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NEARLY FORTY YEARS AGO, in 1966, two talented young political thinkers published an extraordinary book, one that reads, in retrospect, as a profound warning to the Republican Party that went tragically unheeded.
The authors had been roommates at Harvard University, and had participated in the Ripon Society, an upstart group of Republican liberals. They had worked together on Advance, dubbed "the unofficial Republican magazine," which slammed the party from within for catering to segregationists, John Birchers, and other extremists. Following their graduation, both young men moved into the world of journalism and got the chance to further advance their "progressive" Republican campaign in a book for the eminent publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In their spirited 1966 polemic The Party That Lost Its Head, they held nothing back. The book devastatingly critiqued Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential candidacy—the modern conservative movement's primal scene—and dismissed the GOP's embrace of rising star Ronald Reagan as the party's hope to "usurp reality with the fading world of the class-B movie."
Read today, some of the most prophetic passages of The Party That Lost Its Head are those that denounce Goldwater's conservative backers for their rampant and even paranoid distrust of the nation's intellectuals. The book labels the Goldwater campaign a "brute assault on the entire intellectual world" and blames this development on a woefully wrongheaded political tactic: "In recent years the Republicans as a party have been alienating intellectuals deliberately, as a matter of taste and strategy."
The authors charge that Goldwater's campaign had no intellectual heft behind it whatsoever, save the backing of one think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, which they denounce as "an organization heavily financed by extreme rightists." Continuing in the same vein, they slam William F. Buckley, Jr., for his attacks on leading universities and describe the advent of right-wing anti-intellectualism as "crippling" to the Republican Party. The book further deplores conservatives' paranoid distrust of the "liberal" media and the "Eastern Establishment," and worries that without the backing of intellectuals and scholars, the GOP will prove unable to develop "workable programs, distinct from those of the Democrats and responsive to national problems." If the party wants to win back the "national consensus," the authors argue, it must first win back the nation's intellectuals.
Clearly, The Party That Lost Its Head failed in its goal of prompting a broad Republican realignment. The GOP went in precisely the opposite direction from the one these young authors prescribed—which is why the anti-intellectual disposition they so aptly diagnosed in 1966 still persists among many modern conservatives, helping to fuel the current crisis over the politicization of science and expertise. In fact, the chief difference between the Goldwater conservatives and those of today can often seem more cosmetic than real. A massive number of think tanks have now joined the American Enterprise Institute on the right, but in many cases these outlets still provide only a thin veneer of intellectual respectability to ideas that mainstream scholarship rejects.
Certainly, the proliferation of think tanks has not had as a corollary that conservatives now take scientific expertise more seriously. On the contrary, the Right has a strong track record of deliberately attempting to undermine scientific work that might threaten the economic interests of private industry. Perhaps more alarmingly still, similar tactics have also been brought to bear by the Right in the service of a religiously conservative cultural and moral agenda.
The next three chapters demonstrate how cultural conservatives have disregarded, distorted, and abused science on the issues of evolution, embryonic stem cell research, the relation of abortion to health risks for women, and sex education. In the process, we will encounter more ideologically driven think tanks, more questionable science, and more conservative politicians willing to embrace it.
The story begins, however, with a narrative that cuts to the heart of the modern Right's war on science. You see, despite the poignant accuracy of their critique, the authors of The Party That Lost Its Head—Bruce K. Chapman and George Gilder—have since bitten their tongues and morphed from liberal Republicans into staunch conservatives. In fact, you could say that they have become everything they once criticized. Once opponents of right-wing anti-intellectualism, they are now prominent supporters of conservative attacks on the theory of evolution, not just a bedrock of modern science but one of the greatest intellectual achievements of human history. With this transformation, the modern Right's war on intellectuals—including scientists and those possessing expertise in other areas—is truly complete.
Three decades ago, no one could have guessed that Bruce Chapman—who did not respond to interview requests for this book—would wind up at the helm of a religiously inspired crusade against evolution. After the publication of The Party That Lost Its Head, Chapman carried on his liberal Republican campaign through his involvement in Washington state politics. Elected to the Seattle city council in 1971, he later became secretary of state of Washington and made an unsuccessful stab at the governorship in 1980, running to the left of conservative Democrat (and later ozone depletion denier) Dixy Lee Ray. (Both Chapman and Ray lost in their respective primaries.) Throughout this period, evolution historian and Chapman acquaintance Edward J. Larson has noted, Chapman was a moderate "Rockefeller Republican" to the core.
That changed, however, when Chapman entered the Reagan administration in 1981 as director of the Census Bureau. In a Washington atmosphere in which Reagan himself catered to antievolutionist religious leaders like Jerry Falwell, Chapman moved to the right relatively quickly. Indeed, in Chapman's transformation into a conservative who would absurdly declare evolution a "theory in crisis," which he did in 2003, one can trace key trends in the development of the modern conservative movement, such as the rising influence of the religious Right and the launch of an array of ideological think tanks. Among the latter must certainly be counted Seattle's Discovery Institute, where Chapman currently serves as president and where George Gilder—who underwent a similar ideological transformation, becoming a supply-side economics guru—now serves as a senior fellow.
By June 4, 1983, Chapman could be found publicly condemning liberalism for its "shabby, discredited, sophistical values" and defending "traditional morality." In an article on the "Harvard-trained former liberal," the New York Times even singled out Chapman's political shift as emblematic of "a converging of the intellectual left with the religious right within the [Republican Party] under the Reagan banner." Chapman soon left the Census Bureau to work in the White House under Reagan adviser (and later antipornography crusading attorney general) Edwin Meese. "I have become more conservative as I have grown older," he observed at the time.
As the 1980s ended, Chapman initially seemed to veer away from his newfound social conservatism. In the early days of the Discovery Institute—which originated as a Seattle branch of Indianapolis's center-right Hudson Institute—he drew heavily on connections from his moderate Seattle past. The Institute's first slate of directors read "like the guest list for a gathering of liberal Republicans," noted Seattle Times columnist Herb Robinson in 1991. Originally, Discovery focused on issues like the economic competitiveness of Seattle and telecommunications policy. The vibe was forward-looking, futuristic, and intellectually contrarian.
