing. Jefferson was at the lowest point of his life, fighting headaches and depression. Could anything prevent these former Revolutionary allies from destroying the fledgling republic they had worked so hard to create? Yes! One very small, very perfect dinner party.
In Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's, you'll discover a little-known and fascinating event in American history that settled two issues that inflamed the nation in a single compromise. The rapid results that flowed from this two-part agreement would bring the great American expansion to come. You'll meet three of the nation's most famous founding fathers, each already revered for his role in the Revolution and the founding of the Republic, and each a close adviser to President Washington: Thomas Jefferson, freshly arrived from Paris after five years as ambassador to France and newly installed as America's first secretary of state; James Madison, Jefferson's former protégé and best friend, the driving force of the Constitutional Convention, now a member of Congress and an important unofficial member of the administration; and finally, Alexander Hamilton, war hero, Washington's favorite, and collaborator with Madison in writing the Federalist papers. Officially the secretary of the treasury, Hamilton was quietly involved in foreign affairs as well. Now Madison and Jefferson feared that he intended to turn the president into a king and appoint himself as Washington's successor.
Author Charles Cerami offers insightful explanations of the issues that nearly tore the young nation apart and explains how Jefferson's years in Paris had shown him the role fine wines and delicious food could play in easing tense moments in difficult negotiations. Cerami's dazzling account of this elegant evening comes complete with detailed descriptions of the wines served and each course of the dinnerincluding recipes.
It is impossible to imagine what America would have become without the often reluctant cooperation of these three great leaders. Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's offers a rare glimpse into the unique and unheralded evening that made that cooperation possible. It offers delightful and compelling reading for anyone interested in American history, politics, fine dining, or all of the above.From the Back Cover:
The Meal That Saved The Republic
Only two guests were invited to what was arguably the most elegant, sumptuous, and important dinner party that Thomas Jefferson ever hosted. Each course was prepared and laid out in advance so that no servants would enter the dining room to disrupt conversation and overhear random remarks, which they might later repeat to others. Privacy was imperative. Jefferson believed that the very future of the United States of America depended on convincing Alexander Hamilton to agree to a compromise he and Madison were proposing on two surging issues that threatened to tear the young republic apart.
Plying his guests with fine wine and exquisite cuisine that only a former ambassador to France could provide, Jefferson set the stage for a compromise that enabled the federal government to pay its debts, both domestic and foreign, and make the American dollar "as good as gold."
In Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's, you'll discover the little-known story behind this pivotal evening in American history, complete with wine lists, recipes, and wonderful illustrations of 1790s New York, then the nation's capital. It is a feast not to be missed for lovers of American history, fine dining, and a compelling true story well told.
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Thanks again to all who participated in this multi-faceted challenge. Although we all love Ed Skoudis' creations, Kevin Bong has once again proven to be more than worthy of penning some of our fun and educational contests. Where else can you find a 70s classic cartoon intermixed with some crypto to reveal a little Zeppelin all in the name of expanding your forensics skillz? Well done, Kevin. We look forward to another one of his creations later in 2009.
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Here's the page where they shows the designs. They show a bunch of designs for them.
As of today they have their own MiLB site.
And the Mudcats say "Indians"
The Wahoos will play one series in Chattanooga and one series in Tennessee this summer. In addition to getting to their new park, I'd like to get to a couple of games in these two series as well. Mrs. Muddie might tell me to rethink that strategy though. The Tennessee series, like last year, will be carried on MiLB.TV.
The Wahoo logos, in my opinion, don't look so good. Again, I really like the alternate hat and may call one a Christmas gift. Beyond that one though, not so great. We'll see what the full gear looks like when they take the field.
JaxRed, I am assuming you'll get to Pensacola a couple times this year? Looks like 13 games that the Wahoos will be in Jax.
Is it April yet!
I'll be catching most if not all of the Wahoo's games in Jax. I attended every game religiously of the Reds (Lookouts/Mudcats) for years, but the last couple the product on the field was so bad I only attended a couple.
Still a 5 hour drive to Pensacola, so that may be a one time trip.
The Wahoos seems very excited to be with the Reds. I hope the Reds can make that feeling last.
I cannot wait, I live only 1 hour from Pensacola, and also actually currently trying to get a job with them...job or not, I plan on going to many games
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Waldo, in his striped cap, turned to look around in the big crowd. He spotted his friend, Captain America, and pointed, "There you are!" This was one of the many entertaining moments at New York ComicCon that I enjoyed over the weekend. Cosplay is so fun and so very surreal. I loved to see all the kids dressed up as their favorite superheroes, especially when they find their bigger self.
