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On March 11, between 7 and 9 p.m., local residents may be receiving a phone call for a survey about downtown Sparta. Be nice – this isn't a telemarketer. This will be a call from Sparta business representatives, as well as many Sparta High School Interact Club members, to conduct a short phone survey to […]
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Groovy 2.3
Groovy 2.3 is the latest stable version of Groovy.
Feature set
- official support for running Groovy on JDK 8
- traits, as a new object oriented way of composing behavior in your classes
- new and improved AST transformations like @TailRecursive, @Builder and @Sortable
- a new NIO2 module with Path support
- lightening fast JSON parsing and building
- closure parameter type inference
- a new markup template engine
- Groovysh and GroovyConsole ease of use improvements
- a new GroovyAssert test utility
- more @BaseScript class capabilities, and more.
- Groovy 2.3 beta: February-March 2014
- Groovy 2.3 release candidates: April 2014
- Groovy 2.3 finale: May 2014
Groovy 3.0 (Q4 2014)
Feature set for consideration
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- to fully leverage "invoke dynamic" (method handles, class values, etc)
- make the sedimented dynamic features more coherent
- to fix the private visibility conundrum
- to shield libraries from "monkey patching" with a notion of "realm"
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- lambdas
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- in particular adapt to the Java 8 language features
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- lambdas
- method references
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- annotations on types
- repeated annotations
- stream API
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- Groovy 3.0 alpha: Q3 2014
- Groovy 3.0 betas: Q4 2014 - Q1 21015
- Groovy 3.0 release candidates: Q1 2015
- Groovy 3.0 final: end of Q2 2015
Groovy 4.0 (Q4 2015)
Feature set for consideration
- No concrete plans at the moment
Other topics we could consider for later Groovy
- true named arguments
- compiler related:
- investigate making the groovyc compiler multithreaded
- Incremental compiler
- ability to pass expression trees / AST nodes as parameters (see C# 4's own expression tree)
- lexical categories
- a symbol concept, a bit like Ruby's :symbol, or like Java interned strings
- co-routines and/or generators
- pattern matching
- parser combinators
- a native template engine compiling to AST (faster, correct line numbers for error reporting, optimized outputting, etc.)
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I'm very interested in the Groovy 2 roadmap. Unfortunately this wiki seems to be a bit outdated in such matter. (beta 3 is out, there won't be a beta4.) In the download page, there are some RC download links, but up to now there wasn't any announcements.
I would really appreciate if you could tell me when we should expect to have Groovy 2.0 final.
Kind regards,
senior oracle member of technical staff.
Could someone please update the roadmap? I am interested in current process of groovy 3.0, but it´s seems quite difficult to get informations!
I've updated the roadmap, thanks for reminding me of doing so!
Thx a lot for updating!


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Never mind that this game is in the summer and has no barring on what happens in the regular season.
Basketball coaches at both Northside and Croatan said it will feel different when their teams square off tonight at at
The reason?
The two East Central 2-A Conference rivals will be playing against each other for the first time since both squads graduated their stars.
Northside now has to learn how to play without Jamal Parker while Croatan has to move forward following the departure of JacQues Chambers and Austin Saunders.
"It's going to be different," Northside coach Tony Marshburn said. "We had Jamal for four years and Croatan had Austin and JacQues."
Croatan coach Kirk McDougle agreed that not seeing Chambers, Saunders and Parker will make this summer meeting between the Cougars and Monarchs different.
"It's been a big change … and it's going to be a new chapter, and I know Tony would say the same thing," McDougle said. "It's definitely going to feel different, but Tony and I are both eager about our new group. Northside is a good group, they are well-coached and they have a great group of kids and so do we."
Last year, Parker led the area in scoring at 20.9 points a game while averaging 2.5 assists to lead Northside to a share of the
Chambers was second in the area in scoring at 20.4 to go along with 9.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists while Saunders was third in area scoring at 16 while also averaging 10.6 rebounds and 5 assists.
Saunders and Chambers helped the Cougars to the second round of the NCHSAA 2-A playoffs, where Croatan lost at Northside.
All three players were named to the first team of The Daily News all-area team, with Parker emerging as the player of the year.
Both teams have continued trying to find replacements for their leading players, and both McDougle and Marshburn hope playing in the ECI can help them further ease the transition from the losses.
Northside does have four players returning with starting experience in Josh Cabrera, Davion Ayabarreno, Kris Curry and Korey Curry.
Croatan has one returning starter in Kyle Cranmer.
"This is the only real camp or tournament we do. For the most part, it has been open gyms and scrimmages," McDougle said. "We just really want to build chemistry and teamwork. This group has really bought into the team concept. It's not going to be one, two or three guys putting the team on their back. We got some guys coming up from JV. It's going to be a new challenge."
McDougle has particularly been impressed with Cranmer, a rising senior.
"Kyle has really stepped up to the challenge," McDougle said. "He's always been the quiet leader and a leader by example. He's done a good job of bringing the group together. He's definitely been our floor leader."
Meanwhile, Northside is trying to move on without Parker, the Monarchs' go-to offensive player the last few years.
"I think the guys returning are ready to step up and show what they are capable of doing," Marshburn said.
And that includes Cabrera, a rising senior who is also getting attention from college football recruiters as a wide receiver.
"Josh just looks a lot more athletic and stronger than he did last year," Marshburn said. "He's really had a good summer and he's really stood out. Most of the time we've played, he's been the best athlete on the floor."
For the most part, both coaches have been pleased with their team's effort during summer workouts, summer league games and during camps.
Marshburn has been happy with the turnout.
