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A virtual research environment (VREs) or virtual laboratory is an online system helping researchers collaborate. Features usually include collaboration support (forums and wikis), document hosting, and some discipline-specific tools, such as data analysis, visualisation, or simulation management. In some instances, publication management, and teaching tools such as presentations and slides may be included. VREs have become important in fields where research is primarily carried out in teams which span institutions and even countries: the ability to easily share information and research results is valuable. The concept of the VRE was studied by UK funding agency JISC in 2010 which highlighted issues such as researcher involvement in VRE design, sustainability, and consideration of the project as primarily one of community building rather than technology. The report also noted synonyms such as "collaborative e-research community", "collaboratory" and "virtual research community". JISC funded development of a number of VREs under its "Virtual research environment programme" from 2004 to 2011. In Australia, e-Research body NeCTAR has funding for a "virtual laboratory" program to be allocated in 2011. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Virtual research environment)
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The lawn of the nation's capitol was filled with thousands of coal supporters from all over the country, including southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, some who boarded buses very early Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2013, to make it to the "Count on Coal" rally for American jobs.
One of the coal miners who attended was Joe Daniel, who works for Cliffs Natural Resources in Logan County. Daniel has spent 38 years mining coal and was chosen to offer a prayer before the rally began.
"I ask you Lord that our leaders come to that knowledge, to know that coal is not done, but we're only beginning," prayed Daniel.
W.Va. Coal Association President Billy Raney said, "I'm so proud to be here and look out over this crowd. This is a crowd of the best coal miners in the world. We want everybody in this city to know that you helped build this city and what a contribution you have made to this country, and you continue to make." Raney went on to lead the assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Raney introduced the Chair of the Congressional Coal Caucus and W.Va. Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, who launched directly into her rally for coal.
"Coal creates, coal powers and coal is America. Coal jobs are threatened. Over a hundred mines in the state of West Virginia have been closed. Over 3,500 miners have been laid off or furloughed taking $719,000,000 from the West Virginia economy. Who knows what that is nationwide. It's enormous. When coal suffers, it's not just the miners who suffer, it's many in this audience. It's the truck driver. It's the waiter. It's the teacher. It's our railroads. It's many, many more. Make no mistake about it, this is a war on coal. One thing I don't understand is we are exporting a lot of our coal. We are exporting a lot of our coal to China. It's good enough for China. It's good enough for India. It's good enough for Germany. Why can't we burn it here in America. Because the Administration says no. No to American energy, no to American energy jobs and no to affordable energy jobs. I, for one, want to keep American energy in America. I'm working to try and change that with a lot of people we are going to hear today."
Capito encouraged everyone to stand together regardless of political party or location, then introduced a stream of more than 30 speakers who added their comments of support.
Kentucky Congressman Hal Rogers was first up and said, "Eastern Kentucky has had more than 7,000 miners laid off in the past 18 months. Everyone's utility bills are going to go sky high because we can't burn reasonably priced coal. They must realize coal is going to be around here for a long time. We are not going to go away. The Administration needs to realize coal keeps America going. Coal is our best strategic energy resource. Coal keeps food on the table. Coal keeps small businesses and communities going across the country. Mr. President: Coal keeps the lights on."
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin was next to speak.
"I come from southern West Virginia, right in the heart of coal country in West Virginia. West Virginia is the second largest producer of coal and the third largest exporter of power of any state in the union. That means that 60 percent of the power we are generating in the state of West Virginia, is going all up and down the east coast to supply homes and businesses, government and people don't realize when they go in a room and flip on a light, or they click on their TV or computer, that somebody is responsible for making that electricity and that's a coal miner. Coal miners are out there every day producing low-cost electricity for our country. The EPA is trying to stop that, trying to diversify. Diversification is fine, but at the same time it is coal that keeps the lights on in our country and it's going to continue to do that. When decisions are made that affect coal and coal mining, the production of electricity without thinking of the effect it has on our states, that's sad, because with every ton of coal, there's human sweat. My message today is work with us as states, work with the mine operators, work with the coal miners and let us get back to doing what we do, which is making this country great."
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin encouraged miners to not back down and told the crowd he would not quit fighting for coal.
"There shouldn't be a man, woman or child in America that doesn't say a prayer every night for a coal miner. They gave them the life they have today. If it wasn't for the energy they produced, we wouldn't have the greatest nation. We wouldn't be a super power. Coal miners are the backbone of America. Coal is the most reliable, dependable and most affordable energy resource we have. Forty percent of the people in America depend on what you produce every day."
"Coal keeps the lights on. Without coal, America would be in the dark, and we're not gonna let that happen," U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, said.
Congressman Nick Joe Rahall said, "The EPA won't come to us, we will keep on doing just what we are doing today. We will keep bringing the fight to them. We didn't pick this fight, but we are in it. And we are in it to win it."
Speakers from Illinois, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Montana, all stood united in their message to remember coal as a viable energy resource and the people who depend on coal. Several of the speakers and attendees went on to testify at congressional hearings held Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 29.


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This is a partial re-posting of discussions on Trails dev list, to give everybody a re-cap on what's up with Trails! As most people following Trails know, Tapestry 5 has been a constant topic on our mailing lists. Another all-time favorite topic is session-per-conversation, one of the remaining "holy grails" of web applications. Despite the fact that session-per-request pattern doesn't provide any practical advantages over session-per-conversation (though you can argue about potentially lower memory usage), it's the prevalent implementation because implementing session-per-conversation in a generic way is just too difficult. To my understanding, JBoss' Seam is the first web application framework that really provides a generic support for session-per-conversation; not suprising considering Hibernate comes from the same people. Spring WebFlow comes close, the issue is tracked at http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SWF-92 (note the mention of improvements coming in SWF 1.1). Regarding conversation support in Spring, these discussions are related: http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=37174, http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=32270 and http://forum.springframework.org/archive/index.php/t-41582.html. Of course, there's been various other tries in implementing it, and session-per-conversation hass been used as a performance optimatization in custom cases, but a generic approach remains a challenge. For Tapestry, James Carman mentioned he was working on a long conversation support as part of his Tapernate module but I believe this effort stalled at some point. We later merged Tapernate into our codebase in order to be able to modify and bug fix it.
The issue with both Seam's and Spring WebFlow's approaches is that if you step out of the conversation, your conversation is "lost" and will remain open in the (servlet) session till it expires. Seam's default answer is it doesn't matter: they make the open sessions explicit in their sample applications with their workspace concept; basically displaying to a user he had started but never finished these "tasks", and thus allowing the user to jump back in the middle of earlier abandoned conversation. This is a fine approach for enterprise web applications that are closer to desktop apps which require high amount of interaction but don't necessarily have a high number of users. In Trails, we are in a unique position compared to the other full-stack web frameworks like Rails and Grails, even Seam, because Tapestry has such a strong emphasis on high user-count, high-performant web applications. Not that I'm bashing either one; in contrary I applaud their efforts and innovations they've brought to the web application space. (And btw, there are interesting performance comparisons of the two at: http://www.anyware.co.uk/2005/2007/03/23/rails-and-grails-performance-compared/ , http://thoughtmining.blogspot.com/2007/03/grails-versus-rails-comparison.html and http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Grails+vs+Rails+Benchmark . It might be an interesting experiment to reproduce the tests in Trails, although they don't really focus on testing the view layer performance). Grails supports long conversations via Spring WebFlow integration. However, Trails simply is quite different from these frameworks in many ways and so I'm not convinced the somewhat xml-heavy WebFlow integration would be the right path for us.
