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JON CARDINELLI watched the Wallabies hang on for what could be the unlikeliest yet most significant victory at this 2011 World Cup.
Did the better team win? It's a question the Springboks will be asking themselves from now and until the next global tournament in 2015.
South Africa controlled the game for large periods but were repeatedly undone by the Wallabies' heroic defence. David Pocock was talked about as a danger man in the build up, and after a breakdown performance highlighted by some momentum stalling and often try-saving turnovers, he was undoubtedly the game's MVP.
Much will be said about referee Bryce Lawrence's performance with the whistle. Lawrence adopted an 'anything goes' policy at the rucks, but it was the Wallabies that adapted to the official's style early on. The Wallabies dominated the collisions in the first half, and with Heinrich Brussow crying off with a rib injury, the Boks battled to combat Pocock's inhibiting presence at the breakdown.
The Boks enjoyed as much as 84% territory and 55% possession in the first half, and yet only garnered a three point return. Their poor ball security at ruck time led to turnovers, as did their tendency to spill the ball in contact.
They upped their game in both respects in the second stanza, and it was all the Aussie could do to hang on. The subdue and conquer style so prominent and effective in 2009 once again held sway, and the Wallabies forwards struggled to resist the Boks when they cleaned out would-be ball poachers. They also battled to deal with the high ball, which was well chased by South Africa's belligerent backs.
Quade Cooper had a shocker. After a dropping a high ball first up, he was often caught in possession and failed to provide the expected impact with the boot. A number of Wallabies grew increasingly susceptible as the game wore on, but the Boks just lacked that killer blow.
There's no denying that the Boks had their chances. Jean de Villiers made a scything break in the second stanza and put Pat Lambie away for a try, only to be called back for a forward pass. Fourie du Preez thought he was in for a five-pointer when some good Bok defence dislodged the ball centimetres from the Aussie line. Unfortunately, the ball was again knocked free as Du Preez reached for the line.
Every Bok surge into Wallabies territory was succeeded by a desperate display of defence. The turnover followed, and the Aussies' inability to clear their lines with any great distance ensured the game remained in the Wallabies' half. The Boks' lineout dominance also contributed to their territorial ascendancy, but in the end they will lament their inconsistent showing at the breakdown, as well as their poor finishing when it was on out wide.
After a frustrating period on attack, Morne Steyn finally put the Boks ahead 9-8 with a well-taken drop-goal. With 20 minutes to play, the momentum was with the Boks and if they continued to play in Wallabies territory and control possession, they would advance to the semi-finals.
But the introduction of Berrick Barnes had the desired effect for the Wallabies, and after a series of tactical kicking misfires by his team-mates, he delivered a rolling kick deep into the Boks' 22. The Wallabies remained in the Boks' half and eventually won a penalty, which James O'Connor held his nerve to convert.
It was a massive moment for the youngster, who had missed a relatively easy attempt in the first half. If he had missed, the chances were the Boks would regain possession, resume control and win the game. If he slotted it, it would set up a dramatic eight minutes where the Wallabies would need to continue to repel the rampant Bok forwards.
Through the Herculean efforts of Bismarck du Plessis and Schalk Burger, the Boks threw everything at the Aussies in those final minutes. They even managed to turn the Wallabies over, but unfortunately knocked it on just when they were moving back into the area of the field where Steyn would be able to kick for goal.
From there, the Wallabies closed out the game smartly. It will remain one of the great escapes for the Wallabies, but the Boks can hardly argue that they deserved to win this game. They didn't take their opportunities, and on the day, the scoreboard will show that they were punished for that failure to convert dominance into points.


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CHARLOTTE – For the first half of Saturday's Charlotte Bobcats-New Orleans Hornets game, it appeared the Bobcats would easily end their 17-game losing streak.
After all, the Bobcats held a 21-point lead just before halftime.
But as this team – and its fans – have found out all too often this season, no lead is safe for Charlotte.
Such was the case on Saturday as New Orleans rallied, caught and passed the Bobcats in a 98-95 loss in front of a crowd of 18,110 at Time Warner Cable Arena.
Charlotte (7-23) had two tries to tie the game on 3-pointers by Ben Gordon and Ramon Sessions in the final six seconds. But both missed and the Hornets (7-23) escaped with the victory.
Rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had a team-high 22 points on 11-14 shooting for Charlotte. Gerald Henderson added 19 points, Kemba Walker 15, Ben Gordon 14 and Hakim Warrick 12 points and 10 rebounds.
For New Orleans, Eric Gordon had 24 points in his first game of the season after missed the first 29 games with a right knee injury.
For a half, it appeared Kidd-Gilchrist was going to get the better of his former Kentucky teammate Anthony Davis through individual play that included several one-on-one matchups against one another. Davis, who went first in last June's draft with Kidd-Gilchrist going No. 2, finished with eight points and 10 rebounds.
Kidd-Gilchrist scored 12 points in the second quarter before heading to the locker room late in the opening after suffering a right eye contusion in a scrum for a loose ball that resulted in a jump ball with New Orleans' Greivis Vasquez.
Kidd-Gilchrist returned with 5:22 left in the third quarters wearing protective goggles.
By the time he returned, the 21-point lead had been cut in half. And by the 3:11 mark of the third quarter, New Orleans had tied the game at 65.
