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September 13, 2012
Vol. 28 , No. 01
Welcome to the Class of 2016
It Happened on the Way to War
"You might not see 'leadership' in the title but that's what this book is all about. If you are interested in the next generation of leaders – whether from an African slum, a battlefield in Iraq, a corporate board room, or your own community – pick up this book. You'll be hooked after the first page."
–Adi Ignatius, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Business Review
Rye Barcott co-founded the non-governmental organization Carolina for Kibera (CFK) to prevent violence and empower youth through participatory development while he was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2000 he spent part of the summer living in ten-by-ten shacks in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa. He then earned masters' degrees in business and public administration from Harvard University, where he was a Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship Fellow.
A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Barcott lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter and works at Duke Energy. It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace (2011), is a true story of sacrifice and courage, failure and triumph, and the powerful melding of military and humanitarian service. It's a story of what America's role in the world could be.
Rye Barcott will sign books at the end of the evening, so please remember to bring your copy to the dinner. Also, everyone in the CMC class of 2016 is automatically signed up for this dinner. However, if you are unable to attend, please call ext. 18244 to cancel.
Who Stole the American Dream?
Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor, and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent. Over the past 50 years he has established himself as one of America's most distinguished journalists.
Smith's career began in print journalism in the 1950s, with summer jobs as a cub reporter for The Greenville (S.C.) News. After graduating from Williams College, doing graduate work as a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford, serving three years in the U.S. Air Force, and joining three United Press International offices, he started at The New York Times in 1962.
During his 26-year tenure with The New York Times, Smith covered Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War in Saigon, the Middle East conflict from Cairo, the Cold War from both Moscow and Washington, and six American presidents and their administrations. Since 1989, Hedrick Smith has also created 26 prime-time specials and mini-series for PBS on such varied topics as terrorism, tax evasion, the environment, and jazz great Duke Ellington.
Smith's best-known work is his The Power Game: How Washington Works (1996). It details the game of politics and policy in Washington DC in the 1980s, and became required reading for freshman members of Congress and even President Bill Clinton.
His newest book, Who Stole the American Dream?, just recently published in September, has been hailed by critics for brilliant analysis of political and economic trends and changes in the U.S. over the past 30-40 years. It delves into the critical patterns of change in America's last four decades, focusing on everything from gaping income inequalities, the outsourcing of foreign IT workers – all from the perspective of powerful elites and heartland Middle Americans alike. Who Stole the American Dream? provides analytical insight that not only allows for discoveries of the past, but also promise for America's future.
Annual McKenna Seaver Scholars Dinner
An Insider's View of the Politics and Policy of Health Care Reform
Each year, Claremont McKenna College recognizes former and current recipients of the Donald C. McKenna Achievement Award and the Frank Seaver Leadership Scholarship with a special dinner and program at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. This year's keynote speaker is Andy Chasin, who graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1997 with a B.A. degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. As a student at CMC, he was a recipient of the Donald C. McKenna Achievement Award, senior class president, and a member of the sailing club. During his junior year, Chasin studied abroad in Scotland. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2002, Chasin was an associate at Baker & Hostetler, a major D.C. law firm. He has also worked in the Governor's office and in various statewide campaigns in his home state of Arizona.
Currently, Chasin is Associate General Counsel for Health Reform at Blue Shield of California. In this role, he focuses on implementation of federal health care reform. Chasin joined Blue Shield after working on health reform in the United States Senate, most recently as Health Policy Counsel for Senator John Thune on the Senate Republican Policy Committee. In his spare time, Chasin enjoys running in triathlons and keeping in touch with his CMC classmates as the class liaison for CMC magazine. He also serves as a member of the advisory board for the University of Michigan's Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, a think tank for research, development, and advocacy of innovative health benefit plans.
All CMC students, faculty, and staff are invited to sign-up for the dinner and program.
Presidential Election 2012: And the Winner is ...?
With the election two months away, both President Obama and Governor Romney are seen in a neck to neck race towards the finish line, with no clear winner in sight. The race seems to come down to the outcome in fewer than ten swing states. This evening's Round Table Discussion will feature CMC professors Andrew Busch (Government), Manfred Keil (RDS), and Jack Pitney (Government), each offering their own overview of the election forecast and the reasoning behind it. While the participants have not revealed their forecast in public, we can be assured that their views about the election outcome will be as diverse as the views of the electorate in current polls. Following their presentations, each professor will briefly comment on the strengths and shortcomings of the analysis of the other presenters. There will be time for Q&A immediately following the presentation.
Andy Busch: Although he led Mitt Romney in head-to-head polling averages throughout the summer, President Obama is in electoral trouble. His approval ratings remain mediocre, his chief legislative accomplishments are unpopular, and by a 2-1 ratio Americans say the country is going in the wrong direction. Barring unforeseen events, signs are pointing to either a Romney win or a narrow reelection for Obama.
Manfred Keil: Bad economic news during an election year is usually the death knell of any campaign. Obama's intrinsic popularity complemented by Romney's deficiencies as a candidate may overcome the negative economic influences for the upcoming election. The economy does not carry nearly as much weight as Republicans would hope.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Jack Pitney will not be able to participate in this Faculty Roundtable discussion. David Meneffee-Libey, professor of politics at Pomona College, has graciously agreed to step in. More information to follow.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Personal Testimony of Human Trafficking, Rescue, and Redemption
The mission of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery-like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human rights violations. Our activities are interconnected by a client-centered approach that seeks to empower survivors of trafficking to fully realize their individual potential while advancing the human rights of all trafficked survivors. CAST is providing the momentum for these survivors to plant the "seeds of renewal" that will give them the freedom to grow in the direction of their potential and dreams.
Adriana is pursuing a dual major in Human Biology and Government. She is interested in Health Policy and Public Policy as future career paths. She currently works at Claremont High School as an AVID tutor, has been a member of the cross country and track teams, and is involved in the Chicano Latino Students Association, the Gender Equity Task Force, and the Gates Millennium Scholars Organization at CMC. During the summer of 2012 Adriana was an intern with CAST in Los Angeles where she worked on outreach programs, trained to deliver "Human Trafficking 101" presentations, and interacted regularly with residents of CAST's survivor shelter.