Of course, nothing prevents one writing a semi-automatic workspace management layer on top of Seam that would take care of detecting and closing abandoned conversations. The Seam guys have carefully removed any dependencies to JSF. In practice, integrating Tap5 with Seam might be the fastest way of getting practical results for a conversational scope, and wouldn't solve only one but two problems at the same time (conversations and session-per-conversation), of course at the expense of tying the implementation more closely with Hibernate or at least JPA, but that's probably what the majority is using anyway. I'm sure the Seam guys would love to see Tapestry support for Seam. We are not alone in craving for Tapestry/Seam integration. Actually, such an integration already exists by Igor Drobiazko, a Tacos committer (see http://tacos.sourceforge.net/tacos5/tacos-seam/index.html). Unfortunately, at least the current integration doesn't address session-per-conversation, but simply the bijection of Seam components into a Tapestry application.
Given that Trails has traditionally been a full-stack web application framework and we've been good at using and integrating numerous other modules, we'll base off an initial version of Trails 2.0 on T5, Seam and tacos-seam integration. Even with current Trails, it's debateable whether Spring is needed, but it was always too late or too laborious to get rid of it. With a spanking new, built-in Tapestry IoC and Seam's bijected dependencies, Spring looks somewhat extra and at least initially we'll manage without it for Trails 2.0. The development will happen in a new branch, which we haven't even created yet.
Before we get heavily into Trails 2.0 development, we still have Trails 1.2 to clear out first. 1.2 will be the last major Trails release from T4 line. Most major stuff have been implemented, but we are still waiting on T4.1.4 release and then sorting out the remaining bugs. It's likely that some of the less important ones will be moved out for possible future bug-fix releases. After 1.2, we'll be steaming ahead with Trails 2.0. (The Tapestry/Seam explains the word play with Steam, but I'm sure we can produce a bit more than just hot air ) In the meantime, happy trailing!


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A close contest was expected in this year's Paarl Derby as both teams produced impressive form throughout the year, having only lost one match apiece. And the action on the field didn't disappoint as only seven points were the difference between victory and defeat.
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The WTB Frequency TCS (Tubeless Compatible System) i23 is the best of both worlds. It's a strong, lightweight, and is tubeless compatible. The UST compliant rim bead is shaped to help keep tires on rims better. WTB uses their "4D" drilling process which creates the optimal interface between spoke and rim. This exact angle reduces binding and the need for eyelets. To ensure strength and rigidity, WTB uses their I-Beam which was pioneered in 1994. I- Beam is a centrally located vertical support that counteracts spoke loads and provides torsional rigidity. In addition to the I-Beam, WTB embodies an additional band of aluminum to the sidewall that improves torsional, radial, and lateral strength.
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I wrote my nickname as The Basher for this review. A few of my friends gave me that nickname when they realized that I am not the smoothest rider. It's with much regret that I agree with the moniker because it's speaks the complete truth. I'm 6'3", ~205 lbs, and ride an XL Specialized Pitch. The Colorado Front Range is my playground.
Due to a lack of reviews at the time (Feb 2012),I went out on a limb and had these rims laced to a king out back and a hope up front because I wanted something that was bombproof (tired cycling cliches in full effect).
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There are a lot of issues in the Maven 2.x JIRA about EAR files containing "skinny" WAR files and the manifest class path. Some of these have been resolved, many are unresolved. Some of the solutions currently in place are work-arounds rather than real solutions. The key points:
- By default, all dependencies of a WAR module are contained in the WEB-INF/lib folder of a WAR file.
- The J2EE spec allows a WAR file (or in fact any other module) contained within an EAR to refer to other modules in that EAR file by mentioning them in the manifest Class-Path. These modules can then be removed from the WEB-INF/lib folder, creating what's informally known as a "skinny" WAR file. This can avoid duplication of library modules.
- The current procedure for creating a skinny WAR is explained in [SKIN]. The main problem with this approach is that it requires duplication of dependency data from the WAR project's file into the EAR project's pom. There are more subtle problems too, explained in the next section.
- wrt. #1: This is the correct behaviour for stand-alone WAR modules and should remain the default.
- wrt. #2: In fact, the J2EE specification requires that duplication is eliminated in this way, as mentioned in [MC06].
Problems with the current approach
Here's an overview of the JIRA issues touching on this subject. If you spot any omissions, please add them to the table.
WAR plugin should support minimal WARs for inclusion within an EAR
Need a way to include limited set of webapp's dependencies
Closed fixed (with commenters protesting)
Document how to set manifest classpath and exclude dependency from WEB-INF/lib
Closed fixed
Request enhancement to pattern matching for warSourceIncludes/warSourceExcludes functionality (regular expressions?)
Transitive dependencies of optional dependencies are included in WEB-INF/lib
Add an option to exclude content from the generated archive to implement the skinny war process
Closed fixed
Better support for skinny wars
Closed won't fix
Can't get transitive dependencies from a war pom when this war is added as a depdency of a project
"provided" scope dependencies must be transitive
Different builds for ejb-client optional with parent
Jar files packed in the EAR file should also be added to application.xml or manifest.mf
Closed won't fix
Improve support for skinny WAR files
Incorrect file name in class path (in manifest) if specifying different bundleFileName for module
Closed, fixed
MNG-3269 is particularly insidious.
warSourceExcludes parameter used in [SKIN] feels like a hack to me. The maven-war-plugin figures out what to include like it always does, puts it neatly into a working directory under
target/, then when it zips up the final artifact the files listed magically disappear. This 'hackishness' is reflected in the fact that the
warSourceExcludes argument affects the standard
war:war goal, but is ignored in
war:exploded and
war:inplace. In my opinion, this parameter should be deprecated and disposed of as soon as a better solution is in place.
While [SKIN] gives you reasonable control over where the libraries end up (albeit awkwardly because of the duplication of the
<dependency> elements), the amount of control you have over the manifest class-path is too little. You can configure the entire thing by hand, which is awkward in its own right, or you can influence it with the
provided scope (subject to MNG-3269), but that's not really powerful. For example, if you want to use the
<bundleFileName> and/or
<defaultLibBundleDir> configuration elements of the maven-ear-plugin, you cannot automatically provide a correct manifest class-path.
Patches currently in JIRA
The following issues include patches: MWAR-9, MWAR-21, MWAR-61, MWAR-111, MWAR-146, MWAR-3269.
Note that all of these address the maven-war-plugin.
Whose problem is this, anyway?
