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Woke Philosopher Michel Foucault Raped 8-Year-Old Children in Tunisian Cemeteries: Claim
From Vlad Tepes Blog (Sunday Times):
Here is the complete text of the article about French philosopher, Michel Foucault which we posted about yesterday. This guy is a hero to the left. He is a founder of all that Gender Theory horror show which is being used to motivate children and mentally ill people to get surgeries that mutilate and sterilize them, and which often leads to suicide or more surgeries to undo all these measures.
And here's the complete text of the article:
The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today's "woke" ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.
A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman, has unleashed a storm among Parisian "intellos" with his claim that Foucault, who died in 1984 aged 57, was a paedophile rapist who had sex with Arab children while living in Tunisia in the late 1960s.
Sorman, 77, said he had visited Foucault with a group of friends on an Easter holiday trip to the village of Sidi Bou Said, near Tunis, where the philosopher was living in 1969. "Young children were running after Foucault saying 'what about me? take me, take me'," he recalled last week in an interview with The Sunday Times.
"They were eight, nine, ten years old, he was throwing money at them and would say 'let's meet at 10pm at the usual place'." This, it turned out, was the local cemetery: "He would make love there on the gravestones with young boys. The question of consent wasn't even raised."
Sorman claimed that "Foucault would not have dared to do it in France", comparing him to Paul Gauguin, the impressionist said to have had sex with young girls he painted in Tahiti, and Andre Gide, the novelist who preyed on boys in Africa. "There is a colonial dimension to this. A white imperialism."
Sorman says he regrets not having reported Foucault to police at the time or denounced him in the press, calling his behaviour "ignoble" and "extremely morally ugly".
But, he added, the French media already knew about Foucault's behaviour. "There were journalists present on that trip, there were many witnesses, but nobody did stories like that in those days. Foucault was the philosopher king. He's like our god in France."
With his trademark polo necks, a bald head and spectacles, Foucault, the son of a surgeon, was one of the first celebrity intellectuals of the 20th century remembered not only for his controversial analyses of prisons, madness and sexuality but for signing a petition in 1977 to legalise sex with children aged 13.
The best-known biography of him, The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993) by James Miller, describes his interest in the gay, sado-masochistic bath houses of America — he was one of the first openly gay figures in public life and died of Aids — but makes no mention of his sexual antics in Tunisia.
Foucault is the most cited scholar in the world, often associated with the rise of identity politics in America, where MC Hammer, the rapper, is one of his fans. "It is almost invariably Foucault to whom contemporary activist studies departments trace their intellectual foundations," wrote Daniel Miller in The Critic magazine. "At the most basic level, Foucault the famous French professor supplies a signature of seriousness for disciplines without clear academic standards or traditions."
In 1980s America, the "Foucauldians", as the philosopher's academic admirers are known, "enshrined Foucault as a kind of patron saint . . . whose authority they routinely invoked in order to legitimate in properly academic terms, their own brand of progressive politics," Miller wrote in his biography.
Sorman, a prolific author, first aired his claims about Foucault in My Dictionary of Bullshit, a book he published this month, and referred again to the philosopher's sexual misdeeds in Tunisia in a late night television chat show. The host was stunned: "You are talking about Foucault, according to you a paedophile, not something people usually recall when remembering him."
Sorman's claims have surprised specialists in Britain, where the last volume of Foucault's four-part history of sexuality has just been published for the first time in English.
"There's a big potential for that to have an impact on him," said Phil Howell, a Cambridge University reader in historical geography. "Foucault was interested in sexuality and wrote about it, but child abuse is another thing."
For Sorman, Foucault's behaviour was symptomatic of a distinctly French malaise dating back to Voltaire. "He believed there were two morals, one for the elite, which was immoral, and one for the people, which should be restrictive."
He continued: "France is still not a democracy, we had the revolution, proclaimed a republic but there's still an aristocracy, it's the intelligentsia, and it has had a special status. Anything goes." Now, though, "the world is suddenly changing," Sorman added.
He was far from being the only French celebrity figure with an inflated sense of entitlement. Over the past few years several tell-all accounts have prompted criminal inquiries into figures of the literary and art worlds accused of sexually abusing children in the heady aftermath of the 1968 student revolt.
The unburdening began in 2016, when Flavie Flament, a radio and television presenter, wrote a book accusing David Hamilton, the British photographer, of raping her when she was 13. "At the time I was still sucking my thumb," she told me in an interview shortly after her book appeared. Hamilton killed himself a few days later.
Just over a year ago, Vanessa Springora, 48, a publisher, described in a book how she was groomed as a young teenager in the 1980s by Gabriel Matzneff, a fashionable novelist in his early 50s at the time. He had boasted about his paedophilia on television and won literary prizes for the books it inspired.
When this emerged, the Parisian elite was already in shock over revelations by Camille Kouchner, 46, the daughter of Bernard Kouchner, a former foreign minister, that her stepfather, Olivier Duhamel, 70, a leading intellectual and political pundit, had sexually abused her twin brother in the late 1980s when he was 13 and 14.
Neither Matzneff nor Duhamel have admitted the allegations nor have they been convicted of any offence.
The soixante huitards are on the defensive. Luc Ferry, 70, a philosopher and former education minister, argues that his contemporaries have much to answer for. "People had forgotten that 1968 thinking promoted paedophilia," he wrote in Le Figaro. "Every adult had the right even the duty, they argued, to awaken the sexuality that the bourgeoisie was hiding."
The accusations have prompted a new bill under discussion in parliament that would criminalise any sexual relations with a minor under the age of 15 — at present a child victim of rape must prove force.
Last week, however, there was discussion on a so-called "Romeo and Juliette clause" amendment intended to protect adolescent lovers. It would not automatically criminalise sexual relations with someone under 15 if the age gap between the two "protagonists" is less than five years.
President Macron has championed the change in the law — which has prompted chortling about how Brigitte, his wife, might have fallen foul of it when her relationship with her future husband began in the 1990s: he was 15 and she was his 40-year-old, married schoolteacher.
As for Foucault, he should not be "cancelled", argued Sorman. "I have great admiration for his work, I'm not inviting anyone to burn his books, but simply to understand the truth about him and how he and some of these philosophers used their arguments to justify their passions and desires," he said. "He thought his arguments gave him permission to do whatever he wanted."
Breitbart has more.
revereridesagain said...
Brigitte wasn't just Macron's "teacher" -- she was his figure skating "partner"! Someone sent me a video the other day of them performing together. He looks about 10 and that would make her 35.
Not sure if this will open: VID-20170513-WA0032.mp4
Searching for their names and something like "skating" might bring it up.
I was unwittingly introduced to the depth and extent of this pedophilia depravity about 40 years ago by a corrupt US Army PSYOPS operative and cult leader. Since then everything I've learned has only proven that it is worse than I could have imagined. Those who still deny its existence have got their heads stuck in the sand and are, in my opinion, passive enablers.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 3:57:00 am
Question: Do you believe the whole Pizzagate thing?
And the idea that large numbers of power players in DC and the Media are in a conpiracy of silence and extortion over their pedophilia?
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Every Rose Has its Thorn