Kanthi was born and raised in Sri Lanka. At the age of eighteen she was forced to travel to Los Angeles to work as a nanny and housekeeper for an abusive employer. Two years later, immigration officials rescued Kanthi and brought her to the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating forced labor and slavery like practices. After receiving shelter, social and legal services, and ESL classes from CAST, Kanthi is now a Certified Nurse Assistant, and is attending college to achieve her RN. She is also an active member of the CAST's Survivor Advisory Caucus, a one of a kind leadership development program that provides survivors a platform to gain advocacy and leadership skills. Kanthi has helped raise awareness of trafficking through art projects and media interviews. In 2010, CAST helped Kanthi enroll in the Henry Hwang Playwriting Institute, where she was able to explore her inner storyteller to help advocate for increased awareness and protections for fellow survivors. In January 2011, a reading of her autobiographical play, "Letters from my Mother", was performed by East West Players, a community theater in Los Angeles. Kanthi is a regular speaker at the Museum of Tolerance, along with other members of the CAST Survivor Advisory Caucus.
Adriana and Kanthi are co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Leadership and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College.
Leadership and Accountability for California
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
John Chiang was first elected in November 2006 to serve as Controller of the State of California, the ninth-largest economy in the world. He was elected to serve a second term in November 2010. Controller Chiang has made significant progress in making the State's finances more transparent and accountable to the public and to weed out waste, fraud and abuse of public funds. His aggressive audits have identified more than $3 billion in taxpayer dollars that were denied, overpaid, subject to collection, or resulted in revenues, savings and cost avoidance.
As Controller during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Chiang orchestrated ways to preserve cash to meet obligations to education and bond holders. His cash management was cited by rating agencies as a benefit to the State. Numerous ratings agencies have lauded Chiang's work.
He has led efforts to reform the State's public pension systems, helped local governments navigate difficult economic times, protected California's precious natural resources, reunited rightful owners with more than $2 billion in unclaimed cash and nearly 157 million shares of stocks and securities that had been lost or forgotten, and launched financial and tax assistance seminars for California's working families, seniors, small businesses and non-profit organizations. Controller Chiang has also received numerous awards for his leadership and public service.
John Chiang's visit to CMC is jointly sponsored by the Athenaeum and the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Getting It Done: What's Next for Health Care Reform?
Senator Tom Daschle is one of this country's most respected political leaders. Hailing from South Dakota, he has worked on issues ranging from healthcare reform to poverty relief. Senator Daschle was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, where he served for eight years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986. In this period, he served on the Veterans Affairs, Indian Affairs, Finance, and Ethics Committees, sponsoring the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Reduction Act of 2004 and the Jobs for America Act of 2004.
Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. Daschle's twenty six-year legislative career has been characterized by a commitment to public service and, in contrast to today's Congress, a continuous effort to cross party lines.
In 2007, he joined former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to form the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing policy issues of our time. Today, he works as a senior policy advisor to the law firm of DLA Piper where he provides clients with strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, and health care. His most recent book, Getting it Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Healthcare Reform, was published in 2010.
The Invisible War
FILM SCREENING 6:00 p.m.
The Invisible War (2012) is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem; today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in 2010. The Invisible War exposes the epidemic, breaking open one of the most under-reported stories of our generation, to the nation and the world. This screening of The Invisible War is sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Leadership and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College. A Q&A session with the film's Director, Kirby Dick, will immediately follow the screening.
Kirby Dick is an Academy and Emmy Award nominated documentary director. His most recent film, Outrage (2009), which was nominated for an Emmy and released by Magnolia Pictures, is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of powerful closeted politicians and the political and media institutions that protect them. In 2006 he directed This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), released by IFC Films. A breakthrough investigation of the highly secretive MPAA film ratings system, the film compelled the MPAA to make long overdue changes in the way it rates films.
Dick's prior film, Twist of Faith (2005), is the powerful story of a man confronting the trauma of his past sexual abuse by a Catholic priest. Produced for HBO, Twist of Faith received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Dick's other films include, Derrida )2002), a complex portrait of the world-renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida, which won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, and the internationally acclaimed Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
The Fight Over Medicare and Social Security: Aging Boomers, AARP and America's Future
By selecting Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) as his running mate, GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney catapulted Ryan's well-known Congressional reform agendas for Medicare and Social Security into the forefront of the 2012 elections—for the first time in history. Two of most unstudied, yet potentially powerful, actors in this political drama are AARP, the powerful yet largely unstudied 37-million member insurance giant/senior lobby, and 78 million members of the baby boom generation (born 1946-1964), many of whom are moving towards and retirement and old age without pensions or sufficient savings.
How are boomers and AARP responding politically to proposals to change these heretofore "untouchable" entitlements? Will anxious, aging boomers unite to become the long-slumbering, much-feared giant of "senior power"? Or will they remain fragmented by class, "culture wars" and other divisions? Can the allegedly non-partisan AARP win aging boomers' hearts, minds, and memberships by mounting a vigorous defense of Medicare and Social Security? Finally, what are the implications of this entitlement reform battle for the underlying inter-generational social contract and the nation's sense of E Pluribus Unum?
CMC sociologist Frederick R. Lynch will discuss these and other related issues based on research drawn from his book One Nation Under AARP: The Fight Over Medicare and Social Security and America's Future (2011) and his New York Times essay "How AARP Can Get Its Groove Back." Professor Lynch is the author of two other books, Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action (1991) and The Diversity Machine (1997; 2001 ) as well as dozens of professional and general audience articles and book chapters, most recently, "The Politics of Aging Boomers" (in Robert Hudson's The New Politics of Old Age Policy (2005)). He has been interviewed by most major newspapers and by ABC's "World News Tonight," CBS News' "48 Hours," "Donahue," "Oprah," CNN "Headline News," ABC "World News Tonight," "The Kudlow Report," National Public Radio and approximately 150 other radio interview programs. He has been profiled in Forbes Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun and the journal Management Review.