This issue is reported against both the maven-war-plugin and the maven-ear-plugin. Most of the patches seem to be for the maven-war-plugin. However, in my opinion "skinny" is an issue that should be addressed in the maven-ear-plugin, not in the maven-war-plugin.
My arguments for this are:
- A war file is valid as a stand-alone deployment unit. This issue specifically affects war files (and any other modules) that are embedded into an ear file. A war project build need not (and arguably should not) be aware of whether its artifact is ultimately deployed as a fat stand-alone module or as a skinny ear component.
- An EAR file can contain internal directory structure (a
libfolder is not uncommon) that must be reflected in the manifest class-path of the embedded modules.
- The Manifest class-path is a concern not just for WAR modules, but for other module types embedded into an EAR as well.
- Any module can become part of more than one EAR file.
- Any module that gets embedded into an EAR file ceases to exist as a stand-alone artifact in that scope, justifying the ear plugin's mucking about in a module's contents.
Note that the common way of addressing #1 and #2 (in the build spec of the embeddable artifact) surreptiously creates a circular dependency problem.
Requirements for a lasting solution
As mentioned before, I think this issue should be addressed in maven-ear-plugin, not in maven-war-plugin.
The maven-ear-plugin must (be able to) (re)write the manifest class path of any module embedded into its artifact ear file.
When (re)writing a manifest class path, the effect of any
When (re)writing a manifest class path, the effect of any
The maven-ear-plugin must be able to (selectively) prune the WEB-INF/lib folder any WAR artifacts it embeds.
When (re)writing a manifest class path, take conflict resolution into account (Marcel Schutte)
Must be able to specify in the ear pom which libraries are affected by #1 and #4 (Bryan Loofbourrow)
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The sourceExcludes setting is now excluding only files in the webapp source directory (src/main/webapp).
I've added a packageExcludes that excludes files before packaging. What you're saying is that it should be taken into account with the war:war and war:exploded phase?
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What you're saying is that it should be taken into account with the war:war and war:exploded phase?
Probably; reason being that I think the contents of a project artifact shouldn't change depending on whether you zip it or not. The effective pom is the same, the contents should be too.
Truth is, I've so far failed to see a use for the sourceExcludes and packageExcludes parameters outside the role they currently play in solving the skinny wars problem, which I think is the wrong pom to solve that problem in. They might have a reasonable use in some other scenario.
Thanks Barend for doing this work, support for skinny wars is important for me too. A few remarks:
- When (re)writing a manifest class path, the effect of version conflict resolution should be taken into account
- These requirements are applicable to every artifact that includes other artifacts, so for instance the war plugin should rewrite the manifest class path in case of a resolved version conflict
- The use of 'optional' and 'provided' in the war plugin to select a combination of manifest class path and/or web-inf/lib inclusion is a hack
- Good point, I've added it to the requirements table.
- Good point, I hadn't thought of that.
- Agreed.
Thanks for doing this page. I like your point of view that this is a problem that should be solved in the ear if possible. Since the main motivation for my use of skinny wars is eliminating duplication of jars in memory, I could accomplish most of my purpose by simply turning on an "move duplicate war jars into the ear" flag on the ear plugin, if only such a thing existed.
One thing you do not include in your summary of the issues is the use case of needing some dependencies for-sure packaged in the war. I've found that there are some things (tag libaries, for example) that don't work unless they're packaged in the war. I don't know exactly why, but I'm guessing it's because of resource loading by just path, not classpath.
So it's important to be able to specify what you do and do not want in the war. For me this is one of the worst parts of the present system. Using combinations of includes and excludes, there is no elegant way to do this at all at present. I expressed this in MWAR-81, which is basically yet another JIRA issue associated with skinny war travails.
/me regrets not having named this page "maven-enterprise-packaging" or something like that.
A related feature that would be very useful in maven-ear-plugin is automatic gathering of
security-roleelements from all embedded modules when generating the application deployment descriptor.
Are you proposing to unpack the war strip out the jars that are shared and repack it using the EAR task?
This appears to break the integrity of the original war (the original author defined what should be in it)
As an alternative could I propose
- Introducing a new scope ("thin" for example).
- Adding a plugin to generate "thin" wars (in much the same way as the ejb-client jars were/are created).
Hence when writing the pom you can state which dependencies need to be included and which can be moved (by declaring as "thin")
Finally inside the pom you can specify which of the wars (thin, normal or both) should be generated.
Note: When building "normal" wars the thin scope is treated exactly the same as compile scope.
When building EARs full ears don't need any special handling, but thin ones would need to include the "thin" dependencies.
Are you proposing to unpack the war strip out the jars that are shared and repack it using the EAR task?
This appears to break the integrity of the original war (the original author defined what should be in it)
I don't believe that's a problem. My rationale here is that the EAR is a new, independently distributable artifact. In the context of that particular EAR file, the WAR file ceases to exist as an independent artifact. It (the war file) remains available in the repository unmodified, and can still be deployed as a stand-alone module (if applicable), or included in any other EAR file, each of which has the choice of stripping it, or not.
As an alternative could I propose
1. Introducing a new scope ("thin" for example).
2. Adding a plugin to generate "thin" wars (in much the same way as the ejb-client jars were/are created).
This involves a rather heavy modification to maven's "global" API; adding a dependency scope affects each and every plugin in existence (that deals with dependencies in some way) in any Maven build where the new scope is used. I think that's (far) too heavy-handed an approach for such a specific problem in such a specific domain (JEE deployment).
I have tried to "refine" my concerns, I think it comes down to two points:
- To be able to easily identify if a WAR file has been modified (repacked) when examining the contents of an EAR
- To identify which dependencies can be stripped in the WAR rather than the EAR **
** This avoids duplication if the same WAR is packaged in multiple EAR's.
With respect to "heavy-handed" unless there is another use case with "shared components" (hence warranting a generic solution), my proposal is probably too heavy.
I must offer this defect: MNG-2205
"provided" scope dependencies must be transitive
, which seems to address David Trott's posts above. I think this seems like part of the solution, in that this would let a skinny war be built, but allow the .ear build to pick up the dependencies and add them to the .ear file.
Just letting you know that I am going to be developing this change.
Thanks for the requirements as it makes it alot easier to ensure that the solution is complete.
I need 1 question answered:
In the context of a war, with dependencies marked as "provided" is it not the only expectation that those dependencies must be included in the encompassing ear? I cannot think of any reason why you would have "provided" dependencies in a war that should not be yanked into the ear.
What I am intending is to do the following:
- Mark a war as skinny in war plugin configuration.
- Dependencies must be marked "provided".
- "provided" dependencies will have manifest entries in the configurable form of "skinny-lib/etc-1.0.0.jar"
- EAR plugin will, upon inclusion of a war, check whether it is marked as a skinny war - if so - all provided dependencies will be pulled into the EAR defined lib. (MNG-2205)
- The EAR plugin will then rewrite the manifest of the war to update the "skinny-lib/etc-1.0.0.jar" to the appropriate libraries like "APP-INF/lib/etc.jar" as per the various requirements listed above. (MEAR-75)
On a side note i'm also going to try and tackle the ejb-client issue where the dependencies of the client are not the same as the dependencies of the ejb.
