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Should I use prototype.js or jQuery for a new project? Rails comes with prototype.js but jQuery seems the library of choice for the rest of the world. Is prototype.js still under active development? It seems a little bit dusty ...
It's mostly a matter of preference. Some people don't like how Prototype extends objects, but for basic use they are fairly equivalent.
Prototype is still in active development - they put out a release candidate for the next release just a couple months ago.
Nothing against prototype but it does not have the amount of plug-ins or nearly as large of a community as jQuery does.
For jQuery there is already a plug-in for almost anything, so I end up writing a lot less js.
The reasons I use jQuery over any other library:
Fast and Lightweight
Built With's Javascript Distrobution indicate that jQuery is used by over 40% of their indexed sites. Built With's jQuery Usage Statistics show 32% of the Top 10,000 sites, 23% of the top 100,000 sites, and 15% of the top 1,000,000 sites in their index using jQuery. Compare this to Prototype's 5%, 4%, and 2% respectively in those categories. Also notice that while jQuery's usages are all trending steadily upward, Prototype's usages are all trending downward.
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The jQuery Project is excited to announce that Microsoft is expanding its support of the jQuery JavaScript Library through new initiatives, to include code contributions, product integration, and the allocation of additional resources.
Microsoft is now included in the community of active contributors to the jQuery codebase. Microsoft has some very smart developers. Microsoft also financially contributes to jQuery. Microsoft has a lot of money. They are also giving jQuery instant exposure to any developer with Visual Studio. Microsoft is also working on ASP.NET to specifically make jQuery's integration better:
Also learn how ASP.NET AJAX was designed to work seamlessly with jQuery, how you can create ASP.NET AJAX controls directly from jQuery and how you can use the jQuery library in ASP.NET AJAX code.
More on Microsoft's use of jQuery can be found in Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET blog post jQuery and Microsoft.
jQuery's source code is hosted publicly on GitHub. This is a plus for me personally since I prefer Git to other SCM systems.
jQuery's Sizzle selector engine is great. And it's great because jQuery isn't working on it alone. In a blog post announcing the release of v1.3 early last year, they basically said "We know we're not smarter than everybody else and we're more interested in advancing the community by working with smart people than in saying we're better than they are."
One thing that became very obvious during the development of the new engine: We wanted to be able to collaborate on it with other libraries and developers. We saw an opportunity for some solid collaboration with some of the best JavaScript developers - the result of which will help users of all libraries. For this reason we made sure that Sizzle was able to work completely standalone (no dependencies).
Mobile Support
jQuery can be used with PhoneGap to create native applications using web technologies for mobile devices. It also has a plugin named JQTouch for building native-like web apps for the iPhone and other mobile browsers. This means all those shortcuts you have with jQuery translate to other platforms, decreasing the learning curve.
Active in the Development Community
Use whichever one fits your specifications the best. jQuery is a great library under active development with a great (and large) community following and is my personal library of choice, but don't let that deter you from using Prototype if it is the right tool for the job.
It's really a matter of preference. I tend towards jQuery, personally. It's well documented, has lots of good plugins, and makes my life a whole lot easier. I've heard some complaints from the Prototype people about its size and performance (sorry, I don't remember their specific problem) but both of those aspects have been getting better and better.
I would try both out and see which one is a better fit for you.
It really depends on which you prefer. However, jQuery does seem to have a bigger following, so resources for that might be easy to come by.
I think you can get both hosted from Google's servers, and jQuery hosted from MS's servers, which may come into your consideration.
I believe jQuery hosted via Google CDN opens up both.
It is a matter of preference obviously. I have found jquery is a little but more difficult to understand for newbies since the chaining is not really intuitive in particular when asynchronous race conditions occur. However, jquery certainly has more plugins but that can also be a disadvantage when too many plugins are automatically loaded.
While on the surface it's based on your preference, consider looking at the libraries, plugins, and samples of things that you want to use jQuery or Prototype to accomplish. For example, with a new Rails project all AJAX is done using prototype by default. Also if you want to use jQuery UI or jQTouch (mobile) I would recommend jQuery.

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From Cromulent to Craptacular: The Top 12 Simpsons Created Words
With The Simpsons set to leave their mark on the world of cinema after almost two decades of waiting, we at CRACKED thought it would be a good time to look at the impression Homer and co. have left on the English language. The Simpsons's writers have loaded our linguistic consciousness with hundreds of useful and often hilarious words and phrases. They might not get a lot of recognition from major dictionaries, English professors, or loyal Cosby Show enthusiasts who are still a little bitter, but that doesn't mean they're not everywhere.
And so, with apologies to banjologist, debigulator, disembowelingest, embiggen, kwyjibo, sacrilicious, Jeebus, Scotchtoberfest, shutterbuggery, tromboner and yoink (all honorable mentions in their own right), we present the 12 most memorable words The Simpsons ever created.
#12. to⋅mac⋅co (noun)
Simpsons Origins: Homer's plutonium-fueled crossbreed of tomato and tobacco ("E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", Nov. 9, 1999) just barely beats out our second favorite clever butchery of tomato, coined when Homer's editor ("Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", Oct. 24, 1999) put a damper on the fat man's stint as a food critic, complaining, "You keep using words like pasghetti and momatoes."
Real World Applications: Tomacco would probably be known only to Simpsons mavens if it hadn't been for Rob Bauer, who created a real tomacco plant in 2003-ensuring that tomacco would survive in the footnotes of botany, and that The Simpsons now had a valid claim to the nerdiest and most dedicated fan base in television history. (Eat it, Trekkers!)
While we have no intention of eating Bauer's version (the taste of which can be described as "zesty poison with just a hint of death") we sincerely hope that this trend of life-imitating-Simpsons continues, at least until someone comes out with Homer's fictional beer-candy hybrid, Skittle Bräu.
#11. crap⋅tac⋅u⋅lar (adj.)
Simpsons Origins: When Bart dissed Homer's Christmas decorations as craptacular ("Miracle on Evergreen Terrace," Dec. 21, 1997), the overused adjective crappy gained a cooler, more expressive synonym.
Real World Applications: This episode was the greatest thing to happen to crap enthusiasts since the word crap. Adding -tacular on the end of one of our favorite words opened doors we didn't even know were in the house, and helped save the otherwise tame and boring crap from early retirement from the lexicon. With Bart's help, a word that was considered by most to be completely overused was given a sparkling Renaissance and a substantially extended life expectancy.
#10. ex⋅or⋅cism tongs (noun)
Simpsons Origins: In "Brother's Little Helper" (Oct. 3, 1999), Homer eats a mix of taffy and Focusyn (a Ritalin spoof) that puts our beer-swilling hero in a mildly hallucinogenic state that inspires this conversation among the hyper-holy Flanders males:
Todd: Does Mr. Simpson have a demon, daddy?
