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Realist rapper out there today I don't understand how 90% of the people above him are above him he kills every verse he has and doesn't mess around whether he's rapping about the streets, his life, or getting messed up. TECHNICIAN FOR LIFE!
All songs feel genuine, different and fresh. that b cool if this Artist started doing trap and bass, 4 something even fresher, or better yet, new world sounds.
Tech is the best rapper you can actually think of really
Yeh just gave him a listen, dope!V 2 Comments
He is my friend from high school we are in the gang
Kevin gates raps about life not garbage he raps because it's a lifestyle not because he wants the fame
He is the the truth
I'm from br and he is a good rapper
HE RAPS ABOUT HIS PHONES!V 1 Comment
All you guys must be high! You put Mc Eiht below Kanye, Game, Eminem, jay-z, nas, dr dre?! Yo, we are talking about gangsta rappers (rappers who are gangsters), and MC Eiht is one of the realest MC's ever, not the best Mc ever... But he spits pure gangster though. Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Pac (and Jay-Z-although he is a white man style of gangster) are the only ones who have legitimacy to be above Eiht... Dre is no gangsta, everybody knows that.
? Kanye admitted he wasn"t a real gangsta og belong at the top not below these punk idiots who think there gods really there's not enough Room for that many gods get outta here menace two society belongs somewhere at the top why do you think they put him in the movie cause he belonged in it the only real gangsta rappers today are old and tired or young and really dumb
Really? Kayne West in front of Eiht? Damm, if you believe that MC Eiht is less gangsta than Kayne West, then listen to Comptons Most Wanted's songs.V 3 Comments
BG. Knocc Out, just listen to the album real brothers and you will understand
B. G and gangsta dresta was awesome. Wish I could find that albulm. It was a great one.
Puted BG in the list and two months later he is near to the top 20. Real fans hereV 2 Comments
Yo gay
This guy spits the realist ever. If you haven't heard him listen to him now. Most of his music is about the government
With the top lyricists, keeps it real
Should be in the top 10 because Ja is always keeping it real and he never changed over the years and most of his raps are about real life and street life, and he just doesn't spit random words like most modern day rappers, and his songs have meaning behind them, and he has his own label now even after the Inc. Broke up
He is nowhere near a gangster. And his music sucks.
Yo ja shouted out to your family
Ja rule is greatestV 3 Comments
Overrated and he is no where near a gangsta. He acts like a pretty boy now when he know he the ugliest rapper alive
I must say he does have a talent. But being one of the realest gangster rappers he will never be. Truly a bad role model for the youth and going to jail doesn't mean your gangsta. He never lived a real street life as of the people from his city. Money, tattoos and gold teeth means nothing when it comes to being gangsta. But everyone like who they like but being Real is something allot of people isn't.
He rocks he is also a very nice person. He helped eminem get more famous when he was failing then he helped nicki and drake drake was not the famous but now he is ALL BECAUSE OF WAYNE he helped eminem nicki and drake get 50 percent more famous and richer and gave all the credit to them and 1 percent to himself.
Lil' Wayne is the best rapper alive! 2Pac is garbage and 2Pac sucks. Lil' Wayne is the best. 2Pac is just for 5 year old kids that they think they "Gangsta". Lil' Wayne, The Best Rapper Alive! WEEZY BABY FOREVER LIL TUNECHI FOREVER LIL WAYNE FOREVER! - CoolModsV 14 Comments
Danny is the greatest rapper ever known to man. He's underground though you wouldn't know unless you gave him a try. Unlike ASAP and Lil Wayne or any of them fake rappers that rave about mashed potatoes and Versace pillow cases. Danny knows what the streets are like he used to sell Crack. This guy deserves some street creds cause his name rings bells in ery hood you go! You should listen to his song torture or Wonderbread anything on his album old is either about selling rocks or life on the street and the second half is about him drowning himself in pills and booze. He Is a true artist
Inventor of rap slang words. Bay area legend. He is still hungry and humble
I think e-40 should be the first I grew up on him and he can rap all of them out buildingV 1 Comment
He is a living day busta
He is a living day pharoh
Of course, young money is gangsta, especially drake... Sarcasm level: it's over 9000!
Weezy is such a good rapper! His songs are great and he has a lot of power. He's a gangster rapper.
Wether this heavyweight rapper deny but Weezy We is the new Tupac
He dope. Got great flow n lyrics n neva disapoints, he kip it rill
Take eminem off this your gangsta at number 5 yhis guy has gots to be one of the realest rappers out there imagine if he sung forgot about dre instead of em this guy would have killed #next tupac
He puts thought in his lyrics,he is better than Eminem to me,this guy deserves respect listen to I'm the king,best rapper today,besides 2pac and easy of course.V 3 Comments
Seriously? ? One of the best Gangsta rappers out there! MACK has always kept it real no bull
Rolled with gangsters is a gangster why he not woth ice cube what?
GZA, RZA, METH, CHEF, ODB, etc The wutang styles r at the top of the food chain
Raekwon has got the sickest flow and lyrics and should be higher up on this list, just listen to his debut album only built 4 Cuban linx like the song ''incarcerated scarfaces'' or ''guilotine swords'' him and ghostface had the dopest rhymes
Why is he so low down!? I'll admit he is not as well rounded as biggie, lyrical as big l or as thought provoking as the don Tupac, but his flow is amazing and can make almost any two words rhyme! Should definitely be top ten, possibly top five.
Watch dre day music video there is a sex scene and it is gay.
Big fat ass
Top 5 this list is bs n overpopulated by black people that have no sense of what real gs are yall go off what you see on T.V.V 1 Comment
Got Eminem into rapping as a youngster.