The Hornets tied Charlotte twice more before Anderson's 3-pointer with 5:48 left gave New Orleans the lead for good.
Notes: Lance Thomas, embroiled in a jewelry loan scandal during Duke's 2009-10 NCAA title season since late in the summer, said he hasn't talked to the NCAA nor has been contacted by the NCAA. "There's nothing to say about it," said Thomas, a second-year Hornets forward before Saturday's game. "I'm just focusing on this team. I was surprised, but like I said, you have to do things the right way. You try to reach out to the right people and help take care of the situation and I did." When asked if he was close to telling his side of the story, Thomas offered: "I'm not sure yet. I'm still going to wait and see." Thomas in October reached a settlement with the jewelers that were suing him.…
With his son Jamelle McMillan in his first season as a coaching intern for Monty Williams with the New Orleans, former N.C. State star and longtime NBA coaching veteran Nate McMillan was in attendance a few rows behind the Hornets' bench….
Jamelle and Nate McMillan weren't the only familiar faces with the Hornets, as former Belmont Abbey equipment manager David Jovanovic remains the only equipment manager in Hornets team history and former Charlotte and New Orleans Hornets standout David Wesley is in his first season as Hornets' TV network color commentator….
After visiting Chicago on Monday at 3 p.m., the Bobcats get three days off before hosting Cleveland Friday at 7 p.m.
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Ireland will have the biggest representation in the British & Irish Lions squad to be announced on Tuesday afternoon.
This is not unexpected, as the Six Nations winners boast some fine players, including Paul O'Connell, who is widely tipped to be named as captain ahead of countryman Brian O'Driscoll.
Wales, it is reported, will also be well represented in the 35 or 36 man squad. England's poor form will count against them, with Martin Johnson's side providing just a handful pf players, many of whom are not expected to be regularly involved in the Test squad. The New Zealand-born Riki Flutey is an exception, and is expected to start the Test matches alongside O'Driscoll in midfield.
According to reports, there could be some high-profile omissions in the back division including Wales utility-back James Hook and England flyhalf Danny Cipriani. The most startling news, however, comes from the Times of London who report that Shane Williams, IRB Player of the Year, is not certain of being selected.
It would, however, be highly unlikely that coach Ian McGeechan and his selectors will omit the winger, who shone against the Springboks in the 2008 mid-year Tests. He could, however, be reduced to the role of impact player.
Wales centre Gavin Henson will be given as much time to recover from injury as possible and is expected to be named in the squad despite having just two matches to prove his fitness prior to their departure for South Africa. There will be no such grace extended to injury-plagued England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson.
Scotland are set to contribute a maximum of four players – scrumhalf Mike Blair being a likely selection, while forwards Ross Ford, Nathan Hines and Euan Murray have an outside chance.
Lions team manager Gerald Davies said form in the Six Nations and Heineken Cup didn't always translate into form for the Lions and added that a starting berth for their respective national sides wouldn't guarantee a run-on start for the Lions.
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Aug 21, 2006 01:44 PM|synced|LINK
Hey gang.
I'm going to give this another shot. I really hope someone can help me out and point out where my mistake is.
My understanding is LINQ/DLINQ and BLINQ is supposed to make querying data much simpler and using this data much simpler as well.
So I am trying to create a webservice, of which I can use DLINQ to make a query, and use the objects BLINQ generated for easy use. My webservice code is wrong but I can't get anyone in the DLINQ forum to point out whats wrong with it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Basically once the webservice returns a collection of objects I want to bind it to the datasource of a GridView. I believe I can do that in the Atlas OnComplete callback but I am not even at that point yet as the Webservice crashes.
Here is the code:
public Domain[] Search(string searchText)
MyDomains db = MyDomains.CreateDataContext();
Domain[] obj;
obj = (from dom in db.Domains
select dom).ToArray<Domain>();
return obj;
I don't know if I've implemented this right, but the compiler is stating:
Error 1 'System.Data.DLinq.Table<Domain>' does not contain a definition for 'ToArray'
So I believe my biggest issue is, what do I set the return type as for the webservice. Someone in DLINQ forum said ToArray but that doesn't exist. I tried list, etc but I get errors on runtime about circular references.
Could anyone please help? All the BLINQ generated stuff works great but how do I add my own queries that return different data?
I really want to build ontop of BLINQ and evaluate it as our next web platform for our company for when LINQ/DLINQ/BLINQ goes final but I've been stuck on this issue for >1 week. I feel very silly as all I read is how simple things should be but obviously I have done something wrong.
Please help me understand :)
Thanks and take care.
Aug 22, 2006 01:30 PM|synced|LINK
Anyone? please? If this stuff doesn't work in the current CTP that is fine. I am trying to do something pretty common place I would think. I know I have done it wrong I just don't know where. I've tried various return types with no such luck.
Please a little guidance where my error is would be highly appreciated.
Thanks and take care.
Aug 23, 2006 06:51 PM|synced|LINK
Aug 23, 2006 07:02 PM|phuff|LINK
Aug 23, 2006 08:32 PM|synced|LINK
Thank you so much Polita!
I just wan't sure if this is something not known yet or just nobody fealt like responding.
I have some questions for you which may be able to help me figure out what the issue is.
I think my problem is the return type.