Even though the convention was waaaay bigger than any I have attended, I wasn't stressed out because I was solo that weekend; the kids were home with the hubby. Continue Reading "Inspired at NY ComicCon" »


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What is to be done when 'Harper is us'?
There is one basic, foundational ground on which all politics in Canada must find traction, or not have any effect.
This is it. Less than 15% of the people are "political" as part of their daily thinking and activity. They are the few to whom the actions of politicians, and their words and opinions, matter. The rest are not going to bother with politics until an election.
Bill 22 in BC? Bill 78 in Quebec? The Ontario act that legalized police illegalities during the G20 last year? The new federal budget? They matter to me, and to you the reader of this, but to how many others?
I know that Bill 22 is an attack on collective bargaining, on union functions, and on education. I know Bill 78 is an attack on constitutional rights of protest and assembly. I know the G20 protest policing was grossly wrong. I know Harper is using the budget to re-engineer this nation's political and social culture with massive changes "under the radar." And so do the media writers and journalists, and the people who read them and talk about it.
But.... There is more to life than politics, as so many working and middle class people will tell me. Job, family, health, recreation, sport, and friendships are not less interesting than politics.
The meaning of politicians' "agendas" is not something a majority of people care to decode or spend time thinking about. Stephen Harper is a new kind of conservative in Canada, but not so outrageous as to mobilize street actions by tens of thousands of Canadians across the land in all major cities.
At election time, there will be immensely well-planned strategy by each major leader to "control the message" and "frame the ballot question" --- and these strategies will or will not work at that time. But for certain, what is happening today, years before the election, will not loom large in the electorate's mind then.
Abstract issues of "values" or "vision" will not be decisive to make people vote for or against Harper. Many will not vote, perhaps as many as 48% will not, because the effort to understand politics is arduous, or because a person feels they live life in ways that politics do not make an impact on them. I feel differently. My good friends feel differently. We are interested and we read and hear and analyse news on a pretty regular basis.
So--the events in Quebec, the tactics of Harper in his budget, the intent of the BC Liberals towards teachers, and Ontario's policing record in 2011, just do not matter to many, many Canadians. Democracy is having a vote, right? We have elections, so things are fine.
Opposition parties will try to make them matter at election time. The federal Liberals last year tried to make us care about Harper being found in contempt of Parliament, and we gave him a majority. Abstract notions of democracy matter less than a job, a sense of security, a feeling that Canada is a haven of peace and prosperity in a very dangerous and troubled world.
Obama mobilized tens of millions of Americans to his hope and change message four years ago. He won, and people in the bottom half of society rejoiced, and many affluent liberals too. But politics is more than the election campaign, and he soon had to compromise his best intentions because the massive support he needed in the streets to back up his big changes--close Guantanamo, regulate Wall St., give public-option health insurance--was not there. People cannot be politically mobilized daily.
Occupy is another movement that dissipates energy fighting an entire system of economics, politics and law by trying to make it simply a fight against one percent, when it is far from that simple.
Quebec will come through this present crisis without a revolution, just as France in 1968 overcame its student revolt. The forces of law, order, property and corporate norms, will prevail. The culture is on their side.Canada will be altered by Harper's incremental conservatism, not because he conspires with banks, and manipulates us, but because he understands Canadians are willing to go along that path with him.
"People get the government they deserve." Or, as Nelson new age speak would say, "We manifest this reality. Harper is us."
Charles Jeanes lives in Nelson, BC.
What is to be done when 'Harper is us'?
Lets take a look at the reality of what has happened in politics and the rest of the 1 % from the beginning to this time. Take a couple of hours for enlightenment, this is scary. COPY AND PASTE!
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True words, but disheartening
True words, but disheartening ones for those who take an active (or activist) interest in their communities. The rock bottom truth is that we will watch our system degenerate in the hands of the greedy until a certain point is reached, at which point the people will force a change. The problem is, the further we sink, the more radical and volatile that change is likely to be.
As to exactly where that point is, it's hard to say. Some believe last year's riots in England were a sign that things are a little too far gone across the pond; some think that Occupy was another such flash point, though that movement appears--for now at least--to have almost completely deflated.
Watching the presidential campaign in the US, I'm more than a little disheartened as I realize more than more than NOTHING of substance is at stake in that election: the US will continue to stagger down the road to nowhere until things are very far gone indeed.