Log Archive » Logs for October 2010 » Every Rose Has its Thorn
Wes finds Peyton's when his words are misconstrued.
Redbird Security
When Peyton mentioned going into the office to play catch-up, Wes knew he'd be hard pressed to find another chance to surprise the woman in any way comparable to how she surprised him. So when she opens the door to her office on Saturday morning, it's to the intoxicating smell of a cup of coffee, made just the way Peyton takes it, sitting between two arrangements of dark red roses.
Because that's what you do, right? You get a girl flowers. It may not be creative, but that's the point. It's simple. It's something he can't screw up.
When the door opens, Wes, who stands against the wall on the side toward which it swings, smiles as he dips his head and raises his own cup of coffee to take a drink, confident he's hidden from sight enough to be able to register Peyton's reaction, if only with his ears.
Usually dressed in business appropriate clothing for work in the office, today Peyton's in jeans, Ugg boots, an Abercrombie sweatshirt, her hair up in a ponytail. She's here to work, not to impress any clients, as none are scheduled. Her breath catches in her throat at the mixed scent of coffee and roses, and she moves closer to pick up the cup — not to take a sip but to see how warm it is. When her fingers touch the still hot cup, her eyes narrow though her lips curve into a smirk.
She does, then, take a sip — luckily she hadn't stopped for her own cup so it won't go wasted, and then she buries her face in the bouquet to breathe in the scent of the velvety flowers.
With one foot against the wall behind him, Wes's smile grows into a grin as he watches Peyton over the rim of his own mug. He's silent for awhile, watching her glow as she enjoys the the gift. When he steps away from the wall, he untucks his free hand from his belt in order to push the door closed.
He closes the distance and then wraps that same arm around Peyton's waist, leaning to inhale her freshly shampooed hair. "Mornin'," he whispers.
She sets the cup down to make sure she doesn't spill on him, before throwing her arms around his neck with a soft giggle — something that he hasn't heard much of, not when she's sober at least. She kisses his cheek gently before stepping back and narrowing her eyes at him playfully. One hand comes up to poke him in the chest.
"Stalker," she teases him, a merry smirk curving her lips upward. "Is it take your cowboy to work day, and I missed the memo?"
Once she's stepped away and his hand around her is forced to slip away, Wes rubs his chest, looking wounded for the few seconds that follow the accusation before his grin leaks back out onto his face. "I'll have you know," he says using his own coffee cup to point in her general direction.
"I'm here on business." But his sternness quickly fades into a vague insecurity, and he swings his cup before bringing it closer to his mouth. "I… made a pot of coffee upstairs, and I…well, you said you were comin' in, and I can't ever drink a whole pot. So I thought I'd share." But that still doesn't explain the flowers.
"Business, hmm?" Peyton says with a smile, moving to pick up the cup again and taking another swallow before setting it back down on her desk. "What business is that? And thank you," she adds, lifting the cup first, then nodding toward the roses. "They're lovely." She reaches to touch the velvet tip of one petal.
She moves to the black leather chair, settling in and nodding to him to take the seat across from her desk. "No one's ever sent me roses at work before," she adds lightly. Of course, this is the first job she's ever had.
"Well, then I'm happy t'be the one t'break that streak." He sits, lifting a booted foot to rest on his knee even as he takes another sip from his coffee. "I ain't gonna lie. There's a bit of pleasure in it." They've never been good at keeping them mutually exclusive. He nods toward first one arrangement and then the other.
"Eenie meanie minie mo," he half sing-songs. "Go ahead. Pick one."
"Pick one?" Peyton echoes, her dark eyes darting left, then right, and left again, as if to discern the difference between the two or which might be the wiser of the two choices. But if there's anything to distinguish one from the other, she doesn't see it.
"Do I only get to keep one?" she says with a smirk. "Do I have to give the one I don't choose to Agnes the bag lady who sleeps in the alley behind the building?" Peyton's taken to giving the woman food now and then, even invited her inside once in the rain, but the woman likes her freedom and is claustrophobic indoors. Peyton taps the arrangement to her left and peers at him curiously.
He shakes his head at her question, but then arches an are you sure? eyebrow at her choice. He shrugs, then takes another sip of the coffee. "Reach in," he says, barely containing his mirth until his mouth becomes occupied with the transfer of hot, live-giving liquid from ceramic to mouth.
She arches a brow at him, the look both mirthful and dubious, but she peers into the bouquet, moving flowers as she sees something hidden amongst the foliage and greenery, reaching careful so as not to scratch herself on any thorns.
Peyton lifts up the magazine of 9 mm rounds and raises her eyes to him with a tip of her head. "Does the other one have a grenade in it?" she says a little wryly, though her eyes are curious as she studies his face. "You know we do have ammunition and guns and the like here, right?"
"Sure," Wes says with a nod. "But that's why I was brought in, right? T'keep y'all fully stocked? There's a crate sittin' on Jenny with the rest." Of course, the bulk of the haul has to go to Kain Zarek's operation, but he won't miss an extra crate of handgun ammunition that the smuggler was picking up anyway.
Wes smiles, then winks at the woman on the other side of the desk. "Just lettin' it be known I ain't forgotten my end'uh the deal. That's all. Plus, the flowers were kinda pretty."
"Very romantic. Guns and roses. Should be a band name or something," Peyton quips. "I'll let Card know that you have the others — you need him to help you bring the boxes in?" she asks, picking up the coffee cup and sipping it before nodding toward the arrangement to her right.
"Do I get to peek in that one too, or is it one door or the other, and I'll never know what I could have won, if I'd only chosen more wisely? I always sucked at choosing games. Three card monty might as well have been 52 card monty, you know?"
He's about to answer one question when the other trumps it. He laughs, then shakes his head. "You won't find much," he says, then swallows. "And…yeah. Just the one crate, this time. Still testin' those waters. Anyway, my reg'lar guy kinda…well, he's tied up at the moment. So it might be helpful, if Cardinal's got the time." He coughs, then takes another sip from his coffee, his eyes moving from Peyton and the magazine to the edge of her desk. Ahem.
Peyton nods. "I'll let him know — we have some business to do soon, so I'm not sure what his schedule's like, but I'm sure he can help you sometime." Some business means Endgame business, surely, something less on the up-and-up than what goes on in the offices of the building. Before he can say anything, she lifts a hand in the 'halt' position to cut off any protests on his part.
"I'm just eyes on it, so don't go worrying or anything," she tells him softly. Of course, her 'eyes' have had her an invalid in pain in the past, but that's beside the point.
That hand might as well be made of iron. It cuts off Wes's voice before he's even able to make a sound, and he fidgets in his chair for a moment, not too unlike an antsy child. He collapses back into his chair with a sigh and polishes off the rest of his coffee, drumming the fingers of his other hand on the arm of the chair.
"Cause you bein' eyes ain't no reason for me to worry," he snips, looking to one side rather than at her. "Pey, I know you can handle yourself fine and dandy like, but that don't mean I don't get t'worry. I'm allowed t'worry."
Smiling at his restlessness, Peyton shrugs when he snips at her. Sure, he might be the elder by several years, but there's a boyish charm that she finds endearing. And sometimes maddening. "Yes, dear," she says teasingly, before getting from her seat to come around to his side of her desk. She leans against it while leaning forward to take his hands, setting his empty coffee cup behind her.
"You can worry. But you don't need to. I'll be fine. And it's important — it's for something important, I promise. Okay?" She can't tell him what, not without running it by Cardinal first, but she can promise it's important. Of course, she thinks all of what they do is. She also doesn't say she's not worried about herself because she's seen the way she dies, and this is not it, not unless Danko is working with the Institute. "It'll be okay."
