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Israel is widely portrayed as the primary obstacle to peace in the Middle East, but a new poll reveals that Israelis may have very good reason for not trusting the intentions of their Palestinian peace partners.
Conducted by American pollster Stanley Greenberg and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, the survey found that 61 percent of Palestinians do not accept the "two states for two peoples" formula that has thus far driven the peace process.
An even larger 66 percent said that while they would accept a "two-state solution" as a first step, they would want to eventually move on to replacing Israel with a single Palestinian state.
A full 92 percent said that even in a two-state solution phase, Jerusalem can be the capital of "Palestine" only, regardless of whether or not Israel retains control over the Jewish-dominated western half of the city.
Their intractable hard-line positions are the result of the fact that an overwhelming 72 percent of Palestinians reject any Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem and the land as a whole.
When your opponent is painted as an occupying invader with no legitimate reason to be in the land, it is easy to support violence against him, which most Palestinians do. Over 62 percent of respondents said Palestinian terror groups should abduct more Israeli soldiers until their demands are met, and 53 percent said they are in favor of teaching songs about hating Jews in Palestinian schools.
Note, that's not songs about hating Israel or the Zionists, but songs about hating the Jewish race of people. In other words, anti-Semitism is taught in Palestinian schools with parental approval and support. It is that kind of education that has kept a healthy 73 percent of Palestinian adults in agreement with the old Islamic teaching that one day every Jew must be hunted down and killed.
For now, the poll showed that an average "only" 30 percent of Palestinians support open warfare against Israel, while 65 percent feel that diplomatic efforts are currently meeting most of their needs.
By contrast, the vast majority of Israelis, even many of those on the right, long ago surrendered to the idea that an independent Palestinian Arab state is needed to end the conflict.
The problem most Israelis have is that while an agreement to a two-state solution may be signed with the current Palestinian leadership today, there is no telling who will be in charge of a Palestinian state tomorrow, especially given that a majority of Palestinians appear ready to vote into power groups like Hamas that have the ultimate goal of removing Israel from the map.
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I work at a used bookstore in Cary, NC. The two photographs below were found in a used book on our shelves. I would love to find the family of these people. I don't know if they are related to each other, but I suspect that they are from the same roll of film. There's no writing on either one of them, but one has the number 25 stamped on the back and the other is stamped 26.
It was pretty easy to track down whose grave this is. It has been entered on Find a Grave. I contacted the man who created the memorials for Joseph and Anna Sharp, but unfortunately, he's not a relative and hasn't researched the family. After I scanned the photos, I went ahead and uploaded the gravestone photo to both of the memorials, making it clear that I did not take these photographs and mentioned that I'm hoping to get the photos to people who will appreciate them!
It's hard to tell if this photograph was accidentally taken at an angle or if the house sits on a hill. If it was taken in Cambria County, PA, where the Sharps are buried, then I'd guess that it's on a slope. What do you think? Do those clothes look like the 40s to you? Please contact me if you think you know who these people are!

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Statenvertaling is the common title of a Dutch translation of the Bible, thus called because this translation was ordered by the States General of the Netherlands. It was made in 1626-37 by a number of learned men and first appeared in 1637. At first the Mennonites, particularly the more conservatives among them, were opposed to the Statenvertaling, preferring their Biestkens Bible; but gradually they introduced the new translation, which was more exact than the Biestkens Bible. Among the Frisian and Flemish Mennonites the Statenvertaling was generally used from about 1650, but not until the 12th edition of T. J. van Braght's Schole der Deugd of 1719 were the Bible texts quoted from the Statenvertaling. The Janjacobsgezinden and a few other strict groups did not use the Statenvertaling until the 19th century. After World War IIthe Statvertaling was generally replaced by a new translation published by the Dutch Bible Association (Bijbelgenootschap).
Dijkema, F. "De Doopsgezinden en de Statenvertaling." De Statenvertaling 1637-1937. Haarlem, 1937: 86-91.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Statenvertaling." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 25 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Statenvertaling&oldid=68419.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1959). Statenvertaling. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Statenvertaling&oldid=68419.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 619. All rights reserved.
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Pop Quiz:
1) What does the manger signify?
2) What if the inn has space?
This blog is part of chapter 6 in my book Right Texts, Wrong Meanings. Besides trying to draw some attention to the book, my main purpose in writing this blog (which has appeared in different forms in various publications) is show that Luke 2 deserves close attention for its strongly social message. Christmas is a great time to remind us of this message so that our 2013 will be a time of building up others while putting down our self-interest.
The common understanding about Luke 2 is that it is about the humble baby Jesus. The author said no such thing. In fact, Jesus did not occupy an important place in it other than being the destination of the quest for the shepherds. After all, why should Jesus be the central figure? He was a baby. He was not doing anything. While I'm not suggesting that Jesus occupy no importance place in his own narrative, the plot is built around the shepherds. The shepherds occupy a lot of the plot.
The repeated phrase in the passage is "lying in a manger" in Lk. 2.7, 12, 16. Most people just focus on the inn having no room. A month before Christmas, the Pope finally came out to say that the manger animal scene is a myth. In the passage, there was no animal. Scholars have different opinions as to what a manger was and what the "inn" actually was (obviously quite different from our Shangri La Hotels).
One fascinating suggestion points to the "inn" as a house that was so tiny that Mary could not lay all her stuff out to give birth. [1] The "inn" could have been a tiny house or a tiny guest room in a tiny house or added to the side of or on top of the house that belonged to one of the relatives of the holy family. After all, if they were going back to their hometown, they could count on the relatives' hospitality there (though we know that Joseph has a house in Nazareth). The poverty of Jesus' family is obvious in the offering they gave in Lk. 2.24 (doves and pigeons were poor people's sacrifices).