D12 for life!
Searching For Jerry Garcia, is a dope album.
Another West Coast rapper. Alot of Raps have Gangster meanings in it for Eg LAX by Xzibit is a gangster song and very good as well. Dresses like a gangster and represents the GOLDEN STATE. One of the biggest figures in the industry right now - roblist
not only he looks good he raps good too - evil4u
I guess y'all forgot who realest west coast gansta rapper
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We were walking up the road together in North Oxford, talking student mission, and world concerns. I told her of my heart for Africa, and the beautiful children I had met on short-term mission who lived on so little. She talked about how her love for cross-cultural mission had caused her to leave the US and come with her family to Britain.
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I wanted to be the person who made a principled decision about my purchasing, the person who lived differently, who made a difference in the world.
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I didn't change right away. I went on ordering my Lavazza, and I drank it rebelliously, and I told other coffee snobs I would love to drink Fair Trade coffee if only it didn't taste so inferior.
Then someone said they'd heard the Fair Trade ones weren't that much fairer than the regular ones, and I had no idea if they were right or not, because I didn't read newspapers and I didn't want to admit my ignorance, and so I chose to believe that they might be right.
I continued to enjoy coffee and chats with my friend, and that particular topic never came up again. I'm almost certain she wouldn't have any recollection of that conversation.
But that phrase stayed in my mind – it nagged me. Making someone work below the poverty line- just so I can have a cup of coffee?
I don't know why it took so long. It was just coffee.
I'd told God I was prepared to go to the ends of the earth for Him; to live by faith and fundraise my salary as a student worker; to be a missionary wherever He would call me. But still I didn't change my coffee brand.
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I don't even remember when it was – maybe two, maybe five years after that conversation in North Oxford, and we bought a Fair Trade packet just to see how different it was, and it was not that much more expensive, and we tasted it, and it was actually really good, and we wondered why we hadn't done it sooner.
This is the paradox of faith. We measure progress and holiness in strange ways.
So often, real change is not to be found in the Big Things, the ends of the earth, the courageous leaps of youth and loud, impassioned prayers. It comes through the small, shuffling steps towards wholeness and holiness in the ordinary and the everyday. It's found in those seemingly insignificant conversations with friends, and on the shelves of the supermarket.
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I never became the overseas missionary I always thought I would.
I wish I could say I'm no longer desperate to prove my Bible-teaching credentials – but I am still, (though growing less anxious). As the years go by, I am learning, little by little, to lean more fully into the grace of God.
I am still the person who wants to make a difference in the world. And I am definitely still the person who likes to drink good coffee. These days, it's Fair Trade, strong, black and, (with some reluctance), decaffeinated.
So, if you too are a coffee person, then I am overjoyed to make your acquaintance. I am delighted you know that freshly-ground beans make all the difference, and instant coffee tastes like rehydrated cat litter. I invite you to try Fair Trade coffee if you haven't already: it's really good.
Over to you:
- Are you a coffee or a tea person?
- What changes in your character have you seen coming in shuffling steps rather than big leaps?
For further reading:
- Fair trade – is it really fair?
- This study assessing the impact of Fairtrade on poverty reduction through rural development (via the Fairtrade Foundation)
- You can check the ethical credentials of your current brand of coffee here (ethical consumer buyers guide):
Fairtrade Coffee brands:
- We love the taste of Cafedirect
- Happily, the popularity of FairTrade products has meant that even my beloved Lavazza now offer a FairTrade option: Lavazza Tierra…AND they even sell Fair Trade beans. You can also shop Lavazza Tierra on Amazon.
- In the UK: CafeDirect and other Fairtrade Coffee – buy from ethicalsuperstore.com
- (And if you must drink instant coffee, you can now get a FairTrade version from most supermarkets.)
Tanya Marlow was in Christian ministry for a decade and a lecturer in Biblical Theology. Now she reads Bible stories to her little boy as she learns what it means to housebound with a severe autoimmune illness. She likes answering the tricky questions of faith that most avoid, and writing honestly about suffering and searching for God. She blogs at Thorns and Gold http://tanyamarlow.com. Find her on Twitter @Tanya_Marlow or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/


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It's been an… interesting week. Interesting if you think depression is interesting, that is. Which I do. I think it's interesting how my external circumstances can remain the same while my internal one can change the way I perceive it, to the point where I feel very dissatisfied with my life, my work, and most of all myself.
Very interesting.
Not very fun though. I felt really good after identifying some of the actual and abstract feelings weighing me down (thanks for all your kind wishes, it means a lot, I mean imagine if fragile ole' me wrote a post like that and was met with pure silence! Eek! So thank you again), then the next day did not co-operate at all and I found myself in an even deeper slump.
It wasn't meant to go like that.
But rather than trying to dodge, duck and escape my feelings, I tried something else – showing up in my life as I was. I wrote this post on Facebook to describe my method:
"Today I'm practicing the spiritual practice of showing up as I am. I'm a bit happy and a lot sad, and I'm not sure why. Today I made a mental gratitude list, went to yoga, had a delicious coffee, did some work, went for a walk, had a nice lunch, did some more work and made a nutricious dinner while shedding a few cleansing tears (I caught them before they hit the sauce).
My boyfriend gave me a hug and didn't try to fix me which made me feel so much better in itself. So instead of asking how you are today, who are you? Because whoever you happen to be today is fine with me, for we are all in this human thing together. Sending unconditional love xo"
That didn't fix it, by the way.