His hands swing slightly with hers before squeezing her fingers and dragging his eyes to hers. "You say that," he says, squinting at her, "but when you come crashin' back in with a headache, I ain't gonna feel sorry for you."
He tugs at her then, drawing her closer and potentially even into the chair with him. After all, the co-owner of a company can do what she wants behind closed office doors, right? Once she's closer, he lets his hands slip around her waist again, but he doesn't look away from her face.
"Y'know," he says after a moment, searching her rather than just looking at her, debating whether or not he wants to continue this line of thought. "Cardinal did the whole, 'if you hurt'r, I'll kill you' thing. Maybe I should'uh told him the same thing."
There is a soft smile as he tells her he won't feel sorry for her, though Peyton knows he will, and will take care of her should she need him. It's what he does. Her arms move up to his neck and she perches on his lap, looking amused at this new arrangement, but then he brings up Cardinal.
Her brows knit together and she gives a shake of her head, lips parting as if to speak, before closing again. She swallows audibly, glancing down as she removes her arms from around him and drops them into her lap.
"Why-" she begins, then shakes her head. "Don't," she says, the word vague in context — don't tell Cardinal the same? or don't do this?
See? He knew it was a bad idea. Wes frowns, leaning back a little as his own hands settle on the tops of Peyton's thighs. The open book that is his face clearly reads the disappointment in himself before he shuts it with a sigh. He rubs his hands against the fabric of her jeans, then drums his fingers against her legs.
"Sorry," he murmurs with a shake of his head, dropping his eyes from her face to her abdomen. "I shouldn't'uh told you."
Her brows stay knit together, her eyes downcast, and she shakes her head again, getting up from his lap and moving to the window. "Why did you? Do you want me to feel all touched that he cares enough to threaten you, to maybe think something's there, so that I step aside from whatever this is, and try to pursue that?" Her words are flat as she stares out the window, the light striating her face through the blinds.
"Because if you're trying to push me away, that might do it. But not for the reasons you'd think," she adds, her voice soft, pained, as she keeps her back to him.
Wes's deep breath is audible when he leans forward, placing his elbows on his knees and threading his fingers together and resting his face against the side of his hands. "Because I don't know when t'keep m'mouth shut," he grumbles out, tapping one booted foot against the floor.
In another moment he's on his feet and turning toward the door. He wrenches it open, but rather than throw it all the way open to make a dramatic exit, he slides his hand up the wood and grips the side. Then he looks back at her, his face creased with a frown. "He asked me," he says, his voice choked, each word coming with a significant amount of effort.
"I went t'see if he still remembered you, t'make sure I wasn't goin' crazy. And he asked me how… how I felt about you. And… Pey, it was like when I'd meet the guys datin' my kid sister."
She glances over her shoulder when she hears him get up, hears him open the door, her mouth parting to say wait — but then the grave is dug all the deeper with those words. Kid sister.
Her mouth clamps shut and she stares at him for a long moment before her face contorts with pain he doesn't mean to cause.
"You don't think I don't know that he doesn't see me like … like he sees Liz?" she says, her voice flat, neutral, despite the hurt in her eyes. "I know. I've accepted it. I'm not sitting around waiting for him, am I? You didn't need to point it out, though. And if all he is to me is a big brother, you don't need to go threatening to kill him for hurting me, do you? So this whole conversation is pointless, unless you wanted to piss me off."
She looks back out the window, shaking her head. "Congratulations. You succeeded."
"Yippee."
But the stereotypical exaltation is empty of joy or triumph. Instead, the single word swells with sarcasm. Swallowing hard enough to make his ears pop, he starts to go out the door, but he stops himself, letting it shut instead. If he walks away now, even to give her space, there's no telling what will happen.
"I can't unsay what's said," he grumbles, turning and leaning against the door with arms folded across his chest. "Can't make you forget it. Can't make you not mad as hell at me. But I can tell you I didn't mean it…whatever way you're takin' it."
He takes a deep breath, trying to restrain another potentially earth-moving series of words. In vain. "I'm standin' here, Pey. I'm standin' right here, and I've made myself as clear as I can about us." Whatever they are. But whatever it is, it's in stark contrast to something that isn't. Someone who isn't here. He pauses, the lines in his face deepening. "For what it's worth, m'sorry."
She stands still at the window — the door shutting makes her think he's left and her shoulders rise in hitched breath. When he speaks, she turns to face him, her eyes wet with tears. Peyton doesn't know how to do this — how to fight and resolve things, how to forgive or take back words. None of her experiences with men have been deep enough, intimate enough in things that matter to actually argue, not unless you count which bar to go to or what club has the best dance music as significant questions.
"I know you are," she says softly. "You just… you made me feel like you don't think I want you there. It's that dumb thing boys do, right, where they push people away so that they don't get pushed away first?" Peyton swallows and unwinds her arms from around her waist where she'd been hugging herself, stepping closer to him as she studies his face.
"Maybe I took it wrong — I just don't know why you'd bring it up, unless you're trying to figure out where I stand with him. But you know," she takes his hand, her smaller, finer boned fingers curling through his, "just because I care for him doesn't mean I don't care for you. It's not an either or. And if you're trying to protect me from him — the only way he hurts me isn't his fault at all, it's mine. And I'll get over it. I'm getting over it."
He doesn't resist the movement of his arm or even her hand in his. But it isn't until she's halfway through the second part of her speech that he squeezes her smooth palm against his calloused skin. "You do what y'do because you feel it's necessary," he muses, looking down at their hands rather than at Peyton, his other arm still held across his chest, his fingers curling around his side. "Y'do it because y'want to, and I can't hold him accountable for that."
Still, it's good to hear Peyton talk like this - as if she has a life without a glaring expiration date stamped on it. Rubbing his thumb over the back of her hand, he lifts it to press her knuckles to his lips in a kiss that has more to do with pressure and simple contact than anything else. "I ain't a boy," he murmurs against her fingers, his brows furrowing, "and I ain't goin' nowhere."
Oh. Peyton's brows lift as she realizes, too late, the motive behind his mentioning of Cardinal. That he didn't mean it how she took it at all — that he was speaking of the dangers inherent in whatever "business" Endgame has.
Her cheeks color as she realizes her mistake and she shakes her head, huffing out a soft approximation of a laugh.
"I'm an idiot," she murmurs, squeezing his hand in hers. "I jumped to conclusions, and it wasn't fair — just because I've been in that frame of mind so long, you know? I'm sorry. It wasn't… I know you wouldn't hurt me, Wes." Her voice grows softer with each words, until the last is a mere whisper, and she tips her head to kiss him lightly, sweetly.
Wes slips his hand from hers in order to wrap an arm around her, holding her closer. The other is sadly still occupied by an empty coffee cup. He hums at the close of the kiss, only to steal another one from her. Making up after a fight is always sweet he's learning, even if the fight is brief. "I'll forgive yuh," he murmurs, lifting his chin to kiss her forehead.
"But only if I get t'pester y'with lunch," he says, lips still pressed against her skin so the words come out muffled. There may be no rest for the wicked, but that doesn't mean that smugglers don't have the occasional lazy Saturday.
She closes her eyes, letting the warmth of that one-armed embrace envelop her, soothe away the anger and hurt that was never intended. She nods, her head moving against his lips as she does so.
"All right. Come back at noon. But now I'm kicking you out so I can do some work," Peyton says with a smile. "I can't work with you standing there looking all handsome and distracting, and I have a lot to catch up on."
He may get a lazy Saturday, but the business woman Peyton Whitney has turned into has work to catch up on — unexpected two-week "vacations" mean there's no such thing as a day off.

