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Just a man with a website and a bunch of opinions.
Top Twenty Blogger Insults
(Davezilla)
#16. You're so stupid you put stamps on your emails.
#16. You're so stupid you put stamps on your emails...."
The Rise of the Black Nerd
(The Village Voice)
Black America's fragmentation along class lines need not dilute the aims of racial justice. "Black culture makes itself up as it goes along, but is comprised of things that are outside itself. Blackness doesn't have to be performed. It has to be investigated."
Clear and obvious reminder that the bruthas and sistas are really just members of a dysfunctional family. But like any family, there should be room at the table for everyone. Let's have the brainiacs, Thug-Lifers™, Black Republicans, ballers, preachers, hustlers, hoodrats, and our kind of people all sit down and break bread together, and if an argument breaks out, WTF!
b/w: Uppity Negro
Black America's fragmentation along class lines need not dilute the aims of racial justice. "Black culture makes itself up as it goes along, but is comprised of things that are outside itself. Blackness doesn't have to be performed. It has to be investiga..."
China pursues arsenal of technology
(The Washington Times)
Mastering outer space will be a requisite for military victory, with outer space becoming the new commanding heights for combat.
That's straight out of Sun Tzu's Art of War, no?
Mastering outer space will be a requisite for military victory, with outer space becoming the new commanding heights for combat...."
One Woman's Account of Two Hotel Experiences
(New York Times)
"Let me tell you something: I would rather be in a buffet with a dozen 9-year-olds than with a half-dozen males in their 20's and 30's."
I never really stopped to think about how men and women might experience travelling on business differently. This short article highlights a few of the issues.
"Let me tell you something: I would rather be in a buffet with a dozen 9-year-olds than with a half-dozen males in their 20's and 30's."..."
Tourists offered homeless holidays
Kamstra Travel, based in Eemshaven, in the north of The Netherlands, is offering tourists the opportunity -- at a cost of
WFT were they thinking? This one's real old, but it was inspired by this recent Half-Bakery idea for a 'helliday' instead of a 'holiday.'
Kamstra Travel, based in Eemshaven, in the north of The Netherlands, is offering tourists the opportunity — at a cost of..."
Home of The Vidiots.
Commentary on the idiot box. What could be more useful?
Home of The Vidiots...."
Pornographer's Picks
(Salon (Blogs))
A subjective listing of excellent free and membership porn sites, as chosen by a pornographer, together with occasional musings on sex, the smut industry, or whatever else I feel like rambling about.
Porno for Bloggos. Learned a new term -- milf -- while checking it out, but how long do you think this one will last ... before it starts hurting the Salon "brand."
A subjective listing of excellent free and membership porn sites, as chosen by a pornographer, together with occasional musings on sex, the smut industry, or whatever else I feel like rambling about...."
Clinton Rips Bush on 90's Fraud
"And one of the people who stopped our attempt to stop Enron accounting was made chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission," Clinton said. "That is a fact; an indisputable fact."
Suck on that, Chimp!
"And one of the people who stopped our attempt to stop Enron accounting was made chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission," Clinton said. "That is a fact; an indisputable fact."..."
Rescued Pa. Miners Recount Ordeal
The nine coal miners who were rescued from a cramped, flooded shaft Sunday decided early in their 77-hour ordeal that they would "live or die as a group."
It's great that everyone was saved. It's a sign of hope against great odds.
The nine coal miners who were rescued from a cramped, flooded shaft Sunday decided early in their 77-hour ordeal that they would "live or die as a group."..."
Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial
(hit-or-miss.org)
What is TrackBack? Basically, it's a way of recording who has linked to your posts and notifying others that you've linked to them (invented by the folks from Moveable Type.)
b/w: onfocus
What is TrackBack? Basically, it's a way of recording who has linked to your posts and notifying others that you've linked to them (invented by the folks from Moveable Type.)..."
Who Needs a Husband?
I found it had its perks. My widow friends know them, too: we are not responsible for another person's comfort, we come and go as we please, eat when and what we like, we are not vulnerable to someone else's moods. As one friend put it bluntly: "I never want to do a laundry for a man again."
Looking into the crystal ball, BoyCaught can see the future. (username/password required; use cibblog/cibcib)
I found it had its perks. My widow friends know them, too: we are not responsible for another person's comfort, we come and go as we please, eat when and what we like, we are not vulnerable to someone else's moods. As one friend put it bluntly: "I never..."
buck up!
(hideous kinky)
"There is something that you men will never realize. We have so much more game than you."
We (men) play games because women -- to borrow a line from Jack -- can't handle the truth. The truth is: usually, we just want to sleep with you, and we don't really care about your life story or how your day was ... until that time when we develop enough emotional maturity to realize that a relationship with another adult is actually a cool thing. Some of us never reach that epiphany. Next.
"There is something that you men will never realize. We have so much more game than you."..."
:: planet replay ::
Welcome to Planet Replay. Built by Replay TV owners for Replay TV owners.
Welcome to Planet Replay. Built by Replay TV owners for Replay TV owners...."
NY Man Sues, Claiming Fast Food Ruined His Health
He didn't realize fried food was bad for him until three years ago, and that he had been eating fast food for decades because it was convenient. "I didn't find out how bad it was until 1999," He said. "I ate a lot because I was by myself."
Apparently, eating too much fast food not only makes you fat, it makes you stupid. Does this idiot really think he can win this case? I'm not a lawyer, but didn't he already destroy his position when he said, "I ate a lot because I was by myself." In other words, KFC or Mickey Dees didn't put a gun to your head and make you eat. Any lawyers in the house?
He didn't realize fried food was bad for him until three years ago, and that he had been eating fast food for decades because it was convenient. "I didn't find out how bad it was until 1999," He said. "I ate a lot because I was by myself."..."
Blogmapper
Blogmapper lets you associate blog entries with hot spots on a map. When you click on the spots, the entries appear.
Because we all need to contribute to the Matrix.
b/w: Blogroots
Blogmapper lets you associate blog entries with hot spots on a map. When you click on the spots, the entries appear...."
Simple Arithmetic
(No! I Will Not Go Quietly)
With the demise of the old valuation methods, something new had to be found. What emerged was one of the most effective Big Lies ever. While it has no legal or economic basis, the idea took root that owning shares of a company gives you a claim on its profits.
Simple economics lesson. Eye-opening conclusions.
With the demise of the old valuation methods, something new had to be found. What emerged was one of the most effective Big Lies ever. While it has no legal or economic basis, the idea took root that owning shares of a company gives you a claim on its pro..."
Connect the Dots for a Disturbing Picture
(LA Times)
"The people in power represent an economic clique whose interests are only superficially tied to the well-being of the country as a whole. In collusion with their delighted big-money supporters, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their Cabinet-level entourage spent years lining their pockets with sweetheart loans, option deals and golden parachutes from oil companies and other related industries."
Wake the f*ck up! This one is a must-read.
"The people in power represent an economic clique whose interests are only superficially tied to the well-being of the country as a whole. In collusion with their delighted big-money supporters, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their Cabinet..."
AdWhore
(Humor Is Dead)
This month the idiots at H.I.D. (Humor Is Dead) checked out Forbes magazine to see what kind of ads target the business elite - and what they suggest about that demographic and society as a whole.
This stuff is brilliant. The main site treasure chest of funny-ass sh*t ... with a message. (b/w Unknown News)
This month the idiots at H.I.D. (Humor Is Dead) checked out Forbes magazine to see what kind of ads target the business elite - and what they suggest about that demographic and society as a whole...."
[CDC Study on Marriage]
(John Scalzi's Whatever Column)
"What I find rather more interesting are the stats that suggest that the real key to making a marriage last is to marry late and to be well-off."
(b/w Memo to Myself)
"What I find rather more interesting are the stats that suggest that the real key to making a marriage last is to marry late and to be well-off."..."
the5k.org : entries
The 5k recognizes the roles that constraints play in creativity and discipline in craftsmanship. Please make beautiful things!
As always, there's some amazing stuff here ... and it's soooo tiny.
The 5k recognizes the roles that constraints play in creativity and discipline in craftsmanship. Please make beautiful things!..."
Space rock 'on collision course'
(BBC)
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space.
If we knew when the world was going to end, would things change for the better or the worse?
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space...."
People can show prejudice unintentionally, study finds
(The Record.com)
"It's an interesting group. They're not bigots, they don't want to be prejudiced." The latest of six studies shows more than 90 per cent of white participants associate negative concepts with visible minorities.
Can't we all jus' git along? Apparently not, Rodney. (b/w Waterloo Wide Web)
"It's an interesting group. They're not bigots, they don't want to be prejudiced." The latest of six studies shows more than 90 per cent of white participants associate negative concepts with visible minorities...."
WordNet..."
Stick Death
Neo/Christ Parallels in The Matrix
The Matrix was released the weekend of Easter 1999 (and if you don't mind a rhetorical question,....What is it that is celebrated at Easter.....?). That release date turns out to be very significant! Please keep that in mind as you consider these points as parallels with the life story of Christ...
Given.
The Matrix was released the weekend of Easter 1999 (and if you don't mind a rhetorical question,....What is it that is celebrated at Easter.....?). That release date turns out to be very significant! Please keep that in mind as you consider these points a..."
25 Rules for Being a Republican
(Independent Media Center)
A few selections...
5) You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.
8) You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multinational corporations should have no regulation or interference whatsoever.
10) You have to believe that society is colorblind and growing up black in America doesn't diminish your opportunities, but you still won't vote for Alan Keyes.
Hey, while we're trashing Rep-dick-licans, let's just pin this whole impending depression/economic collapse thing on them as well! After all, the thing is melting down and they're not doing sh*t about it. Which would be Rule 26: Don't admit that the POTUS is moronically incompetent, in order to display artificial party unity.
The Reality Thing (Unofficial Krugman)
8) You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multinational corporations should have..."
the closet capitalist
(lgf)
From Little Green Footballs (great blog, btw): "We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well."
Propaganda or disinformation? Is there a difference, when everyone's lying? When no one's telling the truth? Who do you believe? Who can you trust? On the other hand, while Chomsky routinely trashes the status quo, BoyCaught has never heard him say anything about not cashing checks. He might be provocative, but he ain't no fool!
The Chomsky Archive
Bad News (MonkeyFist)
From Little Green Footballs (great blog, btw): "We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensi..."
Bookbrowse.com
Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles. No one has a better selection of excerpts from bestsellers and because each and every book is excerpted you can browse any book at your leisure.
Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles. No one has a better selection of excerpts from bestsellers and because each and every book is excerpted you can browse any book at your leisure...."
Canada's Premier Independent Book Site..."
(Metafilter)
"To be a good writer (and by extension artist of any kind) you have to be out in the world of work and humdrum living. It's a big mistake, he says, to train writers as "writers" in little hothouse workshops."
Great MetaFilter thread on whether having a job and being out in the daily grind actually helps writers.
"To be a good writer (and by extension artist of any kind) you have to be out in the world of work and humdrum living. It's a big mistake, he says, to train writers as "writers" in little hothouse workshops."..."
Whois Report - Domain Name Search Engine
The world's first Multi-TLD wildcard search tool! Search for domainsusing multiple keywords.
The world's first Multi-TLD wildcard search tool! Search for domainsusing multiple keywords...."
U.S. air raids took large civilian toll
(International Herald Tribune)
The American air campaign in Afghanistan, based on a high-technology, out-of-harm's way strategy, has produced a pattern of mistakes that has killed hundreds of Afghan civilians. On-site reviews by The New York Times of 11 locations where air strikes killed as many as 400 civilians suggest that American commanders have sometimes relied on mistaken information from local Afghans. Also, the Americans' preference for air strikes instead of riskier ground operations has cut off a way of checking the accuracy of the intelligence.
The American air campaign in Afghanistan, based on a high-technology, out-of-harm's way strategy, has produced a pattern of mistakes that has killed hundreds of Afghan civilians. On-site reviews by The New York Times of 11 locations where air strikes kil..."
Fair Use advocates silenced by Big Brother
(The Register)
Advocates trying to speak for regular Internet users were basically told to sit down and shut up during a "public" workshop on digital rights management at the U.S. Department of Commerce Wednesday.
It's important for you, me -- us -- to know where we stand in the minds of BigCo's and Big Government: we're consumers. The only right we should have is to consume whatever they decide to sell to us. As horrible as most popular movies and music products are, do we really need to buy any of it? Or copy it? This whole DRM push could be upended by folks just stopping and thinking about what it is they're purchasing in the first place. But that's where they get you: most of us don't think. Most of us do as we're told. They say "Consume this! Buy that!" ... and most of us do it.
How to Take Down the Music Industry (Kuro5hin)
The Internet Debacle - An Alternative View (JanisIan.com)
Advocates trying to speak for regular Internet users were basically told to sit down and shut up during a "public" workshop on digital rights management at the U.S. Department of Commerce Wednesday...."
Link your favorite portable music player to your car or homestereo without wires, without headaches. Simply plug the 300W into any audio output source (MP3, CD, cassette player, PC or Laptop), choose one of four FM frequencies, and tune your radio to that frequency.
Link your favorite portable music player to your car or homestereo without wires, without headaches. Simply plug the 300W into any audio output source (MP3, CD, cassette player, PC or Laptop), choose one of four FM frequencies, and tune your radio to that..."
Ted Turner sues St. Helena group
(The Beaufort Gazette)
National media tycoon Ted Turner is attempting to wrestle 68 acres on St. Helena Island away from the descendants of slaves who inhabited the coastal region. Turner has been called the nation's largest private landowner, with 1.7 million acres.
Hey, Kunta Kinta, Massa wan' his land back, boy. He gon' build big resort. You, me, and Fiddla git jobs as porters. Grits, dummy. (b/w InstaPundit)
National media tycoon Ted Turner is attempting to wrestle 68 acres on St. Helena Island away from the descendants of slaves who inhabited the coastal region. Turner has been called the nation's largest private landowner, with 1.7 million acres...."
I decided to try to write a photography textbook that reflects the way that I think about taking pictures. Is this the best textbook for beginning photographers? Certainly not. There are many excellent ones on paper, a few of which are reviewed in the dead trees section of photo.net. However, if you like this way of thinking about photographs and you don't have a paper book in front of you, this online book might be useful.
Something to think about taking pictures, by Greenspun.
I decided to try to write a photography textbook that reflects the way that I think about taking pictures. Is this the best textbook for beginning photographers? Certainly not. There are many excellent ones on paper, a few of which are reviewed in the dea..."
KurzweilAI.net
Nazis and Bush family history: Government investigated Bush family's financing of Hitler
(Remember John)
In "The Splendid Blonde Beast," the author wrote about George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker. Both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush were powerful financial supporters of Adolf Hitler. Walker was president of Union Banking Corporation, a firm that traded with Germany and helped German industrialists consolidate Hitler's political power. Simpson says Union Banking became a Nazi money-laundering machine.
