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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2009-05-05T14:44:37.000+0000 Last Updated: 2009-05-12T06:53:47.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.8.1 (12/May/09)
Reporter: Rudolf Beranek (maac) Assignee: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) Tags: - Zend_Application
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I think, that problem lies in constructor where is never calling parent class (Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap) for initializing front controller. When I insert to constructor on first line calling parent class, modules then works fine.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-06T06:01:33.000+0000
I'm reading this request not as it doesn't work, but as a feature request to have Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap extend Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap instead of Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-06T06:02:28.000+0000
Ooops -- it already does, and is simply missing the call to parent::__construct(), as you note in your comment. Fixing.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-06T06:40:31.000+0000
Patched in trunk and 1.8 release branch.
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-06T20:33:50.000+0000
After this patch, my app doesn't work. No error trapped neither blank screen, only the message from firefox "can't found the page".
I have the standard modular structure:
application Bootstrap.php ----Configs --------application.ini modules --------default --------------controllers --------------models --------------views --------module1 --------------Bootstrap.php --------------controllers --------------models --------------views --------module2 --------------Bootstrap.php --------------controllers --------------models --------------views library public
The main bootstrap.php extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap (only one method to _initLogger), and the bootstrap module's extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap without any method.
And application ini, contains this settings:
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0 phpSettings.display_errors = 0
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php" bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"
resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules" resources.frontController.plugins.debug = "Scienta_Controller_Plugin_Debug"
resources.modules[] =
autoLoaderNameSpaces.0 = "Scienta"
I'm reading the tests for this issue, but don't understand what's the real problem. If I include this revision the application can't run, but if revert to previous everything works.
Thanks in advance. PS: a posibility to show how to configure a modular application with Zend_application and autoad resources?
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-07T03:57:36.000+0000
First, change your autoloaderNamespaces entry to read:

autoloaderNamespaces[] = "Scienta"
IIRC, numeric keys are not allowed in Zend_Config.
Second, the reason you're not seeing any error messages is because you've told PHP not to display them. Change your display_*errors settings:

phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
and this will give you a hint as to any issues you're having.
Third, make sure your error_reporting is as strict as possible. You can do this by adding the following to your config:

phpSettings.error_reporting = 8191
Do all of the above, and you should get some indicators as to what's occurring.
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-07T05:20:16.000+0000
Sorry about showing you only the "production" section of my application.ini. "Development" it's the running section that inherits "production" and add this settings:

phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
phpSettings.error_reporting = 8191
Replaced numeric keys with array notation:

autoloaderNamespaces[] = "Scienta"
The result is the same: the server shutdown without any clue about it (neither apache logs, nor php logs). If I revert the commit everything work again.
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-07T20:31:03.000+0000
ok, I've found that this error only happens when I have this setting in the ini file:

resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"
If I reduce the memory_limit from my php.ini, I get the "memory exhausted" error in Zend/Loader/Autoloader/Resource.php on line 257
that's the unique error I can see, otherwise the server crash.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-08T04:00:07.000+0000
I can't say I've run into this issue myself, nor heard of any similar reports. Is it possible that you don't have any directories under modules? or that there's a recursive symlink in there?
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-08T04:44:52.000+0000
First all, thanks for your attention.
I've tried with several environments (including windows OS and Linux) and checked symlinks already. It's a very, very little app without any other logic than test modules autoloader and Zend_Application. If you want to look into, this is the link.
Thanks in advance
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-09T07:04:31.000+0000
You can find more information in the mailing list: [http://nabble.com/Adding-Zend_Application_Module_B…]
Posted by Chris Martin (cgmartin) on 2009-05-09T21:08:13.000+0000
I am running into this as well (rev 15472).
When using multiple controller directories and Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap bootstraps it recurses through...
{main}( ) ../index.php:0 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap( ) ../index.php:49 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:518 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:558 Zend_Application_Resource_Modules->init( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:615 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap( ) ../Modules.php:84 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:518 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:558 Zend_Application_Resource_Modules->init( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:615 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap( ) ../Modules.php:84 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:518 Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource( ) ../BootstrapAbstract.php:558 Zend_Application_Resource_Modules->init( )
...and so on until reaching Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting!
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-10T04:48:23.000+0000
Jorge, Chris -- that gives me more information. I'm not sure the diagnosis of the issue is correct, but it at least gives me somewhere to start looking. I'll have this resolved for 1.8.1.
Posted by Keith Pope (mute) on 2009-05-10T08:16:27.000+0000
This issue is still present in the rev. 15476
With config of:
[bootstrap] autoloadernamespaces[] = "Zend_" autoloadernamespaces[] = "SF_"
phpsettings.display_errors = 0 phpsettings.error_reporting = 8191 phpsettings.date.timezone = "Europe/London"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH"/bootstrap/Bootstrap.php"
resources.frontcontroller.moduledirectory = APPLICATION_PATH"/modules" resources.frontcontroller.defaultmodule = "storefront" resources.frontcontroller.throwexceptions = false resources.frontcontroller.params.prefixDefaultModule = true resources.frontcontroller.plugins.action = "SF_Plugin_Action" resources.frontcontroller.plugins.admin = "SF_Plugin_AdminContext"
resources.db.adapter = "PDO_MYSQL" resources.db.isdefaulttableadapter = true resources.db.params.dbname = "storefront" resources.db.params.username = "root" resources.db.params.password = "root" resources.db.params.hostname = "localhost" resources.db.params.driver_options.1002 = "SET NAMES UTF8;"
resources.modules[] =
global.autoloadersupresswarnings = true
[production : bootstrap]
[development : bootstrap] phpsettings.display_errors = 1 resources.frontcontroller.throwexceptions = true global.autoloadersupresswarnings = false
[test : bootstrap]
I get recursive loop, this is due to the addition of the call to the parent constructor in the module bootstrap in rev. 15357 this now means that all options are passed back re-adding the resource modules option and causing the loop.
The quick fix is to revert the changes from rev.15357, however I think what actually needs to happen is for the modules option to be removed before it is passed back to the parent.
This issue was previously fixed for ZF-6183 in rev. 14738
I had a quick hack at this by adding this to Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract:

public function removeModulesOption()
if ($this->hasOption('resources')) {
And then in the module bootstrap:

This however seemed to break my FC plugin that uses the Action Stack???
Hope this helps track this issue down.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-10T20:23:01.000+0000
I was never able to reproduce the recursion, but I've added in a call to remove the 'Modules' resource within module bootloaders if it is detected.
Posted by Dmitry (prospect) on 2009-05-11T08:01:02.000+0000
I have the same problem. Recursive loop is still present in rev. 15522.
Posted by Jorge Padron (jpadron) on 2009-05-11T08:08:39.000+0000
Here it's solved with r15506 (ZF-6545: merge r15505 to 1.8 release branch)
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-11T08:20:48.000+0000
Dmitry -- I have yet to be able to reproduce the recursion based on any of the information available here or via the referenced mailing lists. I have added logic in the base module bootloader to remove the "Modules" resource during initialization if found, as this was identified by somebody else as the issue.
Please, re-open this issue only if you can post a complete setup that reliably reproduces the issue with current trunk.
Posted by Dmitry (prospect) on 2009-05-11T08:22:29.000+0000
Jorge, don't you really have this problem now? Well, I see the following fixed code in Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap:
// ZF-6545: prevent recursive registration of modules if ($this->hasPluginResource('Modules')) { $this->unregisterPluginResource('Modules'); } but I still get the recursive loop. If its works fine for you it means I do something wrong...
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-11T08:36:42.000+0000
Dmitry -- is it possible that your module bootstraps are not extending Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap?
Posted by Tomoaki Kosugi (noopable) on 2009-05-11T10:56:06.000+0000
Incidentally, is it efficient that every Module's Bootstrap constructs Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap as parent with the same instance of the application and makes the same resources in them? In this case I supporse the Delegation is better than the Inheritance. Because * Module's Bootstrap should be an inner bootstrap of global bootstrap ,isn't it? * In the case of the Inheritance, The system having many modules should have too many instances of bootstrap.
* If the global bootstrap have resources customized by -- _initFoo -- , they conflict with module's resources.
The Delegation's example,

interface Zend_Application_Bootstrap_ModuleBootstrapper
extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrapper
public function setBootstrap(Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrapper $bootstrap);
And it must provide properties of the resources with the delegation to the master bootstrap.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-11T12:00:04.000+0000
@Tomoaki: The application bootstrap could potentially be a module bootstrap instance. As such, having a setBootstrap() instances doesn't make sense -- there is no parent bootstrap.
Second, there will be no conflicts with "global" resources. Each bootstrap is responsible for running its own resources. You can pass these in by prefixing them with the module name, or have your bootstrap grab its own configuration. Any given bootstrap can be responsible for as much or as little bootstrapping as they need.
Third, I don't know what you mean by "too many instances of bootstrap" -- there is one, and then references to that one. (Actually, there will be one for each module, but that's only if the module has a bootstrap, and each module bootstrap is responsible for its own configuration -- which brings us back to the question of what "too many instances" means...)
Posted by Keith Pope (mute) on 2009-05-11T12:35:35.000+0000
Confirmed that this issue is fixed in the trunk now :)
However I have one more issue after the parent::__construct() was added, now my FC plugins are being called twice per request??
My setup is available here:
I have a basic FC plugin which uses the ActionStack this now fails for some reason, and if I echo some text in it in gets called twice instead of once like it should be. If I un-reg the frontcontroller resource everything works as normal:

