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To my roommate and my best friend,
You mean the world to me. You have been there through so many different ups and down for the past nine years and we've lived together for a year and didn't kill each other! We have had so many fun times from watching TV to riding bikes to just hanging out and talking. I couldn't have ever asked for a better friend or roommate. With our constant laughter, singing everything instead of talking, and inside jokes, I love living with you. Thank you for always being there for me when things are a little crazy in my life and always supporting my running!
I hope you had the best birthday ever and can't wait to celebrate more with you this weekend. Fist Pump Friday is on! Cheers to many, many more crazy nights in the Cave, memories and heart to hearts over the next few years.
Love you Lots,
Bid Red Bus throughout Belmont Shore and Huntington Beach
Shore Lounge
You totally surprised me at my first marathon and it meant the world to me.
Riding the Passport to the bars might have been the best 90 cents we've ever spent in our lives
You graduated from college! Go Titans!
Sunday Fundays at Panama Joes
My birthday romp fest through the Shore
The three day Avon walk we did together.
So much pain and laughter along the walk. "This walk is bananas!"
Only us.
The tutus were a must. Walking through Walmart to find them was the funniest thing!
We both were so tired but we were in it together!
Yes, I love you <3
Biking through the Shore together. Nothing Better.
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Mice are the first step in trying out new drugs that may one day help humans. The problem is that these rodents metabolize drugs in often a very different way than we do, meaning that much of the research in mice can't be applied to humans. Researchers from Stanford University may have found a way around this by creating mice with human livers.
No, they're not attaching comically large organs to tiny rodents, but rather engineering special tiny hybrid livers that they're implanting in "humanized" mice. The scientists grew human liver cells and mouse skin cells together, then coated them in protective peptide. The hybrid livers were then implanted in the mice — leading to the critters having human liver functions, including synthesizing human proteins and metabolizing drugs the way we do — toxic interactions and all.
If this model is successful, the process of designing drugs would be dramatically streamlined.
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The real Billy Hayes regrets 'Midnight Express' cast all Turks in a bad light
In the history of cinema, has any film done more to blacken a nation's reputation among travelers than "Midnight Express"? A quarter of a century after its release, people still cite it as a reason for steering clear of Turkey.
The movie is based on the true story of Billy Hayes, a young American caught trying to smuggle 4 1/2 pounds of hashish out of Turkey in 1970.
Thrown into a hellhole of a Turkish prison, he's tortured by sadistic guards, betrayed by corrupt lawyers and toyed with by capricious judges before he finally escapes.
The 1978 movie, with its Oliver Stone screenplay, still holds up as a masterful piece of filmmaking -- a harrowing nail-biter from start to end.
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There's no doubt the movie is a chilling and powerful cautionary tale, but here's the thing: Most viewers come away with the wrong message. That's the opinion of Hayes himself.
"The message of 'Midnight Express' isn't 'Don't go to Turkey,' " he said recently. "It's 'Don't be an idiot like I was, and try to smuggle drugs.' "
Hayes, now 56, lives in Los Angeles, where he works in the entertainment industry. He recently made his directorial debut with the indie film "Cock & Bull Story," but he'll always be known as the guy whose story was told in "Midnight Express."
He said he feels awful that the film gave a brutal reputation to the entire nation of Turkey. The cruel and barbaric prison conditions depicted in the movie were accurate, he said, but they were hardly unique to that country. Malaysia, Thailand and any number of other places were -- and are -- just as bad.
"This story," Hayes said, "could have happened in a variety of countries."
It also bothers him, he said, that "Midnight Express" depicts all Turks as monsters.
"I loved the movie, but I wish they'd shown some good Turks. You don't see a single one in the movie, and there were a lot of them, even in the prison. It created this impression that all Turks are like the people in 'Midnight Express.' ... I wish they'd shown some of the milk of human kindness I (also) witnessed."
Hayes said he wouldn't hesitate to return to Turkey -- if he could. "I'd love to go back. I really loved that country -- except for the five years I spent in prison. I loved the Turkish people."
For years, he stayed away because Interpol held a warrant for his arrest.
Interestingly, Turkey turned his name over to the international police agency not after he escaped from prison, nor after he wrote a book about the episode, but after the film came out.
The warrant expired five years ago, but Hayes has another reason for avoiding Turkey: He fears he'd be held responsible for all the trouble "Midnight Express" has caused its tourism industry.
"There's no doubt it changed the whole face of Turkish tourism," he said. "I'd really like to go back, but I'm afraid about the fallout from people who lost business. It's not fair. The burden fell on people who weren't to blame."
Amazingly, a large number of Americans have failed to heed the real message of the movie. Each year, on average, 1,000 Americans are arrested in foreign countries on drug charges.