Yet much as Chapman himself swung to the right during the Reagan years, Discovery too has turned to religious conservatism. In recent years, it has become home to a reactionary crusade against the theory of evolution that goes under the banner of "intelligent design" (ID). Bringing creationism up to date, ID proponents insist that living organisms show detectable signs of having been designed (that is, specially created) by a rational agent (presumably God), while denouncing "Darwinism" for inculcating atheism and destroying cultural and moral values that had previously been grounded in piety. Such arguments put the ID campaign squarely at the center of a religiously driven culture war, and Chapman has described ID as the Discovery Institute's "No. 1 project." His friend Gilder, meanwhile, has ridiculously pronounced that "the Darwinist materialist paradigm . . . is about to face the same revolution that Newtonian physics faced 100 years ago."
Such declarations appear to have made more moderate Republicans rather uncomfortable. During a November 2004 science journalism conference in Seattle, I had the opportunity to ask former EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus, who once sat on the Discovery Institute's board, what he thought of its antievolutionist activities. Ruckelshaus told me he hadn't been interested in being involved in such a project. (In fact, in a 2000 speech on how to save the Pacific salmon, posted on the Discovery Institute's website, Ruckelshaus called the fish "a marvel of evolutionary adaptation.")
Clearly, Bruce Chapman has presided over an uncomfortable merger between pragmatic, centrist Republicanism and the antievolutionist, culture-warrior wing of the Right. Today, Discovery touts Cascadia, a technology-intensive project to improve transportation in the Pacific Northwest that is funded in part by the Microsoft fortune (through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) even as it seeks to replace one of the cornerstones of biology with what Wired magazine has labeled the 2.0 version of creationism. And Chapman—a man who by all accounts cares deeply about ideas and whom the New York Times once called "serious and scholarly"—has morphed into a leader of the nation's most prominent religious crusade against modern science.
Intelligent design, as advanced by the Discovery Institute, has many antecedents. An older and more explicitly theological version of the idea holds that the universe itself shows evidence of God's handiwork, a claim that science—which is limited by its methodology to studying natural causes, not allegedly supernatural phenomena—can neither confirm nor refute. Similarly, before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, many, indeed most, educated men and women accepted the precepts of "natural theology," an argument by analogy that just as human artifacts like watches show signs of a designer's hand, so do specialized organs like the eye. Perhaps the most famous proponent of this argument was the Reverend William Paley, author of the 1802 work Natural Theology.
Darwin read (and was impressed by) Paley as a young student at Cambridge. His Origin, however, unfolds as an elaborate rebuttal to Paley's recourse to divine intervention, explaining how complex organs could have evolved through gradual stages from imperfect but still useful antecedents, or from simpler structures that were co-opted for new uses. As Darwin noted in a famous passage from the book's second edition:
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
Providing the linchpin of modern biology, Darwin's work supplanted natural theology's argument from design and left it by the wayside, at least from a scientific standpoint.
Representatives of Bruce Chapman's think tank, however, have plucked the design argument from the annals of intellectual history and pronounced it modern science. Granted, today's technophile ID advocates dress up their arguments "in the idiom of information theory," as leading ID proponent William Dembski has put it, claiming (for instance) that the massive amounts of biological information encoded in DNA could not have arisen through natural selection and must therefore have been designed by an intelligent agent. But judging from ID's poor scientific publication record, it has failed to convince working biologists to join in this quixotic enterprise.
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From anyone else, this would be shocking, but it's Kesha — so for her, it just feels like Tuesday. She teased her fans with the news on Twitter, writing, "animals! I just shaved the side of my head! wanna see a pic???" Uh, yes!
Once her cannibals clamored enough, pop's favorite party girl finally showed off her new 'do — and it's a little surprising, but not for the cut itself. Complete with fierce smoky eyes and tiny braid by her ear, with her platinum and gold hair swept in a dramatic side part, her close-cropped crown shows us that K-Dollar-Sign is a natural brunette!
We can't wait to see if Kesha's new do will influence her faux fur, T-shirt and watch designs. The longtime beard enthusiast has been expanding her musical style horizons lately, so her new hair style is probably another step in her evolution to full-blown rock star. Now she looks less like Blake Lively and a lot more like Skrillex! Maybe a collaboration is in order?

