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Newsboys among bands to play Winterfest 2010
Since 2001, big-name bands have rocked the stage at Liberty University's Winterfest, a two-day New Year's festival featuring acclaimed Christian musical artists, dynamic speakers and entertainers. This year thousands will have the chance to see one of Liberty's own perform.
Grammy-nominated and Dove Award-winning Christian pop rock band Newsboys will be back at Winterfest this year, but now with lead singer Michael Tait. Tait was a student at Liberty in the 1980s, where he met Toby McKeehan and Kevin Max, who formed the chart-topping Christian rock/rap band dc Talk. Tait officially formed his own band in 2000. He last performed at Liberty during halftime at the 2008 homecoming football game and at a concert later that evening.
The Newsboys have received several Dove Awards and Grammy nominations, producing five gold albums and more than 20 No. 1 radio hits. Their most recent album, Born Again, sold more than 45,000 copies in its first week. The Newsboys last performed at Liberty's College for A Weekend in February 2008, for the band's "Go Tour" event.
Eight other bands will be joining the Newsboys at Winterfest 2010 (Dec. 30 and 31) — Third Day, Family Force 5, Lecrae, Remedy Drive, Kutless, KJ-52, Hawk Nelson and Fireflight. Main speakers are Clayton King, Tom Richter and Matt Pitt. The Skit Guys, whose popular videos have become Internet hits, are also scheduled to perform.
"Winterfest is a great experience because the focus is on Christ. Winterfest continually hosts some of the most popular artists, speakers, and performers, but the mission of the event has remained the same — to share the Gospel of Christ," said Tony D'Ambrosio, Operations Coordinator for Resident Enrollment.
This year Liberty is working with DirectTV to broadcast Winterfest sessions live for free on channel 365 through GODTV.


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Religious people claim that their moral standrds are defined by religion and god. What or who defines atheist moral standards? Should atheists have some universally agreed and well defined moral standards? Willl having such moral standards make atheists a well defined community?
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The question of morality is often put upon us by the religious, so I cannot help but to associate it with religious dogma. I don't think that I have ever accused anyone of being 'immoral' if I see them doing bad, whether it be illegal or inhuman I usually call them a bad person, not immoral nor have I ever thought that when I do something bad that it is immoral.
"The thing about morals is that they are defined differently in different cultures. What is immoral for one is not neccisarily immoral for another." This is exactly my point is that I may choose to alter my morals/ethics depending on what society I live in. There is no 'international' code other than law and order which is a set of rules set out by either nation or state.
If I look inside myself and find that I feel guilty for something that I am about to do or have done, then I may have done the wrong thing, but by who's standard? only my own. That's my conscience speaking. Atreus has replied well, we all have to have our own moral code because our conscience 'bugs' us if we don't and our conscience is also ruled by culture and society.
The interesting thing about your reply here, Sandi, is that you consider yourself to be amoral, by deciding that morals are a definitive set of rules somewhere. The thing about morals is that they are defined differently in different cultures. What is immoral for one is not neccisarily immoral for another. If you are being a good person as long as you don't break the law and harm others... well there you have the beginnings of your own personal moral code. First rule being don't break the law, and the second rule being don't harm others. The mistake many devoutly religious people make is either that they believe their religion invented morals such as not killing people, or not robbing them blind, prefering to believe that atheists are stealing their ideas for whatever reason; or that someone without a higher power bearing down on them has no reason to follow any given moral code (especially theirs).
However, the atheist has reasons to follow their own moral code. The first being obvious, we have law and order, and the punishment for doing wrong things by that is rather... well... severe. The second one is simply that we don't want to do things that goes against what we believe. We do have an inbuilt conscience, and it does bug us quite severely. So in effect, our punishment for being immoral is that our fellow man, and us ourselves, will deliver something measurably unpleasant.
Sandi, you say, "Being immoral is not against the law you just may lose friends and be judged by others but at the end of the day does it really matter?" But then you say for yourself, "as long as I don't break the law or harm others" That is why it does matter. It is not illegal to harm others, except in certain circumstances. It is still unethical to belittle and hit your kids, or your dogs, for example, but it does matter. Lot's of unethical behavior is perfectly legal. Maybe you are thinking of all the dopey prohibitions against behavior that really doesn't do any harm.
Eastern philosophy/religion has as its basic principle AHIMSA. Do no harm. That about covers my dogly dogma!
Eastern philosophy/religion has as its basic principle AHIMSA. Do no harm. That about covers my dogly dogma!
There are only two eastern religions whose basic principle is AHIMSA,.They are Buddhism and Jainism. The original religion of Hinduism, the Vedic religion was not based on Ahimsa. It is a fact that the animal sacrifices inthe yagnyas created the first atheist, perhaps the first atheist of the world, The sage Kapil, who condemned the violence and also was the first to clearly state that the world is not created by any god. The present day Hindism, however, suports Ahimsa.
Thank you, Madhukar. I read about Jainism because it seemed closest to my point of view. Of course, it IS a religion and thus "too good to be true". I learned that their apparent compassion for the other animals stems from the belief that human souls might be reincarnated into animals. In other words, that all other animals are lesser, lower beings both physically, and spiritually. Woman are lower temptresses -- to be avoided! Is this analysis wrong?
You know John that every man is tempted by a woman, but there is no problem there as such!!
Some research about how religious people have more self-control instigated me to write a blog entry about
Yes, Madhukar. I knew of the misogyny of the other religions, but my childish hope was that Jainism was better. Atheism is what's better!
Atheism always scores over all religions, whether they are theistic or atheist religions.
I am that woman!
As an aside, what would some of you list as immoral behaviour or moral behaviour specifically?
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Simple Mosquito Trap You Can Make Yourself
It won't be long until we are dealing with Skeeters again. Here's a simple trap you can put together to help deal with all the little blood-sucking mosquitoes we are sure to see this season.
We all know of the basic steps to stop mosquito breeding areas, which will help a great deal, but we came across this simple do-it-yourself mosquito trap that could also come in .
What we need... A 1 cup of hot water, a 1/4 c. of brown sugar, 1/2 Tbsp. of yeast (bread yeast)., a 2-liter plastic bottle and some black duct tape.
- Cut the bottle in half, keeping the neck part.
- Mix brown sugar and hot water. Let cool. When cool, pour into bottom part of bottle.
- Add the yeast to mixture. No need to mix. It will create carbon dioxide.
- Place funnel part, the neck of the bottle upside down into the bottom piece of the bottle.
- Wrap the bottom part of the bottle with dark tape, as mosquitoes are attracted to dark objects.
Within a couple of weeks you will be surprised by how many dead mosquitoes your trap has attracted. Just empty clean, and refill with your mixture, and carry on. Place your traps in areas with lots of mosquitoes... garden and outdoor areas.
With all of the different fevers and diseases associated with mosquitoes, every little bit can help. So, try this and let us know how well it worked for you.


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'True Blood' Recap: Sookie & Eric Finally Kiss! Was It Everything You Hoped It Would Be?
Took them long enough! Somewhere Bill Compton is weeping big red tears.
The moment we've been waiting for all season — well, really for the past three seasons — finally happened on the July 24 episode of True Blood: Sookie (Anna Paquin) finally kissed Eric (Alexander Skarsgard)! It wasn't a dream, she wasn't being glamoured, and no one was in any danger of being killed. She did it because she wanted to do it, and I couldn't be happier.