While many are quickly released, roughly 1,600 are currently held in foreign prisons, often in conditions similar to those endured by Hayes, according to Stuart Patt of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
"Prison conditions in much of the world are pretty horrible," acknowledged Dick Atkins, a Philadelphia attorney who specializes in freeing Americans from these situations. "And the criminal justice systems in a lot of countries are just as bizarre as the one in the movie. It's important to remember that when you travel abroad, your rights as an American citizen don't come with you."


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'Oh, you makin' babies?" Taken aback, I stammered as I felt a warm flush come to my cheeks.
Susan Earley waited just long enough for me to feel uncomfortable, then laughed uproariously. We had just met Susan and her husband, Jack, travellers from Rhode Island, at Max's Conch Bar -- a veritable fixture on Long Island in the Bahamas. Susan explained that almost every time she or Jack ordered a conch dish, a server would ask them the same, rather personal question. Apparently, Long Islanders consider the local conch (a close relative of our own northern abalone) to be quite an aphrodisiac as well as delicious.
Suffering from a bad case of the winter blahs, my wife, Suzanne, and I were looking for a quiet place in the sun. We wanted somewhere with an uncrowded beach, no loud music, no beach vendors -- and definitely no motorized watercraft buzzing up and down the shore. Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort, on Long Island in the Bahamas, captured our imagination.
The Free and Sovereign Commonwealth of the Bahamas consists of 700 main islands, and about 2,500 smaller cays. The archipelago -- former coral reefs and atolls pushed above sea level by the collision of massive tectonic plates eons ago -- is spread over 160,000 square kilometres of the Atlantic Ocean, and stretches southeast some 1,200 kilometres from South Florida to within 80 kilometres of Cuba and Hispaniola.
One-hundred-thirty kilometres long and no more that eight kilometres wide, Long Island suits its name. The island lies north-south, straddling the Tropic of Cancer, and is a 45-minute flight southeast from Nassau, the nation's capital (and international airline hub) on New Providence Island.
Lucayan aboriginal peoples settled the island between 500 and 800 AD, naming it "Yuma." Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1492. He claimed it for Spain and, to please his patrons, rechristened it "Fernandina." He also named the northernmost point Cape Santa Maria after one of his three legendary ships. At the cape today, a monument atop a high, windswept bluff commemorates Columbus' discovery but is also, touchingly, dedicated to the original Lucayan inhabitants.
Finding no riches, and having contributed to the extinction of the Lucayans, the colonial Spanish soon abandoned the Bahamas. The area remained a sparsely populated haven for pirates until British Loyalists established cotton plantations on the island after the American War of Independence, in the 1780s.
When the British declared an end to slavery in 1834, growing cotton was no longer economically viable on Long Island. Today, many of its 3,200 permanent residents are descended from plantation owners or their slaves.
Visitors to Long Island fall mainly into two camps. The waters around the island are noted for an abundant variety of sea life, attracting people who enjoy sportfishing, snorkelling, or scuba diving. Others love the remoteness of the island and its relatively light development for quieter, get-away-from-it-all vacations. While most of the guests at Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort fall into the latter category, the resort has a small fleet of boats that offer fishing, diving, and sightseeing excursions. Bert Adderley, one of the resort's top fishing guides, took us on a one-day bonefishing charter. I had to eat humble pie as Suzanne thoroughly trounced me by catching two of Long Island's famous bonefish to my none.
The resort is located on Galliot Cay, joined to Long Island by a causeway over a narrow tidal stream. Its buildings face west, overlooking the azure waters of Calabash Bay. The resort's 10 widely spaced duplex bungalows and four quadruplex villas are only steps from a magnificent six-kilometre sweep of coral-sand beach.
During the heat of the day, we could read in the shade of our beachfront gazebo. In the morning and late afternoon, Suzanne and I enjoyed the solitude of lazy walks along the wave-lapped shore. The only time we saw any number of other guests was when they gathered on the beach to watch the glorious sunsets, then retreated into the resort's Beach House Bar and Restaurant for a drink and supper.
The Queen's Highway, a good paved road with the occasional spectacular pothole, traverses Long Island from north to south. Renting a car is the best way to visit the island's many interesting sites. Because the island is so narrow, a visit to either its rugged Atlantic coast or sheltered western coast is just a few minutes' jaunt off the main highway.
Displayed prominently in the middle of our rental car's windshield, a decal proclaimed "KEEP LEFT" to remind North American drivers that the Bahamians drive on the left-hand side of the road. Luckily, there were no other cars nearby the two times I forgot. A loud warning emanating constantly from the right-hand seat also did wonders to keep me on the correct side of the road.