Hi Timothy - thank you for taking the time to communicate with me about this and work the issue.
Simple answer is : If 'provided' allows the dependency to appear/behave in a transitive manner instead of breaking the dependency chain, that works. That will let my ear mojo pick up the dependency and bundle it as needed. That's the simple way.
Your approach seems logical to me. So, we will use special mojos (war and ear), or are you modifying the main, core mojos?
I do have to ask, what is with the manifest re-writing? Are there some (non-compliant) app servers out there using the manifest classpath to link these jars together? I see lots of chatting about that, but you don't need the manifest to make the classloading work properly in a compliant container. Is this for non-compliant containers? JBoss maybe?
Also, what release are you fixing this in / when will we see this available?
Hi Michael,
The J2EE spec says that a jar/war/ejb may specify classpath dependencies within the manifest. Other shortcuts (eg. weblogic with APP-INF/lib) make it easy but this is on a per-app-server basis. The only real solution is to have the ear-plugin rewrite part of the manifest according to the developers needs as specified by the ear's pom and the
defaultLibBundleDirproperty and ensure that this property is a reasonable default "lib" or "APP-INF/lib" . The maven defaults should be sufficient but you have to cater for the situation a developer is in.
I am modifying the main core mojos and will submit these as patches. Ideally I would want as little configuration as possible and it should work correctly.
Thank you very much for your explanation.
I am on Maven 2.0.5 right now, hence my question about version. You are working on the latest (2.0.9) branch?
I'm in need of this patches also.
How can I track it and know its ready for usage?
Timothy, I want to add my thanks that you are picking this up. I want to call your attention to another use case: it is very handy to be able to take a skinny war and build a fat war, for quick deployment and testing purposes.
Here's what I do currently. For me, a skinny war is two projects. The war project itself, and a pom project that contains all of the dependencies. In the war project, I use warSourceIncludes (note that this is broken in the alpha-2 plugin: MWAR-182) to specify the (generally quite small) set of jars that must be packaged in the war, along with an extensive list of extensions for non-jars. I make the war project dependent on the dependency project.
Then, in the ear, I add dependencies on both the war and the dependency project. This works moderately well as an approach to skinny wars, but what you're planning would of course be vastly superior. But note that there's another thing I can, and do, do: make a fat war by creating a war project that depends on both the skinny war project and the dependency project. I'd like to request that you preserve this use case in some fashion.
Some discussion on this topic in MWAR-182. warSourceIncludes, on which the strategy I describe above relies, has been deliberately removed in the 2.1-alpha-2 version of the maven-war-plugin. The discussion is about whether to restore this functionality under the new naming.
The discussion so far appears to be for j2ee 1.4 compliant app servers, where a war (or other module) in an ear has to use manifest-classpath entries to get jars in the ear into its classpath.
Note that with the now rather old JavaEE 5 spec there's an ear lib directory (by default "lib") and anything in it will be in the classpath of all modules in the ear. For this, no manifest classpath entry is needed or desirable.
I think all the app servers are now javaEE 5 compliant so supporting this case as the default might be advisable.
The way I would like this to work is that the dependencies that end up packed in the war are not transitive dependencies of the published pom.xml whereas the dependencies that are not packed into the war do end up as transitive dependencies. The ear plugin can then put all the transitive dependencies into the lib directory. If the pre-javaee5 switch is on it can also add a manifest classpath entry to the war.
Note that this kind of support can be useful for standalone servlet containers also, since they generally provide some kind of server "lib" directory that can serve the same function as the ear lib dir. In this case no manifest classpathe entry is desirable.
Finally I need support like this for the rar plugin as well. Either I'm not using it right yet or there's no control over whether dependencies get packed in the rar vs. whether they end up transitive dependencies of the rar.
A workaround for Maven 2.0.9 to use skinny wars without duplicating dependencies in the EAR is nicely summarized by this mailing list post to maven-users.
I'd like to point out that there are many many people still stuck in J2EE 1.4 land. I recently came off a new project that was to be deployed on WebSphere 6.1 (WebSphere Portal 6.1 if you must know).
At my current engagement people are supporting applications up to 8 years old (can you say 1.3 deployment descriptors?). They have just "upgraded" to WAS 6.1. This is because it takes some big companies 18-24 months to plan for this stuff.
In any event, we can't afford to let this issue fade into the too hard basket.
The tip Danny links to has the drawback of requiring at least a mvn install for it to work, as stated by Martin Hoeller. However, starting with maven 3.0 it seems to work even within a reactor build.
I haven't explored all the pros and cons of this approach, but just want to share this knowledge with you all.
Its been a while... I have a working solution to this problem on the 2.2.1 codebase. I will submit as a patch once I have put together a comprehensive test pack and make sure that there are no side-effects with dependency management.
Unfortunatly, the cleanest solution still comes down to a POM change. The problem with 'provided' scope is that you have no way to describe what should provide the library. The assumption is that the EAR is the provider however there are actually many possible providers - EAR, Container shared paths, Container classpath, Java extension library, etc. The solution without disrupting too much code is an optional "target" tag that declares the provider however the real solution (maven 3? maven 4) would be to add additional scopes.
The following illustrates the necessary change:
The following are examples of valid targets:
application (/APP-INF/lib)
bootstrap ($JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext)
container ($JEE_SERVER_HOME/lib)
common ($JEE_SERVER_HOME/shared)
The EAR plugin must then take "application" dependencies and put them in the configured default bundle folder. The assembly and dependency plugins must be able to extract provided dependencies allowing deployment/installer assemblies to utilize extract the dependencies in preparation for creating an assembly. The EAR plugin also performs any the necessary rewriting.
I have a concern that the targets are actually new scopes and "provided" is just a placeholder these. Adding new scopes affects quite a bit of code and would disrupt existing plugins (which is bad) while adding a "target" element only affects IDE integration. Existing plugins will treat "provided" scope the same as usual and the "target" is only interpreted by maven-ear-plugin, maven-assembly-plugin and maven-dependency-plugin (s).
I decided to have a look at this problem and agree with Barend that this is best solved within de ear plugin by rewriting the included war. Which is problematic because the manifest must be rewritten too, or the dependencies must added to the classpath of the ear.
What kind of code changes do you have Timothy?
Just added a patch to the maven-ear-plugin http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEAR-60
Slight improvement to the Skinny WARs recepie (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.html">Maven) :
In the EAR pom, instead of copying the dependencies from each of the WAR's pom xmls, just add the dependency on each WAR pom (<type>pom</type>).
Maven then will resolve all transitive dependencies for WARs and will add them to the defaultJavaBundleDir.
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Your questions, my answers:
Tynewater Primary School: We've had quite a lot of snow this which is still lying although beginning to melt. Our bulbs are barely showing through the earth - even the ones in the pots. We are on holiday for the next two weeks and if the bulbs are not showing any progress we will move them where they get a bit more sun than they do at the moment. Sorry again that we are irregular with our data. We are still keeping the information. Prof P: Thanks for the fantastic update TynewaterSchool, I hope that the new flower record deadline will give your flowers a little more time to grow.