// ZF-6545: prevent recursive registration of modules
if ($this->hasPluginResource('Modules')) {
I will not reopen this issue but if you could check it out that would be cool :)
Posted by Tomoaki Kosugi (noopable) on 2009-05-11T19:55:58.000+0000
@Matthew In case the module having its bootstrap class and the application having no extra options for the module,the module's bootstrap and the application's bootstrap are as independent bootstrap and they have the same options. Thus Resource_Modules exec the module's bootstrap->bootstrap(). This causes unfortunately conflicts.
For example: This is a scraping of the sequence.

// application Bootstrap
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap{
protected function _initView(){
$view = new Zend_View_Smarty;
// customized code using options
// and
// set view to viewRenderer
return $view;
// Foo Module's Bootstrap
class Foo_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap{
protected function _initBar(){} // initializing some.
$application = new Zend_Application(
'bootstrap' => '/path/to/Bootstrap.php',
'resources' => array(
'modules' => array(), // to call module bootstrap
'view' => array(), // some settings
// Zend_Application exec below
$bootstrap = new Bootstrap($application);
// Resource_Modules exec below
$module = 'Foo';
$bootstrapClass = 'Foo_Bootstrap';
$moduleBootstrap = new $bootstrapClass($bootstrap);
$bootstraps[$module] = $moduleBootstrap;
In this case, setting the view and the viewRenderer by class method - Bootstrap::_initView - . But the module Foo_Bootstrap breaks them unfortunately by a plugin resource so called Zend_Application_Resource_View .-- it creates new view instance and new viewRenderer and push it--. This is the sample of conflicts.
Global resources or static objects have a similar problem. For instance, FrontController resource.
BTW I said "too many instances". In some case the module bootstrap needs the application's resources they have already set. I think that it should be solved by injecting The Application Bootstrap to the module bootstrap. Not by creating new bootstrap instance and making the same resources with the same options.
If the module bootstrap only needs frontController resource , how about this one?

// Module_Bootstrap::__construct
if ($application instanceof Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap) {
$this->frontController = $application->getResource('FrontController');
Posted by Chris Martin (cgmartin) on 2009-05-11T23:36:46.000+0000
This might be more appropriate as a separate bug, but in case recent changes are related...
Module recursion is fixed, but I am now seeing custom Application Resources being called twice: (r15545)

class Main_Bootstrap_Resource_View extends Zend_Application_Resource_ResourceAbstract
* @var Zend_View_Interface
protected $_view;
* Defined by Zend_Application_Resource_Resource
* @return void
public function init()
// Return view so bootstrap will store it in the registry
return $this->getView();
* Retrieve view object
* @return Zend_View
public function getView()
if (null === $this->_view) {
$options = $this->getOptions();
$title = '';
if (array_key_exists('title', $options)) {
$title = $options['title'];
$view = new Zend_View($options);
"); // Prints twice
$viewRenderer =
if (isset($options['viewbasepathspec'])) {
$this->_view = $view;
return $this->_view;

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-12T05:39:24.000+0000
@Chris Martin: I think what you are seeing is related to what @Tomoaki is indicating -- that the module bootstrap is running the same plugin resources as the application bootstrap. I'm going to get this resolved for 1.8.1 today.
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2009-05-12T06:53:46.000+0000
@Tomoaki -- I've updated the code to (a) no longer call parent::__construct() (@Chris, @Keith -- this was the culprit behind duplicate resource initialization), and also to ensure the front controller resource is registered (which ensures a module bootstrap can run standalone if necessary).
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turtles have been known to vote for obama. they are communists and muslims, and you need to cease with this idealized image of turtle innocence
My dad's workplace did some research into the accoustics of ocean eater. Ocean water has temperature, pressure, salinity gradients plus different types of wildlife at different latitudes and longitudes. All of these are going to allow creatures to triangulate their location.
It's like penguins that form huge colonies in the icy blizzard region. Navigating by visual landmarks is impossible in a blizzard, so they form a navigation system by constantly calling out.
Ocean water has temperature, pressure, salinity gradients
No, the ocean does not have pressure gradients - pressure varies with depth and nothing else. Temperature gradients vary wildly with the seasons. Salinity gradients are very weak, and only occur where there are either a) massive inputs of fresh water, or b) massive amounts of evaporation.
So no, none of these will really work to provide navigation cues.
As long as the Earth's magnetic poles don't radically shift, the turtles could mark a location in their mind when they're born.
You can't "mark" a location using magnetic sense - because all a compass gives you is a direction, not a position. (And a not very accurate (relatively speaking) direction at that.) On top of that, the direction varies over time. (See Magnetic Declination [wikipedia.org].)
In school we all get this picture of Earth's magnetic field as a tidy and static system, when in reality it's anythin
Magnetic field has different strength in different area so you could (assuming no major changes have occurred) approximate distance from the polar region in addition to knowing the direction. Add to that a landmark or two ("2 days from the shore" or something) and you might actually have relatively good knowledge of where you are. Of course it isn't the exact spot but while I know nothing about sea turtles, I doesn't sound impossible that erring a dozen miles is acceptable and then they just use sound or wh
Magnetic field has different strength in different area so you could (assuming no major changes have occurred) approximate distance from the polar region in addition to knowing the direction.
No you can't - because field strength does not vary linearly with distance from the polar region. Even if it did, since you can't measure East-West position with a compass - that still wouldn't work to fix a position.
If you find and watch the BBC documentary "Richard Hammonds Journey To The Centre of the Planet", he visits a scientist performing experiments with turtles and magnetic fields.
(Specifically, towards the end of part 1 of the 2 parts)
They had a turtle velcroed in a vest so they could anchor it to a swing arm and let it move freely in a tank of water with full control of its flippers. The tank had boards along the outside with coiled wires which could induce a magnetic field.
By flipping the polarity and chang
Just because the signals originate in the inner ear, they aren't necessarily audio signals. The semicircular canals in my inner ear don't enable me to 'hear' the local gravity either.
I hope we can learn from the observation and shrink our own compass and related technologies. Maybe in a century or so we'll be able to develop cellular implants, drop them on the brain, and see if and how effectively it can learn to interpret the signals.
On that note, I hope we someday figure out that an organism can directly sense something we didn't previously observe or predict. Today I doubt our capabilities and understanding are developed enough to figure that out, even if it is quite commonplace. Nat
I wonder if this could lead to a magnetic alternative to the netting that's used to keep pigeon's off of balconies?
Some sort of a device that produces a magnetic field that pigeons find unpleasant...
Kinda reminds me of Roland following the lines in the Dark Tower series... creepy.
And vastly off topic.
Since pigeons seem to have been around for at least 23 million years [avianweb.com], during which perhaps 40-50 pole reversals have occurred (according to the wikipedia article), they probably have some evolutionary method of dealing with it...
Last I heard the expectation was that a magnetic reversal would take something like a century and that during which time the field would not just disappear and then reappear in the other polarity, but instead do something more akin to the poles wandering around and ending up near the opposite spin pole from their former location. While the field strength might vary substantially as well, we wouldn't be completely without a direction-indicating field (though we might have east and west poles for a while and
but I didn't know it had ears of its own.
Great story!
Individual neurons in birds' brains can relay crucial information about Earth's magnetic field, possibly providing the animals with an 'internal GPS'.
You mean compass.
Individual neurons in birds' brains can relay crucial information about Earth's magnetic field, possibly providing the animals with an 'internal GPS'.
You mean compass.
The authors found that vestibular neurons — which are linked to balance systems in the inner ear — fired differentially in response to alterations in the field's direction, intensity and polarity, and that these cells were especially sensitive to the bandwith that covers Earth's geo-magnetic field.
Combining information on direction, intensity and polarity could provide more than just a compass heading; it could be used to produce positional and directional information because of the way Earth's field varies in different locations. "It could theoretically be used as a GPS unit," says Dickman.
Newp, they most definitely mean, GPS. A compass will only provide limited
directional data. GPS provides 3d data. Direction, intensity and polarity
would suffice for 3d positioning, ala GPS.
Newp, they most definitely mean, GPS. A compass will only provide limited directional data. GPS provides 3d data. Direction, intensity and polarity would suffice for 3d positioning, ala GPS.
Humans have long used a compass-like device called a "diping needle", "dip needle" [kenyon.edu], or "dip circle" [wikipedia.org] to get a reading of "magnetic latitude" by measuring the angle of the earth's field relative to a horizontal plane.
Inner ears have three-axis linear and three-axis rotational accelerometers. It would hardly be surprising
Humans hear Magnetic fields [wikipedia.org] all the time.
Not only does it explain how they get home, but also why they're in such a rush to do so. If someone were playing Jean Michel Jarre at me I'd do my best to get home as quick as I could too.
Just because the sense organ is in the ear doesn't mean that it is associated with the sense of hearing, just like our sense of balance comes from structures in the ear, but that sense is unconnected to hearing.
Just the same way we hear changes in bodily orientation, thanks to the semicircular canals, which are in the inner ear.
I hear a kind of saxophone sound when spinning left about my vertical axis; in the opposite direction it takes on more of a clarinet tone.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."


