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Related articles:
The JXTA Position -- an introduction
JXTA Takes Its Position -- an analysis of the framework, by Rael Dornfest
The JuxtaNet -- a look at how JXTA may enable a network as popular as Gnutella, by Kelly Truelove
Learning the JXTA Shell -- a tutorial by Rael Dornfest
Is JXTA all talk? If not, should JXTA be jXTA? Join the debate.
Want to build the next great peer-to-peer application? Sun
juxtapose group has anticipated your
move. Foreseeing waves of companies and developers building
peer-to-peer applications, Sun has released its open source platform
juxtapose (JXTA) to make building distributed processes easier.
JXTA isn't a library of code that can be used to enable P2P applications; rather, it's a set of protocols that can be implemented in any language that will allow distributed client interoperability. It provides a platform to perform the most basic functionality required by any P2P application: peer discovery and peer communication.
As part of its open source release, Sun is distributing a preliminary Java binding for JXTA with the goal of having early-adopter engineers create simple P2P applications in Java. Sun's binding isn't complete, however; interfaces, implementations, and protocols are bound to change. Sun welcomes others to suggest changes as part of releasing JXTA as a open source project. So there's no excuse to avoid writing a 'Hello JXTA World' application in order to become familiar with JXTA.
At its core JXTA is simply a protocol for inter-peer communication. Each peer is assigned a unique identifier (peer ID). Each peer belongs to one or more peer groups in which the peers cooperate and function similarly and under a unified set of capabilities and restrictions. JXTA provides protocols for the basic functions -- create groups, find groups, join and leave groups, monitor groups, talk to other groups and peers, share content and services -- all of which are performed by publishing and exchanging XML advertisements and messages between peers.
Conceptually, each peer in JXTA abstracts three layers: the core layer, the services layer, and the applications layer. The core layer is responsible for managing the JXTA protocol; it should encapsulate the knowledge of all basic P2P operations. The core creates an addressing space separate from IP addresses by providing each peer its own unique peer ID, while also boot-strapping each peer into a peer group. Through protocols which the core knows how to implement, a JXTA peer can locate other peers and other peer groups to join (in a secure, authenticated manner, if so desired). The core layer can also open a pipe, a very simple one-way message queue, to another peer or group of peers. By using pipes, distinct parties can communicate with each other. The details of the core itself aren't of much concern to application developers; core development is like application server development, both of which functionality upon which application writers can rely.
The services layer serves as a place for common functionality which more than one, but not necessarily every, P2P program might use. For example, Sun has released a Content Management System (CMS) service that's implemented as a JXTA service. CMS provides a generic way for different applications to share files on JXTA peers so that decentralized Gnutella-like searchs may be performed against all of them. Once specific content has been located, the CMS provides ways for peers to download content. So the services layer provides library-like functionality which JXTA applications can control via logic located in application layer.
The third layer is where the P2P application truly lives. The upper layer might host a UI, so that the user can control different services, or it might be where the logic of an autonomous application operates. For example, a simple chat program can be built on this layer, making use of both the service and the core layer to allow people to send messages back and forth to each other. P2P applications should be fairly easy to build once a developer is familiar with JXTA, as the platform provides the basic peer-to-peer framework.
Sun's preliminary Java binding offers a set of Java classes that
implement the JXTA protocol and hooks into itself via a default set of
objects and services. The code contains two main packages,
net.jxta and
net.jxta.impl. The former
encompasses all the JXTA-Java binding nterfaces, while the latter
contains the implementations of those interfaces. The mechanism to
discover other peers and peer groups is abstracted into the
net.jxta.discovery.Discovery class (the implementation of
which is
the factory to create pipes is located in the
net.jxta.pipe.Pipe class (the implementation of which is
net.jxta.impl.pipe.PipeService), and so on. These
services handle the core protocols and are available via method calls
in the
net.jxta.peergroup.PeerGroup object.
In order to publish advertisements for peers, peer groups, pipes,
and so on, you must first create the advertisement with the
net.jxta.document.AdvertisementFactory factory. Then all
the bean-type methods can be set before the advertisement is published
in the Discovery service. Along with publishing advertisements, the
Discovery service can be used to discover advertisements located in
other hosts. Calling the
getRemoteAdvertisements method
sends a query either to a specific peer or to the peer group as a
whole, and the results will be added to the cache of advertisements
maintained by the local binding. Calling the
getLocalAdvertisements method will query the local cache
for the advertisements.
All JXTA applications and services follow a simple life cycle. The
init method is the first to be called; it is handed an advertisement
net.jxta.document.Advertisement) and information about
the peer group it has booted into
net.jxta.peergroup.PeerGroup). The advertisement is
dependent on what is booting within the platform: if initializing a
service, then a service advertisement
net.jxta.protocol.ServiceAdvertisement) is passed to it.
When booting an application, the group's peer group advertisement
net.jxta.protocol.PeerGroupAdvertisement) is handed to
it. Once initialization has finished, the
method is invoked, which is the signal to begin. At
startApp, most applications will spawn a thread in which
to run application code. A
stopApp method must also be
implemented to give the platform a way to end the program cleanly. (In
future Java bindings, the program may not be allowed to access the
platform after a given timeout if it cannot handle the
stopApp method properly.)
The binding requires a little more of services. Services need to
expose to applications and other services their methods, which is
accomplished by way of a Java interface returned by the
getInterface method. This interface contains methods
that can be called upon the service; or listeners can be registered
for asynchronous events. The interface must extend
net.jxta.service.Service. In practice, a proxy that
implements a shared interface with the service is preferred. Using a
proxy allows exposure only of the methods in the interface, hiding the
other methods in the service. A service also needs to be able to
return its advertisement for publication. In practice, this
advertisement is initially passed to the service as part of its
init method.
Let's start with building something simple, a service that will run in the Java binding, open a listening input pipe, and wait until a message has been received from the pipe. The service will also provide a single method that can be invoked to find a random peer's hello service input pipe and then send it a single message.