Glyncollen Primary School: Nearly all our daffodils are open. Our crocuses have also opened. We still don't know what our mystery bulbs are. We hope we don't get any snow! Prof P: Wonderful news! I bet they look beautiful!
Stanford in the Vale Primary School: A mixture of cold winds, rain and a hopeful spring day, which turned to rain! Stanford Gardening Club. Prof P: Great weather reporting Stanford in the Vale!
Newport Primary School: It snowed at the beginning of this week and was really cold especially in the morning. The wind was very chilly. By the end of the week it warmed up a wee bit. Prof P: You are very dedicated scientists to keep sending your weather reports when it's so cold and snowy - well done Newport Primary.I hope you all have nice warm coats on when you go outside to record the weather!
Oakfield Primary School: What do you think about this week's rainfall? Prof P: We had a lot of rain on Friday in Cardiff, didn't we Oakfield? My rain gauge was quite full too.
Greyfriars RC Primary School: crocuses are starting to grow. Prof P: I am very glad, please keep sending in your records Greyfriars, you are doing a great job.
Newburgh Primary School: Our first crocus has flowered! We recorded this at the end of the day on Friday so we'll send details on Monday. Prof P: Hooray! And thank you for sending your crocus record – you can see it on the map. If you zoom in and click on the flower it will say the name of your school!
St Joseph's Primary School (Penarth): With only a week to go before the end of term, we are very keen for our bulbs to flower. We are keeping an extremely close eye on our pots and are ready to photograph the bulbs at the first sign of a flower! Prof P: Fingers crossed for you St Joseph's. Please do send me your photos, even if your flowers open after the deadline.
Many thanks
Prof P
1 week to go...
There is now only one recording week left to go until the end of the Spring Bulbs project! This means only one week until the deadline for sending in your records!
Whose flowers have opened this week?
In England RAF Benson Primary School is the first English school to send in flower records! In Scotland Newburgh Primary School have now had flowers and in Wales Ysgol Iau Hen Golwyn, Magor Church in Wales Primary, Ysgol Bodafon, Rogiet Primary School and Oakfield Primary School have all had flowers. Well done and thank you for sending your results.
How are your plants getting on? Compared to last year our flowers are very late indeed!
By this time last year crocuses had flowered in 27 schools, but so far this year only ten schools have reported that their crocuses have opened!
By this time last year 26 schools had sent daffodil records, but so far this year we have only had daffodils opening at one school!
What do you think might be the cause? Many of you sent me comments about the cold weather and snow we had in February and your weather records show that we have not had much rain recently. When you have all sent in your weather records I will look for clues to explain why our flowers are late…
Weather Scientists at the Met Office say that average winter temperatures in the UK have been 'mild' this year – this means that winter has not been that cold compared to winters in the past. They also say that in January and February the UK had less rain than usual. I wonder if your weather records will agree?
Interesting Facts:
- The scientific study of the weather is called Meteorology and scientists who study the weather are called Meteorologists!
- When does spring start? When Meteorologists record the weather they say that spring begins on 1 March and ends on 31 May. But many other people say that the start of spring is the spring equinox on 20 March – this week!
Would you like to do a Super Scientific Investigation with your plants? I have put together some great ideas for experiments you can do in your school! Can you trick your crocus? Can your daffodil move? Click here to have a look: Professor Plant's investigation ideas
Your questions, my answers:
Ysgol Nant Y Coed: Some pupils have 6 crocuses in one bulb. Prof P: Gosh that is unusual!
St Mary's Catholic Primary School: Our flowers are being very shy and staying out of sight! Prof P: That's very sweet! Hopefully they will feel a bit braver soon and show their faces!
Greyfriars RC Primary School: We are having fun are you? Prof P: I am so glad! Yes I am having fun with my bulbs too, thanks for asking!
Newport Primary School: Weather just got colder this week. Crocus bulbs are through but there are none flowering just now. Prof P: Good work Newport Primary, flowering is very late indeed this year.
St Joseph's Primary School (Penarth): We are disappointed that our bulbs have not flowered yet but we can see that some of them are growing well and are nearly ready to flower. Hopefully we will have some interesting pictures to send you next week. Prof P: I hope so too St Joseph's! I would love to see your pictures.
Gladestry C.I.W. School: went to Cardiff on a school trip on thurs Prof P: I hope you had fun in Cardiff.
Glyncollen Primary School: Our daffodils and crocuses have opened. We will send you photos this week. Prof P: Hooray! I look forward to seeing your photos.
Coppull Parish Primary School: Sorry for not doing the weather on Monday. Prof P: That's okay Coppull Parish, thanks for letting me know and keep up the good work.
Bwlchgwyn C P School: we have 30 shoots. Prof P: That's great news!
Thorneyholme RC Primary School: Hi p.p on Friday we got 220mm of rain. Prof P: That really is a lot of rain!
Ysgol Porth Y Felin: To p.p we didn't have a record on thursday because of a school trip, and we've started measuring the tallest plant which is now 21.5cm tall. Prof P: Did you have fun on your school trip? Good measuring Ysgol Porth Y Felin.
Many thanks
Prof P
The Final Countdown!
Hi bulb buddies,
Time is ticking on and all your weather reports and flower records need to be sent in by Friday 29 March. This means there are only three weeks left to send in you data!
Don't worry if your flowers have not opened yet, three weeks is a still a long time. Based on the results from previous years most of your flowers will have opened by the end of March.
Every pupil whose school has sent in records will be awarded a Super Scientist Certificate like the one in the picture! But there's more… each of you will also get a very special prize… a Super Scientist pencil! – perfect for recording the results of your experiments. So don't miss out, remember to send in your records!
Whose flowers have opened this week?
In last weeks blog Ysgol Nant Y Coed was the first school in Wales to report that flowers had opened and this week lots more children at that school have reported flowering too! Gosh Ysgol Nant Y Coed, your flowers are doing very well. I wonder if the sun has been shining more in Llandudno?
Greyfriars RC Primary School in St Andrews, Scotland has also reported crocus flowering and Milford Haven Junior School in Wales has sent in records of a crocus and a daffodil flowering! Well done to both schools.
When your daffodils open remember to get drawing! You can send me your pictures and enter the Daffodil Drawing Competition. I am looking for beautiful pictures but they must also have clear labels which show the different parts of the Daffodil. You can look here to see some wonderful examples of winners' drawings from previous years.
Your questions, my answers:
Rhydypenau Primary School: We had rain over the weekend, that is why our gauge was full. Prof P: Thank you for the explanation Rhydypenau, that's really helpful!
Ysgol Nant Y Coed: Some of the crocus bulbs have flowered so we're sending that information now too. Prof P: Fantastic news! Thanks for your flowering records.
SS Philip and James Primary School: We really enjoyed doing it and remembered to do it every day, we hope that we can do it again soon. Phil+Jim bulb team Prof P: I am so pleased that you are enjoying it so much – I love recording the weather too!