"We've had a lot of kids in the gym. We've had a really good turnout and good enthusiasm," Marshburn said. "The returning guys have led the way."
Meanwhile, McDougle has liked the way his players have made time for summer workouts, despite balancing commitments to other sports.
"Most of the guys also play football and baseball," he said. "They go from football to basketball and then go play baseball every night. Very rarely do they take a day off. It's amazing."
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by Coryphaeus - 2/26/13 9:49 AM
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by Coryphaeus - 2/26/13 9:49 AM
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Much to JP and Ziks pleasure
by TONI H - 2/26/13 10:19 AM
In Reply to: Does anyone besides me . . . by Coryphaeus
my head is nearly exploding over this insane crap........
by JP Bill - 2/26/13 1:27 PM
In Reply to: Much to JP and Ziks pleasure by TONI H
I have a problem with your sources, Town Hall is a
by Ziks511 - 2/27/13 9:12 AM
In Reply to: Much to JP and Ziks pleasure by TONI H
hyper-conservative site which misrepresents the issue tangibly in the article, and with Todd Starnes who is as he proclaims a Bitter American. Not exactly unbiased sources.
Who exactly in the Texas School System ordered the schools to teach Islam and by what authority? It's a simple question not addressed in the article. They talk about CSCOPE, which is a programme put into place by a group of educators (I assume) and reviewed and approved by the Texas Department of Schools and Education and which I assume is to teach kids about how things are in other countries. We did it in Maryland in the 50's, my son did it here in Canada in the 90's. It wasn't indoctrination, it was just an explanation, information with which to begin to understand the world we live in.
It isn't the product of some great Islamic conspiracy which I find difficult to conceive of in the Texas of rewriting the schoolbooks to challenge Evolution and present Creationism. Who would promote Islam in Bible Belt Texas??
I doubt the teachers told the children that God is Allah, I'll bet anything you like that they taught them that Muslims call God Allah. The two ideas are light years apart. And what kid doesn't like dress up, but to turn this incident into some kind of deliberate assault on American Identity, or indoctrination of young impressionable minds is ludicrous.
Read a normal newspaper article like the Dallas Fort Worth newspaper and see if you're not vastly less angry about the issue, when it is explained properly, and without Mr Starnes twisted view.
Actually, no Toni. Contrary to your opinion I wish you no
by Ziks511 - 2/27/13 9:19 AM
In Reply to: Much to JP and Ziks pleasure by TONI H
ill, I do wish you greater enlightenment and wisdom. Particualrly the wisdom to recognize when you are being manipulated in such a blatant way as this "news" site is doing. They're taking you for a chump, and by buying into this biased, illogical and almost incoherent rant, you're letting them.
Less heat and more light has always been a principle I have tried to pursue, despite evidence I may have dropped in the heat of an argument to the contrary.
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by TONI H - 2/28/13 4:18 AM
In Reply to: Actually, no Toni. Contrary to your opinion I wish you no by Ziks511
Enlightenment doesn't come from teachers punishing a student for refusing to recite the Mexican pledge, Rob........this IS America.......you want to be forced to recite the pledge of another country, go live in THAT country instead.
This country has become so politically sensitive to Hispanic (especially) cultures that kids are allowed to wear t-shirts celebrating their holidays, but American kids aren't allowed to wear t-shirts that celebrate the US Flag or its mottos. Gimme a break on your so-called enlightenment crap.......when do THEY become enlightened to the fact that they left their OWN countries to live HERE?
Hispanic is not a political system
by James Denison - 2/28/13 10:59 AM
In Reply to: In another topic thread by TONI H
Those living in this country need to have that point driven home to them. If that's their vision of being "Hispanic", they can return to it, the system didn't leave them, they left it.
I would, if it was true
by Josh K - 2/26/13 10:21 AM
In Reply to: Does anyone besides me . . . by Coryphaeus
This link suggests that the version you're reading may not be quite accurate:
I wonder if the "freedom fighters" thing, if true, wasn't some kind of role-playing game? Some of the claims being made seem pretty hard to believe.
It also seems a bit curious that the type of lesson portrayed in your link would be taught by a teacher who happens to be Jewish. If it was, in fact, a culture/geography lesson then it would be impossible to discuss Islamic cultures without at least some background about the religion.
I think more information is needed on this one before forming an opinion about it.
Saluting the PC people... just don't count
by TONI H - 2/26/13 10:30 AM
In Reply to: I would, if it was true by Josh K
how many fingers I use to salute with.
Nobody's being PC, Toni
by Josh K - 2/26/13 10:36 AM
In Reply to: Saluting the PC people... just don't count by TONI H
I just prefer to have more information before ranting or flipping people the virtual bird. For the record, if the story, as reported in the original link, is 100% accurate, yes I would have a problem with it. OK?
I have to wonder, Josh
by TONI H - 2/26/13 12:19 PM
In Reply to: Nobody's being PC, Toni by Josh K
What would the reaction of a parent be if their Muslim son was asked to dress as a priest in order to 'understand' the Vatican/Catholic culture?
I don't know either
by Josh K - 2/26/13 12:33 PM
In Reply to: I have to wonder, Josh by TONI H
But since (according to the MSN article) nobody was forced to put the burqas on, I don't see a First Amendment issue there.
Again -- wouldn't it be best to get the whole story before opining on it? A lot of what's in the original article just doesn't add up -- the fact that the teacher is Jewish, the fact that this took place in a very conservative state that wouldn't have something like this in any official curriculum, etc.
by James Denison - 2/26/13 1:08 PM
In Reply to: I have to wonder, Josh by TONI H
they'd done better to have the students draw pictures of how they imagined Mohammed looked. I wonder if they taught them about his pedophilia and the rape of a Jewish woman the same night after he'd had her husband killed? I suspect their history lesson was missing some important elements about Islam.