Someone in the LINQ forum mentioned that you need to use System.Data.Extensions.dll so you can ToArray() the LINQ query and you return the array from your webservice.
Unfortunately they are saying System.Data.Extensions.Dll does not work in website model, only in web application model.
As far as I know BLINQ generates a project in Website model correct? I really don't know much about this stuff but if we are able to piece it together I would love to throw a blog post up somewhere about it.
Thanks and take care!
Aug 23, 2006 08:52 PM|phuff|LINK
This, I think I can answer!
If the ToArray() extension method is defined in System.Data.Extensions.dll, you should be able to add that binary to your Bin folder, include it in the compiler options specified in the web.config file, add it as a "using" statement to your .cs file (or as an import to your .vb file), and you'll be good to go. Give it a try.
I think what the LINQ team was saying is that the LINQ Web template they shipped with the May preview supports only the web app model and not the website model. However, since you're using a Blinq app (which uses the website model) you are not using their template. You should be able to make this work in your app.
In the end, the compiler and linker don't know anything about whether it's a website or a web application. It's just a set of files that get compiled together to build a library. So if something compiles in one model, there is probably a way to make it compile in the other model.
Aug 23, 2006 10:24 PM|synced|LINK
Thanks Polita!
I think this is where my experience starts to run a little thin so may need to request some of your expertise :)
So I am assuming I need to add a similiar line to:
<add assembly="System.Windows.Forms, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
Correct? So I would make an entry with System.Data.Extensions.dll
I have done this, and I tried to use sn -T to find the PublicKeyToken for System.Data.Extensions.dll and it does not work.
So I left out the PublicKeyToken and I still get the following error on my "using" clause:
Error 20 The type or namespace name 'Extensions' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Data' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Any guidance would be great :)
Aug 23, 2006 10:43 PM|phuff|LINK
It looks to me like System.Data.Extensions.dll is already in the Bin folder.
However, I looked up the ToArray(IEnumerable<T>) extension method and it looks to me like it's in System.Query.dll in the System.Query namespace. This means all you should need is a using statement for System.Query. Your StaticMethods file should already have this in it. If you try to use this method in you StaticMethods file, does it compile and work correctly?
Aug 24, 2006 01:47 PM|synced|LINK
Good morning!
Thanks so much for the help Polita. I feel like such a dumbass. Apparently I was missing System.Data in my using clause. VS wasn't giving much of a useful error to figuring this out, oh well my mistake!
So now I am in a serialization pickle I think. The following code causes the following exception when the WebService is tested:
MyDomains db = MyDomains.CreateDataContext();
var domains = from dom in db.Domains
select dom;
return domains;
System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type Domain.
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationWriter.WriteStartElement(String name, String ns, Object o, Boolean writePrefixed, XmlSerializerNamespaces xmlns)
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriter1.Write5_Domain(String n, String ns, Domain o, Boolean isNullable, Boolean needType)
So I've tried returning Domain[] I've tried returning Table<Domain> still get this serialization error.
Perhaps I need to create a datasource in the WebService then return the actual Datasource. But I am not sure if I can serialize datasources or not and then set them dynamically to the GridView via javascript.
You might know since you wrote GridView though :) GridView rocks btw!
Aug 25, 2006 01:09 PM|synced|LINK
Based on the above. Any thoughts of what I could return from my webservice that would be serializable that I can set GridView's datasource to?
Thanks and take care.
Aug 25, 2006 06:00 PM|phuff|LINK
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that a DataContext might not be serializable. I talked to the LINQ team about "tear offs", or serializability, and they agreed that it was a scenario but didn't have time to make it work in the May LINQ Preview.
The best place to get information on DataContext serializability is the LINQ forum. The LINQ team monitors it and will answer questions and take requests for features.
Sorry I can't help you more. I hope the LINQ team can help.
Aug 27, 2006 06:46 PM|rtortima|LINK
Hi Polita,
I have been following DLinq/BLinq dev evolution. AFAIK, its not intended to work natively with Oracle, MySql or other DB but SqlServer. Is it true?
So after releasing the final version (any idea when it would be?), will it be others providers job to make this link between Linq and DB tech?
Aug 28, 2006 04:50 PM|synced|LINK
Hope you had a good weekend!
Thanks for the reply Polita.
I can understand not everything works yet in the CTP's, that is fine.
I also have some questions as I have been previewing a lot of the CTP's as of lately. We are a web shop deciding if we want to switch to ASP.NET and these CTP's are giving us great insight into if we will make the switch or not.
From what I understand BLINQ does 2 things:
1. Created classes that are bound to your DB so you can use OO for data access
2. Auto-generate listing/insert/update/delete pages based off all of the generated classes in #1.
So I have been starting to take a look at ADO.NET vNext CTP. What I am concerned is having seperate data layers half being the auto-generated BLINQ ones, and then using ADO.NET vNext for other things. Is it possible later versions of BLINQ will be using vNext for its objects rather than custom codegen classes?
I really like the wizards ADO.NET vNext has, but I also really like what BLINQ has to offer with auto-generated pages. I really don't want to have 2 seperate OO data layers to work with on one site.
Any insight on what the future holds would be great for our understanding of how things piece together. We have no problem waiting for things to mesh together in the CTP's but any insight on how all the pieces relate would be great.