But that beautiful scene didn't go down until the very end of the episode, so let's backtrack a bit.
King Bill (Stephen Moyer) got super tired of putting up with Marnie's sh*t, so he had her kidnapped and brought to his little vampire prison. He soon learned that Marnie (Fiona Shaw) had no idea how she cast her spells on Pam (Kristin Bauer Van Straten) and Eric, and that she was actually channeling a powerful Spanish witch from the past. This troubled King Bill, so he called the remaining four Louisiana vampire sheriffs together to figure out a game plan.
Also in need of a new game plan is Sam (Sam Trammell) and Tommy (Marshall Allman.) When his visit with his parents turned sour, Tommy went a little bananas and killed them both. Sam helped him dump the bodies in a nearby swamp, but there's a much bigger issue at hand now: Now that Tommy, a shifter, killed a member of his family, will he become a "skin walker" like Luna (Janina Gavankar)? And even worse, will that shared ability bond them and pull her away from Sam?
Elsewhere, Hoyt (Jim Parrack) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) brought Jason (Ryan Kwanten) back to Bon Temps safe and sound — but new problems arose when Jessica's blood started to mess with Jason's mind. Cue an awkward dream in which Jason and Jessica were having sex, with Hoyt sitting next to them. I'm not going to lie, it was kind of hot for a second — but then Hoyt and Jessica suddenly switched places. And it got hilarious.
Speaking of hilarious things, Pastor Daniels and Tara's (Rutina Wesley) whore mother went over to Arlene's (Carrie Preston) house to expel whatever evil was messing with their baby. But apparently that crazy whore's tambourine shaking was all in vain, because a book of matches suddenly caught on fire at the end of the episode! A lot of people are hating on this story line — I've heard the words "stupid" and "ridiculous" used — but I'm loving it. I have a feeling it'll end up tying in nicely with the witches. Plus, evil or not, that baby is freakin' adorable.
Meanwhile, Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) took a little road trip down to Mexico this week to visit Jesus' "brujo" uncle. He's the one who first gave Jesus his powers, and they're hoping he'll be able to help them fight off the vampires. Side note: Am I the only who thinks Jesus is getting in a little over his head, picking a fight with Eric? Dude's totally gonna die this season, I'm calling it now.
OK, now let's get back to Eric and Sookie! Pam let it slip that Sookie is hiding him, which sent King Bill into a crazy jealous rage. Based on the previews of next week's episode, we know Bill and Eric are going to have a violent run-in… but I'm just hoping he actually walks in on Sookie and Eric doing the nasty! I've always been open about my disdain for Bill — even though Stephen does an incredible job portraying him — and seeing Sookie with Eric would really stick it to him!
What do you guys think? Was Sookie and Eric's first real kiss everything you hoped it would be? Will Jason try to hook up with Jessica for realz? And when will Tara's mom finally release her debut album of tambourine classics?


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Amidst the doldrums of winter, March 17th offers a welcome respite from the cold and dreariness. It is a time to lift a glass of cheer, slip on your "top o'the mornin'" attire and reflect on the meaning of St. Patrick's Day, a joyous day celebrated in the homes and pubs of Ireland and across the globe. Get ready to enjoy this day with loved ones by stocking up on some of the great liquors and libations available at Airport Liquors.
Conveniently located in the lower deck of the Airport Plaza, Airport Liquors is a full-service liquor store offering a wide array of premium liquors, including imported and domestic beers, wines, liquors, cordials, single malt scotches and much, much more. The goal of this long-standing establishment is to provide you with the best choices of liquor at the lowest prices, no matter the occasion.
Airport Liquors invites you to come in this happy holiday to choose from amongst their broad selection, including these specials:
MARK WEST CHARDONNAY 750ml $9.99
RUFINO LUMINA PINO GRIGIA 750ml $10.99
7 DEADLY ZINS 750 ml $14.99
EL PORTILLO MALBEC 750ml $8.99
MENAGE MOSCATO 750ml $9.99
CONCANNON -Cab., Chard., Merlot, P.G. 750ml, 2 for $16.00
APOTHIC RED 750ml 2 for $20.00
If you are looking for something else to lift your spirits this season, the knowledgeable team at Airport Liquors will be happy to make recommendations from their packed shelves of other popular choices. In addition, if you don't see what you are looking for, whenever possible, they will make every effort to locate and order it for you.
Come on in to Airport Liquors on 1800 Post Road (remember to look for them on the Airport Road side, across from KFC) from Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 10 pm, and Sunday from noon to 6 pm. You can also call ahead to 352-0055 or peruse their website at www.airport.liquors.net As always, Airport Liquors urges you to drink responsibly.


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COLUMBIA - South Carolina and Georgia lawmakers are teaming up to take on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Not in a combative way, but in a manner the lawmakers hope affects how the federal agency manages lake levels.
There will be plenty of handshakes and pomp when a dozen or so Georgia lawmakers from Savannah River districts visit the S.C. Capitol on Tuesday. Still, lawmakers from both states are also planning to address their shared river basin challenges.
The day will start when South Carolina members of the Savannah River Caucus host 10-15 Georgia lawmakers at the Blatt office building on the capitol campus.
Next the group will be introduced to the House Democratic and Republican caucus meetings.
The Georgia legislators will also be recognized by the House and Senate chambers, before the Savannah River legislators have lunch at the Capitol City Club, said Rep. Don Bowen, R-Anderson.
Bowen, who has been leading the joint caucus activities with Georgia Rep. Alan Powell, R-Hartwell, said Monday he and Powell would give presentations about the Savannah River basin issues at the luncheon.
"One of our main goals is to form a group of bi-state legislators who can work together to get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to maintain more user friendly lake levels, so that our lakes don't get so low," said Ga. Re. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, in a press release.
"The main thing is we want everybody to have water and to give our constituents answers," said S.C. Rep. Bill Hixon, R-North Augusta, in February, soon after Bowen had begun drawing up a list of all the Savannah River legislators in South Carolina.
Participants have hailed Tuesday's joint meeting as the first of its kind.
In the upstream portion of the Savannah River, lawmakers have said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the lakes, doesn't retain enough water in them to prevent the waterline from dropping.
Lake Hartwell and Lake Thurmond both fell 16 feet below full pool, exposing chimneys in Thurmond from houses that were inundated when the lake was built.
"One day the Corps of Engineers says something, then the next week or so, they'll say something else," said Hixon.
"We need to know what our levels are. Our drinking water depends on the river."


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iPhamedia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Need a new logo for our entertainment site OmgSoySauce.com
Site will be redesigned after logo completion (similar to break.com)
Okay, i would like to have a new logo made for the site. The last logo designer did a crappy job and did not do what i needed. The site is an entertainment site for asians.
here is the zip of the face/orig logo
should be pretty simple since i know what i want...
if you need it gauranteed in order for you to participate, let me know..i can do that.....but since im not asking for much, i dont think it will matter
- i would like to still keep the smiley face icon, BUT i will need the mouth part drawn in more clearly. The smiley psd file is in the zip file in the above link. The last logo designer did a crappy job filling it in, and now it is blurry and not professional at all.
- i dont necessarily need the EXACT smiley, but would like to have a smiley with an open mouth of some sort (with teeth or no teeth...whatever looks better)...also the chinaman hat/or custom chinaman hat is a must
- I need the smiley centered and straight (hat, eyes, etc centered up)....current one is tilted to the left a bit.