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Do you have news about a Hinterland 2 ?
Unfortunately, we have had no information about any projects in the works.
Thats a shame this game could have easily been like torchlight 2, have co op online play and more side missions and just more of everything. I still enjoy the game, I always thought it deserved a sequel.
Since that time, Tilted Mill announced it's newest project "Medieval Mayor", a citybuilder game. You never know, they just might get around to a Hinterland 2 one of these days. For now I'm just glad to see that there is a "next" project in the works.


I was saying after the SPX support trendline touch a few days ago that having a strong three-touch support trendline cuts both ways, in that it is strong support while it holds, but can get ugly fast when it breaks. The strength of this push down after the support trendline broke on Wednesday morning was extremely impressive.
That move may be bottoming out for the moment and, if so, that should be the end of wave A, with a wave B rally in progress now or soon, and a likely wave C down after that to complete this move from the high. There are a number of possible options for the wave C low, but my favorite would be a retest of the 2018 low at 2532.69, just under the annual pivot at 2538. There is a possible H&S neckline at that level. If SPX does a 50% retracement from the current low then the target would be in the 2825 area, though there is impressive looking resistance in the 2790 - 2800 area that may hold as resistance.


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Q: Is Kate Middleton left handed?
No, Kate Middleton is not left handed.
Kate Middleton is pregnant. Finally. Nothing is more critical to my well-being as a human being than knowing the blood line of the British Royal family is secure. I'm actually surprised it took this long for Prince William to knock her up. I mean, has he even looked at his wife? I'd have her craving coffee and orange juice before the clock struck midnight.
o work as a photographer to get closer to the Royal Family, where she took pictures of Princess Diana and her sons.
Sources say she grew tired of Jigsaw and his indirect methods and parted ways. She learned of an all-female assassin organization and quickly rose the ranks. Her final assignment was Prince William, which stirred controversy as she was currently set to marry him. William quickly learned of the plot, and it was revealed that he was also a highly trained assassin. After failing to kill each other, despite their significant training, the couple decided to join forces and destroy each other's organizations. And live happily ever after. The End.


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Thiem ends Nadal's record run on clay
The exit of Rafael Nadal (above) means Roger Federer will reclaim the No. 1 spot when the revised ATP rankings are released on Monday.PHOTO: AFP
Rafael Nadal suffered a shock 7-5, 6-3 defeat by Austrian Dominic Thiem in the Madrid Open quarter-finals on Saturday morning (Singapore time), a result that means the Spaniard will lose the world No. 1 ranking.
Thiem, who lost to Nadal in last month's Monte Carlo quarter-finals, was the last player to beat the Spaniard on clay – at last year's Rome Masters.
Nadal had set a record of winning 50 consecutive sets on a single surface by beating Argentina's Diego Schwartzman on Thursday.
Nadal's exit means Roger Federer will reclaim the No. 1 spot when the revised ATP rankings are released on Monday.
Thiem stuck to the baseline and took his groundstrokes early to unsettle Nadal, who was unusually below par in the opening set on his favourite surface, making several unforced errors.
Although the 24-year-old Austrian failed to convert a set-point in the ninth game, he pounced at the second time of asking to seal the first set with an ace.
A couple of mistimed forehands from Nadal handed Thiem an early 3-1 advantage in the second set, but the defending champion fought back to draw level after six games.
But Thiem was not to be denied and won 10 of the next 11 points to snuff out any chance of a Nadal comeback, sealing victory with a powerful cross-court winner in under two hours.
"I haven't been good enough today," Nadal said. "He was better than me today. That's the end of the story.
"Some days, you don't play as good as you would like to play. Also when that happens, it's because your opponent is doing really well."
The result means that fifth-seed Thiem becomes only the third player – after Argentina's Gaston Gaudio and Serbia's Novak Djokovic – to beat Nadal on clay on three occasions.
"I had to really increase my level compared to Monte Carlo to beat Rafa here," Thiem said.
"He won 21 matches on clay and 50 sets. So I had to play an extraordinary match, and that's what I did.
"I think a very important thing also was today that I went in with the attitude that I can beat him."
Despite the defeat, Nadal will still be favourite to win the French Open for a record-extending 11th time next month.
In the Madrid semi-finals on Saturday, Thiem faces big-serving South African Kevin Anderson, who has beaten the Austrian in their last six encounters.
Sixth seed Anderson, who was runner-up at last year's US Open, beat Serb Dusan Lajovic 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3 earlier. – REUTERS
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package it.nz.co.example.dev.integration.calls;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotSame;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;

import nz.co.example.dev.domain.model.AccessRealm;
import nz.co.example.dev.integration.calls.GetAllAccessRealms;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context-test.xml" })
public class GetAllAccessRealmsIT {

    @Autowired
    private GetAllAccessRealms getAllAccessRealms;

    @Test
    public void testCall() throws Exception {
        Future<List<AccessRealm>> callResult = getAllAccessRealms.call();
        List<AccessRealm> accessRealms = callResult.get();
        // assertEquals("Number of access realms", 36, accessRealms.size());
        assertNotSame("Number of access realms", 0, accessRealms.size());
    }
}

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ILLUSTRATION BY LEVI LOWELL, SPECIAL TO THE STAR TRIBUNE
Editor's note: Voting for the Foamy Four is now closed, but come back Wednesday to make your picks in the finale.
Call it the last-second shot. The do or die.
Surly eked out a stunning victory over rival Summit as time expired — by 57 votes. Fifty-seven! That's out of more than 10,000. Talk about a nail-biter. Talk about redemption (for last year's early exit). Talk about DRAMA.
Castle Danger's path to the championship
The Two Harbors brewery marched to victory, culminating with a stunning defeat of Surly in the finals.
Hey, this is March. Can't nobody stop it! Now, the action heats up. Fulton, fresh off a massive upset of last year's champ, Schell's, has a date with red-hot Surly. Can anyone take down the giant?? Will the momentum of last round's heroics propel them to the finish line? Castle Danger and Bent Paddle, meanwhile, battle for the North Shore crown. The 2-seed and the 3-seed will have to gut. it. out.
And, you know what this means: we're setting up a Twin Cities vs. North Shore final. City vs. Woods! Mississippi vs. Superior! Prince vs. Dylan! And beer things too! It's enough to make a fan go wild.
But careful, don't spill your brew.
Say hello to your Foamy Four. Voting is open now and will close at 5 p.m. Sunday (March 25).
Now let's look at how we got here.
Surly (1) – 5,260 total votes (50.3 percent)
Summit (5) – 5,203 total votes (49.7 percent)
Castle Danger (2) – 5,651 total votes (54 percent)
Dangerous Man (6) – 4,772 total votes (46 percent)
Schell's (4) – 4,813 total votes (46 percent)
Fulton (8) – 5,645 total votes (54 percent)
Bent Paddle (3) – 5,774 total votes (55 percent)
Indeed (7) – 4,687 total votes (45 percent)
Some more thoughts!
*Surly's skid past Summit represents the smallest margin of victory – a miniscule 0.6 percent – in tournament history. Yes, we realize this glorious shebang is only in its second year, but we still think that's pretty epic. The 5,260 votes were also the fewest of any winner in this round. So, does the No. 1 seed have the strength to move on?
*Down goes last year's champ. And Schell's didn't even put up much of a fight on its way out. The 832 votes that lifted Fulton into the Foamy Four as an 8-seed – assuming the role of Cinderella in a field full of chalk – made for a shockingly easy win. Hey, you can't stay on top forever. Even UVA (RIP Cavaliers) knows that.
*Bent Paddle grabbed the most votes of any beer squad, claiming the largest margin of victory for the second straight round. You could say the Duluth brew is cruising. But Castle Danger is no pushover.
Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
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Glungezer offers mainly intermediate runs. There are some freeriding areas on the Schartenkogel and one difficult run. The easy slopes lead from the middle station down to the valley. You can ski a total of 15 km in one run from the Schartenkogel down to the valley.
One of the longest runs in Tyrol leads to the base station in Tulfes.
One of the longest runs in Tyrol.