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|% brew install gfortran
|% brew install gfortran
|% brew install open-mpi
|% brew install open-mpi
|% brew install netpbm (BROKEN)
|% brew install proj
|% brew install proj
|% brew install netcdf
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|Note that with this simple method, you won't have access to off-screen rendering (gfsview-batch). There are tricks however to overcome this limitation, see below.
|=== Off-screen rendering ===
|With the preceding method, you won't have access to off-screen rendering (gfsview-batch). There are tricks to overcome this limitation though.
|One solution to get a functional gfsview-batch is to get the latest version of [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/ GLU]. After unpacking the tarball into ~/soft, type from the source directory
|./configure --enable-osmesa --prefix=$HOME/soft
|make install
|and then recompile Gfsview using
|make clean
|LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/soft/lib" sh autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/soft
|make install
|(you probably want to make sure that paths beginning with $HOME/soft are read 'before' that beginning with /opt/X11 in your .bashrc)
|'''Note that this trick will deactivate the standard (X11) Gfsview'''.
|=== Feedback ===
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Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) installation with brew
Gerris installation on Mountain Lion is pretty straightforward using brew (using a different package manager, e.g. Macports, should not be a problem -- see the Wiki's history).
- XCode
- XCode's installation is mandatory. Since Mac OS X 10.7, XCode can be downloaded from the Mac App Store.
- Command line tools
- standard command-line tools (C compiler, git...) are provided with XCode as an optional package. To install these tools, go to XCode preferences (keyboard shortcut Cmd-; ) and just check "Install command-line tools"
- XQuartz
- Apple no more ships an X11 server as of Mountain Lion. X11 is now provided by the project XQuartz. To install it, go to the XQuartz homepage and download the package. Make sure to restart your session before going further.
- brew
- Homebrew is a package manager that will make gerris (and dependencies) installation smooth and manageable. To install brew, just enter
% ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
on the prompt.
Where to store gerris?
I strongly suggest to create a dedicated repository, e.g. ~/soft, for storing gerris and related software.
% cd % mkdir soft
For installed software to be properly localized, various environment variables have to be set accordingly in ~/.bashrc
% export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/soft/bin % export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/X11/lib:$HOME/soft/lib % export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig/:$HOME/soft/lib/pkgconfig
Note: make sure that the file ~/.profile contains the line
source ~/.bashrc
for these changes to be taken into account.
Gerris dependencies
Now that brew is installed, almost every dependency needed by gerris can be installed in just a single command line:
% brew install gtkglext % brew install gnuplot % brew install gawk % brew install gsl % brew install gfortran % brew install open-mpi % brew install proj % brew install netcdf % brew install ode % brew install fftw % brew install ffmpeg --with-theora % brew install coreutils % brew install autoconf % brew install libtool % brew install automake
Note that as of October, 26th 2012 the package netpbm is broken, but this wont' affect the gerris installation. Moreover, DO NOT install ftgl to avoid further compilation issues.
- startup-notification
- Unfortunately, there is no package for startup-notification. But the software can be easily installed.
- get the source of the latest version from the homepage of startup-notification
- move the source to ~/soft and unpack it. Dive into the newly created folder.
- compile the software
% ./configure --prefix=$HOME/soft % make % make install
GTS, Gerris and Gfsview
We're almost done! First, fetch the tarballs of the latest versions of GTS, Gerris and Gfsview. Put them in ~/soft and untar them.
- GTS compilation
From the GTS source directory, do
./configure --prefix=$HOME/soft make make install
- Gerris compilation
From the Gerris source directory, do
./configure --prefix=$HOME/soft make make install
- Gfsview compilation
From the Gfsview source directory, do
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/X11/lib" sh autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/soft make make install
Off-screen rendering
With the preceding method, you won't have access to off-screen rendering (gfsview-batch). There are tricks to overcome this limitation though. One solution to get a functional gfsview-batch is to get the latest version of GLU. After unpacking the tarball into ~/soft, type from the source directory
./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-osmesa --prefix=$HOME/soft make make install
and then recompile Gfsview using
make clean LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/soft/lib" sh autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/soft make make install
(you probably want to make sure that paths beginning with $HOME/soft are read 'before' that beginning with /opt/X11 in your .bashrc)
Note that this trick will deactivate the standard (X11) Gfsview.
If some of these steps do not work for you or you find that corrections to this wiki are warranted, write to the mailing list or edit the wiki, or both.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installation with MacPorts
Gerris installs and works fine on Lion and did install fine on older systems. Look at the Wiki's history for help on other systems.
Installation on Macs is an installation from source, not from packages, so you need to know a little bit of linux, how to use line commands in the Terminal etc...
- Xcode
- You need to install the latest version of Xcode.
- Command line tools
- You need also to install the line command tools. Without this, you do not even have a C compiler. This may be invisible when you run "configure" for Gerris. Moreover, you may still have the gcc from Macports, but you won't have apple's gcc. You can find the command line tools at
- Macports
- A typical way to install is using MacPorts, and without the line command tools it will not work. See also Brew below.
- Getting the sources
- You may either download and unpack a source tarball or use darcs. In the latter case you need to install Darcs in order to download the gerris sources.
Updating from older systems:
- gfortran
- If you're using gfortran AND if you migrated your old data (from Snow Leopard, Leopard or Tiger), take care to update your gfortran installation. Make sure to untar the package in the root directory otherwise your gfrotran will be in a funny location.
- fink
- If you had fink previously installed and wish to use MacPorts you should uninstall the fink stuff, remove the /sw library and modify the environment variables accordingly.
Environment variables:
Be careful that the ACLOCAL path is set like:
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I/opt/local/share/aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"
You should also take care to avoid conflicts with libraries that may have been installed elsewhere. One way to avoid the conflicts is to set the MacPorts library first in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable.
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig":"/opt/gerris/lib/pkgconfig":"/usr/lib/pkgconfig":"/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
The Gerris configure will read this variable and get the right MacPort libraries. There is in fact a whole lot of other environment variables that should be set to use with MacPorts to paths starting with /opt/local, read the MacPorts documentation.
Package installation
The packages must installed as in
sudo port install pkgconfig glib2-devel gtkglext startup-notification gawk ffmpeg libtool
You also need to install autoconf and automake. You need to chose the right version: currently, 2.69 for autoconf and 1.12 for automake
MPI support
Many Macs are multicore so you can do make -j 4 and cool parallel simulations. To have mpi you need to install openmpi using macports and link openmpirun to mpirun and openmpicc to mpicc.
% sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/openmpirun /usr/local/bin/mpirun % sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/openmpicc /usr/local/bin/mpicc
Installing gerris
Follow the steps indicated in installation from source. Download the source (preferably using darcs), then run autogen, for gts, gerris and gfsview.
There were difficulties in the past with gfsview installation because of conflicts with gtk2 and gtkglext packages, but as of Apr 16, 2011 the MacPorts packages were working fine. See the discussion page for a record of these problems and how they were solved.
If some of these steps do not work for you or you find that corrections to this wiki are warranted, write to the mailing list or edit the wiki, or both.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Intel) Installation with "brew"
This is only a recipe (sorry), it works for an out of the box machine (no Fink, no Macports, only XCode has to be present). First install brew and the packages, then gerris from source.
Install "brew"
Start by the installation of homebrew ( see the exact procedure on the web page, it changes)
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)" sudo mkdir -p /usr/local sudo chown -R $USER:staff /usr/local curl -Lsf http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C/usr/local brew install git git clone http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git /tmp/homebrew mv /tmp/homebrew/.git /usr/local/ rm -rf /tmp/homebrew
Now that brew is installed, we can add packages, such as gnuplot, gawk and other useful packages
brew search gnuplot brew info gnuplot brew install gnuplot brew install gawk brew install ffmpeg brew install imagemagick brew install GtkGlExt brew install gsl brew install coreutils
Open the hidden file ".bashrc" in your "home", with "vi" or emacs or ...
vi ~/.bashrc
if you use vi, press "i" to be in insert mode (see -- INSERT-- at the bottom), paste the following
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
go out the file with "ESC" and ":wq" then do, to update your path
source ~/.bashrc
You have to download "startup-notification" on the web
Caution: the -0.10 works, the -0.12 don not due to a XCB bug fixed in the -0.10 compile and install (put the good User Name)
cd /Users/pyl/Downloads/startup-notification-0.10 ./configure make sudo make install
Installing Gerris from tarball
go to gerris
take all the three tarball in the Download directory, unzip them and start:
cd ../gts-snapshot-* ./configure make sudo make install
Be careful that the ACLOCAL path is set like:
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I/usr/local/share/aclocal"
Take gerris on the website then
cd ../gerris-snapshot-* ./configure make sudo make install gerris2D -V
It works! More difficult, take gfsview then
cd ../gfsview-snapshot-*
Now, open the file "configure.in" remove everything between "PKG_CHECK_MODULES(OSMESA,..." line 59 and "AM_CONDI.." add "have_osmesa=no" if using vi, erase line with "dd", and insert "i" the line
in between. e.g. in this file the lines are now :
PKG_CHECK_MODULES(OSMESA, [ osmesa ], [ have_osmesa=yes ], [ have_osmesa=no ]) have_osmesa=no AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_OSMESA, test "x$have_osmesa" = "xyes")
go out and save (esc :wq) configure.in
Prompt exactly
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11/lib" sh autogen.sh
make sudo make install gfsview2D
X11 on MacBook: you need a three-button mouse or trackpad emulation
You need either to connect a three-button mouse to your Mac or have the middle and right-click functions of a mouse emulated on the trackpad. Go into the X11 application (it can be reached inside your Dock) then under the X11 menu go into "Preferences" and select "emulate a three button mouse".
Then press the "Command" (cmd) key and move ONE finger on the trackpad while clicking on the trackpad to emulate the right-click on the mouse and move around the gfs view. Press the "Command" (cmd) key and move TWO fingers on the trackpad to emulate the center-click on the mouse or the scrolling, to zoom in and out these pretty gfsview images ...
Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel) Installation with fink
The instructions below for 10.4 should work but there is an OpenGL bug in Xcode 3.0. Either upgrade to Xcode 3.1 or later, or use the following fix when configuring/compiling gfsview:
cd ../gfsview-stable LDFLAGS="-Wl,-dylib_file,/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install
Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel) Installation with fink
Below are steps that have worked for at least three people, installing Gerris under Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel).
- You will need the Apple development tools installed - this is a free download from http://developer.apple.com/tools/.
- Check that you have Apple's X11 and the X11 SDK installed. They are not installed by default on a new machine (at least as far as I could figure out). If X11 is not installed, in OS X 10.4 you need to reinstall your system from the DVD (See here). Reinstalling the system will not remove your user files. (For comparison, on my system, the versions were X11 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0 .)
- Install Fink (http://finkproject.org).
- Install various dependencies that Gerris requires.
sudo fink install pkgconfig glib2 glib2-dev glib2-shlibs gtk+2 gtk+2-dev \ gtkglext1 startup-notification-dev \ startup-notification-shlibs
Other packages may also be necessary. Look at the error messages during the configuration steps below to see what packages may be missing. Then the best way to resolve the problem may be to install "fink commander". Then search for all the packages that have a name beginning with pango, gtk+, atk1 and install all of them. Trial and error should eventually lead you to a full installation of all the necessary packages.
- Install darcs (needed to obtain the latest version of Gerris, GTS, and GfsView - the packaged versions available on the web do not work). Darcs is not available in Fink either.
- Download the DMG from http://glozer.net/darcs/, and mount it.
- From the DMG, Drag GMP.Framework into /Library/Frameworks.
- From the DMG, put the 'darcs' executable wherever you wish (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
- From a suitable folder, obtain the latest versions of GTS, Gerris, and GfsView.
darcs get http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr/darcs/gerris-stable darcs get http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr/darcs/gts-stable darcs get http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr/darcs/gfsview-stable
- We will install these in /opt/gerris to keep them isolated from the rest of the system. This requires /opt/gerris/lib/pkgconfig to be added to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. This directory does not exist yet - it will be created in the next step.
echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gerris/lib/pkgconfig" >> ~/.profile
- Check your version of automake:
% automake --version
Currently (November 8, 2007) this installation procedure works with automake 1.6.3 which is on your system by default. Any later version should also work.
- Add the gerris directory to your path (so gts-config works properly), also add the fink directory.
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gerris/bin:/sw/bin" >> ~/.profile
- Compile and install GTS, Gerris and GfsView.
cd gts-stable sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install cd ../gerris-stable sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install cd ../gfsview-stable sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install
- Test your installation. Beware of end of line characters.
- You're done !
Optional tools
If we want to generate MPEG movies using ppm2mpeg we will need ffmpeg which is not available in Fink stable, so we must install it manually.
- Download the latest SVN snapshot from http://ffmpeg.org/releases/
- Unpack and install it.
tar -xvjf ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-export-<insert date here> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install