- I would like to incorporate the mouth as the letter O for "O"mgSoysauce.....but if you can make it look nice with the smiley and a seperate O that would be good as well
- needs to be scalable....as in if i enlarge it, it will still be clear and vice versa (vector format i believe its called)
- needs to be compacted and not all over the place like the current design
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Welcome to the Canisius College Zoological Society Homepage!
Our club consists of students who share an interest in and love for animals. Many of our members are Biology and Psychology majors who are pursuing minors in Animal Behavior or Zoo Biology. However, we also welcome any others who are interested in animals. We include members from backgrounds as varied as Accounting or English. Our advisor is Dr. Michael Noonan, a Biopsychology professor at Canisius.
Every year we plan activities both locally and in far away places. We try as much as possible to educate ourselves about animals, both in captivity and in the wild. But in every activity we plan, there is also an element of camaraderie and fun.
If you are interested in joining our club, just come to one of our meetings or simply phone Canisius extension 2533. We always welcome new members!Join us on Facebook!


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This simple Milano Satin ballgown features a subtly pleated bodice accented in delicate lace appliqu�s. A strapless sweetheart neckline and pockets at the hip complete the classic romance of this look. Finished with covered buttons over zipper and inner elastic closure.


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Professional Cart Pickup Services
The California Shopping Cart Retrieval Company (CSCRC) was formed in 1993 to create a professional, efficient means of returning shopping carts to grocery stores in Southern California after they are removed from store property. Since then, it has grown its customer base to include all retail sectors and expanded service areas to California and Nevada. The Corporation also contracts with over twenty-five municipalities and counties to retrieve shopping carts. CSCRC is dedicated to providing fast, cost-effective cart retrieval to its customers and provides value-added inventory control and reports for its customers so they can monitor costs in real time. All of its contractors and sub-contractors are insured and licensed to manage risk. CSCRC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the California Grocers Association (CGA).
CGA is a non-profit statewide trade association representing approximately 500 retail members operating over 6,000 food stores in California and Nevada and approximately 300 grocery supply companies.
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10 Secret Body Parts You Didn't Know You Had
By Caldwell Tanner
Lesser-Known Body Parts Dessert Stomach A secondary stomach reserved solely for when the primary stomach is full but you still really want to get that Chocolate Volcano Brownie because it just looks SO GOOD. Cinema Bladder A significantly smaller urinary bladder that your body uses exclusively during movies. It is roughly half the size of a standard "small" movie theater soda. Male Secondary Brain A smaller brain located in the male genatlia. When aroused it suppresses the area of the upper brain's judgement center, which often leads to unsuccessful flirting attempts and eating a spicy thing because your bro said it would be cool. Dorsal Maternal Eye A pair of auxiliary eyeballs that mothers develop in the back of their head. This allows them to prevent their kids from ever doing anything remotely fun or cool. Maternal Epidermis A layer of heat-resistant skin that covers the hands of many childbearing females. It allows them to easily pick up incredibly hot baking sheets and pans without the use of gloves or potholders. Titular Ear Center - An organ near the inner ear that allows you to hear your name in noisy rooms, as you age, this organ is also responsible for hearing and pronouncing celebrities' names incorrectly. Melodramatic Tear Duct A tear duct adjacent to the primary one that only activates while watching movies you know you shouldn't cry it but just can't help yourself. Sometimes it is triggered by the increased altitude experienced while watching movies on an airplane. Infinite Mucus Sinus A nasal sinus cavity deep that activates when the body experiences cold or flu-like symptoms. It NEVER runs out of mucus. Like, ever. Drunk Lungs A miniature set of pre-blackened lungs that become active when the body is inebriated. This explains why several people only smoke while drunk. Posterior Nervous System Commonly known as the brain-butt or "brainus," this lobe is responsible for randomly jettisoning information from your cerebral cortex via a procedure known colloquially as a "brain fart." In extreme cases, a brain fart will solidify into full-fledged diarrhea of the mouth.


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Because I have publicly announced my disdain for "the Elf" people feel compelled to torture me with pictures of what their elf is doing.
This week I received two texts that included alarming pictures of what these asshole elves are doing around Goopville.
What are we doing??
Am I the only one who finds this whole practice a gross misplacement of our intelligence and cleverness?
It's infuriating!!!
In honor of this treacherous and horrific time – a mere ten days before Christmas Eve -i am reposting my original Elf blog that parents across the land thoroughly enjoyed last year.
In case anyone is confused about my feelings about "the Elf" …..I hate your elf – and if you're making your elf do obnoxious shit – I hate you too.
Dear Carol Aebersold and twin daughters, Christa and Chanda, (Elf on the Shelf Creators),
I am so sorry to disturb you at this time of year.
I am sure you are quite busy counting all of the multi-millions you have made on your adorable little Elf idea. Right now this letter might find you drinking a Mai Tai in the Turks and Caicos or maybe you are doing some 5th Avenue Christmas shopping at Tiffany's and Bergdorf Goodman.
Well, I hope you are enjoying your luxurious lifestyle.
While you sip champagne and shop for Louboutins the rest of us are running around like fucking assholes dousing our kitchens with flour so that the "elf can make snow angels" and pretending that our elf is on a "wrecking ball."
But look at how one of my new favorite bloggers, Lil Blue Boo, took it one step further!!!!
Anyways – Carol, Christa and Chanda,while I admire your tenacity and ambition, let's face facts. Your invention is a thinly veiled attempt at "creating magic for children," when in fact what you have actually done is create yet another guilt-inducer for mothers across America.
I have mentioned before how I sell bras part-time, and I have mentioned how I try to be like Clark Griswold and create magic at Christmas for my family.
Every day during December, I deal with angry entitled "bra customers," then I rush home to do laundry, cook and clean.
I, along with most mothers, add to my regular tasks, baking, wrapping, Christmas shopping, Christmas movie watching, holiday decorating, visits with Santa, Christmas tree shopping and fighting with Mr. Gaga. (a true holiday tradition.)
When I finally lay my head down each night to "settle my brain for a long winter's nap" I always start to doze off quickly. Each night, just before I drift off into a deep sleep I will suddenly remember…and sit straight up in bed, breaking into a cold sweat….
Are you happy now?
Thanks to you, we have to deal with this North Pole motherfucker from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Like everything else in modern-day motherhood, elf activities, hiding spots and inappropriate habits have become a new competition. Mothers snap photos of their sneaky little "elves" doing silly things like banging Barbies and then quickly post on Facebook so we can all see how invested they are in providing the BEST ELF EVER!! for their little brats.
Did you ever consider coming up with a lucrative idea that enables you to have success without throwing all mothers in America under the bus until the end of time?
You three think you are just soooo clever don't you?
You know who's clever?
The lady who invented the dishwasher is clever. She helped us all have a prayer of doing something besides cleaning dishes and cutlery all day.
Bethenney Frankel is clever. She made billions creating entertainment and alcohol with a skinny woman on the bottle to make us feel chic.
The person who invented hand sanitizer is clever. Enabling us to go to the grocery store, gas station and Disney World without contracting SARS or the Swine Flu.
The inventor of Spanx is clever, she created a way for us to hide our muffin tops so we could leave the house feeling better about our bodies.
The list goes on and on of women who came up with great ideas and inventions that have ultimately helped women and families.
But guess who is not going on that list?
You three bitches will go down in history as the assholes who made millions by creating extra work for parents during the busy holiday season.
Don't even think about telling me that it's a tool to help the kids to behave either.
