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returns true if deleted, false otherwise.
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array('catalogue+variant' =>
array('source string' => 'target string', ...)
array('catalogue+variant' =>
array('source string' => 'target string', ...)
returns 2 level array translation table.
Saves the list of untranslated blocks to the translation source.
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strings to the translation source via the append() method.
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Introduction Historical Background The Young Men's Library Association Andrew Carnegie and the New Library The Carnegie Library School Of the Best...African Americans and the Library System The Auburn Avenue Research Library The Special Collections DepartmentCentral Library Construction and Renovation Relationship of the System to City and County Growth and Development of the Library System Links to More AFPL History
IntroductionOn March 4, 1902, the first patrons of what we now call the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System entered the Carnegie Library, located on the same ground as today's Central Library. The origins of the library system, however, lay in the nineteenth century, with the efforts of members of the Young Men's Library Association to raise money for a free public library in Atlanta. Historical BackgroundBy 1867, Atlanta's remarkable recovery from the physical and economic damage of the Civil War was well underway. Before long, some Atlantans turned their attention to Atlanta's need for a library. Atlanta had never had a library that would serve the general public, even for a fee, and the city's booksellers were out of business at the war's end. Indeed, as late as 1895, no southeastern city yet had free public libraries as we know them today. In 1867, however, an Atlanta bank teller named Darwin Jones enlisted the support of his friends for a somewhat different idea. Jones, originally from Milwaukee, had observed the success of the "subscription library" in that city, one of many around the country. Jones and his associates, from Atlanta's emerging business and professional elite, formed the Young Men's Library Association, and set up a subscription library. Young Men's Library AssociationThe YMLA was established on July 30, 1867. Its subscription library was open to the general [in this case, white male] public without charge, but one had to pay a membership fee for the privilege of actually checking out books. In 1873, the first [white] women members were accepted. As its collection grew, the YMLA relocated its library frequently. Its sixth and final site was a home on the northeast corner of Marietta and Spring Streets. The need for a public library became more widely recognized. Eventually this "home" of the YMLA Library was sold to raise money for the purchase of land at what is today the corner of Forsyth Street and Carnegie Way, on which the Central Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System stands. Andrew Carnegie and the New LibraryWhen Walter Kelly, southern representative of Carnegie Steel, came to Atlanta in 1892, the YMLA turned to his employer as a possible source of financial assistance. Pittsburgh's Andrew Carnegie was famous for his enormous wealth, his role in the development of the American iron and steel industry, and his philanthropy. Carnegie established or contributed to a number of educational, humanitarian, and public service institutions, helping set up at least 2,500 libraries around the world. A committee led by YMLA President Eugene Mitchell (father of writer Margaret Mitchell) began months of negotiation with Kelly and Carnegie. On May 6, 1899, Carnegie donated $100,000 to establish a public library in Atlanta. As part of the agreement with Carnegie, the city government was to give financial support to the new library. On July 1, the city government announced an outlay of $5,000 per year for its new institution. Carnegie's initial donation and the city government appropriation did not cover the expenses of building and supplying the new library. Anne Wallace, YMLA Librarian, undertook the task of convincing Carnegie to offer more money. In November 1899, the persuasive librarian convinced Carnegie to donate $25,000 to purchase furniture and to meet other costs; in March 1901, she encouraged him to give another $20,000. The stage had been set for the appearance of Atlanta's Carnegie Library. Fittingly, Anne Nicholson Wallace, last librarian of the YMLA, and tireless worker in making the new library a reality, was named "Librarian" of the Carnegie Library on May 13, 1899. Wallace had already helped organize the Congress of Women Librarians, a part of Atlanta's 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, and thereafter encouraged the founding of the Georgia Library Association.
The opening of the new library took place on March 4, 1902. The first book checked out of the new library was Maurice Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes, a bestseller of its day. The YMLA merged its collection with that of the new library, but continued to exist as an organization for years after the Carnegie Library opened, gradually winding down its activities as it became clear that the new library would endure.