Ned: Looks like it. Run and get daddy's exorcism tongs.
Rod and Todd: Yay!
We like to imagine Ned keeps this handy demon-extracting utensil in the same drawer as the excommunication juicer and beatification whisk.
Real World Application: We'd be lying if we said we didn't go out to every Christian-themed general store in the country hoping to acquire our very own set of exorcism tongs the day this episode aired. We'd also be lying if we said, on a somewhat related note, that we weren't currently banned from every Christian-themed general store in the country.
#9. poin⋅dex⋅trose (noun)
Simpsons Origins: "I have isolated the chemical which is emitted by every geek, dork, and four-eyes. I call it poindextrose." Lisa said it, and then everything that everyone had come to know about bully-nerd relations was turned upside-fucking-down. To come to this conclusion, in the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie," (March 11, 2001) Lisa had to put some nimrods through a workout that included the following conversation:
Lisa: Come on, people! Move it! I want to see some sweat!
Martin: I'm not mastering another stair until you explain the purpose of this monstrous experiment.
Lisa: I believe the key to bully-nerd antagonism lies in your drippings.
Martin: Then I shall drip like a pot roast.
Lisa: Excellent. Now don't mind the squeegee.
Real World Applications: Not surprisingly, it's best used to describe the sweat of a Poindexter, which is an especially useful term if you or anyone you know plays disc golf. Poindexter itself is a TV word for a geek or nerd the came from the Felix the Cat character Poindexter, who was the nephew of Felix's enemy, The Professor. To recap, Felix the Cat's arch nemesis was a teacher and the writers's most lasting contribution was coining a hurtful nickname for nerds.
And if you thought this brief etymological aside was interesting, then we hate to tell you this, but you're one of the very nerds for whom this little Simpsons nugget can be attributed. Sorry, Poindexter.
#8. spank⋅o⋅log⋅i⋅cal (adj.)
Simpsons Origins: If you ever wondered why Ned Flanders is such a repressed son of a diddly ding dong, "Hurricane Neddy" (Dec. 29, 1996) answered that nagging question for you: As a tyke, Ned was even more of a Hell-spawn than Bart, and he only learned to behave himself after participating in The University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol, which consisted of eight months of 'round-the-clock, university-sanctioned buttock-flaying attention, what some critics today might call "abuse" or "child molestation."
Real World Applications: We think spanking enthusiasts of both the parental and romantic camps are missing out by not adopting this word. Adding the suffix -ologist to any profession or -ological to any practice immediately confers legitimacy or, alternately, a hilarious level of self-seriousness to any pursuit. Just ask the inebriologists at your local bar. Surely there's room for at least one American Spankological Society in the world?
#7. ranch dress⋅ing hose (noun; slang)
Simpsons Origins: This full-body IV allows condiment connoisseurs such as Homer to really be themselves, at least in the privacy of their own depraved fantasies. In "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (Dec. 17, 2000) a fume-inhaling Homer has a lady-filled hallucination that includes these words: "Enough! I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose."
Real World Applications: While in the past this was strictly reserved for ironic use by fat college students after one too many bong rips, given the increasing popularity of the Homeric physique and diet on the American populace, this invention might not be as far from reality as we'd like to think. Also, while the odds against it are astronomical, if you're lucky enough to casually ask for a ranch dressing hose at a restaurant and find a waiter quickly running off to fetch one for you, you are guaranteed to end up with something fantastic: You'll either get a garden hose full of ranch dressing, or, due to an amazing phonic misunderstanding, a group of (at least three) hos, all covered in ranch dressing. And when you find out what that restaurant is, you email CRACKED immediately.


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I was hoping that 4.1 would be more stable compared to 3.4. There are a lot of layout issues. I think Sencha should focus on that instead of performance.
Grid and (tab)panel layout do strange things. I now tested 4.07, 4.1 is not working in my app. Performance is not that good but will do, but get it stable please!
A stable program is better then a fast unstable program. And please throw out that MVC Loader stuff. I want all my js files loaded at once. It is really impossible to put my 3.4 in that MVC thing, my app is to big to handle it in the way the architecture of Ext 4 wants me to do.
3 Nov 2011 3:51 AM #12
I've always used the Sencha examples (themes) when posting benchmarks on the forum. It seemed the best approach because everyone has access to the same code and its a constant.
Happy to profile my own app under 4.0.7 (it won't work on 4.1 pr1) and supply the trace file. Do you want both the IE and DNA trances? Unfortunately I wont be able to supply my apps code base because of IP. Where do I send the traces to?
Out of interest if the Sencha shipped examples (big and small) are consistently showing 4.x is slower than 3.x, how will having a trace of my App help? The performance problem isn't a customer specific case. Every user of 4.x is effected.
3 Nov 2011 5:35 AM #13
There are two very simple examples with code that have been in the forum for months and show that the performance problems with 4.x are not only the result of complex pages. Thus far Sencha has apparently not tried these simple examples...or has not posted the results even though that was asked for.
@Don please run the examples from the post below and let us know what the performance is on your machine using 4.1. Thanks.
3 Nov 2011 6:22 AM #14
I could not agree more. Fixing bugs should be a priority. 4.1 already provides a decent speed improvement, but I'm not able to upgrade due to bugs, and it takes too much time to work around issues.
Here's one example... text rotation is broken and it's not trivial to find a workaround:
3 Nov 2011 9:46 AM #15
I hope I was not coming across as saying that we don't see any performance differences when we measure our examples. We are optimizing using them as a benchmarks.
What I am saying is that apps tend to be more complex than our examples. Their interactions and use of components is an important thing for us to understand, but without knowing how real apps use the framework, we have to use approximations (like our examples).
I am also suggesting that if we treat performance as we do other bugs (where possible and within reason) and we get some concrete use cases derived from how folks actually use the framework, we can incorporate that in to our continuous integration loop to the benefit of everyone.
Apologies for any confusion on that.Don Griffin
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3 Nov 2011 9:52 AM #16
The current release of 4.1 is a Preview and I hope we were clear about its stability... or really its lack thereof.
We are currently focused on stabilizing 4.1.
MVC is optional as is the loader. One of the goals of 4 was to really help produce optimized builds based on class dependencies, so you should be able to get your JS built the way you describe.Don Griffin
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3 Nov 2011 9:57 AM #17
The current 4.1 release is just a Preview and would (obviously) not be something to upgrade to just yet. We released it to see if we were on track with performance gains that we observed internally.
