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Geospace Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: GEOS) today announced the receipt of a $14.0 million order from SAExploration Canada LTD ("SAE") for a 10,000-channel GSX wireless recording system. Delivery of this system to SAE is expected to occur in December 2012 and the system will initially be deployed in Canada.
Darin Silvernagle, SAE Executive Vice President Technology, said, "We committed an exhaustive effort to identify a wireless system that was the right fit for our company. Our goal was to provide our expanding client base with a system suited to a wide variety of climates. The system we looked for also had to complement our high HSE standards: our crews need to be able to take full advantage of lightweight equipment and continuously improve efficiency in the field. We are very excited to be working with Geospace Technologies and look forward to a relationship that provides for continuous improvement."
Gary D. Owens, Geospace Technologies' Chairman, President and CEO, said, "We are very pleased that SAE has selected our GSX wireless system for its global seismic operations. When compared to traditional cabled systems, the improved features and performance of our wireless data acquisition systems bring competitive advantages to our customers when operating in difficult topographies like those experienced during the Canadian winter. These advantages, along with a strong base of technical support and ease-of-use in the field differentiate our wireless technology from other competitive systems."
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Geospace Technologies Corporation designs and manufactures instruments and equipment used by the oil and gas industry in the acquisition and processing of seismic data as well as in reservoir characterization and monitoring activities. The company also designs and manufactures non-seismic products, including industrial products, offshore cables, thermal printing equipment and film.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact included herein including statements regarding potential future products and markets, our potential future revenues, future financial position, business strategy, future expectations and other plans and objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. We believe our forward-looking statements are reasonable. However, they are based on certain assumptions about our industry and our business that may in the future prove to be inaccurate. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include the level of seismic exploration worldwide, which is influenced primarily by prevailing prices for oil and gas, the extent to which our new products are accepted in the market, the availability of competitive products that may be more technologically advanced or otherwise preferable to our products, tensions in the Middle East and other factors disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Further, all written and verbal forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors.
About SAExploration:
SAExploration (www.saexploration.com) is a seismic services company offering a full range of geophysical services to its oil and gas industry customers in North and South America, and Southeast Asia. SAE provides a full range of services related to the acquisition of seismic data including program design, survey, drilling, recording, in-field processing and QC.
SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. BMC has worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, BMC pairs high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization – allowing customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT per...
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The world is at a tipping point where the technology, the device and global adoption are converging to such a point that we will see an explosion of a world where smartphone devices not only allow us to talk to each other, but allow for communication between everything – serving as a central hub from which we control our world – MediaTek is at the heart of both driving this and allowing the markets to drive this reality forward themselves. The next wave of consumer gadgets is here – smart, connected, and small. If your ambitions are big, so are ours. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jack Hu, D...
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The 4th International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for Papers is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discussed how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, sensors, social, and ...
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All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo, June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be
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The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will addresses this very serious issue of profound change in the industry.
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After losing her beloved cat, Cookie, Wilma Trani's friends suggested she visit the ASPCA Adoption Center in New York City. She shared the following story with us about her first trip to the Adoption Center, and her subsequent adoption of brother and sister kittens, Milo and Mia.
My love and obsession for cats started 20 years ago. I have cared for a total of five cats, and I adopted all of them from shelters—I never have any regrets.
We recently lost our most precious, spoiled and much-loved cat of ten years, Cookie, to a serious illness, leaving us with empty hearts and an empty home. We longed for the company of another cat, but wanted to look around.
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Even though I am a dog, I feel a kinship with ALL rescue animals! I was saved from a puppy mill years ago. I am so happy that youse guys got such a great home and great peoples! Keep the faith, my friends!
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My husband and I adore cats and have four former shelter residents, all but one adopted when older. We can't imagine life without them. So very glad Milo and Mia found their forever home -- and it sounds like a great one.
Sounds like Milo and Mia hit the jackpot! Enjoy them.
Great story.
I myself took in a mama kitty and 6 just days old babies to take care of until I could find them good homes. I only have 2 left and really my daughter is supposed to take one of them but my husband can't hardly bear to part with them. The girl looks a lot like these kittens and her brother is a beautiful almost solid gray that almost looks blue sometimes. They demand love and we're happy to oblige. They are truly spoiled. And they
I have four rescue cats but not from shelters. I rescued them from a person who has no business having pets. I took in three kittens whobwere not weaned. I bottle fedvthem and they think I am their mother. I found a good home for one and kept the other two. A couple of months ago this same person asked me ton take a cat to the vet, he had been in a fight. I did and had him neutered and got his shots. She then told me she didn't want him back. I kept him also and he is so sweet and playful. Love all my rescued babies.
I also walked into a shelter after losing my precious 17-year old Oopie a year before. My friend frequently visited the shelter and thought she'd found the perfect cat for me. Although I didn't feel quite ready just yet to "betray" Oopie with another cat, I reluctantly agreed to meet this cat. Well, of course how could I just leave him behind and walk out, but as I was in the process of adopting him, the shelter worker looked at me accusingly and said "are you really going to separate him from his brother??" So out of guilt I agreed to take bro as well. Then just as I was almost out the door, they took me to a "secret" room where they have tiny kittens only weeks old, there were 10 or more piled in a big armchair. My heart melted....I had to have at least one! Two years later, Eensy, Beensy and Teensy are the best and closest of friends, and I often wonder "who saved who?" since I can't imagine coming home to a home without them. I think Oopie would understand.