I thought
by TONI H - 2/26/13 1:44 PM
In Reply to: Maybe by James Denison
you weren't allowed to draw pics of Mohammed or be subject to a death sentence?
RE: how they imagined Mohammed looked.
by JP Bill - 2/26/13 1:50 PM
In Reply to: Maybe by James Denison
You have your perception of how Jesus looks...BUT do you really know?
They don't believe in false advertising?..Graven image?
Sure, but...
by Pepe7 - 2/27/13 10:11 AM
In Reply to: Maybe by James Denison
...then you would also, in good faith (no pun intended), have to talk about the Crusades as well. Now that was a merry bunch of men having quite the clusterfluff of a good time(!)
They would be as understanding as you are?
by JP Bill - 2/26/13 1:26 PM
In Reply to: I have to wonder, Josh by TONI H
With your salute?
I note that the only sources I could find on this story were
by Ziks511 - 2/27/13 9:53 AM
In Reply to: I would, if it was true by Josh K
all Conservative rant sites. The Daily Caller Tucker Carlson's joke on the American public, World Net Daily (WND), and The Washington Times.
Here's what you get when you do a Google Search. Not a Main Stream site in the bunch.
Here's a slightly less rabid version of the story
And here's what the Lumberton Independent School district said about the lesson plan
"The lesson that was offered focused on exposing students to world cultures, religions, customs, and belief systems. A description on the whiteboard behind the students show the splits in religions: Islam (Sunni and Shia), Judaism (Reform, Conservatives, and Orthodox), and Christianity (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant). Clothing expresses the individual culture. The lesson is not teaching a specific religion, and the students volunteered to wear the clothing." Emphasis added, RTB.
Now how many classes were offered to try to help the kids understand that not all Muslims are terrorists and that Islam is a religion related to both Christianity and Judaism and revering the same God I don't know. All three religions' adherents are referred to as The People of the Book. I doubt Islam took up more than the one lesson. What the controversy ensures is that any religion not already covered won't be, which may have been the point of the Conservative attacks all along.
>>Not a Main Stream site in the bunch.>>>
by TONI H - 2/28/13 4:21 AM
In Reply to: I note that the only sources I could find on this story were by Ziks511
And you have no clue why that is? Because no liberal out there see this as an issue........and until they get 'enlightened' to the situation, there never WILL be coverage of this sort of propaganda being taught to our kids.
Or maybe it's because.....
by Josh K - 2/28/13 5:34 AM
In Reply to: >>Not a Main Stream site in the bunch.>>> by TONI H
.......this did not happen the way that one writer claims it did.
And if what you say is a fact
by TONI H - 2/28/13 5:54 AM
In Reply to: Or maybe it's because..... by Josh K
(that the incident didn't happen the way that one writer claims it did), the liberal rags would have been all over it, Josh, to make JUST THAT POINT.
Not necessarily
by Josh K - 2/28/13 6:18 AM
In Reply to: And if what you say is a fact by TONI H
The "liberal rags" don't have time to shoot down every single wacky thing someone claims happened.
You can Google and find all kinds of crazy s***. The New York Times doesn't need to give these stories even more visibility by refuting them.
by TONI H - 2/28/13 6:33 AM
In Reply to: Not necessarily by Josh K
You keep on believing your spin, Josh......for how many times those rags have beaten a story to death in order to make THEIR side/spin of an event seem credible, there's no way they would have left this one alone.
Not to mention the almost instantaneous
by James Denison - 2/28/13 11:14 AM
blog bombing, blog burst, or blog blasting that happens when they send the command out.
How many LSM articles
by TONI H - 2/28/13 4:26 AM
In Reply to: I note that the only sources I could find on this story were by Ziks511
do you suppose are out there that expose the taxpayer money being used by the Agricultural Department for THIS crap? (hint: a google search didn't turn up any for me)
As others have commented and if 100% accurate
by Steven Haninger - 2/26/13 11:17 AM
In Reply to: Does anyone besides me . . . by Coryphaeus
(which I doubt), the article is troubling. I do not and cannot have an issue with teaching something about the various world religions when done so in the context of geography and culture. A brief sketch of origin and basic beliefs if presented in a non-judgmental fashion is perfectly fine with me. We can include identifying dress, ceremonies, holidays, etc. What we cannot do is get into discussions as to why one of the other is right or wrong in its beliefs or its positive or negative impact on the rest of the world...at least not in a public school environment. That should be reserved for whatever and by whom the students are being taught at home or there own places of worship if they have one. A child's knowing that they will encounter other children who came from different backgrounds and beliefs can and should be a good thing. We give them just enough to not be surprised and let them learn the rest as needed or as curiosity takes over.
(NT) I agree entirely, Steven. Well expressed. Rob
by Ziks511 - 2/27/13 9:54 AM
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Seems heavy handed
by Willy - 2/27/13 10:48 AM
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It's not balanced and seems to gone off track.
Freedom fighters, nope if they kill others then that's terrorist in our eyes. maybe not to them but it is from anyone else's POV. Further, to go so far into the details of so-called culutal learning and then parents find out about it and in TEXAS! Not a good sign at all.... How can you defend something like that when not offering the culture but flat out showing what seems like a one sided view if anything else. Badly, thought out.. -----Willy
one correction at least
by Roger NC - 2/27/13 4:55 PM
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CSCOPE denies it was there program. http://www.cscope.us/
False Information on Burqas in CSCOPE
Certain articles have recently claimed that a picture of students wearing burqas was part of a CSCOPE lesson used in a teacher's classroom. This activity was not a part of any lesson in CSCOPE; rather, it was a locally developed lesson in a Texas school district. For more information from the school district, click here.