Nothing Happens For No Good Reason: The Scholarship and Teaching of Harold W. Rood
LUNCHEON 11;30 a.m., LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
This is the inaugural lecture of the Harold W. Rood Memorial Lecture series, sponsored by the Salvatori Center and offered in honor of a great teacher, mentor, and friend of many Claremont McKenna College alumni, and many generations of students of history and international relations across the country. Professor Harold W. (Bill) Rood was an uncommon teacher, in both style and substance, who lived a thoroughly American life. He was born in Seattle, Washington, on August 19, 1922, and grew up at the Mare Island Naval Yard in California. He entered the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in September 1942 (called to active duty in March 1943), and later served as a heavy machine gunner and a radio operator in Patton's Third Army, in the European Theater of Operations. He rose to the rank of private first class, and was proud of it.
After the war he obtained his B.A. in 1948, and then a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1960, from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on American preparations for war from 1918 to 1940. When the Korean War broke out, he became an order of battle specialist and then a strategic intelligence analyst in the Army Reserve. He served, too, on the staff and faculty of the Sixth Army Intelligence School, Fort Ord and Fort MacArthur, California (1958-1964, 1968-1974).
Dr. Rood was appointed to the Government Department faculty of Claremont Men's College in 1962. In due course he was promoted to associate and full professor, and in the early 1980s he was appointed to hold the first W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of International Strategic Studies. Professor Rood won multiple Outstanding Teacher Awards at CMC, and established himself as a favorite among the CMC undergrads while attracting a loyal following from then-Claremont Graduate School (now University). He is survived by his wife Juanita, and daughters Hilary and Elizabeth.
J.D. Crouch II is currently President of the Technology Solutions Group of QinetiQ North America. He assumed this role in November 2009 from the position of QinetiQ's Executive Vice President for Strategic Development.
Crouch was Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor until June 2007. He was a senior advisor to the President on national security matters, chaired the sub-cabinet Deputies Committee, and was second in command at the National Security Council. He also serves on several government advisory boards including the Defense Policy Board and the NSA Advisory Board. He has twice been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal. His other honors include the Alumni Merit Award from the University of Southern California in 2006 and the Military Merit Grand Cross with White Ribbon, from the Kingdom of Spain in 2003.
Dr. Crouch holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. degrees in International Relations from the University of Southern California and has written on a wide range of defense and foreign policy issues.
Olivier Messianen's Harawi: Chant d'amour et de mort (Song of Love and Death)
LUCY SHELTON, soprano
GAYLE BLANKENBURG, piano
Imagine an hour-long work for soprano and piano that incorporates all of the following: the Tristan and Isolde legend; a similar story of love-death from Peruvian folklore ("Harawi"); a French surrealistic text written by the composer, interspersed with pre-Columbian Quechan phrases and frequent passages of onomatopoeia; rhythms based on Greek and Hindu patterns; a recurring melody derived from Peruvian folk music; a rich and unique approach to harmony; musical imitations of nature, particularly of birdsong; and an overwhelming belief in God and resurrection. This is Olivier Messiaen's 1945 song cycle Harawi.
Messiaen does not give us a dramatic rendering of the story of Tristan and Isolde. He instead places us in a surrealistic dream world much inspired by the 1937 Sir Roland Penrose painting L'lle invisible. We progress from the lovers being incapable of taking their eyes off each other, to their falling in love, to their realization that they can only really be united via death, to the cataclysmic approach of their death, to the ecstasy of their full experience of love after death, and to the eternal finality of the death and their ultimate loss of self.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was one of the most unique and influential composers of the twentieth century. His mother was the poet Cécile Sauvage, and his father, Pierre Messiaen, was an English teacher, Shakespearian scholar, and translator. Olivier Messiaen studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and subsequently began to establish himself as an organist and as a composer. He enlisted in the army at the onset of World War II and spent time in a German prisoner-of-war camp (where he composed his famous Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (1941), which was premiered in the camp by himself and fellow prisoners). After his release he joined the faculty of the Paris Conservatoire. He also gave private composition classes (amongst his students were Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen) and ultimately cemented his career worldwide as one of the greatest modern composers.
Soprano Lucy Shelton is the only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumburg Award twice, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, and has performed repertoire from Bach to Boulez in major recital, chamber and orchestral venues throughout the world. Highly acclaimed as an interpreter of new music, Shelton continues to bring new audiences into the sound world of new works, often composed for her. A native Californian, her musical training began early with the study of both piano and flute. After graduating from Pomona College she pursued singing at the New England Conservatory and at the Aspen Music School, where she studied with Jan de Gaetani. Lucy Shelton has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the New England Conservatory and the Eastman School. She is currently on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center and coaches privately at her studio in New York City. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, KOCH International, Bridge Records, Unicorn-Kanchana and Virgin Classics.
Gayle Blankenburg has performed extensively to great critical acclaim as a solo pianist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. Among nearly a dozen award-winning CDs recorded for Southwest Chamber Music on Cambria Records are her performances of Elliott Carter's song cycle Of Challenge and of Love (2000)(with soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson) and the Carlos Chavez Invencion (2003) for solo piano. Her recording of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (2008) with the LA-based ensemble "inauthentica" has received the highest critical acclaim from Gramophone Mazazine, Opera News, and The American Record Guide.
She has performed much of the standard chamber music repertoire with members of major orchestras across the country, including members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and is currently on the piano faculties of the Claremont Colleges, teaching at Pomona College, the Claremont Graduate University, and Scripps College, where she is a recent recipient of the Mary Wig Johnson Faculty Achievement Award, and where she is a member of the faculty ensemble Trio Lykos. In the fall of 2012 she will be making her fourth trip to China to perform and give master classes in piano and chamber music.
Ms. Blankenburg was a student of the distinguished pianists Menahem Pressler (of the Beaux Arts Trio) and Abbey Simon at Indiana University, where she received the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano performance, and where she was also awarded the coveted Performer's Certificate.
Lunch with An Entrepreneurial Leader
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Over the past 33 years, Wayne Slavitt has worked with middle market, privately-held companies in both principal and advisor capacities. Wayne's extensive experience on both sides of the aisle ranges from executive positions as corporate controller, CFO, and CEO to advisory roles as an investment banker and specialized business consultant. For all of these roles, Wayne's focus has been to maximize business value.
With extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions early in his career, Wayne formed a boutique investment banking house The Slavitt Ellington Group (now Strategic Equity Group), serving the middle market, providing business valuation, merger and acquisition, and workout and turnaround services. In 1998, Wayne sold his interest in The Slavitt Ellington Group to his partners and pursued similar opportunities in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Over the next two years, Wayne sold six companies, including Sundance Spas to Jacuzzi Corporation, along with several other privately-held companies to publicly-traded firms, as part of various industry roll-ups.
Toward the end of 2000, Wayne began what would be a very exciting journey as a business owner with three different ventures, including the formation of an e-commerce platform for International E-Z UP®, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of instant shelters, a real estate investment and management firm, and a successful patent portfolio that was recently sold. Today, Wayne is President and CEO of The PrimeMark Group, which works with growing companies to maximize business value.
Wayne, a magna cum laude 1980 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, served as President of the CMC Alumni Association and was Alumni-mentor for the Entrepreneurial Studies course at CMC. Wayne's Athenaeum talk is jointly sponsored by the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and CMC's new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His presentation is one of several activities that will help launch the new Center on September 28th.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — The moment had arrived in the Southern Conference Tournament.
The Citadel's Joe Jackson, who impersonated Hall of Famers throughout the week, made his way to the plate at Fluor Field. Elon University's Spencer Medick waited on the mound.
The potential go-ahead run was on base in the top of the eighth inning Sunday afternoon as Elon clung to a one-run lead in the championship game.
The overwhelmingly pro-Citadel crowd worked into a frenzy. Then it was full count.
"He's a real tough out," Medick said. "That's probably the best at-bat I had all day from the mound."
Jackson, who was 10-for-12 in the tournament at the time, went down looking on a called third strike with two runners in motion on the bases.
Medick sprinted toward the dugout and …
Oh yeah, the Phoenix still needed three more outs to secure the 6-5 victory and tournament title.
"The coaches were trying to get me to calm down in the dugout," Medick said.
Afterward, that Medick / Jackson showdown was all the rage.
"He threw a really good curveball," Jackson said. "The one before that kind of fooled me a little bit, it was pretty sharp. Not a great at-bat, but I've got to live with it. I'm definitely mad at myself."
Elon coach Mike Kennedy said: "We certainly didn't want (Jackson) up there. We hadn't got him out all day. … Just big enough (breaking ball) to freeze him and lock him up. But that wasn't over."
Medick struck out the side in the ninth and it was finished. It was the senior's first save in his two-year Elon career.
Back to that eighth inning.
"It definitely felt like a home game for them," Medick said of the atmosphere. "When I'm on the mound, I don't really hear anything."
Citadel coach Fred Jordan, whose team won three straight games without a loss in the tournament until meeting Elon, said his team looked primed to completely erase a 6-1 hole.
"I thought we were going to be able to run them down," he said. "We had some opportunities. But they didn't allow us to capitalize. … You've got to give (Elon pitcher Kyle) Webb and Medick credit. They did a great job. They just shut us down in RBI situations."
Then there was the Jackson, a left-handed batter, facing Medick, a left-handed pitcher.
"He threw a 3-2 curveball, never threw him a fastball," Jordan said. "To his credit, he threw a great curveball and it just froze Joe."
Jackson, the great, great, great nephew of legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson (with a museum recognizing his life across the street from Fluor Field), batted .769 (10-for-13 with six walks) and became the tournament's first Most Outstanding Player from a non-championship team.
"It was a great game all the way around," Jackson said, "but Elon deserves it."
Webb (7-3), who was the loser as a starter in Wednesday's tournament opener and then was summoned to escape a bases-loaded, one-out jam Saturday night for a save against Georgia Southern, left with the lead after 6 1/3 innings.
Webb gave up Jackson's RBI triple in the seventh, then struck out Bo Thompson before Medick was called from the bullpen. Tyler Griffin smacked Medick's first pitch over center fielder Sebastian Gomez's head for a double, closing the gap to 6-5.
Then maybe you've heard about that eighth inning.
Earlier, Citadel struck first with Jackson's RBI double high off the left-field wall in the first inning. Before the Bulldogs stranded two runners, Elon rushed pitchers to the bullpen.
Elon went ahead in the bottom of the inning, using Alex Swim's single, Ryan Kinsella's triple and Casey Jones' double. The Phoenix might have had more if Gomez hadn't been picked off first base amid the rally.
It was 5-1 after two innings because Swim beat out a bases-loaded grounder, avoiding a double play for an RBI fielder's choice. After Kinsella drew his seventh walk of the tournament, Gomez roped a two-run single.
Elon's Chris Bresnahan uncorked a two-out RBI single off the left-field wall in the third, increasing the edge to 6-1.
In the next inning, the Phoenix didn't convert after putting runners at first and third with one out.
Then Citadel got going in the fifth, with Griffin's two-out, two-run double falling just out of the reach of diving Jones near the left-field line.
Citadel's Austin Pritcher, the league's Pitcher of the Year, was gone before completing the third inning. It was his shortest stint in 16 starts this year.
-- EXTRA BASES …: Swim, a senior catcher, tied the school record for career games played with his 235th, matching Paul Bennett 2003-06). Swim has made 180 consecutive starts. … Kinsella has reached safely in 37 consecutive games. … Citadel is Elon's most-frequent opponent in the conference tournament. The Phoenix is 4-7 in those games. Elon has faced no other foe more than six times. … In its NCAA Tournament opener, Elon will be aiming for its first six-game winning streak since 2010.


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Bayer Material Science LLC of Pittsburgh is working with Case Western Reserve to determine the viability of polyurethane composites reinforced with Baytubes® carbon nanotubes, which show promise for use in wind turbine blades.
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Case School of Engineering student John Christian Dalton and Cleveland Institute of Art students Andrew Brase and Norman Kuo finished first in the competition with their innovative housing insulation. Besides a cash award, the winning team was flown to Saint-Gobain's R&D Center near Boston to present their concept and tour Saint-Gobain's facilities.
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Pick up your reading log at the Circulation Desk of any branch, starting Monday, June 10. After you've read 5 books, turn your log back in, and it becomes your raffle ticket for the drawings.