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text: This is a very interesting topic. First off it's interesting how different head and compute node are, and that cpu utilisation is relatively low. . What is the runtime of one run ? Have you tried running it only on compute nodes? (mpirun -nolocal) Have you experimented with the impact of running two threads per node versus four and half the amount of nodes to understand if a quadcore system could give you an advantage (more mpi io within the node) or disadvantage (more mpi io squeezing through interconnect bottleneck) ? Infiniband will be more valuable on the quadcore I presume. Does the app use any scratchspace at runtime over NFS? What size are input and output files and how much time is spent reading / writing them ? Michael -----Original Message----- From: stephen mulcahy [mailto:smulcahy at aplpi.com] Sent: Fri Mar 16 07:36:12 2007 To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Performance characterising a HPC application Hi, I'm looking for any suggestions people might have on performance characterising a HPC application (how's that for a broad query :) Background: We have a 20 node opteron 270 (2.0GHz dual core, 4GB ram, diskless) cluster with gigabit ethernet interconnect. It is used primarily to run an Oceanography numerical model called ROMS (http://www.myroms.org/ in case anyone is interested). The nodes are running Debian GNU/Linux Etch (AMD64 version) and we're using the portland group fortan90 compiler and mpich2 for our MPI needs. The cluster has been in production mode pretty much since it was commissioned so I haven't gotten a chance to do much tuning and benchmarking. I'm currently trying to characterise the performance of the model, in particular to determine where it is 1. processor bound. 2. memory bound. 3. interconnect bound. 4. headnode bound. I'm curious about how others go about this kind of characterisation - I'm not at all familiar with the model at a code level (my expertise, if any!, is in the area of Linux and hardware rather than in fortran90 code) so I don't have any particular insights from that perspective. I'm hoping I can characterise the app from outside using various measurement tools. So far, I've used a mix of things including Ganglia, htop, iostat, vmtstat, wireshark, ifstat (and a few others) to try and get a picture of how the app behaves when running. One of my problems is having too much data to analyse and not being entirely certain what is significant and what isn't. So far I've seen the following characteristics, On the head node: * Memory usage is pretty constant at about 1GB while the model is running. An additional 2-3GB is used in memory buffers and memory caches, presumably because this node does a lot of I/O. * Network traffic in averages at about 40 Mbit/sec but peaks to about 940 Mbit/sec (I was surprised by this - I didn't think gigabit was capable of even approaching this in practice, is this figure dubious or are bursts at this speed possible on good Gigabit hardware?). Network traffic out averages about 35 Mbit/sec but peaks to about 200Mbit/sec. The peaks are very short (maybe a few seconds in duration, presumably at the end of an MPI "run" if that is the correct term). * Processor usage averages about 25% but if I watch htop activity for a while I see bursts of 80-90% user activity on each core so the average is misleading. On a compute node: * Memory usage is pretty constant at about 700MB while the model is running with very little used in buffers or caches. * Network traffic in averages at about 50 Mbit/sec but peaks to about 200 Mbit/sec. Network traffic out averages about 50 Mbit/sec but peaks to about 200Mbit/sec. The peaks are very short (maybe a few seconds in duration, presumably at the end of an MPI "run" if that is the correct term). * Processor usage averages about 20% but if I watch htop activity for a while I see bursts of 50-60% user activity on each core so the average is misleading. I'm inclined to install sar on these nodes and run it for a while - although again I'm wary about generating lots of performance data if I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I'm also a little wary of some of the RRD based tools which (for space-saving reasons) seem to do a lot of averaging which may actually hide information about bursts. Given that the model run here seems to be quite bursty I think that peak information is important. I'm still unsure what the bottleneck currently is. My hunch is that a faster interconnect *should* give a better performance but I'm not sure how to quantify that. Do others here running MPI jobs see big improvements in using Infiniband over Gigabit for MPI jobs or does it really depend on the characteristics of the MPI job? What characteristics should I be looking for? The goals of this characterisation exercise are two-fold, a) to identify what parts of the system any tuning exercises should focus on. - some possible low hanging fruit includes enabling jumbo frames [some rough calculations suggest that we have 2 sizes of MPI messages, one at 40k and one at 205k ... use of jumbo frames should significantly reduce the number of packets to transmit a message, but would the gains be significant?]. - Do people here normally tune the tcp/ip stack? My experience is that it is very easy to reduce the performance by trying to tweak kernel buffer sizes due to the trade-offs in memory ... and 2.6 Linux kernels should be reasonably smart about this. - Have people had much success with bonding and gigabit or is there significant overheads in bonding? b) to allow us to specify a new cluster which will run the model *faster*! - from a perusal of past postings it sounds like current Opterons lag current Xeons in raw numeric performance (but only by a little) but that the memory controller architecture of Opterons give them an overall performance edge in most typical HPC loads, is that a correct 36,000ft summary or does it still depend very much on the application? I notice that AMD (and Mellanox and Pathscale/Qlogic) have clusters available through their developer program for testing. Has anyone actually used these? It sounds like what we really need before spec'ing a new system is to list our assumptions and then go and test them on some similar hardware - these clusters would seem to offer an ideal environment for doing that but I'm wondering, in practice, how many hoops one has to jump through to avail of them ... and whether parties from outside of the US are even allowed access to these. Apologies for the long-winded email but all feedback welcome. I'll be happy to summarise any off-list comments back to the list, -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. http://www.aplpi.com _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A longtime activist for the rights of disabled people has sued Fred's Mexican Café and the Pierside Pavilion complex in Huntington Beach for alleged failures to comply with state and federal disability laws and with the state's civil rights law and health and safety code.
Costa Mesa resident Christie Rudder filed the lawsuit July 2 accusing Fred's and Pierside Pavilion of failing "in their obligation to provide disabled persons … with full and equal access to their goods and services." The complaints come from a series of visits Rudder, who uses a wheelchair for mobility purposes, paid the establishment at 300 Pacific Coast Hwy. between Nov. 13, 2010, and the winter and spring of 2011 while it was under renovation.
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Rudder came to Fred's several times because she enjoys the food and views and would have visited more but "has been deterred from doing so due to the ongoing access issues and discriminatory policies she has experienced," according to the lawsuit.
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"Every case has the potential to go to court, but at this stage the defendants are working with us to come to a resolution," Barbosa said. "We want to make sure Fred's is more available and open to everyone, we don't want to do anything that would damage Fred's, but at the same time we want to make sure these things are fixed."
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The cancellation last fall of an estimated 4.7 million individual policies that were deemed lacking was a damaging blow to the rollout of the controversial health reform law. President Barack Obama had repeatedly told Americans that, "If you like your health care plan you can keep it."
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Vintage Kitchen: Get the Look
Nothing says home like a friendly and inviting kitchen. Giving your space a vintage warmth is not only the perfect way to enjoy meals, but sure to draw friends and family around the countertop during prep time. Marketplace is full of shops and resources for finding vintage-inspired décor, so check out this brief guide on how to achieve this timeless look in your kitchen.
Investing in any of these vintage reproductions is a good idea for a couple of reasons. Firstly, they are well-built, industrial strength appliances that will last you a lifetime. Secondly, their classic looks will look great in most kitchens (depending on your color choice, that is).
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2. Williams Sonoma : KitchenAid Mixer, $299
3. Bed Bath & Beyond : Dualit Toaster, $259
4. Monitor Top : Northstar Refrigerator Reproduction, see dealer for pricing
Build a collection of winsome accessories by scouring flea markets and the online shops of independent craftsmen. Ebay and Etsy are amazing resources for finding those one-of-a-kind items that will give your kitchen a vintage charm.
5. Fishs Eddy : Cake Stand, $54.95
6. Ebay : Wire basket, $25
7. Brookfarm General Store : Wooden Spoon, $12
8. Industrial Relic : Vintage Scale, $32
Pull together a vintage color palette through textiles. Update old chairs by recovering the seat in a vintage fabric and keep your eye out for rugs with oddly pleasing color combinations.