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Home Sectors Consumer Alexa, Tech Companies Are Leaving China: Where Will They Go?
Alexa, Tech Companies Are Leaving China: Where Will They Go?
By Mike Sonnenberg
, Last Updated on Jul 12, 2019
Tech companies are shifting from China
Last week, the Nikkei Asia Review said that global consumer tech companies are looking to move out of China amid the still unresolved trade war. While Donald Trump and Xi Jinping announced a trade truce, the tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods are still in place. Moreover, there might already be some cracks emerging in the trade truce.
The Nikkei article reported that HP (HPQ), Dell (DEL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Amazon (AMZN) are thinking of moving significant production out of China to escape from the tariffs, uncertainties, and rising costs in China.
HP and Dell are the largest and third-largest manufacturers of personal computers, respectively. These companies together control about 40% of the global market. 40% of HP's shipments and 47% of Dell's shipments from China head to the US.
Amazon (AMZN) is looking to shift the production of the Kindle ebook reader and echo smart speaker away from China. While Kindle and echo command a small fraction of Amazon's revenues, the latter is a fast growing segment.
Apple (AAPL) is gauging the cost impact of shifting 30% of its smartphone production out of China. Foxconn and Megatron assemble the majority of the iPhones sold worldwide in Shenzhen, China.
Alexa, where are you going?
Last month, we discussed which companies may benefit from the trade war. This article is an extension of that analysis where we'll focus solely on the tech sector.
President Trump's tweet on May 13 said, "Many Tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia." Thus, we'll keep the focus on South East Asian economies. India is the only wild card we are considering in this analysis apart from the ASEAN group countries, owing to the fact that only India can come close to China's scale in Asia.
Vietnam: the biggest beneficiary
As per the Nikkei article, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to produce Kindle and echo devices in Vietnam. Vietnam's VinGroup has also signed a deal to manufacture 5G smartphones with Qualcomm (QCOM) and a unit of Japan's Fujitsu. Qualcomm derives two-thirds of its revenues from China. Working with a new partner should help Qualcomm to diversify its revenue sources. Dell (DELL) has already started pilot production of notebooks in Vietnam.
Nomura expects Vietnam to be the biggest beneficiary of trade diversion with gains of 7.9% of its GDP. Although Vietnam wouldn't be the biggest beneficiary of the short-term import substitution by the US or China, it will benefit from production relocation.
Vietnam already seems to be benefitting from the trade war. During the first five months of 2019, Vietnam's exports to the US came in at $25.8 billion, a 35% jump over the same period last year. The foreign direct investment (or FDI), the funds that go into building factories, are up too. In the first five months of 2019, Vietnam received FDI of $16.7 billion, a whopping 69% jump over the previous year. The surge was primarily driven by the US-China trade war as Chinese and Hong Kong investors have put their money in Vietnam to avoid trade friction.
Other economic parameters are looking good too. While most countries' manufacturing sectors are struggling due to the trade war, Vietnam's manufacturing PMI came in at 52.5 in June, higher than May's 52.0. During the same period, global manufacturing PMI dropped from 49.8 to 49.4, indicating contraction. The first quarter unemployment rate was at 2.17%, lower than America's. The economy grew at a healthy rate of 6.7% in Q2 2019, surpassing China's growth rate.
With a young workforce, a vibrant and growing economy, and improving relations with the US, Vietnam is poised to attract more manufacturers to its soil. 32% of Vietnam's total exports come from electrical and electronic equipment. Most of it was focused on assembling the equipment. The country will have to upskill its labor to take on more high-tech manufacturing. However, with the young workforce at hand, Vietnam seems to be at an advantage.
The VanEck Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM) offers an opportunity to get exposure to Vietnamese equities. The technology sector accounts for 15% of the ETF's total portfolio. So far in 2019, the ETF has returned 8.1%.
Malaysia: The semiconductor factory
Malaysia is the region's export powerhouse with exports accounting for 71.5% of the country's GDP. The country derives 22% of its GDP from manufacturing, higher than the global average of 19%. What's more, 38% of Malaysia's exports are in electrical and electronic components, particularly semiconductors. Thus, Malaysia could benefit vastly from tech companies leaving China.
The Nomura report ranks Malaysia as the biggest beneficiary of the import substitution by the US or China. In short, a substantial part of the high-tech stuff that the US imports from China will now carry the made-in-Malaysia tag if the trade war persists. China would also go for Malaysian products instead of American products.
However, what matters more is the benefits Malaysia will accrue in case of production relocation. Here, Malaysia is expected to be right behind Vietnam in welcoming companies to set up factories there. In fact, major American tech companies already have a sizable presence in Malaysia. Intel (INTC) has been operating in Malaysia since 1972. Out of Intel's total workforce of 107,000, about 9,000 are based in Malaysia.
Malaysia wouldn't just benefit from American companies leaving China. Chinese companies are also expected to source components from Malaysia instead of the US if the trade war continues. Thus, Malaysia may win business from both the trade-warring sides.
With its expertise in semiconductor manufacturing, Malaysia may snatch tech companies leaving China. Malaysia's younger workforce with a median age of 27 years may also prove to be a boon. Investors who want to bet on Malaysia's economy can consider the iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF (EWM). The ETF invests in Malaysian equities. However, tech companies don't feature prominently in the ETF's holdings.
Philippines: The emerging player
Unlike its ASEAN peers, the Philippines is not exactly an export powerhouse. However, it has proven experience in exporting semiconductors and other tech products. Semiconductors accounted for over half of the country's total exports in 2018, bringing in 12% of the GDP.
While only 13% of the Philippines' total exports go to the US, there is room for growth. In fact, during the first five months of 2019, the US has imported an additional $200 million worth of products from the Philippines over the same period in 2018. Dell (DELL) is also running a pilot production of notebooks in the Philippines.
The Philippines' economic indicators are also painting a rosy picture at a time when the global economy is struggling. The Philippines' manufacturing PMI came in at 51.3 in June, a second straight gain. A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion. Rising PMI signaled that the Philippines' manufacturing sector is expanding at a faster pace. Since semiconductors account for a large part of the Philippines' manufacturing sector, it is safe to assume that the Philippines is benefitting from the trade war.
With a young workforce, experience in manufacturing hi-tech products, and a strategic location, the Philippines is poised to benefit from production relocation in case of a prolonged trade war. How President Duterte manages to balance relations with the US and China will decide on how much his nation can benefit.
For those interested in investing in the Philippines' growth story, the iShares MSCI Philippines ETF (EPHE) provides exposure to the country. EPHE has returned 12.9% so far in 2019.
Thailand is the reigning economy
Thailand is another export powerhouse in the region with exports accounting for 68% of the country's GDP. Some of Thailand's and China's exports—especially office machine parts and integrated circuits—also overlap.
Thailand has proven capabilities in electronics assembly. Companies like Microsoft (MSFT) and HP (HP) are targeting Thailand for production relocation. The Nikkei report adds that Microsoft (MSFT) said it had no active plans to withdraw any manufacturing from China.
Thailand is a long-time ally of the United States, which could help Thailand win some business from companies looking for a safer place to manufacture tech products meant to be sold in the US. However, certain demographic factors threaten Thailand's chances to benefit big from the trade chaos. Thailand's median age of 37.8 is higher than China's, which also makes Thailand's workforce the second oldest in ASEAN region after Singapore. Worse, Thailand's population growth rate of a mere 0.18% (world average of 1.07%) means the population will continue to get older.
For investors interested in gaining exposure to Thailand, the iShares MSCI Thailand ETF (THD) is a passive option. The ETF invests in Thai equities and has returned 15.6% so far in 2019.
Singapore: The superstar
Semiconductor exports have been the foundation of Singapore's economy ever since the country came into existence in 1965 after splitting from Malaysia. Tiny Singapore account's for an 11% share of the semiconductor wafer output. HP (HP) and Texas Instruments (TI) have invested heavily in Singapore so far. Apart from semiconductors, Singapore accounts for 25% of the world production of printers.
Singapore's strategic location makes it a trading powerhouse. Its exports stood at a whopping 173% of GDP against China's 19.8% and the world average of 29% in 2017. A large part of these exports is re-exports, as Singapore acts as a trading hub between the east and the west.
In terms of manufacturing, Singapore is well known for manufacturing semiconductors and circuit boards, which could help it become the preferred destination for high-tech goods manufacturers looking to shift away from China. Nomura believes that Singapore could be the third-largest beneficiary of production relocation away from China.
Just like Thailand, demographics and higher wages may stop companies from moving big into Singapore. At 40.8 years, Singapore's median age is the highest in the ASEAN region. Singapore's population is also growing at a minuscule pace of 0.1%. On top of that, Singapore's wages are the highest in South East Asia and among the highest in the APAC region.
In spite of the demographic challenges, the government of Singapore is eyeing a bigger market in the global electronics and electrical equipment sector. For investors who want exposure to Singapore equities, the iShares MSCI Singapore ETF (EWS) is an option. The ETF has returned 12% so far in 2019.
Indonesia: The underdog
With a large local market to cater to and abundant natural resources at hand, Indonesia's exports have largely been limited to commodities. Unlike some of its ASEAN peers, Indonesia's component exports remain minuscule. With a population of 264 million and a young workforce with a median age of 30.8 years, Indonesia is in a position to change that.
The challenge is upskilling and reskilling. Indonesia doesn't have any high-tech manufacturing capabilities as of now. To take full advantage of the demographics and the global situation, Indonesia needs to have policies that could develop its workforce. In spite of the challenges, Microsoft (MSFT) is eying Indonesia to relocate its production from China.
Indonesia's exports primarily include commodities such as oils, rubber, coal, and textiles. Only a fraction of its total exports of $189 billion in 2017 had overlap with China's exports to the US. Indonesia's exports stood at 20% of its GDP in 2017, much lower than the global average of 29%. To make it worse, exports to China account for 15% of Indonesia's total exports, making China its biggest trading partner. Thus, the prolonged trade war and in turn slowing China can hurt Indonesia more than it can benefit the archipelago.
The iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF (EIDO) is an option for investors looking who want exposure to Indonesia. The ETF invests in Indonesian equities and has returned 6.9% so far in 2019.
India: The elephant
India doesn't belong to the group of above-discussed economies. It's not a part of ASEAN. It's not in Southeast Asia and it's not an export-driven country. We are only including India here because of the sheer scale the country offers. In terms of the size of the workforce and economy, only India can put up a fight of its own against China in terms of scale.
With a 1.3 billion population and the median age of 29 years, India's workforce is second only to China's. If India could get millions of more women to work, it could surpass China in the next decade or two. However, India needs to reskill and upskill its workforce to take advantage of tech companies planning to move out of China.
The government has recently published a draft of its new education policy to tackle some of these challenges. However, a lot needs to be done to be a high-tech hub beyond the software hub that it is right now.
At the G20 Summit last month, India's prime minister, Modi, and President Trump discussed 5G and Huawei. The expectation is that some of the 5G manufacturers may shift to India.
Over the last five years, Modi has emphasized the "Make in India" initiative. The related policies have even pushed Amazon (AMZN) and Walmart-owned Flipkart (WMT) to produce locally. Some phone manufacturers have also set up factories in India. The annual production of smartphone devices has skyrocketed from 3 million in 2014 to 11 million in 2017, clocking 11% of world smartphone output. That puts India right behind China in smartphone manufacturing. India may be able to leverage on that. In fact, Apple (AAPL) is expected to mass-produce iPhones in Foxconn's facilities in India.
Beyond Asia
While most winners from the trade war are in Asia, that's not the only place they belong to. Latin American countries including China, Argentina, and Mexico are expected to benefit from the trade war. However, they may not be able to attract much hi-tech manufacturing. Data center builders like Quanta Computer, Inventec, and Foxconn (all Taiwanese) have moved some production out of China to Mexico and the Czech Republic.
Deal or no deal, the global manufacturing map is poised to be altered as companies look beyond China. Technology companies will be the frontrunners in the shift as the issue with Huawei, rising costs in China, and the tariffs hamper them the most. Along with Southeast Asia, India is poised to become the world's new manufacturing hub.
The ability of countries to attract the tech factories moving out of China will depend on how fast their governments react to the changing landscape.
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I know, this isn't a Tivo related question, but I figured that it wouldn't get answered in the chit chat area.
Thanks. I guess it's like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Bad video game that gains huge popularity, for unknown reasons, just because people are goofing on it?