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But isn't it good the way the internet has enabled musicians to leap over the music business and get their work out to the public? Keen is negative. The people who are good at marketing will win, not the best artists. But he seems to think well of the the Arctic Monkeys.
Later, poking around on the bad old internet, I see this:
[Prefixmag]: So you guys didn't even know how to [put] your music on the Internet?What would Keen think of that? The musicians were good enough to inspire fans who were web-savvy enough to market them. It doesn't seem as though a whole lot of business genius is involved. But the group's name stuck in my head, and I happened to see a video of theirs when I was idly clicking around on YouTube today, and got to this video of "Leave Before the Lights Come On," which I liked enough to link to in an IM with John.
Arctic Monkeys: No, no.
PM: Are you guys Internet users?
Arctic Monkeys: Only to e-mail or whatever; iTunes, stuff like that. But none of us really knew how to. It was a guy at college who made the Web site. We had tried putting music on the site, but it didn't work properly. People couldn't listen to it properly.
PM: I notice you have a pretty popular site on Myspace.
Arctic Monkeys: We don't know about that, either.
PM: So that's not you guys?
Arctic Monkeys: No, no. The other day someone said to us, "I looked at your profile on Myspace." I said, "I don't even know what Myspace is." [When we went number one in England] we were on the news and radio about how Myspace has helped us. But that's just the perfect example of someone who doesn't know what the f*ck they're talking about. We actually had no idea what [Myspace] was.
John responds:
mm, i'd like to hear more from them since they're playing a style of music I've been listening to a lot, but I'm not really a fan of that song. I think it's pretty generic....He sends me this link to a video by Collective Soul, "The World I Know."
the gimmick of starting a video out with someone on the ledge of a building contemplating suicide has been done.
me: this is a much more professional videoJohn was thus doing some gatekeeping, of the go on, go ahead variety that I'm sure would make the snobby old Mr. Keen cringe. What? We're publishing 9 p.m. IMs now? Yes, we are, old man.... like a million little ants.
john: yeah
me: I like the way the bird makes him think maybe life is worth living, then the ants seem especially cool, and then "the people look like ants" either means that seeing a cliché made real is so amusing that he wants to live or he actually suddenly appreciates humanity because he started off liking ants and then it was like oh, okay, since i know I like ants, maybe if people are like ants I want to live.
john: ha
john: you should blog that...
ADDED: I see that Glenn Reynolds trashed Keen's book here:
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture... is basically an extended paean to the lost Golden Age of middlebrow taste-makers and big-media megaphones, and an extended jeremiad against an age in which people are free to make up their own minds, and make their own contributions. Keen is even sad about the declining influence of small-scale taste-makers: He decries the absence of the "deeply knowledgeable Tower clerk" in the world of online record sales, and he seems to think that the musical snobs in the book (and film) High Fidelity were supposed to be appealing characters.
Ha ha.