In "The Splendid Blonde Beast," the author wrote about George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker. Both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush were powerful financial supporters of Adolf Hitler. Walker was president..."
Questionable Quotes (Black Tuesday)
(Urban Legends Reference Pages)
In another case of a quote reflecting what many people want to believe -- in this case that President Bush is an appallingly ignorant racist with little understanding of the world outside the USA -- we have a current example: a claim that Bush asked of Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, "Do you have blacks, too?"
This alleged Bush gaffe is investigated. The conclusion: undetermined.
In another case of a quote reflecting what many people want to believe — in this case that President Bush is an appallingly ignorant racist with little understanding of the world outside the USA — we have a current example: a claim that Bush as..."
Bush And The Blacks
(Bushwatch.com)
Bush refused to do any interviews with the African American news media during the campaign, and this incommunicado policy with the black press is still in effect to this day.
But what would the Smirking Chimp say anyway? Eeek, eeek, ooh, ooh, ahh, ahh! The buffoon doesn't even know that Black people exist in other countries.
Bush refused to do any interviews with the African American news media during the campaign, and this incommunicado policy with the black press is still in effect to this day...."
Bush Watch
Watching the Smirking Chimp ... and his criminal cronies.
Watching the Smirking Chimp ... and his criminal cronies...."
BlogChalking
Collaboratively mapping weblogs for smarter blogsearching.
Collaboratively mapping weblogs for smarter blogsearching...."
One big question for Answer
(ESPN.com/Page2)
A Thug Lifer figures nobody knows the trouble he's seen; trouble was invented just for him. Nobody knows him, nobody but another Thug Lifer. Nobody else has been through the hell they've been through, or faced a society that didn't want him, hated him, forced him to its margins. But you don't live that life. You die it.
It's the question that drives us all. You know the question. What is the meaning of (thug) life?
A Thug Lifer figures nobody knows the trouble he's seen; trouble was invented just for him. Nobody knows him, nobody but another Thug Lifer. Nobody else has been through the hell they've been through, or faced a society that didn't want him, hated him, fo..."
Racists, bigots
(Anger Central)
This page has been set up so that those morons who think that they are better then other people by dint of skin color, national origin or religion will have a place where they can spew their idiocy and stupidity.We set this page up because of all the postings we get spewing forth this sort of crap. We got tired of either ignoring it or posting it and then adding a Note from Anger Central after it. So, feel free to spew your manure here. This page won't be updated as often simply because we consider it very low priority. Someone bashing the boss, screaming about George Bush or spewing on about Microsoft will get first dibs. Our hope is that people will see just how moronic they appear on the web.
This one will keep you entertained for days. The sad and/or troubling thing about some of the more over-the-top comments you'll find is that these people believe they're right ... or they just have incredible senses of humor. Be sure to check out the sections on "Blacks," "Whites," and "Americans."
This page has been set up so that those morons who think that they are better then other people by dint of skin color, national origin or religion will have a place where they can spew their idiocy and stupidity.We set this page up because of all the post..."
(Guardian Unlimited | Special reports)
Denatured and deracinated, the chicken nugget is a symbol of the way we eat now. It is the epitome of our 21st-century system of globalised, industrial food production. Like much of our diet today, the nugget is processed so highly that its taste and texture depend as much on engineering and additives as on any raw ingredients. It depends on the industrialisation of livestock, on an endless supply of uniform factory birds to fit standardised factory machines. It depends, too, on the mass migration of workers, both legal and illegal, since adding the value to it requires an equally endless supply of low-value labour.
And Super-Size™ that muhf*$ka! (b/w Reb's Pocket, and btw, props to Blood on her just published Weblog Handbook)
Denatured and deracinated, the chicken nugget is a symbol of the way we eat now. It is the epitome of our 21st-century system of globalised, industrial food production. Like much of our diet today, the nugget is processed so highly that its taste and text..."
( Playahata.com)
Many people hope for an end to so many of the world's injustices. However for the injustices based on economics they often refuse to look at the true culprit or don't understand the most fundamental aspect of Capitalism. And that fundamental aspect is: (write it down if you have to) Capitalism needs and creates massive inequality as a matter of it "functioning."
Playahata.com's Eyecalone hits da nail on its muhf*&kin' head with this piece. Good, thought-provoking verbiage. Reading this reminded me of mystery writer Walter Mosley's non-fiction diatribe: Working on the Chain Gang where he wrote, "Democracy and capitalism make strange bedfellows." Sure-nuff! Sooner or later people are going to have to wake up ... or die. (b/w Trayc.com)
Many people hope for an end to so many of the world's injustices. However for the injustices based on economics they often refuse to look at the true culprit or don't understand the most fundamental aspect of Capitalism. And that fundamental aspect is: (w..."
Eye TV
(El Gato Software)
Introducing EyeTV--the digital video recorder designed for Macintosh!
If you have a Mac running OS X, and a lot of disk space, you can jump into the ReplayTV/Tivo game at a fraction of the cost ... and no monthly charges either. And if you have the equipment, just burn your favorite shows to DVD. The question now is: how long before these guys get sued by the networks?
Introducing EyeTV—the digital video recorder designed for Macintosh!..."
Uppity-Negro.com
Tagline: We're living in a science fiction movie. The black guy always dies in science fiction movies.
Now, we've been saying that all along ... except in Alien, where Yaphet Kotto (Parker) made it all the way to the end, and probably would have survived along with Ripley, except that Lambert wouldn't move and let him incinerate the monster with his flamethrower: a white woman leading to a brutha's untimely demise ... hmm, that's a familiar story. A new weblog discovery, by way of George.
Tagline: We're living in a science fiction movie. The black guy always dies in science fiction movies...."
Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself
(CNET.com)
In a draft bill seen by CNET News.com, key legislators propose limiting Americans' rights related to copying music or transferring files.
All of these laws are threatening to take all the fun out of listening to music, or watching TV and movies in the (relative) privacy of your own home. How about this novel idea: instead of paying to have someone perform for you, why not learn how to do it yourself? Take the time to learn how to play a guitar, or stage a play or paint a picture. Learn how to tell a story, and then make up your own. Sure, in most cases your efforts would pale in comparision to the "pros" you so idolize, but on the other hand the time you spent developing your own creative skills would enrich your life far more than any movie, program, or music album full of someone else's ideas ever could. There was a time when every child had to go to music and drama class. Nowadays, hardly any of them do. If the law soon makes it impossible to share so-called "commercial" content, it will not be the end of the world. Just make your own content: they can't take that away from you.
In a draft bill seen by CNET News.com, key legislators propose limiting Americans' rights related to copying music or transferring files...."
« Monday « July 8, 2002
White IVF couple has Black twins
A judge may have to decide what happens to black twins born to a white couple after an apparent blunder at an IVF clinic.
Lucy! You have some 'splainin' to do! Well, given that the woman gave birth to the children, they are her kids! Is she seriously considering give them up because they are black? They're her kids! This line in the story sums it all up: "When the babies were born, the couple noticed that they were clearly dark-skinned, and suspected that something had gone wrong." See, what has BoyCaught been observing all along: dark skin ... is just wrong! What if the couple had been black and the woman's eggs had been accidently inseminated with sperm from a white man? Oh yeah, she still would have had black babies.
A judge may have to decide what happens to black twins born to a white couple after an apparent blunder at an IVF clinic...."
EFF Analysis of USA PATRIOT Act
(EFF.org)
The civil liberties of ordinary Americans have taken a tremendous blow with this law, especially the right to privacy in our online communications and activities. Yet there is no evidence that our previous civil liberties posed a barrier to the effective tracking or prosecution of terrorists. In fact, in asking for these broad new powers, the government made no showing that the previous powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on US citizens were insufficient to allow them to investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism. The process leading to the passage of the bill did little to ease these concerns. To the contrary, they are amplified by the inclusion of so many provisions that, instead of aimed at terrorism, are aimed at nonviolent, domestic computer crime. In addition, although many of the provisions facially appear aimed at terrorism, the Government made no showing that the reasons they failed to detect the planning of the recent attacks or any other terrorist attacks were the civil liberties compromised with the passage of USAPA.
The civil liberties of ordinary Americans have taken a tremendous blow with this law, especially the right to privacy in our online communications and activities. Yet there is no evidence that our previous civil liberties posed a barrier to the effective..."
Directory of sites most hated by conservatives.
Directory of sites most hated by conservatives...."
Bibleman
Welcome. You are visiting Bibleman.com. Our website runs in a separate popup window.
I don't know what to make of this yet.
Welcome. You are visiting Bibleman.com. Our website runs in a separate popup window...."
Blog Elements 3
(Fairvue Central Blog)
I guess [cIb] is golden? (AU) Cool. Thanks Nikolai.
I guess [cIb] is golden? (AU) Cool. Thanks Nikolai...."
Introducing Overpeer
Through implementing our own patent-pending technology, we offer an effective solution that is a potent marketing engine, and a powerful anti-piracy weapon. By penetrating P2P networks such as Gnutella, Open Napster, and FastTrack, our solution can use the power of P2P against abusers, instead turning software pirates into customers.
According to independent sources, the "patent-pending technology" behind Overpeer amounts to killing p2p by poisoning the networks with fake, bogus files, with the ultimate hope of discouraging users away from Gnutella, KaZaA and other free networks, and driving them to the industry-approved Pressplay and MusicNet services. Bastards. How about offering music at a fair price?
Through implementing our own patent-pending technology, we offer an effective solution that is a potent marketing engine, and a powerful anti-piracy weapon. By penetrating P2P networks such as Gnutella, Open Napster, and FastTrack, our solution can use th..."
Powell: 'bastards won't drive me out'
(Telegraph UK)
Despite his frustration at President Bush's tendency to side with Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, on issues ranging from the Middle East to the International Criminal Court, Gen Powell is making it clear that he does not intend to quit before the next presidential election. Gen Powell is regarded overseas as a lonely voice of moderation and pragmatism within an strongly unilateralist administration, and his departure would dismay most foreign capitals.
Lesson: You can enjoy a public approval rating far greater than your boss, you can be honored by the men who fight for the country, and you can be widely respected by all of the governments and diplomats you negotiate with, but, if you're African-American you still have to work twice as hard to get half as far ... or, Dubya's an even bigger idiot than we thought.
Despite his frustration at President Bush's tendency to side with Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, on issues ranging from the Middle East to the International Criminal Court, Gen Powell is making it clear that he does not intend to quit before the..."
Open areas at airports get armed U.S. guards
Wider role follows fatal shooting at L.A. ticket counter: The new U.S. government agency responsible for airline security has said it will place armed law enforcement officers - uniformed and in plainclothes - throughout the public areas of airports..The agency, the Transportation Security Administration, made the announcement Saturday in response to a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday.
Come to America ... now a military state, but still the land of the free and the home of the brave. Now drop to your knees and keep your muhf*#ckin' hands where I can see them!
Wider role follows fatal shooting at L.A. ticket counter: The new U.S. government agency responsible for airline security has said it will place armed law enforcement officers - uniformed and in plainclothes - throughout the public areas of airports..The..."
George Michael: I
The single
Where can we see this video? If MTV, and its ilk, are not propagandists deeply embraced with the Administration, why wouldn't they air it? What do they have to lose? Dubya's got his hands full with the "War on Terror" and now Harken Energy, no?
The single..."
Strike looms large over All-Star Game
(CNNSI.com)
"From everything I've heard, we're not going to set a strike date tomorrow," Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling said Sunday. "We're just going to give authority to perhaps do something in the future." In 1994, players met in Pittsburgh on the day before the All-Star break and didn't set a strike date. Seventeen days later, on July 28, they called for an Aug. 12 walkout. The strike lasted 232 days and wiped out the World Series for the first time since 1904.
Well if they go on strike this time, I say f*#k them all. Baseball, circa 2002, sucks. It's filled with a bunch of overpaid, whiny, steroid freaks who don't even honor the game and who come off as jackasses everytime a mic is put in their faces, and it's run by a bunch of greedy, bozo businessmen. I haven't seen a baseball game since Game 7 of the World Series last year, and I don't think I've missed a thing.
"From everything I've heard, we're not going to set a strike date tomorrow," Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling said Sunday. "We're just going to give authority to perhaps do something in the future." In 1994, players met in Pittsburgh on the day before the A..."
PopPolitics.com
Yet all too often they are kept apart -- political coverage is found in the "news" section while subjects like film and television are covered in "entertainment" or "lifestyles."We like to think of PopPolitics as the gray area, the place where it all comes together and begins to make sense. We plan on straddling the line between the two cultures: crossing it, blurring it and erasing it at will.
This is a very cool little website. Covers lots of material in the mediasphere. The current article on "Men In Black 2" perfectly nails the crass over-commercialization of the 2002 summer movie season.
Yet all too often they are kept apart — political coverage is found in the "news" section while subjects like film and television are covered in "entertainment" or "lifestyles."We like to think of PopPolitics as the gray area, the place where it all..."
Wildfire heats racial tension
(SFGate)
Apaches say their northern neighbors have little sympathy for their losses and, worse, rumors are spreading across Cibecue that Apaches are unwelcome in white communities and that restaurants will not serve them. "This has been there a long time," Belinda Colelay, 23, a teacher's assistant, said of years of friction between the white people to the north and the Apache. "Now, it's only going to get worse."
Sure this has been going on for a long time ... like since the first time Europeans stepped on land that belongs to Native Americans ... and stole it.
Apaches say their northern neighbors have little sympathy for their losses and, worse, rumors are spreading across Cibecue that Apaches are unwelcome in white communities and that restaurants will not serve them. "This has been there a long time," Belinda..."
A Jury of Their Mother's Peers
(Sean Gallagher's Rant Central)
Quoth the blogger: "The reasoning, according to one lawyer I spoke with about this: older African-American men and younger African-American women tend to be much more critical of young black men. The hope is that the middle-aged African American women will feel more sympathy for cultural reasons, that the young white women will be more sympathetic and open to suggestions by the defense.On the other hand, the prosecution wants a jury with as many white males on it as it can get--regardless of whether they're standing in front of them with a copy of Noam Chomsky's "Understanding Power" in their hands or not. White male juries are hanging juries."
And what would an all black male jury be? Inconceivable! Actually, the more interesting thing about this post are the comments, including the guy who cynically says, "Oh yeah, pardon us white males for even breathing." Well, if the shoe fits, wear it. If someone said, "Everything great and wonderful about this world was created by white males," would the pardon-me-for-breathing guy be so cynical?
Quoth the blogger: "The reasoning, according to one lawyer I spoke with about this: older African-American men and younger African-American women tend to be much more critical of young black men. The hope is that the middle-aged African American women wil..."