As for Canada, the existence of the NDP tends to give some cold comfort to humanists, but they'll never govern unless they merge with the Liberals--and if that happens, then we're into pure Republican/Democrat terrain.
I suppose the real politik value of activism is to hope to move the date when the people will force change slightly forward...and to make the changes slightly less destructive when they inevitably arrive.
The die was cast in December 2005 when the NDP's egotistical Jack Layton supported Conservative/Reformer Stephen Harper in voting to defeat Paul Martin's minority Liberal government.
Harper vowed to crush Liberals and change Canada. He won a minority govt with the NDP's help.
Layton, too, was single-minded in crushing the federal Liberals. At the last election he won an incredible number of seats in Quebec Harper owed him a lot! When Layton succumbed to cancer, Harper gave him an unprecedented state funeral. And why not. Harper owed his majority in part to Layton.
Harper knows that he will govern forever if the NDP continues to take votes away from the Libs.
Mulcair is positioning to remain Official Opposition which means Harper rules, like it or not.
Can Libs recover lost ground? Not if they don't win a substantial number of seats in the West and rural/suburban Ontario. And not if provincial NDPers vote federal NDP.
So, ya, the die is cast to shape Canada to a Social Democrat vs Republican system. Belckkkk!


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Spam mutates, and the Internet community mounts an immune response
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When I first noticed spam with aberrant spellings, I assumed that someone out there in the murky world of spam service providers had written a program to generate random variants. It's not hard to do so. At the core of the program is a grammar that defines all possible ways of forming an acceptable spelling. The illustration on this page gives an example of such a grammar, one that allows substitutions and a limited form of insertions. The grammar could be improved with a few context-sensitive rules; for example, the numeral "6" might be chosen as a substitute for "G" only when it is surrounded by upper-case characters; in a lower-case context, "9" would be a better choice.
With a program generating random variants and inserting them into the text of a message, every recipient of a mailing could get a customized version. (What a thrill: your very own personalized spam!) Even if many mailings used the same algorithm, so that not all the spellings were unique, it's unlikely that any one recipient (or, more to the point, any one spam filter) would see the same spelling twice.
I still suspect that such random-spelling generators exist in the spam world, but the evidence of my own inbox suggests they are not widely used. The telltale mark of their use would be a peculiar abundance of hapax legomena—the lit-crit term for words that appear only once in a corpus. As a first step in looking for such throwaway spellings, I read through a sample of about 10,000 spam messages, extracting every variant of "Viagra" I could find. (I excluded cases where the term was obfuscated not by misspelling but by other techniques, such as embedding HTML tags between the letters.) At the end of this bleary-eyed task I had 113 spellings. I then ran a search program over all the spam I had received in the course of three years, counting the number of occurrences of each of the spellings.
There were indeed a few hapax legomena, and some of them exhibited a family resemblance, suggesting that they might all be output of the same algorithm. For example, VtAGGReA, VttAGGRA and VtAGGjRA each appeared exactly once in the corpus of 88,324 messages, all within a period of a few days in June 2006. Perhaps these strangely malformed words are the product of a Perl script running on some spammer's clandestine mail server. Or maybe they're just someone strumming on the keyboard. In either case, it appears the experiment was not a great success. Nothing similar has turned up since.
Certain other spellings also seem to come in families, such as VÌagra, VÏagra, V1agra and V1AGRA, but these examples are definitely not dynamically generated variants that are meant to be unique to each message. They arrived in my mailbox in big bunches, often several copies a day. The V1agra spelling appears more than 400 times in my three-year collection.
The spelling variations (as shown in the illustration ["Spelling 'Viagra'"]) might be likened to the spectrum of genetic mutations in a population of bacteria. The Viagra variants offer some tentative hints about the working habits of spammers. Often, once a spelling has been incorporated into a message, it is mailed out repeatedly over a period of a few months, then given a rest. The conspicuous vertical correlations within the diagram suggest that mailings with the various spellings are not independent. A plausible inference is that most of the pill-pushing spam comes from a few individuals.
Among all the spellings, the most popular by far were the plain, unadorned ones: Viagra, viagra and VIAGRA. There's a bit of a conundrum here. If mangled spellings are necessary to get a message through the spam filters, then what's the point of sending thousands of undisguised ones? And if the mangling isn't really needed, then why go to the bother of producing all those variants? For what it's worth, the spam filter running on my computer seems quite indifferent to all these shenanigans: With very few exceptions, all of the Viagra messages, no matter how they spell it, go directly to the junk folder.
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