clearing out some warnings
allow better customization of threadfactory for all threads created
id and group are now parameterized types instead of required to be
string.  This will make more advanved load balancing decisions easier.
moving the revision number up one.  Almost ready for a release version
* cleaned up a lot of warnings (still much to do)
* make the API a little easier (still... much to do)
* fixed a startup issue so that ready members are detected on startup
correctly if