So far ASP.NET's new technology CTP's have us very interested, great work :)
Aug 29, 2006 12:34 AM|phuff|LINK
The May LINQ Preview supports only SQL Server. However, other providers will be supported when LINQ is released.
Sep 05, 2006 07:56 PM|synced|LINK
Can you please comment on my questions above? I am still concerned about having 2 branches of my data model created as objects for me and dealing with 2 API etc.
Thanks and take care.
Sep 05, 2006 08:11 PM|phuff|LINK
Sep 05, 2006 09:26 PM|synced|LINK
Hmm I see. I thought ADO.NET vNext was an actual product update? I just sort of see a bit of overlap where both ADO.NET vNext and BLINQ generate objects to access your DB. So if I am going to use BLINQ along with the next iteration of ADO.NET then I am going to have 2 seperate versions of my DB generated into classes, with different API.
Honestly feel that I am getting confused by Microsoft blurring the lines too much. I love the power BLINQ has for auto-generating pages, but both BLINQ and ADO.NET vNext generate an object structure of your DB and if some components use ADO.NET vNext, and BLINQ doesn't use ADO.NET vNext objects, then I am basically forced to use both. Which seems like overkill to me.
It could be I am just confused as well, very possible :) I am just concerned of having my DB generated twice and using 2 seperate API etc. Very confusing!
Thanks for all your help throughout.


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The Stormers did not lack for ambition in Bloemfontein against the Cheetahs. They did bloody well to win the game and the atrocious weather was always going to limit the potential of four-try bonus points. The Stormers were composed in their approach because they knew they had to win first before thinking of the additional bonus points.
They are one league point from finishing top of the table. League leaders the Chiefs, away from home in their final outing, have the tougher assignment this weekend.
The Stormers play the Rebels at Newlands and it is in this match that they will score the four tries needed to get the additional league point. I am taking it as a given that they won't lose to Australia's newest franchise, a squad that plays with great ticker but which, in only their second season of existence, still has too many journeymen to challenge the better teams on the road.
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For now, they represent the most favourable prospect for the Stormers, whose achievement to sustain a winning momentum cannot be overstated.
Other teams that have suffered equally severe disruption have taken a few on-field beatings, dropped points regularly and used the lack of consistency in performance as mitigation for their failure to make the play-offs.
The Stormers, as a unit, have shown remarkable resilience to be in such a position of strength with one week of the regular season remaining.
I have been critical of their lack of attack, which is not to be confused with any lack of ambition to score tries. There is certainly effort every week, but the Stormers for the past three seasons have played to a predetermined style that is defensive-orientated.
It was the view of the management and senior players that defence would be more effective in their play-off hopes than all-out attack.
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Endometrial ablation is the surgical destruction of the lining tissues of the uterus, known as the endometrium. Endometrial ablation is one type of treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding.
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Endometrial ablation is a treatment for abnormal bleeding of the uterus that is due to a benign (non-cancerous) condition. It is not a sufficient treatment when bleeding is caused by cancer of the uterus, since cancer cells may have grown into the deeper tissues of the uterus and can't often be removed by the procedure.
Endometrial ablation is only performed on a nonpregnant woman who does not plan to become pregnant in the future. It should not be performed if the woman has an active infection of the genital tract. This treatment is not a first-line therapy for heavy bleeding and should only be considered only when medical and hormonal therapies have not been sufficient to control the bleeding.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in its report for January said the United States in 2013 may post the highest oil supply increase among non-member states. U.S. oil production should increase by 490,000 barrels of oil per day this year to reach an average of 10.4 million bpd. OPEC said much of the production increase should come from more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the oil boom under way in North Dakota. Production from member states Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, declined. Overall, world oil demand for 2013 remains unchanged according to OPEC at 800,000 bpd. The cartel, however, said it expected a marginal decline of 200,000 bpd compared to 2012 for OPEC crude. The modest adjustments follow estimates from OPEC that the global economy will grow by 0.2 pe
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Tortured by his past and pained by an uncertain future, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming anger and emptiness. But when he meets the mysterious, beautiful, and shy Nagisa, his world seems to change. Drawn in by her gentle but lonely spirit, he begins to experience the joy life can bring. But as he discovers the reason for his newfound friend's loneliness, Tomoya also finds that life can be frighteningly fragile.
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The Groovy-Eclipse team is proud to announce the release of Groovy-Eclipse 2.6.1. Since this is the first release since Grails 2.0 has been available, we have made Groovy 1.8 the default compiler in Groovy-Eclipse. Also, we have started releasing snapshots of our 4.2-based Groovy-Eclipse.
You can use the following update sites to install this release:
If you want the Groovy 1.8 compiler, you must explicitly include it by checking the "Extra compilers" category.
And a zipped version of the update site is available at:
Inferencing enhancments
Inferring type of overloaded operators
Groovy-Eclipse will now correctly infer the types of overloaded binary and unary operators. For example, in the following screenshot, you can see that val is inferred to be a member of the Tree class. This is because the inferencing engine has determined that the + operation is overloaded and has a return type of Tree:
Also, inside of DSLD scripts, method contributions can be used to overload an operator in an editor. Something like this script would have the same effect as above:
Better inferencing of list and map literals
Groovy-Eclipse now uses more precise techniques to infer the types of list and map literals. Previously, the types of list and map literals were determined by the static type of the first element of the collection. Now, as you can see in the screenshot below, Groovy-Eclipse uses the inferred types of the list and map elements to build the type of the collection:
Code select and inferencing for static imports
We have done significant work around supporting static imports. References to static imports now allow navigation, static imports are now appropriately renamed during refactoring, and they are found during search.