In his blog, Dr. Ian Paul, former dean of St. John's Nottingham, added another excellent and well-founded observation from Lukan vocabulary that the word "inn" was used to describe the upper room where the disciples had dinner with Jesus (Lk. 22.11) because Luke had a different word to describe "inn" in the Good Samaritan story (cf. Lk. 10.34). There was no space in the upper room of the very small family house. Is it not possible that the lack of space was in the upper dwelling of a house where the lower area where the manger was became the place where the holy family worked out the birth?
The slightly changed meaning from the traditional interpretation does not diminish (and may in fact enhance) the difficult circumstance of the holy family. What is a manger? The manger was most likely a wooden feeding (or stone according to one of my scholarly friend who acquired one such artifact) container for a horse at the side of the house. After all, people usually left their animals outside, as they traveled. Why indeed was Jesus left in an outside (but probably sheltered) place? The text clearly states that the shepherds had to find them in Lk. 2.12, 16. There is your answer. God wanted the first witnesses to the first Christmas to be the lowly shepherds, not the rulers of the land in Lk. 2.1. There you have it.
Christmas is not about celebration of the Christ child only. It is about sharing God's love with those who would otherwise be alienated in the society. The gospel of Christmas is the gospel for the poor. So, as you celebrate, remember the poor.
The simple answer to the questions? The manger was the sign to the shepherds, but there was no inn!
An Advent prayer: Dear Lord, we pray that your Holy Spirit might prepare our hearts to welcome you in prayer, in your word and sacrament; in friends, family and colleagues; in the poor, the sick, the hungry, the lonely, and all whom you have called us to serve. Amen.[2]
[1] From http://www.hypotyposeis.org/papers/Carlson%202010%20NTS.pdf, accessed Nov. 29, 2012. This article is worth reading. Steven Carlson originally published this article in New Testament Studies, a reputable journal for scholars. If Joseph was from that town, this could have been his house he was returning to.
[2] From http://www.ourlanguageourstory.org/activities/pdf/AdultAdventPrayer.pdf, accessed Nov. 29, 2012.


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I don't really know what's up with these faux holidays. Today, for example, is National Rum Day. I have no idea why, who declared it such, or why we don't have a day off work for it, but such it is.
One night last week, I found myself at Sons of Essex bar, on Essex Street on the Lower East Side. The event was Appleton Estate's Remixology competition, meant to coincide with Jamaican Independence Day. The concept was simple: five bartenders were invited to choose a song they really liked and devise a cocktail to accompany the song.
Sons of Essex had bartending stations set up around the bar, with the five cocktails in various forms of premix. (So, for example, a cocktail might be premixed up to the point at which the bartender would top it with something that needed to be fresh, such as champagne or ginger beer.)
The winner was a cocktail I found a little odd, a blend of Appleton Estate, lime juice, falernum, and black bean soup.
Yes. Bean soup. Probably one of the strangest ingredients I've had in a cocktail.
It didn't have the texture of bean soup, so I have to assume it was pureed or strained. I generally liked the flavor it added to the drink, I have to say. I just thought it skewed the drink farther into savory territory than I normally like in a cocktail.
(Although I have to say, that alone made it a pleasant surprise; some of the drinks that night were far too sweet for my tastes.)
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| Geography
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Geography Academics Belt Loop
|The Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop is an option for the Webelos Traveler activity badge.
Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
- Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.
- Use a world globe or map to locate the continents, the oceans, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres. Learn how longitude and latitude lines are used to locate a site.
Academics Pin Requirements
Earn the Geography belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary place. Include five different landforms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas, rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
- List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon in your town.
- Find the company's location on the wrapper or label of 10 products used in your home, such as food, clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a world map or atlas to find each location.
- On a map, trace the routes of some famous explorers. Show the map to your den or family.
- On a United States or world map, mark where your family members and ancestors were born.
- Keep a map record of the travels of your favorite professional sports team for one month.
- Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) in which geography plays an important part.
- Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
- Choose a country in the world and make a travel poster for it.
- Play a geography-based board game or computer game. Tell an adult some facts you learned about a place that was part of the game.
- Draw or make a map of your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks, and cities. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, 2003 Edition (BSA Supply SKU #34299)
Help with these requirements
|A FREE workbook for Cub Scout Geography is available here! (PDF or Word) with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need! Or click here to print just the Cub Scout Geography requirements.
|usscouts.org has PDF and Word versions of workbooks for Scouts BSA ranks and merit badges, Cub Scouting ranks and adventures, and STEM Nova awards.
- Earning the Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is requirement 12 of the Webelos Traveler Activity Badge.
- Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times
Related achievements, electives, or other awards
- Activity 2F. "Look at a map of your community with your adult partner." Could be met while completing Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop requirement 2
- Tiger Cub Electives
- Tiger Elective 3. Play a geography-based board game with oyur family for Cub Scout Geography Pin requirement #10.
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- Elective 23d. could be partially met while completing Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop requirement 1
- Traveler Activity Badge requirement 12. (earn the Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout)
- Cub Scout Map and Compass Belt Loop requirement 3 could be met while completing Cub Scout Geography Belt Loop requirement 1
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He arrived right on time from practice in El Segundo (well thats what the organizers told us)
2 Laker girls showed up, maybe 10 people went up to their table
Few more pics
Hes a super skinny dude
So he was pretty quiet the 1st 10 minutes or so and then he saw these chicks pumping the fans up and introducing him and he loosened up
The girls were taking a picture with him and he said "I want one more"
^ pardon that dude in the suit, he was the branch manager I think, he was a hardazz
This dude was just SQUEALING out loud "RAMON RAMON" the whole time until he got to see him, he looks pretty happy to get a pic with him
When I came up to him I asked "Do you miss Dan Gilbert?" he just laughed it off and said "Nah."