9. Cath Kidston : Cotton and Oil Cloth Fabrics starting at £20.00
10. Dash & Albert : Cottton Rugs starting at $30
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I went into my local Harbor Freight Tools store and picked up a Digital Inspection Camera with 2.4″ Color LCD Monitor. It takes 4 AA batteries (not included), so I picked up a 24 pack of AA batteries from Harbor Freight as well for under $6 bucks – great price and now I have back up batteries! Some online recon revealed that competitive brands of inspection cameras with monitors were exorbitantly higher priced than the Harbor Freight version at under a $120. Would the Digital Inspection Camera from Harbor Freight deliver on its claims? That was my mission and I chose to accept it–fortunately, the Camera did not self destruct in five seconds.
The packaging claimed that with this device, I could "make easy visual inspections, even in hard-to-reach places." I couldn't count the number of times I'd dropped hardware into the abyss of heavy machinery or needed to inspect behind a wall before drilling into it. And then there's dropping keys that somehow get kicked under a shelving unit with 40 metric tons of equipment on it. Hopefully, the Digital Inspection Camera could help remedy these types of situations.
The light at the end of the camera provides the 4 ft. night vision as described previously and also illuminates the tight spaces you're in, which are usually dark. This became especially useful as I soon discovered.
The monitor is amply sized at 2.4″ and provided easy viewing but to document my adventure, I utilized another useful feature of the device. With the included video cable, I was able to plug the device into the video-in port on my wide screen TV. Then I practically had theater viewing.
Once you start using the Digital Inspection Camera with 2.4″ Color LCD Monitor, you'll never know how you lived without it! The device is easy to assemble and operate. The lighted camera integrated into the end of a three foot flex hose provides excellent maneuverability in hard-to-reach areas, and the monitor picture is clear and detailed. The attachments are extremely useful! The hook is ideal for locating/feeding wires behind walls or behind equipment. The magnet is effective in picking up fallen hardware and even small tools. The angled mirror allows you to view underneath places where you would not be able to bend the flex hose.
From plumbing and electrical work to retrieving lost items and viewing places that are otherwise inconvenient or inaccessible to reach, you owe it yourself to get the Digital Inspection Camera with 2.4″ Color LCD Monitor.


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Having gone through law school myself I still don't really know what "International Law" really is. Is it treaties? international tax? corporate transactions? It is such a broad category that it cannot even really be defined.
You should also move to Albuquerque New Mexico in the meantime because that is the best place to live now according to U.S. News.


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Florence Louise Bryant was born in Boston and studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, the National School of Fine & Applied Arts, and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1933 she married artist Frank J. MacKenzie (her second marriage). She maintained studios in San Francisco and in Washington, DC where she was the head artist for the Bureau of Exhibits and United States Forestry Service from 1917-42. She was a member of the Washington Art Club, Society for Sanity in Art, and Society of Western Artists. She exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) during the 1930s and at the Society for Sanity in Art, California Palace of Legion of Honor in the 1940s.


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Noise complaint leads to arrest in Orange
Orange Police arrested a man Sunday morning after the man failed to identify himself and attempted to evade arrest when authorities were investigating a noise complaint at his home.
Police responded to a call regarding a loud disturbance at 1514 Lindenwood Dr. in Orange at approximately 6:05 a.m., according to the police report. OPD officer Jareb Logan reported he made contact with a white male at the residence where the noise could be heard. The man was uncooperative and refused to identify himself. According to police, the man became physically aggressive and was forced to the ground. Police arrested 54-year-old John Harlan Cotten for failure to identify, resisting detention and city ordinance noise violation for loud music.


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February 6, 2001
Mycophenolic acid (MPA) inhibits inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase and is active against HIV-1 in vitro. Reverse transcriptase inhibitors, such as dideoxyinosine and tenofovir, which are ultimately metabolized to adenosine analogs, are processed through the inosine pathways. MPA administration represents a possible way of augmenting the activity of these agents.
In this laboratory study, MPA was used at a range of doses (0-500 nM) which represent achievable serum concentrations. In combination with these NRTIs, both wild-type and resistant clones were inhibited in a dose-proportional manner. The use of MPA together with ddI and ABC demonstrated synergy. Neither the NRTIs nor MPA had an adverse effect on cell proliferation.
These data suggest that MPA may be a useful adjunct to therapy with ddI, abacavir and tenofovir at doses of MPA that do not induce immunosuppression, and is worthy of further clinical testing.