Quick fixes and quick assists
Quick fixes and quick assists are available in the editor by pressing CTRL+1 (or CMD+1 on Mac OSX). Groovy-Eclipse has introduced several new quick fixes and quick assists in 2.6.1.
Move Package and change package declaration quick fixes
Groovy-Eclipse now shows quick fixes for invalid package declarations. When hovering over an error marker for an invalid package declaration, there are two quick fixes available: move compilation unit, and change package declaration. See below for an example:
The behavior is identical to the quick fixes of the same name available in the Java editor. Moving the compilation unit will not only move the file, but also update all appropriate references to the package. Changing the package declaration, will simply change the text at the beginning of the file so that it matches its current directory.
Convert to closure now available from refactoring menu
The Convert to closure and Convert to method quick assists are now available from the context menu under the Groovy Refactor section:The keybindings are Alt-G F and ALT-G M respectively.
Split assignment/declaration quickfix
The split assignment and split declaration quickfixes are available on any assignment or declaration expression and works like this:
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Swap operands quickfix
The swap operands quickfix reorders the left and right sides of binary expressions. This code:
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Other improvements
Full Javadoc capability for inferencing suggestions and DSLDs
It is now possible to use Javadoc tags inside of inferencing suggestions. In the inferencing suggestion window (available from Preferences -> Groovy -> Inferencing Suggestions, or from a quick assist in the editor CTRL+1), you can insert full Javadoc comments inside of the Doc text bos.
Which gets displayed in hovers as this:
Similarly, you can use Javadoc tags inside of DSLD
doc tags. For example, this gives a similar effect as above:
At this point, @link tags are not generating a proper hyperlink.
Hover and navigation in constructors with named arguments
It is now possible to hover over and navigate to field references used as named parameters in default constructor invocations:
Better content assist for missing methods
Content assist inside of a class body shows all overridable methods. This has been available since Groovy 2.0. Now, we have improved this support and the resulting content assist text will appropriately include argument names and types, will organize imports, and add a doc stub inside the method body if configured to do so.
For example, this:
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Editor option to turn off highlighting for dollar slashy strings
Groovy 1.8 introduced dollar slashy strings (link) that allow the specification of multi-line strings like this:
$/ … /$. However, some users found problems with files that made heavy use of regular expressions. For example, in this file the space between the $/ and /$ is incorrectly interprested as a multi-line string:
It is now possible to disable slashy strings by going to the Preferences --> Groovy -> Editor preferences page:
And the file is now highlighted correctly (the underlines are expected).
You must close and re-open files before this change comes into effect.
Per-project script folders
Groovy-Eclipse now allows the specifcation of script folders on a per-project basis. You can control script folders in the Groovy Compiler project properties page:
When clicking on "Enable project specific settings", the script folder settings for an individual project overrides the workspace settings.
Script folders describe locations in your project that contain Groovy scripts. Groovy scripts should not be compiled into .class files and they may or may not be copied to the oputput folder.
Groovy-Eclipse 2.6.0 includes Groovy 1.8.6 by default. Groovy 1.7.10 can be enabled optionally. This version of Groovy-Eclipse is recommended to be installed on STS 2.9.0, Eclipse 3.7.2. There is also a 4.2-based Groovy-Eclipse now available. See above for the update site.
Bug fixes
We have fixed over 100 bugs for this release. See the details on our issue tracker.
Shout outs
We have 3 students working on Groovy-Eclipse and contributing to our quick fixes. So far, Elvis Martinez, Stephanie Van Dyk, and Daniel Phan have contributed the implementations behind the split assignment and the swap operands quickfixes. Thanks! Looking forward to some more great work
What's next?
We are tentatively planning a 2.7.0 release in June. You can take a look at all issues we are planning to fix for this release.
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It's all "Grade A" at Crown Maple in Ralph Gardner Jr.'s feature of Crown Maple in The Wall Street Journal.
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Crown Maple CEO Compton Chase-Lansdale discusses the making of maple syrup with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."
We were thrilled to host CBS New York's Alex Denis at Crown Maple's Madava Farms, bright and early recently.
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McCormick Place convention center, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, and the University Center Conference Chicago are hosts to expos, parties, trade shows, and large dinners.
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Released just two weeks ago on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label, Datsik's album Vitamin D is the banger his followers were primed for. The B.C. artist has described dubstep as "totally the punk rock of electronic music," and on this debut LP he explores his limits, merging a wide range of musical inspirations — most notably Wu-Tang Clan and its MVPs RZA and Method Man. The album definitely captures something of the spirit of Wu-Tang, with its ominous, futuristic sound and gangster vibe.
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1. "Annihilate" – Definitely a track to entice the listener into playing the entire album. A perfect introduction to Vitamin D's diversity of dark and captivating sounds.
2. "Fully Blown" (feat. Snak the Ripper) – Here, Datsik displays his affinity for hip-hop. He wastes no time on this one, jumping right in, without any buildup at all, and enlisting Snak The Ripper to provide some heavy-duty rap vocals.