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Monday, June 10 at 7 pm: The Life of King Tut. Presented by Rollin Phipps, in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "Treasures of Tutankamun". The exhibit will be on display during the month of June. Main Library.
Tuesday, June 18 from 11 am to 2 pm: Community Office Hours. Staff from Congressman Marc Veasey's office will be on hand to answer your questions about Medicare, Social Security, Veterans benefits, the IRS and passports. Main Library.
Tuesday, June 18 at 7 pm: Egyptian Jewelry. One of the great abilities of the Egyptians was the creation of beautiful jewelry. This program will include a display of ancient rings, necklaces, and bracelets which date back to 1000 BC. The program will discuss the skill and technique involved in the production of jewelry as well as the artistry of the items. Warmack Branch.
Sunday, June 30 at 2 pm: Movie. Stars Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Also stars Sally Fields. Main Library.
Sunday, July 14 at 2 pm: Movie. This movie based on the long-running Broadway musical stars Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Main Library.
Saturday, July 20 from 9 am to 5 pm: Clearance Book Sale. The Friends of the Library hold a one-day sale where everything's a quarter! Main Library.
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GRAHAM — Lisa Hinson's husband, James, a volunteer Mebane firefighter, died in 1995 while saving a motorist whose car had plunged into a rain-swollen stream.
In the years since, Lisa and her family have visited memorials across the state and nation that honor emergency workers who died in service to others.
There is none better, Lisa said Saturday morning, than the Alamance County Fallen Heroes Memorial. Lisa and her daughter, Ciara, and son, Alex, now a Mebane firefighter, were among the hundreds who turned out for the memorial's dedication.
"It's one of the nicest there is," Lisa said. "Being here in the county means a lot."
The memorial — five years in the making — was dedicated on a morning full of sunshine and promise. It honors 17 Alamance County residents who died in service to others.
The brick-and-granite monument, located beside the Children's Museum of Alamance County at 217 S. Main St., includes the names of police officers, firefighters, EMS employees and emergency communicators who died in the line of duty since 1934. The site also features prayer plaques, a 75-foot brick walkway, flags and places for contemplation.
It's well-manicured and attractive — very inviting.
"It's more than I imagined," said Scott Wicker, one of the individuals responsible for the memorial's creation.
Wicker — neither a police officer, firefighter or EMS worker — nonetheless received plenty of congratulations during Saturday's dedication. Wicker said he and Gerald Donley Jr., a Swepsonville firefighter who died in 2007, were both members of the Red Knights Motorcycle Club.
Wicker and a few others traveled not long after Donley's death to Raleigh to view a state memorial to fallen firefighters. He said after returning to Alamance County, he suggested a memorial be erected locally that would honor not only firefighters, but all emergency workers who died helping others.
"I got the idea rolling," Wicker said. "It grew from there."
Capt. Steve Lineberry of the E.M. Holt Fire Department received special recognition Saturday for his work to seeing the memorial become reality. Representatives from every county law enforcement agency and fire department, as well as Alamance County EMS and Alamance County Communications were on hand.
Helicopters from East Care Life Flight and Duke Life Flight — both organizations that lost members honored at the memorial — performed a fly-over toward the end of the dedication.
Lineberry reminded those in attendance that lots of individuals played roles in seeing the memorial built. More than 100 fundraisers were held and more than $180,000 raised for its creation. Twelve people served on a committee that planned the memorial.
The last portion of Saturday's dedication involved a reading of the names of those honored by the memorial. A portrait of each individual was carried and hung on a bordering fence. Representatives of the agencies those individuals worked for accompanied family members as the portraits were hung.
"We know every day when we go to work there's a chance we won't come home," Graham police chief Jeff Prichard reminded those in attendance.


text: Desired Body Weight: How to Get There From Here ***8/26/14: Please refer to Math as a Fitness Professional and Nutrition Math for more up-to-date information on this topic. "I just want to lose a little weight." "Well, actually, I want to get down to 23% body fat." " But how much will I weigh at 23% fat? Can I get there by the end of the month?" Personal trainers may be familiar with this sequence of statements. Losing weight is one of the leading reasons why clients head for the gym and the wisdom of their trainer. In the ACE 4th edition Personal Trainer manual you can find information about the different ways to assess a client's body composition as well as what it takes to lose those stubborn pounds. In preparing for your exam, one number you want to be familiar with is 3500. That is, 1 pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. Also, a safe rate of weight loss is 1 – 2 lbs per week. That's it, regardless of what Biggest Loser says. As we talk about maintaining or adjusting a client's body weight, those are two statements you want to memorize and tuck back into your brain for future reference. Despite all the ads, bottles, pills, and formulas, weight loss can be defined by a simple statement: Calories in (the food you eat) < Calories out (what you burn through activity and metabolism) = weight loss Yep, it really is that simple. Another equation to tuck back into your brain, and one we'll discuss in a future blog post. When you have a scenario where a client wishes to lose weight, how you answer the question depends on the information provided. For example… Sarah Jayne weighs 182. She wants to lose 20 lbs in time for her class reunion in 2 months. Can she do this safely? If she loses 2lbs per week, then in 8 weeks she will lose 16lbs. Nope, not enough weight to meet her goal. If she loses 3lbs per week, then in 8 weeks she will lose 24lbs. Yep, she can meet her goal. But…what if Sarah Jayne comes to you with a different goal? She's heard that 20% body fat is the place to be for women of her age. If she's 28% body fat now, how much weight does she have to lose to get down to 20%? How long will it take? Here is where we use the Desired Body Weight equation of DBW = LBW / (1 – DBF%) where LBW is Lean Body Weight and DBF is Desired Percent Fat For Sarah Jayne you need to perform several steps: 1: 100% - 28% fat = 72%lean (this is Sarah Jayne's percent lean weight) 2: 72% lean x 182 lbs of body weight) = 131.04lbs of lean body weight 3: Desired Body Weight = 131lbs lean body weight/ (1-20%) 3a: DBW = 131lbs lean body weight/ .8 (this .8 is the desired lean she wants to be, 80% lean and 20% fat) 4: DBW = 163.75lbs (this is what Sarah Jayne would weigh at 20% body fat) So part 2 of the question says, how much weight does she need to lose to get to this point of 164 lbs and 20% body fat? We take her original weight of 182lbs and subtract her final weight of 164 lbs. 182lbs – 164lbs = 18lbs How long will it take her to lose these 18 lbs safely? 6 – 9 weeks. When taking the exam, and especially when doing math on the exam, remember that some questions are easy while others are multi part. When you come across one of those multi part questions just take a deep breath and break it down into its parts. Then tackle each part in order to get the best answer. Questions? Just contact one of our Education Consultants at 1-888-825-3636 x782.