Part of what makes being in academia so exciting for me is the very incompleteness of each project as expressed in Gödel's theorem , here not referring strictly to its origins in mathematical logic of incomplete axiomatic systems, but rather used in a general linguistic sense of how research by definition, lies in a perpetual state of unfinish, the completion of which would warrant it redundant.
It is this continuous dialogic and dialectic process of thought, creativity and innovation of ideas, a journey that continuously reveals and uncovers what was previously obscure or even unknown that I find oddly comforting – finding familiarity in the unfamiliar, a constant in the flux of things.
As part of a collaborative publishing effort with friends from the IESE Business School in Barcelona from the International Faculty Program (IFP) of 2011, where colleague Peter Zackariasson was an editor, I contributed a chapter to the book entitled, New Perspectives in Management Education (Amann et al. eds, 2012) entitled "Chinese Wisdom. World Quality" Looking East for brand innovation and change management: reflections from a study on Geely automobile 2007-2011. It was a paper that reflected upon brand innovation and change managment in China's Geely automobile from the years of 2007 to 2011.
It was also during this time that Geely acquired Volvo Cars from American Ford in 2010, landing China the single largest foreign acquisition, at the same time (McDonald 2010, Wang 2011) setting up several technological and knowledge platforms for China that lent support to the country's efforts in the aggressive acquisition of knowledge in general.
Although American owned, Volvo Cars continued to carry a strong Swedish heritage in quality and branding where many of their engineers continue to sit in Sweden today. This meant that the acquisition of Volvo Cars by Geely was under sharp and curious observation both East and West, not in the least by Swedish academics and researchers from the disciplines of management science and international business (IB).
Having previously studied the Swedish management style in comparison to the Singapore Chinese management style (Cordeiro-Nilsson 2009), a hypothesis of mine with regard to Geely's acquisition of Volvo Cars was that the strict vertical hierarchy and authoritarian leadership style of the Chinese might end up severely clashing with the more lateral, egalitarian and consensus seeking leadership style of top level Swedish management, even if under the steering of American Ford. It made interesting observation to see how these differences in management ideology of which one had its roots in centuries of authoritarian dynastic rule, compared to the more individualistic developments of the occidental cultures, might be construed and subsequently manoeuvred in a cross-cultural setting.
That China realized its authoritarian rule over its western acquisition was not optimal led to it taking what could seem a radical move – autonomy to Volvo Cars to continue being, Volvo. It then turned towards its scholastic roots, to become 'student' in this aspect, observing business and management practices whilst at the same time, educating itself on various technological and knowledge platforms with the purpose of going beyond replication, of becoming forefront innovators themselves.
Where the theme of executive management education comes in is, with the support of the Chinese government, Geely had in 2000 set up Geely University with a mission to train individuals in the practical skills needed to build the company to its full potential of being a global player. By 2010, the company had an extensive talent management education program, offering in-house training and education opportunities in collaboration with Beijing University at all human resource levels from frontline factory workers to its top executive management teams that included doctors in research and development for Geely technology.
Today, the Beijing Geely University is one of China's top ranked, largest private universities (Forbes 2010) that offers a range of subjects across disciplines from Humanities to Science and Engineering.
From the talent management strategies of multinational corporations then comes the question of the role of Business Schools in executive education – what lies ahead for business schools and executive management of the future? Where do Business Schools see themselves fit in and what / how can they meaningfully contribute to this changing demographics of the education of a workforce in a trend where business acumen is necessary but not a sufficient variable in the required range of skills of a workforce that needs to be trained across different levels of expertise?
Since management and organization is an applied science with theory and practice ideally combined in such a manner as to be practically applicable in the corporate world, such realities of executive education in multinational corporations could be argued to have put pressure on business schools in realization for a need to evolve with current corporate happenings and trends.
In the field of IB for example, while the call for a more interdisciplinary approach to the field has been going on for the past two decades, it is more so today that scholars are beginning to take that call seriously, seeding as it were, the beginnings of a review of the role of business schools and what perspectives they can offer for corporate practicalities in future that includes executive education.
Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller in his book, How Asia can shape the world, seemed to concur with J. Baird Callicott (1994) that the potential for the development of knowledge in terms of theories perhaps even practice, of the relevance of classical Chinese thought based on such East Asian philosophies as Confucianism and Taoism, is tremendous.
With brush strokes from Chinese calligraphy and water colour painting, Geely's annual report cover from 2009 exudes Chinese confidence in demonstrating the essence of going global with a local flavour. This appears a year before Geely formally acquires Volvo Cars from American Ford.
Resounding in the field of IB currently and part of the call towards a more interdisciplinary perspective in the field is the encouragement of scholars to rethink and recast well-known management theories from the west in the light of eastern philosophy, a move perhaps spurred by China's new found confidence in their own industrious mettle at doing business. Geely's 2009 annual report cover for example displays in a single picture, not just their ambition for a global presence and global product distribution, but of a potential to internationalize Chinese ideology and this they do, much in quiet observation with what is well known Chinese dexterity at scholarship.
While there are no immediately clear or easy answers as to the impact of in-house executive education of multinational corporations that in turn produce educational infrastructure and facilities that eventually outsize and outperform business schools themselves, what is clear for the moment is that the wheels are turning in the right direction, with a broadening of the theoretical scope and perspective of management science and IB.
At the moment while academia works to contextualize, reflect and understand as much corporate happenings as possible so that in the long haul business schools remain relevant in their role/s in executive education, what we will need to come to terms with is a form of Gödel's theorem, this time applied on yet a different subject matter, targeted at a different level of understanding for future developments in the field.
 SEP 2013/2015. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Internet resource at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/. Retrieved 27 December 2015.