Thanks for taking a look and working with 4.1. Please report issues you are having so we can fix as many as possible for the final release.Don Griffin
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3 Nov 2011 10:46 AM #18
You are correct and we are focused on the performance of our examples as we work to eliminate those general performance problems. That said, we are also keenly aware that while we may rack up wins with our examples, that does not necessarily translate into real world gains or at least those gains may vary by some amount. Which is why we released 4.1 so early in its stabilization phase.
What I was thinking would be of value is example code that illustrates how you compose and configure components in your app. If your app is very similar to our examples, then our current process should provide adequate coverage for your use of the framework. But if not, any examples you might provide would help expand that coverage.
An example of where this can be of value to our development process (and this is not a complaint : In 4.1 PR1, we have an unsupported layout use case: auto width derived from CSS and not from "shrink-wrap to content". It turns out that the Portal example and little else uses this particular flavor of autoWidth so we decided to ship with that as a known issue. It may well be that some apps are heavily reliant on that. Or maybe 99% of apps rely on it. Perhaps we would have gotten 10x the feedback on 4.1 PR1 had we prioritized this over other fixes.
The same can apply to use cases for which we might have or need special optimizations. We obviously want the most common use cases to be particularly well optimized, but "common" is really a statistical question.
A trace on 4.0.7 would probably not be that helpful now that we have reworked so much of the known problem areas... maybe 4.1... once it is stable enough for you to test.
Thanks for all your feedback and assistance... much appreciated!Don Griffin
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3 Nov 2011 11:53 AM #19
Thanks for the reply.
My app is on the very large side but isn't doing anything out of the ordinary. By that I mean I'm not doing any cleaver overrides, custom components and only have a hand full of my own JavaScript functions, which are basic condition checks. Essentially think Sencha complex layout example, with many more tabs, a dozen or so grids, forms etc the basic stuff you need in a UI.
I would love to give you access to my code but IP consideration prevent me form doing so.
Just to give an idea of how badly 4.0.7 performs under IE, my app takes 27 seconds to load and the UI is barley responsive. The same app under Chrome takes 5 seconds and the UI has acceptable response times.
My app is a bit of a mute point however, as say it's not more technically complex than the Sencha example, it's just much bigger.
Can we for clarities sake agree that there is a fundamental performance issue on 4.1 pr1? With that in mind can we agree that when the release build of 4.1 is made available, if that also exhibits the same performance profile as 4.1 pr1, that Sencha communicate exactly what the situation is.
1. We accept there is a serious issue here and will fix the problem and give the promised performance hike over 3.x
2. We know there is a serious issue here but that's the best we can do performance wise in the 4.x framework. (Outside of minor optimisations)
On a related diagnostic note, I have noticed when profiling the layout example that IE typically loads twice as many images as say Chrome or FF. Just speculation here but are you doing anything clever with the IO that waits on each get? i.e. something that you weren't doing in 3.x
3 Nov 2011 12:13 PM #20Don Griffin
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
From: Gus Correa (gus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-07 20:40:42
On 03/06/2014 04:52 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
> No, I did all these and none worked.
> I just found, with exact the same code, data and job settings, a job can really run one day while cannot the other day. It is NOT repeatable. I don't know what the problem is: hardware? OpenMPI? PBS Pro?
> Anyway, I may have to give up using OpenMPI on that system and switch to IntelMPI which always work.
> Thanks,
> Beichuan
Well, this machine may have been setup to run only
Intel MPI (DAPL?) and SGI MPI.
It is a pity that it doesn't seem to work with OpenMPI.
In any case, good luck with your research project.
Gus Correa
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> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gus Correa
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 13:51
> To: Open MPI Users
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
> On 03/06/2014 03:35 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
>> Gus,
>> Yes, 10.148.0.0/16 is the IB subnet.
>> I did try others but none worked:
>> #export
>> TCP="--mca btl sm,openib"
>> No run, no output
> If I remember right, and unless this changed in recent OMPI vervsions, you also need "self":
> -mca btl sm,openib,self
> Alternatively, you could rule out tcp:
> -mca btl ^tcp
>> #export
>> TCP="--mca btl sm,openib --mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>> No run, no output
> > Beichuan
> Likewise, "self" is missing here.
> Also, I don't know if you can ask for openib and also add --mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16.
> Note that one turns off tcp (I think),
> whereas the other requests a tcp interface (or that the IB interface with IPoIB functionality).
> That combination sounds weird to me.
> The OMPI developers may clarify if this is valid syntax/syntax combination.
> I would try simply -mca btl sm,openib,self, which is likely to give you the IB transport with verbs, plus shared memory intra-node, plus the
> (mandatory?) self (loopback interface?).
> In my experience, this will also help identify any malfunctioning IB HCA in the nodes (with a failure/error message).
> I hope it helps,
> Gus Correa
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gus Correa
>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 13:16
>> To: Open MPI Users
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
>> Hi Beichuan
>> So, it looks like that now the program runs, even though with specific settings depending on whether you're using OMPI 1.6.5 or 1.7.4, right?
>> It looks like the problem now is performance, right?
>> System load affects performance, but unless the network is overwhelmed, or perhaps the Lustre file system is hanging or too slow, I would think that a walltime increase from 1min to 10min is not related to system load, but something else.
>> Do you remember the setup that gave you 1min walltime?
>> Was it the same that you sent below?
>> Do you happen to know which nodes?
>> Are you sharing nodes with other jobs, or are you running alone on the nodes?
>> Sharing with other processes may slow down your job.
>> If you request all cores in the node, PBS should give you a full node (unless they tricked PBS to think the nodes have more cores than they actually do).
>> How do you request the nodes in your #PBS directives?
>> Do you request nodes and ppn, or do you request procs?
>> I suggest that you do:
>> cat $PBS_NODEFILE
>> in your PBS script, just to document which nodes are actually given to you.
>> Also helpful to document/troubleshoot is to add -v and -tag-output to your mpiexec command line.
>> The difference in walltime could be due to some malfunction of IB HCAs on the nodes, for instance.
>> Since you are allowing (if I remember right) the use of TCP, OpenMPI will try to use any interfaces that you did not rule out.
>> If your mpiexec command line doesn't make any restriction, it will use anything available, if I remember right.
>> (Jeff will correct me in the next second.) If your mpiexec command line has mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16 it will use the 10.148.0.0/16 subnet in with TCP transport, I think.
>> (Jeff will cut my list subscription after that one, for spreading misinformation.)
>> In either case my impression is that you may have left a door open to the use of non-IB (and non-IB-verbs) transport.
>> Is 10.148.0.0/16 the an Infiniband subnet or an Ethernet subnet?