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In 1971, Congress declared our wild horses and burros an integral part of our public rangelands and ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to care for them as cultural icons. Over the years, the BLM has rounded up tens of thousands of our wild equines, often with cruel methods, and shipped them to tax-funded holding facilities where they are confined for the rest of their lives.
The BLM is again looking to apply the same failed model of round-ups and removals in revised management plans for wild horses out West. These plans must be altered.
If adopted, these management plans would decimate the wild horse population in the Wyoming Checkerboard, a two-million-acre mix of public and private land where nearly half of Wyoming's wild horses live. This is certainly not the free-roaming vision Congress set out for these majestic animals.
The good news is that you can help! The BLM is accepting public comments through Friday, September 27, on the potentially devastating revisions to Resource Management Plans that will cull wild horses in Wyoming.
Please be a voice for our wild horses before their time runs out. Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center right now to quickly contact the BLM. Urge the agency to adopt policies that give horses their fair share of habitat and keep them on the range where they belong.
On behalf of the horses, we thank you!
It's a BIG Mistake what BLM is doing, they have to leave our Wild Horses to live in their natural habitat, they need their space, they need their FREEDOM, please don't take them away from where they belong,
Have you thought of contacting the actor Viggo Mortensen. He is big on helping with horse concerning issues.
Have you thought of contacting the actor Viggo Mortensen. He is big on helping with horse concerning issues.
As long as ranchers pay large fees for grazing rights on federal lands, horses will be shuttle off to holding areas where they are fed o taxpayer dollars instead of grazing.
Just like the Indians/Native Americans wer shuttled off by the federal government when we landed here. It is the same scenario only with the native horse herds left when the Spanish departed and others released horses into the wild when they no longer wanted or needed them. We can't allow the BLM (which is a nightmare in itself) to go unchecked and let money and greed destroy the last of this wild beautiful herds of wild horses. We need wild things in order to live as human beings Please join this fight it is well worth it.
I agree with you 100 %, Lynda and commented on the way the horses are being treated like our Native Americans. It is a travesty.
lynda and phyllis,it is now the native americans who are helping blm.


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October 5, 2013
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. A penalty kick with 44.5 seconds remaining in regulation gave Mount Olive a 2-1 victory over the Pfeiffer mens soccer team. Hyago Matielo converted the free chance to give the Trojans the late win.
The match appeared to be heading into overtime when Pfeiffer was whistled for a late, controversial foul for the second consecutive match. Pfeiffer freshman goalkeeper Nicolas Dulac did his best to stop the attempt, but Matielo beat him for his second goal of the season.
Mount Olive (1-8, 1-2 Conference Carolinas) got on the scoreboard in the 17th minute when Louis Gorman scored from 35 yards out. The Trojans took the 1-0 lead into the halftime break.
The Falcons (3-6-1, 1-4) evened the score in the 76th minute on a perfectly crafted goal. Corey Davis header off a throw-in knotted the score.
The schedule did us no favors today, said First-Year Head Coach Bob Reasso. We played a hard conference game on Thursday and had to travel. They were the better team in the first half, but we were better in the second half. We showed a lot of courage battling back but you could tell we played two days ago.
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I used this on my mountain bike and wrecked it the first time out. I may have had the stem adjusted too far in the vertical direction, but after doing a few bunnyhops on the trail, the adjusting mechanism became stripped out and the handlebars suddenly dropped downward. I don't completely blame the stem, as it seemed relatively rigid and safe for an adjustable stem. However, I would not recommend it for any degree of mountain biking and I wish that had been made clear on the advertisement.
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Groovy Mocks
Mock objects areused to assist (typically unit) testing of classes in isolation.
The Groovy Mock resides in the
groovy.mock.interceptor package. It is an all-groovy mock testing library.
In principle, it is used like this:
Groovy Mocks were inspired by EasyMock.
Find background information about Mocks and endo-testing under XP2000 conference paper.
For an extended example, see Using Testing Frameworks with Groovy
- typical mock style of failing early
- mocks instance and class methods
- mocks final methods and final Collaborators
- mocks Groovy and Java Collaborators (but Caller must be groovy)
- can mock all objects of a given class (or a single Groovy object)
- mocks even if Collaborator cannot be injected into the Caller
- mocks even if Collaborator is not accessible on the Caller (no getter)
- demanded calls specified via recording calls on the Demand object (EasyMock style).
- cardinality specified as Ranges, default is
1..1; 'optional' can be achieved with
- behavior specified via Closures, allowing static or calculated return values, throwing exceptions, asserting argument values, etc. (even tricky sequence constraints by sharing state in the testMethod scope between the behavior Closures)
- matching parameter list specified via Closure's parameter list, supporting typed or untyped params, default params, and varargs.
- not dependent on any external mock library
For an extensive list of usages see the unit tests that show how to use the mock package.
MockFor Tests
Some tests to demonstrate how to use the MockFor class.
StubFor Tests
Some tests to demonstrate how to use the StubFor class.
MockFor and StubFor can not be used to test statically compiled classes e.g classes that use @CompileStatic. To stub/mock these classes you can use Spock or one of the java mocking libraries.
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Since this page is titled "Using MockFor and StubFor", it would be nice to have an example of using StubFor.