The next day I woke up feeling a bit lighter. I love mornings, so if I'm feeling down I always try to get an early night so the morning comes quicker. I'm not sure when I made this shift from night-owl to morning lover (maybe since becoming a sober, traveling, writing, yogi, I dunno). By mid afternoon I may have had my feelings hurt ten times and resent five people (four of whom I've never met), but in the mornings, I'm a clean slate – open and free to the love and good will of the universe (as long as it brings a strong Cafe latte, stat).
So Monday I got my butt down to yoga, knowing it was the 'next right thing' for me to do. I arrived to the usual flurry of air kisses before taking my place on the parquet floor next to my friend Jorge (not our Jorge, another one, I guess it's the Mexican name-equivalent of Dave).
"How was your weekend?" he beamed happily.
Jorge is always happy, at least he seems to be. I reciprocated his smile, but thought about my answer for blurting out an automated 'fine thanks'. In a split second I thought back to my pledge to own my feelings, rather than pretending they didn't exist.
"Umm, not so great," I responded, rather neutrally.
"Why? The weather was great!" He replied. "What was wrong?"
"Just my thinking," I answered truthfully.
"Aaah," he said, seeming to understand. "Just smoke a joint!" he laughed.
I laughed too. "If only it were that easy," I replied light-heatedly.
"When your head is bad, just smoke a joint and forget about it."
I really wish you could hear his Mexican accent telling me this. Fogedabowdit.
I felt a slight pang of jealously toward the people for whom smoking a joint can cure them of their mental illness (given that those people actually exist).
Fuck them, I thought, irrationally, before sitting in the lotus position and chanting Omm.
The class was good. A new teacher. I went with the flow. It wasn't a tough class but I felt sluggish and took a small rest in the middle.
After class Jorge questioned me again.
"You got tired, huh?"
"Yes, a little."
"Why? You usually strong woman!"
"Not today," I answered with a smile.
The rest of the day I thought about how upside down we have everything. I was grateful to Jorge for bringing it to my attention and reminding me how deceiving appearances can be.
Pushing myself on the yoga mat, twisting myself into precarious positions and challenging my physical stamina, that's easy for me. It's also easy for me to show up for my life when I'm feeling happy, joyous and free. Like, really easy.
It's easy when it's easy…
But it's not easy for me to accept my limits on certain days, to send myself compassion when I am feeling like a layer of skin is missing, or to take a rest on my yoga mat in the middle of class. And whilst those not-so-easy things may look like weakness, they are really strength.
Admitting that my thinking is off, that I'm not feeling great and that I need to be gentle with myself, is really tough. It makes me vulnerable, and removes yet another of the many masks I've collected over my life-time in order to hide who I really am.
Choosing to not take a drink or a drug or pick up any other kind of mask; to sit with gnawing discomfort and allow it to be, all while clinging to the deep, inner knowing that it will pass and joy is on its way, just as soon as I am given the lesson I need to learn, is really freaking brave, if I do say so myself.
And I do.
For living raw is not just about raw pain, but also raw love, raw joy and raw exhilaration, and I get to experience sooooo much more of the latter because of the way I choose to live my life today.
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Polar Bear SARA Management Plan Progress Report (as of September 15, 2016)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
The Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) was listed as a species of Special Concern under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) in 2011. A Special Concern designation is used for species that may become threatened or endangered as a result of a combination of biological characteristics and identified threats.
In accordance with SARA, a management plan must be developed in cooperation with others and published on the Species at Risk Public Registry for all species of Special Concern. A management plan sets goals and objectives for maintaining sustainable population levels of the species.
In accordance with the Three-Year Recovery Document Posting PlanFootnote1, ECCC committed to publishing a proposed Polar Bear Management Plan by March 31, 2017. However, ECCC is anticipating a delay and does not anticipate posting the proposed Management Plan until at least 2018. In the interim, ECCC will continue to be actively involved in numerous national and international committees and bilateral/multilateral agreements for the conservation and the management of polar bear.
The Management Plan will include key aspects of the National Polar Bear Conservation StrategyFootnote2, the jurisdictional management plans (or sections of the plans) and a SARA federal addition. Incorporation of the provincial and territorial management plans will reflect the reality of polar bear management in Canada and result in appropriate and effective delivery of conservation measures while allowing for a sustainable harvest. The development of the federal addition and the completion of a Management Plan that meets SARA requirements are dependent on the completion of the provincial and territorial plans.
ECCC is working in collaboration with all the provinces and territories involved in the development of the Management Plan. Significant progress has been made by all jurisdictions as per below.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Polar bears are listed as Vulnerable under the Newfoundland and Labrador Endangered Species Act. Polar bears range along the entire Northern Labrador coast, with southerly winter movements down the coast and to eastern coastal areas of Newfoundland, and summer movements to Baffin Island. The Newfoundland and Labrador Government is working with representatives of Torngat Wildlife and Plants Co-Management Board, Canadian Wildlife Service, and Nunatsiavut Government to develop a Polar Bear Management Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador. The purpose of this management plan is to establish the goals and actions required to ensure the long-term persistence of polar bears as a self-sustaining viable species throughout its range in Newfoundland and Labrador. This plan has been developed to meet the requirements of the Newfoundland and Labrador Endangered Species Act and covers the Davis Strait sub-population found in Newfoundland and Labrador. Potential threats to this population include over-harvesting, contaminants, habitat disturbance, mortality associated with incidental human contact, and the effects of climate change.