>> Did you remeber Jeff's suggestion from a while ago to avoid TCP (over Ethernet or over IB), and stick to IB verbs?
>> Is 10.148.0.0/16 the IB or the Ethernet subnet?
>> On 03/02/2014 02:38 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>> > Both 1.6.x and 1.7.x/1.8.x will need verbs.h to use the native verbs
>> > network stack.
>> >
>> > You can use emulated TCP over IB (e.g., using the OMPI TCP BTL), but
>> > it's nowhere near as fast/efficient the native verbs network stack.
>> >
>> You could force the use of IB verbs with
>> -mca btl ^tcp
>> or with
>> -mca btl sm,openib,self
>> on the mpiexec command line.
>> In this case, if any of the IB HCAs on the nodes is bad,
>> the job will abort with an error message, instead of running too slow
>> (if it is using other networks).
>> There are also ways to tell OMPI to do a more verbose output,
>> that may perhaps help diagnose the problem.
>> ompi_info | grep verbose
>> may give some hints (I confess I don't remember them).
>> Believe me, this did happen to me, i.e., to run MPI programs in a
>> cluster that had all sorts of non-homogeneous nodes, some with
>> faulty IB HCAs, some with incomplete OFED installation, some that
>> were not mounting shared file systems properly, etc.
>> [I didn't administer that one!]
>> Hopefully that is not the problem you are facing, but verbose output
>> may help anyways.
>> I hope this helps,
>> Gus Correa
>> On 03/06/2014 01:49 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
>>> 1. For $TMPDIR and $TCP, there are four combinations by commenting on/off (note the system's default TMPDIR=/work3/yanb):
>>> export TMPDIR=/work1/home/yanb/tmp
>>> TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>> 2. I tested the 4 combinations for OpenMPI 1.6.5 and OpenMPI 1.7.4 respectively for the pure-MPI mode (no OPENMP threads; 8 nodes, each node runs 16 processes). The results are weird: of all 8 cases, only TWO of them can run, but run so slow:
>>> OpenMPI 1.6.5:
>>> export TMPDIR=/work1/home/yanb/tmp
>>> TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>> Warning: shared-memory, /work1/home/yanb/tmp/
>>> Run, take 10 minutes, slow
>>> OpenMPI 1.7.4:
>>> #export TMPDIR=/work1/home/yanb/tmp
>>> #TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>> Warning: shared-memory /work3/yanb/605832.SPIRIT/
>>> Run, take 10 minutess, slow
>>> So you see, a) openmpi 1.6.5 and 1.7.4 need different settings to run;
>> b) whether specifying TMPDIR, I got the shared memory warning.
>>> 3. But a few days ago, OpenMPI 1.6.5 worked great and took only 1 minute
>> (now it takes 10 minutes). I am so confused by the results.
>> Does the system loading level or fluctuation or PBS pro affect OpenMPI
>> performance?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Beichuan
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gus Correa
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 08:48
>>> To: Open MPI Users
>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
>>> Hi Beichuan
>>> So, from "df" it looks like /home is /work1, right?
>>> Also, "mount" shows only /work[1-4], not the other
>>> 7 CWFS panfs (Panasas?), which apparently are not available in the compute nodes/blades.
>>> I presume you have access and are using only some of the /work[1-4]
>>> (lustre) file systems for all your MPI and other software installation, right? Not the panfs, right?
>>> Awkward that it doesn't work, because lustre is supposed to be a parallel file system, highly available to all nodes (assuming it is mounted on all nodes).
>>> It also shows a small /tmp with a tmpfs file system, which is volatile, in memory:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs
>>> I would guess they don't let you write there, so TMPDIR=/tmp may not be a possible option, but this is just a wild guess.
>>> Or maybe OMPI requires an actual non-volatile file system to write its shared memory auxiliary files and other stuff that normally goes on /tmp? [Jeff, Ralph, help!!] I kind of remember some old discussion on this list about this, but maybe it was in another list.
>>> [You could ask the sys admin about this, and perhaps what he recommends to use to replace /tmp.]
>>> Just in case they may have some file system mount point mixup, you could try perhaps TMPDIR=/work1/yanb/tmp (rather than /home) You could also try TMPDIR=/work3/yanb/tmp, as if I remember right this is another file system you have access to (not sure anymore, it may have been in the previous emails).
>>> Either way, you may need to create the tmp directory beforehand.
>>> **
>>> Any chances that this is an environment mixup?
>>> Say, that you may be inadvertently using the SGI-MPI mpiexec Using a /full/path/to/mpiexec in your job may clarify this.
>>> "which mpiexec" will tell, but since the environment on the compute nodes may not be exactly the same as in the login node, it may not be reliable information.
>>> Or perhaps you may not be pointing to the OMPI libraries?
>>> Are you exporting PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH on .bashrc/.tcshrc, with the OMPI items (bin and lib) *PREPENDED* (not appended), so as to take precedence over other possible/SGI/pre-existent MPI items?
>>> Those are pretty (ugly) common problems.
>>> **
>>> I hope this helps,
>>> Gus Correa
>>> On 03/03/2014 10:13 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
>>>> 1. info from a compute node
>>>> -bash-4.1$ hostname
>>>> r32i1n1
>>>> -bash-4.1$ df -h /home
>>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>> 10.148.18.45_at_o2ib:10.148.18.46_at_o2ib:/fs1
>>>> 1.2P 136T 1.1P 12% /work1 -bash-4.1$ mount
>>>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /tmp type
>>>> tmpfs (rw,size=150m) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
>>>> (rw) cpuset on /dev/cpuset type cpuset (rw)
>>>> 10.148.18.45_at_o2ib:10.148.18.46_at_o2ib:/fs1 on /work1 type lustre
>>>> (rw,flock)
>>>> 10.148.18.76_at_o2ib:10.148.18.164_at_o2ib:/fs2 on /work2 type lustre
>>>> (rw,flock)
>>>> 10.148.18.104_at_o2ib:10.148.18.165_at_o2ib:/fs3 on /work3 type lustre
>>>> (rw,flock)
>>>> 10.148.18.132_at_o2ib:10.148.18.133_at_o2ib:/fs4 on /work4 type lustre
>>>> (rw,flock)
>>>> 2. For "export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp", I created it beforehand, and I did see mpi-related temporary files there when the job gets started.
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gus
>>>> Correa
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 18:23
>>>> To: Open MPI Users
>>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
>>>> Hi Beichuan
>>>> OK, it says "unclassified.html", so I presume it is not a problem.
>>>> The web site says the computer is an SGI ICE X.
>>>> I am not familiar to it, so what follows are guesses.