We drove through kilometres of tropical bush interspersed with trim, pastel-coloured bungalows in tiny communities boasting names like Burnt Ground, Alligator Bay, Salt Pond, and Scrub Hill. School buses picked up groups of smartly uniformed students, boys in blue pants and crisp white shirts, girls in blue or plaid skirts and white blouses. The island's two main airports are in the principal communities of Deadman's Cay and Stella Maris. Strangely, the island's only banks seem to be the Royal Bank of Canada and ScotiaBank.
With little tourism infrastructure, and few signs of any kind to name roads or significant attractions, sightseeing becomes quite an adventure. Trying to discover stops of interest is a reason to pray, and actually finding them a reason to celebrate. Luckily, there are numerous churches of every denomination along the route, and even more bars.
In the town of Hamilton's, we had arranged to meet with Leonard Cartwright, a genial grandfather, for a tour of a limestone cave on his family's property. Leonard's family settled on Long Island in the 1770s, and has owned the cave property since 1847.
The cave system, with some passages over 15 metres wide and three metres high, has never been fully explored. It extends from a hill just a few hundred metres east of the main road all the way to the ocean, kilometres away. For the most part, we were able to walk upright through a labyrinth of colourful stalactites and stalagmites, some with a dazzling dusting of salt crystals. Leonard recalls playing in the cave as a boy with his eight brothers, and hiding there from hurricanes. He showed us a stone basin where Lucayans once ground cassava roots, and nearby, a tiny natural spring of potable water. The floor of the cave is covered in a deep layer of reddish-brown soil rich in guano from five species of bats, which at times occupy the cave by the thousands.
We owed finding our next stop to Shenique, one of the resort's reception staff. She told us to watch for a low wall near the town of Dean's that had just been repainted from pink to white with blue trim. Without her advice, we would have blithely driven past the otherwise unmarked entrance to fabulous Dean's Blue Hole.
A blue hole is an underwater depression so deep that the waters turn a cold, dark blue. The one in Dean's is almost circular, and thought to be (at over 200 metres in depth) the second-deepest blue hole in the world. A jagged, semi-circular bluff wraps the east side of the blue hole, rising 20 or more metres, and effectively sheltering the hole from the Atlantic Ocean's pounding surf and prevailing east winds. Dean's Blue Hole is a wonderful place to dive or snorkel, take a refreshing swim, or just loll in the surrounding turquoise shallows.
In Deadman's Cay, we were intrigued by a line of flags lining the west side of the highway, then noticed "Max's Conch Bar" hand-lettered on a derelict car across the road. Nearby stood a wildly decorated open-air tavern where Max (a.k.a. Gary Ritchie) is reputed to have invented the conch salad.
Made fresh by Max himself, the salad -- a mixture of celery, sweet onions, red peppers, and loads of cubed conch, marinated in lime juice and served with a sprinkling of hot pepper flakes -- is absolutely delicious.
Near a community called The Bight, the roofless, weatherworn remains of St. Mary's Anglican Church (rumoured to be the oldest church in the Bahamas) glowed in the warm light of a late afternoon sun.
We would enjoy one more supper in Cape Santa Maria's restaurant before leaving Long Island. I gave the server our order: "To start, a conch salad and a conch chowder for me, and conch fritters for my wife. A main of cracked conch for me, and a conch burger for ...." Our waitress discretely said nothing, but a broad smile spread across her face.
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The Bahamian dollar is pegged 1:1 to the American dollar. American dollars are accepted everywhere at par.
Outside of the resorts, use only cash, or USD traveller's cheques.
Money can be exchanged at ScotiaBank and Royal Bank of Canada branches in Stella Maris or Deadman's Key.
Car rentals cost between $70 and $90 per day, and you must return cars with a full tank of gas. Resorts will arrange to have rental cars brought to and picked up at the resort at no extra cost.


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The Kootenays are definitely my favorite mountains to shred ever! There is something about that place, the people, the terrain, the vibe. Everytime I get there, I get pow and sun and it's always a blast! And how could I get a better start of the year then a full week in Retallack organized by Billabong and Oakley with Marie-France Roy, Grete Eliassen and Jenny Jones?
Retallack is a cat skiing operation in interior BC, their terrain is great, steep runs in the trees, pillows and cliffs everywhere in amazing pow! Cat riding is the best way to hit fresh pow on each run and eat delicious gourmet food! I had been to the surrounding mountains before but not to that one yet. I was a bit worried as far as the amount of snow we would find, as the side road banks looked very poor, but the second we made the turn to Retallack all became white and powdery!
As we arrived it snowed the first couple days so we found some sweet pillows in the trees and a dope log on the second day. We were quite a big crew but we all found a different cool spot to shred and shoot along the cat track which made it easier on the flash carrying. Our cat driver was Carl the Gnarl, and that day he lit up a fire for us. Pretty unusual but so nice to hang by the fire after shooting in big pow..