He said he doesn't have a nickname.
So the 1st 200 who showed up got wristbands & needed it to get something signed and there were some people who came late and couldn't get it. He stayed an extra 10 minutes to take pictures and sign their stuff too. Very laid back and chill guy.
I yelled at him "We going to get the ring" and he waved back
He autographed an 8x11 and a shirt
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The Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that Andre de Shields, a growing presence on the Chicago theater scene, would be part of the ensemble cast of Mary Zimmerman's "The Jungle Book" this spring. He'll play King Louie. The show, which uses the beloved Sherman Brothers score, is being produced in cooperation with Disney Theatricals.
Others in the cast, mostly a mix of Chicago and New York-based actors, include 10-year-old Akash Chopra as Mowgli, Usman Ally as Bagheera, Anjali Bhimani as Raksha, Kevin Carolan as Baloo the bear, Glory Curda as the Little Girl; Thomas Derrah as Kaa, Nehal Joshi as Rama; and Larry Yando as the villainous Shere Khan.
After Chicago, the production travels to the Huntington Theatre in Boston. Performances begin June 21 at the Goodman.


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US Medical Devices Market – and How a Single Article Can Kill Your Patent
March 12, 2009 at 1:10 am Leave a comment
Hi, Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices here.
If it is cold where you live, remember the PLUS of freezing temperatures:
At Minus 90 degrees – Lawyers put their hands in their own pockets. '
AGAIN — Appelfeld Zer Fisher is an Israel patent attorney firm that provides patent drafting, filing and advice.
So let us continue:
The United States medical device market, possibly because of the tremendous rewards given in tort cases, is highly sensitive to flaws in medical device design.
As a result, a surgeon or physician who wishes to make his reputation may write an article on any single case that defines a flaw in a new medical device design. Such an article can provide reputation enhancement without all the costs associated with a full clinical and/or surgical of a device.
Because of the above noted tort rewards and the abhorrence of surgeons and physicians to be involved in the receiving end of cases of tort awards, such an article can spell a complete disaster for your medical device.
BTW at minus 100 degrees more positive developments occur – Hell freezes over, Clinton finally tells all. Kenneth Starr moves in with Monica. Alaskans button top button. Santa moves operations to Panama.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney signing off with the observation that the
Brain is an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce – American author and journalist 1842-1913
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MARQUETTE LEAGUE FOR CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS RECORDS Scope and Content Note
Records of a New York City-based fund-raising organization that supported Native American Catholic missions and schools, 1904-1991. The records contain the minutes of the Board of Directors meetings and its newsletter, The Calumet. Gift of Monsignor Thomas A. Modugno, 1992.
Historical Note
Reverend Henry G. Ganss of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, founded the Marquette League in 1904 as the Marquette Club. It served as an auxiliary to the Preservation Society for the Preservation of the Faith Among Indian Children, a lay Catholic fund-raising organization directed by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.
The Marquette League raised funds for Catholic Indian missions throughout the United States, but especially for those in Alaska and the Southwest. Specifically, it raised funds for building projects at Indian missions, schools, and chapels; stipends for Indian catechists; and scholarships for Indian students. To support these efforts, it established branches in several Eastern cities (e.g. Baltimore, Washington) and published The Calumet, 1913-1958, a quarterly newsletter-magazine to donors under Director-Editor Monsignor William Quinn, 1917-1925, Reverend William J. Flynn, 1925-1936, Reverend Bernard A. Cullen, 1936-1958, and Reverend Lawrence J. Cahill, 1958. From 1952-1958, it also recruited lay volunteers for service at the missions. Thereafter the Marquette League declined and ceased operations in 1991.
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Marquette League Series 1, Correspondence: Letters, clippings, brochures, and notes including those for a 1989 celebration commemorating the Marquette League's 85 years of service.
The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Series 1-1, General Correspondence, includes correspondence between the Marquette League and the Bureau.
Marquette League Series 2, Lay Apostolate File: An alphabetized card file of lay volunteers with names, home addresses, and description and location of service with dates.
Marquette League Series 3, Proceedings: Minutes of meetings with certificate of incorporation, bylaws, and resolutions interfiled in 1904, 1848, 1960-1961. Minutes of the Marquette League Washington, D.C., branch are included in folder 1, following the records of the central organization.
Marquette League Series 4, The Calumet: The original issues are held in Series 14-1 of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records as the bulk of the issues were first acquired from the Bureau. Vol. 34, no. 2 (May, 1957) of The Calumet was incorrectly-numbered and issued as v. 45, no. 2. The Calumet on microfilm appears as Series 4 of this collection and Series 14-1 of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records with the BCIM version being less complete. The following 11 issues are missing from the Series 4 microfilm and the Series 14-1 BCIM originals: November, 1918; April-May, 1919; December, 1919; April-May, 1922; October, 1922; December, 1922; November, 1923; December, 1923; January, 1925; May, 1925; and February, 1952.
The Calumet existed as a quarterly throughout its history, although its time of issuance and format varied. It began as a 4-page quarterly, which in 1936 expanded to 12 pages with increasing numbers of photographs. Its articles and letters pertained to the operations and activities of missions and schools, their financial needs, and the lives of Native American people as a whole and those of individual native people and individual missionaries. During its last two decades it switched to a magazine format with in-depth articles and numerous illustrations.