>>>> The SGI site brochure suggests that the nodes/blades have local disks:
>>>> https://www.sgi.com/pdfs/4330.pdf
>>>> The file systems prefixed with IP addresses (work[1-4]) and with panfs (cwfs and CWFS[1-6]) and a colon (:) are shared exports (not local), but not necessarily NFS (panfs may be Panasas?).
>>>> From this output it is hard to tell where /home is, but I would guess it is also shared (not local).
>>>> Maybe "df -h /home" will tell. Or perhaps "mount".
>>>> You may be logged in to a login/service node, so although it does have a /tmp (your ls / shows tmp), this doesn't guarantee that the compute nodes/blades also do.
>>>> Since your jobs failed when you specified TMPDIR=/tmp, I would guess /tmp doesn't exist on the nodes/blades, or is not writable.
>>>> Did you try to submit a job with, say, "mpiexec -np 16 ls -ld /tmp"?
>>>> This should tell if /tmp exists on the nodes, if it is writable.
>>>> A stupid question:
>>>> When you tried your job with this:
>>>> export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp
>>>> Did you create the directory /home/yanb/tmp beforehand?
>>>> Anyway, you may need to ask the help of a system administrator of this machine.
>>>> Gus Correa
>>>> On 03/03/2014 07:43 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
>>>>> Gus,
>>>>> I am using this system: http://centers.hpc.mil/systems/unclassified.html#Spirit. I don't know exactly configurations of the file system. Here is the output of "df -h":
>>>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>> /dev/sda6 919G 16G 857G 2% /
>>>>> tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev/shm
>>>>> /dev/sda5 139M 33M 100M 25% /boot
>>>>> adfs3v-s:/adfs3/hafs14
>>>>> 6.5T 678G 5.5T 11% /scratch
>>>>> adfs3v-s:/adfs3/hafs16
>>>>> 6.5T 678G 5.5T 11% /var/spool/mail
>>>>> 10.148.18.45_at_o2ib:10.148.18.46_at_o2ib:/fs1
>>>>> 1.2P 136T 1.1P 12% /work1
>>>>> 10.148.18.132_at_o2ib:10.148.18.133_at_o2ib:/fs4
>>>>> 1.2P 793T 368T 69% /work4
>>>>> 10.148.18.104_at_o2ib:10.148.18.165_at_o2ib:/fs3
>>>>> 1.2P 509T 652T 44% /work3
>>>>> 10.148.18.76_at_o2ib:10.148.18.164_at_o2ib:/fs2
>>>>> 1.2P 521T 640T 45% /work2
>>>>> panfs://172.16.0.10/CWFS
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/cwfs
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.61/CWFS1
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS1
>>>>> panfs://172.16.0.210/CWFS2
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS2
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.125/CWFS3
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS3
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.224/CWFS4
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS4
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.224/CWFS5
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS5
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.224/CWFS6
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS6
>>>>> panfs://172.16.1.224/CWFS7
>>>>> 728T 286T 443T 40% /p/CWFS7
>>>>> 1. My home directory is /home/yanb.
>>>>> My simulation files are located at /work3/yanb.
>>>>> The default TMPDIR set by system is just /work3/yanb
>>>>> 2. I did try not to set TMPDIR and let it default, which is just case 1 and case 2.
>>>>> Case1: #export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp
>>>>> TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>>>> It gives no apparent reason.
>>>>> Case2: #export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp
>>>>> #TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>>>> It gives warning of shared memory file on network file system.
>>>>> 3. With "export TMPDIR=/tmp", the job gives the same, no apparent reason.
>>>>> 4. FYI, "ls /" gives:
>>>>> ELT apps cgroup hafs1 hafs12 hafs2 hafs5 hafs8 home lost+found mnt p root selinux tftpboot var work3
>>>>> admin bin dev hafs10 hafs13 hafs3 hafs6 hafs9 lib media net panfs sbin srv tmp work1 work4
>>>>> app boot etc hafs11 hafs15 hafs4 hafs7 hafs_x86_64 lib64 misc opt proc scratch sys usr work2 workspace
>>>>> Beichuan
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gus
>>>>> Correa
>>>>> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 17:24
>>>>> To: Open MPI Users
>>>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
>>>>> Hi Beichuan
>>>>> If you are using the university cluster, chances are that /home is not local, but on an NFS share, or perhaps Lustre (which you may have mentioned before, I don't remember).
>>>>> Maybe "df -h" will show what is local what is not.
>>>>> It works for NFS, it prefixes file systems with the server name, but I don't know about Lustre.
>>>>> Did you try just not to set TMPDIR and let it default?
>>>>> If the default TMPDIR is on Lustre (did you say this?, anyway I don't
>>>>> remember) you could perhaps try to force it to /tmp:
>>>>> export TMPDIR=/tmp,
>>>>> If the cluster nodes are diskfull /tmp is likely to exist and be local to the cluster nodes.
>>>>> [But the cluster nodes may be diskless ... :( ]
>>>>> I hope this helps,
>>>>> Gus Correa
>>>>> On 03/03/2014 07:10 PM, Beichuan Yan wrote:
>>>>>> How to set TMPDIR to a local filesystem? Is /home/yanb/tmp a local filesystem? I don't know how to tell a directory is local file system or network file system.
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: users [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff
>>>>>> Squyres (jsquyres)
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 16:57
>>>>>> To: Open MPI Users
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI job initializing problem
>>>>>> How about setting TMPDIR to a local filesystem?
>>>>>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Beichuan Yan<beichuan.yan_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>>> I agree there are two cases for pure-MPI mode: 1. Job fails with no apparent reason; 2 job complains shared-memory file on network file system, which can be resolved by " export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp", /home/yanb/tmp is my local directory. The default TMPDIR points to a Lustre directory.
>>>>>>> There is no any other output. I checked my job with "qstat -n" and found that processes were actually not started on compute nodes even though PBS Pro has "started" my job.