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Pas • sion | noun : Strong barely controllable emotion. Strong enthusiasm.
More than anything passion drives every facet of sport. The players need it to be champions, management requires it to continue on after a bad personnel decision, and the media better have it if they want to stay in the game. But fans possess it the most.
The passion from the fans is raw, unbridled, and sometimes almost blinding. The fans pay for their tickets and with that I strongly believe that gives them the right to voice their opinion, as long as it delivered in a respectful manner. The cheap personal shots and profanity or racial taunts are ridiculous and ultimately make the opinion seem less valid.
I grew up reading the paper (still do every morning) and listening to sports radio, specifically John Short. There was no Internet, no The Score, Sportsnet or TSN, and since we had Peasant Vision™ on the farm there was no ABC or any other American stations. The paper and radio were the only outlets to get information, except the subscription to Sports Illustrated.
In the car after hockey games, my late father and I would listen to Short and I was enthralled by his knowledge, but now that I'm in that chair the one constant that remains is the interaction and passion of the fans.
I loved the banter, the interviews and especially when the callers would get fired up. To this day I can't recall a caller who called in to praise a ref after an Oiler loss.
Today the options are endless on where you want to get your fix: radio, TV and of course the Internet. The best part of sports is how we can all watch the same game and come away with completely different views of what happened.
The similarities between sports talk radio and here at the Nation are very similar, yet completely different.
The Nation allows you the readers to express your opinion in a timely fashion, while the radio is quick hits and the response/banter is instantaneous. I've always been partial to that type of interaction, but the more I contribute and interact on the Nation I've come to appreciate this format.
Brownlee's article, and your response was entertaining and insightful, and I could sense true passion from the posters. Reading praise and criticism is good for my type of work. You don't let either one go to your head. A wise man, Ron Durda, once told me that if everyone likes your show you aren't doing it right. As long as they keep listening, or in this case reading, that's what matters.
There are some things I'd like to clarify from the article.
The reason the TEAM 1260 switched to Fox from ESPN was strictly financial. ESPN wanted to double their rates, and in this financial time that wasn't feasible for the TEAM or many other sport stations across the country. I understand some of you don't like the more brash approach of Fox, but the 1:00-3:00pm slot with Meyers and Hartman is very insightful, and I prefer it to what we used to have in that slot.
There will be more local shows on the TEAM very soon. As a guy who grew up listening to Short and then hosting in evenings, I think it is imperative to have a show there. I can guranatee you that there will be a regular evening show very soon on the TEAM 1260. The inner workings of a company don't need to be public knowledge, but it is a fair and valid criticism as to why we don't have one. The good news is that there will be a new one sooner than later.
A local 1:00-3:00pm show will be coming later on as well. And I can tell you that there will be a strong focus in that show about local hockey, not just the Oilers. I've never understood Canadians' lack of love for amateur sports. Most of you played the game and every NHLer went through the ranks before reaching the pinnacle of success. The AJHL, ACAC, U of A and WHL are affordable and entertaining. You might not know all of the players, but if you tuned in and were given more insight into them, I wonder if you might find yourself going to four or five games a year.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the differing opinions on the hosts. I chuckle when one poster writes, "Gregor is condescending to the callers," while another will post "He is engaging and very patient." That is the core of sports right there. Two die-hard sport fans can listen to a caller and come away with completely different feelings on the interaction between host and caller.
There were some great suggestions on what people want to hear on the TEAM 1260, and I did get my program director and GM to read the posts. Keep in mind that the percentage of posters to readers was close to 1:100. It is that way in sports radio and the same occurs here on the Nation. I applaud those who have the time, energy and gumption to post on here. I know there are many readers and listeners who will never call or post, but are just as passionate and their opinions and loyalty are just as important. I've posted my email on here before and if you have a question or concern don't hesitate to send it my way.
I enjoy the banter here and look forward to it heating up leading up to the Draft and free-agent season. What gives me the most gratification is that 95% of the posts are hear are insightful and filled with genuine passion. The childish name calling, and guys hiding behind fake names aren't the norm on here and that is a credit to you.
When guys can argue, and it happens lots, and will continue in the future, but do so with thought provoking, intelligent retorts it makes for a great site. I would never expect, or want, all of us to have the same opinions, because it would make the site boring.
And for those who rip on guys for not posting on here keep in mind that there is still competition for your eyes. Wanye and the Nation team have done a fantastic job of mixing MSM with bloggers and they will continue in the future, but don't expect them to have a representative from every outlet, because it won't happen.
I wrote last week how the Oilers haven't had a 40-goal scorer since Klima in 1991, and who knows if that streak will end soon, but the Oilers will end another lengthy streak on Thursday.
The Oilers haven't had an NHL award winner since 1990. That year the Oilers won the Stanley Cup, Messier won the Hart Trophy, Ranford won the Conn Smyth while Kevin Lowe took home the now defunct Budweiser Man of the Year award and most importantly, the King Clancy Memorial Trophy.
"The King Clancy Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and who has made a significant humanitarian contribution to his community."
On Thursday, Oiler Captain Ethan Moreau will be honoured. Moreau does loads of charity work with the Stollery and the Inner City High project with the Oilers. We can critique his play on the ice all we want, but off the ice Moreau gives more to the community than any other Oiler.
For many of us without kids or who haven't been touched directly by a charity I think we overlook this aspect of being a professional player. I can tell you the most rewarding show I do every year is when we broadcast from the Stollery Children's Hospital. It is heart wrenching and heartwarming at the same time. Ask Brownlee how important the Stollery was to his family and their little guy, Sam!
I've seen the reaction kids and their parents have when they meet Moreau or other Oilers, Eskimos, Rush or any other athlete and it is amazing how that one meeting can brighten up their day.
I think too many athletes don't get that, but Moreau does. He along with his wife Ornella donate a lot of their time and energy to various charities and he does it behind the scenes. You can't do it for the fanfare; he does it because it means a lot to him.
While the Hart Trophy is the most prestigious trophy, the King Clancy is the most rewarding and well deserved for Moreau. Whether he is here next year or not, I can guarantee you that various charities across the city are hoping he remains an Oiler for many years to come.


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The lights are on
They are doing a complete 180 on the bad policies they were trying to implement!
/EDIT: I just saw Game Informer has a new story about this as well on the main page...
Money talks. Everyone going out and pre-ordering PS4 after MS's blatantly anti-end user, "we only care about money" reveal has caused this. If people showed similar behavior and stopped flocking to buy annual released games, publishers would also have to put more work into solid new IP and actually release finished products. Big win for the gaming community right here...
Unfortunately for them though, the damage is done. I know slews of online friends who are abandoning Xbox altogether just out of feeling scorned
Unfortunately for them though, the damage is done. I know slews of online friends who are abandoning Xbox altogether just out of feeling scorned
They must be some real pain in the asses in real life then. Holding grudges is for petty, sad individuals. I would hate to be friends with them. "Remember when you stepped on my toe 12 years ago? You're a *** *** and I still hate you for that!"
I'm still a little gun-shy, but still lean more towards MS exclusives than Sony's. That being said, is anyone aware of whether they still require the games to be downloaded to the HDD. I know the disc will still need to be in the drive, but I haven't heard about the other.
Sadly this kind of hurts those who were already set on the Xbox One because although there is no more extra DRM Policies and no more 24 hour connection there is also no more ability to take games everywhere with you without a disk. I personally would have liked to seen Microsoft stick to there plan and at least let it pan out to me I don't like the fact that a company can fold on their stance so quickly. Plus the damage is already done most people who bolted to the PS4 are going to be very reluctant to come back.
This is why you don't freak out and change your mind completely 3 days after E3...people jumped on the PS4 banwagon way too abruptly.
If people hadn't done that I bet MS would not have changed anything. They didn't do the right thing because they care about gamers, they did it because they saw the writing on the walls about what was going to happen to their fanbase and bottom line.
That is why I will never preorder a system. I may not be "cool" by not having the new system when they first come out, but that is fine with me when I do not have a pricy dust collector sitting on my shelf because it is not what I thought it was going to be when I read what it might do.
Sorry but the X Box One will never cross my door step. That comes from someone who has been video gaming since the days of the Vectrex System. Microsoft is not a user friendly company, they folded on the DRM because they knew they would get hosed on sales for Christmas. That being said the re implementation for their whole plan is only an update away. I work in IT and I really don't trust Microsoft any longer. There are real security concerns with this box as well. Most people won't even know they have now become a Nealson family without getting paid for it. The box will track what you watch, purchase and play. Facial recognition is just freakin creepy on a video game system, and a camera that is always on.. It's down right Orwellian. Notice the careful wording MS used about the DRM feature. They have turned off the need for a "constant" internet connection, but how much do you want to bet it still will phone home from time to time, and send all that data to someone.
Sorry I guess I'll stick with my PS3 gen 1 backward compatible btw, I'm going to take a serious look at the PS4 at some point next year. I'm keeping my X Box 360 arcade system My Sega Dreamcast and Genesis, Nintendo Game Cube and WII, Atari Jaguar, 2600, 5200 and Lynx and yes I still have the Vectrex.