Indian and non-Indian clergy, religious, and laity contributed articles, letters, and photographs. Most notable among the non-Indian clergy were Bishop Joseph R. Crimont, S.J., 26 articles, re: Alaska, Jesuits, Prayers and Poetry; Reverend Eugene Buechel, S.J., 20 articles (no photographs cited), re: Dakota [Brulé and Oglala] Indians, Jesuits; Reverend John P. Fox, S.J., 16 articles (no photographs cited), re: Alaska, Jesuits; Reverend Silverius Meyer, O.F.M., 14 articles, re: Franciscans, Navajo Indians, St. Michael's Mission (Navajo Reservation, Arizona); Reverend Joseph M. Cataldo, S.J., 12 articles, re: Jesuits, St. Joseph's Mission (Nez Perce Reservation, Idaho); Reverend Joseph A. Zimmerman, S.J., 11 articles (no photographs cited), re: Dakota [Brulé and Oglala] Indians, Fire and Natural Disaster, Holy Rosary Mission (Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); and Reverend George Pieper, S.J., 2 articles (also numerous featured photographs cited after 1955), re: Mission Work (Evangelization), St. Francis Mission (Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota). Non-Indian women religious (nuns) included Sister M. Claire Hartmann, S.S.S.F., 1 article, re: St. Paul's Mission (Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana), and Sister M. Macaria Murphy, F.S.P.A., 1 article, re: Schools-Catholic. Native American clergy and laity included active World War II soldiers, 8 letters, re: World War II War Efforts; Reverend John J. Brown, S.J. (Siksika [Blackfeet]), 2 articles, re: Jesuits, Native Americans-Catechists/ Priests/ Laity; Albert Calf Looking (Siksika [Blackfeet]), 1 article, re: Holy Family Mission (Blackfeet Reservation, Montana); Martin Good Rider (Dakota?), 1 article, re: Schools-Catholic; Reverend Phillip B. Gordon (Ojibwa), 1 article, re: Native Americans-Catechists/ Priests/ Laity, Potawatomi [Pottawatomie] Indians; Joseph Humming Bird (Kiowa?), 1 article, re: Marquette League-"Marquette Boys"; Little Tommy (Siksika [Blackfeet]), 1 article, re: Holy Family Mission (Blackfeet Reservation, Montana), Marquette League-"Marquette Boys"; Lincoln Ne-Che-Kipa-Cee (Unidentified), 1 article, re: World War II War Efforts; Sitting Bull (Dakota [Hunkpapa]), 1 article, re: Dakota Indians; Mrs. Swift Hawk (Dakota), 1 article, re: Dakota Indians. Reverend Gordon was also the subject of an article together with Navajo Indians.
Index to The Calumet: The index features a list of subjects, which are arranged alphabetically. There under articles are listed chronologically with authors noted.
The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records include substantial holdings of The Calumet (Series 14-1) with 11 issues missing. This newsletter also appears in the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Series 14-1 microfilm, but is less complete than the Marquette League edition.
The Anne M. Scheuerman Collection contains photography of the 1989 mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, commemorating the Marquette League's 85th anniversary and years of service to Native American evangelization.
More Related Resources
Native America Collections: Checklist to Marquette special collections about native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
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- Guides to Catholic-Related Records about Native Americans in the United States: Over 1,000 repository entries in PDF format to help genealogists and historical researchers find the records they need on American Indians and Alaskan Natives. The entries provide contact information on the repositories, brief descriptions about the records, the Native groups served, and the associated Catholic organizations. Many of the entries include institutional chronologies to explain the history of the records.
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Even though Interbrew technically took over AmBev in their 2004 merger, Brazilian managers from AmBev, which dominates beer markets across much of Latin America, were quick to work their way through the corporate headquarters of the merged company. They brought with them a no-nonsense management style straight out of Brazil, where AmBev was known for ruthless efficiency and competitiveness, and a stingy approach to costs.
That raised quite a stir in Leuven, home of the InBev headquarters, where InterBrew and its predecessors had been brewing since the 1300s. Interbrew had been a comfy, generous employer guided both by strict Belgian labor laws and an old-school European approach to business, inherited from the dozens of small, often family owned breweries it took over during its own acquisition spree. Some of its breweries in Belgium, the primordial home of craft beer, were run by ancient orders of monks. But mostly they were just run by well-entrenched unions and very well treated workers.
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Lists Are One Dimensional
Recall that all lists and all arrays are one dimensional. If we have this list:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# passarrays.pl
use strict;
my(@nums1, @nums2);
@nums1 = (2, 4, 6);
@nums2 = (8, 10, 12);
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sub process_arrays {
my(@a, @b) = @_;
print "contents of @an";
print "[$_] " foreach @a;
print "nn";
print "contents of @bn";
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print "n";
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my(@a, @b) = @_;
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$ perl passarrays.pl
contents of @a
[2] [4] [6] [8] [10] [12]
contents of @b
Later, when we discuss references in Chapter 11, we will see how to pass two arrays (or hashes) into a function and treat them as two separate variables.
{mospagebreak title=Default Argument Values}
One thing that's occasionally useful is the ability to give the arguments for your subroutine a default value. That is, give the argument a value to use in the subroutine if one is not specified when the subroutine is called. This is very easily done with the || operator (the logical or operator).
|| has a very special feature: it returns the last thing it evaluates. So, for instance, if we say $a = 3 || 5 , then $a will be set to 3. Because 3 is a true value, the or operator has no need to examine anything else, and so 3 is the last thing the || evaluates. If, however, we say $a = 0 || 5 , then $a will be set to 5; 0 is not a true value, so the operator looks at the next operand, 5, which is the last thing it evaluates. This behavior is called short circuiting.