GB's Elise Christie says she "regrets" the overtake attempt that led to her disqualification from the women's short track speed skating 500m final in Sochi.
Christie, Italy's Arianna Fontana and South Korea's Park Seung-hi collided early in the race, with the Scot, 23, recovering first to cross the line behind China's Li Jianrou for silver. But she was penalised for causing the crash and demoted to eighth.
Christie's preferred event, the 1,000m, takes place next week at the Games.


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The Essential Phone is now official with 5.7-inch display and more
By May 30, 2017 NEWSandroid, andy rubin, below, body, disqus, essential, getelements, news, popular, this
Word has been floating around on the street that Andy Rubin, the "father of Android," would be launching a new company called Essential and a brand new smartphone. Rubin teased that phone earlier this year.
Now the Essential Phone is officially official, and it's stuffed to the gills with features you'd expect in a high-end handset. That includes a 5.7-inch display, which will take up the lion's share of attention thanks to its near-borderless design. The Essential's display actually reaches further up than even Samsung's Galaxy S8, but there is a bit bigger of a bezel on the bottom.
The phone itself is built using titanium for the frame, ceramic for the back panel, and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for the cover glass. The other specifications include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor under the hood, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of built-in storage (no mention of a microSD card slot, though), a fingerprint reader on the back, USB Type-C, a battery that measures in at 3040mAh, and fast charging support. There is no 3.5mm headphone jack, but there is Android 7.1.1 Nougat.
On the back, there are a pair of 13-megapixel cameras, and Essential is following a trend started by Huawei. That second camera is a monochrome shooter, and the camera system features "image fusion technology" so that the Essential Phone can capture better low-light photos thanks to that monochrome sensor taking in more light. The primary rear camera also boasts a f/1.85 lens with Hybrid Auto Focus, combing Contrast, Phase Detect and IR Laser Assist Focus. Meanwhile, the 8-megapixel front-facing camera can record 4K video, too.
One other major takeaway: The Essential Phone is another go at a modular design. Essential is creating a 360-degree camera to start as well as a charging dock, and both will attach to the Essential phone via pogo pins that are located near the top-right edge. More accessories will be delivered in the future at some point.
And, finally, the Essential Phone is unlocked to work on all the major wireless networks in the United States, where it will be launching first. Customers can reserve their own unit right now if they wish, and it retails for $699.99.
So, who's buying an Essential Phone?
Samsung launches SoundAssistant app to boost your Galaxy device's audio controls
Essential Home is the newest smart speaker with a display