Henllys CIW Primary: still no flowers. Prof P: It's exciting to see your flowers open, but your report that they have not opened is very valuable scientific information too! It could tell us a lot about how cold it has been this winter or how much sunshine we have had.
St Joseph's Primary School (Penarth): We have noticed that our plants continue to grow but we are keeping a very close eye on them to see which one will flower first - we can't wait! Prof P: I feel the same every morning when I look at my plants too.
Greyfriars RC Primary School: 11 daffodils are in bud. A's crocus is the only one growing but all the other daffodils but A's, why is A's daffodil not growing? Prof P: This is a very good question! I'm sorry that your daffodil is not growing A, you haven't done anything wrong! I am glad your crocus is growing instead. Sadly we do have a small number of bulbs every year that do not grow, it happened to some of mine last year. The reason it happens is unclear. When a daffodil doesn't make a flower gardeners say that the plant has gone 'blind' - as it has no flower head.
Ysgol Porth Y Felin: we had our holidays on the 11 - 15 week so we'll skip a week. everythings ok there hasn't been much rain and the temperature has been a little high!
from porth y felin. Prof P: Many thanks!
Kilmaron Special School: The school was on holiday on Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday we had very heavy snow and although the rain gauge only had 3mm in it there was almost 6cm of snow by 2pm. The gauge is in quite a sheltered place as we had problems with a pupil seeking it out and emptying it. Prof P: Good idea to move your rain gauge to keep it safe.
Glyncollen Primary School: We hope our flowers open this week as well. Prof P: Fingers crossed!
Kilmaron Special School: Still no signs of our crocus bulbs although the ones planted years ago in our other raised beds are blooming and the ones in the grass next to our raised bed are almost out. Prof P: Keep watching them Kilmaron!
Many thanks
Prof P
The 1st flower records for Scotland and Wales!
Congratulations to Tulliallan Primary School for sending in the very first Spring Bulbs flower records of the year! Tulliallan's first crocus and daffodil opened only a day apart, with their crocus flowering on 17 January and their first daffodil flowering on 18 January.
As Scotland is further north than England and Wales they generally have colder weather and more snow in winter. This usually means that plants flower later. Last year flowers opened earlier in Wales and England, so it is quite a surprise that our first flower record this year is from Scotland! But that is the wonderful thing about being a scientist – experiments can often have surprising results!
The second school to send in flower records was Ysgol Nant Y Coed in Wales. Three children's crocuses opened on the same day on 1 March – St David's Day! These were the first records for Wales – well done Ysgol Nant Y Coed!
I wonder where flowers will open next?
When your flowers open please send me your flower data, you can see where flowers have opened by looking at this map
- Every pupil in the class can send in their flower record! All the data that is sent in is used to create an average flowering date for each school. Watch the crocus chart and daffodil chart to see the tables change as the data comes in. It is really important that each pupil sends in their record - so the website can calculate the average flowering date for your school.
- Daffodils tilt their heads downwards just before opening. This prevents them from filling with rain after they open.
I would also really love to see photos of your flowers. If you have photos please ask your teacher to email them to me!
My plants here in Cardiff haven't flowered yet. The bud on one of my crocuses is starting to look a bit purple, so maybe it won't be long. I can see the flower buds on my daffodils too but they are still green.
Your questions, my answers:
St Nicholas Primary School rain gauge stolen. Prof P: Sorry to hear that St Nicholas Primary. I have put a new one into the post for you, I hope it arrives soon.
Ysgol Y Ffridd Glawiad Dydd Llun yn llawn ers y gwyliau. Athro'r Ardd: Mae'n rhaid ei bod hi wedi bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn yn yr ysgol dros y gwyliau! Diolch am roi gwybod i fi.
Milford Haven Junior School Temp in playground was much colder because of the wind chill factor. Prof P: Brrrr! I hope you were all wrapped up warm when you went outside to play.
Ysgol Porth Y Felin to pp we have a problem with one of the plants. It has creamy browny little things in the pot that look like mini shell pastas. We don't know what they are. ysgol porth y felin. Prof P: Gosh, they sound curious. I wonder if they could be the brownish leaves that protect the plant just before the shoots start to grow? Maybe you could take a photo and ask your teacher to send it to me? I might know what they are if I saw them!
Ysgol Nant Y Coed We have buds on the crocus and daffodils now but none of them have opened yet. The mystery bulb has grown the biggest! Prof P: That's great news! Keep an eye on them and let me know as soon as they open.
Darran Park Primary Mystery plant has grown quite well the rest of the bulbs are slowly growing. Prof P: Thanks for your plant update Darran Park Primary.
Glyncollen Primary School Many thanks for our new rain gauge. You also sent us a new thermometer but on a slip of paper in the box it said St. Mary's. We were wondering if it was meant for us or should we send it back to you? Can you please let us know. The leaves on our flowers are growing well. Bye for now - Yr.4 Prof P: Oops! I sent out two rain gauges on the same day and things must have got mixed up. Sorry Glyncollen. I have emailed your teacher about the thermometer – thanks for letting me know about the mix up.
Greyfriars RC Primary School Dear Professor Plant, we are a bit confused because only one crocus is flowering and only one daffodil is flowering. Prof P: Congratulations Greyfriars School! You are now the second Scottish School to have flowers! You now need to enter you flower data on to the website to make it OFFICIAL! Remember: You can enter flower data as soon the very first flower opens. You record the date it opened and the height of the tallest part of your plant. Then as each new flower opens you can enter its data on the website too – you don't have to wait until they are all open. Plants grow at different rates – some grow quickly, some take longer to grow - just like children! I am sure your other flowers will 'catch up' soon.
Many thanks
Prof P
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WINTERVILLE — Swansboro's Brenna Kate Grass came in first place in the individual competition of the NCHSAA 2-A East Regional girls' championships Saturday at Boyd Lee Park.
Her top finish also helped the Pirates to the team title heading into next Saturday's NCHSAA championships in Kernersville.
The top four teams advance to states with the top four individuals not on qualifying squads also competing next week.
Grass crossed the finish line in 19:16, seven seconds ahead of First Flight's Jessica Wallace. Croatan's Savannah Pugh was third.
Swansboro also got a push by getting three other runners finish in the top 10. Kierstyn Horton was sixth at 21:02 while teammate Tiffany Saulsgiver was seventh at 21:24 and Mariah Butchko was eighth at 21:33.
The Swansboro girls' weren't the only team to win as Richlands took the boys' team competition. The Wildcats were led by Isaac Martinez' fourth-place time of 17:32 and Dillon Emch's seventh-place time of 17:40.
Croatan's Nick Pugh ended second at 16:51.
TEAMS: Swansboro 31, Croatan 56, Topsail 91,
INDIVIDUALS: Grass (Swans) 19:16; 2. Jessica Wallace (FF) 19:23; 3. Pugh (Cro) 20:01; 4. Jordyn Moore (N. Pitt) 20:39; 5. Heather Cuddington (Beddingfield) 20:42.