Hence, anything we get from @_ that doesn't have a true value can be given a default with the || operator. We can create subroutines with a flexible number of parameters and have Perl fill in the blanks for us:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# defaults.pl
use strict;
log_warning("Klingons on the starboard bow", "Stardate 60030.2");
log_warning("/earth is 99% full, please delete more people");
sub log_warning {
my $message = shift || "Something's wrong";
my $time = shift || localtime; # Default to now.
print "[$time] $messagen";
$ perl defaults.pl
[Stardate 60030.2] Klingons on the starboard bow
[Wed May 5 04:07:50 2004] /earth is 99% full, please delete more people
[Wed May 5 04:07:51 2004] Something's wrong
One by-product of specifying defaults for parameters is the opportunity to use those parameters as flags. Your subroutine can then alter its functionality based on the number of arguments passed to it.
{mospagebreak title=Named Parameters}
One of the more irritating things about calling subroutines is that you have to remember the order of the parameters. Was it username first and then password, or host first and then user-name, or . . . ?
Named parameters are a neat way of solving this. What we'd rather say is something like this:
logon( username => $name, password => $pass, host => $hostname);
and then give the parameters in any order. Now, Perl makes this really, really easy because that set of parameters can be thought of as a hash:
sub logon {
die "Parameters to logon should be even" if @_ % 2;
my %args = @_;
print "Logging on to host $args{hostname}n";
Whether and how often you use named parameters is a matter of style; for subroutines that take lots of parameters, some of which may be optional, it's an excellent idea. For those that take two or three parameters, it's probably not worth the hassle.
Named parameters also help when we want to provide default values to our arguments. For instance, let's say we write a function named college_degree() and it expects three arguments: university , degree , year . We could call the function with all three arguments:
university => 'Illinois',
degree => 'MSEE',
year => 2000
Since we are using named parameters, the order of those three argument pairs is not important—they could be in any order we want. We could also call the function with only two pairs as in
college_degree (
degree => 'MSEE',
year => 2000
provided our function defaults the arguments. This implementation of college_degree() ensures that the three arguments have default values:
sub college_degree {
my %args = @_;
$args{university} = 'Northwestern' unless exists $args{university};
$args{degree} = 'BSCS'
unless exists $args{degree};
$args{year} = 2004
unless exists $args{year};
Subroutines are a bit of code with a name, and they allow us to do two things: chunk our program into organizational units, and perform calculations and operations on pieces of data, possibly returning some more data. The basic format of a subroutine definition is
sub name BLOCK
We can call a subroutine by just saying name if we've had the definition beforehand. If the definition's lower down in the program, we can say name() , and you may see &name used in older programs. Otherwise, we can use a forward definition to tell Perl that name should be interpreted as the name of a subroutine. The conventional notation is name() .
When we pass arguments into a subroutine, they end up in the special array @_ —this contains aliases of the data that was passed so data is passed in by reference. We discussed ways of passing variables in by value (copying the arguments into my() variables) and also how to implement default argument values with named parameters.
- Write a program that computes the factorial of a number. Just to remind you, the factorial of a number is that number times that number minus 1 and so on, stopping at 1. For instance, the factorial of 5 is
5! = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1
The factorial of 0 is 1.
- Modify the seconds.pl program seen earlier in the chapter so that it contains a second subroutine that asks the user for a number, puts it into a global variable, and converts that into hours, minutes, and seconds.


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According to Gartner, a social organisation is an organisation that handles significant business challenges and opportunities using social media platforms to engage stakeholders, such as employees, customers and suppliers, to work and collaborate together. A social organisation empowers employees, which creates openness, creativity and collaboration. It is all about the people.
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- Selling Social Business To The CFO via Greg Lowe
- 3 Critical Characteristics Of An Enterprise Social Media Culture via Andy Jankowski
- How Not To Fail At Enterprise Social Media via Andy Jankowski
- How Enterprise Social Media Is Valuable To Every Level Of Your company (Part 1) via Andy Jankowski
- How Enterprise Social Media Is Valuable To Every Level Of Your company (Part 2) via Andy Jankowski
- Social Media in Business: It's Just A Bunch Of Tools Right? [slideshare] via David Christopher
- Social Business Transformation: What You Need To Know via BCW
- Social Business Transformation via The Dachis Group
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text: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Toon Knapen wrote: > What is the ideal way to manage memory consumption in HPC applications? Dear Toon (great name:-): I don't think that there is any simple answer to your question, because of the wide variability of hardware upon which one can run and the numerous boundaries where superlinear/nonlinear speedup or slowdown can occur. ATLAS (and other self-adaptive numerical algorithms) are a case in point -- ATLAS goes through a very complex build/search process to tune just to the primary memory subsystems on a single host -- registers, L1 cache, L2 cache, and main memory. There is more than an order of magnitude of variability in latency and effective BW across all of this for arbitrary access patterns, and an even greater variability across architectures and memory types and speeds (e.g. a 64 bit Opteron with very high speed memory and a 32 bit Celeron with a small L2 cache and old/slow memory). The idea of building ATLAS (or other applications) so that they can tune from a relatively small set of "benchmark" measurements or system parameters is a good one, but is currently a research question with no clear answer or result. Note that this is the same problem that you are addressing HPC applications; HPC just adds additional layers to the memory hierarchy, with a range of latency and BW costs to e.g. copy to or read from memory locations on remote nodes vs the full range of local costs described above (or in a message passing model, the time required to send and/or receive blocks of data as messages). Outside of both hierarchies there are the costs (in time) of using virtual memory in the form of local disk, which are generally orders of magnitude slower than the slowest form of local memory. I >>think<< that disk-based VM is still an order of magnitude or two slower than accessing remote system memory (either/any model) over the network, but networks and disks keep changing and I'm not so certain of those times any more. The issue of partitioning your application is further complicated by CLUSTER variability -- some clusters have 1 GB/CPU nodes, some have 4 GB/CPU nodes, some have 250 MB/CPU nodes, some (lucky) clusters have the full 8 GB/CPU you describe. MMUs differ. Newer CPUs (especially the dual cores just starting to emerge) have very different basic memory architectures, and there is significant variation between Intel and AMD CPUs at nominally equivalant clock(s) and data path widths. >From the above it should be clear that writing a fully tuned "big memory footprint" HPC application is something that: a) Probably will