Yes, you are right. I will try to put something in over the next little while. Feel free to jump in before me and add something yourself if you feel up to it. The wiki is user editable. We'll review anything you add, so don't be afraid of getting it slightly wrong - we can tweak it if need be.
Hmm, I don't get this on to work. Where is class Caller defined?
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It's just a code fragment. You can define Caller and Collaborator yourself, just make sure Caller has collaborateOne() and collaborateTwo() methods and Collaborator has one() and two() methods and link them up in the obvious way.


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Rounding a number sounds such like a minor issue, but in accounting terms it is serious.
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As for it not being fair, take this for instance: Japan pays $30/Month on some subscription based games (See: Aion/TERA/FFXI(Previously) and some others), while we and the rest of the world pays $9-16 USD.
Different models for different markets.
I see hat they are focusing on the playerbase the most.
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does not work well. design or material is poor at best. not sure if it is niner RDO design or sram.
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This thing might work on some frames with tighter clearances (maybe steel frames or aluminium frames?)but on my carbon Air9 RDO with x0 cranks it constantly pulls the cups out of the BB shell after about 6-7km of race pace XC riding leading to some serious crank alignment issues.
I went to a shop to see if there were any other adaptors locally, the owner mentioned he has had several other customers with issues using these on some carbon frame bikes.
Not going to be able to race this weekend because of it - solution, going to a BB30 crankset.
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January 29, 2014
As we prepare to celebrate our own legend, Joe Ferebee, the Winston-Salem Journal has featured the iconic coach in a feature article. Ferebee, who will have his 95th birthday celebrated on Saturday, Feb. 1, is affectionately known as the winningest coach in North Carolina history. Ferebee led the baseball prgram from 1958-1986 and is a member of eight halls of fame.
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Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole's stunning new album Leavin' is simultaneously a bold point of departure and a moving return to form for one of music's most accomplished vocalists. The September 26th release from Verve Records is a truly inspiring piece of work that finds Cole proudly revealing her soulful roots after a decade during which she enjoyed unprecedented global success as an interpreter of the standards. Her success during this time ushered in a wave of similar crossover smashes from other artists and added to an already whopping lifetime album sales figure that now tops 30 million worldwide.
Now with Leavin', which Cole collaborated on closely with famed R&B producer Dallas Austin (TLC, Boyz II Men, Madonna, Janet Jackson, etc.), the 8-time Grammy Award winning, chart-topping vocalist has managed to make a decidedly eclectic collection of cover songs her own. The outstanding tracks include a vivid update of the 1972 Aretha Franklin classic "Day Dreaming" (already the first hit from the album) to more surprising covers from a wide range of contemporary artists including imaginative interpretations of songs by Fiona Apple ("Criminal"), Shelby Lynne ("Leavin'"), as well as surprising takes on Neil Young's classic "Old Man," and the Isley Brothers' sexy bedroom jam "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)."
Leavin' does not represent the second coming of Natalie Cole, more like the third or fourth coming, actually. Cole, the daughter of the late great Nat "King" Cole, first made her own good name with a series of fine albums for Capitol Records in the Seventies and early Eighties that found her working with the writing and producing team of Marvin Yancy and Chuck Jackson. Albums like Inseparable, Natalie, Thankful and Unpredictable included an impressive stream of hit songs, including no less than five #1 hits on the Black Singles chart: "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," "Inseparable," "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)," "I've Got Love On My Mind" and "Our Love." In 1975, Cole won the Grammy® for Best New Artist as well as the award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The next year she won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)." During the remainder of the Eighties after leaving Capitol, Cole worked with a number of different labels and producers, and continued to record more hits like "Miss You Like Crazy" and a left-field smash cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" that effectively reinvented a retro rocker into a major dance smash.
Cole's career again took a major turn with the release of Unforgettable: With Love, an album that rightly went to #1 on the Billboard Album charts and won the Grammy® Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, while the song "Unforgettable," which used groundbreaking technology to allow Cole to duet with her late father's voice, received the Grammy® for Record Of The Year. Following this wildly popular and influential release, Cole's career took a jazzier turn, and her recordings won further Grammy accolades during the Nineties, including Best Jazz Vocal for "Take A Look" in 1993 and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "When I Fall In Love" in 1996. Now once again with Leavin', Cole has taken a great creative leap forward only this time in a direction that feels both familiar and fresh.
"I do keep reinv enting myself," Cole says with a good-natured laugh. Unforgettable gave me a new career and the kind of opportunities that few artists ever get to have. It put me on the map as a jazz singer and put that album on the map as a musical phenomenon that only happens from time to time. But now I'm ready to do something else because that's just me."
And so Cole decided to go back to her future. "I started incorporating my R&B material back into my live performance," she explains. "I'd start with "Unforgettable" then make the turn with some song and then go over to the R&B stuff, so by the end of the show with something like "This Will Be," people would be on their feet. I missed that energy." Cole says that the real spark for recording Leavin' was desperation. "Good things come out of desperation," she says. "I really wanted to make another album, something different, but the material just wasn't there for me. My tour manager said, 'Why don't you do some covers?' and I said, 'That's all I've been doing.' And he said, 'No, take some contemporary songs, and cover those.' And I said, 'That's an idea.' In a way, that's part of the reason why this record is called Leavin'. For me, it represents a departure, a move towards something new."