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text: On 14 Feb 2005, at 18:58, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:42:42PM +0000, Ashley Pittman wrote: >> If you had a bunch of sends to do to N remote processes then I'd >> expect >> you to post them in order (non-blocking) and wait for them all at the >> end, the time taken to do this should be (base_latency + ( (N-1) * M >> )) >> where M is the recpipiocal of the "issue rate". You can clearly see >> here that even for small number of batched sends (even a 2d/3d nearest >> neighbour matrix) the issue rate (that is how little CPU the send call >> consumes) is at least as important that the raw latency. > > Unless I completely misunderstand your formula, M is not only the CPU > the send call consumes. It's easy to find situations (fast cpu, slow > network) where the cpu consumed isn't a part of M at all. Even for a > modern 1 GByte/sec network, cpu consumed might not be a part of M. I'm talking about our (Quadrics) network here which has a CPU offload, a Wait call is simply a few function calls, a memory read (to test completion), a mutex lock/unlock cycle and a linked list insertion, nothing more. Some CPU is used in the send call as I said but outside the two calls there is zero CPU usage although potentially reduced memory to CPU bandwidth. > Reducing CPU consumed can't hurt. But reasoning about it seems to be > less useful than testing actual applications. I do that as well. Ashley,


text: Hello Again to all you Beowulf users! Similar to Doug Edline's poll.... I was a subscriber in the late 1990s, but had to sign off the list for several years as my job changed. I used to follow many of your posts with such interest, and hope you oldtimers (and newer subscribers as well) are all doing well !! I'm working on a study on computer system recapitalization and thought this might make an excellent topic to engage on the Beowulf list. We expect the results to have broad implications for US Federal Government IT planning as well. I am researching the optimal life expectancy for a military program to plan for some commercial computer based systems. My customer has upgraded many systems to COTS based products (Linux/Intel based blade servers), and will upgrade more in the future. They manage about 100 sites, each with a modest (1-room) sized installation of maybe 12 racks or so (200 to 300 nodes). The question was raised as "When should all these servers be upgraded or replaced again?" We know that from a purchasing perspective, the longer the life we plan/allow, the fewer systems to be bought per year, and the cheaper it gets. But there are other factors - over time the "older systems" are harder to maintain.... don't run newer licenses of SW products, need spare parts, some of which are hard or very hard to find (e.g. old RAM modules - on Ebay?!). Sometimes the newer technology uses less power and is cheaper to operate....(anyone ever create a KW/MFLOP vs. Time curve? has that really gone down? ) After several years (e.g.. 6,7, or 8) the systems Admin costs on the older systems may be higher - e.g.. more labor, specialized training, unique tools .. If we know the required life is a long time our customer insists on tracking end of life points and buying spares to have on hand. That costs more for longer time spans. At some point in time the reliability of the fans and disk drives starts to really impact computational production - downtime costs $$, and at that point the repair means "complete replacement", but that cost may be lower (cheaper parts) or higher (new facility? rewrite code?) due to waiting so long to do it ... We think that the cost vs.. length-of-life" curve has a parabolic shape, and the left is dominated by the cost decrease as noted above. The right side' is the more troublesome. In economics or manufacturing this is the classic capitalization problem - what is the life expectancy of the asset? The optimal point is at the bottom of the parabola. Do operating costs really go up as a cluster ages? What other factors are there? For some the upgrade is necessary to tackle a larger or more complex problem - but others can just let the system churn a bit longer to get the answer. Is that the real driver? I recall that one Beowulf user facility operated both a new and an old production cluster, and replaced the "old one" with a "newer" one (the new "new one" ) on a regular basis. Is that common? Do most of you as users see the old system just chucked out as the new one is brought online? What are the advantages or disadvantages of replacing maybe all 100 sites of hardware with 50% new at 25 per year, vs. replacing all (100%) of the system at 12 units per year?) (on a coarse level, both plans cost the same in hardware purchasing terms). I expect that many of you have experience in upgrading and replacing clusters - I'd love to hear the feedback. Could any/some of you please respond with information or help? Maybe in one of three ways .... 1) Reply to this thread, with general comments, especially if you know of a study, presented paper, or archived thread (if you recall a month I'll go scouring the archives gain - effort so hard is fruitless!). Has anyone modeled this problem? I know I covered a lot of different aspects - feel free to comment on whatever issue or item you wish. 2) Send me info ( directly to DLechner at mitre.org<mailto:DLechner at mitre.org>) ) on how old your current operational cluster or systems is (and a little about it - e.g. # nodes). I'll tally those #s and come up with an average age of operating clusters (I'll post a summary of all the responses I get in a week). 3) Send me info on the age of a cluster you just recently replaced - if you send that directly to me (DLechner at mitre.org<mailto:DLechner at mitre.org>) I'll post a generic table of data back to the list in a week or so. This will at least tell us the "hard facts" of when maybe 20 or 30 commercial systems were last replaced, with the assumption being that most of you or your lab managers were making a best case judgment that it was time for the unit to be replaced - this gives us statistical comparison data to the Beowulf user community experience. I think actual (factual) replacement #s are more valid - that shows the result of collective decisions to actually spend $ and take action. Please tell me, if you know: a) How many nodes there were in the "old system" ? b) How old was that "old system" when replaced? c) How many nodes does the "new cluster" have? d) If known, what was the biggest reason for the replacement? If responding directly, please put "CLUSTER RECAPITALIZATION" in the title of the email. Hopefully this wasn't done too recently (last few years) - if it was can someone please send a pointer and I'll check it out! I'm reviewing published data on this questions also, but would specifically like to get the Beowulf community view. Thanks again & in advance Dave Lechner Principal Systems Engineer MITRE Corp. DLechner at mitre.org<mailto:DLechner at mitre.org>


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text: Hi, I installed an attached 6TB E-Sata storage and re-directed jailed directory paths to it, jailed with scp/sftp worked fine. After 2 failed hard drives I had to rebuild it but now they can log in jailed but scp or sftp gets "Couldn't open /dev/null: Permission denied" . I have changed permissions, re-created users and directories, re-copied scp and sftp, still no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Scott