First we have to define the interface that the Service is going to
export to any application running within the platform. We're going to
build a very simple one, only providing a single method that finds a
peer running
HelloService, opens a pipe to it, and sends
it a small message.
public interface HelloService
extends net.jxta.service.Service {
// find another peer to send a message to, then send
// it a message
public void sendMessage();
Next we need to provide an implementation of the service for the platform to run. Initialization of this service should be dealt with first.
public class HelloServiceImpl
extends Object
implements HelloService {
// a handle to the discovery service
private Discovery discovery;
// a handle to the pipe management service
private Pipe pipes;
// the peer group that this service is being
// booted into
private PeerGroup peerGroup;
// the advertisement for the peer group
private PeerGroupAdvertisement peerGroupAdvertisement;
// the advertisement for this service
private ServiceAdvertisement serviceAdvertisement;
// the advertisement
private PipeAdvertisement helloPipeAdvertisement;
// initialize this service
public void init( PeerGroup group, Advertisement advertisement )
throws PeerGroupException {
// save away all the variables given to us
this.peerGroup = group;
this.peerGroupAdvertisement = group.getAdvertisement();
this.serviceAdvertisement = (ServiceAdvertisement)advertisement;
// get handles to the services that we are going to need later
this.discovery = this.peerGroup.getDiscovery();
this.pipes = this.peerGroup.getPipe();
// start the application running
startApp( null );
// provide the ability to get a handle to this
// service. in more robust services, a proxy object
// should be passed out to protect the service from
// malicious applications
public Service getInterface() {
return this;
// simply return the service advertisement that
// has been passed to us
public Advertisement getAdvertisement() {
return this.serviceAdvertisement;
Next we provide a method to start the service. This service
creates a pipe to listen for incoming messages. When it gets a
message, it writes to
System.out who sent the message.
Before we open the pipe, however, we need to publish the pipe
advertisement into the peer group so that other peers may find it.
// a simple helper function that will create a pipe advertisement
// for the input pipe that we are going to open up
private PipeAdvertisement createPipeAdvertisement() {
try {
// create the pipe advertisement object
PipeAdvertisement pipeAdvertisement = (PipeAdvertisement)AdvertisementFactory.newAdvertisement( PipeAdvertisement.getAdvertisementType() );
pipeAdvertisement.setPipeID( new PipeID( this.peerGroup.getID() ) );
// create a simple name for the pipe that we can do
// an easy lookup on when we are searching later on
pipeAdvertisement.setName( "HelloService:" + this.peerGroup.getPeerID() );
return pipeAdvertisement;
} catch( InvocationTargetException error ) {
System.err.println( "problem creating the pipe advertisement" );
return null;
// the input pipe that this service is going to be
// listening on
private InputPipe helloPipe;
// the thread that the service is going to be
// running within
private Thread runningThread;
// start this service -- calling this method will spawn
// a thread that we can use to listen for messages coming
// down the pipe
public int startApp( String[] arguments ) {
// create the pipe that we are going to use to listen for
// messages
try {
// now we are going to publish the pipe that we are
// going to use both in our local cache and into the
// caches of the other peers in this peer group
this.helloPipeAdvertisement = createPipeAdvertisement();
if( this.helloPipeAdvertisement == null )
throw new PeerGroupException();
this.discovery.publish( this.helloPipeAdvertisement, Discovery.ADV );
this.discovery.remotePublish( this.helloPipeAdvertisement, Discovery.ADV );
// create the input pipe that we can use
this.helloPipe = this.pipes.createInputPipe( this.helloPipeAdvertisement );
} catch( IOException error ) {
System.err.println( "problem publishing the advertisement for the input pipie" );
} catch( Exception error ) {
System.err.println( "problem opening the pipe to read from" );
} finally {
if( this.helloPipe == null ) {
System.err.println( "do not have a pipe to read from" );
return 1;
// start a listening thread that constantly listens
// for messages on the input pipe. as a standard, we choose to
// format our messages with a "sender" symbolic name that
// contains the peer id that sent us the message. when
// a message comes down the pipe, we will just write
// something to System.out
this.runningThread = new Thread( new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
// block until we receive a message
Message message = null;
while( ( message = HelloServiceImpl.this.helloPipe.waitForMessage() ) != null ) {
// see if this thread has been
// interrupted
if( Thread.isInterrupted() )
// read the sender information
InputStream senderInputStream = message.pop( "sender" );
byte[] senderBytes = new byte[senderInputStream.available()];
senderInputStream.read( senderBytes );
String sender = new String( senderBytes );
// print out the information from this message
System.out.println( "\"" + sender + "\" says hello" );
} catch( IOException error ) {
System.err.println( "problem reading from the input pipe" );
} finally {
// start running the listening thread
return 0;
// the corresponding method to startApp -- this
// interrupts the currently running thread
public void stopApp() {
if( this.runningThread != null )
Now that the "server" end of the P2P service has been written, it's
time to write the "client" end. The
interface provides one method,
sendMessage, that will
open an output pipe to a random peer's input pipe and send it a
// the method that the application may call to send
// a message to another random peer running the HelloService
public void sendMessage() {
// send out a query to all peers in our peer group
// looking for advertisements of pipes that are
// prefixed with "HelloService:" as the pipes
// for the HelloService are all named like that
this.discovery.getRemoteAdvertisements( null, Discovery.ADV, "name", "HelloService:*", 10 );
// wait 5 seconds for all the responses to come
// in and be incorporated into the platform's cache
try {
Thread.sleep( 5000 );
} catch( InterruptedException error ) {
try {
// retrieve a list of all the advertisements
// from our cache of responses that match the
// query
Enumeration pipeEnumeration = this.discovery.getLocalAdvertisements( Discovery.ADV, "name", "HelloService:*" );
if( pipeEnumeration != null ) {
// look for the first PipeAdvertisement
// out of all the advertisements that
// have been returned
PipeAdvertisement pipeAdvertisement = null;
while( pipeEnumeration.hasMoreElements() ) {
Advertisement advertisement = (Advertisement)pipeEnumeration.nextElement();
if( advertisement instanceof PipeAdvertisement ) {
pipeAdvertisement = (PipeAdvertisement)advertisement;
if( pipeAdvertisement != null ) {
try {
// construct a non-blocking output pipe
// to the pipe that we found being
// advertised
OutputPipe helloPipe = this.pipes.createOutputPipe( pipeAdvertisement, Pipe.NonBlocking, -1 );
// construct a message with the sender
// name's as part of the object
Message helloMessage = this.pipes.createMessage();
helloMessage.push( "sender", new ByteArrayInputStream( this.peerGroup.getPeerID().toString().getBytes() ) );
// send the message down the pipe
helloPipe.send( helloMessage );
System.out.println( "message sent!" );
} catch( IOException error ) {
System.err.println( "problem sending the message to the peer" );
} finally {
} else
System.err.println( "could not find a pipe to talk to" );
} catch( IOException error ) {
System.err.println( "problem retrieving advertisements from the local cache" );
A service is useless without an application to call it. The next
step is to create an application that will call the
public class HelloApp
extends Object
implements Application {
// a handle to the running hello service on this platform
private HelloService helloService;
// initialize the application
public void init( PeerGroup group, Advertisement advertisement )
throws PeerGroupException {
// get a handle to the hello service
try {
this.helloService = (HelloService)group.lookupService( "HelloService" );
} catch( ServiceNotFoundException error ) {
System.err.println( "could not find the hello service" );
throw new PeerGroupException();
// start the application -- all that is done here is to call
// the sendMessage method on the hello service
public int startApp( String[] arg ) {
// call the one method on the service
return 0;
// does not actually need to do anything
public void stopApp() {
Running this code is harder than is ideal. The JXTA Java platform
is presently optimized to run the JXTA Shell. Launching the Shell
prepares the platform to run JXTA (it creates a
jxtaConfig file and a
advertisement directory in the current working directory), so you have
to launch the Shell once to allow it to configure the node. Then you
can terminate the shell and edit the
jxtaConfig and the
PlatformPeerGroup files to make the platform do what we
want it to do.