3. "Syndrome" (with Downlink) – This track starts off with a classical vibe, then drops in some overwhelming bass. For me, it's a standout for merging two such seemingly incompatible genres with surprising artfulness.
4. "Bonafide Hustler" – It's almost like a biographical anthem for Datsik, the quintessential dubstep hustler. The sound is grimy yet cutting edge, pretty much ensuring that this will be a "bonafide" banger in the clubs and on the airwaves.
5. "Evilution" (with Infected Mushrooms & Jonathan Davis) – A collaboration with trip-hop duo Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani (a.k.a. Infected Mushroom) and Korn lead vocalist Jonathan Davis results in psychedelic/trance/electronic rock track that opens the darkest corners of the musical mind. I pressed replay more than a few times — as will you. It's one of those tracks that invades the mind and refuses to leave.
6. "Need You" – This one sounds a bit like a mash-up of music and sound effects from old arcade games. It creates a certain musical clutter in the mind (a bit of everything all over the place) — but isn't that what dubstep is? Mashed-up, unpredictable and a bit cluttered (in a good way)?
7. "Don't Feel Right" – Here he starts with a playful electronic rhythm, then shifts into memorable sample from Shakedown's 2002 hit "At Night," and from there into an overpoweringly grimy sound. Quite the mash-up, but definitely worth a replay or two.
8. "Light The Fuse" – A track with a very catchy, bob-your-head-along kind of kick to it. Dubstep usually conjures a dirty, borderline-rebellious feeling for me, but this one put me on a playground playing hopscotch — at least until it reached the 1:09 mark and it took on a different spin: grimy, anarchic and overpowering.
9. "Complete Control" – A fitting title for this superlative banger. With everything from intriguing build-ups to filthy drops, it takes you on a dark, fantastical. I put this one on repeat, letting Datsik take "complete control" of my mind.
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12. "Double Trouble" (with DJ Z-Trip) – "We came here tonight to get started." Except it kinda felt like it was taking a bit long to start. Still, once it revs up, this one repays your patience. A suitably filthy track from one of Canada's brightest young bass music stars, this does what every good album-closer should: leaves the listener eager for more.
Gosia Mrugala is a Toronto-based blogger and reviewer. You can read her blog HERE, and follow her on Twitter HERE.


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I was born into a Roman Catholic family. Around 20 years ago I stopped practicing religion. I said to myself what's the point! I am busy with other stuff and religion is just an extra burden on me. So I quit it and got on with life. Recently I started to question the meaning of life so I started to search. I discovered the following information.
Did Jesus exist after all?
Independent Non Christian sources on the existence of Christ Jesus
1 -Cornelius Tacitus Non Christian (56 – 117AD) historian and Roman Senator in a passage 'Annales, book 15, verse 44' refers to Christ, Pontius Pilate and a mass executions of Christians. General scholarly view considers Tacitus to be authentic
2 – Flavius Joseph a Romano-Jewish historian (37-100AD) Book 20 Chapter 9,1 "the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James" Modern scholarship has almost universally acknowledged the authenticity of the reference
- How does one explain what happened in Portugal at Fatima in 1917, "The Miracle of the Sun" which was witnessed by an estimated 30,000 – 70,000 people?
- How to explain the Apparation of Mary in Egypt Cairo 1968 witnessed by 1000's of people called Our Lady of Zeitoun?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Zeitoun
- How to explain the miraculous healing of people in Lourdes France and in Bosnia-Hercegovina in a place called Medjugorje where 100,000's of people go annually.
- How to explain the wounds on the hands, feet and side of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (1887 – 1968) which he had for 50 years which apparently were those of Jesus & his ability to read people and heal people all in the name of Jesus.
- How to explain how the body of St Bernadette of Lourdes 130 years after her death has not decomposed. Her body is not artificially preserved.
- How to explain how Alexandria da Costa (1904-1955) survived on no food for 13 years only the Eucharist. Verified by independent doctors
- How to explain how Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774 – 1824) had wounds which apparently were those of Jesus on her body.
Can someone please give me some answers based on facts?
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Why do you need to answer anything?
You can simply say "I don't know" and the burden of proof is still on them. If you simply state that you have no answer, they still have all the work ahead of them. All those things can just as easily be attributed to the Invisible Pink Unicorn, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They need to prove that any of those things you listed actually refer to, or are done by their version of a deity. Unless they can provide solid proof of that, they have no grounds for their belief other than "faith" and therefore, you have no reason to answer anything, nor do you have any way to counter their argument because it is very difficult to prove "feelings" wrong.
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Start by reading a book by Michel Onfray. Atheist Manifesto is its title in the US edition and translation from French. Ought to be many used copies -- it deals with questions related to yours -- and more besides.
It offers a clear destructive set of arguments against the "great" monotheisms in general and xianity in particular. But, Onfray goes beyond destroying xian belief and consequently xian morality -- he provides a completely secular foundation for personal and social behavor rooted in the rational hedonism of Epicurus.
Reported apparitions depend upon the reliability of supposed witnesses, which is notoriously unreliable. Millions of people have testified to seeing faces on Mars. Despite the FACT that the claim has been thoroughly debunked, people still report it as true. And there is no shortage of "witnesses" to flying saucers and such. That does not make them true. Why do people persist in believing this delusional nonsense? Because they WANT to believe it. So all these purported miracles, visions, etc. mean absolutely nothing.