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The ABG II Modular range of implants is constituted of 8 right stems and 8 left stems. The necks are made of GADS Vitallium, a proprietary Co Cr alloy that Stryker has developed. GADS stands for Gas Atomized Dispersion Strengthened. IT is a Co Cr alloy that is a corrosion resistant and demonstrates qualities of improved fatigue strength (with respect to regular Co Cr alloy). Neck Range - The ABG II modular neck range is composed of 10 reversible neck implants. There are different options in terms of length, version and neck angle. The AG II Modular necks come in two different lengths: 28 mm (short) and 36 mm (long). The necks are offered in two version angles ; 0 and 7. The 0 and 7 necks are available in 125, 130 and 135 neck angles.
Stryker sent an "URGENT PRODUCT CORRECTION" letter dated April 23, 2012 to all affected customers. The letter identifies the product, problem, and actions to be taken by the customers. The letter included a Product Correction Acknowledgment Form for customers to complete and return via fax to 201-831-6069. Contact the firm at 201-831-5970 for questions regarding this notice. Stryker sent and "Urgent Update Product Recall" Letter dated January 3, 2013 to all affected customers. The new letter includes updated corrective actions for patients. Another letter was sent out on 7/25/2014.
510(K)s with Product Code = MEH and Original Applicant = HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.