The Carnegie Library SchoolUnder the leadership of Anne Wallace, "Librarian" (roughly equivalent to today's "Director") of the Carnegie Public Library, and with the ongoing financial assistance of
Andrew Carnegie, the first library school in the south opened in Atlanta on September 20, 1905. Anne Wallace was its first director. Originally known as the Southern Library School, the official name eventually became the Carnegie Library School of Atlanta. Popularly, Atlantans called it the Carnegie Library School; outside of the city, it was known as the Atlanta Library School. Financial pressures and evolving standards in the library profession led the school to affiliate with Emory University in 1925. Until 1930, it remained the south's only nationally accredited library school; by then its graduates were employed throughout the United States. The school was located at Emory from 1930 until it closed in 1988. African-Americans and the Library SystemAt the time that the Carnegie Library opened, African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois led a group of African-Americans in an unsuccessful effort to receive representation on the Library Board, full use of the new library, or at least some branches to provide for their needs. Andrew Carnegie had offered funds for a branch library for black citizens, but the money was not used for years. Finally, in 1921, the Auburn Avenue Branch Library (1921-1949) began operating as the first of three branches eventually established to serve African-American patrons in the years before integration.One of the milestones in the struggle to desegregate the library system came in May 1959, through the simple request of Irene Dobbs Jackson for a library card and the right to borrow books at Central. At that time, African-American patrons were allowed in the library, but only to read books in the basement. Jackson, a professor at Spelman College and the mother of Maynard Jackson who would later be Mayor of Atlanta for three terms, made it clear that she would go to court when her request was not met. Her action symbolized a variety of legal, political, and social pressures being brought to bear upon the Library Board to desegregate the Central Library.Her experience also suggested the extreme nature of the opposition to desegregation; Jackson received terrifying threats from racists after her request for a library card. According to former Director Ella Gaines Yates, some staff members threw raw eggs at Jackson. On May 19, 1959, the Library Board voted to extend to African-Americans the same privileges as whites in using the Central Library. The staff of the Central Library was desegregated in a series of steps between 1966 and 1973, as African-American personnel began serving in positions of increasing responsibility and visibility. The Auburn Avenue Research LibraryIn hindsight, one can see another milestone in service to African-Americans which long preceded 1959. In 1934, materials used in the Adult Education Project, a joint venture of the American Library Association, The American Association of Adult Education, and the Rosenwald Fund, were donated to the Auburn Branch to form the Negro History Collection of Non-Circulating Books. The Adult Education Movement, stimulated by the American Association for Adult Education, was an effort to encourage reading, learning, and educational growth by people at all levels of education. The Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library (not to be confused with today's Auburn Avenue Research Library) was one of two libraries in the U.S. which participated in the Project by offering programs aimed specifically at African-Americans.Upon the closure of this branch in 1949, the collection was transferred to the West Hunter Branch, and in 1970, to the Central Library, due at least in part to the efforts of Mrs. Johnny LaBat Yancey, the first African-American member of the Library Board. Renamed the Samuel W. Williams Collection on Black America, in honor of educator and community leader Rev. Samuel W. Williams, the collection was officially dedicated as one of the library's special collections on November 21, 1971. In April 1994, the Williams Collection was moved again, to form the core of what is now the Auburn Avenue Research Library. On May 16, 1994, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History (AARL) officially opened at 101 Auburn Avenue. The AARL was the first public library of its kind in the southeast, open to anyone interested in the African-American experience. Its collection encompasses a large collection of books and periodicals, as well as more than one million archival records and artifacts, ranging from paintings to pamphlets, oral history transcripts, film, photographs, and a variety of organizational records and personal papers. The Special Collections Department Another unforeseen benefit of the creation of the Williams Collection was its role in the development of a Special Collections Department at Central. Preservation of the Williams Collection was one of the earliest projects of what eventually became Special Collections. Other influences included public demand for specialized materials on Georgia history and on genealogy, and the need to maintain a large set of family history books donated to the library in honor of Hattie Wilson High, a local philanthropist. The department lives on as today's Special Collections Department. Construction and Renovation of the Central Library By 1902, the Carnegie Library of Atlanta stood at the corner of Forsyth Street and Carnegie Way. Although the building was remodeled several times before it was torn down and replaced with a new structure between 1977 and 1980, the Central Library has remained at this location. In 1946, Atlanta voters approved the sale of bonds in 1947 to raise money for building several branches as well as renovation and additions to the Central Library. In 1950, Central's renovation was complete and a dedication ceremony was held. The name of the system was changed to the Atlanta Public Library. In 1966, a second renovation of the Central Library was completed. Four years later, the Library Board appointed Marcel Breuer, a participant in the innovative Bauhaus Movement, to plan and design an entirely new building. Breuer, working closely with his associate Hamilton Smith, proposed a design that they believed would make use of natural light