Management of the Davis Strait sub-population includes the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement, Federal-Provincial-Territorial Polar Bear Technical and Administrative Committees for Polar Bear Research and Management, Torngat Wildlife and Plants Co-Management Board (WMB), Labrador Inuit Park Impacts and Benefits Agreement for the Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada, Nunavik Inuit Park Impacts and Benefits Agreement for the Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada, Torngat Mountains National Park Cooperative Management Board.
The intended completion date of a final Newfoundland and Labrador Polar Bear Management Plan is April 2017, once input from all partners has been reviewed and included.
Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories and Yukon)
Co-management partners are developing the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Polar Bear Co-management Plan. This plan describes the management goal and objectives for polar bears in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), Northwest Territories (NWT) and Yukon. This plan was developed to meet the requirements of a management plan under the territorial Species at Risk (NWT) Act and to serve as the ISR (Yukon and NWT) regional component of the national management plan under the federal Species at Risk Act while respecting the co-management process legislated by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA).
Management authority for polar bears in the ISR is jurisdictionally complex and the plan is intended to facilitate an integrated and common approach by all jurisdictions. To facilitate this process, Framework for Action, a companion document to the ISR Polar Bear Co-Management Plan has been developed. This companion document outlines actions and areas where further work should be directed. The framework is meant to be used by co-management partners to develop an implementation table.
The process undertaken to develop the plan involved engagement meetings in the 6 ISR communities annually since 2012, formation of a drafting working group, and reviews of various drafts of the plan by all partners. The final draft will be posted for a 60 day public comment period in summer 2016 on the Government of NWT Species at Risk website with the intention of finalizing the plan by January 2017.
Nunavut has been developing a territory wide co-management plan for polar bears since June 2014. Although Nunavut has species at risk legislation the polar bear has not been assessed. Therefore the co-management plan in Nunavut will not only provide a territorial management framework but will also support federal initiatives required under SARA. To date consultations have been conducted with stakeholders in all 25 Nunavut communities and their input has been used to develop a draft. The draft was then submitted to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) for approval as per the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement. The NWMB held a written public hearing for input into the plan in the fall of 2015. The Department of Environment has revised the co-management plan based on the submissions to the written hearing. The majority of comments received from parties were incorporated including revisions suggested by ECCC.
The draft Nunavut Polar Bear Co-management Plan is now undergoing final edits before it is re-submitted to the NWMB. The NWMB may choose to resume the public hearing process in order to allow for additional comments As such, the timeline for the completion of the Board process has yet to be determined but it is expected to be concluded before the end of 2016. Once finalized, the NWMB will send their decision to Nunavut's Minister of Environment. The expectation is that the plan will be in place for the 2017-2018 management season which begins July 1, 2017.
The process for developing and approving a management plan in Nunavut is complex. Inuit have a right to be fully involved and informed in the process and this requires appropriate levels of consultation and review. This process has been thoroughly completed during the development phase, and is further implemented through the NWMB's public hearing process. The public hearing, when it resumes, is expected to continue as an in-person hearing. This allows for stakeholders to provide additional input, voice concerns, and to hear explanations as to why the draft plan has taken its final form.
This process will ensure that the concerns and input of all parties are heard, addressed where possible and appropriate, and that the product will robustly address the needs of multiple stakeholders, including harvesters, wildlife managers, and federal SARA requirements while at the same time addressing public safety concerns and long-term sustainable management of the species.
In Ontario, polar bears occur at the southern limit of their global range, which extends along the Hudson and James Bay coast. In 2009, the Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO) assessed and classified the Ontario population of polar bear as Threatened. Under the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA), this status entitles the polar bear to receive automatic species and habitat protection. Polar bears are protected under the ESA from being killed, harmed, or harassed and their habitat is protected from being damaged or destroyed. Polar bear habitat is protected under the general habitat definition in the ESA which identifies habitat as the areas depended on by the species to carry out their life processes.
In 2011, the Recovery Strategy for polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in Ontario was finalized and provides scientific advice to government on the biological needs of the species and the suggested approaches to support recovery. Following completion of the recovery strategy, Ontario has developed a draft species-specific policy (the government response statement) that outlines the provincial policy direction on the protection and recovery of the species. In April 2016, Ontario posted this draft government response statement for polar bear on the Environmental Registry for public comment. The comment period has now closed and all comments received from the public, stakeholders, and Indigenous communities and organizations are being considered in the finalization of the policy.
Ontario's government response statement on polar bear will contribute to the national management plan for polar bear. The Ontario government is also taking steps to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the primary threat to polar bears in Ontario, through the development of the Climate Change Strategy released in 2015 and the development of a provincial cap and trade program. Ontario will continue to be represented and support provincial, national and international management of polar bears through participating in inter-jurisdictional committees such as the Polar Bear Administrative Committee and the Polar Bear Technical Committee. Ontario continues to lead and support efforts to increase our knowledge of polar bear through collaborative monitoring and research initiatives, through aerial surveys that monitor trends in abundance, and by supporting the development of community-based monitoring programs.
Three of Canada's polar bear subpopulations (Southern Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Davis Strait) occur in northern Quebec and its adjacent waters. The Southern Hudson Bay subpopulation includes all of the area of James Bay and the eastern Hudson Bay north to the 60th parallel. The Foxe Basin subpopulation occupies north-eastern Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait, until a point west of the village of Kangiqsujuaq. The Davis Strait subpopulation occupies the remaining portion of Hudson Strait and all of Ungava Bay to the border between Quebec and Newfoundland- Labrador.
In accordance with the Act Respecting Threatened or Vulnerable Species, the Quebec government listed the polar bear as a vulnerable species in 2009. In Northern Quebec, provisions dealing with threatened or endangered species (e.g. polar bear) are subject to the terms of the Act Respecting Hunting and Fishing Rights in the James Bay and New Quebec Territories.