Zaboomba! You, yes, you! You're in the theatre watching Za Boom Ba. You want to leap off your seat, ignited by the electrifying dancing...the explosive grooves of a powerful drumming ensemble. Wait...you are not just listening to the drumming, you are drumming! Every audience member becomes a part of the unified beat when percussion instruments, from shakers to a full on, thumping, West African Djembe drum, are given to everyone in the 500-member audience.
Yes! You Become The Drummer.


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# SimpleThreadModules
===================

Simple Java framework for easy managing of threads with capabilities of messaging between them.

Look for examples in /src/com/fridenmf/simplethreadmodules/examples

I've excluded module.stop() from all examples in this readme just to make the code cleaner, but of course you can stop the modules to let your program terminate. Also, all examples will use 'true' as a parameter to the module constructor, which automatically starts the module after creation. By using 'false' instead, you can start it later with module.start().

## Installation (Instructions for Eclipse only at the moment)

Clone this repo, then open Eclipse.

File -> Import -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace

Choose the repo and click finish.

Now create your new project using:
File -> New -> Java Project

Name it and click finish.

Then select this framework as a library by:
Right click on your new project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Projects -> Add

Select this framework and then click OK, followed by OK.

Now you can start using this framework.

## TLDR Tutorial

Color coding: All red boxes are Consumers or has a Consumer as superclass, Blue boxes are Producers or have a Producer as superclass, and purple boxesare ConsumerProducers, or have them as superclass.

Consumer: Consumes data and performs action on each receive

Producer: Produces data and gives the result to a consumer

ConsumerProducer: Combined Consumer and Producer

Stash: A consumer that stores the incoming data, instead of performing an action

StashConsumer: A Consumer that takes data from a Stash

StashConsumerProducer: Combined StashConsumer and Producer

![TLDR Tutorial image 0](/images/tldr.png)

## Tutorial

A _module_ is basically a thing that runs on its own thread, and that can handle data of some type. All modules in this framework are generic.

To make it easy to reason within my framework, there are only two kinds of modules:

Consumer - A module that waits for data of some kind, and does some calculation based on this value.

Producer - A module that produces data of some kind, and gives the result to a Consumer.

This can be used to make a lot of programs, for example a program that has a producer that creates 0's and a consumer that prints them!

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Producer;

    public class ZerosPrinter {

      public static void main(String[] arg){
        Consumer c = new IntPrinter(true);
        Producer p = new ZeroProducer(c, true);
      }

      private static class IntPrinter extends Consumer<Integer> {
        public IntPrinter(boolean autostart) {
          super(autostart);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onData(Integer data) {
          System.out.println(data.toString());
        }
      }

      private static class ZeroProducer extends Producer<Integer> {
        public ZeroProducer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        protected Integer produce() {
          return 0;
        }
      }
    }

Well now this may seem like a bad example, why just not make a while loop?

    while(true){
      System.out.println(0);
    }

The answer, it's not threaded. Take a look at this image:

![Pretty image 0](/images/image0.jpg)

This illustrates two 15 second runs of the program where the first bump is a program running the while loop, the second one is the one running with this framework. Even a simple program like this run with close to 100% processor utilization while a "normal" program only utilizes around 50%.

Now let's make something more fun. What if we wanted to add another module between these two? Say a module that simply increments an integer before printing it. Of course, this is not normally something you want to thread, you would just add 1 before printing it in the printer, but for the sake of this tutorial we do this anyway.

So, we want to have something in the middle that is both a consumer and a producer. We can't extend two things, so how do we make such a thing? That's where the class ConsumerProducer comes in! (I know, its a bad name, tell me if you have a better name for it, and I'll change it.)

A ConsumerProducer is something that waits for data, processes it, and then gives it to a consumer. Let's see some code:

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.ConsumerProducer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Producer;

    public class ZerosIncPrinter {

      public static void main(String[] arg){
        Consumer c          = new IntPrinter(true);
        ConsumerProducer cp = new Incrementer(c, true);
        Producer p          = new ZeroProducer(cp, true);
      }

      private static class IntPrinter extends Consumer<Integer> {
        public IntPrinter(boolean autostart) {
          super(autostart);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onData(Integer data) {
          System.out.println(data.toString());
        }
      }

      private static class Incrementer extends ConsumerProducer<Integer, Integer> {
        public Incrementer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer process(Integer in) {
          return in + 1;
        }
      }

      private static class ZeroProducer extends Producer<Integer> {
        public ZeroProducer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        protected Integer produce() {
          return 0;
        }
      }
    }

And once again, a pretty image:

![Pretty image 1](/images/image1.jpg)

The first bump is from:

    while(true){
      Integer i = 0;
      i++;
      System.out.println(i.toString());
    }

The second bump is from this framework. So, enough of pretty images. What if we want to make something that consists of a lot of modules, but behaves like one big machine, where you feed it with things, and it spits out the result at the other end? To do that, we need a new concept since we can't just let the result float in the air until we pick it up. Also, if a machine processes ten things and you only pick up one, you don't want the other nine to be wasted right? We need a stash!

A Stash is simply a consumer that stores stuff from producers. Simple, right? When we try to take something from a stash that is empty, the process that tries to get from the stash will wait until there is something there. Now we can just remove our IntPrinter and replace it with a stash, and also remove our producer, to end up with a kind of machine that accepts input and produces output. I also added another incrementer to make things more interesting.

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.ConsumerProducer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Stash;

    public class IncIncStash {

      public static void main(String[] arg){
        Stash<Integer> result = new Stash<>(true);
        Incrementer middle    = new Incrementer(result, true);
        Incrementer start     = new Incrementer(middle, true);

        start.add(0);
        System.out.println(result.get());
      }

      private static class Incrementer extends ConsumerProducer<Integer, Integer> {
        public Incrementer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer process(Integer in) {
          return in + 1;
        }
      }
    }

That looks neat. Now, let's take the last step of making this into a machine!