Carl is pretty awesome! He is the master of stokeness, always cheering for us… I'd hear his encouragement from the top of a cliff on the other side of the valley. He would fuel us with schnaps on the last run of the day, pretty fun to ride down the cat track all the way to the lodge hitting the sides and airing every time you get a chance to. A bit tipsy too which makes it especially fun!
This was a girls trip and times are fun when you hang out with those girls! Major singing and dancing sessions on the lift up in the cat, fun times and laughs but also goat imitating sessions. Yep, this is how we do it!
The weather turned to blue sky for the next couple days, and we hit more pillows, more cliffs and more pow! In the evenings Carl would read us the poem he wrote about each day! And they were funnier every time! Of course he wasn't shy of telling everyone about our stupidness on the mountain nor about my female standing pee device. Yes these things a great! Backing it 100%!
Seriously we had so much on that trip! Jenny got the whole lodge to play charades, after dinner, and that's besides playing normal stuff like ping pong or pool! We for sure had a great time, and once again we had great conditions!
I love you girls! Thanks for the great times! Thanks to Oakley and Billabong for taking us there! And thanks to Retallack for giving us such a great time!


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Every week, Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions.
Northern Tanzania (CNN) -- One could classify the Hadza people as a throwback. Numbering a mere 1,300, they represent one of the last communities of hunter-gatherers in the world. Their language -- which includes click consonants -- is unrelated to any other on Earth, and is possibly one of the oldest spoken languages in existence.
Their DNA, too, suggests an ancient heritage, easily 100,000 years old (and possibly a primary root for mankind's family tree). Their home, near Northern Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, has been dubbed the "Cradle of Mankind," partly because it has unearthed some of the oldest known human remains.
An ancient way of life
Many of the Hadza live in a remote stretch of Tanzania, where much of their day is given over to foraging and hunting. The techniques they use for finding sustenance are passed down generation to generation. The men favor handmade bows and arrows, while the women dig up roots and gather berries.
The Hadza don't store food, plant trees or build houses. Rather, they make temporary huts from dried grass and intertwined branches, and move in accordance with the local animals.
"We are rich in tradition," explains Shani Msafin-Sigwaze, the first Hadza to attend university, and an informal spokesperson for his community.
"Culture is very important, because when people forget their culture, they forget where they are from," he adds.
Mounting challenges
Unfortunately, the Hadza way of life is under threat. In the last 50 years, they have lost 90% of their land to farmers and cattle herders, according to Survival International, an NGO in defense of tribal people around the world.
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"Without the land, the Hadza will disappear," warns Msafin-Sigwaze.
Furthermore, a lot of the big game animals and local plants that traditionally have made up the bulk of the Hadza diet are disappearing.
"There is a big problem with cows," admits Msafin-Sigwaze. "The animals are scared of them and they run away. That's why the hunters have to [travel] far to even find little birds."
Meanwhile, much of the local forest and bush has been burned to make way for crops, or has been razed to produce water holes for irrigation.
"The Hadza are suffering much because the natural food is disappearing," explains Msafin-Sigwaze.
Positive signs?
Though the threat the Hadza face is real -- and extinction is far from a remote possibility -- there have been some successful efforts to restore some of what they've lost. In 2011, for instance, the Tanzanian government issued land titles to a community of Hadza living in Yaeda Chini.
Now Msafin-Sigwaze, who belongs to a separate tribe of Hadza, is hoping he can achieve the same for his community.
"I belong to the Hadza. I study in the name of the Hadza. The name of the Hadza has made me go to university," he says. "Now, I'm going to fight until I see the Hadza get their land."
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A large explosion struck the main university in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, causing an unknown number of casualties, activists and Syrian state TV said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at Aleppo University, which was in session Tuesday. There were also conflicting reports about which part of the campus was hit.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists around the country, said 15 people were killed and "tens" wounded in two explosions near the university's dorms, but said it was not clear whether the blasts were the result of shells or bombs.
State TV didn't offer any details about the explosion or specify the number of victims. However, a Syrian government official in Damascus said two rockets hit the university's Information Technology Academy. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the two rockets were fired from a rebel-held area in Aleppo.
Syria's largest city and a former commercial hub, Aleppo has been a major front in the country's civil war since July, and the fight between regime troops and rebels there has settled into a bloody stalemate. Government troops and rebels usually exchange rockets and mortar rounds in the city.
Over recent months, Aleppo and the Syrian capital, Damascus, have been hit by a wave of explosions that have killed scores of people. Many of the bombings, which have largely targeted government buildings, have been claimed by Islamic extremists fighting on the rebel side.
Elsewhere in Syria, troops and rebels fought in embattled suburbs of Damascus Tuesday, as government air raids and shelling in the other regions killed several dozen people, activists said.