need to be done for a >>specific<< cluster (just as ATLAS is (re)built for >>specific<< CPU/memory architectures). Note that there is a clear trade-off of specificity (and local optimization) and portability which can significantly increase TCO down the road when you have to effectively rewrite the application for a new/different cluster. Writing something automatically portable to a radically different architecture is No Mean Trick! Which is why I continue to think of ATLAS as a toolset a decade or so ahead of its time... b) May involve different ALGORITHMS for distinct cluster architectures. ATLAS switches algorithms as well as block sizes at empirically determined certain breakpoints (and the trick is to match the BEST blocking and algorithm with the particular memory configuration, CPU speed, and problem size). c) Will involve different BLOCKING (or partitioning -- the main thing you address below, I think, but only one aspect of the problem) of the problem for distinct cluster architectures, with strong dependence on both network and memory size. If one is stuck with 100 BT one will almost certainly end up with a very different performance surface than one will with e.g. Myrinet, SCI, IB. If one has 1 GB nodes vs 8 GB nodes ditto. d) Is clearly a nontrivial problem to solve. The solution will require a set of tedious measurements, a careful study of the problem itself, and a fair amount of experimentation after you THINK you understand the various rate dependences until you at least reach a local maximum in performance. e) In a high dimensional space there is no guarantee that this local maximum will be a global maximum or even a particularly good local maximum; to find a "good" local maximum in a complex problem or have a hope of finding the global maximum, one will have to do enough research to be pretty sure that you've got at least the optimum algorithms (algorithm changes tend to be discrete "far jumps" on the performance surface) and that those algorithms have the right projective variables so that a "good" solution exists within the space of configurations they span. So it MAY not be easy (this is a worst case analysis, but there are whole classes of problems with decompositions with trivial optima, e.g. the entire class of embarrassingly parallel applications with no IPCs at all). Still, even for complex problem ATLAS's factor of 2-3 improvement in performance clearly shows us that the pay-off can be several times the cost of your entire cluster (or years of your life not spent waiting for results. Measured in dollars or otherwise, there is probably more raw value locked up here for at least some problems than in any other single aspect of cluster performance being worked on today. One step beyond even this is co-engineering your cluster AND your application to achieve a REAL global optimum in total cost of ownership and benefit derived from running the application. Here one has to factor in not only the optimized rate of the application built for various cluster architectures you might want to build/buy, but the cost of the alternative clusters including all operational and infrastructure costs, compared to the benefits gained in terms of running things faster. Here again there are whole spaces of applications for which there is a trivial projective decomposition and fairly obvious maxima (CPU-bound embarrassingly parallel applications with little marginal benefit associated with finishing incrementally faster and with a fixed budget to spend according to some schedule). Then there are the exceptions, where one really needs to work HARD matching the ideally programmed application to the ideal hardware in the ideal environment to get a factor of three greater benefit by whatever metric most matters to you per dollar spent. The difficulty of this problem is what has spawned various cluster consulting firms, such as Joe's Scalable Informatics. There people with a fair bit of experience in cluster engineering and hardware (all rapidly varying stuff where one has to WORK to stay current) help customers get at least within spitting distance of an optimal configuration for various problems in which they have domain expertise on a contractual/consultative basis. Obviously with as much as an order of magnitude difference in price/performance on the table, there is plenty of marginal benefit to make dealing with such a company worthwhile for certain classes of problems, depending also on the degree of local cluster expertise one has to draw on. It is also one of the factors that drives e.g. Scyld, which provides streamlined and pre-optimized cluster operating systems. These systems can save one money on TCO (simplified installation, management, maintenance) and create a cluster architecture in which the optimum for certain classes of problem is likely to occur, so it is relatively easy to sensibly optimize the application's performance (maybe even across more than one hardware or network architectures, providing a measure of portability). HTH, although it probably won't (since my answer is pretty much that there is no "answer", only procedures for organizing your thoughts to search for YOUR particular answer for YOUR particular code on YOUR particular cluster). rgb > > For HPC applications, performance is everything. Next we all know about > the famous performance-memory tradeoff which says that performance can > be improved by consuming more memory and vice versa. Therefore HPC > applications want to consume all available memory. > > But the performance-memory tradeoff as mentioned above supposes infinite > memory and infinite memory bandwith. Because memory if finite, consuming > more memory as physically available will result in swapping by the OS > and therefore a big performance hit. And since BW is also finite and > latency we have caching. But now we also need to be cautious not to > loose time due to cache trashing. > > Knowing this we could say that HPC applications generally want to eat > all available memory but not more. All available memory here means all > physical memory minus the physical memory consumed by the system and its > basic services because we suppose that HPC applications do not share > their processor with other applications (to have the whole cache for > itself). Well this is true for single-processor machines. On multi-proc > machines (smp,numa) only a part of the physical memory can be consumed. > > So because the application does not know how much physical memory it is > allowed to eat, it might be best that the user just specifies it when > launching the application. > > But suppose now a single-proc machine has 8GB physical memory. Taking > into account that the OS and its services will never take more than > 500MB, the user might say to the HPC application that it can eat up to > 7.5GB of the physical memory. > > But what does this number mean to the HPC application that is trying to > optimise its performance? Should it try to never consume more memory as > 7.5GB or should it only try to consume never more as 7.5GB in intensive > loops (e.g. in the solver)? In the latter case, can we rely on the OS > swapping out the inactive parts of our application to make space for the > solver or would it be better that the application puts all > data-structures that are not used in the solver on disk to make sure? > OTOH if we want to limit the total memory consumption to 7.5GB, would it > be best to allocate a memory-pool of 7.5GB and if the pool is full abort > the application (after running for days)? > > toon > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Once upon a time, in the sleepy Jutan village of Heiking So, a brilliant but eccentric young enchanter yearned for fame and fortune. Taiwoo Kin, Heiking's only magical inhabitant, greatly disliked the meaningless chores brought him by the peasants - fixing mangled ploughs, bewitching household objects and warding off bad luck - but he had no idea of the manner by which he would gain renown.