Take two pages: on the left hand page, create something art-journally that reflects what happened and how you felt in the moment.
Forget about artistry and outcome, and really focus on expressing your feelings through the physical process.
The right hand page is for reflecting and processing what happened and what you can learn from it.
I chose to make this page lighter and more hopeful looking, adding tulle to express the ideas of tenderness and self-compassion.
Maybe pick a photo that represents what happened, without being too literal.
A one-word title is helpful too – it doesn't give too much away to the casual viewer of your book, but is still meaningful to you.
Black paint and splatters can be useful ways of representing bottled up feelings that need expression: just the act of wildly flicking your brush onto the page and not caring about the result can be very liberating!
I decided to pop a Bible verse on top that contradicted my main feeling in the moment and reminded me that I'm never alone.
The embellishing is very minimal, but still looks pretty – one of the things that I'm really enjoying about these simple floral clusters.
The next step – once all the emotion has been splattered onto the left hand page! – is to journal on the right hand page.
Write what happened and how you felt. Try to work out what motivated or lead up to the melt-down and why you reacted like you did.
Then give yourself some grace by thinking about what you did right and why some of your reactions might have been natural.
Then note down how you would handle things differently in the future and what steps you will take, both to prevent this outcome again, and self-care steps for soul-recovery.
I like to end the creation of a spread like this with some stamping.
Alright, that does it. I'm gonna give it a shot next time I encounter a bump in the road. Thanks, as always, Suse!
That's helpful. I tend to want to hide away when life's rough. Maybe tackling the emotions in this manner will expedite the peace process. Thank you Suse.