Omg how cute!!!
Im also a cat lover, its so great to have people that love and take care of their pets.. Good Lucks with Milo and Mia...
Simply adorable:)
I hope that the cats enjoy their new home! I also hope that everyone has a great and safe weekend!
Three years ago my neighbor acquired a "pregnant teenager." When her four kits were about 3 weeks old, my husband reminded me we did not have a tiger cat! One of these kits was completely striped -- purrfect. But becasue our older cats might slap him, I said he needed to have a brother his own age. So I picked up an all-black one. Color coordination, you know. Well, Marko [with stripes] and Zdravko [black] are beautiful, full-grown cats now -- and the other two went to a no-kill organization that finds homes for cats and kits. So from Marko and Zdravko -- welcome Mia and Milo -- may you be as happy as we are!


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On the heels of last week's guilty plea by Raul Sanchez for his involvement in a Bronx-based dog fighting operation, we are thrilled to report that many of the dogs are thriving in their new lives as beloved pets.
In November, we told you a very happy story about Ninja, one of the dogs we rescued and rehabilitated, who found a wonderful forever home. Now we have another heartwarming success story to share: Mona Lisa, who was one of 50 dogs we rescued in June from that dark, dingy Bronx basement, recently went home to a loving family.
Mona now lives with two loving pet parents in a spacious house overlooking 50 mountainside acres, where she takes frequent hikes with her new dog sister, Zelda. Her other favorite activities include snuggling with Zelda by the fireplace and lounging on the couch with her new pet parents.
Mona Lisa's journey to adoption wasn't easy. After her rescue, she was transferred to one of our partner shelters, The Animal Support Project, Inc. (TASP) in Cropseyville, New York.
"When Mona arrived at the shelter, she cried and whined like a hyena and was extremely anxious, usually sitting pitifully at the kennel door," says Melinda Plasse of TASP. But after plenty of attention, care and time to recover, Mona made great progress. "She is outgoing," Melinda reports, "loves belly rubs, and is kind as can be to children and other animals."
When we picture Mona Lisa romping around in the woods with her new family, we can't help but smile. We're working to make sure that animals nationwide won't continue to suffer due to the cruel practice of animal fighting. Last week, legislators reintroduced the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, which would make attending an organized animal fight a federal offense and would impose additional penalties for bringing a minor to an animal fight.
Please join us in our efforts by asking your own House representative to support this important humane legislation.
How can people be so cruel? Don't we all wonder that? And yet - thank God for the rescuers and adopters for their patience and compassion. We must be vigilent to find and report these inhumane people and bring them to justice. Additionally, we need to demand from our state representatives tougher penalties for abuses such as these. Thank you to those people who are willing to be the voice for the innocent animals who cannot speak out for themselves. Happy to hear Mona's story. :)
Thank you for sharing this wonderful article with us. Mona is just darling and what that person did to all those animals makes me sick. God Bless all those wonderful animals and I hope Mona lives a very long and happy life.
They do it because they are ignorant, raised in ignorance and without compassion.
Enjoy your new and so so much deserved new life Mona Lisa!! Thank you to her new family that rescued her,you are angels!
What a wonderful story! As a rescue volunteer, I've seen so many horrible cases of abuse and neglect. It's always great to see a happy ending! Enjoy your new life Mona Lisa!
SO happy to hear that Mona Lisa has found a loving forever home!! It disgusts me that people can put innocent animals into these dog fighting rings. I'm just glad that this person was caught and punished--and that these beautiful dogs were rescued from a life of torture. Hopefully all the dogs that were there will end up having a great story like Mona Lisa's!
There's a special place in Heaven for anyone who rescues "Fighting" dogs!!!!!
I am disguisted with those who are involved with this cruel way of treating these animals. I am an HUGE advocate and wished everyone would hop on this band wagan and let the people who can make a law that will punish these people more than they are now!! it's sickening and these losers might as well commit a murder since they have no heart what so ever to human living things!!!
This always appalls me that people have so little time on their hands that they feel the need to subject poor animals to such cruelty only for the simple pleasure they seem to derive from this and also for the monies they make for such a disgusting act. They "should" be prosecuted to the full extent.
I couldn't stop myself from crying when I read about how so many dogs have found loving homes. Night to day for them. I have the deepest admiration for all of those who adopted them, but also to the ASPCA and selfless workers who saved animals from lives of hell.


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Every backpack will be inspected at Bessemer City High School this morning after the school received two bomb threats in two weeks.
School officials found a bomb threat scrawled on a boy's bathroom wall Feb. 13, said Gaston County Police Sgt. Josh Hamlin, who oversees school resource officers. On Monday, a bomb threat appeared on a girl's bathroom wall in the afternoon before school dismissed.
"It was a specific threat naming a date and time," Hamlin said.