TEAMS: Richlands 63, Topsail 75, Beddingfield 101, Swansboro 102, First Flight 144
INDIVIDUALS: 1. Mick Stanovsek (FF) 16:42; 2. Pugh (Cro) 16:51; 3. Aaron Parker (FF) 16:56; 4.
WOHS second: Both the White Oak boys' and girls' teams finished second in the NCHSAA 3-A East Regional championships at Wilson Fike High.
The Vikings had fourth-place runners in both races as JT Booker finished fourth at 16:55 and MaryKate Helms ended fourth in 20:26.
TEAMS: West Carteret 45, White Oak 90, Northern Nash 134,
INDIVIDUALS: 1. John Crossley (W. Carteret) 16:05; 2. Nathan Holt (
TEAMS: West Carteret 43, White Oak 86, Fike 115,
INDIVIDUALS: 1. Blake Dodge (W. Cart) 19:52; 2. Lauren West (Hunt) 20:01; 3. Michaela Williams (Nash Cen) 20:19; 4. Helms (WOak) 20:26; 5. Chloe Cox (S. Central) 20:32.
1-A East postponed: The NCHSAA 1-A East Regional championships at Pamlico High was postponed until Tuesday due to inclement weather.


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Patrick E. Hopkins
Contact Information
(812) 855-2617
1275 E. 10th Street
Room CG 2000
- Chair, Graduate Accounting Programs
- SungKyunKwan Professor
- Bloomington
- Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, University of Texas, 1995
- M.Acc., University of Florida, 1986
- B.S., University of Florida, 1985
Professional Experience
- Professor of Accounting, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1995-present
- Visiting Associate Professor of Accounting, Stanford University, 2002-2003
- Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, 1990-1995
- Lecturer and Undergraduate Academic Advisor, University of Florida, 1986, 1989-1990
- Senior Consultant, Deloitte Haskins and Sells, 1985, 1986-1988
- Instructor, KPMG, 2004-2005
Professional Interests
Professional Judgment and Decision Making, Human Information Processing, Financial Accounting, Effects of Accounting and Auditing in Capital Markets, Financial Statement Analysis
Selected Publications
- Hodder, L. D., and P. H. Hopkins (2014), "Agency Problems, Accounting Slack and Banks' Response to Proposed Reporting of Loan Fair Values," Accounting, Organizations and Society, 39(1): 117–133. Read Abstract
- Bloomfield, R., F. Hodge, P. Hopkins, & K. Rennekamp (2014), "Does Coordinated Presentation Help Credit Analysts Identify Firm Characteristics?" forthcoming, Contemporary Accounting Research. Read Abstract
- Evans, M., L.D. Hodder and P.E. Hopkins, (2014), "The Predictive Ability of Fair Values for Future Financial Performance of Commercial Banks and the Relation of Predictive Ability to Banks' Share Prices," Contemporary Accounting Research, 31(1): 13-44. Read Abstract
- Hodge, F., P. E. Hopkins, and D. Wood (2010), "The Effects of Financial Statement Information Proximity and Feedback on Cash Flow Forecasts," Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring, pp. 101-133. Read Abstract
- Hodder, L., P. E. Hopkins, and D. Wood (2008), "The Effects of Financial Statement and Informational Complexity on Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts," The Accounting Review, Vol. 83, No. 4, July, pp. 915-956. Read Abstract
- Yen, A., D. E. Hirst, and P. Hopkins (2007), "A content analysis of the comprehensive income exposure draft comment letters," Research in Accounting Regulation, Vol. 19, pp. 55-82. Read Abstract
- Hodder, L., P. E. Hopkins, and J. Wahlen (2006), "Risk-Relevance of Fair Value Income Measurement for Commercial Banks," The Accounting Review, March, pp. 337-375. Read Abstract
- Hodge, F., P. Hopkins, and J. Pratt (2006), "The Credibility of Classifying Hybrid Securities as Liabilities or Equity," Accounting Organizations and Society, October, pp. 623-634. Read Abstract
- Beneish, M. D., P. E. Hopkins, I. Jansen, and R. Martin (2005), "Do Auditor Resignations Reduce Uncertainty about the Quality of Firms' Financial Reporting?," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 24, September-October, pp. 357-390. Read Abstract
- Hirst, D. E., P. E. Hopkins, and J. M. Wahlen (2004), "Fair Values, Comprehensive Income Reporting, and Bank Analysts' Risk and Valuation Judgments," The Accounting Review, April, pp. 455-474. Read Abstract
- Hopkins, P. E. (2003), "Discussion of 'Do Investors Over-Rely on Old Elements of the Earnings Time Series,'" Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring, pp. 33-46. Read Abstract
- Hopkins, P. E., R. Houston, and M. Peters (2000), "Purchase, Pooling and Equity Analysts' Valuation Judgments," The Accounting Review, July, pp. 257-281. Read Abstract
- Hirst, D. E. and P. E. Hopkins (1998), "Comprehensive Income Reporting and Analysts' Valuation Judgments," Journal of Accounting Research, Supplement, pp. 47-75. Read Abstract
- Hopkins, P. E. (1996), "The Effect of Financial Statement Classification of Hybrid Financial Instruments On Financial Analysts' Stock Price Judgments," Journal of Accounting Research, Supplement, pp. 33-50. Read Abstract


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Ecosystem Roles
Many of these sharks have copepod parasites, Ommatokoita elongata, attached to the corneas of their eyes. A single, female copepod will attach itself to one of the corneas, resulting in corneal damage and blindness in one eye. This does not seem to negatively effect the shark, as they do not rely on their vision. It has been suggested that the bioluminescence of these parasites helps lure prey, thus resulting in a mutualistic relationship, but there is no evidence to support this. (Compagno and Fowler, 2005; Compagno, 1984)
- Compagno, L. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue Volume 4:Sharks of the World. Rome: United Nations Development Programme.
- Compagno, L., S. Fowler. 2005. Sharks of the World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.


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Birthplace: Commack, Long Island, New York
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Results vs. Erskine (2009-03-27 14:30:00)
March 27, 2009Misenheimer, NC – The No. 24 Pfeiffer Falcons split with the visiting Flying Fleet of Erskine College on Saturday at Joseph S. Ferebee Field. Game one started on Friday at 2:30 PM and did not finish until 10:30 the following morning. The game ended with the Fleet winning a pitchers' duel, 2-0. The Falcon bats exploded in game two and Pfeiffer prevailed by a score of 13-0.
Game One – Pfeiffer 0, Erskine 2
Neither the Falcons nor the Fleet could manage to score a run in game one on Friday before the game was suspended due to rain. When the game resumed on Saturday Erskine jumped on the board with their first batter. Jon Bolding (Pickens, SC) connected on a Jonathan McDaniel (Mocksville, NC) pitch and sent it over the center field wall to put Erskine ahead, 1-0.
The Pfeiffer bats continued to struggle on Saturday. Fleet pitcher William Buzhardt (Columbia, SC) kept the Falcons off balance on Friday and Russell Reid (Hudson, NC) kept Pfeiffer frustrated on Saturday when the game resumed.