jxtaConfig properties file contains information
that's used to create the
PlatformPeerGroup advertisement
file that the node uses to configure itself. There are two lines to
edit. First, change the value of the
property to "true". This peer will act as a rendezvous for its
specific peer group (a discussion of rendezvous and router peers is
beyond the scope of this article). Second, change the value of
InitialNetPeerGroupAppCode to the class name of the
HelloApp. If you look carefully, you will notice
InitialNetPeerGroupAppCodeURL which ideally would be set
to a URL from which the platform could download the application code.
This property will be ignored if the application classes are in the
classpath when the platform's invoked.
PlatformPeerGroup is the group advertisement (XML
document) for the group that the platform boots into. Modify the
value of the
Name tag to
which will cause this platform to boot into its own custom peer group,
separate from the default network peer group. Then modify
isRendezvous to "true". Finally, we need to add a new
service advertisement to this peer group so that the platform will
boot the
HelloService. Add the following advertisement
at the end of the Services element, which is the advertisement passed
to the
HelloServiceImpl upon initialization:
When the platform is restarted, it will boot into the
HelloPeerGroup while running the
HelloService. It will create an input pipe, create an
output pipe, connect the two together, and send a message. If you are
lucky (or are running two peers), then the application will connect to
another service and send it a message containing its peer ID.
Otherwise, the service will probably connect to its own pipe and
sending itself a message.
Sun's Java binding for JXTA is a long way from being completed. The code needs to mature before developers can use it to develop robust P2P applications. However, by building toy projects and learning the terminology along with the basic concepts, developers will be better poised to use it when it matures.
Raffi Krikorian makes a career of hacking everything and anything. Professionally, he is the founding partner at Synthesis Studios: a technological design and consulting firm that orchestrates his disjointed train of thought.
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Re: The letter "Save our earth, please!" in honor of Earth Day in the April 24 edition of The Karnes Countywide Newspaper, submitted by the students at It's A Small World Nursery School.
This letter is to let our young citizens and future leaders know that their letter to the "big people" touched this reader's heart.
Why do we "big people" not heed the concerns of our young citizens? I counted 18 valid suggestions by these young citizens.
Their supplications should not fall on deaf ears. These tiny tots and their nursery room teacher should be commended, acknowledged or recognized. When people complain to me I usually ask, "What are you doing about it?" It is quite evident what concerns these young citizens.
I sent an e-mail to the Railroad Commission asking if the removal of vegetation was a partial reason for droughts. I reminded them that a lot of vegetations are being removed locally for drilling purposes. Where is Arbor Day when we need it? No, vegetation is not being replaced. The R.R. Commission responded with a typical quote about post drilling responsibilities as outlined in the government's rules and regulations. There was nothing in their response about replacing vegetation.
I called a state legislator with a suggestion. Sharing with the office secretary, I asked what was more important, oil or water. She responded water. Her boss had explored the possibility of a desalination plant. Expense and not knowing what to do with the brine, killed the idea. I commented that instead of the oil pipeline why not run a pipeline from the nearest area that tends to flood. (Please note the current flooding in the surrounding states near Texas.) A water pipeline from these flooding states would help alleviate the flooded area somewhat, while diverting water to the most arid areas. It probably makes too much sense that this idea will die. (Too much money they say.) It sure is a waste from the flooded areas.
This letter is a suggestion to our city leaders to offer a proclamation, recognize or acknowledge these young citizens who dared to do something about it. Think about it. They will one day make laws that will affect us.
Lucas C. Jasso

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Home List of Titles Chemical degradation of crosslinked ethylene-propylene-diene rubber in an acidic environment: part II: effect of peroxide crosslinking in the presence of a coagent
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/198625
- Title
- Chemical degradation of crosslinked ethylene-propylene-diene rubber in an acidic environment: part II: effect of peroxide crosslinking in the presence of a coagent
- Author(s)
- Mitra, Susanta; Ghanbari-Siahkali, Afshin; Kingshott, Peter; Rehmeier, Helle Kem; Abildgaard, Hans; Almdal, Kristoffer
- Abstract
- An investigation on the time-dependent chemical degradation of ethylene-propylene diene rubber containing 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene as diene cured by peroxide crosslinking in the presence of a coagent in an acidic environment (20% Cr/H2SO4) has been made. Two types of rubber, with comparable monomer composition, but having significant differences in molar mass and levels of long chain branching were tested. Dicumyl peroxide and triallylcyanurate under similar conditions were used for curing the rubbers. The molecular mechanisms of chemical degradation at the surface were studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, which demonstrate that several oxygenated species evolve during exposure. The primary process of degradation is hydrolytic attack on the crosslink sites, which is manifested by a decrease in crosslink density. The surface degradation is found to be strong enough to alter the bulk mechanical properties as observed by the change in retention in tensile strength, elongation at break, modulus at 50% elongation and, the change in micro-hardness. Retention in modulus at 50% elongation is found to follow a negative linear correlation with decrease in crosslink density. With higher molar mass and level of long chain branching more crosslinking occurs and thus comparatively more hydrolytic attack ensues. Scanning electron microscopy shows that the surface topography is significantly altered upon exposure and supports the notion of the dependence of degradation on the crosslinking density of the samples. Importantly, the coagent used in this study is shown to enhance the chemical degradation through formation of weaker sites for hydrolysis. The results also show that upon prolonged exposure the resulting oxygenated species tend to combine with each other.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Polymer Degradation and Stability, Vol. 91, no. 1 (Jan 2006), pp. 81-93
- Publication year
- 2006
- FOR Code(s)
- 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry; 0904 Chemical Engineering; 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- ATR-FTIR; Chemical degradation; Composition; Crosslink density; Crosslinking; Degradation; ENB-EPDM; Ethylene; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Hydrolysis; Hydrolytic attack; Mechanical properties; Monomers; Propylene; Rubber; SEM; Surface chemistry; Surface topography; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; XPS
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0141-3910
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the start of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program enabling consumers and small businesses to receive Windows 7 when they purchase a qualifying Windows Vista personal computer starting June 26, 2009. Under the program, designated PCs pre-installed with premium versions of Windows Vista will qualify for licenses of the equivalent Windows 7 product. In addition, Microsoft disclosed pricing of various Windows 7 versions.