No bomb was found during either of the sweeps that resulted. Anyone going into the school Tuesday morning had to walk through a metal detector, and school officials searched everyone's bags, Hamlin said.
"We will probably wind up dong the same thing again tomorrow morning," Hamlin said Tuesday.
The principal sent out an automated phone message to parents letting them know about the threat and the searches.
Two parents left comments on The Gazette's Facebook wall about the bomb threats.
"(I) didn't want to drop my daughter off this morning there with four county police cars in the parking lot," wrote Carla Hayes White. "Scary thought about what could happen."
The threats made Vinona Muhammad pull her son out of school.
"My son will no longer attend at this point. I started homeschooling him last week," Muhammad wrote. "I could not bear it if something happened and I (we) had warning signs."
Usually when one bomb threat is made, a second one follows, Hamlin said.
"We have to take safety very seriously," Hamlin said. "When we have a threat, whether we think it's a joke or not, we treat it as real."
Police don't have suspects in either incident. They say they discovered who was behind every bomb threat received last school year.
"Most of them are looking for attention," Hamlin said. "We've not had anybody saying that they want to get out of class."
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As Arendell Parrott Academy Headmaster Bert Bright predicted, George Whitfield wasn't going to wait until August to familiarize himself with the Patriots; he's already asked for a roster and contact information.
Whitfield became Parrott's new baseball coach on Thursday, coming out of his eight-year retirement to take the job. Coach Steve Bryant moved over to a full-time administrative position.
Whitfield is looking forward to working with today's youth, who he noted would be different from when he coached high school.
"I think the first thing you've got to learn is you've got to learn the kids," said Whitfield, whose coaching career began in 1959 at Goldsboro Junior High School. "You've got to learn what makes them tick."
The nine-time Hall of Famer, which include the North Carolina Sports and Kinston-Lenoir County Sports Halls of Fame, is already well-acquainted with the APA campus and culture. He was pleased that the few players he already met greeted him with unsolicited handshakes.
For the two-time National High School Coach of the Year, the work starts now.
"If you enjoy what you're doing," Whitfield said, "it's not work."
Having a grandson attending Parrott, he's been exposed to the academic demands of the school.
Athletically, Whitfield joins newly-hired basketball coach Wells Gulledge and takes over a team that finished 14-3 this season.
"Academics will always be our top priority, but we want all of our extracurricular activities to be top notch, including our athletics," Bright said. "We're pleased to have coach Whitfield. It's not every day you can add a multiple Hall of Famer to your staff."
Along with six decades of coaching expertise, Parrott gains a man who markedly influenced the lives of several hundred young men through baseball.
He recalled a former player at Hamlet High School who wasn't getting much time on the field. That player, whose father has just retired from Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, knocked on Whitfield's door at 1:02 in the morning one day, asking why he wasn't being played.
"I said, 'David, I'm glad you came by here because there's something I've been meaning to tell you,' " Whitfield said he told the young boy. "Just because your daddy is a great surgeon, it doesn't make you a great baseball player. You've got talent, every time we run the bases, you dog it."
David vowed he would work harder for a chance for PT, and David got his opportunity in an extra inning against Lumberton all those years ago.
He remembers firing a triple off the top of the centerfield wall to this day, as when he sees Whitfield, he says, "Coach, I never would have got off that bench if I hadn't come to see you."
David is now an air traffic controller in at the Raleigh-Durham airport and one of many impacted by the sagacious ways of Whitfield.
Whitfield said it's about discipline, inspiring players to be better citizens and doing the work with them.
He's given each player he ever coached a choice in how they want to be treated: like a child or like a man.
These baseball players, to Whitfield, are the reason for his 15 conference championships or 13 conference Coach of the Year awards.
"It's the players," Whitfield said. "Any success that I've ever had has been directly (tied) to all the boys that I've coached and the wonderful administrators that have liked athletics. That's been the fun part."
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George F. Whitfield is a member of nine Halls of Fame. Here are some of his other accolades:
Fifteen conference championships
Eight state baseball championships: 4 high school, 4 American Legion
1,199-408 overall record in high school, Legion and college
1969 and 1974 — National High School Baseball Coach of the Year
1966 — Head coach for the East Team in East/West All-Star game
1969 — Honored by ELKS Lodge No. 392 North Carolina High School Coach of the Year
1980 — Received the Governor's Baseball Award from Governor James B. Hunt Jr. and "Order of the Long Leaf Pine" award
1986 — Head coach of Area 2 for the State Games of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (team won gold medal)
1986 — Athletic Director of the Year in Region IV
1987— Scholastic Coach Magazine and Franklin Life Gold Award as one fo the Winningest Baseball Coaches in America
2000 — NCHSAA People's Choice Award Region IV
2004 — Selected as one of The Most 90 Influential people in the history of high school sports in North Carolina by the NCHSAA


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. Thanks to a two-run blast by Shelby Brown in the top of the fifth, Pfeiffer University scored the first major upset in the 2011 Conference Carolinas tournament with a 2-1 victory over top-seeded Limestone College in softball action on Friday afternoon. The Lady Falcons improve to 19-28 overall advancing to face Queens at 4:00 p.m. Friday.