Part of what makes Leavin' so moving is the creative partnership that Cole enjoyed with Dallas Austin. "In the beginning, we started talking about him just doing three or four songs. He said fine. He was also challenged because he had never done cover songs either — he's a songwriter and a producer. But he said that he wanted to work with me. The next thing we knew 4 songs, 5 songs, 6 songs and he ended up doing the whole thing with me. We were blown away, but we were having such a good time. It was just three musicians, including Dallas, guys from there in Atlanta, and it was magical. Going to Atlanta sparked something in me. It took me back to when I first went to Chicago to make my first Capitol records. It was so nice. It was so creative — we were in the studio 12-14-hour days and we couldn't wait to get back in the next day. Everybody was really on the same page."
"What Dallas did was to give me a playground in which to experiment and then we'd decide what worked," said Cole. "He never said no. He was just so supportive, which was really important to me. The session for this album has a great energy to it and part of the reason is the consistency of the musicians. There's a lot of love and vibe on these tracks, and I think that comes through loud and clear."
What comes through loud and clear on every track of Leavin' is not just a lot of love and vibe, but also an infectious sense of excitement and rediscovery. "You can call it a comeback," Cole says with a laugh. Indeed, Natalie Cole's latest musical statement shows her coming back to contemporary material with the passion of a new artist and the skill of an artist very much at the peak of her powers.


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If you have not read it, out of kindness, respect and love for those involved in this story,
would you please do so before going any further?
You can find it here: Our Holy Ground
{Thank you so much.}
We would also ask that you read each part in it's entirety.
It is long, so if time is short for you today, please just come back and read it later
because Our God is a God of great detail.
To merely skim and miss out on the details
is to miss out on
very intricate miracles from the hand of God.
Our only prayer in telling this very personal, very sobering, very somber and very, very, very intimate story is that each and every single person who reads it {or hears of it} would encounter the powerful love of Almighty God for each of us. Our GOD is not some out-of-the-way God who sits unconcerned about His people.
Absolutely not!
Almighty God is always actively involved in our lives. God will move people, situations and circumstances to provide precisely what is needed.
He never slumbers and He never sleeps!
He is never, ever on vacation.
He is always in the details.
And He is exacting.
Our Holy Ground
Part 1
Have you ever heard the song by Alabama:
In fact, just a few days before the accident, Karl and Autumn were sitting at our kitchen island talking, again, about that song.
They both love it.
It's a song about God's ministering angels moving on our behalf when circumstances are dark. Those ministering angels role in our lives are put forth by God, also known as the miracles of God.
{but only by the hand of God}
on the day of July 17th, 2011.
Angels Among Us
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Karl to arrive.
Sitting in church I didn't notice that Autumn
texted me at 10:32am and said,
"I'm worried. Karl still isn't here and
he said he was leaving at 9."
I know Karl.
I know how much he loves and cares for Autumn -
he would never not show up for her!
onto a small dirt road.
Accounts say that the 87 year old man
did not have his left blinker on.
Suddenly ~ the couple turned left
directly in front of Karl's path!
ministering angels arrived within seconds
on the scene:
who arrived and served as
Angels Among Us
to help our precious Karl
Liz was, by God's divine appointment on her way
to Durango
to work the ONLY
Emergency Room nursing shift
she had the entire month of July.
{Did you catch that? The only shift for the entire month!!}
Within seconds Liz
{a former EMT}
Denise was on her way to work in Pagosa Springs. She had been detained at home for 40 extra minutes and had wondered why she was late {because she is NEVER late for work} but after working on Karl at the accident scene, she knew that being detained that morning had been part of a much bigger plan by God for her...
very treasured young man...
Literally seconds after the accident Denise
{and her daughter who was also in the car with her}
came upon the scene.
Denise threw her car into park and sprinted to Karl...
together Liz and Denise began working,
with very few words between them, they became a team...
Denise wrote me a letter a few days after the accident. It said, that although Karl was unconscious he grabbed her hand tightly for a few seconds....long enough for her to know that he was fighting...
and instantly Liz and Denise were joined by
{an Anesthesiologist from out-of-state}
Mike, was by God's divine appointment, traveling with his wife
and another couple on Hwy. 160 West toward Durango
from the resort
they were staying at in Pagosa Springs...
and as only Almighty God
could and would orchestrate
Mike, the Anesthesiologist,
was much needed that morning as Karl's airway was compromised and this Anesthesiologist was just the skilled man that God would use to establish Karl's airway.
The other day I received an email from Mike's wife. She said that they have been praying and praying for Karl since the accident. In fact their entire church was praying and
had wanted to know how Karl was.
Mike's wife told me that they had been in our area vacationing when they came upon Karl and the accident. They had not wanted to go to Durango that morning, but had finally decided to! Yes, Mike and his wife are believers and clearly knew that it was only God who had moved events beginning with even when they had scheduled their vacation...
"for such a time as this"
and as only God Almighty,
the maker of Heaven and Earth
could have set in motion months before!
God's plans defy all odds.
God's plans supersede all logic.
God's miracles mystify all human reasoning.
God's plans trump every single human plan.
Every single time.
And what exactly would be the odds of
an ER nurse,
a former EMT
and an out-of-state Anesthesiologist
teaming together on that Holy Ground on a
TWO lane highway in rural Colorado
within seconds of each other?
Any one of the three could have been just one minute farther along in their journey and completed missed the accident behind them.
But no, God would move the events in each of these three skilled and trained and willing professionals lives to place them at the scene of Karl's Holy Ground at just the exact moment needed
by the Master of the Universe -
Almighty God!
Liz, working the only shift she had the entire month.
Denise, late for work by 40 minutes
{when she is never, ever, ever late}.
Mike, vacationing from out of state, not really wanting to go to Durango that morning, but finally deciding to go anyway.