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Well, our area wrestlers are a solid bunch in their multi-color socks that only a mother or fashion model could love and shaved heads or Mohawks, dyed red or otherwise.
To recap:
A total of 38 area wrestlers made the championships, which is impressive by itself. But then you factor in we only have schools in the 3-A, 2-A and 1-A classifications and, well, the numbers just get that much more impressive.
And then to think that 10 — more than a fourth — made it to the semifinals Friday night. The impressive index keeps going up.
Of those 10, five earned their way to the finals from four schools. Croatan had two make it to the last match of the three-day weekend in the 2-A classification while
All five wrestled hard and each could have won. As it turned out three did, and each had their own story to tell.
First, there was
Up next was Joby Armenta of Southwest.
As a freshman, Armenta finished second at 103 pounds and then as a sophomore he again came in second, this time at 120. This time around he had moved up two weight classes to 132, where he turned in a solid performance in the finals, downing Zack Prevette of East Wilkes.
While every wrestler who wins the state title is happy, I'm betting few felt the combination of happiness and relief that beat in Armenta's heart — and was etched on his face — as he stood at the middle of the mat looking at the rafters with his arms upraised and his mother, Jodi, in tears in the stands.
Also, it's worth noting that Armenta is the first Stallion to bring home a state wrestling title while also picking up win No. 100 in the semifinals — a 9-0 win over Matthew Harkins of West Montgomery, for the record.
About 45 minutes after Armenta's win on one of four mats on the coliseum floor, two area wrestlers hit adjacent mats at 195:
I would have bet anything Colborn was going to win, but he suffered a closer-than-the-final-score indicated 7-3 loss while Hudson, whom I also felt had a better than even chance of bringing home gold, suffered an even more heart-breaking 3-1 overtime loss.
The end of the night came at 120 pounds, where Croatan senior Alex Bray not only won the state title but did it with a pin with 28 seconds left in the second period over Stephen Dreher of Carrboro. Bray had beaten Dreher 16-7 on Dec. 28 in the Tiger Holiday Classic, which was only a prelude to his state finals match.
And while winning the state title is the perfect end to a high school career, Bray added just a bit more to claiming his gold medal and spot atop the podium since it was also victory No. 175 of his career.
Impressive? You bet it is.
All in all, it was an outstanding performance by the area's wrestlers, which saw them bring home not only three gold medals, two silver and two bronze but five fourth-place finishes. Add it up and that means 12 of the 38 area wrestlers were among the top four in the state in their weight class.
Give yourself a hand, guys — and get back to work. Hey, you're wrestlers, aren't you?
In compiling the results from our area wrestlers Saturday night as part of my 17-hour work day, I inadvertently left one wrestler out of the list: Dixon Josh Thomas, who wound up tied for fifth out of eight wrestlers in the 113-pound class in 1-A.
While a solid performance, what makes it more impressive is Thomas is only a freshman — one of only two freshmen who made the 1-A state championships.
Here's Thomas's match-by-match summary: lost to Smoot (N. Wilkes) 6-2; d. Norman (E. Surry) 4-1; lost to Jaramillo (Rosewood) 11-2; finishes 38-13.
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When Mafuyu Oribe and her adopted sister Tomo rescue a strange wounded man, they have no idea what they're getting involved with - or what the consequences will be. Alexander Nikolaevith Hell is an Iron Qwaser, one of many opposing factions of super-warriors who can each draw upon the power of an element and wield it as an almost unstoppable array of weapons. Unfortunately for Mafuyu, Alexander's faction is there to gather the mystical relics known collectively as the High Circuit, which puts her friends, family, and school at ground zero in a battle for the fate of all mankind!
But there's an even more disturbing twist, as Qwasers require a special liquid diet to manifest their powers, one provided by the women who serve as Qwaser partners. The nursing Mafuyu's already given Alexander isn't the only kind of nursing he needs!
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Pair of Seniors Represent Women's Volleyball on Academic All-Conference Squad
November 7, 2011
HIGH POINT, NC - Conference Carolinas is proud to announce the 2011 Womens Volleyball Academic All-Conference award winners. League member institutions stress the role of "Academics and Athletics Working Together" and each sports Academic All-Conference award winners exemplify this continued league-wide commitment. Seniors Colleen Wands (Apex, NC) and Erin Gray (Sneads Ferry, NC) represent Pfeiffer University in 2011.
The 2011 Conference Carolinas Womens Volleyball Academic All-Conference representatives have been awarded to the following junior and senior student-athletes with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher on a 4.0 scale in all work completed at their member institution that have played in a conference sponsored sport. The GPA is calculated based on the student-athletes cumulative average through the previous semester and each student-athlete must have attended their member institution for at least one academic year.
Each year the Academic All-Conference Team is released while closing out each regular season before starting the tournament championships. Womens volleyball will begin tournament play on Tuesday, November 8th with quarterfinal games being played at the higher seeded team. Semifinal and final matches are also at the higher seeded team that following Friday and Sunday. Keep up with all the Conference Carolinas fall tournament action on the league website Fall Championship Central link (or at www.conferencecarolinas.com/Championships/2008-09/20082410_08-09ChampionshipsLinks ).
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Bria James, Belmont Abbey
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Holli Dawson, Limestone
Stephanie Dover, Limestone
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A new local juicing business is working to bring healthier options to your doorstep.
The Kickin' Carrot, an online, cold pressed juicing business born and based in Jacksonville, specializes in hand-crafting a variety of made-to-order, 100-percent raw and unpasteurized juices, wellness booster shots, milks and blended drinks.