Pfeiffer trailed early 1-0 after an RBI infield single by Limestone in the top of the second. The decisive runs came in the Lady Falcon fifth as the frame began with a Melanie Conklin single to center. After a sacrifice bunt by Mikaela Strickland pushed Conklin to second, Brown came up with her crucial shot on a 1-1 pitch to put Pfeiffer up 2-1.
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The Groovy-Eclipse team is proud to announce the first milestone release of the Groovy-Eclipse plugin. In this release of the plugin, we have focused on ensuring that the basic edit-compile-run/test/debug loop works as smoothly as possible. Unlike version 1 of the plugin, this version is based upon an entirely new approach to integrating the groovy compiler into eclipse, where the Eclipse JDT compiler has been extended to allow other language compilers (groovyc in this instance) to plug-in and work with it to build a project containing source files of different language types. Importantly, this approach enables incremental compilation to work for a multi-language project. We have also put significant effort into making the eclipse facilities that Java developers will be used to work naturally for groovy development, facilties like: JUnit testing, debugging, content assist, early error indication, open-type and outline views. Full feature details are below.
Cross language dependencies
Full support for any kind of dependency between .java and .groovy files is supported.
Generics Checking
Since JDT can now understand groovy source (to a degree), it applies some generics checking to the groovy code and will report correct warnings that groovyc would not normally show:
Incremental compilation
Changes made to either .java or .groovy files will result in an incremental compilation of the containing project. Even if the dependencies are in a different language, the impact of the change will correctly propagate.
AST transforms
Projects may exploit AST transforms that are accessible on the project classpath. Transforms like @Singleton that are defined by groovy are immediately accessible due to the groovy libraries being on every groovy project classpath. To exploit transforms provided by third parties, the jars containing the transform implementation must be added to the project classpath prior to usage. As a temporary feature (still under evaluation) in this version, transforms defined in .java files may be exploited in the same project they are defined, although on changing the transform it may be necessary to do a full build of the project to pick up the change.
Compiler level switching
The Groovy-Eclipse plugin M1 ships with both the 1.7-beta2 and 1.6.5 versions of the groovy compiler. Currently, the only way to switch between the two versions is outside of Eclipse. Here is how:
- Shut down Eclipse
- Go to eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator
- Make a backup copy of bundles.info
- Open bundles.info in a text editor
- Find the line for org.codehaus.groovy_1.7.0 and delete
- Restart eclipse
To re-enable the 1.7 compiler, simply reinstate the backed up copy of bundles.info.
User Interface
The wizards available mimic their Java counterparts.
New Groovy Project Wizard
The new Groovy project wizard allows you to create an Eclipse project pre-configured with Groovy support:
It supports all of the options available for Java projects:
New Groovy Class Wizard
This wizard creates a new Groovy class, with many of the same options available for the Java Class creation wizard:
New Groovy Test Case Wizard
This wizard assists you in creating a new Groovy JUnit 3 or JUnit 4 test case:
Convert Legacy projects
On startup, you are reminded to convert any legacy groovy projects in your workspace:
If you can decide to permanently dismiss this dialog box, you can still do the conversion from the preference pages:
Groovy Editor
As much as possible, we try to provide the same kind of behavior in the Groovy editor as you would expect in the Java editor. By default, the editor uses a different set of colors from the Java editor in order to emphasize the difference between the two languages. However, if you prefer standard Java syntax coloring, you can select it on the following preference page:
Additionally, the Groovy editor provides the following capabilities.
Early error indication and reconciling
Errors are highlighted as you type. This functionality is provided by hooking into JDT's reconciling capability:
An additional benefit of reconciling means that content assist proposals that come from files with unsaved changes will appear where expected. In the following example, the
Shape class the definition of the
numberOfSides property has not been saved to disk yet, but it appears in the content assist proposals list of the
ShapesTest class:
Content assist
Inferencing content assist has been available since earlier versions of the Groovy-Eclipse plugin. We are continuing to improve on this. For M1, we have focused on reliability and availability of content assist. For M2, we will focus on completeness of results. And for the final release, we will work on some performance tuning.
In following example, notice that there are two levels of inferencing happening. The editor correctly determines that
someObject is an
numberOfSides is an
And now, the inferencing engine is able to determine that the type of someObject is now a
Typing F3, or CTRL-click (CMD-click on Macs) will navigate to the definition of a reference. Navigation hooks into the same inferencing engine being used for content assist. So, pressing F3 on the following:
will open an editor on the declaration:
You can also notice reconciling at work here because the
Shape.groovy has not yet been saved since the
numberOfSides property has been added.
We have introduced some basic search functionality for M1. Currently, search will be able to locate method, field, and type references if they are explicitly typed. Local variable references cannot be found yet. This is a feature that is of primary importance for M2 and will be significantly improved in the coming snapshot builds.
Again, notice the affect of reconciling in that the search results view contains both references to
numberOfSides even though the text has not yet been written to disk.
JUnit Monospace font
There is an option in the Groovy Preferences page to show the JUnit results pane in monospace font:
This is helpful for viewing the results of Spock tests. With monospace font, the results pane is much easier to read:
than it is without:
There are two facets to M1's debug support: launching and debugging.