A Quebec - Nunavik Marine Region - Eeyou Marine region (QC-NMR-EMR) Bear Management Plan is currently being drafted and is the result of a collaborative approach involving representation from several groups (Cree Nation Government, Cree Trappers Association, Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Makivik Corporation, Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Nunavik Hunters, Fishermen & Trappers Association / Regional Nunavimmi Umajulirijiit Katujjiqatigiinninga (NHFTA/RNUK), Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board and Government of Nunavut, Department of Environment).
One of the key objectives of all parties involved in this process is that the QC-NMR-EMR Polar Bear Management Plan must reflect the knowledge, concerns, traditions and principles of the Inuit of Nunavik and the Cree of Eeyou Istchee. In order to attain this objective, members of the Quebec- Eeyou Istchee - Nunavik Marine Region Polar Bear Management Plan Working Group will visit every Nunavik community in winter 2017 to ensure that Inuit have been given an opportunity to provide their comments on this process. A separate process will be held in the Cree region.
The Management Plan is planned to be in effect for a period of 10 years (2017-2027), subject to ongoing monitoring of its effectiveness and a full review and assessment after 5-years. Prior to the end of this 10-year period, a new management plan will be tabled for adoption, in accordance with applicable land Claims Agreements.
The polar bear was listed as a threatened species in Manitoba in 2008 under the Manitoba Endangered Species and Ecosystems Act. As a result of the listing, the province is preparing a provincial Polar Bear Conservation and Recovery Strategy. Manitoba will provide an update on their polar bear strategy at a later date.
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Consult this website for details on the ECCC Three-Year Recovery Document Posting Plan
- Footnote 2
The central goal of the National Polar Bear Conservation Strategy is to contribute to the long-term maintenance of subpopulations of polar bear in Canada by taking into account all of the threats that face the species, and to increase the level of coordination between jurisdictions for the management of polar bear.
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The only thing that's even better than Apache Kafka and Apache Storm is to use the two tools in combination. Unfortunately, their integration can and is still a pretty challenging task, at least judged by the many discussion threads on the respective mailing lists. In this post I am introducing kafka-storm-starter, which contains many code examples that show you how to integrate Apache Kafka 0.8+ with Apache Storm 0.9+, while using Apache Avro as the data serialization format. I will also briefly summarize the current state of their integration on a high level to give you additional context of where the two projects are headed in this regard.
State of the (integration) game
For the lazy reader here's the TL;DR version of Kafka and Storm integration:
- You can indeed integrate Kafka 0.8.1.1 (latest stable) and Storm 0.9.1-incubating (latest stable). I mention this explicitly only to clear up any confusion whatsoever that may have resulted from you reading the mailing lists.
- The Kafka/Storm integration is, at this time, still more complicated and error prone than it should be. For this reason I released the code project kafka-storm-starter (more details below), which should answer most questions you may have when setting out to connect Storm to Kafka for both reading and writing data. As such kafka-storm-starter can serve as a bootstrapping template to build your own real-time data processing pipelines with Kafka and Storm.
- In the Storm project we are actively working on closing this integration gap. For instance, we have recently merged the most popular Kafka spout into the core Storm project. This Kafka spout will be included in the next version of Storm, 0.9.2-incubating, which is just around the corner. And the spout is now compatible with the latest Kafka 0.8.1.1. Kudos to P. Taylor Goetz of HortonWorks for acting as the initial sponsor of the storm-kafka component! For more information see external/storm-kafka in the Storm code base.
- The Kafka project is working on an improved, consolidated consumer API for Kafka 0.9. Take a look at the respective discussions in the kafka-user and kafka-dev mailing lists. The Kafka 0.9 Consumer Rewrite Design document is also worth a read. Moving forward this API initiative should simplify interaction with Kafka in general and integration with storm-kafka in particular.
Overview and quick start
A few days ago I released kafka-storm-starter as a means to jumpstart developers interested in integrating Kafka 0.8 and Storm 0.9. Without further ado let's take a first quick look.
Before we start we must grab the latest version of the code, which is implemented in Scala 2.10:
$ git clone https://github.com/miguno/kafka-storm-starter.git
$ cd kafka-storm-starter
We begin the tour by running the test suite:
$ ./sbt test
Notably this command will run end-to-end tests of Kafka, Storm, and Kafka/Storm integration. See this shortened version of the test output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61
We finish the tour by launching the KafkaStormDemo application:
$ ./sbt run
This demo starts in-memory instances of ZooKeeper, Kafka, and Storm. It then runs a demo Storm topology that connects to and reads from the Kafka instance.
You will see output similar to the following (some parts removed to improve readability):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
At this point Storm is connected to Kafka (more precisely: to the
testing topic in Kafka). The last few lines from
above – "Committing offset …" — will be repeated again and again, because a) this demo Storm topology only reads
from the Kafka topic but it does nothing to the data that was read and b) because we are not sending any data to the
Kafka topic.
To stop the demo application you must kill or
Ctrl-C the process in the terminal.
You can use KafkaStormDemo as a starting point to create your own, "real" Storm topologies that read from a "real" Kafka, Storm, and ZooKeeper infrastructure. An easy way to get started with such an infrastructure is by deploying Kafka, Storm, and ZooKeeper via a tool such as Wirbelsturm.
I showcase the following features in kafka-storm-starter. Note that I focus on showcasing, and not necessarily on "production ready".
- How to integrate Kafka and Storm.
- How to use Avro with Kafka and Storm for serializing and deserializing the data payload. For this I leverage Twitter Bijection and Twitter Chill.