The violence came a day after Syria's deputy foreign minister said President Bashar Assad will not step down before scheduled presidential elections in mid-2014. Faisal Mekdad said Assad will run again for the post next year - a declaration which lowers already diminished expectations that a political settlement can be reached.
Since Syria's crisis began in March 2011, the opposition has said it will not accept anything less than Assad's departure.
Mekdad's comments appear to contradict a plan proposed by international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. Since starting his job in the summer, Brahimi has sought to advance an international plan that calls for an open-ended cease-fire between rebels and government troops and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until elections can be held.
Brahimi did not mention Assad by name in the plan, but he has said the transitional government would have "full executive powers," meaning "all the authority of the state should be possessed by that government" - a description that would seem to exclude the incumbent Assad from a role.
Asked by a BBC interviewer if the president says he wants to run in 2014, Mekdad answered, "What's wrong with that?"
"The president and many other candidates who may run will go to the people put their programs and to be elected by the people," Mekdad said in English. "The ballot box will be the place where the future of the leadership of Syria will be decided."
"It is a coup d'etat ... if we listen to what the armed groups and those enemies of Syria are proposing," Mekdad said, referring to the opposition and countries that support it.
Earlier this month, Assad dismissed calls from the U.S. and others that he step down and vowed to keep fighting until the country is free of "terrorists" - his government's shorthand for rebels.
Last year, a new constitution drafted in Syria imposed a limit of two seven-year terms on the president, but the limit would not count the nearly 13 years that he has already held office. It means Assad could remain legally in power through 2028.
Assad took office in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez Assad, who ruled Syria for 30 years.
Mekdad said it would be undemocratic to tell Assad not to run for the post again.
Also Tuesday, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi arrived in Iran, Syria's strongest ally in the region, where he will discuss the country's crisis, including Assad's proposal to end the fighting, with Iranian officials.
Iran has tried to mediate in the past but the opposition rejected the offer saying Tehran is taking sides in the conflict.
Meanwhile, activists reported clashes in suburbs south of Damascus. The government is trying to drive rebels from their bases around Damascus from which they can threaten key facilities.
Away from Damascus, the Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups said troops bombarded the Houla region in the central province of Homs, killing at least 10 people including five women and two children. The LCC said 17 people were killed in Homs, most of them in Houla.
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At this point, we all know smoking is terrible for you. It causes lung cancer, heart disease, and various dental problems. There are, of course, some benefits (makes you look cool, aides concentration while night blogging, etc). But even if you're one of the remaining few heroic smokers, this should give you pause; a new study at King's London College London finds smoking will "rot" your brain.
The study was designed to investigate the link between heart attack or stroke and the well-being of the human brain. The findings were...not good, at least for smokers.
The results showed that the overall risk of a heart attack or stroke was "significantly associated with cognitive decline" with those at the highest risk showing the greatest decline.
It also said there was a "consistent association" between smoking and lower scores in the tests.
But before you all freak out because you forgot something earlier today and just the other night, you had almost four full cigarettes while at a bar with your high school friends, it should be noted that this study mostly applies to the olds, or, as Dr. Simon Ridley at Alzheimer's Research UK put it, people in "mid-life."
"Research has repeatedly linked smoking and high blood pressure to a greater risk of cognitive decline and dementia, and this study adds further weight to that evidence.
"Cognitive decline as we age can develop into dementia, and unravelling the factors that are linked to this decline could be crucial for finding ways to prevent the condition.
"These results underline the importance of looking after your cardiovascular health from mid-life."
In other words: smoke away until you're old. It's also possible I'm intentionally misreading this study's results, so perhaps consider not smoking at all.


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Welcome to the world of Groovy.
You've heard of Groovy on blogs and mailing lists. Maybe you've seen a snippet here and there. Perhaps a colleague has pointed out a page of your code and claimed the same work could be done in just a few lines of Groovy. Maybe you only picked up this book because the name is catchy. Why should you learn Groovy? What payback can you expect?
Groovy will give you some quick wins, whether it's by making your Java code simpler to write, by automating recurring tasks, or by supporting ad-hoc scripting for your daily work as a programmer. It will give you longer-term wins by making your code simpler to read. Perhaps most important, it's fun to use.
Learning Groovy is a wise investment. Groovy brings the power of advanced language features such as closures, dynamic typing, and the meta object protocol to the Java platform. Your Java knowledge will not become obsolete by walking the Groovy path. Groovy will build on your existing experience and familiarity with the Java platform, allowing you to pick and choose when you use which tool-and when to combine the two seamlessly.