Despite an untimely death, Kin is best known in historical records as the inventor of the Grasping Claw, the clever, stretching claw - and the gruesome manner of his passing is still told around the winter fireplaces of many Jutan peasant folk.
Kin first conceived the idea many years ago after an unsettling nightmare, in which he was chased across a massive bridge over nothingness by a million severed hands. Remembering how the hands scuttled disconcertingly up the vertical supports of the bridge, Kin borrowed a scrap monkey paw from the local butcher and set to work making it move.
It took a good deal of study, many more monkey paws, and several months of surprising and often disturbing experimentation, but in time Kin was satisfied with his new construct. To prevent it from escaping, the enchanter secured it to a long leash of cord, and went about his business with a renewed enthusiasm.
The next day's awakening brought Kin an alarming surprise: upon opening his eyes, the first thing he saw was his grotesque new pet clinging to the ceiling above his bedding and slowly scratching away at the plaster.
Angry after his shock, Kin grabbed the claw's dangling rope and attempted to pull it from its perch, only to find that it refused to budge, no matter how hard he tugged.
Sitting down to think on his predicament, Kin's ever-wandering mind hit upon a new use for this construct: a sort of intelligent grappling hook, able to clamber to spots difficult to go and secure itself there.
Eventually, the restless hand came down of its own accord and scuttled over to the table where Kin was hastily recording his new idea, and the enchanter was able to catch it in a packing crate for more experimentation.
A few weeks later, Kin was satisfied with his advancements: the hand was now capable of magical hearing and sight, and basic thought. After extensive tests of the new creature's abilities, he made ready to reveal his marvelous invention to the public.
Sadly, Kin's end came too soon for the spectacular unveiling he hoped for. An unforeseen side effect of the Tae Nijong's intelligence was an unwanted range of emotions, which proved catastrophic in the end. Kin, falsely assuming the hand was incapable of memory or feeling, kept it locked in the crate for hours on end, and periodically threw it against walls to train it to grab hold of them. Needless to say, this fostered a deep resentment within the construct's rudimentary brain, and eventually it got its revenge.
The hand bided its time, waiting for the perfect moment to attack. Finally such a moment came, on the eve of its long-awaited revelation of the local Magistrate, who had agreed to see this marvelous invention Kin was being so secretive about. The enchanter, flushed with success, had imbibed a great quantity of celebratory rice spirits, and was slumped over his work, clearly unconscious. In his reveling, Kin had forgotten to secure the heavy deadbolt on the thing's crate, and it escaped into the night - but not before giving Kin its final, fatal farewell.
The next morning, impatient to see Kin's incredible secret, the magistrate pounded uselessly on the enchanter's beautiful door, finally going around and peering through the open study window - to receive the worst shock of his career. Lying prostrate on the floor, his documents and scrolls strewn beneath him, was Kin - clearly dead, with gruesome marks around his neck that suggested strangulation by something of disturbingly inhuman origin.
And thus did Taiwoo Kin receive the fame he had always hoped for.
Passing through the village, or planning on staying the night there, the PCs are approached by the magistrate, a pudgy, opulent fellow, clearly terrified. He babbles endlessly about something to do with a terrible murder, and keeps repeating the phrase, "Choked to death, choked to death!"
When calmed down enough, he begins to tell the story from his point of view: Taiwoo Kin, the local enchanter, was found strangled to death in his study. Kin had intended to reveal the secret of an amazing new invention later that day, but the magistrate has no idea of its nature, and attests that nothing in the enchanter's overturned study looked remotely like a mysterious new invention.
The PCs should be led subtly to suspect sabotage by some outside villain, and should be encouraged to search the enchanter's dwelling themselves. Inside, they will find Kin's fresh corpse - still untouched by the terrified townspeople, who are inexperienced in dealing with murders - with the strange marks on his throat, which look decidedly inhuman. There is no sign of forced entry or exit - the culprit appears to have vanished without a trace.
A cursory check of Kin's diary and records will tell the PCs everything they want to know about his invention - EXCEPT the fact that it is alive. Kin seems to have taken that for granted, and while there are numerous references to the hand clinging to objects and places throughout the house, there should be no actual written proof that the thing can move about of its own accord. The PCs should be led to think it was stolen by an enemy of Kin, and if they haven't already, should return to the magistrate to get more information on the enchanter himself.