Earlier I got a quick snapshot of the regular goings-on in the Gaga household.
Nobody cares.
When the elf arrives the kids try to behave for like
two days one day one hour
Nobody cares.
In closing, I just want to tell you one last time that you have to live with yourselves knowing that you have caused annoyance and headaches for parents across the land.
Also, my elf has something to say….


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How important is it for the United States to find a viable, sustainable energy source to free our country of dependence on foreign oil? Scientist, author and outspoken proponent of alternative energy development Robert Zubrin puts the numbers on the table.
"In 2008, Americans paid $1 trillion for oil — more than $600 billion on foreign oil and just under $400 billion on domestic oil. That's $13,000 for a family of four. By comparison, we spent $80 billion on oil in 1999," Zubrin says.
Zubrin further explains the $3,500 or so each of us pays per year for oil isn't just gas for our cars and trucks. Oil is used in the making of virtually every product sold in the United States. And, he says, our dependence is getting stronger, not diminishing.
In essence, what is at stake is our way of life. So far, American farmers represent the only large industry that has a workable plan for offsetting at least a portion of our country's oil addiction.
The real answer, Zubrin points out, is multiple sources of energy — all of which convert energy from the sun much more efficiently than producing oil or coal.
In the Southeast the most viable crop in terms of long-term, sustainable growth is pine trees. The Southeast can contribute to ethanol via corn and barley and to biodiesel via a number of oil-containing crops, but the region can be the energy center of America, if scientists can figure out how to economically convert pine trees to energy.
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Center, says the technology is already available and the source of feedstock is plentiful. Taylor says there is enough forest residue — not pine trees — in the Southeast to produce enough fuel to alleviate our dependence on oil.
Bringing the divergent industries that are working on alternative fuels together with the U.S. forest industry is a challenge that has been met by other countries.
Brazil has been well publicized as a leader in ethanol production from sugar cane. However, in the world community, European countries have taken the lead in producing energy from available and sustainable bio sources.
Sweden is recognized as one of the leaders in biofuel production. Newly published energy statistics for 2009 show that bioenergy today makes up a larger share of Sweden's energy use than oil: 31.7 percent bioenergy compared to 30.8 oil.
Biomass is used for heat and electricity, for biofuels for transport, and as an energy source in industry. Almost all Swedish cities and towns have district heating using biomass as fuel.
In neighboring Denmark, bioenergy has created a whole new social and political movement that is geared to making the northern European country totally free of oil-based energy. The Danish government has mandated the country be fossil free by 2050.
Denmark is the world leader in energy generation from wind. However, like Sweden, the primary source of energy comes from biomass and the primary biomass comes from forest residue.
Though the movement toward bioenergy from pine trees hasn't attracted the national attention of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, progress is being made on converting residue from the huge forest industry in the Southeast to alternative energy.
HCL CleanTech, a U.S.-Israeli biofuels technology development center, recently contracted with the Southern Research Institute to build its first U.S. pilot plant to produce low cost fermentable sugars from North Carolina pine trees.
"HCL CleanTech will invest millions of dollars to move the company to North Carolina and build the pilot plant," said Eran Baniel, president and CEO. "We evaluated other sites across the U.S., but chose Durham because of the facilities and expertise here at the Southern Research Institute, and the warm welcome we encounter from everyone here."
While growing pine trees simply as lignocellulosic feedstocks would be a questionable enterprise, those parts of trees left after lumber and pulp have been extracted (e.g., needles, small branches, bark, wood chips, sawdust, and pulping liquors) would seem an ideal feedstock. Not only are such residues abundant, but they have traditionally been used as a fuel (via combustion) to generate electricity/steam.
With relatively modest adaptations, tree waste could be utilized in lignocellulosic ethanol production. Using pine and other forest tree waste rather than human or animal foods (most notably corn) as feedstocks helps keep food prices low and hopefully helps curb conversion of productive forestlands into resource-intensive agricultural lands.
Last year Colorado-based Range Fuels Inc. began construction on what is expected to be the first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant producing fuel from pine tree residue. Set to produce 20 million gallons annually, the plant located about halfway between Macon and Savannah, Ga., will put the Southeast on the map in cellulosic energy production.
Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, says fuel from their Georgia plant will begin showing up almost immediately at gas stations in the state. "We have an off-take agreement already in place with a major distributor who will transport the fuel from the plant, either by rail or truck, to blenders in Macon and Savannah," Mandich says.
"Unlike corn ethanol, which uses a food crop to produce fuel, Range Fuel's feedstock is wood waste from pine trees. Not only does it eliminate the "food versus fuel" debate, it doesn't compete with the state's well-established pulp and paper market," Mandich adds.
While the Southeast has the most adaptable climate and water supply to produce biomass, including pine forests, other regions of the country have been active in developing forest-based bioenergy solutions.
In Colorado, Cobalt Technologies, a biofuels development company, is using lodgepole and ponderosa pines killed by mountain pine beetles for feedstock for producing cellulosic biofuels in the form of biobutanol.
"If we use half the 2.3 million acres of pine trees killed by beetles, we could produce more than two billion gallons of biobutanol — enough to blend all the gasoline used in Colorado for the next six years," says Cobalt Industries CEO Rick Wilson.
Many, if not most, farmers in the Southeast own land, at least some of which is in pines or other native trees. Farmers are already involved in alternative fuel via membership in state and national corn and soybean associations.
Getting involved as tree farmers and land owners isn't much of a stretch. Clearly, agriculture will play at least an indirect role in the development of the forest industry as a major player in alternative fuel production in the future.
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Squeezing the Gambits
The Benko, Budapest, Albin and BlumenfieldProduct Code: B0053EU
Publisher: Chess Stars
Author: Kiril Georgiev
Year of Publication: 2010
Pages: 192
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)
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So you dutifully sit down to write every morning, but it just doesn't seem to flow. You worry about word choice. You worry about whether you need this scene. And what to do about your main character who isn't very likable?
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LiquidLab has been updated yet again, as promised by the developer. We last looked at the puzzle game last month when it was bumped to version 2. The update introduced a number of new levels, new gametype and more. The issue we found was when attempting to play LiquidLab on a Windows Phone 8 device.
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I was transported to Egypt, Italy, India and Bali in two new chick flicks about two pretty women who fall in love with a handsome stranger. They also manage endless costume changes from just one small bag. It's every woman's dream come true...
"Cairo Time" is a delicate, bittersweet love story about Juliet, an American who arrives in Cairo to meet with her husband, a U.N. diplomat. He's unable to join her due to a crisis, so asks his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig) to look after her.
Patricia Clarkson gives a beautifully modulated performance as she grows to enjoy her time alone and forms a tender bond with Tareq. Like her, we fall under the spell of a beautiful city and its culture.
"Eat Pray Love" is three films in one — each devoted to Julia Roberts flashing her toothy smile like it's an ad for whitening products. She plays Liz, a woman grappling with broken relationships (although we never really understand why) who takes a year off to find herself.
Liz grins her way through Rome with heavenly food and wine, tries to find inner peace in India, and finds Felipe, the Perfect Man (Javier Bardem), in Bali. Cue another emotional meltdown. Yawn. The Universe just gave you the lottery, honey — wake up and smell the incense!
Richard Jenkins is superb as a fellow ashram student, and Bardem gets a chance to be the decent, nice guy and sensitive soul. These men were the movie's true saving grace.