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.ConsumerProducer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Machineable;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Stash;

    public class CustomIncIncMachine {

      public static void main(String[] arg){

        IncIncMachine machine = new IncIncMachine();

        /* Put one thing into the machine, wait for out put, repeat */
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
          System.out.println(machine.make(i));
        }

        /* Put ten things into the machine */
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
          machine.add(i);
        }
        /* Collect all results */
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
          System.out.println(machine.get());
        }

      }

      private static class IncIncMachine implements Machineable<Integer, Integer>{

        /* Our machine consists of 2 workers */
        private Incrementer i0 = null;
        private Incrementer i1 = null;

        /* This is our storage, its thread safe, the program takes results from here */
        private Stash<Integer> results = null;

        public IncIncMachine(){
          results = new Stash<>(true);
          i1 = new Incrementer(results, true);
          i0 = new Incrementer(i1, true);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer make(Integer in){
          i0.add(in);
          return results.get();
        }

        @Override
        public void add(Integer in) {
          i0.add(in);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer get() {
          return results.get();
        }
      }

      private static class Incrementer extends ConsumerProducer<Integer, Integer> {
        public Incrementer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer process(Integer in) {
          return in + 1;
        }
      }
    }

Neat! As it happens to be, the framework contains a class MachineFactory, which can do all of this for you. So let's try that instead:

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.ConsumerProducer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Machine;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.MachineFactory;

    public class IncIncMachine {

      public static void main(String[] arg){
        ConsumerProducer[] workers = new ConsumerProducer[]{
          new Incrementer(null, false),
          new Incrementer(null, false),
          new Incrementer(null, false),
          new Incrementer(null, false),
        };

        Machine<Integer, Integer> machine = MachineFactory.assemble(workers);

        for (int i = 0; i < workers.length; i++) {
          System.out.println(machine.make(i));
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
          machine.add(i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
          System.out.println(machine.get());
        }
      }

      private static class Incrementer extends ConsumerProducer<Integer, Integer> {
        public Incrementer(Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(nextModule, autostart);
        }

        @Override
        public Integer process(Integer in) {
          return in + 1;
        }
      }
    }

Ok, that was easy, and short! Good, now we can make machines. Let's talk about the performance of _make_ vs _add/get_ for a while. Let's say that we had 10 workers in our machine, and each worker took one second to process something. Then it would take the machine 10 seconds to produce something from the moment it gets the input. Using the make function 10 times would take 100 seconds, since we wait until the whole machine is done before feeding it with the next input.

Now consider the add/get approach. The first product will indeed take 10 seconds, but the second product would arrive the second after the first one since all workers do stuff in parallel. We could then make 2 products in 11 seconds. If we feed it with 3 products it would be done in 12 seconds. 4 in 13, 5 in 14, 6 in 15. 10 items will take 19 seconds, compared to the make method's 100 seconds. That is five times as fast, as long as you have threads for it. 20 products with make: 200 seconds. 20 products with add/get: 29 seconds, which is about 6.6 times faster. So, if you have a program where it's possible to use add/get instead of make, then do it!

Now, more interesting stuff! We have seen Producers, Consumers, Stashes, Machines, what more could there possible be to add? Pools?

A Pool is kind of a resource with workers, ready to do your bidding. You could add 10 incrementers to a pool, and then just feed the pool with values. The incoming values will be put in a stash from which the workers in the pool will grab values, work on them, and then put them in another stash of results. To do this we need to introduce a new class, namely the StashConsumer.

A StashConsumer is a consumer that can only consume stuff from stashes. It's also special in one more way: it can clone itself, in order to make the implementation of the pool easier. Let's try it first:

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Stash;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.StashConsumer;

    public class StashConsumerExample {

      public static void main(String[] arg){
        Stash<Integer> in  = new Stash<>(true);
        Stash<Integer> out = new Stash<>(true);

        StashIncrementer si0 = new StashIncrementer(in, out, true);
        StashIncrementer si1 = new StashIncrementer(in, out, true);
        StashIncrementer si2 = new StashIncrementer(in, out, true);

        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
          in.add(i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
          System.out.println(out.get());
        }
      }

      private static class StashIncrementer extends StashConsumer<StashIncrementer, Integer, Integer> {

        public StashIncrementer(Stash<Integer> stash, Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(stash, nextModule);
          if(autostart){
            start();
          }
        }

        @Override
        protected Integer produce(Integer data) {
          return data + 1;
        }

        @Override
        public StashIncrementer copy() {
          return new StashIncrementer(stash, nextModule, false);
        }
      }
    }

So, that's basically our pool. It has three StashIncrementers taking from a common stash, putting the results in another common stash. Neat! Now we do the same thing, but with 10 workers and with the provided Pool class:

    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Consumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Stash;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.StashConsumer;
    import com.friden.simplethreadmodules.core.Pool;

    public class IncPoolExample {

      public static void main(String[] arg){

        StashIncrementer stashIncer = new StashIncrementer(null, null, false);
        Pool<StashIncrementer, Integer, Integer> pool = new Pool<>(stashIncer, 10, true);

        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
          pool.add(1);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
          System.out.println(pool.get());
        }

      }

      private static class StashIncrementer extends StashConsumer<StashIncrementer, Integer, Integer> {

        public StashIncrementer(Stash<Integer> stash, Consumer<Integer> nextModule, boolean autostart) {
          super(stash, nextModule);
          if(autostart){
            start();
          }
        }

        @Override
        protected Integer produce(Integer data) {
          return data + 1;
        }

        @Override
        public StashIncrementer copy() {
          return new StashIncrementer(stash, nextModule, false);
        }
      }
    }

Ok, this is what this framework has at the moment, but it will probably be extended with lots of more stuff. I'm gladly accepting feedback, especially if you have a proposal for a new class that would add some awesome functionality. I will post contact information here shortly. Now go play with the framework. ^^

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The reasonable person/man or bonus parter familias is, therefore, one who steps out into the world with careful confidence, taking calculated risks and moving forward not in fear but in faith. He expects others to do the same.
This concept, with the objective to maintain the peace and well-being of our community, forms an integral part of the mindfulness practices I apply. To avoid legal liability, you should always follow this standard of care.
Book a session with me to learn more about your duty of care and the test the court applies to determine liability.


This small-scale interdisciplinary workshop, with the confirmed participation of Jenny Robinson, Filip De Boeck and Yaşar Adanalı, intends to engage with the recent wave of scholarship on postcolonial urbanism that seeks to unhinge, unsettle, contextualize or 'provincialize' Western notions of urban development. It aims to explore the tension field between these approaches to urban studies and more Western-based approaches, including theories on neoliberal urbanism and the world cities paradigm (members of the Global and World Cities research group at Ghent University will be participating as well).
How productive is the postcolonial urban critique? How can the postcolonial perspective be employed without risking throwing away what we have learned from more established urban theories? What is to be gained from overthrowing the divide between what was until recently called 'development studies' and urban studies, not too long ago inhabited by mostly Western scholarship? Can so-called 'Southern' urban theory function as a mirror for Western theory by shedding light on phenomena normally overlooked in Western cities? How does this emerging field relate to occurrences such as rural-urban migration, informality, neoliberal urban megaprojects and gentrification? How do we avoid constructing straw men out of postcolonial urban studies and Western urban theory, missing nuanced perspectives in each that could make the critique more interesting and productive? With a group of geographers, historians, ethnographers, political scientists and others engaged in urban issues we hope to discuss these questions in depth.
2-Postcolonial urban theory Which elements of postcolonial urbanism do you find useful (e.g. informality, 'worlding' cities, social and spatial polarization and fragmentation, the role of religious movements and traditional elites, claims on the state, a politics of anticipation, zones of exception, transnational migrant practices, self-reliance, user involvement in service provision, etc.)? Which elements could enrich urban theory, as it exists today, in the North as well as the South?
3-Relationality and globalization: How do cities 'already inhabit each other'? I.e. what are transnational connections and genealogies, relations that transcend or displace global/local dichotomies? What are 'global' processes of urban development? How do you see the global-local construction in urban theory, and the postcolonial critique that the global is often seen as originating from the West? How does the world city paradigm look at Southern cities?
4-The politics of knowledge production: Who defines topics of study, and who funds urban research? What are the politics of urban comparison? Who identifies the cities that are being compared? How can we ensure a process of knowledge production that takes into account the full dimensionality of all cities and avoids unjustified generalizations and Eurocentric assumptions?
The workshop will take place on November 12-13, 2014 in Ghent (Belgium) and will be hosted by the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University. This GCGS workshop is organized in cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG), the Conflict Research Group (CRG), Social and Economic Geography (SEG), Communities Comparisons Connections (CCC), which are part of the Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS), and the Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Ghent University, Belgium.