Upon entering the magistrate's dwelling - a fancy, Oriental one-level affair with lots of red-painted wood beams and cleverly decorated rice-paper panels. The magistrate is found pacing around in his waiting room, visibly disconcerted with the whole fiasco. He admits he's hardly experienced in such matters - the last murder in the area was fifty-two years ago, and it turned out to be a suicide in the end.
When questioned about Kin, he replies that the enchanter was a very highly esteemed man about the village, despite his little quirks, like spending days on end in his house without accepting visitors, and often going about his work with a certain half-heartedness.
Oddly, the magistrate can think of no one who would even think of harbouring a grudge against the man, who was considered a fine member of the community. However, the nearest house to Kin's is that of the butcher's, considered by most to be an odd fellow. Perhaps he heard something in the night… The magistrate suggests they investigate, and tells them to report back if they find anything worth relating.
The butcher's house should be the strangest shack the PCs have ever seen (or at least, have seen in a while). A ramshackle, tumbledown floor is practically caving into the rooms, and almost every rice-paper panel is riddled with scratches and spattered with little flecks of dried blood.
They find the butcher in his storeroom, calmly gutting a monkey and tossing the scrap haphazardly over his shoulder. When the PCs introduce themselves (assuming they do), he responds with a barely concealed disgust. If they ask why he's chopping up monkeys: the people around here regard the silver-paw monkey as a delicacy, and with the forest so close… he shrugs. Easy pickings.
If the PCs are nervous about all the blood and property damage, he just laughs. "Sometimes they do not wish to die very much, hm?" he says with a manic glint in his eye, and goes back to his cleaning.
When questioned about the night before, he shrugs again. Turns out he doesn't even know Kin is dead - when this comes up, he doesn't seem to put out. The secretive fool deserved what he got, for borrowing so many severed monkey paws and still only giving little knowing winks and annoying smiles when questioned about his motives. "My right hand I will cut off and give to you if he has not been meddling in the black arts." Monkey's paw is a well-known ingredient in a potion whispered about after dark, a potion said to be able to speak the foul tongue of animals… But of course, the apothecary would know more about that sort of thing, he says briskly, and no more information is forthcoming.
However, as the PCs exit the room, a sudden gust of wind blows through a rent in the outside rice screen - even larger than the usual ones - and knocks a precariously balanced candle into a bucket of monkey blood. Cursing, the butcher fishes around with bare hands in the blood to retrieve the candle, and remembers another piece of news while doing so. The rent in the screen was caused by a particularly violent monkey making its escape - and it happened just last night, at about the same time that Kin was strangled!
With this new information, the PCs should consult the apothecary on the matter of the potion - a red herring, of course, but they don't know that. The apothecary's house, compared to the butcher's, is pure tidiness. Potions are arranged on shelves with meticulous care, and the apothecary himself should be prim and proper, rather slight and given to long lectures on the properties of any subject.
If asked about the potion, he replies that it's thought to be just a myth. In truth, it IS just a myth, but the PCs should have enough street smarts by now to simply assume that all myths are real. Aside from monkey paws, he has no idea what might go into such a concoction, but its clear he's unhappy talking about such beautiful creatures being butchered so wantonly. "Such perfect beasts, and so intelligent, too…"
If questioned further about the monkeys' intelligence, he explains that it's thought they are almost as clever as humans, and are very good at logical thinking, as well as being very protective of their kin…
The conversation continues in this vein until the PCs are almost certain that the culprit behind the attacks is in fact the monkey that escaped in the night. They should return to the magistrate in high spirits, convinced they've solved the mystery.
This time, they find the magistrate huddled under his bedsheets and shaking like a leaf. He's not just in shock from the murder, though: he keeps hearing odd scuttling noises around the house!
When informed about the monkey murderer, he seems slightly relieved, but he urges them to search for more clues, like an explanation as to why there was no sign of entry or exit from Kin's house after the deed…
The PCs leave the magistrate looking around fitfully. Any servants they approach are generally mystified by the whole affair, but when they proceed to exit the house, a chilling yell echoes from the magistrate's bedchambers, ending abruptly in a gasping and scraping sound.
Rushing back to the magistrate, they find him stone dead, still under his bedsheets, with an expression of pure disbelieving horror upon his features - and the same hand marks on his chubby neck. This time, there isn't even a mess - the culprit has seemingly vanished without a trace, without even an obvious escape route.
The PCs search should come to no avail - unless they decide to look under the bed. If they don't then they should be stopped from leaving by the sudden scratching sounds coming from under the magistrate's ornate bedframe.
The disembodied hand is, of course, lying in wait under the bed. This part should be dramatic. If one of the characters decides to look under the bed, the hand will spring at their face, attempting to strangle them like its other two victims. If they attempt some other tactic, the hand should claw its way right through the bed - and the corpse of the magistrate - and leap out from the covers. A vicious battle ensues, as the hand will not back down until it strangles all the PCs or is completely destroyed.
Once the hand is dispatched, the adventurers can explain the cause of the murders to the horrified servants, who may or may not have seen the whole fight. The superstitious villagers should have no trouble believing the tale, especially when confronted with the hand as evidence.
It's up to the GM how the adventure is wrapped up. Maybe the villagers thank the PCs by electing one of them as new magistrate, or maybe they return to Kin's house and find materials for a new, personal Tae Nijong.
Useful for more of a short, one or two-session side-quest than a full-length adventure.
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