Scott Pilgrim can take over the world
Young Michael Cera carved out an acting niche for himself playing characters full of teenage angst. But his roles in "Juno" and "Superbad" pale in comparison to his mind-boggling turn as the star of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." It offers hilarious comedy, zany action and clever insight into young adult relationships all at once.
Based on a popular series of graphic novels, this movie splashes across the screen like a psychedelic version of the "Archie" comics. But Scott is a modern and seriously cool version of Archie. He's also got two hot competing babes who fill out the Betty and Veronica roles with a punk rock twist.
The screenplay is so innovative that it has the power to make teens and young adults howl with laughter. At the same time it can transport older adults back into the distant madness of juvenile dating. Top notch special effects and razor sharp wit add to the rollicking roller coaster ride. Yet it still maintains a gentle heart and good nature. It's one of the most enjoyable popcorn movies of the summer.
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What if true happiness comes only after you've gone around the block a few times? Han Mi Mo (Jang Nara) and Baek Da Jung (Yoo Da In) were members of a former girl group known as Angels. They now run a remarriage consulting company that gives divorced people a second chance at love. Mi Mo is divorced while Da Jung is in a troubled marriage to a rich man. Former band mate Go Dong Mi (Yoo In Na) is now a dowdy elementary school teacher who has yet to find her special mate, while Hong Ae Ran (Seo In Young) works for an Internet shopping mall and is tormented by a looming marriage that she doesn't want. When Mi Mo becomes entangled with Song Soo Hyuk (Jung Kyung Ho), an entertainment reporter and single father, and his friend, Goo Hae Joon (Kwon Yool), will she get her second chance at love just like her clients? "One More Happy Ending" is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kwon Sung Chan.
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In or Out of Bounds January 06 2012
The rules state; A ball is out of bounds when all of it lies out of bounds. It sounds a simple rule but can become quite a protracted and sometimes heated discussion. If the out of bounds marker is a white line and a part of the ball is still in bounds, although it is resting on the line, it is deemed to be in bounds. If the out of bounds markers are just white posts it is much harder to define if a part of the ball is actually in bounds, especially if the white pegs are quite far apart. With the white marker posts the out of bounds line extends in a straight line from one peg to the next. Sometimes even with all four players looking down the line it is a very tight call to make, often leading to the aforementioned quarrels. I personally think it would be better to also use a white line between the posts so as to avoid the confusion. These white posts may not be removed to aid with your stroke, they are deemed to be fixed. Also if you think your ball may have gone out of bounds or otherwise lost, it is advisable to invoke Golf Rule 27 and play a provisional ball. This will save time and avoid the long walk back to replay the shot from the original position. Another contentious and usually frustrating area is the rules concerning water hazards, what is the difference with regards to dropping your ball. Water hazards are marked with Yellow stakes and or lines, and the ball has to be dropped behind this hazard, keeping the hazard between the dropped ball and the green. This sometimes leads to arguments as possibly the area behind the hazard is rough ground making it an even harder shot. With lateral water hazards, marked by red lines and or posts, you are able to drop out from any side, not nearer the hole. Another point to keep in mind when encountering either Yellow or Red posts is that you may remove them to aid your swing if necessary. My course at Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club has a particularly annoyingly placed yellow hazard which has started many a discussion as how to proceed. If you are intending to play at the club and wish to know where this hazard is located please reply to this post and I can enlighten you.


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Confidence with your Boss
Many people find dealing with their boss difficult. Often they will forget what they are trying to say, find it hard to concentrate and generally feel uncomfortable - even panicky.
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The reason we all experience emotions such as shame, embarrassment and humiliation is because we are unconsciously sensitive to the 'pecking order'. Status matters in our lives much more than we think.
Status is an amazing thing. When we are in the presence of someone we feel has greater authority (higher status) than we do, our blood pressure reliably becomes higher! In medicine there is even a name for it - white coat syndrome. If someone is having their blood pressure reading taken by a doctor to whom they feel lower in status they may give an inaccurately high blood pressure reading.
When doctors have what is known as a 'good bedside manner' they make the patient feel important and therefore on a equal footing whilst still maintaining the patient's respect for them.
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Try screen printing and watch an air rocket shoot high into the rafters of Allentown's PPL Center.
These are a couple of the activities featured at a free carnival-style family event, which will take over the main floor and the concourse of the PPL Center on Sunday.
The Lehigh Valley Festival of Art, Science and Technology will be presented by Allentown's Da Vinci Science Center and Make Lehigh Valley.
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James Kellogg, a member of one of Amherst, Massachusetts', leading families, became a merchant on the east side of town in 1814. In 1835, he purchased a shop in South Amherst from Eli Dickinson, where he began the manufacture of planes; woodworking tools used to either smooth or shape a board. His firm made both bench planes (used to smooth) and molders' planes (used to create moldings, or boards with curved surfaces). Kellogg's company was one of hundreds of small-town manufacturers in western Massachusetts in the period. Kellogg's company thived and expanded. The firm expanded to two buildings, one wood, the other brick, and eventually employed twenty men. Together with their families, they lived in a neighborhood known as "Kelloggville." James Kellogg retired in 1867, living in his substantial home on Pleasant St.; near the site of the present downtown Post Office and Kellogg St. His son William continued the business, which produced, on average, 150 to 200 planes a day. The company suffered a fatal blow in 1866 when a dam on the pond where it was located was swept away. Without its main source of water-power, the company closed down.
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Interstate 66, once envisioned as a cross-continent highway from the Potomac to the Pacific, ends in a pile of dirt just past a cloverleaf interchange north of Somerset, Ky., the hometown of U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers.
Its completion is far from assured. But the fact that it got this far is a testament to the power of one member of Congress to get a new road through his district, even at a time when the state transportation secretary who approved it and a contractor that worked on it were under federal investigation.
Interstate 69 was supposed to be the "NAFTA highway," a 1,700-mile job-generating corridor from Michigan to Texas, with Dawson Springs, the hometown of Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, right in the middle.
But the only thing new about I-69 in Kentucky is the number. It stitches together three old state parkways that require more than $800 million to bring them up to interstate standards, including an interchange in Beshear's hometown.
While surrounding states have abandoned their efforts to build these interstates or have run out of money to finish them, the highways remain top priorities for two of Kentucky's top officeholders: Rogers, a 16-term Republican, and Beshear, a two-term Democrat. Both men want the interstates as a boon for their hometowns. And both saw their advocacy translate into large contributions from road builders and highway engineers.
They shrugged off questions about the use of their influence to move the projects forward.
"For nearly two decades, I've pleaded with Kentucky leaders, road officials and neighboring states to get behind this vital east-west corridor by prioritizing this project with federal highway trust fund resources allocated annually to the state," Rogers said in a statement about I-66. "Unfortunately, that hasn't happened with any significant funds."
Kentucky and other states confront massive shortfalls in their highway maintenance budgets due to rising construction costs, declining gasoline tax revenues and decades of federal highway spending that brought big business to local highway contractors.
A McClatchy examination of campaign finance data revealed a mutually beneficial relationship between Kentucky highway contractors and their local and state elected officials. The road construction industry in Kentucky and other states has long bankrolled candidates who, once elected, played key roles in what highway projects got built."They're always a big fundraiser," said Trey Grayson, a former Kentucky secretary of state who's the director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "At the end of the day, they want to be winners."