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Hassan Yusseff elected President of the Canadian Labour Congress
Hassan Yusseff
New Canadian Labour Congress President
Last week, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held its triennial convention from May 5 to 9 in Montreal where on Thursday, May 8th, the almost 5000 delegates to the convention elected a new leadership team to lead the CLC and its 3.3-million members.
Hassan Yussuff, the Secretary Treasurer of the CLC since 2002, was elected President, defeating 15-year incumbent Ken Georgetti. Yussuff is the first worker of colour to hold the position. Georgetti made a motion shortly after the results were announced to declare Yussuff's election unanimous.
"I'm truly honoured to be the next CLC president," Yussuff told the CLC convention where he was elected May 8. "You have voted for change, you have voted for a strong labour movement."
Unifor National President Jerry Dias congratulated Yussuff on his election. "Members of the CLC have voted for change. Working with all of the affiliates of the CLC, that is what Yussuff will deliver," Dias said. "I would like to congratulate all the candidates in this election. They have contributed to an important debate on renewal, and that can only be good for the labour movement."
(From left to right) Unifor Local 4003 Chairperson Mark Robinson,
Local 4003 President Frank Consiglio, Unifor Council 4000
President Barry Kennedy, Hassan Yusseff, and
Council 4000 Regional Representative Wesley Gajda
Veteran Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) negotiator and Canadian labour movement activist Hassan Husseini, who was the first candidate to put his name forward to run as CLC President, withdrew from the election Thursday morning to support Yussuff.
Yussuff campaigned on a platform to reinvigorate the labour movement in Canada, pledging to reach out to workers of colour and to lead a more inclusive CLC that pushes back against the anti-labour and austerity agendas of Conservative governments across Canada.
Yussuff began his involvement in the labour movement while working as a truck mechanic and member of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor), later becoming the CAW's first Director of Human Rights.
In 1999, he was the first person of colour to be elected to the CLC executive. Three years later, he was elected Secretary Treasurer of the CLC.
Replacing Yussuff as the CLC Secretary Treasurer is Barbara Byers, who served as an Executive Vice-President of the CLC since 2002. Prior to that, Byers was the first woman to be elected as President of the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union (SGEU-NUPGE). In 1988, she was elected as President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL).
Re-elected as Executive Vice-President is Marie Clarke Walker (CUPE), and newly elected Executive VP Donald Lafleur from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).
Congratulations to all and we wish them success in their new three year terms as the CLC leadership team.
Thanks to Ken Georgetti
Ken Georgetti
We must acknowledge the work of past CLC President Ken Georgetti, who served Canada's labour movement for more than 30 years. He was elected President of the United Steelworkers of America Local 480 in 1981, a position he held until his election as a Vice-President of the BC Federation of Labour (BC Fed) in 1984. Georgetti was then elected as President of the BC Fed in 1986 as the youngest person ever elected to that position. He served in that role until the time he was elected as President of the CLC in 1999, replacing Bob White.
We thank Brother Georgetti for his years of remarkable service to Canada's labour movement, which earned him many awards and achievements over the years, including in 2000 when he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, only the 10th labour leader to be so awarded. We wish him the very best in his future endeavours.


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include_recipe "python::package"
include_recipe "python::pip"
include_recipe "git::default"   # for pre-release version of tarsnapper

node['tarsnapper']['packages'].each do |pkg|
  package pkg
end

python_pip "PyYAML" do
  action :install
end

python_pip "tarsnapper" do
  package_name "git+git://github.com/miracle2k/tarsnapper#egg=tarsnapper"

  action :install
  not_if { ::File.exists?("/usr/local/bin/tarsnapper") }
end

template "tarsnapper.conf" do
  path "#{node['tarsnap']['conf_dir']}/tarsnapper.conf"
  source "tarsnapper.conf.erb"
  owner "root"
  group 0
  mode 0600
end


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Ep. #67 Featuring Paulette Ivory, John Randall & Scotty Lund
"Waiting For Life To Begin"
Once On This Island premiered on Broadway in 1990 and was the first of many Broadway successes for the writing duo Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Multiple premieres and revivals of the show earned the team countless theater awards and nominations, including the 1995 premiere production in London which won them the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Flaherty and Ahrens would go on to win the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1998 for their musical Ragtime and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for that year's updated production of Once On This Island.
During a terrible storm and to comfort a frightened child, a story is told. It is a legendary tale of a love between a poor peasant girl and a wealthy boy born into the high society grande hommes. In the musical, "Waiting For Life To Begin" is sung by the peasant girl Ti Moune, who, saved from a similar storm as a child, comes of age and yearns for adventure. One day, the car of a grande hommes boy crashes; Ti Moune is there to save the mysterious youth from the brink of death. What happens next is truly the fabric of fairy tales.
Here with their rendition of "Waiting For Life To Begin" are Paulette Ivory, John Randall, and Scotty Lund.


Berkeley Heights, NJ – On May 9, 2012, Labor Commissioner Harold J. Wirths honored New Jersey employers for their safety achievements, for promoting a culture of safety in the workplace, and for diminishing safety hazards and preventing accidents at the 84th Annual Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Awards Union-Hudson area dinner. Click here to read the Governor's proclamation.
The event, held at the Berkeley Plaza in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, is one of five area dinners held throughout the state to recognize public and private employers with outstanding performance in preventing workplace injuries and illnesses. Commissioner Wirths read a proclamation from Governor Christie and saluted employers for their dedication to making workplace health and safety a top priority.
New Jersey Labor Commissioner Harold J. Wirths (left) reads a proclamation from Governor Christie during the 84th Annual Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Awards Union-Hudson area dinner while Joanne Kreisberg (2nd left), Treasurer, New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee; Joseph Schwed (2nd right), General Chairperson, New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee; and Robert J. Sagendorf (far right), General Vice Chair, New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee look on.


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FDA Expands Coronavirus Testing
by Dr. Edo Paz, MD
VP of Medical, K Health
On Saturday, the FDA announced that it was giving laboratories and hospitals around the country permission to conduct tests for the novel coronavirus. Previously, all testing was done through the CDC in Atlanta, resulting in a several-day turnover time for results. Now, results may be back within 24 hours or less, which will greatly assist in spotting patterns of suspected or confirmed cases.
Capacity for testing will also increase greatly, with estimates that public health and academic labs will be able to test 10,000-20,000 samples a day by later this week. In contrast, up until this point, the CDC has conducted less than 500 tests. This is definitely a step in the right direction, especially after test kits shipped by the CDC to states in early February were later found to be flawed.
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