>>>>>>> Beichuan
>>>>>>>> 3. Then I test pure-MPI mode: OPENMP is turned off, and each compute node runs 16 processes (clearly shared-memory of MPI is used). Four combinations of "TMPDIR" and "TCP" are tested:
>>>>>>>> case 1:
>>>>>>>> #export TMPDIR=/home/yanb/tmp
>>>>>>>> TCP="--mca btl_tcp_if_include 10.148.0.0/16"
>>>>>>>> mpirun $TCP -np 64 -npernode 16 -hostfile $PBS_NODEFILE
>>>>>>>> ./paraEllip3d input.txt
>>>>>>>> output:
>>>>>>>> Start Prologue v2.5 Mon Mar 3 15:47:16 EST 2014 End Prologue v2.5
>>>>>>>> Mon Mar 3 15:47:16 EST 2014
>>>>>>>> -bash: line 1: 448597 Terminated /var/spool/PBS/mom_priv/jobs/602244.service12.SC
>>>>>>>> Start Epilogue v2.5 Mon Mar 3 15:50:51 EST 2014 Statistics
>>>>>>>> cpupercent=0,cput=00:00:00,mem=7028kb,ncpus=128,vmem=495768kb,wall
>>>>>>>> t
>>>>>>>> i
>>>>>>>> m
>>>>>>>> e
>>>>>>>> =00:03:24 End Epilogue v2.5 Mon Mar 3 15:50:52 EST 2014
>>>>>>> It looks like you have two general cases:
>>>>>>> 1. The job fails for no apparent reason (like above), or 2. The job
>>>>>>> complains that your TMPDIR is on a shared filesystem
>>>>>>> Right?
>>>>>>> I think the real issue, then, is to figure out why your jobs are failing with no output.
>>>>>>> Is there anything in the stderr output?
>>>>>>> --
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Yesterday, a parade of survivors made their way to the witness stand at the Moakley Federal Courthouse to deliver "victim impact statements" before convicted gangster and long-time fugitive Whitey Bulger is sentenced for crimes committed during his decades-long reign of terror in South Boston.
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen has a terrific column today reporting some of the highlights of an emotionally powerful day. Among his many crimes, Bulger killed Theresa Bond's father 30 years ago. Two of her brothers later committed suicide.
But even as Whitey Bulger ignored her and all the pain inside Judge Denise Casper's courtroom, Theresa Bond found a weapon to use against him.
"I just want you to know that I don't hate you," she told him. "I don't have that authority. That would be judging you. I do hate the choices that you've made, along with your associates, but more so, I hate the choices our government has made to allow you to rule the streets and perform such horrific acts of evil."
When she was finished with him, Bond left Whitey Bulger with this: "Mr. Bulger, do you have remorse for taking my father's life? I think you do. I forgive you."
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Can someone recommend a book about forgiveness from both a psychological and theological perspective? It strikes me as one of the most complicated acts and one that is fraught with so many nuances.
When the little Amish girls were killed in Pennsylvania, among a community where Raber had relatives, some went to the killer's funeral and reported a sense of relief in hearing the minister say words to the effect that our judgment lies with God alone. A father of one of the dead girls said he could then forgive because he did not have to carry around the responsibility for judging the killer.
I know that some recovering alcoholics find the asking for forgiveness part of the "cure" one of the hardest steps. Some alcoholics feel they're victims and asking for forgiveness of a disease bothers them. Sometimes forgiveness is given fairly grudgingly by family of alcoholics--they know forgiveness is necessary for recovery, but they still carry resentments.
And haven't we all known someone who tells us that they or God forgives us when we wonder what we really need to be forgiven FOR?
I'm confident the Amish at Nickel Mines, PA were able to publicly forgive their daughers' killer because they lived in a community that practiced forgiveness over many generations. Forgiveness, like peace, isn't natural to me, or perhaps most of us this side of the fall. It takes practice, patience, and a community to keep slow learners, like me, accountable. I love the Beatles' music, but peace and forgiveness need far, far more than "a chance."
Here are just a few quick book suggestions. Perhaps there's something here you might find of value:
Nonfiction on Forgiveness:
L. Gregory Jones: Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis
Stanely Hauerwas: "Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness," "Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church," and "Remembering as a Moral Task: A The Challenge of the Holocaust," in The Hauerwas Reader
Simon Weisenthal, et al. : The Sunflower: On the Possilibilities and Limits of Forvgiveness
Regarding my (and possibly your) own need to be forgiven, you may also find helpful:
James Alison: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes
Sebastian Moore: The Crucified Jesus is No Stranger
Nonfiction on Reconciliation:
Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice: Reconciling All AThings: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace, and Healing
Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Fiction on the Challenges of Forgiveness:
Oscar Hijuelos: Mr. Ives' Christmas
Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country
Anne Tyler: Saint Maybe
And for a dark tale of forgiveness failed, there's Joan Brady: A Theory of War
Brian, thanks!
You're welcome. Not to plug up the combox, but if you learn from movies, try:
Le Fils (The Son)
To End All Wars
and The Mission, especially the character of Mendoza
and one last short book:
L Gregory Jones and Celestin Musekura: Forgiving as We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace
I'll stop now....
Luke, thank you. Such forgiveness is difficult for our minds to grasp, but somehow it speaks to the heart. And Brian - what a trove of resources you've given us here.
Has one forgiven if one has not forgotten?
I think that we have to be very careful around this whole notion of forgiveness. There is an element of justice that is very important in terms of redressing issues. Anger over an injustice done (such as the murder of a loved one for no reason) is a psychologically healthy and righteous thing. It does not make somebody less Christian if they cannot bring themselves to forgive the assailant. The person who does not forgive is not necessarily less evolved or holy than the person who does.
Afterall, forgiveness could be a psychological balm that prevents people from working through health emotions such as anger over injustice. I don't think that forgiveness in the way it is being described here should be advanced as the culmination and pinnacle of Christian life. Besides, I do not have it within my power to forgive transgressions done to others on their behalf. I can forgive a transgression against me and my person but not others. Christ is the only one who can absolve people of their sins. If I choose to forgive, I am choosing not to allow that event have power over me. As the Arabic phrase going around the internet says, "forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace".
I agree with what George says. I confess that I am uncomfortable to an extent with the valorization that forgiveness receives. I am actually reminded of something my wife, who has lost many relatives to cancer, often complains about, which is the pressure placed on the sick to "be strong." A really huge complex of feelings is reduced an extremely banal moral imperative.
There was a documentary that came out recently about school bullies that got a lot of notice. There is a really disgusting scene in the movie where a teacher or principal is conducting a sort of ad hoc ceremony where a bully is going to apologize to his long time victim. The bully makes his (clearly phony) apology, and his victim doesn't want to shake his hand after. The teacher then berates the victim, telling him that he is as bad as the bully if he doesn't go through the motions of reconciliation. That, of course, is bullshit.
I surely recognize that holding on to anger can be damaging, but I hate that we morally pressure people into forgiving those who hurt them, or represent their maintaining anger as a failure in virtue.
George and Abe, I think you're getting to what I see as the impurities in human forgiveness. I'm interested in what we are really doing when we say we forgive someone. I think some forgiveness is tantamount to saying, "I just don't care anymore," which could stem from greater understanding and compassion. Or it could stem from indifference or the desire to stop letting someone who has wronged you take up so much space in your life.