- Kafka standalone code examples
- KafkaProducerApp: A simple Kafka producer app for writing Avro-encoded data into Kafka. KafkaSpec puts this producer to use and shows how to use Twitter Bijection to Avro-encode the messages being sent to Kafka.
- KafkaConsumerApp: A simple Kafka consumer app for reading Avro-encoded data from Kafka. KafkaSpec puts this consumer to use and shows how to use Twitter Bijection to Avro-decode the messages being read from Kafka.
- Storm standalone code examples
- AvroDecoderBolt[T]:
AvroDecoderBolt[T <: org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecordBase]that can be parameterized with the type of the Avro record
Tit will deserialize its data to (i.e. no need to write another decoder bolt just because the bolt needs to handle a different Avro schema).
- AvroScheme[T]:
AvroScheme[T <: org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecordBase]scheme, i.e. a custom
backtype.storm.spout.Schemeto auto-deserialize a spout's incoming data. The scheme can be parameterized with the type of the Avro record
Tit will deserializes its data to (i.e. no need to write another scheme just because the scheme needs to handle a different Avro schema).
- You can opt to configure a spout (such as the Kafka spout) with
AvroSchemeif you want to perform the Avro decoding step directly in the spout instead of placing an
AvroDecoderBoltafter the Kafka spout. You may want to profile your topology which of the two approaches works best for your use case.
- You can opt to configure a spout (such as the Kafka spout) with
- TweetAvroKryoDecorator:
A custom
backtype.storm.serialization.IKryoDecorator, i.e. a custom Kryo serializer for Storm.
- Unfortunately we have not figured out a way to implement a parameterized
AvroKryoDecorator[T]variant yet. (A "straight-forward" approach we tried – similar to the other parameterized components – compiled fine but failed at runtime when running the tests). Code contributions are welcome!
- Unfortunately we have not figured out a way to implement a parameterized
- AvroDecoderBolt[T]: An
- Kafka and Storm integration
- AvroKafkaSinkBolt[T]:
AvroKafkaSinkBolt[T <: org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecordBase]that can be parameterized with the type of the Avro record
Tit will serialize its data to before sending the encoded data to Kafka (i.e. no need to write another Kafka sink bolt just because the bolt needs to handle a different Avro schema).
- Storm topologies that read Avro-encoded data from Kafka: KafkaStormDemo and KafkaStormSpec
- A Storm topology that writes Avro-encoded data to Kafka: KafkaStormSpec
- AvroKafkaSinkBolt[T]: An
- Unit testing
- AvroDecoderBoltSpec
- AvroSchemeSpec
- And more under src/test/scala
- Integration testing
- KafkaSpec: Tests for Kafka, which launch and run against in-memory instances of Kafka and ZooKeeper.
- StormSpec: Tests for Storm, which launch and run against in-memory instances of Storm and ZooKeeper.
- KafkaStormSpec: Tests for integrating Storm and Kafka, which launch and run against in-memory instances of Kafka, Storm, and ZooKeeper.
Interested in more?
All the gory details are available at kafka-storm-starter. Apart from the code and build script (sbt) I provide information about how to create Cobertura code coverage reports, to package the code, to create Java "sources" and "javadoc" jars, to generate API docs, to integrate with Jenkins CI and TeamCity build servers, and to set up kafka-storm-starter as a project in IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse.
Moving forward my plan is to keep kafka-storm-starter up to date with the latest versions of Kafka and Storm. The next version of Storm, 0.9.2, will already simplify the current setup quite a lot. Of course I welcome any code, docs, or similar contributions you may have.
The quest to get there
Just for the historical record here are some of the gotchas that are addressed by kafka-storm-starter, i.e. problems you do not need to solve yourself anymore:
- Figuring out which Kafka spout in Storm 0.9 works with the latest Kafka 0.8 version. A lot of people tried in vain to
use a Kafka spout built for Kafka 0.7 to read from Kafka 0.8. Others didn't know how to use the available Kafka 0.8
spouts in their code, and so on. In the case of kafka-storm-starter I opted to go with the spout created by
wurstmeister, primarily because this spout will soon by the
"official" Kafka spout maintained by the Storm project. Unfortunately the latest version of the spout was/is not
available in a public Maven repository, so I had take care of that, too, until Storm 0.9.2 will provide the official
- Alternatively you can also try Kafka spout of HolmesNL, developed by Mattijs Ugen. I don't want to talk about the differences to the wurstmeister spout in detail, but essentially the wurstmeister spout uses the Simple Consumer API of Kafka 0.8 whereas the Mattijs' spout uses the High Level Consumer API.
- Resolving version conflicts between the various software packages. For instance, Storm 0.9.1 has a transitive
dependency on Kryo 2.17 because Storm depends on an old version of Carbonite.
This causes problems when trying to use Twitter Bijection or Twitter Chill, because those require a newer version of
Kryo. (Apart from that Kryo 2.21 also fixes data corruption issues, so you do want the newer version.) To address
this issue I filed STORM-263, which is included in upcoming
Storm 0.9.2. Thanks to Sam Ritchie, the maintainer of Carbonite, and everyone else
involved to get the patch included.
Another example is that you must exclude
javax.jms:jms(and a few others) when including Kafka into your build dependencies. Or how to handle Netflix (now: Apache) Curator conflicts.
- Understanding the various conflicting ZooKeeper versions, and picking a version to go with. Right now Storm and Kafka still prefer very old 3.3.x versions of ZooKeeper, whereas in practice many people run 3.4.x in their infrastructure (e.g. because ZooKeeper 3.4.x is already deployed alongside other infrastructure pieces such as Hadoop clusters when using commercial Hadoop distributions).