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Oh, look, they made another Dan Brown movie at some point. Angels & Demons deals with the deep dark secret organization, The Illuminati, and their attempts to control the world, which means you're probably going to be hearing a lot about that in the next few months on certain, paranoid websites.
Yes, wide-ranging conspiracy theories aren't limited to pulp novels reenacted by a terrible Tom Hanks haircut. YouTube and Digg comments and countless blogs are full of people ranting about the secret elite who are out to enslave all of us.
They have a lot of reasons for believing the following groups are the guilty parties behind everything wrong with the world, and most of those reasons are very, very retarded.
5The Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Conference
"We know you are ruthless. We know you are evil. We respect your dark power."
-Radio talk show host Alex Jones, shouting into a bullhorn outside a Bilderberg meeting.
Who Are They?
You'll hear both of these come up during any hour of conspiracy talk radio. These are two separate, private groups of powerful men (some of them probably Jews!) who like to meet and talk about the state of the world, kind of like how guys will gather at the bar and talk about what the Yankees should do with their pitching rotation.
The Trilateral Commission is a club consisting of a few hundred rich guys from around the world, started by David Rockefeller in the early 70s in order to "foster closer relations" between America, Europe and Japan. And to bone hot ladies from distant lands. Probably.
The Bilderberg Conference or "Bilderbergers" are a different group of influential guys from America and Europe who meet once a year in fancy hotels, and they've been doing it since 1954. There are a little more than 100 members and prominent politicians are known to have shown up at their meetings. By the way, they're called "Bilderbergers" because "Bilderberg" was the name of the first hotel where they met. So a small change in plans could have led them to being called the Best Westerners.
Look at these guys, they're awesome. We'd totally let them rule the world.
Who Thinks They Control the World?
Former Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater believed the Trilateral Commission was planning something nefarious, and so does the John Birch Society. There have been books written on the subject, as well as articles in several magazines, including U.S. News and World Report and Penthouse, where paragraph after paragraph on this dark organization rubbed up against some huge, fake titties.
Meanwhile, Daniel Estulin's book on the Bilderberg group is currently number one on Amazon's bestselling conspiracy theory book list.
Why People Believe It:
The Trilateral Commission first appeared on the conspiracy community's radar in 1976, when freshly elected Trilateralist Jimmy Carter filled his cabinet with 26 other members of the organization. Since then, every single administration has had Trilateralists in some of its highest positions.
The Bilderbergers are more secretive about their meetings, so in their case the paranoid are simply filling in the information void. If they won't tell us why they're meeting, they must be orchestrating a worldwide takeover, right?
Why it's Retarded:
The underlying claim behind both is that these groups of wealthy men have been working to create the infamous One-World Government that you'll see pop up in most of these conspiracy theories. They want a totalitarian regime that will enslave all of mankind, all at once.
Of course these guys have had decades to establish their plan, but instead they apparently opted for plan B, One-World Clusterfuck. Europe hates America; the Middle East is more fucked than a German whore on coupon day; all China cares about is exporting delicious lead paint; and North Korea is still run by that crazy fucker with the big granny glasses. It's almost as if the result of their "one-world government" conspiracy looks exactly like the random chaos of geopolitical events we've seen for the last few thousand years.
"We've got them right where we want them."
Don't get us wrong; we suspect both of these groups would like to rule the world (so would we, in fact). But in the grand scheme of political and economic power worldwide, a few hundred important guys basically amount to a fart at a Motorhead concert. It's too much to assume that even within the groups that there is agreement about what the Master Plan should look like, since they're made up of people from different countries, political parties and competing corporations.
But what conspiracy buffs are doing is taking any world event and retroactively declaring it to all be part of the Secret Plan. Economy booming? Of course, that's part of the secret plan to make the corporations control all wealth. Economy collapsing? Of course, that's part of the secret plan to destroy capitalism.
If it rains, it's because the Trilateralists want a flood. If it doesn't, it's because they want drought. And both are held up as proof after the fact, so as far as they're concerned, they've got proof out the ass.
4The U.N.
"The antichrist will do these ten things when he comes to power. One, he will bring a one-world government. He's doing that now, at the United Nations."
Who Are They?
The heads of all the major nations of the world gather to write resolutions demanding one thing or other, that are promptly ignored.
Who Thinks They Control the World?
Ah, here's our second reference to a "one-world government."
Welcome to the fucktarded world of Apocalyptic Christianity. There is a whole layer of society that wakes up every morning and thinks, "I bet God's going to end the world today!" Then they read the newspaper and interpret absolutely every headline, from "Earthquake in Iran" to "Hugh Jackman to Host Oscars" as evidence the prophecy is coming true.
The madly successful Left Behind book series depict a post-apocalyptic "end times" world that millions of Americans fully believe is coming within their lifetime and in those books, the Antichrist is, you guessed it, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Why People Believe It:
Well, if your religion teaches that a one-world government will spell doom for mankind (a subject that the Bible actually mentions not at all) well, hell, here's a place where all of the leaders of the world gather to talk about stuff! That's practically a one-world government right there!
After all, the U.N. stops countries from going to war, sucks up money from powerful nations and controls massive amounts of our precious wealth in the form of the International Monetary Fund!
Why It's Retarded:
Actually, it does none of that.
It tries to, yes, but it fails miserably. The U.N. voted against the war in Iraq, but the U.S. went ahead and did it anyway. The U.N. tried to get countries to interfere in Darfur. They didn't. And with the I.M.F.'s budget cuts, it's not hard to see how it hasn't shattered the hinges off of every vault in Switzerland with all its wealth. Honestly, if an organization couldn't even force the tiny republic of Mauritania to make slavery illegal until 2007, it's not in control of the world.


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B.S. (Biophysics)
Penn State University, 1975.
Ph.D. (Biophysics)
Johns Hopkins University, 1982.
B.S. (Biophysics)
Penn State University, 1975.
Ph.D. (Biophysics)
Johns Hopkins University, 1982.
Description of Research ExpertiseDr. Stoeckert directs the Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory. The goal of our work is to help make sense of the enormous amount of biomedical data generated by high-throughput genomic approaches and synthesize them into something more than the sum of the parts. To that end, we are developing tools that enable researchers to mine and integrate data from a variety of different sources and types of experiments.