I also hear a lot of people who have been wronged by a former spouse or family member say, "I've forgiven them and moved on with my life," when, in fact, the perpetrator of the wrong has never asked for forgiveness or really been bothered by the wrong.
Forgiveness is a difficult concept. Bishops told victims who had been sexually abused by priests that they had to forgive the abusers and not be angry at them.
God is wrathful toward injustice - and He is forgiving and merciful. How to understand this? How to live it in our own lives? Should we forgive the impenitent? Can we? Can forgiveness exist only if the offender is penitent? What should be out attutude to the impenitent? What is God's?
"Forgiveness is a difficult concept. Bishops told victims who had been sexually abused by priests that they had to forgive the abusers and not be angry at them."
I think much might depend on whether such forgiveness implies that victims should also wish that the abusing priests (and people of that sort) not be pursued by the law, and punished by fines, imprisonment, and other such penalties.
Touching specifically on forgiveness, a book deeply important to related questions (some raised above) is Avishai Margalit's The Ethics of Memory. Also Marilynne Robinson, powerfully, in both Gilead and Home:
…There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. …If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace. (Home, p. 45)
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I would have told Papa to stuff it.
I think much might depend on whether such forgiveness implies that victims should also wish that the abusing priests (and people of that sort) not be pursued by the law, and punished by fines, imprisonment, and other such penalties.
Yes. Pope John Paul II forgave his would-be assassin ... who was in prison. Is it easier to forgive Bulger when you know he's going to die in prison? Easier to forgive the man who killed those little Amish girls after he himself was dead? Is it harder to forgive someone who abused you as a child when he goes scot free?
Wow! Well said! I definitely agree that there exists a kind of perverse valorization of forgiveness, and this valorization tends to spill over to the perpetrator so that, as you point out, a victim who doesn't go along with it himself becomes a perpetrator by proxy. Never thought I'd agree with you Abe, but hey, there it is.
I think there is a legitimate valor to forgiveness. It's heroic because people have a perfect right NOT to forgive when they are seriously wronged. Forgiveness dosesn't mean forgetting and it doesn't mean not protecting yourself from future wrong.
I once heard a woman named Immaculee Ilibagiza speak; she survived the Rwanda genocide by hiding in a local pastor's half bath for several months with half a dozen other women. Her former friends and neighbors murdered most of her family.
She writes the following:
"Forgiving the Unforgivable
I was told that one of our former Hutu neighbors was the leader of a gang that had killed my mother and my brother. When I heard that he was being held in a local prison, I decided to go see him. I didn't know what I would do when I saw him face-to-face.
When a guard brought the man from his cell, I hardly recognized this former neighbor, the father of children I had known as I was growing up. His hair was disheveled, and bits of food clung to his unshaven face. He stared at me defiantly. Then when I quietly but sincerely said three short words: "I forgive you," peace swept over my soul. I wanted to be free of hatred because I had seen what the hatred of this man and other Hutus had done. His defiant look melted away, and he bowed his head. I'm sure it was in shame for what he had done.
As I walked out of the prison, the Tutsi man who ran the prison turned to me in anger. "How could you forgive him?" he said. The man had lost his children during the genocide. A year later, I met him again, and he told me that I had changed his life. He had been so full of hate and anger that he was miserable. When he saw that I could forgive and move on with my life after all I had been through and lost, he knew this was also what he wanted to do."
Several here have posted remarks suggestive (IMHO) of the notion forgiveness is an event/process most usefully and truthfully understood as an either/or creature. Nonsense. The complexity of the events and personal faults that lead a person to commit truly heinous crimes are not understood (if they are infact understandable at all) usefully or truthfully as either/or realities. Ambiguity is real. It is us.
That the women being quoted in this post has and will suffer needlessly is unquestionable. And tragic. The part of her remarks quoted above I find telling is "I hate the choices our government has made...". Who is this "government" to which she is referring? You? Me? No. It surely must be them.
@MightBe (11/15, 9:03 am) Thanks for your comment. I don't know exactly to whom Theresa Bond was referring when she said "I hate the choices our government has made...", but I have a pretty good guess.
Whitey Bulger's reign of terror and destruction was aided and abetted by Boston FBI agents like John Connolly (a childhood friend of Bulger's and his FBI "handler", now imprisoned for murder) and John Morris (Connolly's supervisor) who protected him as a "source" in their efforts to break up the Boston branch of the Mafia (known to Bulger as "the competition"). It is a common belief---with some substantial evidence to support it---among local law enforcement officials and the families of Bulger's victims that the DOJ has covered up how far the FBI went to protect Bulger.
It's those choices (I'm fairly sure) that Bond was talking about.
I higly recommend Iris Murdock's novel The Good Apprentice, in which she eloquently addresses the theme of forgiveness, that, she says, always begins with forgiveness of ourselves. Her message coincices with Christ's dictum, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." In other words, to love others you must love youself. Therefore, to be able to forgive, one must be able to forgive oneself. I think both are sometimes are difficult for everyone at certain stages of life. No, it's never easy....
This subject is hard, and it's difficult to write about it without writing something that can easily be misunderstood. But I am sure the standard, or the starting point, is "as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the basic, one-on-one level, the duty is clear. I have to forgive them if they ask for forgiveness -- 77 times a day if that's how often it's necessary. But if it is necessary, somebody had better get counseling.
Problems start to arise when the other person does not ask for forgiveness. In that case, my forgiveness comes back to me -- as the peace when the disciples offered it to a house and were rejected. That's nice, and it gets the load of grudge off my back. I'm not marinating in it, so I feel better. Sometimes that is going to be a process, as the hurt comes back to my mind and, hopefully, my forgiveness comes back to the offender. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, especially if forgetting leaves you open to being bitten again.
But then how do I feel if the s.o.b. not only doesn't ask for forgiveness but stands there with a big smirk on his face and says, "And I'll kill more of you if I get loose"? Now getting rid of my own grudge calls for saintliness. I can try. I can't be expected to succeed perfectly. It would become easier if I had the chance to hit him across his smirking mouth with a two-by-four first, even though that goes against every pacific trait I have tried to develop in myself.
Forgiving while the offender is still at large is still harder. Hypothetically, I suppose I should be able to forgive while cheering on the posse to catch him. Practically, I think the catching has to come before the forgiving.
Can we forgive sins against someone else? No, forgiving is like loving. I can't love for someone else. I think everyone is offered the opportunity to forgive. It's up to them to take it or pass it up.