Owner/operators Brittany and Tony Leanza say the juices created in their home kitchen are full of health benefits to help detox your body, lose weight and increase your overall health.
"These juices are amazing for your body," said Brittany. "They're a powerhouse of nutrients that not only help you feel better, but taste really good too."
The Kickin' Carrot offers a variety of flavors of juices, milks, wellness shots and blended drinks, with creative names such as "Lucy in the Sky," a juice made with lemon, apple, and ginger root, and "Green Goddess," a blended drink loaded with spinach, celery, parsley, wheatgrass, banana, apple, young coconut water, lemon and ginger root.
"The amount of fruit and vegetables that are put into these juices is more than you could eat in a day," said Brittany, who uses only fresh, raw, unprocessed fruits and vegetables, along with spices and supplements in her products.
"Until you actually drink the juice you don't fully understand the benefits," she said. "When you juice, your body takes in a powerhouse of minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids, carbohydrates, proteins and anti-oxidants, just to name a few. Juicing is also easier on your body because you don't have to utilize the energy needed to digest the fiber in eating raw fruits and vegetables."
After becoming sick with a variety of illnesses, Brittanybegan researching natural methods to help her body heal itself.
"I was looking for natural remedies to heal myself with after being put on a bunch of prescription drugs that weren't working," said Brittany. After watching the film "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead," she decided to learn more about remedies used by filmmaker Joe Cross, specifically juicing.
"I began cleansing and drinking three green juices a day," she said. "I began to feel better. I had more natural energy and I lost a lot of weight. I'm not claiming that the juices can heal diseases, but I will guarantee you will feel better."
Brittany's friends and family began to notice the positive effects that juicing and cleansing had on her health and became interested in her juices after seeing photos of the juices she created for herself on her Instagram. In August, The Kickin' Carrot was born.
While juicing is not a concept new to the health scene, Brittanyis excited to bring her varieties and flavors of juice to Jacksonvilleand the surrounding area.
"When we first started out we took a few samples to friends at Bomb's Away Tattoo and the word got out. The business … exploded," Brittanysaid.
As The Kickin' Carrot grows in popularity, Brittanyis trying to keep up with the orders they've received.
"People will place orders for seven to eight juices to drink over a three-day period," she said. "A lot of people don't understand how much work goes into making these juices."
The overall cold-press juicing process is time consuming.
"Everything is scrubbed and prepped beforehand," Brittanysaid as she chopped up four pounds of carrots, apples, lemon and ginger root, to make her "Super Cider," a fruit juice with a kick. After the ingredients have been prepped, Brittanyuses a juicer to grate them down into a pulp. She then wraps the pulp in a thick cloth and places it onto her cold press, where she presses the cider into a 16-ounce bottle, the only size she currently offers of her products.
The Kickin' Carrots cold press process creates a limited shelf life for the juices, as the product is not pasteurized, allowing the vitamins, minerals and living enzymes that are lost through the heated process of pasteurizing to make it into the juice.
"When you heat up juice to pasteurize it, a process used to kill bacteria, you're also killing a lot of the nutrients in the juice," Brittanysaid. "By using the cold pressing process, you receive three to five times more nutrition in our juices compared to standard juices.
"You can store your chilled juice for three days in the refrigerator and up to several weeks in the freezer without losing any of the nutrition, flavor or color."
While The Kickin' Carrot does not pasteurize its products, the kitchen where the juices are prepared is kept sanitized and clean.
"Everything we use is sanitized beforehand with bleach and all fresh produce is washed with a grapeseed oil solution, which removes pesticides and chemicals, thoroughly cleaning the vegetables," said Brittany.
All of The Kickin' Carrots products are also sealed immediately in tamper proof bottles after being prepared, meeting the requirements of operating a home business in base housing onboard Tawara Terrace II, as well as county and state certifications.
Scheri Goff, a certified yoga teacher, project manager and founder of the Jacksonville Onslow Yoga (J.O.Y.) Network told The Daily News that she, her yoga students and her family can't get enough of the juices.
"It's amazing when you break it down and think about all the nutrients that you're getting," Scheri said. "You're replenishing everything your body needs and rehydrating. You feel it on a cellular level. I can't say enough good things about The Kickin' Carrot."
After living in the Ukraine, where Scheri says they were big on fresh juices, she and her family became hooked on juicing and were looking for ways to get the same fresh juice into their diet without purchasing a juicer themselves.
"Brittany's much more creative with her combinations than similar products you can buy in the store," she said. "She's also willing to modify her beverages to taste the way you want them."
Scheri's husband, Daniel favors "The Green Goddess," while her children Grace, 9, and Josh, 6, are fans of the "Lucy in the Sky," juice.
"The Gingerbombs are amazing," said Scheri of her favorite Wellness Booster Shot. "It's warm and delicious and took care of a sore throat I had almost instantly. If you're feeling a bit under the weather, the ginger knocks out whatever funk is going on."
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Groovy uses both " and ' for strings. Either can be used. Using either type of string allows you to use strings with quotations easily.
The groovy parser supports the notation \uab12 (i.e. a leading backslash and precisely four hex digits after the 'u' ).
This notation can be used in strings or anywhere in the program like the Java parser does.
Strings may be concatenated with "+". For example:
Multi-line strings
Regular strings in Groovy cannot span multiple lines.
As an exception to this rule, a backslash at the end of a line disappears and joins the current line with the next.
If you have a block of text which you wish to use but don't want to have to encode it all (e.g. if its a block of HTML or something) then you can use the """ syntax.
Because of the leading backslash, the string
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Slashy String literals
It is possible to use the another notation for String literals with the added benefit of not needing additional backslashes to escape special characters. That is especially handy with regular expressions or Windows file/directory path names.
The only escape that is supported in a slashy string is to use
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def bs = '\\\\'; def winpath=/C:\windows\system32$bs/ or
def winpath=/C:\windows\system32\${}/.
Another gotcha: don't try using an empty slashy string:
def x = //, the slashes will be treated as a line comment delimiter, but
def z = /${}/ would be fine.