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Fletcher executive Worley leaves as crane unit brought in-house
Report from BusinessDesk
Fletcher Building executive Dave Worley has left the country's biggest listed company after the Crane unit he was responsible for was folded into the parent.
The Auckland-based company will disestablish Crane, which has been operating as a separate group since its takeover two years ago, in a bid to better align the construction firm's units, Fletcher said in a statement. Worley, who has previously headed Fletcher's distribution and laminex decisions before leading Crane, decided to leave as a result of the restructure.
Fletcher bought the Australian pipe manufacturer and distribution company in early 2011 for $1.2 billion in cash and scrip with the aim of diversifying Australian earnings, though it was the worst performing unit in the first half of the current financial year.
Crane's Iplex Pipelines and Crane Copper Tube will now report Fletcher's infrastructure products, bringing pipe and tube units under one umbrella, while the plumbing distribution business Tradelink will report to chief executive Mark Adamson directly.
The shares rose 0.6 percent to $8.55 today, and have gained 3.1 percent this year.
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FREDERICK, Md.—Five prominent Chinese Americans will discuss their family's migration stories in a short documentary Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at Hood College.
Bill Moyers, journalist, news commentator and White House Press Secretary during the Johnson administration, conducts one-on-one interviews with five distinguished individuals from the fields of literature, science, business, medicine and the arts whose impact on the United States has been profound. The film, followed by a discussion, will be shown in the college's Hodson Auditorium in Rosenstock Hall.
Originally a three-part PBS series entitled "Becoming American, Personal Journeys," the film includes conversation with David Ho, a world leader in AIDS research; Shirley Young, an expert on brand development and consumer marketing; Gish Jen, second-generation Chinese American fiction writer who is a leading literary voice about the Chinese American experience; Samuel Ting, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 and, despite his limited facility with the English language, completed bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees within six years; and Maya Lin, a sculptor, architect, designer and craftswoman who was catapulted into the public
eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she was the controversial choice to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a design that changed the nature of war memorial sculpture.
Following the film, a panel of Chinese Americans from the Frederick community will share stories of their own personal journeys in the United States.
The event is part of the Hanson Lecture Series, made possible through the Robert D. and Barbara Esmer Hanson '45 Fund of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities.
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When I Died Inside
A classic Edward leaves Bella story with a twist... Edward leaves Bella pregnat and alone. Whe they meet again will she be able to move past her pain? And will her children be able to accept him?
I know that some stories when Bella is pregnat the babies take nine months to grow. But this is a classic fast growing baby story.
1. Pain and Lonlieness
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The pain of my little children ripping out of my stomach was almost too much to bear. I screamed, and as I screamed I thought of another pain ripped deep into my heart.
I just stared blankly at the wall in front of me as the fiery pain ripped through me. I clutched my chest and hugged myself as I kept myself from screaming in sheer desolation. Ed-no, that was too painful-he left me. He left me alone. I wanted to die.
But before I could puzzle that thought out I was hit by a wave of, not fire and pain, but nausea and I sprinted for the bathroom. I got to the toilet just in time to heave up all of the food in my stomach. I then sat there with my head on the bole wondering what was wrong. Was I sick?
Then, suddenly, I felt a nudge. But that was not what startled me, it was the face that the nudge came from inside my stomach-there it was again. That set my thoughts on another track, a totally impossible track. Maybe, just possibly, I was pregnant. My first instinct was to totally deny this idea. But then again, was there any other possibility? I would have to find out for sure….
I stared in absolute shock at the positive pregnancy test in my hand. That was not possible. The only person I had ever had sex with was a vampire! Then that vampire disappeared the next day with no explanation. Just a note:Bella,I love you with all my heart and always will. But it is just safer for you to lead a regular human life-a life without me. I will be dieing every day that I am away from you. Always yours, EdwardPS. I didn't say this to you in person because I would never have been able to leave.
I looked at this note again as I looked at the positive pregnancy test, two things that broke my heart and kept me from killing myself. I wouldn't die if he still loved me or wile I carried his child. The only thing that bothered me was the enhanced rat of the child's growth (I only say child because it was only a suspicion that it was twins) my stomach had a bump after five days, and was already a few inches after a week. I decided to leave…
It had been four weeks since he left and I had been in a wood for almost three. My stomach had grown bigger than any normal stomach and I was now sure that it was two babies.
I had taken some camping supplies from Mike's family's shop and though I felt bad I knew it was necessary. I piled it all into my truck and headed out around midnight one night wile Charlie was asleep on the couch. I didn't leave a note.
When I got to a big woods a pulled over and got all my stuff out. I then set fire to my truck to make it look like an accident and I had died.
*End of Flashback*
I felt it when the two babies were out of my body, having ripped through the hard flesh surrounding them. I felt it as the darkness started to surround me and my only regret was that no one was there to care for my children.
That was when a bite of fire ripped away the numbing darkness. My last thought was simply: and so the pain begins. I was dimly aware of the fact that the only pain that could be so fiery was the pain of transformation…….
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/15/biofuel_plant_n_boffins/
Biofuels plant announced for Teesside
As US boffins reckon to turn industry upside down
Posted in Science, 15th March 2007 14:05 GMT
The UK biofuels industry is to invest £250m in a new ethanol production plant on Teesside.
Ensus, the concern building the facility, has secured the funds from private equity groups the Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings. There is also £150m of debt finance.
Building work is to commence this spring at the Wilton International site near Middlesbrough and full production should reach 400 million litres a year in 2009.
The UK will introduce a requirement for five per cent bio-sourced content in all transport fuel from 2010, guaranteeing a need for at least a billion litres of ethanol annually. It will also mandate a 2.5 per cent biofuel requirement to commence in 2008, which is projected to reduce overall carbon emissions by 500,000 tonnes per year.
So far, Ensus will have few on-shore rivals for this market, although British Sugar is to open a smaller 70 million litre plant.
The Ensus facility is to produce its ethanol from wheat, traditionally in surplus across the European Union. The idea is that the wheat has absorbed carbon from the atmosphere as it grows, so using it in place of fossil fuels will reduce environmental damage.
However, biofuels have occasionally run into controversy. It has been suggested that a big takeup might drive up the price of food and require excessive use of land. Some critics have also pointed out that producing ethanol requires substantial amounts of power, which at the moment is largely generated by burning fossil fuels.
Biofuel advocates have countered with the suggestion that in future the production plants and associated transport could also burn ethanol. In this scenario, fields of crops would effectively function as immense self-built solar-power generators, storing the sun's energy in portable ethanol form without any carbon footprint whatsoever.
Whether there is enough land and biomass available in the world to power the human race's transport needs and feed it too is open to question. Researchers at Purdue University in the USA say there probably isn't, using current ethanol-production methods. They reckon if the biofuels industry carries on as it is, running all American transport (cars, trains, planes, the lot) "would require a land area 25 per cent to 55 per cent the size of the United States." The USA isn't all productive land in this sense, and people need to eat too, so this might not be viable.
But the Purdue researchers reckon they've got the solution, though it may not make traditional biofuel lovers happy.
Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue's Winthrop E Stone distinguished professor of chemical engineering, says his team has found a method which can get three times as much fuel out of a given amount of biomass. This would permit the USA to power its transport from just six to 10 per cent of its own area, perhaps using stuff which at the moment is considered agricultural waste.
The catch which will have some ethanol-heads up in arms is that Agrawal's method requires the addition of hydrogen during the ethanol production process. Hydrogen is, of course, the hated rival of ethanol for green motor fuel of the future. Worse, it requires substantial amounts of electricity to be produced cleanly. Agrawal, like the normal hydrogen lobbyists, speculates that this juice would come from a carbon-free source such as solar or nuclear power.
Purdue University considers the process worth patenting, at any rate, and research such as this does suggest that the shape of biofuel infrastructure may be in flux.
Furthermore, the UK market is driven by possibly changeable legislation, and the availability of corn is dependent on controversial EU farm subsidies.
The resultant lack of certainty around biofuels may have been a factor in Ensus' decision not to list on the Aim stock market and go with private equity instead. But Ensus CEO Alwyn Hughes says not. "We see huge advantages in private equity," he told the London Financial Times. ®