As to those supposed historical records relating to Jesus, Erich von Daniken supplies similarly specious evidence for ancient visitations from space aliens, so that means nothing, either. As to the allusions to Christ: the notion of a "Christ" was a common concept among the Jews. In fact, they are still waiting for him to make his debut on Earth. And Jesus? How many millions of them were there in the middle east at the time?
Of the two historians you mention, only Tacitus is considered an authentic, unbiased historian. And his only mention of a Christlike figure named Jesus is contained in a single paragraph, wherein he labels the claim as "superstition." He goes on to mention that a number of Christians were killed. Had he been aware of a specific Jesus being crucified and subsequently resurrected, he no doubt would have mentioned it; but he didn't.
To take some of your questions at random: You evidently accept the report that Catherine...had Jesus wounds on her body. Then I assume you accept as fact that Jesus' likeness appears randomly on pieces of toast, right?
30,000 to 70,000 people witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun"? Who counted them? The Vatican? Of the tens of thousands of people who evidently witnessed some "extraordinary solar activity," only three children reported seeing visions. Now THAT'S what I call proof. Nevertheless, the Vatican endorsed it as a true miracle, so I'm convinced.
And you evidently take as fact that "...deCosta survived 13 years without food... Verified by independent doctors"? Which doctors exactly? Did they conduct a 13 year experiment in which they isolated deCosta and monitored his daily consumption of Jesus' blood and flesh? Or did they weigh and measure his stool every morning for 13 years? Ludicrous!
Finally, It hardly counts as reliable evidence that someone at sometime wrote something down in a book. These are claims only. And, of course, that includes the preposterous claims of the most popular book ever written.
Face it, Con: you never left the church.
Let's just take the 'miracle of the sun'. You get a bunch of cult devotees all frothed up about magic, prime them on the sort of experience they'll have, then tell them to stare at the sun for 10 minutes. Would it surprise you to discover that a bunch of them started seeing weird stuff, having colour disturbances in their vision, and then began blithering on like lobotomized buffoons? Mass hysteria has been well documented, and it only takes a few very charismatic believers to peel back the sanity from a larger group of devotees.
I've been part of these sorts of things countless times in my youth while attending Pentecostal rituals. The other believers buy the whole show - hook, line, and sinker. Those with doubts don't dare say a word around those all worked up into a frenzy over the shenanigans.
Moreover - there were plenty of cameras floating around in 1917 yet I notice that no one even suggests any photos of the phenomena either exist or were ever taken. The story has changed and grown over the years as much as many such urban legends. Do you actually think there could possibly be anything to this silly old legend? Seriously?
According to the Wikipedia article on Bernadette Soubirous, the third paragraph states:
"Since her death, Soubirous's body has apparently remained internally incorrupt, but it is not without blemish; during her third exhumation in 1925, the firm of Pierre Imans made light wax coverings for her face and her hands due to the discoloration that her skin has undergone. These masks were placed on her face and hands before she was moved to her crystal reliquary in June 1925." (Emphasis mine.)
If this woman's corpse is "incorrupt", why the need for the wax coverings on her face and hands? Why the "blemish"?
The only explanation: the body isn't "incorrupt"...it's decaying. Slowly, but still decaying.
Every one of the incidents you have described have sane, rational explanations, do some research (somewhere other than christian resources!)
One other note: it seems that almost all of the examples you have requested explanations for are catholic.
Perhaps if you ask another catholic about these "miracles", they will give you the catholic line, and drill you back (possibly) into the fold. Likewise, you ask a baptist or a methodist for answers, they will only tell you what they've been trained in sunday school or university or seminary what their respective theological answer is, with the intent on converting you into a good protestant.
Now, since you have come to an atheist site for answers, I can only give what I truly believe is the only logical explanation: that these supposed supernatural events were invented by the catholic church hierarchy to keep the faithful in the fold, and at least demonstrate something that god really exists, knowing full and well it cannot possibly happen in nature. No one cares about any of these "miracles", except "good catholics".
As far as facts to back up my answers, the only thing I can give is that neither I, nor anyone else that I have met in my (as of time of writing) 42+ years of existence on this earth, has ever seen or experienced anything like a "miracle", and furthermore, anyone who claims to have witnessed something of the sort to me or anyone else, we have to really wonder what the state of mind of that person is in.
In any event, things like incorrupt corpses, fountains of healing, Marian apparitions, stigmata, etc., don't really matter to me. I don't lose sleep anymore wondering about these things, or the threat of hell, or living on a cloud forever. Today...NOW...live your life for now to the fullest, to all this world has to offer, and don't follow such medieval nonsense.
Did you know, Con, that people taking a placebo pill will often show signs of improvement? And that even when they are specifically told they are being given a placebo, they still sometimes show signs of improvement? Scientists have studied it with fascination. It has nothing to do with theology. Lourdes is a placebo. Nobody ever blames it for their deterioration, do they? Only their 'healing'.
And there's that whole Jesus toast thing...