If you have ever marveled at the Ruby folks who can implement a full-blown web application in the afternoon, the Python guys juggling collections, the Perl hackers managing a server farm with a few keystrokes, or Lisp gurus turning their whole codebase upside-down with a tiny change, then think about the language features they have at their disposal. The goal of Groovy is to provide language capabilities of comparable impact on the Java platform, while obeying the Java object model and keeping the perspective of a Java programmer.
This article provides background information about Groovy and everything you need to know to get started. It starts with the Groovy story: why Groovy was created, what considerations drive its design, and how it positions itself in the landscape of languages and technologies. The next section expands on Groovy's merits and how they can make life easier for you, whether you're a Java programmer, a script aficionado, or an agile developer.
We strongly believe that there is only one way to learn a programming language: by trying it. We present a variety of scripts to demonstrate the compiler, interpreter, and shells, before listing some plug-ins available for widely used IDEs and where to find the latest information about Groovy.
By the end of this two part series, you will have a basic understanding of what Groovy is and how you can experiment with it.
We–the authors, the reviewers, and the editing team–wish you a great time programming Groovy and using this article for guidance and reference.
The Groovy story
At GroovyOne 2004–a gathering of Groovy developers in London–James Strachan gave a keynote address telling the story of how he arrived at the idea of inventing Groovy.
Some time ago, he and his wife were waiting for a late plane. While she went shopping, he visited an Internet café and spontaneously decided to go to the Python web site and study the language. In the course of this activity, he became more and more intrigued. Being a seasoned Java programmer, he recognized that his home language lacked many of the interesting and useful features Python had invented, such as native language support for common datatypes in an expressive syntax and, more important, dynamic behavior. The idea was born to bring such features to Java.
This led to the main principles that guide Groovy's development: to be a feature rich and Java friendly language, bringing the attractive benefits of dynamic languages to a robust and well-supported platform.
Figure 1 shows how this unique combination defines Groovy's position in the varied world of languages for the Java platform.¹ We don't want to offend anyone by specifying exactly where we believe any particular other language might fit in the figure, but we're confident of Groovy's position.
Figure 1: The landscape of JVM-based languages. Groovy is feature rich and Java friendly-it excels at both sides instead of sacrificing one for the sake of the other.
Some languages may have a few more features than Groovy. Some languages may claim to integrate better with Java. None can currently touch Groovy when you consider both aspects together: Nothing provides a better combination of Java friendliness and a complete range of modern language features. Knowing some of the aims of Groovy, let's look at what it is.
What is Groovy?
The Groovy web site (http://groovy.codehaus.org) gives one of the best definitions of Groovy: "Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform with many features that are inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax."
Groovy is often referred to as a scripting language-and it works very well for scripting. It's a mistake to label Groovy purely in those terms, though. It can be precompiled into Java bytecode, be integrated into Java applications, power web applications, add an extra degree of control within build files, and be the basis of whole applications on its own-Groovy is too flexible to be pigeon-holed.
What we can say about Groovy is that it is closely tied to the Java platform. This is true in terms of both implementation (many parts of Groovy are written in Java, with the rest being written in Groovy itself) and interaction. When you program in Groovy, in many ways you're writing a special kind of Java. All the power of the Java platform-including the massive set of available libraries-is there to be harnessed.
Does this make Groovy just a layer of syntactic sugar? Not at all. Although everything you do in Groovy could be done in Java, it would be madness to write the Java code required to work Groovy's magic. Groovy performs a lot of work behind the scenes to achieve its agility and dynamic nature. As you read this article, try to think every so often about what would be required to mimic the effects of Groovy using Java. Many of the Groovy features that seem extraordinary at first-encapsulating logic in objects in a natural way, building hierarchies with barely any code other than what is absolutely required to compute the data, expressing database queries in the normal application language before they are translated into SQL, manipulating the runtime behavior of individual objects after they have been created-all of these are tasks that Java cannot perform. You might like to think of Groovy as being a "full color" language compared with the monochrome nature of Java-the miracle being that the color pictures are created out of lots of carefully engineered black and white dots.
Let's take a closer look at what makes Groovy so appealing, starting with how Groovy and Java work hand-in-hand.
Playing nicely with Java: seamless integration
Being Java friendly means two things: seamless integration with the Java Runtime Environment and having a syntax that is aligned with Java.
Seamless integration
Figure 2 shows the integration aspect of Groovy: It runs inside the Java Virtual Machine and makes use of Java's libraries (together called the Java Runtime Environment or JRE). Groovy is only a new way of creating ordinary Java classes-from a runtime perspective, Groovy is Java with an additional jar file as a dependency.