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Matt Brazel , Hingham: The Harbormen played Marshfield in the Division 1 South final Tuesday night, thanks in large part to the junior captain, who put up two goals and a whopping six assists in an 8-1 win over Barnstable in the semifinals. The forward helped the team average 6.3 tallies in its first three tournament games.
Aaron Clancy , Catholic Memorial: In addition to Easton resident Brendan Collett's performance — stopping 68 of 72 BC High shots in two games — the freshman forward from Quincy had arguably one of the biggest impacts in the Knights' Super 8 quarterfinal series win over the Eagles. In the third and deciding game, he assisted on a Liam Coughlin goal before scoring the game-tying tally with less than three minutes left in the third.
Peyton Donato , Duxbury: As a freshman, the defenseman hasn't gone to the Garden with the Dragons the last two season, but with a pair of goals in an 8-0 win against Tewksbury/Methuen in the Division 2 semifinals Saturday, she is on her way to creating some state championship memories of her own.
Rachel Myette , Duxbury: An 8-0 shutout of surprise Division 2 semifinalist Tewksbury/Methuen was the junior captain's sixth whitewash in a row and ninth this season. Since she last gave up a goal, Feb. 16 vs. Walpole, the Dragons have outscored opponents 25-0, including 14-0 in three state tournament games.
Jimmy Tierney , Oliver Ames: Canton's 37 shots on net in the Division 2 South semifinals were not nearly enough against the sophomore netminder. He stopped all 37, marking the third time this season — and the second time by Tierney — the Bulldogs got shut out.
Healey's Top 10 boys' teams
(Records through Monday)
1. Marshfield (19-6)
2. Hingham (16-8-2)
3. Archbishop Williams (13-6-4)
4. Canton (16-4-2)
5. Duxbury (14-4-5)
6. Oliver Ames (17-5-2)
7. Norwood (14-6-2)
8. Braintree (17-5-1)
9. Xaverian (9-8-5)
10. Pembroke (14-8-5)
Healey's Top 10 girls' teams
1. Duxbury (21-1-2)
2. Archbishop Williams (15-8)
3. Norwood (14-6-2)
4. Westwood (14-7-3)
5. Canton (16-4-1)
6. Hingham (13-7-3)
7. Fontbonne (12-8-2)
8. Braintree (10-9-3)
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CHAMBERSBURG — A 41-year-old Chambersburg woman faces charges by Pennsylvania State Police after she purchased a false birth certificate and Social Security card in Indiana to obtain a Pennsylvania identification card. Police said the woman applied for and was granted a Pennsylvania identification card Dec. 18, 2009, at the driver's center at 190 Mill Road.
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Jetster, I commend u for the analysis and I agree.
I think with a running game and receivers the QB's whoever behind center will be adequate to get us to 500 and above and some surprise wins. I think unlike years past, the best part of our play will come in the second half of the season.


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The perfect jodi : Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar and ShivRaj Shekhar
Anandi is the child bride, married at the tender age of eight, Anandi had to accept and accustom herself to a new family of strangers and accept her roles as a friend, lover, wife and a daughter in law during childhood itself under strict old customs. Now, as a young adult, she faces new challenges as her adulteress husband, failed marriage she tries to carve out her own identity as sarpanch of Jetsar in the world with the support of her Inlaws.
ShivRaj comes from an army background and is a man of authority. He comes in Jaitsar as the Collector and is an energetic,well groomed yet impatient self made man of today.
ShivRaj's Entry as The Knight in shining armour...
And Entry in Anandi's dream too...
(avi creadit -RD-)
Shiv entered Balika Vadhu in typical hero fashion, as a knight in shining armour to rescue Anandi when she was in danger. When a wayward horse pulled Anandi's carriage recklessly, Shiv rescued the sarpanch of Jaitsar.
Anandi's saviour turns out to be the Collector of the newly minted Jaitsar district. This is revealed at a function held to felicitate Anandi. Shiv is praised by to the high heavens which paves the way for his promising work in Anandi's hometown.
Shiv and anandi initially shared a professional bond. But after some sorts of roughness eventually both impressed with each other's different shades and qualities. shiv's frd ashi's words made shiv to realize that his dream girl is similar to anandi. Anandi's simplicity and charm starts affecting shiv.shiv again proved as anandi's savior while stopping a child marriage and got to know that she is a balika vadhu too and his respect towards anandi increased.
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Second Meeting (at the meela..anandi came to know the person who saved is the collector shivraj shekhar) - 15th May
First Dance (Anandi dancing and Shiv playing dhol) - 16th May
First Verbal Fight regarding canal project\Shiv recognized that Anandi has lot of ability -21st May
First Dinner together at haveli - 23rd May
Mango Masti - 24th May
First Thank You (Shivraj said thank you to Anandi) - 24th May
First Temple meeting - 25th May
Shiv dropped Anandi home for the first time - 25th May
Shiv visiting Anandi's school for the firt time - 28th May
Shiv came to know Anandi is married - 5th June
Anandi got a dream - 6th June
First Jogging\Morning Walk together - 6th June
Shiv admitted he respects Anandi - 7th June
First Aarti Sequence - 8th June
Second Dinner & Anandi speaking English infront of Shiv - 11th June
Anandi saved Shiv from the villagers and Shiv is really impressed - 12th June
Dupatta Sequence (Anandi's Dupatta stuck into Shiv's watch) - 13th June
Anandi doing champi on Shiv's head - 19th June
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It indeed is a special day..
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Father Bill Schmidt, the pastor at St. Mary's in Wrentham, got the call a week ago. There was an 85-year-old woman at the Wrentham Developmental Center, the old Wrentham State School, and she didn't have long.
Father Bill was led to her bedside. Her name was June Larner, and she was in and out of consciousness. Father Bill spoke to her softly, soothingly. He told her that God loved her. He anointed her, making the sign of the cross, and told her that God was ready to call her home.
When he finished his priestly duties, Father Bill stepped away and talked with some of the staff members, who stood in a clot, concerned.
"Does she have family?" Father Bill asked.
She did, he was told, but they were all gone.
And then Father Bill heard the whole story.
When June Larner was 8 years old, her father brought her to the old Wrentham State School. He didn't know what was wrong with his daughter, only that he and his wife couldn't take care of her.
"She was developmentally delayed," Father Bill said. "Today, it really wouldn't be that big of a deal. There would be services. But, back then, apparently, it was too overwhelming for them."
June Larner arrived at the state hospital in 1935.
She never left. But her family did.
In the first years, her parents visited her every week. Then every month. Then it was once in a while. And then, after 1972, it was never.
As her family's visits dwindled, June became depressed. Initially, the medications didn't work, but once she was properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder, her treatment became more effective and she rebounded. She loved leaving the hospital on day trips to shop and eat in and around Wrentham.
A cousin who lived nearby became her guardian, but she and her husband died years ago and then June Larner was alone.
Except she wasn't. Because the staff in Wrentham became her family.
When she was a girl, June loved to fold laundry with the staff ladies, and they praised her and told her she was terrific.
June gave hugs to the staff members she liked best, and they hugged her back.
The doctors and the nurses and the therapists and the aides called her June Bug, and she loved that.
Even at the end, when dementia began to take over, June Bug kissed the staff. And they kissed her back.
They say a Mass at the hospital on Saturdays and June was always there. The liturgy was something she recognized, the words, the rhythm, a familiar balm.
"It was a hidden life," Father Bill said at June Larner's funeral Mass Thursday, as 100 people gathered in the auditorium of the old state hospital to say goodbye. "But it was a life that mattered."
Father Bill looked at the assembled crowd. A lot of the older residents were in wheelchairs. The staff stood among them.
Father Bill said that looking after the most vulnerable among us is the highest calling.
He was talking about caregivers who are more valued by God than man. And if you need evidence of that, look at their paychecks.
"In the 78 years June was here," Father Bill said, "she had people who cared for her. Who loved her. Who were with her to the end."
It was a small cortege that drove to Center Cemetery. But the nurses and aides and staff from the Wrentham Developmental Center made the trek because they were going to be with June Bug until the very end.
Father Bill sprinkled holy water and empathy over the casket.
"She was born in November, one of the darkest months of the year," he said. "But her name was June, the month with the greatest light. And she managed, in her own way, to bring light to others."Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeCullen.