text: hi ya robert our solution is scalable using off the shelf commodity parts and open source software - we also recommend a duplicate system for "live backups" - we can customize our products ( hardware solutions ) to fit the clients requirements and budget - example large 100TB disk-subsystem on 4 disks per blade ........ 1.2TB per blade with 300GB disks 10 blades per 4U chassis .... 12TB per 4U chassis 10 4U chassis per rack ...... 120TB per 42U rack http://www.itx-blades.net/Dwg/BLADE.jpg - model shown holds 4 disks, but we can fit 8-disks in it http://www.itx-blades.net/Dwg/4U-BLADE.jpg - cooling ( front to back or top to bottom ) is our main concerns that we try to solve with one solution - system runs on +12V dc input - 2x 600W 2U powersupply is enough power for driving the system - i'd be more than happy to send a demo chassis and blades, no charge if we can get feedback that you've used it and built it out as you needed - hopefully you can provide the disks, mb, cpu, memory, - we can provide the "system assembly and testing time" at "evaluation" costs ( all fees credited toward the purchase ) - you keep the 4U chassis afterward ( no charge ) On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Robert G. Brown wrote: > I'm helping assemble a grant proposal that involves a grid-style cluster > with very large scale storage requirements. Specifically, it needs to > be able to scale into the 100's of TB in "central disk store" (whatever > that means:-) in addition to commensurate amounts of tape backup. The good .. sounds like fun > tape backup is relatively straightforward -- there is a 100 TB library > available to the project already that will hold 200 TB after an > LTO1->LTO2 upgrade, and while tapes aren't exactly cheap, they are > vastly cheaper than disk in these quantities. - tape backups are not cheap ... - tape backups are not reliable ( to save the tapes and restore ) - dirty heads, tapes that need to be swapped, .. - tape backups are too slow ( to restore ) > The disk is a real problem. Raw disk these days is less than $1/GB for > SATA in 200-300 GB sizes, a bit more for 400 GB sizes, so a TB of disk > per se costs in the ballpark of $1000. yup.. good ball park > However, HOUSING the disk in > reliable (dual power, hot swap) enclosures is not cheap, adding RAID is > not cheap, it can be ... does it need to be dual-hot-swap power supplies ?? - no problem... we can provide that (though not a pretty "case" ) raid is cheap ... but why use raid ... there is no benefit to using software or hardware raid at this size data ... - time is better spent in optimizing data and backup of the data to a 2nd system - it is NOT trivial to backup 20TB - 100TB of data - raid'ing reduces the overall reliability ( more things to fail ) and increases the system admin costs ( more testing ) > and building a scalable arrangement of servers to provide > access with some controllable degree of latency and bandwidth for access > is also not cheap. not sure what the issues are .. - it'd depend on the switch/hub, and "disk subsystem/infrastructure" > Management requirements include 3 year onsite > service for the primary server array -- same day for critical > components, we'd be using a duplicate "hot swap backup system" > next day at the latest for e.g. disks or power supplies that > we can shelve and deal with ourselves in the short run. most everything we use is off the shelf and be kept on the shelf for emergencies power supplies, disks, motherboards, cpu, memory, fans > The solution we > adopt will also need to be scalable as far as administration is > concerned -- scaling is easy in our case ... > we are not interested in "DIY" solutions where we just buy > an enclosure and hang it on an over the counter server and run MD raid, we can build and test for you ( onsite if needed ) > not because this isn't reliable and workable for a departmental or even > a cluster RAID in the 1-8 TB range (a couple of servers) it isn't at all > clear how it will scale to the 10-80 TB range, when 10's of servers > would be required. we don't forecast any issues with sw raid ... on 4 disks per blade ........ 1.2TB per blade with 300GB disks 10 blades per 4U chassis .... 12TB per 4U chassis 10 4U chassis per rack ...... 120TB per 42U rack > Management of the actual spaces thus provided is not trivial actual data to save would be a bigger issue than the saving of it onto the disk subsystems > -- there > are certain TB-scale limits in linux to cope with (likely to soon be > resolved if they aren't already in the latest kernels, but there in many > of the working versions of linux still in use) and with an array of individual file size issues would limit the raw data one can save other way around it is to use custom device drivers like oracle that uses their own "raw data" drivers to get around file size limiations > partitions and servers to deal with, just being able to index, store and > retrieve files generated by the compute component of the grid will be a > major issue. that depends on how the data is created and stored ??? - we dont think it as a major issue, as long as each "TB-sized files" can be indexed properly at the time of its creation > SO, what I want to know is: > > a) What are listvolken who have 10+ TB requirements doing to satisfy > them? we prefer non-raided systems ... and duplicate disk-systems for backup > b) What did their solution(s) cost, both to set up as a base system > (in the case of e.g. a network appliance) and raw components is roughly $25K per 12TB in one 4U chassis http://www.itx-blades.net/Systems/ - add marketing/sales/admin/contract/onsite costs to it ( $250K for fully Managed - 3yr contracts w/ 2nd backup system ) http://www.itx-blades.net/Systems/ > c) incremental costs (e.g. filled racks)? the system is expandable as needed per 1.2TB blade or 12TB ( 4U chassis ) additional costs to intall additional blades into the disk-subsystem is incremental for the time needed to add its config to the existing config files for the disk subsystem ( fairly simple, since the rest of the system has already been tested and operational ) > d) How does their solution scale, both costwise (partly answered in b > and c) and in terms of management and performance? partly and answered above scalable solutions is accomplished with modular blades and blade chassis > e) What software tools are required to make their solution work, and > are they open source or proprietary? just the standard linux software raid tools in the kernel everything is open source > f) Along the same lines, to what extent is the hardware base of their > solution commodity (defined here as having a choice of multiple vendors everything is off-the-shelf we have the proprietory 4U blade chassis for "holding the blades" in place along with the power supply ( the system can be changed per customer requirements > for a component at a point of standardized attachment such as a fiber > channel port or SCSI port) fiber channel cards may be used if needed, but it'd require some reconfigurations - fiber channel PCI cards are expensive and it is unclear if its required or not > or proprietary (defined as if you buy this > solution THIS part will always need to be purchased from the original > vendor at a price "above market" as the solution is scaled up). everything is off-the-shelf > Rules: Vendors reply directly to me only, not the list. i was wondering why nobody replied publicly :-) > I'm in the > market for this, most of the list is not. Note also that I've already > gotten a decent picture of at least two or three solutions offered by > tier 1 cluster vendors or dedicated network storage vendors although I'm > happy to get more. i hope "name brand" is not the primary evaluation consideration > However, I think that beowulf administrators, engineers, and users > should likely answer on list as the real-world experiences are likely to > be of interest to lots of people and therefore would be of value in the > archives. I'm hoping that some of you bioinformatics people have > experience here, as well as maybe even people like movie makers. we've been indirectly selling small systems to the movie industry ( by the hundred's of systems ) .. its just a simple mpeg player :-) > FWIW, the actual application is likely to be Monte Carlo used to > generate huge data sets (per node) and cook them down to smaller (but > still multiGB) data sets, and hand them back to the central disk store > for aggregation and indexed/retrievable intermediate term storage, with good ... > migration to the tape store on some as yet undetermined criterion for > frequency of access and so forth. Other uses will likely emerge, but i'd avoid tape storage due to costs and index/restore/uptime issues > this is what we know for now. I'd guess that bioinformatics and movie > generation (especially the latter) are VERY similar in the actual data > flow component and also require multiTB central stores and am hoping > that you have useful information to share. have fun alvin


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT was the only college in the country to have its men's and women's volleyball teams qualify for the GamePlan/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. Initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, this award honors collegiate and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 mark on a 5.0 scale.