Kentucky road builders give generously to both parties. Federal and state campaign-finance disclosures show that in the past 15 years, road construction company executives, employees and their families have given more than $3 million to federal, state and local officeholders, including more than $500,000 to Kentucky's current and former governors, and more than $700,000 to members of Congress.
Charles Lovorn, the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors, said there was no link between campaign donations and road contracts.
"As transportation contractors, the industry supports both the administration and legislators. I doubt that Kentucky is any different than any other state," he said. "Like all campaign contributors, the industry supports candidates who have similar views."
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, nearly a quarter of Kentucky's roads are in poor or mediocre condition and nearly a third of its bridges are deficient or obsolete. Kentucky faces a growing maintenance backlog, and the state has borrowed $1.1 billion in the past decade to improve its major interstates.
But it can be hard to break old habits.
"Once they get their mind on something, it's hard to change it," said Donna Cooper, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington. "Legacy political commitments are problematic."
Congress designated I-66 and I-69 as "High Priority Corridors" more than two decades ago, and they compete with Kentucky's other highway needs at a time of reduced funding.
"These projects provide a striking example of what is wrong with the nation's transportation funding system," said Ryan Alexander, the president of the fiscally conservative advocacy group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "Far too often, political might is a bigger driver of what gets built than public benefit."
Kentucky faces a combined road and bridge maintenance backlog of at least $1.6 billion, but its transportation plan lists four "megaprojects," including interstates and two new Ohio River bridges.
The 50-year-old Sherman Minton Bridge between Kentucky and Indiana was closed for five months in 2011 to repair a hidden crack that could have collapsed the span.
"This is a poster child for deteriorating infrastructure," said Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat who represents Louisville in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yarmuth has said that funding to replace the deteriorating bridges in his district should come before building new roads.
John Horsley, who retired in January as the executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, said state transportation departments needed to be able to make their own decisions about highway investments without political interference.
"States don't have enough money to spread it everywhere a lobbying group wants to spend it," he said. "They have to put it where it makes the most sense."
While other states long ago decided they had better things to build than I-66, Rogers, the chairman of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, has brought more than $100 million in earmarked funds to Kentucky in the past 15 years for the road, now a 3.67-mile freeway with two interchanges.
If you drive it, you won't see the I-66 shield. It does, however, appear on Google Maps.
The planned 35-mile I-66 from Somerset to London, Ky., would parallel a lightly traveled state road that was financed under a federal anti-poverty program intended to improve highway access in 13 Appalachian states.
The new highway would slice through the Daniel Boone National Forest, and the potential impact on caves, streams, rivers and animal habitats has generated environmentalists' opposition for years.
The Sierra Club identified the road as one of the country's 26 worst projects in 2002. In a December report, the club proclaimed the I-66 project dead. But opponents may have underestimated Rogers.
"Congressman Rogers is an extremely effective member," said former Rep. Dan Glickman, a Kansas Democrat who led an early and unsuccessful drive for I-66 to be routed through Wichita. "He's the right man for the job, certainly."
Rogers defended the highway and said he wished he could have found more funding to build it.
Some of those federal funds required a state match. Others were never intended for a project such as I-66. In 2006, the project was awarded $4.2 million in interstate maintenance discretionary funds, even though it didn't meet the criteria.
Chuck Wolfe, a spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, said "a four-lane connector from Somerset to London – whether it's called I-66 or ultimately something else – has long been and continues to be one of the Cabinet's objectives."
"Our Kentucky highway plan is the expression of our priorities," he said.
But Joe Prather, a former president of the Kentucky state Senate and the state's transportation secretary from 2007 to 2009, expressed a different view of I-66.
"Stacked up against all of the projects we had to take a serious look at, that didn't rank near the top of the list," he told McClatchy.
Prather became the head of Kentucky's transportation department after a series of scandals that engulfed the administration of Republican former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a key Rogers ally. Fletcher and 15 members of his administration were indicted in 2006 on charges that they'd fired career employees in the transportation department and replaced them with political appointees.
Fletcher issued a blanket pardon to members of his staff and admitted wrongdoing in a deal that dropped the charges against him. He lost re-election to Beshear in 2007.
"Kentucky is one of those states which has had off-and-on problems with ethics, not only in the Fletcher administration." said Don Gross, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky who's an expert on campaign finance.
Fletcher, a doctor and former congressman and the first Republican Kentucky governor in three decades, received more than $300,000 in campaign donations from highway contractors, their families and employees, according to campaign disclosure data.
Gross said Fletcher wasn't "doing anything previous people haven't done."
In a statement, Fletcher wouldn't comment on the campaign contributions.
"We campaigned on building those roads," he said. "They are the roads to Kentucky's economic development."
Fletcher's transportation secretary, Bill Nighbert, and Leonard Lawson, the owner of one of the state's biggest highway contractors, were indicted in 2008 on bid-rigging charges, months after Lawson's company, Bizzack Construction, won a $31 million contract for a project that included the bridges and an interchange on the first section of I-66 in Somerset.
A jury in federal court acquitted Nighbert and Lawson in 2010. By then, Lawson's company had finished the work on I-66, also known as the Somerset Northern Bypass.
The U.S. Department of Transportation had barred Lawson's company from receiving more federal money for road projects while he was under indictment. But the company won bids totaling $24 million from President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus program to pave Kentucky roads, prompting a rebuke from the DOT inspector general.
A second Kentucky company, Hinkle Contracting Corp., which won a $36 million contract to work on I-66, wasn't implicated in the investigation. Employees of Hinkle and its affiliates, along with their family members, have donated more than $480,000 to state and federal candidates in the past 15 years.
Beshear, a lawyer and former lieutenant governor, has been a big beneficiary of campaign money from road-building interests, collecting more than $200,000 from highway contractors in the state, mostly during his two runs for governor since 2007.
Kerri Richardson, a Beshear spokeswoman, said that while he welcomed donations from his supporters, "they never have and never will have any impact on the decisions he makes as governor."
Richardson said state transportation projects were competitively bid, reviewed and evaluated by state officials, and the governor didn't participate in the process. "From the time he was elected, Gov. Beshear has made his decisions based on the best interests of the taxpayers of Kentucky, and he will continue to do so," she said.
Though I-69 in Kentucky was proposed long before Beshear took office, he's now one of its leading supporters. Another is the Obama administration.
Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez stood alongside Beshear in Dawson Springs when the first 38-mile segment of the interstate was dedicated in October 2011.
But it may be years, if ever, before I-69 in Kentucky connects to other states.
In December, Tennessee Transportation Commissioner John Schroer halted construction on a 65-mile portion of I-69 that would connect Memphis to Dyersburg, Tenn., 50 miles south of the Kentucky border.
"The $1.5 billion cost estimate represents more than 100 percent of Tennessee's annual federal construction funding," he wrote in the Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal. "To spend that on one project . . . would not only be a disservice to all Tennesseans, but it would also be downright irresponsible and potentially dangerous."
To the north, Indiana is running out of money to finish its part of I-69, a road pushed by business interests with strong support from two former governors: the late Frank O'Bannon, a Democrat, and Mitch Daniels, a Republican who left office in January.
The state recently opened 67 miles of the highway to a point roughly halfway from Evansville to Indianapolis, but it's spent nearly all the $700 million it had budgeted for the project.
And there's yet another missing piece: a new bridge over the Ohio River to Kentucky. Neither state has the $1 billion it needs to build it.
Wolfe, the Kentucky transportation spokesman, said the state would press ahead with its I-69 project, regardless of what neighboring states decided to do.