There are three launch options for your Groovy files and projects:
Groovy Application
This is similar to launching Java applications. A main method of a Groovy or Java class is launched and you are provided with options similar to launching a standard Java application:
Actually, this launch configuration is so similar to the Java Application launch configuration that it may disappear in future versions of the plugin. Every launchable class file generated from a Groovy script is a valid Java program. And so, all Groovy scripts should be launchable as a Java application in Eclipse. This is currently possible, but needs some further testing before we can safely remove the Groovy application launch configuration.
Groovy Script
This launch configuration launches a *.groovy file as a script. It is identical to running the
groovy command from the command line. This launch configuration does not require class files to execute. Only *.groovy files are necessary. As an example of this,it is possible to explicitly remove a Groovy file from the build:
And from here, it is still possible to execute a groovy script:
This launch configuration allows the use of the
@Grab annotation since scripts do not need to be compilable before they are executed as Groovy Scripts.
Groovy Shell
This launch configuration allows you to run a groovy shell in the console view. When run from a particular project, all class files in the classpath of the project are available from the groovy prompt. For example, it is possible to run a Groovy shell and execute code in the following manner:
Note that there is a bug on windows where the
groovy> prompt appears twice on each line. See GRECLIPSE-434.
Breakpoints and debugging
The Groovy-Eclipse plugin allows you to set breakpoints on any statement in a Groovy file, including inside closures, by clicking in the gutter bar next to the line where you want the breakpoint to occur:
When launched in debug mode as a Groovy Application or Groovy Script, execution will break when a breakpoint is reached:
When there is ambiguity as to where the breakpoint should be placed, the debugger stops at both locations. As in the previous example, the debugger will stop at the definition of the closure
c as well as whenever closure
c is invoked.
Debugging will even work if there is no class file available for the particular script being debugged. However, there is an extra step on how the debugger finds the source code for the script. When the debugger stops inside a script that does not have a corresponding class file, you will see this kind of editor:
Click on the Edit Source Lookup Path... button and you will see the following dialog:
Click on Add... and the following dialog appears:
Choose Workspace Folder and select the source folder that contains your Groovy script. The end result should look something like this:
Now, the debugger knows how to find source code for scripts without class files. Please note that in future versions of Groovy-Eclipse, we will include functionality to perform this source lookup automatically.
Viewing variables
Once a breakpoint is reached, (as in Java code) you can evaluate variables:
This lets you inspect the current state of the program and even look at the Groovy meta-classes and closures accessible in the current scope.
Runtime evaluation of Groovy code
It is also possible to evaluate code snippets from the display view while in a Groovy scope:
Java syntax is required for evaluating code snippets. What this means is that explicit casting of Groovy objects will be necessary for local variables and dynamically typed references.
Conditional breakpoints
The Groovy debugging facility supports conditional breakpoints (Java syntax required). To create a conditional breakpoint, right click on the breakpoint definition and select Breakpoint Properties...:
The breakpoint properties dialog appears. Select Enable Condition and enter the condition to break at (again, only Java syntax is available, so it will be necessary to explicitly cast all variable references):
And now the debugger will stop at the defined location only when the condition is evaluated to true!
M1 contains several new refactoring and formatting facilities.
Indentation & Formatting
The Groovy editor will automatically indent poorly indented code on a paste. So, this:
Becomes this:
Quick suffix switching
It is simple to convert from a
.java file to a
.groovy file and back using the context menu:
Organize imports
The Groovy editor supports automatic organizing of imports (CTRL-Shift-O or CMD-Shift-O). Or you can set your project to automatically organize on save through the project properties page:
Note that only Remove unused imports, format on save, and indent on save are respected in Groovy editors. All other cleanup options are ignored.
@Grab annotation
Basic support for Grape and the Grab annotation is included, but the code using the annotation may show a compile error (due to a missing dependency), however it will run as a groovy script:
Issues addressed for M1
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In prior years, the Defense Base Realignment and Closure process has come to be known for shutting down military bases for good. Indeed, that held true in the current BRAC round for many parts of the nation.
But for bases in the national capital region and a handful of others around the country, the 2005 BRAC round meant huge growth, not closure, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and workforce support services on those installations.
To say Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia is growing would be an understatement. It is the largest net-gainer in terms of new personnel from the 2005 round of BRAC decisions. By the time all the moves are finished, its workforce will have nearly doubled in size. Army officials say it will soon be the fourth largest base in the continental U.S.
At Fort Meade in Maryland, the growth numbers are smaller, but BRAC has brought 5,400 new people to the base. And moves that have nothing to do with BRAC but just happen to be occurring at around the same time are adding another 7,000 personnel to Meade.
By far, the largest new inflow of personnel into Fort Meade as a result of BRAC decisions comes from the construction of a new headquarters for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). But to support its workforce of 4,600 and encourage them to make the move from the agency's various locations in northern Virginia, DISA also built a number of creature comforts into its new 1.1 million square foot facility. David Bullock, DISA's senior executive in charge of BRAC issues, said considerations relating to the comfort of the workforce went right down to the design of employee's desks.