The first step in that process is the development of data warehouses that collect and store information in a useable fashion. In one such project, we have been working with David S. Roos, Ph.D., E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology at Penn, and Jessica Kissinger, Ph.D., at University of Georgia, to develop a bioinformatics resource center for eukaryotic pathogens, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Within the resource center, we have built databases that serve research communities interested in specific pathogens. For example, PlasmoDB, houses information on the parasites that cause malaria.
To maximize the utility of data warehouses, we must have ways to represent and store data that enables researchers to make connections between experiments and between data from different types of experiments. Therefore, part of my group is involved in knowledge representation and developing ontologies, which standardizes data through the use of controlled vocabularies and relationships. Our goal is to provide the tools, including ontologies, to allow people to annotate their experiments or mark up their papers in a way that another researcher could efficiently search for and combine particular kinds of results from a variety of sources.
We work with a number of groups on ontology projects, including the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations Consortium which is a member of the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry. I have also been involved in a number of standards projects over the years, and am currently on the board of the FGED society, which promotes data sharing and standardized representation of data, particularly from genomic experiments.
In addition to building systems that help other researchers maximize the value of their data, my team is involved in model building and network analysis with the aim of discovering new insights into biology. One area we focus on is type I diabetes. As a member of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium, we have established a data warehouse that houses datasets from consortium members. Additionally, our role has been to help the consortium integrate information from those datasets, as well as from key datasets from outside consortium, and to put those data into the context of beta cell development and diabetes.
For example, while many researchers look at the list of genes produced in a microarray experiment, we try to go beyond list making and use computational methods to uncover connections between genes. To do that, we are developing networks of genes based on expression data and information from a variety of other sources, including published information on known interactions and computational analyses that predict interactions between genes. Once we have that data, we can start to visualize interacting partners and show where and when they are important in beta cell function and development.
The approaches and tools we develop in one research arena can often be applied to another one. For instance, we are applying our data integration and analysis approaches to high-throughput sequencing data, including RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data.
Selected PublicationsJiang YZ, Manduchi E, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Davies PF.: Arterial endothelial methylome: differential DNA methylation in athero-susceptible disturbed flow regions in vivo. BMC Genomics 16: 506, July 2015.
Gutierrez JB, Harb OS, Zheng J, Tisch DJ, Charlebois ED, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Sullivan SA.: A Framework for Global Collaborative Data Management for Malaria Research. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 93: 124-32, September 2015.
Osipovich AB, Long Q, Manduchi E, Gangula R, Hipkens SB, Schneider J, Okubo T, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Takada S, Magnuson MA: Insm1 promotes endocrine cell differentiation by modulating the expression of a network of genes that includes Neurog3 and Ripply3. Development 141(15): 2939-49, August 2014.
Dugan VG, Emrich SJ, Giraldo-Calderón GI, Harb OS, Newman RM, Pickett BE, Schriml LM, Stockwell TB, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Sullivan DE, Singh I, Ward DV, Yao A, Zheng J, Barrett T, Birren B, Brinkac L, Bruno VM, Caler E, Chapman S, Collins FH, Cuomo CA, Di Francesco V, Durkin S, Eppinger M, Feldgarden M, Fraser C, Fricke WF, Giovanni M, Henn MR, Hine E, Hotopp JD, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Kissinger JC, Lee EM, Mathur P, Mongodin EF, Murphy CI, Myers G, Neafsey DE, Nelson KE, Nierman WC, Puzak J, Rasko D, Roos DS, Sadzewicz L, Silva JC, Sobral B, Squires RB, Stevens RL, Tallon L, Tettelin H, Wentworth D, White O, Will R, Wortman J, Zhang Y, Scheuermann RH.: Standardized metadata for human pathogen/vector genomic sequences. PLoS One 96: e99979, June 2014.
Sarntivijai S, Lin Y, Xiang Z, Meehan TF, Diehl AD, Vempati UD, Schürer SC, Pang C, Malone J, Parkinson H, Liu Y, Takatsuki T, Saijo K, Masuya H, Nakamura Y, Brush MH, Haendel MA, Zheng J, Stoeckert CJ, Peters B, Mungall CJ, Carey TE, States DJ, Athey BD, He Y.: CLO: The cell line ontology. J Biomed Semantics 5: 37, August 2014.
Davies PF, Manduchi E, Stoeckert CJ, Jiménez JM, Jiang YZ: Emerging topic: flow-related epigenetic regulation of endothelial phenotype through DNA methylation. Vascul Pharmacol. 62(2): 88-93, August 2014.
Zheng J, Xiang Z, Stoeckert CJ Jr, He Y.: Ontodog: a web-based ontology community view generation tool. Bioinformatics 30(9): 1340-1342, Feb 2014.
Greenfest-Allen E, Malik J, Palis J, Stoeckert CJ Jr.: Stat and interferon genes identified by network analysis differentially regulate primitive and definitive erythropoiesis. BMC Syst Biol. 7: 38, May 2013.
Kingsley PD, Greenfest-Allen E, Frame JM, Bushnell TP, Malik J, McGrath KE, Stoeckert CJ, Palis J.: Ontogeny of erythroid gene expression. Blood 121(6): e5-e13, Feb 2013.
Aurrecoechea C, Barreto A, Brestelli J, Brunk BP, Cade S, Doherty R, Fischer S, Gajria B, Gao X, Gingle A, Grant G, Harb OS, Heiges M, Hu S, Iodice J, Kissinger JC, Kraemer ET, Li W, Pinney DF, Pitts B, Roos DS, Srinivasamoorthy G, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Wang H, Warrenfeltz S.: EuPathDB: The Eukaryotic Pathogen database. Nucleic Acids Res. 41(D1): D684-91, January 2013.
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South Coast Winery Cupids Launch Aggressive Search: Help find "the one who got away..."
TEMECULA, CA – FEBRUARY 3, 2010 – Okay Cupids… On your mark…Get set….Let's go, go, go!!! Help us: Find the Brunette that got away!
See the "Are you the one?" Craigslist post we found and have copied below for your quick review.
Craigslist Post: "Brunette from South Coast: OMG, your smile, personality, charm, and killer looks. I stood behind you and your friend at South Coast Winery and I did not get your number. What a fool if you see this send me your pic and let's talk. "
This is a tale of a guy looking for the brunette he met at South Coast Winery Resort & Spa this weekend and let her get away without an exchange of a phone number or a picture.
Since February is the month of romance and since wine is the elixir of love, the Cupids at South Coast Winery put their heads together to help this fellow, who missed his opportunity with the Brunette of His Dreams, get a second chance.