- How to write unit tests for Storm topologies. A lot of people seem to find references to TestingApiDemo.java while searching the Internet but struggle with extracting these examples out of the Storm code base and merging them into their own project.
- How to write Storm topologies in a way that you can parameterize its components (bolts etc.) with the Avro record type
T, so that you don't need to write a new bolt only because your Avro schema changes. The goal of this code is to show how you can improve the developer/user experience by providing ready-to-use functionality, in this case with regards to (Avro) serialization/deserialization. To tackle this you must understand Storm's serialization system as well as its run-time behavior.
- While doing that I discovered a (known) Scala bug when I tried to use
TypeTaginstead of deprecated
Manifestto implement e.g.
AvroDecoderBolt[T], see SI-5919. This bug is still not fixed in the latest Scala 2.11.1, by the way.
- While doing that I discovered a (known) Scala bug when I tried to use
- How to write end-to-end Kafka->Storm->Kafka tests.
- And so on…
I hope you find kafka-storm-starter useful to bootstrap your own Kafka/Storm application. In the Storm community we are actively working on improving and simplifying the Kafka/Storm integration, so please stay tuned and, above all, thanks for your patience. The upcoming 0.9.2 version of Storm is already a first step in the right direction by bundling a Kafka spout that works with the latest stable version of Kafka (0.8.1.1 at the time of this writing).
Now where to go once you have your Kafka and Storm code ready? At this point you can then use a tool such as Wirbelsturm and its associated Puppet modules to deploy production Kafka and Storm clusters and run your own real-time data processing pipelines at scale.


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Over the course of a convention weekend, hundreds if not thousands of drinking vessels are raised to toast friendship, good sportsmanship and the byzantine machinations of Diplomacy players.
This year at Carnage in Wonderland, you can bid salut to your fellow players in style with the Carnage "Drink Me" pint glass. Of sturdy construction and resilient pigment, this pint glass is rated to hold drinkable fluids of all sorts, flavors and opacities and resist the depredations of the mightiest automated dish washing contrivance.
Pint glasses can be purchased for $8 at the Carnage registration desk throughout the course of the 2011 convention. Buy it with a Carnage T-shirt — normally $20 by itself — and pay $25 for both; the package cost for 2XL and 3XL shirts is $27. Preregistrants who ordered T-shirts in advance have the option of buying a glass for $5 as well.


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Next thing knew I woke up and it was over. I didn't really feel dizzy at all and my face was all numb. I was a little disappointed that I wasn't as loopy as I should have been. My mom kept laughing at me because she couldn't understand what I was saying for like 3 hours.
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By now about 95% of the numbness is gone and I've been eating nothing but tomato soup and italian ice all day. My family then decided it was a good idea to order chinese food :P. My mom kept saying that I was slurping my noodles when I wasn't, and I was trying to get used to not chewing with the back of my mouth.
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The Art of WarBy Blanka Stratford
In today's world, it is easy enough to portray an era defined by strokes of violence and hued with shades of sensationalized destruction. Add to this a few spatters of hysteria and finger-painted points of blame, and the result is a masterpiece highlighting a version of life that few, if any, would want to comprise. And yet there it is — the art of war, as old as humanity — capable of slashing people apart.
Or, perhaps, bringing them together?
In light of all this darkness, the artwork of two Massachusetts residents from so-called rival towns of Canton and Stoughton has crossed weaponry and shown that a mode of attack need neither be offensive nor defensive. As the old adage goes … love conquers all.
Armed with stainless steel sheers and a precision-based airbrush, Iraqi-born hairdresser Wasan Aziz and American fine artist Steven Leahy use their respective tools and talents daily to prove that even a caustic element such as war cannot break a loving spirit. With such positive attitudes, they provide better lives not only for their family members, but also for strangers with whom they come into contact. What's their connection?
A combat veteran with a flair for returning shots of kindness.
For Steven Leahy, there was no question that his future would be anything other than creating art. Upon completing high school, he continued his higher education in fine arts and succeeded in displaying his works throughout the United States by various modes of channel. Currently, his drive has been creating realistic paintings on various substrates, one of which was a set of military dog tags.
"Miniature art has fascinated me recently," said Leahy. "The impact of these tiny paintings is truly surprising."
Leahy's motivation to use dog tags as a base came from good friend and industrial artist Ken Taylor, who collects a variety of metallic articles on account of his profession.
"Ken mentioned that he had some blank dog tags [at his shop] and asked if I was interested in a few to paint on," Leahy said. "During that time, I was in the middle of preparing the work for my show of miniature paintings. It was important to me to have an element of charity with the show. These dog tags simply answered my search."
Leahy, whose late uncle was a Marine combat artist and a preliminary inspiration for his work, created five works of art detailing missions of each branch of the United States military. The proceeds from the dog tags will be donated to the U.S. Wounded Soldiers Foundation, a non-profit organization providing for the needs of combat veterans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"My sister [Katie Bartel] recommended the foundation," said Leahy. "This foundation directly aids soldiers wounded in action as they transition home. I was impressed with all the services that they provide for not only the soldier but the families as well."
Like many other Americans, Leahy was impacted by the tragic events that transpired nearly a decade ago on September 11. According to him, the terrorist attacks served as an eye opener to understanding the complexity of the enemy now facing the United States.
"I also saw how resilient and connected we are as a nation," Leahy said. "There is always that image of Americans as fat, lazy and self centered. I was reassured how great this country is by its internal and external response to that vicious attack."