As for miracles, my backspace key is a daily miracle :)
Come one, you mean you haven't heard about carbolic acid for stigmata, Fatima in 1917, not one observatory recorded the sun zig-zagging for that "foretold" event. All photos are of the crowd..interesting. Is that what you would photograph if the sun was exploding?
The catholic church is, was, and will always be a magic show. How many murdered popes have there been? The closest thing to a miracle is how rapist priests continue to evade the law.
You cant take the word of 1, 10, or 1,000,000 of the faithful. They want to believe more than anything. Their accounts are all useless.
I will not do your research for you but I can assure you that each and every one of these have a rational explanation.
If they didn't have an explanation it still would not be reasonable to claim it as evidence of god, let alone the Christian god.
You can find just as many 'miracles' from Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc. Belief is a powerful thing, unfortunately.
Cornelius Tacitus Non Christian (56 – 117AD) historian and Roman Senator in a passage 'Annales, book 15, verse 44' refers to Christ, Pontius Pilate and a mass executions of Christians. General scholarly view considers Tacitus to be authentic.
Dig deeper and you'll find many of these so-called 'scholars' are theologians; non-subject matter experts deserving of as much 'scholarly' repute as one who bothers to study leprechauns.
Tacitus may be considered 'authentic' in that he knew the Christian story of Jesus' death, he refers to Christianity as "mischievous superstition" and he wrote about the torture and killing of Christians in Rome. Go much beyond that and you have conjecture.
Note also that even if Jesus existed as a historical figure that no more makes him a God than Sathya Sai Baba.
"Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular." - Tactius
2 – Flavius Joseph a Romano-Jewish historian (37-100AD) Book 20 Chapter 9,1 "the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James" Modern scholarship has almost universally acknowledged the authenticity of the reference.
Given that Wikipedia is the source of these claims, it's a bit unseemly to exclude the extensive section of arguments that challenge its authenticity. Note again, that even if the reference is genuine, it only demonstrates that Flavious knew a Christian story about Jesus, not that the story itself is genuine. Again, even if it IS genuine, it doesn't make Jesus a God.
How does one explain what happened in Portugal at Fatima in 1917, "The Miracle of the Sun" which was witnessed by an estimated 30,000 – 70,000 people?
15 million Americans claim to have witnessed flying saucers, and 3% of Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens. Naturally, no proof exists outside of somebody's say-so.
I explain this the same way I explain Fatima: it's nonsense. The people at Fatima were promised a miracle, so 30,000 to 70,000 of them saw exactly what they wanted to see.
- How to explain the Apparation of Mary in Egypt Cairo 1968 witnessed by 1000's of people called Our Lady of Zeitoun?
How do we explain Charles Darwin appearing on a parking garage wall?
How do we explain Kermit the Frog appearing on Mars?
How do we explain Abe Lincoln appearing on a french fry?
Human brains are good at finding and associating visual patterns; a natural process, not a supernatural one.
How to explain the miraculous healing of people in Lourdes France and in Bosnia-Hercegovina in a place called Medjugorje where 100,000's of people go annually.
Over 200 million people have visited Lourdes of which 67 have been verified by the Vatican as 'healed'.
For added perspective, about 1 in 100,000 cases of cancer end in spontaneous remission (without Lourdes). Many other diseases end the same way. Why does a lack of explanation mean a supernatural process is at work? Why can't it be another natural process we don't understand yet?
I haven't seen any statistics regarding "healing" at Medjugorje. (I don't think there are any.) But statistically there's no reason to assume the record there is any better or worse than at Lourdes'.
- How to explain the wounds on the hands, feet and side of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (1887 – 1968) which he had for 50 years which apparently were those of Jesus & his ability to read people and heal people all in the name of Jesus.
A crackpot mutilates himself and says God did it. Other crackpots crowd around him and claim to have been healed.
- How to explain how the body of St Bernadette of Lourdes 130 years after her death has not decomposed. Her body is not artificially preserved.
We have thousands of examples where animal and human corpses have undergone natural mummification. But that is not the case here. The doctor who examined her corpse said, "The body is practically mummified, covered with patches of mildew and quite a notable layer of salts, which appear to be calcium salts. ... The skin has disappeared in some places, but it is still present on most parts of the body."
Calcium salt is an antibacterial and antifungal preservative. (Not artificially preserved, huh?) Besides that, her hands and face are made of wax. That would only be necessary if they had rotted away.
- How to explain how Alexandria da Costa (1904-1955) survived on no food for 13 years only the Eucharist. Verified by independent doctors
The article doesn't say the claim was "verified by independent doctors" it says she was "examined by medical doctors, with no conclusion". And even that information comes from a non-independent and unreliable source: the Vatican.
- How to explain how Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774 – 1824) had wounds which apparently were those of Jesus on her body.
Another crackpot mutilates herself (or was mutilated by another crackpot) and says God did it.
Can someone please give me some answers based on facts?
Done. And that was asking a lot since the questions themselves were not based on facts.
Did you hear about the new Eucharist diet. Holy Crap ! I lost 120lbs praise the lerd!


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Jeremy-call me at the store by 6 pm if you can. 966-2956 We need talk about title sponsorship.
I am waiting to hear back from the National President of the Blinded Veterans Association on some sort of sponsorship. Will keep posted as soon as i hear any results.
Jeremy, I'm pretty sure we can count on Bearno's and Golden Nugget again this year.
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