We've set up a special page on our web site to try to connect the two, but we need your help. We're asking you, our loyal fans and followers, to polish up those cupid arrows and help us spread the word!
Share the post, Tweet it, tell your friends and task your staff to help us find the One That Got Away in Southern California Temecula Wine Country this weekend!
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I love Kathleen Turner. It's really sad how she's been crippled by painful arthritis all these years. I'm happy she's still working when she can.
Not sure who's hailing Torino, but they're wrong. The oldest gay/lesbian film festival in Europe is Ljubljana's. I think it's worthy of mention because, hey, it's Ljubljana! They are 28 this year – beating Turin by a year, and London by two. Katherine Fairfax Wright's directing partner, Malika Zouhali-Worrall also deserves a credit.
Not sure why The Perfect Family hasn't had more of a run in the USA yet – look for it at your local LGBTQ film festival this year. It's really terrific, and not just because of Kathleen Turner.
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Dunn County sheriff's officials say a man suffered substantial injuries when a large piece of fireworks exploded his hand.
First responders were called to a residence in the Town of Tainter Monday evening. Authorities say 55-year-old Michael Schmitt was standing in the doorway of a house when he lit the explosive, intending to throw it into the yard. But, it exploded in his hand.
Sheriff's Capt. Kevin Bygd says Schmitt was airlifted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul. His condition was not immediately available.
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More Good Pitching; Another Win
Very little happened in today's Phillies – Padres match-up until the 5th inning. Both pitchers were dealing and hits were few and far between. Then Padres starter Jon Garland started the 5th off by hitting Jayson Werth with a pitch. Raul Ibanez moved him over with a grounder and a single from Shane Victorino allowed Werth to score.
With a run finally on the board, Phillies starter Joe Blanton got into trouble later that same inning. A walk and a couple of singles allowed tied the game. But Victorino showed his defensive skills, throwing Nick Hundley out at the plate trying to score.
The Flyin' Hawaiian was all over this game; Victorino smacked a triple in the 7th to score Werth again, who had walked earlier. Then after an intentional walk to Carlos Ruiz, Mike Sweeney was put in to pinch hit for Blanton. Sweeney hit a ground ball that was almost a double play. Instead, he legged it out and Ruiz barreled into 2nd with a take-out slide; Sweeney was safe and Victorino scored.
The Padres paid little attention to Sweeney on first as he is not known for speed. As a result, with a little prodding from first base coach Davey Lopes, Sweeney swiped his first bag in 4 years. Sweeney's enthusiasm and hustle are just what this team needs. He fits in very well with the Phillies club.
Blanton ended his outing with just one run allowed in 6 innings; it was a great effort from Blanton. After Blanton was pulled in the 7th, the 3-1 game was turned over to the Phillies bullpen. Jose Contreras pitched a perfect 7th and Ryan Madson followed suit in the 8th. You know what that means, right? You guessed it….Brad Lidge time. (Gulp!)
After a horrible outing yesterday where Lidge balked in the tying run with 2 outs in the 9th, tonight was a different story. With a strike-out, a pop-up and a fly ball, Lidge closed the game successfully, handing the Phillies a 3-1 win.
Game 3 with the Padres begins at 4:05pm tomorrow afternoon. Cole Hamels will pitch and hopefully, put a 3-game sweep of the Padres in the bag.
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I watched the last two games of this series. They were just too fun to turn away from. Have a feeling there's a lot of Dodger fans pulling for the Phils right now. You know what they say…the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Great to see Lidge finally got is stuff together and gave the Phillies fans something to be happy about when he name is uttered later that night.
But as I have been saying in multiple blogs over the last few days…That is what goos teams do…..they win this time of year.
Best part is they are doing it against a Padres squad that is also playing inspired baseball right now, and leading their division. That has to be a doubly good feeling in the Phillies fan's bellies knowing the Phillies are winning the game they are suppose to…And Lidge is earning his keep.
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Didnt enjoy the game... then again I doubt either set of fans will! Just thankful to get 3 points.
Cummins Out.
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Dewsbury were unlucky, but we worked hard and nicked it at the end.
Last season I really liked the commentary team of Woods & Noble on Premier, but they had a bad night at the office with an extremely poorly presented performance. Henderson needs to have a word with himself, he was rubbish.
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I think Steve Ganson should have had a bit more practice with Premier Sports on how the video ref and cameras work. Ian Smith is excellent in this department.
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KINGSVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University has still never won at Texas A&M-Kingsville, but the Greyhounds are certainly getting closer.
Junior running back Fred Winborn rushed for 263 yards and three touchdowns, but the Javelinas had to hold on at the end Saturday night to beat the Greyhounds 38-31 in a Lone Star Conference South Division game.
ENMU (2-7, 0-5 South) nearly rallied all the way back from a 28-7 second-quarter deficit, but came up short in dropping its 13th consecutive game all-time at Kingsville. The Javelinas (8-1, 3-1) led the overall series 21-4.
The Hounds lost at Kingsville 38-35 in 2007, and last year dropped a 35-32 decision at Blackwater Draw.
Sophomore quarterback J.J. Harp returned to the lineup after sitting out the previous game due to a suspension and completed 36-of-53 passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns — two coming in the final six minutes. Freshman running back Stefan Mills of Clovis, filling in for injured teammates Troy Harris and Terrence Griffin, rushed for 100 yards on 27 carries and scored on a pair of 1-yard runs in his first collegiate start.
Winborn scored what proved to be the game-winner on a 32-yard run with 5:16 left, putting the Javs in front 38-25. It came on the first play after the Hounds unsuccessfully attempted an onside kick after closing to 31-25 on a 3-yard pass from Harp to Arvin Jackson, capping a 16-play, 80-yard scoring march.
Harp then drove the Hounds 60 yards in nine plays, throwing a 7-yard TD pass to freshman Chase Kyser. A 2-point conversion pass failed.
ENMU finished with a 459-455 margin in total offense, going over the 100-yard mark rushing as a team for only the second time this season.
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Kingsville took the opening kickoff and covered 78 yards in eight plays, taking a 7-0 lead on Winborn's 16-yard TD run. The teams then exchanged punts, but Harp's pass on third-and-11 from the ENMU 29 was intercepted by defensive back DeIra Glover and returned 27 yards for a score and a 14-0 Javs lead with 5:45 left in the quarter.
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ELDRED, NY — Chuck Myers gathers his wife Ruth gently into his arms with the tenderness one might use when handling a delicate flower or fragile bird. With 67 years of marriage behind them, the couple is navigating new terrain as Ruth enters the ever-changing landscape of Alzheimer's disease.