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Hi there, I'm right now commiting/merging into the JBoss Drools trunk the new version of the Drools Grid module. The idea of this module and all its submodules is to provide the ability to execute distributed knowledge session across distributed grid of machines/nodes.
For achieving this big goal we can set up different components that will allow us to transparently distribute our knowledge session based on the requirements that we have for our applications.
In this post I will give a quick overview about each of these components and in the next few post I will be trying to show how we can use this project in real life scenarios.
Remember that this is a work in progress, so community feedback is appreciated!
This module contains all the low level APIs to interact with nodes across the grid. You will find here core concepts that will be used in the grid internals to define different types of services.
ExecutionNodeService: this interface will represent across the grid Nodes that will be able to host and execute knowledge sessions.
DirectoryNodeService: this interface will represent across the grid Nodes that will be in charge of hosting a directory with information about what's living inside the grid. Inside these nodes we can find all the ExecutionNodeServices and HumanTaskNodeServices that we have currently running inside our distributed nodes and also the knowledge sessions that we have running inside them.
These services will be distributed running in different places and we will use a simple API to be able to be connected with these services in order to use them. For handling these connections to different services we have a class called GridConnection. This GridConnection class will let us add new connectors to our different services. We can add new ExecutionNodes, DirectoryNodes or HumanTaskNodes connectors to a GridConnection. Based on these connectors when we ask for a specific service (executionNode, directoryNode or humanTaskNode) the GridConnection will choose one of the registered connectors and it will give us one connection to the service. In the case that we want to create a new knowledge session, we need to request for an ExectuionNode to the GridConnection. This will take one of the available connectors and it will create an ExecutionNode (client) for you to start using it. The executionNode internally will contain a set of low level services, that based on the connector type will be configured to provide an execution environment that will run locally, remotely or in a real distributed environment.
As you can imagine, these interfaces needs to be implemented in order to provide the functionality. That's why we have different modules that provides different implementations for these services.
It's also important to note, that this APIs are extended for each particular type of environment. You will find two extensions right now: drools-grid-remote-api and drools-grid-distributed-api. Both will contain a set of specific classes and interfaces that extends the core functionality provided by the project drools-grid-api.
Let's take a look at the different different environment types and the sub-modules that we need to use in each of them.
This is a pretty straight forward environment. This environment will let us execute Drools in the way we already are used to. The only difference with the common Drools APIs is that we will use the Drools Grid APIs that will give us the power to move our application to a different type of environment in the future.
This module provides a Local implementation of the previously described services. With Local I mean, in the same JVM instance. This implementation behaves in the same way that if we were using the common Drools APIs. The idea behind this implementation is to provide the ability to run Drools Grid locally using the same APIs that we can use in distributed environments. This will give us the possibility to move our implementations from one environment (Local) to more distributed ones (Remote or Distributed).
Inside this project you will find the local implementation of the services that will included inside the Execution Nodes and Directory Nodes. Note that we didn't include the HumanTask node here because we don't have a local implementation for the Human Task service.
Remote Environments will let us run our knowledge sessions in different JVM instances distributed across a network of computers. Based on the requirements of each situations we will be able to choose the underlaying implementation that it's used to communicate different runtimes hosted in different JVMs/Machines/Nodes.
This module provides the API that needs to be implemented by Remote Environment providers. Right now the two planned implementation for these APIs will be HornetQ and Apache Mina. The idea behind this two implementation is provide the guidelines to create new and more robust implementations that suits different situations/requirements.
This module provides the implementation of the internal services required to establish a remote connection. This module can also be executed from the command line to execute a new Mina Remote Server that can host and execution remote knowledge sessions. This module provide the specific connector required by a client that wants to create remote sessions that will be hosted inside a Mina Execution Node Server.
This module provide the implementation of the internal services required to establish a connection with a remote directory service. This module can also be executed from the console to start a new directory node that will keep track of the Execution Nodes, Knowledge Sessions, Knowledge Bases and other Directory Nodes that are running inside our grid.
Distributed environments provide a more robust solution and more services around the topology of machines that we will in our network. In distributed environments we will have services that will let us automatically deploy, fork and manage all the services across the grid. We will not need to manage or start different services in different machines, we will have a full distributed environment that will be in charge of these tasks. One of the main characteristics of this kind of environments is that the environment itself will know when and how we need to create new services instances, because the demand is too high.
This module provide some of the extensions needed for Distributed environments. It only adds some internal classes that are used for the services that will run in this kind of environments.
This module provides the implementation of a Rio service that will capable to host knowledge sessions. When we compile and package this module we will get a OAR (rio deployable archive), that we can distribute/deploy in a Rio environment. Take a look at this post to see how you can configure and deploy this Rio Service (I will add this soon).
This module provides the implementation of a Rio service that will be capable to host information about the grid environment. It will store information related with our knowledge sessions, kbases and other services running across the grid. It's important to note that Rio itself store and maintain low level information about the grid usage, and this information will not be part of the directory service.
This module will be split in the following sub modules: drools-grid-task-api, drools-grid-remote-task-mina, drools-grid-remote-task-hornetQ and probably drools-grid-distributed-task-rio. Right now, the project only contains the interfaces to hook up the currently two supported implementations Apache Mina and HornetQ. But to move forward with this refactorings, we need to do first some core refactorings in drools-process/drools-process-task, to split implementations and interfaces.
This module brings the user the APIs to build Applications. The main idea behind this project is to provide a High Level API to abstract the low level details that are required to build a Grid Environment.
GridTopology: a GridTopology will represent the topology itself. It will be composed with ExecutionEnvironments, DirectoryInstances and TaskServerInstances. You as client user, will define your topology (where are your ExecutionEnvironments, DirectoryInstances and TaskServerInstance) and then we will create a new GridTopology instance using this definition. Once we get the GridTopology object we can start using it for our applications executions.
ExecutionEnvironment: it will represent a Node/Machine that will be able to host more than one knowledge session. Inside this node/machine the ksession will run and we can interact with it remotely (or locally).
DirectoryInstance: it will represent a node that will keep track about the other nodes in the grid and it will let us register, and lookup this services and it's contents.
TaskServerInstance: it will present a human task server node, that will be able to execute and maintain all the information about human tasks for business processes.
If you want to create an application that uses Drools Grid, this is the module that you want to use. We will be analyzing how to use this module in future posts.
Basically I've introduced the modules inside Drools Grid. I will be working hard in some refactorings during the next two weeks, so feedback is really appreciated. I will publish in another blog post my current TODO list, if you want to help I will be here trying to answering questions.
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What is Research Pitching Competition?
Research Pitching Competition by Slush & Skolar is a call for wild and ambitious research ideas. The competition is open to postdoctoral researchers from all around the world and from all fields of research. The finalists of the competition will get a free pitching training and will present their pitches in front of the academic jury at the biggest startup conference in the Nordics, Slush. The winner will receive 100 000 euros for her/his research.
Research Pitching Competition by Slush and Skolar is a truly collaborative effort. The concept was born in the brains of Kaskas Media, a Helsinki-based science communications agency. The final pitching event is produced in collaboration with Slush. The 100K Skolar Award prize is jointly funded by several Finnish research foundations.


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Mumford & Sons Bring Out My Morning Jacket, Jon Natchez to Cover "With a Little Help From My Friends" at Bonnaroo
Ed Helms, Hozier, and Dawes too
On a night that was already heavy on guest appearances and high-profile covers, Mumford & Sons rolled out a guest-filled cover of their own at Bonnaroo last night. For their rendition of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends" (in the style of Joe Cocker's version), they brought out My Morning Jacket, the War on Drugs' Jon Natchez, Hozier, Dawes, Ed Helms, and Danny Clinch. Watch it happen below via Consequence of Sound.
Update: A previous edition of this story reported that the War on Drugs joined Mumford & Sons for the cover, but really it was Jon Natchez, the sax player of The War On Drugs (and other bands), that joined them.
The War on Drugs


This mound is larger in area than an American football field!
This afternoon, while doing a reconnaissance of the valleys around Alec Mountain in Habersham County, Georgia, my guide showed me a massive hill that he thought looked man-made. Indeed it was. The soil contained potsherds and there was a large ramp on the north side. It is now about 375 feet long, 150 feet wide and 30 feet tall, but my guide told me that in the past, the county had cut off the upper 15 feet to obtain fill soil for some nearby road work! All of the mounds in that archaeological zone are oval. I also identified smaller mounds, a stone sculpture, yet another horseshoe-shaped Mesoamerican-style ball court, stone cairns, agricultural terraces and rampways. The Alec Mountain stone circle is an oval, constructed out of stone masonry! It is like nothing else that I know of in the Americas, except perhaps the much smaller Ladds Mountain Stone Circle, near Etowah Mounds. The enclosure has a opening facing the azimuth of the Winter Solstice Sunset and is sloped at about a 10 degree angle. It is very obvious that this was the location of an extremely large town . . . perhaps the capital of the Soque People. It will take several days to polish up all the field notes, photographs and videos. You will be amazed!
PreviousHybrid Paracas humans were the elite of the Olmec Civilization!
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Who built this altar to the goddess of a spring?
That's pretty amazing! I wonder what else the forest and hills are hiding in the valleys are there? Not to mention what has been destroyed. That any of the ancient ruins survived is amazing in itself.
Richard, Another Great discovery!!! I was watching one of the movies you posted about the "Olmecs" and they also built in stone a oval monument as well. Perhaps a connection to their skull shape of their leadership at that time the Parakusa? They appear to have been connected to several peoples as medicine men or the leadership. Their massive skulls indicate a 25% bigger brain.