All three no doubt thinking that they are going about their 'normal' lives until Almighty God interrupts their plans.... and all three seize the opportunity to willingly minister with the medical skills that they have been trained to use....
How's that for the miracle of God with Angels Among Us?
Good Samaritans.
Remember the parable of the Good Samaritan? {It's found in Luke 10:25-37} The man lying in the road, broken, beaten, near dead? And as that needy man lay there, two very religious people passed by. But each had their own agenda and plan and no doubt had 'something else they were heading to do'...Neither chose to help {shame on them!}. The bottom line was that the two religious people just really, truly didn't care. They didn't know the man in the road and so why would they have to bother?
However, putting their personal plans aside:
Liz, Denise and Mike chose to be
Almighty God's hands and feet,
sacrificing their personal time to minister to a man
loved by all who know him.
Their caring actions are a true testament to the type of people
Liz, Denise and Mike are:
Selfless, sacrificial and others focused.
And all who deeply love Karl Hujus will forever and eternally be grateful for Liz, Denise and Mike who chose to physically demonstrate their love for God and their compassion for fellow mankind by by sacrificially caring for a seemingly unknown stranger riding a motorcycle on that sunny Sunday morning, at 9:40am,
July 17, 2011
in rural Colorado.
In the letter from Denise {the former EMT} she mentioned had been searching for information about the status of Karl and found our Place Called Simplicity. When Denise saw our family picture on the header, she was shocked to realize that our paths had crossed once before - the day Graham, Emma and I flew into our little airport here with our precious new treasures Elizabeth Mercy and Elijah Mueller from Uganda.
She had been at the airport that day also.
{Isn't that even kind of crazy?}
Yes, Denise too, knows the Lord and the power of prayer!
Did you catch that?
Each person: Liz, Denise and Mike all know Jesus Christ personally {Liz's relationship with Christ will be shared in Part 2} and all believe strongly in the power of Prayer. All heading in different directions suddenly converging seconds apart from each other on a two lane highway in rural Colorado at 9:40 am on a Sunday...
The God we refer to in our home as:
Our Miracle-working,
Gasp-giving God.
Yes, Him.
and ONLY Him.
All praise to His HOLY name!!
Is it any surprise that
the miracles had only begun that morning?
Each step of the way, on this Holy Ground, God's active presence
and divine provision has been palpable.
Please stay tuned for
Our Holy Ground - Part 2
and please, please, please keep praying
for complete healing for Karl...
~*~Standing Together Till Karl is Healed~*~


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We all agree that Jesus was perfect. He was our perfect sacrifice for the atonement of our sins. Why in Luke 18:19 He would ask why someone would call Him good because no one was good except God alone?
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You're just trying to make me think, aren't you?
We need Colby : )
I've been patiently waiting on him.
Sorry... I've been really busy this week and have not had any time to participate in the discussions.
"A certain ruler asked Jesus, 'Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' 'Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good—except God alone' "(Luke 18.18-19.
Some pounce on this verse as proof that Jesus isn't God. They say Jesus is denying his divinity by saying only God is good. That's one possible intepretation, but it's the wrong one.
But wait, did Jesus say he wasn't good? You see, if you read these two verses again carefully and the verses that follow it, nowhere does Jesus deny being good. On the contrary, if you turn to the Gospel of John, Jesus calls himself the "good shepherd" in 10.11 and 10.14. Therefore, it follows logically that if: (1) only God is good; and (2) Jesus is good; then (3) it's true that Jesus is God.
Still you might wonder, why does Jesus answer a question with a question? Obviously, he realizes that the wealthy ruler is paying him a false compliment and is insincere. Jesus knows what the man is thinking. When the wealthy man calls Jesus a "good teacher," and then goes on to ask our Lord what he must do to obtain eternal life, Jesus says: "Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (v.22). The wealthy man does not like this answer and moves on. In other words, Jesus is letting the man know that he knows the rich man is going to reject his advice. Jesus is saying, in effect, why are you calling me the "good teacher," asking me what you must do to obtain eternal life, when in the next breath you're going to blow off my answer?
OK. I never really read it that way but you're right, He never says He isn't good. Great perception there. He said only God was good & since He was God, He was good. Nice. And you would think if He's being sarcastic, I would have caught that.
Ahhhh... I see : ).
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Admittedly, I have not read every post in this thread (!), but I can say with confidence that morality doesn't correlate with belief in God(s). There are plenty of immoral deists and moral atheists. I'm an atheist and I am a very honest person, try to be considerate, help those less fortunate, etc. On the flip side, do I really need to remind you of some very immoral things religious people have done? Do you think our prisons are chock-full of atheists?
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. – The Miami University women's basketball team cut a 20-point deficit to seven points late in the second half, but was unable to complete the comeback as it fell to Western Michigan, 82-72, in a Mid-American Conference First Round game Monday night. The RedHawks finish their season at 8-22, while the Broncos advance to the second round and improve to 13-17.
Freshman forward Nicole Anderson had a fine cap to a strong rookie campaign, leading Miami with 18 points. She was 7-for-10 from the field and 2-for-4 from the three-point line. She tied for team lead with six rebounds, and also had an assist and a steal in 28 minutes of action.
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Way back in 2005, in my third post ever written, I predicted that a 10-man would need 2 tanks, 5 dps, and 3 healers. And lo and behold, this prediction came true in TBC. The standard Karazhan make-up is 2 tanks/5 dps/3 healers.