A final gotcha: currently a slashy string can't be the left hand side (LHS) expression of an
assert statement while you are eliminating the brackets, e.g.:
This is a feature of the current grammar rather than a desired goal and may one day be altered to remove this anomoly - it is a tricky edge case in the grammar.
For more examples, read about Regular Expressions.
Strings are immutable
This can be seen with these two code snips, which you can cut and paste into groovyConsole:
Above both variables are references to the map.
If you do the same thing with Strings, the behavior is different:
Here is the explanation by Guillaume Laforge:
sn and st point at the very same map object in memory in the first example, while in the second snippet, at the end, st points at a different place in memory where there's the new immutable string.
Strings that are declared inside double-quotes (i.e. either single double-quotes or triple double-quotes for multi-line strings) can contain arbitrary expressions inside them as shown above using the ${expression} syntax in a similar way to JSP EL, Velocity and Jexl. Any valid Groovy expression can be enclosed in the ${...} including method calls etc. GStrings are defined the same way as normal Strings would be created in Java. Here is a simple example involving a simple variable and an expression:
What actually happens is whenever a string expression contains a ${...} expression then rather than a normal java.lang.String instance, a GString object is created which contains the text and values used inside the String.
GString can involve lazy evaluation so it's not until the toString() method is invoked that the GString is evaluated. This lazy evaluation is useful for things like logging as it allows the calculation of the string, the calls to toString() on the values, and the concatenation of the different strings to be done lazily if at all. Here is an example that illustrates lazy evaluation:
which outputs the following:
Thu Apr 17 23:18:17 EST 2008 It is currently Thu Apr 17 23:18:17 EST 2008 It is currently Thu Apr 17 23:18:22 EST 2008
To explain this output, we need to understand an additional rule about GStrings that we haven't covered yet. It involves different rules for evaluating a closure expression within a GString based on the number of arguments to the closure. Here are the rules:
- If the Closure takes 0 parameters then call the Closure and use the returned value as the value at that point in the GString
- If the Closure takes 1 parameter then call the Closure with a Writer as the parameter and use the characters written to the Writer as the value at that point in the GString
- If the Closure takes more that one parameter throw a GroovyRuntimeException.
So, in the example above,
x contains a 0 parameter closure which means that
new Date() will be invoked and the value stored away as a GString value. When we attempt to print x later, that calculated value is placed in the appropriate place in the GString and output giving us the date at GString definition time. But,
y contains a 1 parameter closure which means that the closure expression will be stored away in the GString. When we print out y, the closure will be invoked and give as the date at printing time.
GString Use Cases - Templating
GString is pretty handy when you don't want to use a template engine, or when you really want full lazy evaluation of GStrings. When some variable embedded in a GString, the toString() is called on that variable to get a string representation, and it's inserted into the final string. But when it's closures you embed, we don't call the toString() on closure. If that was the case, you'd get a string like "Script7$_run_closure1@8dc50e" embedded in your final string.
Instead, we distinguish two use cases:
- a closure with no parameter,
- a closure with one parameter.
And the expected behaviors:
- For a closure with no parameter, Groovy calls the closure without parameter, and calls toString() on the result.
- For a closure with one parameter, the parameter is actually a StringWriter to which you can append text in the body of your closure.
- For a closure with more parameters, an exception will be thrown.
I'm executed Executed with a class java.io.StringWriter parameter no param - one param
The embedded closure could be used in a nested manner:
how deep is deep? deeper and deepest how deep is deep? deeper and deepest
GString Use Cases - GSQL
Another use case for GString is GSQL where parameters can be passed into SQL statements using this same mechanism which makes for a neat way to integrate Groovy with other languages like SQL. GroovySql then converts the expressions to ? and uses a JDBC PreparedStatement and passes the values in, preserving their types.
If you explicitly want to coerce the GString to a String you can use the toString() method. Groovy can also automatically coerce GStrings into Strings for you.
String and StringBuffer Methods
See: JN1525-Strings.
More Examples
The following example passes the test:
and outputs:
item: "bread"
item: "apple"
item: "egg"


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In signaling environments ranging from consumption to education, high quality senders often shun the standard signals that should separate them from lower quality senders. We find that allowing for additional, noisy information on sender quality permits equilibria where medium types signal to separate themselves from low types, but high types then choose to not signal or "countersignal". High types not only save costs by relying on the additional information to stochastically separate them from low types, but countersignaling itself is a signal of confidence which separates high types from medium types. Experimental results confirm that subjects can learn to countersignal.
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The BUAV is delighted to report that Ipsen has confirmed that it intends to end batch testing of their botulinum (botox) products by the end of 2014. The company confirmed this in a meeting this week with our European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) Belgian member, GAIA.
The BUAV and its European coalition, the ECEAE, have been campaigning since 2009 to urge Ipsen to end the cruel poisoning tests that it conducts on its botulinum toxin products, Azzalure and Dysport. The products are widely used in cosmetic surgery to remove wrinkles. In November 2009 the BUAV exposed the cruelty involved in the testing of these products when it went undercover at the company's testing facility Wickham Laboratories in the UK.
The BUAV's investigator witnessed mice being injected into their abdomens with the toxin and, depending on the dose, suffering the effects of paralysis and respiratory distress. Many of the animals died within days from their symptoms, those who did not were killed anyway. The test is performed to determine the average lethal dose sufficient to kill 50% of the animals which is used as a measure of strength of each Dysport vial. This testing is done for each batch of Ipsen's products and involves hundreds of mice each time. The laboratory in the UK is licensed to use up to 70,000 mice for this purpose alone.
Following public pressure on Ipsen to replace this cruel test, as a result of the BUAV investigation, the company has now announced that it hopes to replace the tests with a non-animal alternative by the end of 2014. Ipsen's competitor Allergan has already had an alternative approved and has pledged to ensure its animal use will decline by at least 95% by the end of 2014.
BUAV and ECEAE Chief Executive Michelle Thew said, "We hope that 2014 will finally see the last of these agonising tests for a product that is primarily used for cosmetic purposes. This reflects the strength of the BUAV and ECEAE's joint European campaign, covering virtually every country in the European Union, and shows that persistent campaigning makes a real difference. We shall hold the companies to account to ensure that the promises are delivered."


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