The attack itself prompted Leahy to take a closer look at the difference in freedom of the U.S. civilians who were under attack versus the freedom of those who would soon thereafter face the U.S. invasion.
"The more I look around this globe, the more I cherish the freedom that we have here in America," he said. "When I see the atrocities others endure at the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein, it makes me value the strength and resolve of this country even more."
Through his dog tag artwork, Leahy wanted to express his appreciation of the freedom in his country that is defended by the Armed Forces.
"When creating my military-based artwork, I viewed myself more as an interpreter," he said. "Too much negative press is piled on price tags and not enough on the men and women who are fulfilling their duties with that budget. I wanted to bring that focus back to the soldier."
It was this constructive outlook along with his ability to see the goodness in others that led Leahy to create his latest painting, "Eumenides' Fable" (2011), an 11"x12" waterborne on titanium portrait of a female war veteran with whom he had crossed paths and been taken by her story. Upon the painting's exhibition at the Felos Art Center in Stoughton, one of the features that garnished attention was the subject's hair, the stylization of which had been fashioned roughly five miles away in Canton's Savoy Spa, where hairdresser Wasan Aziz likewise touches the lives of those she encounters with her own tale of endurance.
And thus, the three were connected through a bizarre means by a lacerative topic.
Like Leahy, Aziz remembers clearly the day the world reeled from the shock of watching three of the four hijacked U.S. airplanes meet their targets. She was a fully-trained hairdresser, living with her family in downtown Baghdad, when she witnessed the televised recordings of the twin towers crumbling to the ground.
"People were stunned into silence," she said. "We couldn't believe what was happening … I mean an attack on America? It seemed unreal."
But it had happened. As tension and confusion mounted over Hussein's possible tie to Osama bin Laden as well as his actions regarding the existence of weapons of mass destruction, Aziz realized that it would only be a matter of time before Iraq and the United States would be bound together, first through war and then through attempts at reconstruction.
"Saddam went on television and stated that Osama was not in Iraq," said Aziz. "But we all became worried as time passed by. We all knew what was eventually going to happen."
Fortunately for Aziz, love came at the brink of war. An old friend had returned to Iraq for a visit from his permanent residence in the state of Massachusetts. Before the bombs began to blast, sparks were first ignited between the couple. In 2002, Brad Aziz proposed to his soon-to-be wife. They were married in Jordan and shortly thereafter flew to the United States to begin their own life and family together.
However, this did not stop Aziz from being affected by the military operations that ensued. The rest of her family was still in Iraq and, with the removal of Hussein, had to flee to northern Baghdad in order to maintain safe haven due to their Christian background. According to Aziz, although the U.S. succeeded in eliminating a dictator responsible for mass genocide, it had to face the daunting task of dealing with a form of radicalism that would be very difficult to overcome due to its religious context.
"Extremism is a dangerous thing," she said. "Religion is supposed to be about love. I know many Muslims, Christians, Jews and so on who, even though they are religious by name, give each other the respect and kindness everyone deserves. But then there are people who only see the evil in others. Where does it come from? Where does it stop?"
The latest string of bombings in Baghdad only amplified her concerns and reaffirmed her belief that U.S. involvement is necessary.
"At this point, Iraq needs the United States to help maintain order," said Aziz. "Right now, it's no longer a war between countries, but a civil war. Iraq and the United States will have to work together."
Like Leahy, Aziz has spent much time deliberating on the idea of freedom itself, as well as the rich cultural history of her country of origin and what it will take for it to reclaim its rights.
"There are different freedoms in both countries," she said. "I have a more independent life in the United States. But the free and excellent education I received in Iraq helped me succeed here. I think both countries could benefit from learning from each other. My hope is that people will one day look around and see what's really going on and start using their minds to make this world a better place."
For Aziz, a better place starts at home. With her husband, she cares for her two sons, Andre (7) and Ivan (5), while working full time. Without the physical support of her extended family members, she is well aware of the responsibilities of being a provider while simultaneously progressing as an artist and building relationships with those she serves. Steve Leahy is no stranger to that sense of duty. He looks after his three children, Colin (17), Emily (16) and Matthew (12), while continuing to inspire others around him.
"I find it comforting to continuously see art transcend differences between people of different cultures," he said. "Creativity is a common language, and when given the chance to be heard or seen, incredible things happen. It makes me very happy that Wasan and her family found a way to create a life that allows her to do what she was truly meant to do."
His painting "Eumenides' Fable" is currently on display at Canton's Savoy Spa.
Note from the Author
I'd like to extend my warmest wishes and gratitude to Steve Leahy and Wasan Aziz for their humbling stories and keen sense of decency. Although I am the veteran mentioned in the above article, it goes without saying that there would be no article without these two generous individuals. As for the readers, a simple message remains. Our histories build us and our differences show colors that go far beyond that which shows externally. There is a world to gain from being good to those around us. Those who teach hatred spread it thicker than oil on canvas. Those who preach evil draw it back into their lives. Perhaps it's time to learn the art of kindness.
Editor's note: Blanka Stratford is a 1998 graduate of Canton High School. She served for over two years as a combat photojournalist in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Stratford, 30, was honorably discharged in November 2004 and is currently working on a book about her experiences after the war.
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Well, I did it today. I took out Big Bad John, my .62 caliber Light American Sporting Rifle and I burned a BUNCH of double fg. I shot well too.Oddly,having been away from shooting for so many months thanks to my surgury I seem to have come back as good as ever. I think I'm more focused than I'd gotten to be. I'm not done hunting either. One day. Not bear anymore. Maybe boar.
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