The college ranks produced 167 programs that met the requirements, including a record-setting 54 among Division III women's teams. Joining MIT on the list from New England was conference foe Mount Holyoke College along with Colby College, Newbury College, Trinity College, and Williams College. On the men's side, which included all three divisions, NYU and Vassar College made the cut in addition to MIT. Rising junior middle hitter Scott Pollom's alma mater, Cathedral High School (Ind.), also earned plaudits.
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RALEIGH, NC (NC EDUCATION LOTTERY) — Mega Millions players trying their luck at the biggest jackpot ever led to the N.C. Education Lottery on its sixth anniversary recording its highest day of sales ever. Sales of Mega Millions tickets Friday, added to those for all 19 drawings that occurred during the jackpot's climb to $640 million, resulted in an estimated $12.9 million extra for education programs in North Carolina.
"Lots of North Carolinians had fun this week dreaming of winning that jackpot on Friday and we were glad to see four tickets in our state produce wins of a quarter of a million dollars," said Alice Garland, executive director of the Education Lottery. "The biggest winner, however, was education because we'll raise a lot more money this year for teacher salaries, school construction, college scholarships and our pre-k programs."
Sales for those 19 drawings, recorded between Jan. 25 and March 30, were $34 million for the Mega Million game alone. During those drawings, more than 735,000 tickets in North Carolina won prizes ranging from $2 to $1 million, totaling $8.1 million. Those sales also boosted the local economy as lottery retailers recorded $2.3 million in lottery commissions. The Education Lottery set a new record for a single day of ticket sales on Friday, the sixth anniversary of the start of the lottery on March 30, 2006. The new record is $17,660,273, up $8.7 million from the previous record of $8.8 million set on March 12, 2008. Mega Millions ticket sales on Friday accounted for $12.3 million of all the day's sales.
In Friday's Mega Millions drawing, tickets sold in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland all matched the winning jackpot numbers to split the $640 million jackpot. In North Carolina, there were 369,594 winning tickets totaling $3 million in prizes. Four tickets sold in North Carolina beat odds of 1 in 3.9 million to match all five white balls and win $250,000 each. The lucky tickets were purchased at the Piggly Wiggly on Richlands Highway in Jacksonville, the Kroger on Six Forks Road in Raleigh, the Swift Mart on Marshburn Road in Wendell, and the Seminole Mart on U.S. 421 North in Broadway. The winners have 180 days to come to lottery headquarters in Raleigh to claim their prize.
Ten other tickets sold in the state matched the numbers on four of the five white balls plus the number on the Mega Ball to win $10,000 each. Two other tickets matched numbers of four white balls plus the Mega Ball and are valued at $30,000 because they were $2 Megaplier tickets. The Megaplier number drawn on Friday was the No. 3 so the initial $10,000 win was multiplied by three.
By law, lottery funds pay for teachers' salaries in grades K-3, school construction, need-based college scholarships and prekindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds. To date, the N.C. Education Lottery has raised more than $2.2 billion for these initiatives statewide.
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Update (Jan 4th 2014): Since I wrote this post, I've switched to using Karma instead of testem. Karma is written and supported by the Angular guys and in the year or so since this post was originally written has matured more than testem. I have a karma skeleton project that I use to setup my frontend testing environment. The readme for that project is pretty extensive and outlines how to set up a karma project.
I've gotten very satisfied with the set of tools I'm currently using when writing JS tests, so much so that I'd thought I'd write a blog post about it.
I write my tests either using Chai and Sinon or Jasmine. I also use a forked version of JSCovReporter to show me code coverage information. Whilst writing and developing the tests I'd either run them in a browser (and manually refresh) or via phantomjs. This means that most of the time my tests are being tested in either firefox or a webkit-based browser. Of course before committing, the tests are checked manually in all browsers in case of cross browser issues.
This last step though is now replaced with a tool called testem. Testem is a command line tool that automates the running of your tests in any specified useragents and displays the results in the terminal. It'll detect changes in the test files and automatically reruns the tests. It can also run the tests in CI mode which means the results are output in TAP format from which Jenkins can parse and generate reports.
So now, instead of having a browser open whilst writing tests, I run a command like this:
and windows for Chrome, Safari and Firefox are opened, the tests are run and results are displayed (The browsers and tests page(s) are specifed in the testem.json file). Alternatively you can also run it headlessly using phantomjs if you don't need a browser.
The results looks like this:
The browser windows are kept open so subsequent changes will trigger the re-run of the tests. Though, in this example, only the above browsers were specified, I can add other browsers manually just by opening the same url in a different browser. At work for instance, where I work on an iMac with 8gigs of memory and have access to multiple mobile test devices, I would also have tabs for all the IE's running via a vm, iOS simulator and a couple of android phones. So now, rather than wait for Jenkins or perform a quick manual check of the tests in each browser before committing, I know pretty much straight away if a test fails because of a cross-browser issue.
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Robby Hoch is energetic, curious and outgoing, much like the other kindergartners at Creek Valley Elementary in Edina. Except for one thing: He's a year older than most of his classmates. In his mom's eyes, that's a good thing.
"We wanted to give him that extra year to mature socially, and to set him up to succeed later in life," Katy Hoch said of her choice to start her son in school at age 6 instead of 5, because of his late August birthday. "He probably could've handled starting at age 5, but when he turns 12, 14, 18 -- and even in college -- it's going to be an advantage for him to be a year more mature."
The practice, sometimes called "academic redshirting," is a term borrowed from college sports where athletes are benched for a year to give them time to develop their skills. In the early 1990s, about 9 percent of U.S. kindergartners were purposefully held back each year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Today, the percentage is nearly twice that.
At Grey Cloud Elementary School in Cottage Grove, about 5 percent of the students who are 5 by Sept. 1 choose not to attend. Statewide, the number is closer to 12 percent, putting Minnesota just under the national average.