"It does not change our plans in Kentucky," he said. "The affected parkways will be upgraded to interstate standards."


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text: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mike Davis wrote: > Robert G. Brown wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mike Davis wrote: >> >>> My experience is similar to Bill's. We've been using CentOs 3,4 for the >>> past few years on our larger clusters. It is a good choice for stability, >>> good performance, and since it is RH for SW compatability. >> >> The only thing I'd comment on that is negative about it is one of its >> "advantages". There is a narrow line between stability and stagnation, >> and you have to figure out which side of that line your cluster will >> fall on. Specifically, the fact that Centos/RHEL is frozen for two year >> intervals has two disadvantages for some people: >> > > I don't see this as a problem in a production cluster. The fact is that I've > been doing this stuff for a little over two decades and I can build anything > that I need for an application. For me a manual library build for CentOs 3 is > easier than trying to find support for FC4 or reinstalling FC 1x per year. My > CentOs 3 nodes have had less than 2hours downtime in 2 years and that was due > to a Power Upgrade at their location, that required a complete shutdown of > all machines on the floor. Which is perfectly reasonable, and I agree. The tradeoff is whether, and how much, you have to rebuild stuff (and how hard that stuff is to rebuild). At one time building e.g. cernlib was a cosmic pain in the buttocks, for example -- I mean serious pain. Been there, done that. It was one of the major appeals of "Scientific Linux" when it first came out -- cernlib was prebuilt for it, although somehow the libraries it used were such that you couldn't just rpmbuild --rebuild its source RPM back on Centos or for that matter Fedora. But I've built (and tried to build) it from all the way back when tarballs where what you had to work with, and where you might expect to make twenty or thirty hacks to get through the build. Paaaaiiin. Now it IS in fedora (and may be in Centos for all that I know). Because it is in fedora, I'm reasonably sure that rpmbuild --rebuild is all that is needed to rebuild it under Centos anyway. But one's choice WAS build it from scratch, unpackaged, or use fedora, hmmm... In other words, if the issue is one or two libraries, and they are decently packaged and have simple dependencies, and if the Centos kernel WORKS for your hardware, then Centos is an excellent choice. I was just pointing out that there were some issues that one SHOULD think about while making the decision lest one plan to install Centos on brand new bleeding edge hardware only to learn that the kernel doesn't have support for its chipset, or that your users need some five-library constellation that is constantly being updated in Fedora (but which works decently from snap to snap) but that has to be built, then rebuilt, then re-rebuilt every three or four months under Centos. In either case you can make things work with either distro (or any other linux distro, really) -- they ONLY differ on how much work one has to do and what kind of work it is that must be done to make them work. If you want transparent access to the latest tools and libraries that are constantly being added to fedora, well, that favors fedora -- to enhance your cluster instead of building a library or application constellation you just add a yum install command to your nightly cluster update and poof, there it is the next day ready to use, auto updating. If you plan to update your cluster with brand spiffy new nodes with bleeding edge motherboards with integrated orange juicers and jolt cola dispensers, I'd argue that that favors Fedora as well, as chances are much better that your jolt cola dispenser will "just work" if you kickstart install the latest fedora on them instead of a two year old Centos, and the alternative is to not use your new systems until the latest Centos is released (and pray they work then or the next time they will is two MORE years later) or start dusting off those kernel building skills and figure out how to add a whole stack of libraries leading to the orange-juicer controls to your aging Centos install. If your cluster really only runs one application (or a small and straightforward set of applications), and Centos supports your cluster hardware and that application's library requirements out of the box, well heck -- of course it is nice to be able to do an installation and then just forget the cluster for the rest of its operational lifetime. Done it myself, many times (though not with Centos per se). If you are comfortable inserting the requirement on future cluster hardware purchases "and must be able to boot and run Centos X normally out of the box" that's fine too. If your primary applications REQUIRE RHEL/Centos libraries for binary compatibility, or if you use proprietary software that PROBABLY would work perfectly with Fedora but where they won't answer your hotline questions or requests for support unless you are using RHEL (they usually won't even accept "Centos" as a substitute in this case, you just have to tell a tiny fib) well, that makes Centos a really good choice! How difficult is it to use Fedora instead of Centos in a production cluster? What is the cost tradeoff? Basically it is a day or so of work, per expected upgrade. The chores involved are typically: a) Mirror a the distribution repo from a suitable site onto your local install server. time required -- call it an hour to set up a script, then five minutes to hack it to point at the current distro per instance, plus a lag period where you actually do something else and the download completes. b) Clone your PXE/DHCP targets and your kickstart files. Install vmlinuz and initrd from the new distro under tftpboot. Time required: call it an hour, although it probably won't take that long. c) Pick a node -- any node -- to prototype with. Network boot the node, into the cloned kickstart file. Monitor the progress, especially noting where packages are missing or weirdness occurs. d) Look over the package list for the new release, look over what is missing, resolve conflicts, add stuff that looks like it would be useful that before you maybe had to build on your own (like cernlib or ganglia or openmpi). Test the node with your primary applications (or not). If they are "boring" and would run out of the box on Centos, they'll almost certainly run out of the box post rebuild under Fedora. If they use libraries that might have signficantly changed, well, it's a good idea to test them. This process can take anywhere from a few minutes to hours or even days. In my case it would take minutes because my applications are boring and I know damn well they'll rebuild under Fedora whatever. If anything, they're likely to have trouble BACKporting to run under e.g. Centos 4 -- from my own personal point of view backporting libraries is a total pain and a process fraught with peril, especially if they or their dependencies have significantly evolved in the meantime. However, there are definite exceptions -- getting Cisco's vpnclient recently died on my in a mere UPDATE of the fedora kernel, because they changed a bunch of stuff in the skbuff stack. As this example demonstrates, many of those exceptions involve proprietary software that nobody maintains (really!). If they maintain it, they have to spend some of the money you pay them on testing and debugging, after all, and they hate that. Far easier to just insist that you freeze your environment in a version that is the last one for which they grudgingly were FORCED to make it work. Once you are satisfied, and have modified your kickstart file to match your new improved package list (which may involve no modification at all, mind you) and you've tested it successfully -- you basically set a toggle that causes all your nodes to reboot some dark evening and PXE-reinstall themselves from the kickstart file. You COULD even do this unattended, although it would probably be foolish to. Either way the time required to initiate the upgrade is very small (per node) and if you did your node testing adequately and encounter no further problems you can read a novel or exercise or something while it occurs. Add it all up, and you find that doing a node upgrade might take you anywhere from half a day to a day and a half. You have to do this work at least one time roughly 18 months after initially installing the nodes, and again if you plan to run them after 3 years, although of course you can ELECT to update more often than that if Fedora has a fabulous new library added to it that halves the runtime of a lot of numerical code based on it, or if somebody adds a really spectacular batch job system to it and replaces the one you're paying for with something that works better and is easier to use and is free, or if you just need it to run the hardware you buy a year from now (or else you have to build a custom kernel, test it, and maintain an update stream for it by hand forever) and you'd rather run the same OS release on your entire cluster. This is what you are trading off against the labor required to instead keep a pool of libraries and/or the kernel more aggressively up to date. To my experience, it doesn't take many library or auxiliary tool rebuilds, and probably only ONE kernel rebuild, to compete with the work required to upgrade fedora one time over the course of a cluster's lifetime. Either way, you can also choose to run Centos on the servers for your cluster (a common enough decision, since server hardware tends to be less aggressively upgraded and since server "stability" is paramount, although as I said the INstability of Fedora is largely