Figure 2: Groovy and Java join together in a tongue-and-groove fashion.Consequently, calling Java from Groovy is a non-issue. When developing in Groovy, you end up doing this all the time without noticing. Every Groovy type is a subtype of java.lang.Object. Every Groovy object is an instance of a type in the normal way. A Groovy date is a java.util.Date, and so on. Integration in the opposite direction is just as easy. Suppose a Groovy class MyGroovyClass is compiled into a *.class file and put on the classpath. You can use this Groovy class from within a Java class by typing
new MyGroovyClass(); // create from Java
In other words, instantiating a Groovy class is identical to instantiating a Java class. After all, a Groovy class is a Java class. You can then call methods on the instance, pass the reference as an argument to methods, and so forth. The JVM is blissfully unaware that the code was written in Groovy.
Syntax alignment
The second dimension of Groovy's friendliness is its syntax alignment. Let's compare the different mechanisms to obtain today's date in Java, Groovy, and Ruby in order to demonstrate what alignment should mean:
import java.util.*; // Java Date today = new Date(); // Java today = new Date() // a Groovy Script require 'date' # Ruby today = Date.new # Ruby
The Groovy solution is short, precise, and more compact than normal Java. Groovy does not need to import the java.util package or specify the Date type; moreover, Groovy doesn't require semicolons when it can understand the code without them. Despite being more compact, Groovy is fully comprehensible to a Java programmer.
The Ruby solution is listed to illustrate what Groovy avoids: a different packaging concept (require), a different comment syntax, and a different object-creation syntax. Although the Ruby way makes sense in itself (and may even be more consistent than Java), it does not align as nicely with the Java syntax and architecture as Groovy does.
Now you have an idea what Java friendliness means in terms of integration and syntax alignment. But how about feature richness?
Power in your code: a feature-rich language
Giving a list of Groovy features is a bit like giving a list of moves a dancer can perform. Although each feature is important in itself, it's how well they work together that makes Groovy shine. Groovy has three main types of features over and above those of Java: language features, libraries specific to Groovy, and additions to the existing Java standard classes (GDK). Figure 3 shows some of these features and how they fit together. The shaded circles indicate the way that the features use each other. For instance, many of the library features rely heavily on language features. Idiomatic Groovy code rarely uses one feature in isolation- instead, it usually uses several of them together, like notes in a chord.
Figure 3: Many of the additional libraries and JDK enhancements in Groovy build on the new language features. The combination of the three forms a "sweet spot" for clear and powerful code.Unfortunately, many of the features can't be understood in just a few words. Closures, for example, are an invaluable language concept in Groovy, but the word on its own doesn't tell you anything. We won't go into all the details now, but here are a few examples to whet your appetite.
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The justices rejected without comment two petitions dealing with the issue.
U.S. District Judge Jaime Pieras in Puerto Rico ruled in August that Puerto Rican residents were being illegally denied the right to vote for president. But a federal appeals court reversed.
Because Puerto Rico is a U.S. commonwealth territory, its 3.7 million citizens pay federal taxes, but only federal employees pay U.S. income tax and their congressional representative has no vote.
The challenge to denying Puerto Ricans the right to vote in presidential elections was brought by attorney Gregorio Igartua de la Rosa, among others, ABC News reported. "Only citizens of communist Cuba and the American citizens of Puerto Rico cannot vote" for their national leaders "in this hemisphere," he told a federal appeals court.
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Remember Flappy Bird, the simple and infuriatingly addictive game that rose to the top of the App Store charts? The one that was raking in a small fortune in ad money before its creator removed it? Of course you do—it has spawned an unending stream of imitators and unofficial ports, and opportunistic eBayers tripped all over themselves to make a quick buck once the game was pulled.Dong Nguyen, the game's creator, has said that he might bring the game back to the iOS and Android app stores, and yesterday he got a little more specific about his plans. He told CNBC that he would be bringing the game back in August, and when it returns it will apparently include a new multiplayer component. A Washington Post piece also says the game will be "less addictive," but Nguyen didn't elaborate on what that means. Nguyen cited the original game's addictiveness as a reason for pulling it.
In addition to this Flappy Bird news, Nguyen teased another new game on his Twitter account today, "so people can forget about Flappy Bird for a while." He didn't mention anything about its gameplay or its name (based on the screenshot above, we suggest Jumpy Guy), but it retains Nguyen's lo-fi, 8-bit-esque art style. He didn't announce a release date either, but it wouldn't surprise us if he used a revamped Flappy Bird to generate some interest in the title.


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After being embarrassed by a report on the breakdown of counterterrorism efforts before Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded a Northwest flight in Amsterdam for Detroit and a series of Congressional appearances that demonstrated a lack of communication in the decision to treat the terrorist as a criminal rather than an enemy at war, the White House has begun to push back. Citing unnamed "officials," the AP reports that the FBI and the CIA have begun to get information from Abdulmutallab despite having clammed up after getting Mirandized. The key, they claim, was to get his family involved in breaking his resistance:
The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, discussing his contacts in Yemen and providing intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, officials said Tuesday.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's cooperation could prove to be a national security victory and a political vindication for President Barack Obama, who has been under fire from lawmakers who contend the administration botched the case by giving Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, rather than interrogating him as a military prisoner.