The agency's old workplaces were filled with cubicles that employees referred to as "bunkers," Bullock said during a tour the agency provided to Federal News Radio. He said the new desk walls are high enough to allow privacy, but low enough that employees aren't cut off from their co-workers. Additionally, each workspace includes areas set aside for informal, impromptu meetings and discussions, allowing colleagues to meet and discuss issues without ducking into a conference room for hours.
"We were very concerned about reconstituting the workforce at Fort Meade, so we wanted to create a facility that would be appealing to our workers, that would be attractive, that would provide a great deal of openness, a great deal of natural lighting, and would provide a collaborative environment where people getting together to do extremely technical functions could operate with other employees," he said. "That was one of the goals we laid out for our design-build team in designing the overall building."
DISA builds in comforts
Outside the workspaces themselves, DISA built its own conference center and training center for more formal gatherings. It also has a 750-seat dining facility and its own fitness center with three fitness specialists and five full-time instructors, with classes on everything from Pilates to yoga to spinning to kickboxing. Employees are given three paid hours per week that they can use to exercise in the facility.
DISA also built a dedicated power supply system to provide energy to the large campus, which covers an area the size of 24 football fields. Two separate lines connect not to the rest of the Fort Meade grid, but to independent substations off-base. The agency also has backup generator and battery power systems, as well as its own backup water supply.
For the base's management, having DISA bring its own infrastructure took pressure off of existing facilities that are feeling the strain of other tenants moving to Fort Meade under BRAC, including the Defense Media Activity, a new consolidated DoD security clearance adjudication center and other Defense components moving to the base for non-BRAC reasons.
"It's not actually common for organizations to come in and build a fitness center inside of their facility," Col. Dan Thomas, Fort Meade's garrison commander told Federal News Radio's The Federal Drive in an interview. "For instance, we're finishing a new brigade headquarters here on the base, which has nothing to do with BRAC, but there's no fitness center there because we as a garrison are supposed to provide those underlying service provisions.
Fort Belvoir growing by leaps and bounds.
Forty miles to the south, the growth at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia is even more pronounced, though it's not primarily driven by the move of any one DoD organization. Belvoir's main post and three satellite locations will have taken in an additional 19,300 personnel by the time this year's BRAC moves are complete. Mostly administrative, logistics and intelligence personnel are arriving from primarily leased office space around the national capital region.


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The WebApp Deployer is for static deployment standard WAR files and webapps with little or no Jetty specific customization. For hot deployment of customized contexts, use the Context Deployer.
The WebAppDeployer replaces the static method call org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.addWebApplications that was used to discover and deploy webapplication during startup. This method is now deprecated, but still works (by calling an instance of WebApplicationDeployer).
The basic operation of WebAppDeployer is to scan a directory at startup for WAR files or webapp directories and the deploy the webapplications found. Typically this is done from a jetty.xml file:
The WebAppDeployer is added to the server as a LifeCycle. This simply means that the deployer will be started and stopped with the server. Ie when server.start() is called, then start will also be called on the deployer.
The context passed in is a reference to a HandlerContainer in which the discovered webapps will be deployed. This is normally an instance of ContextHandlerCollection.
The webAppDir is a file path or URL to the directory to scan for webapplications. Zip files ending with .war or .zip are deployed. Directories not call CVS are also deployed. The basename of the war (eg foo from foo.war) or the directory name are used as the context path of the discovered webapps, unless the name is "root", in which case the context path of / is used.
The parentLoaderPriority parameter is a boolean that selects of the standard java parent first delegation Classloading will be used or the servlet specification webapp Classloading priority.
If the extract parameter is true, any packed war or zip files will first be extracted to a temporary directory before being deployed. This is advisable if there are uncompiled JSPs in the web apps.
If the allowDuplicates parameter is false, the discovered webapps will be checked against existing deployed webapps and will not be deployed if the same context path or war files is already deployed (perhaps by another deployer).
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Results vs. Queens (2009-04-09 15:00:00)
April 9, 2009Misenheimer, NC - The Pfeiffer University Falcons won a dual match over the Royals of Queens University of Charlotte in Conference Carolinas tennis action on Thursday afternoon at the Knapp Tennis Center. The Pfeiffer women earned a big 6-3 win and improve to 8-10 on the season, while the men won 5-4 and also improve to 8-10 overall.
The Pfeiffer women started with two victories in doubles play. Patty Dominguez (Caracas, Venezuela) and Brittany Dickens (Wake Forest, NC) won 8-4 for the Falcons. Catie Thomas (Asheboro, NC) and Amanda Huffaker (Maryville, TN) added an 8-1 win in the third match.
Dominguez, Maddy Billeter (Boca Raton, FL), Huffaker, and Dickens all earned wins in singles play. Dominguez won 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 at number one, while Billeter won by a score of 6-3, 6-1 at number four. Huffaker beat her opponent 6-1, 6-0 at number five and Dickens added a win at number six 6-1, 6-0.