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Critically acclaimed Anglo-Polish singer, violinist and arranger Alice Zawadzki will be paying tribute to the great canon of songs from the legendary pen of Joni Mitchell. In partnership with young pianist, composer and Crazy Coqs regular Jamie Safiruddin (Will Young, Ian Shaw, Claire Martin, Barb Jungr) Alice will reimagine the settings of many of Joni's well-known hits alongside some lesser known gems from throughout her long and fruitful career. The pair are superbly accompanied by two of jazz's fast-rising stars Will Glaser (drums) and Conor Chaplin (double bass) - this is a premiere of a new and exciting collaboration, not to be missed.


The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it has, almost from its inception, been an integral part of the Harlem community. It is named for Afro-Puerto Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
The resources of the Center are broken up into five divisions, the Art and Artifacts Division, the Jean Blackwell Hutson General Research and Reference Division, the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, and the Photographs and Prints Division.
In addition to research services, the center hosts readings, discussions, art exhibitions, and theatrical events. It is open to the general public.
In 1901, Andrew Carnegie tentatively agreed to donate $5,200,000 (equivalent to $149,697,600 in 2016) to construct 65 branch libraries in New York City, with the requirement that the City provide the land and maintain the buildings once construction was complete. Later in 1901 Carnegie formally signed a contract with the City of New York to transfer his donation to the city to then allow it to justify purchasing the land to house the libraries. McKim, Mead & White were chosen as the architects and Charles Follen McKim designed the three-story library building at 103 West 135th Street in the Italian Renaissance Palazzo mode. At its opening on July 14, 1905, the library had 10,000 books and the librarian in charge was Gertrude Cohen.


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Queen Shares "Bohemian Rhapsody" Documentary To Celebrate 40th Anniversary [YouTube Official Videos]
by Zac Lavender
In honor of the 40th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen has just shared a fascinating, in-depth documentary on the making of their 1975 hit along with a 1982 live performance at The Bowl. Check them out below, via YouTube.
Inside The Rhapsody - Queen (Full Documentary)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Live at The Bowl 1982)

Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" Lyrics

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just killed a man, put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh, I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo. Galileo figaro magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let me go.) Will not let you go
(Let me go.) Will not let you go. (Let me go.) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mamma mia, mamma mia) Mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby!
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here!
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
Since its release on October 31, 1975, "Bohemian Rhapsody" has gone on to sell 6.5 million copies worldwide and has become iconic for its genre-defying art rock statement. But what goes into making such a successful creative endeavor? In the above documentary, Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May discuss the song's creation and music video shoot.
As drummer Roger Taylor explains, "All the elements were in Freddie's mind, he literally had them all lined up like little soldiers... all the harmonies he wrote out in little blocks on the back of a telephone directory."
Since Freddie Mercury is no longer alive to discuss the song's exact genesis or meaning, Roger and Brian do their best to relay Freddie's vision. "We were trying to push forward the boundaries," guitarist Brian May states, "We were trying to do things which had not been done." Neither of them would offer an analysis of Freddie's lyrical content for the song, primarily because Freddie had always been dismissive of his lyrics as "nothing below the surface."
The music video was broadcast on television as a promotional tool for the single, which was rare in the days before MTV. The core of the video was shot on a live stage which helped to showcase Queen as a live band. According to Roger Taylor, the camera work was "very basic." Most of the effects were done in-camera using Prism lens and video feedback.
For the second half of the documentary, Brian May takes us into the studio and goes through each stem to show how this multi-layered tour-de-force was made. In the mix there are some hidden gems. We hear Brian's use of Guitar extended techniques such as harmonics and the "shivers down my spine" effect which is a strum over the top of the guitar past the fretboard. He also used different guitar tones to emphasize the individual runs leading up to the end of the song.
While the backing vocal harmonies in the opening are all Freddie, some of the complex harmonies during the operatic section required Brian, Roger, and Freddie to track three different versions of them singing unison on the same line so that there would be nine voices total on each voice of the harmony. For the "Magnifico" section, they overdubbed using a bell-like approach that Brian likens to the work of Claudio Monteverdi.
Brian also sheds some light on Freddie's process with regards to embellishing his lead vocals while double-tracking. May notes that while the vocals in the hard rock, "so you think you can love me" section are not perfectly double-tracked ("Freddie could have done that if he wanted to") this was the desired effect. It was similar to John Lennon's intentional imperfections when double-tracking with The Beatles, which Brian May found gave a level of humanity to the two different voices.
"The Beatles were our Bible," Brian explains, "although we were able to take some things further than The Beatles because we had better technology and the benefit of their experience." But as Brian adds later in the video "I don't think we beat The Beatles, no one beats The Beatles."
The 44-minute documentary was released on Queen's Greatest Video Hits 1 DVD in 2002. Pick it up on Amazon. The live performance comes from Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl, recorded at the Milton Keynes Bowl, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, on 5 June 1982.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" first appeared on the album A Night At The Opera, which is available on Amazon (Vinyl, CD, MP3).
For more Queen music, news, and tour dates, check out their Zumic artist page.
Source: Queen Official YouTube Channel
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In 1956, my father was thirty-nine years old. He didn't even know how to boil an egg. But within two years he was creating the kookiest dinners in Washington and had the World Bank eating out of his hand. When he got back, everybody wanted to know how he had done it.


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Katharine Hepburn was terrific in Alice Adams, for which she received an Oscar nomination in 1935. But as we watched the black and white movie on TCM, my husband asked, "Isn't that the guy who played Sam Wainwright on It's a Wonderful Life?"
"I don't think so," I said. "Wonderful Life was at least a dozen years later." So I looked him up on the movie site IMDb, and yes, the characters of Katharine H.'s brother and Jimmy S.'s friend were played by the same actor, Frank Albertson. He was the one always saying "Hee haw!" in the Christmas classic of 1947.
Then we noticed Charlie Grapewin in the part of the town rich guy. He would soon be Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz. Fred Stone, veteran stage and silent film actor, played Hepburn's down-on-his-luck father in Alice Adams. Stone was the original Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz on Broadway. In 1902. He'd started his career in show business with the circus.
There are all kinds of familiar faces in the movies and on TV. They didn't get the large salaries or the covers of magazines, but they made the stories what they were. I think George Kennedy must have been in more movies than any living actor. Charles Durning played memorable roles, the best of which I think is in The Final Countdown, a time travel flick about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The beautiful Agnes Moorehead appeared in many, many motion pictures before she was Samantha Stevens' mother in Bewitched.
My favorite character actor is Jane Darwell, whose final role was the bird woman in Mary Poppins. She was one of the older southern ladies in Gone With the Wind and probably best known for playing Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. There is only kindness in that face. I could watch her in every movie ever made, if she'd been in them.
These are the people who make stories real. They seem like family and neighbors, and we are fortunate to have known them. Do you have a memorable character actor in mind?
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