In the days following the failed bombing, a pair of FBI agents flew to Nigeria and persuaded Abdulmutallab's family to help them. When the agents returned to the U.S., Abdulmutallab's family came, too, according to a senior administration official briefed on the case. The family persuaded Abdulmutallab to work with the FBI, believing he would be treated fairly in U.S. courts, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
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While the interrogation continued, White House and intelligence officials quietly seethed as political rivals accused them of putting lives at risk. That criticism peaked last weekend when Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, in the weekly Republican address, accused the administration of having "a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism."
Color Byron York skeptical:
The Washington Post, citing "Obama administration sources," reports Abdulmutallab "has been providing FBI interrogators with useful intelligence about his training and contacts since last week." The Politico quotes a "law enforcement source" saying Abdulmutallab has provided "useful, current intelligence." And ABC News, citing a "senior administration official," reports that the intelligence "has been disseminated throughout the intelligence community."
The reports represent a striking turnaround in the administration's position. Ever since the public learned that authorities had just 50 minutes to question Abdulmutallab before he was read his Miranda rights and refused to answer any further questions, the Obama administration has claimed that it had, during that brief interrogation, gotten all the information that was possible to be gained from Abdulmutallab. On Fox News Sunday January 24, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that "FBI interrogators believe they got valuable intelligence and were able to get all that they could out of him." When host Chris Wallace asked, "All they could?" Gibbs answered, "Yeah."
On January 31, top White House adviser David Axelrod told Meet the Press that Abdulmutallab "has given very valuable information to the government about activities in Yemen and some of his experiences there." To emphasize the point, Axelrod said, "We have not lost anything as a result of how his case has been handled."
So just a few days ago the Obama administration claimed that Abdulmutallab had given up everything he knows. Now, they claim he is giving them fresh, useful intelligence.
There are two possibilities in this scenario. The first is that the administration got Abdulmutallab's family to the US immediately after the terrorist clammed up, and that he had been giving valuable intel all along. That would mean that the White House sent Gibbs on a misinformation mission — which under the circumstances would be acceptable as a way to keep Abdulmutallab's contacts relaxed and in position for American attempts to target them.
But if that was the case, why leak its effectiveness now? The US hasn't conducted any known raids in Yemen for the last few weeks. This leak will certainly tip off any of Abdulmutallab's cohorts to start looking for new ground and to disconnect any network nodes of which the EunuchBomber had knowledge.
The second scenario would be that the White House finally acted after getting ripped by both Democrats and Republicans for their mishandling of the terrorist and the unilateral decision to keep him in the criminal system. That would explain the testimony of Mueller, Blair, Napolitano, and Leiter in front of Congress — where deliberately giving false testimony is a crime, not a misdirection strategy. Under this scenario, the administration finally got Abdulmutallab to talk by getting his family involved, but weeks too late to have anything helpful in stopping any other potential terrorist attacks.
Given this administration's track record and the previous testimony to Congress, the second scenario seems significantly more likely.


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Recipe provided by: Mona Jack of Marion, Ind.
Prep Time and Total Time: 20 minutes and 1 hour to 1.5
2 lbs hamburger
1 onion
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
Ritz crackers
1 can of mushrooms
Preheat oven on 375 degrees. Mix all ingredients together. Take a can of mushrooms and sprinkle across the top of the meatloaf. Bake in oven for 1-1.5 hours.
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An Active Learning Strategy for Reviewing Course Material
How can we verify that our students actually read and understand assigned material? The following active learning strategy provides an indication of what students read and understand.
Preparation for Class:
- Compose twelve to sixteen questions that cover the assigned reading and/or questions that address the salient points for a test. Try to include critical thinking questions.
- Determine the number of groups based on an equal number of questions per group. For example, if there are 12 questions, designate four groups made up of three students, or for 16 questions, four groups of four. Just be sure to use an even number of questions and groups.
- Move students into groups by either pre-selecting group members or by using a random selection process. A random selection process could include assigning students to groups by birthday, color of their shirt, home location, by handing them a colored tag as they enter the room, etc.
- If possible, rearrange chairs/desks so that the groups are easily identifiable.
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- While students are answering their assigned questions, list each group on the board and provide a space for their answers.
- As the groups answer their questions, have them list their responses on the board.
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- Once all groups have finished, review all of the answers, asking students if they all agree with each response or if they have a question about a particular answer. As you review each response, you might want to ask students where the answer is located in the text and/or how they came up with their answers.
TIP: If this activity is used for a test review, students should be taking notes about the answers on the board/class discussion.
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