With schools' increasing emphasis on academic achievement and society's growing concern for kids' emotional needs, more parents like Hoch are considering holding their children back a year until they're more physically, academically and emotionally ready. But early educators fear too many are adopting that philosophy and for the wrong reasons.
"Parents carry a lot of anxiety about this decision, especially if their child is born in June, July or August," said Laura Loshek, a former kindergarten teacher and now principal at Grey Cloud Elementary. "If the child ends up struggling, parents feel guilty about sending them. They always wonder if they did the right thing."
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At Breck, a private school in Golden Valley, roughly 23 percent of kindergartners will turn 6 by the end of October.
"There's a general momentum in society that kids need to have a leg up," said Peg Bailey, Breck's lower school director. "Parents are in a state of confusion about what to do because there's no real supporting research that says this is a good idea."
Parents are anxious for good reason. The research shows both benefits and drawbacks. Some studies say that students who start a year later have a slight academic edge and better test scores than their younger classmates, and are more likely to be classroom leaders.
Other research has found that children who were redshirted were less motivated and more likely to have behavioral problems later.
Some of the latest research, published in the Society for Research in Child Development, indicates that parents might be agonizing for nothing. While students who enter school later might initially produce better test scores, the advantages fade by the end of elementary school, indicating that the age at which a child starts kindergarten makes little difference in the long run.
Still, the subject continues to be hotly debated in preschool groups, mommy play dates and education blogs.
Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book "The Outliers" launched redshirting into the spotlight by looking into what makes people successful. Some of his research found that the majority of Canadian junior hockey all-stars had one thing in common: Most of them were born in the first half of the year.
Gladwell compares his findings to a 2006 study by economists Elizabeth Dhuey and Kelly Bedard that discovered a relationship between the age of entering school and academic performance. The oldest students attained percentile rankings four to 12 points higher than the youngest students at the fourth-grade level and two to nine points higher at the eighth-grade level across a range of countries.
The book resonated with Karin Gessner of Eden Prairie. Her 2-year-old son has an August birthday and already Gessner knows she will be keeping him at home until he turns 6.
"I'd hate for him to be on the lower end of the scale just by virtue of his age,'' she said. For me, it has nothing to do with sports, though I have heard many moms talk about that."
More a whisper than a shout, athletics and academics are increasingly the motivation to redshirt, especially among boys in higher performing suburban schools. During her research of early literary performance at the University of Minnesota, Alisha Wackerle-Hollman met many parents who kept their children out of school until age 6, because they wanted them to have a competitive edge over their younger peers, especially if they were hockey parent hopefuls.
An educational psychologist, Wackerle-Hollman advocates for children being in the classroom earlier rather than later -- but for the right reasons.
"Instead of considering the challenges a child faces from being the youngest in class, consider the benefits of having them in an academically fulfilling environment for a whole year that they might not get at home," she said.
To redshirt or not?
Redshirting could be exactly the right thing for a kid, but some educators say the practice is getting out of hand. Megan Durkin has been a preschool teacher for more than 25 years and said it's this newest generation of parents who are rushing to redshirt. Now the owner of Montessori Children's House in Northfield, Durkin often advises parents she describes as "overanxious" about sending their children to school.
"It's an abnormality in the education system to have a whole year's age difference in each grade," Durkin said. "It's not as strange at an elementary age, but as the redshirted students get older, they do stick out. They look like a red shirt in the middle of a sea of other colors."
Catherine Scharlau, a psychologist with Aspen Medical Group, regularly sees parents who are in a quandary about when to start their children in kindergarten.
Her advice? Don't base the decision on one factor alone; consider every aspect of a child's development.
"Academic readiness at age 5 isn't a very clear indicator because so many academic differences wash out by third grade. Looking at all aspects of their development is truly important," Scharlau said. "It's a complicated question and needs to be handled on a very individualized basis."
Kim Kotzen Wear did just that and kept her son, Gabriel, out of school until he was 6 and has never looked back. Wear said her son, who is shy and has a July birthday, would have been at a disadvantage.
She believes the extra year of preschool better prepared Gabriel, who's 7 and now in first grade, to be a leader in his class and handle the long day.
"Everyone told me it would be the best decision I'd make and I wouldn't regret it," Wear said. "It's a gift you can give your kids -- the gift of time."
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This homestay is a 140 year old wooden building rebuilt three years ago. The homestay is situated in a peaceful and quiet village Mararikulam, near Marari Beach. Marari Beach is an endless vista of sand and surf but it is more an authentic experience of the world of villages and a recreation of an ancient harmonious way of life. Marari Beach is an endless-golden-sands usually touted for their peace and quiet ambience. The village of Mararikulam lies on a beautiful sea shore and beyond is a milk-and azure ocean fringed by a beach more ochre than yellow, a sand-meets-sea combination you're not likely to find anywhere else. Marari beach is shallow, calm and is ideal for swimming & sunbathing. Enjoy a game of beach volley ball & take a dip in the sea. One could really feel the warmth of the golden rays of sunset in front and Dolphins which are occasionally seen here. The calm of the beach and amazing view is not all we have to offer. We believe that not only relaxation for the body and mind but also the experience of wholesome tranquility.Read more
Mr Christoph Scherrer
Mar 2014
Great place to unwind. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay for two weeks here. It is located in a real fisherman's village, so you get a very good impression of what life is in an Indian village. The beach is just 5 minutes walkable distance. It is one of the best places ever visited.
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Monica Toh
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Jan 2014
One of our three rooms did not have an AC though we were promised that one will be fitted before our arrival. We had hardly any interaction with the host (Anil) and his family apart from money related matters. Our needs were taken care by two excellent helpers, Michael and Akkie. The location of the homestay is not convenient for restaurants which is why we ended up eating twice at the homestay. All the food was very disappointing as it was extremely poor value for money - it was costly at 250 Rs per head as it was made with cheap ingredients and not very tasty. The meals were nicer and cheaper at local three star hotels. We could not help but feel that all that the host and his family were interested in was to make money from us. It was certainly not a \"home away from home\" Special thanks to the helpers, Michael and in particularly Akkie as they went all out of their way to make us feel comfortable.
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