Adding to the pile of book recommendations: Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). One take-away for me: forgiveness is not the same as pardon, which is not the same as reconciliation. Forgiveness is something I do for myself--and in the Amish culture is a requirement to be forgiven. They take seriously Jesus' injunction in Matthew 6:14-15--as should we all. The acceptance--or non-acceptance--of our forgiveness is not the point: we forgive to take the burden of a desire for revenge off of our shoulders. Pardon, on the other hand, requires that the offender admit his or her culpability and ask for it. That may not happen. Reconciliation is yet a third step in a return to wholeness. In that sense, I may forgive you and you may acknowledge your need for forgiveness and plead for it. But that doesn't mean I will want to have dinner with you. But with pardon at least we have re-established a foundation on which we can live in peace, albeit at some remove from one another.
I remember a homily preached by Fr. Barry Brunsman, OFM, at St. Clare Parish in Portland, Oregon, many years ago. He said the worst advice on forgiveness was "Forgive and forget." Rather, he said, one should forgive but remember, in order that, by remembering how one felt, one would never want to visit the same pain on another.
Larry Hansen, tangential plug here: Donald Kraybill has written a number of books and articles about Amish beliefs and culture, and he "gets" them.
Growing Up Amish, by Ira Wagler, was pretty good, imho. A quick and easy read for anyone curious about the Amish.
(I don't "get" them at all. Punishing girls by pulling all their teeth is torture, for startters. Hard to overlook that.)
As to forgiveness? I always liked the Act of Love that we said at the end of the day in grade school: "I forgive all who have injured me and ask pardon of all whom I have injured."
Heavens, Gerelyn! What have you been reading!? I can't say I "get" my Amish in-laws, and I think some of their child-rearing techniques are psychologically coercive (shunning, refusing to let kids go to school past 8th grade, etc.). But corporal punishment like spanking and physical abuse is extremely rare among Raber's family. I can't think of anyone in that community who would allow a child's teeth to be pulled without calling the law.


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成人 is a very specific term and refers to persons who reached the age of 20 and above. It's derived from the definition of the Japanese law, which says "年齢二十歳をもって、成年とする".
You used to get drafted and taxed after this age. In today's context, it's the legal drinking/smoking age.
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You can't do this with 成人. It's also more formal than 大人 so it's much more common to use 大人 in everyday speech. Also 成人になる specifically means "to turn 20". 大人になる usually means "to become mature".
This is what I found in my dictionary. Considering I'm not actually an expert, or even an intermediate at reading Japanese, it might not be the definite answer you're looking for.
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The thesaurus is "Tsukaikata no Wakaru Ruigo Reikai Jiten" (使い方の分かる類語例解辞典), which is provided by the Japanese publisher Shogakukan.
成人 means adult or to mature or to grow up. 大人 just means adult.
You may use 大人 as "Only adults can see this film" I'd treat it like a noun. 大人だけこの映画が見える。
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Led by freshman Alexis Dillard's first career double-double and a season-high 11 3-pointers, Anderson University women's basketball captured a convincing 72-51 victory over South Atlantic Conference leader, Carson-Newman, Wednesday evening at the Abney Athletic Center.
Dillard was a force underneath for the Trojans, who captured their fourth win in their last five games, notching 10 points and 12 rebounds, including nine boards on the defensive side. The double-double marks the seventh for AU this season, but first by a player other than sophomore Jennifer Monroe or junior Sierra Simpson.
Dillard headlined a handful of Trojans to reach double figures on the night as the sharpshooting tandem of senior Emily Willoughby and junior Lesley Woods each tallied four 3-pointers on the night, as Woods climbed up the all-time 3-pointers made list to eighth-place in the program's history, making 120 for her career. Willoughby, who went 4-of-5 from behind the arc, reached 100 career 3-pointers made with 13:44 remaining in the second half when she buried a long-range shot in front of the AU bench.
Freshman Heather Jankowy also found success from behind the arc with three 3-pointers en route to an 11-point night. Jankowy has now scored in double figures in Anderson's last five contests, averaging 11.4 points per game in the span. Joining Dillard with 10 points was junior Jasmine Franklin to go along with her seven rebounds and a perfect 6-for-6 night from the free throw line.
"This was a great team win tonight against a very good and well-coached Carson-Newman team," Anderson head coach Jimmy Garrity said. "I thought we did a good job attacking their press and making plays."
Carson-Newman, which entered the game in a tie for first-place in the SAC standings with Wingate, shot just 24.3 percent (17-for-70) from the field and 17.9 percent (5-for-28) from 3-point range for the game. Sophomore point guard Jai Jai McLaughlin was the lone Eagle to reach double digits with 10 points in 30 minutes. With the setback, C-N falls to 12-7 overall and 9-4 in league play.
The contest began even as neither team could find an advantage, playing to nine ties in the opening 20 minutes. With the scoreline close throughout the half, the Trojans were unable to maintain the Eagles on the board, as C-N out-rebounded the home side 32-21 in the first half, including 18 offensive, but managed to shoot just 23.8 percent (10-for-42) from the field.
"After the first couple of minutes, we did an excellent job stopping them in transition, which is how they want to play," Garrity said. "After giving up 18 offensive rebounds in the first half, we did a much better job boxing out and rebounding in the second half, giving up just three offensive boards."
With the score knotted at 24-24 with less than two minutes left in the first half, Willoughby dropped in her second trey of the evening from the corner that would give Anderson a lead it eventually would never relinquish. The trey began a 6-0 run for the Trojans to close the half, equaling their highest margin of six heading into halftime.
Anderson's offensive attack continued in the second period, as Woods opened up the half with back-to-back treys. Simpson continued the run on a jumper, forcing a Carson-Newman timeout as the Trojans held a 38-24 lead.
"It was great to get off to such a hot start in the second half," Garrity said. "We used that momentum and tough defense to carry us through the second half."
Following the run, AU held a double-digit lead for the remainder of the contest as the Trojans shot 55.2 percent (16-for-29) in the second half, including six made 3-pointers. The well-balanced scoring attacked was led by Dillard who went 3-of-3 from the field and posted six rebounds playing 13 of the final 20 minutes.
Anderson took its largest advantage of 22 when Jankowy dropped in her lone 3-pointer of the second stanza at the 6:42 mark, putting the Trojans ahead 61-39. Carson-Newman would come as close as 16 points in the final six minutes as the Trojans cruised to their 11th win of the season.
The victory marks Anderson's third straight win over the Eagles after sweeping the series a season ago. The Black and Gold are now 7-3 at the Abney Center and are 9-1 when scoring more than 70 points for a game.
After posting a 4-4 record for the month of January, the Trojans seek a winning mark in February as they begin a three-game road trip to open the month. The stretch begins on Saturday when Anderson heads to in-state rival Newberry. Tip-off from Eleazer Arena is set for 2 p.m.


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