A good life it's been though—deeply rooted in the Town of Highland and filled with adventurous travel to all 50 states and more. Blessed with a son, Robert, good work, service to country and the wide-ranging respect of his community, Chuck has also managed to amass a remarkable collection of 1,577 ambulances. One of them is a replica of the first American Legion ambulance he helped bring to town—a 1936 Packard.
Chuck began collecting ambulances in 1988 on the couple's first cruise to Alaska. The rest have come from flea markets, toy shows, yard sales, friends and sources on the Internet. "I admit to having an E-Bay obsession," he confides.
For more than a decade, the couple transported 300 to 400 ambulances from their collection to exhibits in various states. Although the travel has ended, the public can still see displays at the Eldred American Legion Ambulance Service (ALAS) and the Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis.
These days, the couple spends most of their time in the house Chuck has called home since he was three years old. Near where Peck's Market sits today, his father ran a general store with a gas station, dance floor and soda fountain. The family home was on the second floor, and Chuck was born there in 1926. When he was three, the family moved to their present home in Eldred, just up the road from the town hall.
Upon graduating from high school in 1943, Chuck enlisted in the Army, completing a specialized training program at Harvard before being sent to Germany and serving in the reserves until 1946. After discharge, he married his high school sweetheart, and the couple joined Chuck's parents in the sprawling family home across from the high school where Ruth was employed.
In the '50s, he worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance, then spent 33 years with the Sullivan County Highway Department, which later became the Department of Public Works (DPW). Before retiring in 1986, Chuck served as commissioner of the SCDPW for three years.
In 1948, Chuck and fellow veterans decided to establish the American Legion Ambulance Service (ALAS) and Post rather than building a 33rd bar in the town. "We didn't think the town needed another bar, but we did need an ambulance," he says. For $875, they purchased the Packard second-hand. Today, an unequipped ambulance sells for $150,000.
On their first call, they were summoned to transport the town doctor, who had suffered a stroke. "The most we had in those days was a first aid kit and some wooden splints," he says. "Now there are lots of regulations to keep up with, but it means better care."
Today, folks have the comfort of knowing that two ambulances and a corps of trained volunteers are at the ready. An Advanced Life Support unit and three members with advanced certification provide enhanced life-saving support. Recently, a fly car was purchased to serve as a first response vehicle containing equipment such as a defibrillator unit and oxygen.
"We do a yearly mailing for income," says Chuck. "People are very generous. They understand the value." That generosity allowed them to purchase a generator and to serve as an emergency evacuation center that was open for eight days during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Nearly 220 people were helped and 500 meals were served. "We had cots and air mattresses," he says. "Two people needed oxygen tanks filled. We sent the fly car to check on elderly folks and took supplies to NYC."
Over the years, Chuck has served in many roles, including his current involvement as treasurer/trustee/deacon at the Eldred Congregational Church. He's received abundant accolades for his selfless contributions to community life, including a proclamation naming May 19 Chuck Myers Day. Yet he was surprised to be honored by the ALAS when they dedicated their new headquarters in his name. "Humble and proud—that's how I felt," he says.
During construction of the building, Chuck broke his back in a fall from a ladder. He came back from the hospital by ambulance and asked to see the progress on the building before going home.
Now 87, Chuck is still an active member of the ALAS. Although he won't renew his EMT license when it expires next year, he plans to continue volunteering. A life member of the Yulan Fire Department who served as fire chief for three years, Chuck is also the secretary/treasurer of the ambulance corps and treasurer of the American Legion, where he served two years as Commander.
Why does he do it? "I just like this little town," he says. "I enjoy helping people, whether putting out their fires or taking them to the hospital. I've had the chance to hold a newborn in my arms. It's all been my passion. I can't say I enjoy being where people are ill or injured, but I do enjoy the fact that I'm able to help them."


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NORTH CLARENDON Beverly J. Seamans, 69, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at her residence, after a long illness.
Born Nov. 26, 1943, in Rutland, the daughter of Forrest and Mary Jane (Wilder) Whitney, she was a graduate of Rutland High School.
Mrs. Seamans was a machinist for Mal Tool Inc. in Rutland for several years.
She enjoyed sewing, gardening, canning, skating and watching football.
Survivors include her husband, Lewis Seamans of North Clarendon, whom she married July 20, 1963, in Rutland; a daughter, Dale Towsley of New Boston, N.H.; two brothers, Paul Whitney of Rutland and Robert Whitney of Mendon; four grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Conceived, developed and manufactured in-house in the company's R&D lab in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the MIKROGIRDER is the fastest mechanical regulator ever crafted and tested. Overturning three centuries of watchmaking convention in the way mechanical energy is generated, stored and regulated, the MIKROGIRDER opens a promising new era in watchmaking, with potentially powerful and energy-sparing new movements precise to ever-smaller fractions of time.
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id luv any except for twone. is crawford a 2 spot? or a pg?
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Welcome to the playoffs? Welcome back to reality is more like it.
The pressure - and the spotlight - is now on Isiah Thomas, whose dream of building a championship team appears as daunting as ever. Thomas helped guide the Knicks to the playoffs for the first time in three years but their improvement was minor, just two wins better than last year's team.
The popular theory is that Thomas has the Knicks on the right track and that within one or two years they will be legitimate contenders in the Eastern Conference. And while there are some encouraging signs, also remember that Cleveland, Orlando, Philadelphia and Toronto, four teams that didn't reach the playoffs, should all be better next season.
Can we really say the same about the Knicks? Allan Houston's health is a $100 million question mark. They don't have a first-round pick, they do have zero salary cap flexibility and only the $5 million mid-level exception to lure the likes of Rasheed Wallace and Kobe Bryant, two free agents who will command more money.
Isiah Thomas did acquire Stephon Marbury, a point guard whose best years are ahead of him. But Marbury, outclassed by Jason Kidd in the Nets' first-round sweep, needs a front-line big man to work with. Good luck finding one.
Thomas, the Knicks' president, will continue to tinker with the roster: Dikembe Mutombo is all but gone and Kurt Thomas, their most valuable trading chip, could be on the move. Thomas will also try to trade veterans Shandon Anderson and Othella Harrington. The Knicks could also lose a player in the expansion draft.
But unless there is a significant upgrade with a scoring center or power forward, the Knicks could be stuck in mediocrity for the foreseeable future. Of course, that would be an improvement: they haven't had a winning record in four years.