Erskine pushed an insurance run across home plate on an RBI single by Keith Hill (Abbeville, SC). The Fleet threatened in the eighth by loading the bases, but Adam Sedberry (Monroe, NC) shut the door. Reid remained strong down the stretch giving Erskine the win.
McDaniel suffered the loss going six innings giving up only one run on four hits. Sedberry pitched in relief and gave up one run on two hits over three innings. Eric Shoemaker (Huntersville, NC), Brandon Rouse (Kinston, NC), Jesse Dunn (Easley, SC), and Julian Medina (Glen Cove, NY) picked up the Falcons' only hits.
Buzhardt started for Erskine and pitched four innings on Friday allowing only two hits. Reid picked up the win in relief tossing five innings. He surrendered two hits and struck out six.
Bolding led the Fleet at the plate. He went 2-3 with a homerun.
Game Two – Pfeiffer 13, Erskine 0
In game two the Pfeiffer offense came alive early and often. Will Davis (New London, NC) started the second inning with a walk and was advanced by a Rouse sacrifice. Following a hit batter and a walk, the Falcons scored on an error to go up 1-0.
Pfeiffer added two more runs in the third when Davis doubled home Shoemaker and Ethan Marsh (Asheboro, NC) singled home Davis.
The Falcons exploded in the third and put the game out of the Fleet's reach. Pfeiffer used three hits, three walks, and a hit batter to score six runs in the inning. Shoemaker highlighted the inning with a homerun to right field to get the scoring started. Pfeiffer led 9-0 by the end of the inning.
Pfeiffer was not done scoring and in the sixth Preston Lyon (Gastonia, NC) scored Rouse and Dunn on a single to left. The Falcons finished off the day's scoring when Dunn hit a two-run opposite field homerun in the seventh to give Pfeiffer the 13-0 advantage.
Nick Fogleman (Waxhaw, NC) picked up his eighth win of the season by pitching a complete eight inning game. He gave up zero runs on three hits while striking out seven.
At the plate Pfeiffer used a balanced attack that included every starter having at least one hit. Shoemaker and Dunn each had a two-run homerun and Lyon added three RBI.
Starting on the mound for Erskine was Mike Moore (Lexington, SC) who picked up the loss. He went two innings and gave up two runs. Greg Huff (McDonough, GA), Brandon Garret (Woodruff, SC), and Cody McElhaney (Graniteville, SC) picked up the only hits for Erskine in game two.
Pfeiffer returns to action on Tuesday at Tusculum College. The Falcons remain in Tennessee on Wednesday to face Carson-Newman.


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CHAPEL HILL — Through two months of the college baseball season, there hasn't been much left undone by North Carolina.
Yet there's some explaining to do for the Tar Heels.
Just how have they run off a 36-2 record?
"It's not likely," senior center fielder Chaz Frank said. "It's very rare. The season is a grind. It's amazing we are 36-2 with everything that can go wrong."
The Tar Heels keep on winning, holding a No. 1 national ranking. They've notched 11 victories in a row going into a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series that begins today against visiting Duke.
"Nobody sees that kind of record," veteran coach Mike Fox said. "I thought we had a chance to be a good club. We've had some things bounce our way. … Here we sit."
Sitting pretty, as they say.
"It's pretty special. I guess we try not to think about it too much," said junior pitcher Kent Emanuel, who'll throw the first pitch this afternoon. "I don't think I've been part of a team like this one."
That comes, in many ways, because the Tar Heels have revved up an offense that's risen to a level that the pitching staff frequently attains.
"I think it's the different contributors we have offensively," said third baseman Colin Moran, who's among the country's leaders in runs batted in (61) and runs scored (52).
Frank said it's the most consistent offensive team since he has been in the program.
"In the past, we've had flashes of real good offense and then we'd go flat for a couple of weeks," he said.
Last year's North Carolina team hit 20 home runs. In 38 games this season, the Tar Heels have 34 long balls.
Even with all this, the Tar Heels compete in one of the country's most-respected conferences. And they've played some notable non-league opponents along the way.
So losing only twice — once to Miami and another time in 11 innings to Clemson (both at home) — is difficult to comprehend.
"I haven't really thought about it," Moran said. "We've just kind of been on a roll. Just take it day by day and it has worked so far.
"I definitely knew we had a chance to be really good. I didn't see 36-2 coming. It's really easy to stay hungry, especially last year not getting to Omaha."
North Carolina was projected to reach the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., when the 2012 postseason began. Instead, the Tar Heels didn't make it out of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, dropping two regional games to St. John's.
Yet that can't be part of the team's mindset these days.
"You're not going to get to Omaha today," Moran said, "so just take care of business every day."
That's been something that Fox said he monitors, but he hasn't been inclined to adjust his approach.
"I'm pretty good at keeping our guys on the ground," Fox said. "But I really haven't had to do that."
Catcher Matt Roberts, a junior from Graham, said the team's work ethic has allowed it to have such a solid season to date.
"But we don't get caught up in the polls," Roberts said. "We look at it like since we're there, we've got to play our best every day and bring our best. We try not to get caught up in it as much as everybody likes to make a big deal out of it."
There's so much attention to detail for the Tar Heels that they don't dare veer off track.
"I guess prepared," first baseman Cody Stubbs said of the primary factor for the success. "We talk about it all the time, being prepared."
There are 18 more regular-season games before the ACC Tournament.
Fox said he makes an effort to avoid changing anything about the team's routine when the Tar Heels are in a groove.
"If we keep winning, I put the same guys in the lineup," Fox said.
The Tar Heels, though, aren't invincible. When that becomes apparent, it will be a crucial time for the team.
"We're going to hit a stretch — and it's going to happen — and we're going to have to deal with it," Fox said.
Stubbs said the Tar Heels know the toughest portion of their schedule is yet to come, with road series at North Carolina State and Georgia Tech and wrapping up the regular season at home against Virginia. There are no regular-season dates with Florida State.
Plus, there's the mounting attention that's bound to accompany the Tar Heels should they sustain this rate of winning.
"If we stay where we are, we'll have even more pressure," Fox said.
So is there a sense that they just won't lose?
"You don't ever want to say that," Frank said. "We just find ways every night to do that."
That might be precisely what has fueled the unlikely record as North Carolina approaches the season's 40-game mark.
"We're on a roll and have a good record," Moran said. "… You have confidence and you don't think you're going to lose, ever."
-- The game for the Duke / North Carolina series opener has been moved up four hours to 3 p.m. today because of the forecast for storms tonight in the Triangle.


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Clouds pass over the San Francisco skyline on November 4, 2011 in... News PhotoCalifornia,Cloud - Sky,Horizontal,Human Interest,San Francisco - California,Sausalito,USA,WeatherPhotographer Justin SullivanCollection: Getty Images News 2011 Getty ImagesSAUSALITO, CA - NOVEMBER 04: Clouds pass over the San Francisco skyline on November 4, 2011 in Sausalito, California. The San Francisco Bay Area will see mostly cloudy skies that will lead to a chance of showers in the afternoon. Daytime highs will reach into the upper 50s. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)