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"Tech writer David Pogue, wife, charged in Westport dispute [westport-news.com]: An argument ensued, which Jennifer Pogue decided to record on her iPhone, police said. David Pogue contends that, during a struggle over the phone, "When he wouldn't let go, she bit his arm," said police Capt. Sam Arciola."
On a desktop, you can have all the input devices you like and use the one that works for each job. For instance, a dual-monitor setup with touch on one would be great for flight sims: "fly" the airplane with a joystick and flip switches with the touch screen.
On a desktop, you can have all the input devices you like and use the one that works for each job.
The only joystick that works in Windows Store applications is an Xbox 360 Controller, not the USB HID joysticks that everyone else makes. As Microsoft deemphasizes the desktop in favor of the interface formerly known as Metro, you're going to have to find a flight stick licensed by Microsoft for use with the Xbox 360 video game console.
I think it's significant that vertical touch screens are still rare on desktops. Their use in 1972 in the University of Illinois' PLATO system meant not only that the technology was employed in a large scale, but that it was made available to impressionable students. Over the years many technological solutions were found, prices have come down, and there's been wide-spread use in "kiosk" environments.
If they were really usable in full workday desktop environment I think we'd have seen them take off long ago
I think it's significant that vertical touch screens are still rare on desktops.
I don't think that is significant we have not had serious competition on the desktop since Apple went with a begging bowl to Microsoft a then firmly entrenched unapologetic abusive monopoly still not know for their innovation. In fact for this change to happen competition (of a sort) came from not the desktop, but mobile...with a completely different...erm Desktop!?
The second 27"-32" monitor with speakers; >300PPI ; 2.4:1, hits about $150-$250 I'm buying one.
Seriously have you used Window 8 without a touchscreen....With a touchscreen, both are awf
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Hi everyone, I couldn't tell where to put this, so I thought here would be best, I hope that's ok.
Anyways, I don't really have a question like all the others, more just topic based. How On Earth Do I Do Math Transformations?!?!? My book is useless! It gives me a load of diagrams and numbers, and expects me to understand it all and how it's done! Well I don't, I can't! Is there not some simple formula I can follow? I'm not good at math people, I don't want to be a rocket scientist! It doesn't help that I'm mildly dyslexic, and I have mega trouble remembering things!
I'm sorry, I know I got off topic/ranty there, but I just get so upset about it all. I'm a writer, not a human-calculator. I don't do these sorts of things.
Anyways. Transformations. I get the idea of them, that it's just something being moved down or right a certain number of spaces, but HOW is it done? I'm given something like "Use the sketch of f(x) to sketch each function ***Diagram***" and then a whole bunch of f(x)+5, f(-2)x, 1/(f(x)), etc etc. What do I do with those? How do I figure all this out?
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and she's too stupid to realize it.
I wore my Impeach Cheney hat to the RMV today and people smiled at me!
And one woman said she liked my hat and then she went up to the counter and asked for a form to register to vote!!
Then I noticed that they had renovated the building. The side that had the state employment office was gone.
I asked out loud to the people sitting behind me, where it had moved to and a state worker, sitting in his office
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Oh, come one ... what "fruits of Canonical labour"? are you being serious? Just install Debian and you'll see that Ubuntu is exactly the same as Debian, not mentioning some silly stuff like upstart or Unity which Canonical developed.
They are rather a parasite, and your analogy to communism is highly inappropiate. I know USA has a century-isuess with mythical communism, but come-on!
FLOSS development model is working great and it is benefits both individuals and corporations. There is NO "communism" [BTW - you would be more accurate if you would have say "socialism"] there. There's something you won't understand as long as you're sticking to anarchocapitalistic terms of life - this "something" is kindness, selflessness and altruism.
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from the wife and the system. Have been a long time subscriber with sirius and just replaced my dead unit with a stratus6. I got a great deal on 2 units and service. The car unit works great but i can't get a clear signal at home .
I use the same fm station and locations as the old units. When i cup my hands around the reciever everthing clears
up. what am i doing wrong?


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Infovole has just released what appears to be the ultimate tool for users who write in multiple languages. Schreibkraft, a sister app to the recent App Store offering Textkraft, is highly unique in that it allows you to write, correct and research in 10 languages simultaneously (Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português (BR + PT), Русский, Svenska and English (AUS, CAN, GB + US)). A center panel provides buttons and function keys that make it easy to access diacritical marks and navigate around your document. You can also quickly look up search terms on wikipedia, and even save your docs to Dropbox! While I've yet to load Schreibkraft onto my iPad, I have been toying around with the very similar Textkraft app (supports only 1 language, but does have built-in thesaurus) and I'm definitely liking it so far.
Schreibkraft is currently on sale now for the introductory price of $2.99. We'll be reviewing Textkraft in the coming days, but in the meantime take a look at the teaser video and full app description for Schreibkraft after the gap.
Infovole, Schreibkraft, – $2.99


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We are praying for momma Amanda and baby Alivia. Momma is only 6 months pregnant. Her water broke. They are being rushed to the hospital right now!! Please join me in prayer:
God,We ask you to watch over Amanda and her babygirl Alivia,
Keep them safe during this journey they are on,
Give the doctors the wisdom to help them through this safely,
Guide the doctors hands,Keep momma strong,
Please dear God keep momma and baby safe,
Please let their journey have a blessed outcome,
I believe in miracles,please grant 2 for momma and her little angel
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Go to your union. That's what they're there for. They can apply pressure that you can't.
Quote from: Winterlight on February 05, 2013, 10:43:55 AMGo to your union. That's what they're there for. They can apply pressure that you can't.POD
Etiquette wise, I think I'd go to your manager (who seemed to understand that this is really a problem), and tell them that your pay wasn't corrected properly, and that this has happened multiple times before. Getting paid properly and on time is important, and knowing that your pay slips will be handled correctly is vital to this, so if it happens again, you'll talk to the union to lend weight to your complaint.That gives your manager an official complaint (the former was a more casual, 'by the way...' sort of thing), and a chance to come down heavy on your supervisor and the pay lady, knowing that if they don't fix it, you'll bring in backup, and the problem will become official.
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WALTHAM, Mass.- On Senior Day the Brandeis Judges Men's Soccer team defeated University Athletic Association rival New York University at Gordon Field. In the first eight minutes of the game, junior midfielder Sam Ocel (No. Attleboro, Mass./ No. Attleboro) scored two goals, the first multi-goal game of his career. Ocel's efforts would lead to a 2-0 victory and a 12-5-1 (3-3-1 UAA) record for the Judges, their best regular season record since 2000. The Violets fell to 7-9-1 (2-5 UAA).
Brandeis started the first half strong and fast putting pressure on the Violets defense and goalie from the first minute. In the 5th minute, the Judges earned a corner kick. Junior forward Lee Russo (Westford, Mass./ Westford Acad.) played the ball into the middle of the box for the head of sophomore midfielder Kyle Feather (Pinebrook, N.J./ Montville Township). Feather flicked the ball on where it found the feet of Ocel on the edge of the goalie's box. Ocel finished with a one time rocket past NYU's diving rookie goalkeeper Forrest Sexton (Rumson, N.J./ Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) for the 1-0 lead.
The Judges did not let up after grabbing the early lead. In the 8th minute, senior midfielder Theo Terris (Concord, Mass./ Concord-Carlisle) carried the ball down the left side of the field towards the touch line. Just before a NYU defender closed on him, he lifted a left footed cross towards the back post. Ocel was there again for a header that went just under the crossbar and found the back of the net for the second time. Ocel's second goal gave him six on the year, tying him for the team lead.
The Judge's junior goalkeeper Blake Minchoff (Fiskdale, Mass./ Tantasqua Regional) played another strong match, earning his 10th shutout of the season. Minchoff's two save effort tied him with Jim Leahy for the single season shutout record. The Violet's Sexton finished the match with five saves and two goals allowed as the Judges outshot NYU 13-7 for the game. Today's game closed out the regular season for both NYU and Brandeis.