However, my prediction should not have come true! It was based on the assumption that an WoW 1.0 ideal 5-man group was 1 tank/2 dps/1 healer/1 "fifth man" (paladin/shaman), and extrapolated that assumption out to 10-mans. In contrast, a TBC 5-man is 1 tank/3 dps/1 healer.
If we extrapolate that out, a 10-man should be 2/6/2, and a 25-man should be 5/15/5. Immediately we can see that those healer numbers are simply too low. When learning Karazhan you really need 3 healers. It's at the edge of possible with 2, but 3 is ideal. For 25-mans, you need 7-8 healers. My guild tried Gruul with 5 healers last week, and we just couldn't keep the tanks up. A shadow priest respecced and we got him down.
Where are these extra healers supposed to come from? Looking at recruiting posts, everyone is looking for healers.
The 5-man game assumes 20% of the playerbase are healers. The raiding game assumes 30% of the playerbase are healers. Right away we see a problem.
I think the raid game needs to be balanced for raids with fewer healers. It makes no sense to require proportionally more healers than the previous phase of the game needed. A raid that required 5/15/5 would be far easier to put together, and could be created from five 5-man groups.
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Why are so Many Healers Required in TBC Raids?
Way back in 2005, in my third post ever written, I predicted that a 10-man would need 2 tanks, 5 dps, and 3 healers. And lo and behold, this prediction came true in TBC. The standard Karazhan make-up is 2 tanks/5 dps/3 healers.
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- Anonymous said...
And game raiding needs less focus on healing, I completely agree. But this *problem* has been pointed out already far to often and seemed to have fallen on deaf-EQloving-ears with blizzard.
- 2:24 AM, August 12, 2007
- Anonymous said...
As a fellow raiding Paladin and Guild Leader I agree 200%! It is such a fine line between success and failure in the BC raid scene. :(
- 5:55 AM, August 12, 2007
- Anonymous said...
After my guild rerolled to a new server (fresh characters) me and a paladin duo healed all of Karazhan with our newbie gear at around 1k-1.1k +healing.
Kara can easily, and much more quickly be done with only 2 healers.
I complain and play Emulator SNES games when we bring 3 healers, all I do is cast earth shield and the occassional chain heal.
As for the 25 man raids, I think a few encounters require too many healers, such as Fathom Lord karathress needs an absolute minimum of 8-9, and is still a MAJOR stress on every aspect of a healer.
- 7:42 AM, August 12, 2007
- GSH said...
Kara can be done with 2 healers. But it's easier, especially when learning, to do it with 3. Three is optimal, especially for a group just starting Kara.
However, I sincerely doubt that you can do the 25-mans with 5 healers.
- 9:48 AM, August 12, 2007
- Proudfoot said...
I've done 4-5 bosses in Kara with only 1 healer so it can be done (with a little help from two shadowpriests :). I would agree that healing is overly important in 25 man raids though.
- 4:31 PM, August 12, 2007
- Anonymous said...
I complain and play Emulator SNES games when we bring 3 healers, all I do is cast earth shield and the occassional chain heal. .. then throw on your ele kit and do some damage? It won't keep you from casting earth shield. The extra dps on a time sensitive fight (prince phase 2&3) is worth it.
w/r/t kara, 1 specced tank and one off-spec (but with gear in tow (let's call this 1/2 a tank :P)) is always plenty for 10 man. I consider 1 1/2 tanks, 2 1/2 healers ideal. Yay for hybrids?
But anyway, the post is spot on - So what should we make of blizzard's claim of "we made death knights because everyone was clammoring for moar tank!"?
- 7:09 PM, August 12, 2007
- Ana said...
Karazhan is somewhat forgiving of the "fifth man" combination, I think. Our raid team for the past few months has usually been a warrior and pally tank combination. These two work wonderfully together - there's a lot of synergy between their tanking styles.
But on some fights, you just don't need two tanks. In those, our pally tank pulls on his Healing gear (he's picked up some hot mail pieces thanks to our lack of shammies) and helps us out on the healing. This happens in Aran, Prince, Nightbane, and Big Bad Wolf. (If only Illhoof didn't require two tanks for our strat - that's a three pot + innervate fight for me.)
I can't see that this kind of hybridity will be at all viable in the 25-mans though - and between the Kara-to-Gruuls transition (two 10-mans does not a 25-man make!) and healer mis-balance you describe, it's a hard road for guilds to walk.
Frankly, I dread the thought of another expansion and trying to make all these things work again.
- 6:51 AM, August 13, 2007
- Wolfgangdoom said...
It also didn't make any sense to have group progression jump from 10 man raids to 25. It makes a raid guild have to run 3 seperate kara teams and then tell 5 people "sorry, we are full" when it comes time for Gruuls.
Blizzard is toying with their subscriber base in my opinion. They knew that 10 to 25 was going cause problems for guilds, just like they knew requiring extra healers would also cause drama. Both of these tactics are just another way for WOW to take longer, and I'm sorry, but at the raid level, this type of unnecessary nonsense shouldn't exist. Like it would have been that much harder to make Gruuls 20 man. /sheesh
- 10:03 AM, August 17, 2007
- Anonymous said...
I agree with what that one guys said about having 1/2 of a character type. We used to run Kara with a warrior and myself tanking and then 2 healers for trash and then on bosses I would switch and become a healer.
The reason the raid instances require so many healers is not because blizzard made it that way it's because that's the balance between dps and healers. If you added more healers, you would not have enough dps, if you added more dps your healers wouldn't be able to keep up.
Kara is really a terrible instance anyway in comparison to the old instances like Naxx and AQ. I've been really disappointed by TBH so far. I'm glad we're gonna get another xpack.
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