Philip Lawson (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Johan deWit (Windhoek, Namibia) took the men's only doubles win 9-7 in the first match of the day. The Falcons then proceeded to win four matches in singles play. Lawson won 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 at number one. DeWit added another win at number three 6-1, 6-0. AJ Flores (Atlanta, GA) took his match 6-3, 6-4 at number four, while Frank Pouchet (Miami, FL) added Pfeiffer's last win 6-2, 6-3 at number five.
The Falcons return to the courts on Saturday as they play host to Limestone.Pfeiffer v. Queens 04/09/09 Doubles Carpenter/Billeter v. Milevia/Blakey - Q 8-2 Dominguez/Dickens v. Hawn/Winship - P 8-4 Thomas/Huffaker v. LaRocco/O'Neil - P 8-1 Singles Dominguez v. Mileva - P 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 Thomas v. Blakey - Q 6-1, 6-3 Carpenter v. Hawn - Q 6-1, 6-3 Billeter v. Winship - P 6-3, 6-1 Huffaker v. LaRocco - P 6-1, 6-0 Dickens v. O'Neil - P 6-1, 6-0


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Ron Gray is definitely a cat person, at least when it comes to lesson planning. Cats — big ones — help him bring a complex concept to life in his Waldo Middle School classroom, where the cat of the day is the cougar and the lesson is symbiosis — the delicate environmental balance and interdependence between people, predators and prey. He wants his students to learn how animal populations are affected by predators, disease, habitat restrictions and availability of food and water. "You are going to be a cougar today," Gray tells his students, "and your job is to get enough food to eat."
Gray '98, MAT'01, has adapted the same lesson for different learners, the people who inhabit the rolling savannas of Namibia, Africa. There, the delicate balance is between farmers, their livestock and the sleek, swift, spotted creature that has fallen victim to a relationship gone awry, another big cat — the cheetah.
Africa is a long way from Willamette University, where Gray studied biology thinking he wanted to become a doctor. But a restless desire to explore the world and a visit to a friend in South Central Los Angeles waylaid those early plans. More on that later.
Fast forward a few years to the time Gray met Laurie Marker, executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), after she spoke at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. Marker told Gray that the CCF — an organization recognized worldwide for its cheetah research and conservation efforts — lacked enough trained educators in its ranks. Gray had been teaching for several years at Waldo Middle School in Salem and realized this could be the ultimate travel experience he had been seeking. He quickly volunteered to go to Namibia, home to the largest population of cheetahs left in the world. He eventually made four visits to the country, where he worked for CCF and the Ministry of Basic Education, part of Namibia's government.
The cheetah, the oldest of the big cats, once roamed five continents in plentiful numbers. Just a short century ago, more than 100,000 lived in 44 countries in Africa and Asia. Today the cheetah is endangered: The species is nearly extinct in Asia, and only about 12,500 cheetahs remain in the world, mostly in Africa. Namibia alone lost half of its cheetah population during the 1980s, with current estimates hovering around 2,500.
Numerous factors have led to this rapid decline, not the least of which is human encroachment. Cheetahs prefer living in Namibia's open grasslands because they need ample space to find food and mates and to raise their young. But as human populations continue to grow, more people have moved into the grasslands to live and raise their livestock. When their goats disappear, farmers often blame the far more visible cheetahs rather than the stealthy leopards that often are at fault, Gray says. Farmers shoot the cheetahs on sight, fearing them as aggressive predators — a reputation contrary to the animal's gentler nature and innate avoidance of humans. As development encroaches further into the grasslands, cheetahs lose the large, open spaces they need.
"Our goal is to get people to understand why predators are important," Gray says. "We don't tell them to never shoot a cheetah because sometimes there may be problem animals causing havoc. We're just trying to get them to understand if they don't need to shoot, then please don't." To help Namibian schools incorporate environmental issues such as predator awareness into their curriculum, Gray spearheaded a project to publish a teacher's guide and to rewrite Namibian textbooks. Previous textbooks had been modeled on those from other countries and had little relevance to Africa's environment. The spotted owl that might grace the pages of an endangered species lesson in an American classroom held little meaning for Namibian children accustomed to sharing the savanna with big cats.
Assessing the existing knowledge base of CCF staff members and using that expertise to conduct training on environmental issues was one of Gray's challenges for the project, Laurie Marker says. "To get CCF's predator activities into the Namibian curriculum, Ron needed to find out how this could be done, work together with the organization that deals with curriculum development, and submit CCF's materials," she says. "Then follow up and more follow up."
Gray led the effort to create a new guide for Namibian teachers, one that included everything from how to distinguish a cheetah from the similarly spotted leopard (look for the teardrop-shaped lines from the corner of the cheetah's eyes to its mouth) to the important role the animals play in a healthy ecosystem, helping control the prey population. The guide, distributed to every teacher in Namibia, also provides tips on how to protect livestock against predators, such as acquiring a guard dog.
"The hard thing is coming up with lessons that don't require photocopiers or other resources," Gray says. "Also, in a lot of ways, their schools are like those in America in that they have standards and nationwide tests, and you can't get very far away from those in your teaching. We had to figure out how to introduce the concepts we wanted in a way they could incorporate into their lessons."
