On the national level, Norwell is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. The state's senior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, elected in 2013, is Ed Markey.
Function is C language term, it refers to a piece of code and the function name will be the identifier to use this function. Method is the OO term, typically it has a this pointer in the function parameter. You can not invoke this piece of code like C, you need to use object to invoke it.
RPC vs RMI. The basic difference between RPC and RMI is that RPC is a mechanism that enables calling of a procedure on a remote computer while RMI is the implementation of RPC in java. RPC is language neutral but only supports primitive data types to be passed. On the other hand, RMI is limited to Java but allows passing objects.