urban myth anytime sixty days or so post initial release) or you can follow through and bootstrap your servers to Fedora current every now and then as well. One LAST issue that should be addressed is what your USERS are running on their desktops. This is a nontrivial questions for some cluster architectures. If they are running Fedora (so that they get the latest versions of X, support for their super-duper graphics adaptors and cameras, the best possible list of printers, so that their laptops have an even chance of working with their audio and network devices, so that they can get "flight of the amazon queen" on their desktop) AND if the cluster architecture is "flat, with NFS shared across the accessing LAN" -- so that basically the "cluster" is just a pile of headless workstations on the same LAN and mounting the same disk as the desktops and/or laptops -- then there is a STRONG incentive to use fedora on the cluster nodes. If you don't, users cannot do a build on their desktop and drop the resulting binaries into the execution queue for the cluster or otherwise arrange for them to be run in distributed fashion. It is difficult to assess the cost-benefit tradeoffs here because the costs are all to the sysadmin and the benefits are all to the user, but they are substantial, and almost certainly would strongly favor using the same thing everywhere, probably Fedora. After all, so it is a pain in the sysdmin's behind once every 18 months or so to run Fedora, but a) he/she's doing so anyway to support the desktops, and most of the steps above are already accomplished before he or she STARTS on the cluster nodes, and b) the users REALLY REALLY save a lot of time being able to build, test, debug, and even carry out small prototyping runs on their own desktops without needing to do all of that on "the cluster" or a special "build box" with the right library/distro set up, and there are probably a lot more of them than there are sysadmins. To re-summarize: People considering what distribution to use to build a cluster should think about the following: a) What are they familiar with? You can build a cluster on top of any distribution, but if you are a Debian expert you're going to find building a Centos cluster painful and vice versa. I think most of us on list would advise "go with your strength" here unless you encounter a really good reason to do otherwise, at least until you have multiple strengths or unless you have no strengths at all and have to start from scratch. In that and all cases, continue asking yourself: b) How scalable is it? I personally think that scalability and automation are key elements in the decision, both for clusters and their closely related client/server LAN installs. Lots of people like FAI. I personally am fond of PXE/kickstart. Warewulf is pretty easy and scalable. Pick something where you do work once, then implement it across the cluster (or LAN) without having to do more per-node work than "booting it", possibly making a BIOS level choice as to boot target and a DHCP choice as to installation image. This is one of Linux's STRENGTHS, especially compared to e.g. Windows. If you have to do more work than that (per node) you probably need to reexamine your distro choice or learn new tools associated with the distribution. c) How well does it work with my preferred hardware (now and in the future)? Again, different distros have very different track records for staying hardware-current out of the box, for obvious reasons. If you want to track bleeding edge hardware, select a bleeding edge distro, not one that has a 2+ year release cycle and doesn't change much in between except for bug fixes. I WISH that this weren't the case -- I wish that Centos maintained the kernel and device list much more aggressively than they have in the past -- but they haven't and that's a simple fact. And yet, frequently, it doesn't matter (so don't interpret this as "Centos is bad"). d) How well does it provision libraries (or non-library packages, toolsets) I'm likely to need in my cluster's work, and how rapidly do those libraries vary? Note that this question can easily work EITHER WAY -- in some cases one wants NO variation so your proprietary applications get just the right library, period. In other cases your users will be sitting there growling at you and nagging you to build/add a current version of first this library, then that one as they use features that just aren't there in the library space of the long-lifetime distros after their first six months. Note that some libraries are rapidly varying and under continuous development with really important changes occurring with some frequency, while others have APIs that have varied little over years. Maybe your cluster applications need one type, maybe the other. Maybe (God help you) both. There is no set answer to this question, and it may even require a least of possible evils compromise. e) What do we use in our LAN for desktops and laptops? Again, this is almost a no brainer (and is a question that may not even occur to people who run an isolated "cluster compute center", rather than a cluster integrated with and immediately accessible to a departmental or research LAN). If all your LAN desktops are running Debian but your cluster is running two year old Centos, you're forcing them into a very unnatural and restrictive work model and you're going to be constantly pressured to backport from one to the other. You're also significantly increasing your work load as you try to cope with the differences between Debian management and Centos management. An "ideal" situation to craft is one where there is a smooth path from desktop to cluster, where a "make" of your source tree on one is pretty much guaranteed to produce run-ready binaries (including access to all required dynamic link libraries) for the other, within the boundaries of HARDWARE architecture, not distribution or binary compatibility model within a hardware type. In a lot of clusters it makes sense to completely flatten NFS space as well to further facilitate this -- project space that is commonly mounted across cluster and server and desktop so that even paths on the cluster match paths on your desktop. Yes, it is perfectly possible to get by without this, and some cluster architectures (especially "standalone" clusters, regular beowulf type clusters, computer center type clusters) work just fine without it, but there are lots of research clusters where this is the way they are set up, with little or no barrier between the desktop LAN and the cluster LAN. In the latter case, the time saved on development and testing and implementation vastly outweighs the time spent keeping e.g. Fedora up to date on cluster nodes, in part because you have to keep Fedora up to date on your desktops anyway, and the only difference between a cluster node and a desktop is the package selection in a kickstart file or post-install yum scripts. f) Sundry other issues, or "miscellaneous things to look at that I can't quite pin down here". For example, if you're building a cluster out of obsolete and underequipped systems (a thing I not infrequently advise e.g. high school students on offline) you may find that running the latest release of ANY distribution out of the box is quite difficult, but that you can get the linux on a rescue CD to boot quite nicely, or perhaps a really old version of some existing distribution. Or perhaps you're playing the "let's install a graphics card and use it to do computations" game, where the libraries and cross-compilers that enable it only exist pretty much for one distribution, maybe. Or your cluster is part of a grid, or part of a flat LAN or a standalone beowulf, or has to integrate with a Windows cluster where the best you can hope for for "compatibility" is cygwin-alikeness (so you pick the most cygwin-like distro you can). Every cluster is different, everybody's needs are different, and YMMV. Which is why none of the EXPERTS here are going to say "you should ALWAYS use Fedora 6, but only the version that was available three months ago before they screwed up the kernel and with openmpi built from fresh source as it isn't up to date in the form our users expect". The best choice isn't universal, it is dictated by your own degree of experience and knowledge, your design goals, your application mix, your cluster type, your cluster's general environment and support structure, and even then -- you can get ANY linux distro to WORK for your cluster even if you get one or more of these "wrong" in the sense that ex post facto they turn out to be suboptimal. Live and learn, in other words, and be prepared to experiment and change as it makes sense to do so. rgb > > Now I should say, that I don't use diskless nodes, each node has its own OS > disk and most have a separate /tmp disk for scratch use. That is one reason > that we differ on OS, I believe. > > > Mike > -- Robert G. Brown Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Description of calculation to find an escape velocity such as for an object launched from earth to avoid orbit.
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Shows, by means of simple animation, the displacement time, velocity time, and acceleration time graphs for an object moving with positive velocity and positive acceleration.
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An applet and paragraphs on Group and Phase velocity.
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Vary the velocity and notice the wavelength shift ahead of and behind the source. A shock wave, i.e., sonic boom, can be seen to form if the speed of the source is comparable to the phase velocity.
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Simulation of relative velocity, with varying frames of reference.
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