Here's list of players the Knicks will pursue now that their season is over:
Rasheed Wallace
It just kills Thomas that Boston GM Danny Ainge made it possible for the Pistons to acquire Wallace at the trading deadline, all but ruining any chance the Knicks had of signing the free-agent-to-be. Many former teammates, including Damon Stoudamire, believe that if Wallace had remained in Atlanta he would have accepted the mid-level exception from the Knicks. Now, the player who would have been the perfect compliment to Marbury is likely to re-sign with Detroit.
Kobe Bryant
The No.1 free agent on the market heading to the NBA's top market? Keep dreaming. Even if Allan Houston had healthy knees and a reasonable contract, the Lakers would still be crazy to orchestrate a sign-and-trade with Bryant, the league's best wing player. You just don't give away that kind of talent. Phil Jackson has a better chance of ending up with the Knicks.
Antoine Walker
The Mavs are prepared to detonate their roster if they don't return to the conference finals. Walker, who nearly came to New York for Latrell Sprewell last summer in a deal that Boston eventually turned down, would give the Knicks a front-court scorer to take pressure off Marbury. Walker's freelancing ways have a tendency to frustrate coaches and alienate teammates. This is the same guy who, when asked why he shoots so many threes, replied, "Because there are no four-point shots." Consider yourselves warned.
Chris Webber
The Kings could be looking to shake up their team if they fail to reach the Finals. Three weeks ago, after being booed at home, Webber hinted at the possibility of requesting a trade. In the unlikely event that Webber is on the move, the Knicks would not have enough assets to get him. But it's worth a try.
Antawn Jamison
Reigning Sixth Man of the Year would be a starter on the Knicks and their best low-post player. Either he or Walker is probably leaving Dallas and the Knicks would take either of them.
Marcus Camby
An interesting possibility. Camby, who becomes a free agent, had a career year with Denver. What a coincidence! He's the type of athletic big man that Isiah Thomas covets. The Knicks could use their mid-level exception to bring Camby back to New York. But remember: although it was Thomas who originally drafted Camby in Toronto, it was James Dolan who questioned Camby's character.
Erick Dampier
Not a summer or a trading deadline passes without a rumor about Dampier heading to the Knicks.
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Never played for a winning team and he's not athletic, but he's also available. Wouldn't be Thomas' first choice but he could be his last option.
Jamal Crawford
Has been on the Knicks' radar since Scott Layden was running the team. With Houston's knees a major concern, Thomas will make another run.
Tracy McGrady
An elite player, but name one all-time great who has ever been part of a team - pee wee, high school, college or pro - that lost 19 straight.
Al Harrington
Thomas would prefer Jermaine O'Neal but would take Harrington, a budding star who could become a much needed low post presence. Of course, it's hard to imagine Larry Bird and Thomas doing business
id luv any except for twone. is crawford a 2 spot? or a pg?
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
they are all madd good
yea I wouldnt want Antoine Walker either.. I wouldnt mind Jameson at all though! crawford is a combo guard.
I never want to see Antoine Walker in a Knicks uniform, the guy is bad for most teams, he is a ball hog and takes bad shots from behind the arc.
One outta three ain't bad.
camby and jamison r the only likely people i would want
id take any of them except for walker
yea walker sucks but u know i think its a long shoot for all of them
thats twon in a nutshell. i hate him. he is the worst. reallyI never want to see Antoine Walker in a Knicks uniform, the guy is bad for most teams, he is a ball hog and takes bad shots from behind the arc.
i dont think so. i think the organization is on the rite track and people will want 2 come here. also isaiah and lenny dont hurtbut u know i think its a long shoot for all of them
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
I agree with pyotrveliky. Having Isiah here is definately going to attract free agents. Hopefully we'll get something done over the summer.
everyone except antoine and harrington. i dont think they'll do anything for the team.
out of those 11 i think the knicks will get aleast 4 including kobe
wow someones crazy.........Originally Posted by JJtheKnick
we'll be lucky if we get even two........
We probably wont get any of them well probubly end up with somebody along the lines of Stromile Swift or Bender or Pietrus
exactly were over the cap so we cant really get ALL of them.....Originally Posted by kevin
we'll should get a tim thomas type player that plays SG


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"There is no conclusion; the story blooms." — from "The Last Sunday in October" by Jean LeBlanc
We are all storytellers—you, me, all of us. At least one story waits in us all, waiting to be born, to make it free into the world, somehow, and change things or people, just a little bit. Perhaps children are the ones who know this best. I know I learned this from a child a long time ago...
Ian was a rambunctious four year old when I began taking him to and from pre-school to earn spending money while still in college. He was being raised by his dad, a red-haired, green-eyed Irishman who was completely devoted to this little dark-haired, deep olive-skinned fellow whom you can imagine always had questions to ask about his origins. And although it was his dad who was the usual recipient of his mental meanderings, once in a while it spilled over to me.
"Tom-Tom," he addressed me as soon as I walked in that day. He had named me this because my voice reminded him of a beating drum he remembered from his last life back in Africa, the land his absent mother had returned to soon after his birth.
"But, Ian," I had pointed out to him at the time, "you never lived in Africa."
"No, Tom-Tom, not this life-time. The one I lived before this one. It might even have been the one before that, I'm not sure. But I know it was Africa. I remember the elephants."
So like so many other inconsistencies, I had let it go. Tom-Tom my name remained. Now back to this day so etched into my memory.
"I'm mad at Dad, you know," Ian continued on. "I didn't even talk to him this morning before he left for work."
"What happened little guy, I thought you and your dad were best buds?"
"Well, it all happened last night. You know how Dad always tucks me in after he tells me a story and I've said my prayers?"
"Yep. You've filled me in on those stories quite often. Especially the scary ones."
I poked him from behind to add emphasis. This time he seemed removed from my special effects. He went back to his story.
"Well, last night I said to him: "Dad, it wasn't always like this. I mean you telling me a story, then kissing me good-night."
"Yes, I've always done that, Ian. Even when you were still in the crib and sound asleep. I've always done that, ever since you were born."
"But I don't mean this life, Dad. I mean the one before when I was the tribal chief and you were my little boy. Then I used to tuck you in and place a kiss on the top of your head. Don't you remember?
You know, Tom-Tom, he just got upset and told me to go to sleep, that it was getting late. I could tell he didn't remember, and that memory is so special to me. Like we're meant to take turns. Next time, my turn again to take care of him..."
I've never forgotten the sincerity of his words nor the mysterious world he opened to me when I looked into his eyes.
As if on cue, the phone rang and Ian ran to answer it. Before long, I heard him laugh at something his father must have said to him. Apparently all was forgotten about the night before.
Not for me. Ian was my introduction into the world of Reincarnation. And what I saw in a four year old's eyes that day has taken me all over the world and inspired me to write two books on the subject.
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