"Cheetahs are an incredibly interesting species that is nearly on its way out, but we'd like to keep them around if possible. You have to try to get people to realize and be interested in what a cheetah is and to see it as an important part of their country."
– Ron Gray '98, MAT'01
One of those lessons is the importance of maintaining a diversity of species in their country. "Cheetahs are an incredibly interesting species that is nearly on its way out, but we'd like to keep them around if possible," Gray says. "You have to try to get people to realize and be interested in what a cheetah is and to see it as an important part of their country."
Gray should know. He went through the same process himself, learning many lessons about cheetahs along the way. He quickly discovered they are not the fierce, intimidating cats some might expect. In fact, they're afraid of humans, and they chirp like birds instead of roaring. (Hear for yourself at cheetah.org.)
CCF encourages Namibians who have captured cheetahs to bring them in to the organization's farm rather than shoot them. Gray has hand-fed such cheetahs, including babies, to help them survive — and he has dealt with news of those that didn't, like 3-month-old Peep. The tiny cub had been captured and abused before coming to CCF, where Gray helped care for it. The day after Gray left for home, he found out Peep had died.
But not all the stories are somber. Gray has many fond memories of helping cheetahs exercise by running a motor that pulls a rag on a string around a course. The cheetahs chase the fabric scrap until they tire (see photo on previous page). The person running the motor "gets to play the ultimate video game and keep the rag just out of reach of the cheetahs," Gray says. He also worked with CCF to return the animals to their natural habitat. "The releases are pretty fun when you actually get to take the cage out, open it up and watch the cheetahs run back into the wild," Gray says. "They react so differently. Some of them just fly out, and others you have to coerce to get them out of the cage."
The organization's work — and Gray's — has had an impact. The population of cheetahs has begun to stabilize in recent years. School curriculum has started to incorporate predator awareness and conservation issues. But beyond that, Namibians are starting to think of cheetahs differently. When Marker started CCF in 1990, she would go to the town of Otjiwarongo and face hostile residents who just wanted to be left alone. Now the town has a huge banner declaring they are "Cheetah Capital of the World." "There are cheetahs everywhere in the town," Gray says. "You go to the schools and kids are making papier-mâché cheetahs. It's very exciting."
Marker says Gray helped empower other CCF staff members who saw the effectiveness of his gentle, yet direct teaching style. "CCF is fortunate to have him as one of our very close friends. Besides developing the new teacher's guide, he has helped U.S. teachers here in Namibia learn about the value of the work being done at CCF to assist the survival of the cheetah," she says. "At the same time, he is assisting livelihoods in rural Namibia through maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Ron teaches science in such a fun way that anyone and everyone gets excited."
Back to that transformational visit to Los Angeles. When Gray saw the work his friend was doing there with Teach for America, he knew he had to get involved. Before he knew it, he was getting an emergency teaching credential — and his own middle school class in the inner city.
"I wanted to see more of the world, and you can see a lot of the world in South Central," Gray says. That included rampant gang activity, a sweltering classroom where he couldn't open the blinds for fear of drive-by shootings, and a school building that cleared out at 4 p.m. because it wasn't safe to be there after dark.
Gray soon realized teaching was his true calling so, abandoning thoughts of medical school, he enrolled in Willamette's 10-month master of arts in teaching program. He thought he wanted to teach high school, but when a position opened up at Waldo Middle School, he took it. Waldo gave him the chance to teach students like those he had met in L.A. — poor, diverse, struggling to succeed. "This is the type of kids I like to teach. They're more real. It's challenging, and you take on more roles. You're a counselor and a teacher."
Gray used his experiences in Namibia to develop classroom lessons on conservation, and he often shared his many photos of Africa with his students. "He's able to bring the lessons alive with his knowledge and firsthand experience with the animals and people of Africa. It really gets the kids interested in the subject matter," Waldo Principal Joe LaFountaine says. "Waldo has a very service-oriented student body. Ron brings Africa into the classroom to help the students understand there's another entirely separate continent and way of life that exists here in our world. He helps them understand what their role might be in that world."
Gray seeks that same understanding for himself. The lesson on symbiosis was one of his last for awhile. He is taking time off to pursue a doctorate in science education, looking for new challenges, he says. But Gray knows he'll return to education in some way — perhaps in another middle school helping the pre-teens who have captured his heart. "Most people are scared of teaching middle school," he says. "It takes some humility, but it's a great age to teach. I'll really miss these kids." Big cats aside, Gray's teaching experience illustrates a more personal symbiosis — between the teacher who wants to make a difference in the world and the young students who rely on him to succeed.
These facts were collected from the Cheetah Conservation Fund. For more, go to www.cheetah.org.


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To paraphrase Carl Sagan's famous remark, there are billions upon billions of stars and other sparkly things out there in the night skies. Gazing into the heavens on a clear night can be a mystical experience, but the real magic occurs when you understand what you're looking at.
Astronomy began thousands of years ago when shepherds in the field gazed up at the sky and saw the outlines of objects and mythical beings traced by patterns of stars. As time passed and technology evolved, our knowledge of the sky improved. But to this day, we still cling to the same 88 constellations envisioned by those ancient shepherds on long ago sleepless nights.