and windows. The exterior of the building was to be "monumental," enabling the library to retain its distinctive character and significance even if dwarfed by larger buildings. In 1974, a bond referendum was passed to raise money for construction of the new central library.In 1977, the library moved to temporary quarters in the Thornton Building, popularly known as "The 10 Pryor Street Building." On May 25th, 1980, dedication ceremonies were held for the new building, which officially opened to the public two days later, under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates, first African-American director of the library system. The building was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. Breuer was unable to attend the dedication ceremonies and died a year later on July 1, 1981 at the age of 81.A popular addition to the exterior of the Central Library was the sculpture Wisdom Bridge. This work of sculptor Richard Hunt was placed on the plaza and dedicated August 1, 1990. In 2001, approaching the centennial of when library service was first offered to the public a major renovation of the Central Library was begun. The Relationship of the Library System to the City and CountyIn 1935, the City of Atlanta and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners signed a contract under which library service was extended to all of Fulton County. This expansion was made possible by a joint grant by the WPA and the city government. In 1982, Georgia voters passed a constitutional amendment authorizing the transfer of responsibility for the library system from the City of Atlanta to the County. On July 1, 1983, the transfer became official, and the system was renamed the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library. Some journalistic accounts of this period speak of a "merger" or "combination" of city and county systems. The term "transfer of authority" is more accurate, because Fulton County had never operated a library system before 1983. It had contracted with the City of Atlanta to provide library service to areas within the county outside of the city's service area. The Growth and Development of the Library System In 1898, the YMLA held a collection of 15,000 books. In 1902, the Carnegie Library registered over 10,000 patrons and checked out 116,000 books. There were no branch libraries at that time. By 1924, twenty-five years after Carnegie's original donation, over 57,000 people held library cards; in that year 625,000 volumes were circulated. The system then included eight branches plus three special depositories in schools and factories. In 1967, one hundred years after the founding of the YMLA, the system encompassed nineteen branches and circulated 2,118,244 items, including more than 870,000 items for children. 53,112 patrons registered for library cards in that year alone, over and above previous cardholders. As of early 1999, approaching the centennial of Andrew Carnegie's original donation, the Central Library alone held 2.1 million items of all kinds. Central received more than 300,000 visitors per year; on the average day, about one thousand people came in. At least four hundred more were helped every day by Information Line (now replaced by Reference Line), our telephone reference service. The system offered 3,598,794 items of all types, including nearly two million books. This figure does not include more than one million archival documents at Auburn Avenue. In 1902, computers were completely unknown. Today, the library system offers free Internet access at every branch. Computer training and word processing are available at Central through the "Gates Lab," maintained by the Instructional Learning Center. The Teen Technology & Homework Center, on the 3rd floor of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library's Central Library is designed especially to appeal to library patrons in middle school and high school. The vision for the center was developed during the 1997 Teen Initiative of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System's Youth Services Division. The center opened in October 2000. In 2001, the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System encompassed the Central Library, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, `thirty-two active branches, and two Bookmobiles. In 2001, the last full year of service before the library system's celebration planned for mid-2002, total circulation for the entire system was 2,994,955 items of all types. Central's circulation was 222,955 items. These numbers of course exclude uses of non-circulating materials, such as reference works and the archival holdings of the AARL and of the AFPL Archives. In every month of 2001 except December, Central circulated more materials than the Carnegie Library owned in its first year. A total of 337,071 people had library cards at the end of 2001. A few other figures may give a sense of the magnitude of change in the system. In 1902, the Carnegie Library circulated 116,000 items. In 2001, seven branches and Central each exceeded that total. For more AFPL history see . . .Timeline of AFPLS History Margaret Mitchell & the Atlanta Public LibraryBack to Top

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I am breaking with Christian conservatism in my support of the Democratic Party and healthcare for the upcoming election. Many of you will get to the "Christian conservatism" part of my statement and be ready for an argument. Well, I can't help my convictions, they're a huge part of me, but I hope with democratic social policy that I will be able to help people that can't get what they need on their own. Mainly this relates to healthcare. I am convinced that without a one payor universal healthcare system in the United States that many women will continue to go untreated for breast cancer and there will continue to be needless deaths from the disease.
I am incensed by right wing conservatives who continue to extol the present system of healthcare and ramble on and on about how the government can't run healthcare. Although, I agree with both sentiments; the healthcare system in the United States is a good one - if you can get access and afford it, and the government can't run healthcare, (that is why it needs to remain privatized), the difference is that the government becomes the healthcare insurance carrier and we all benefit from our already exorbitant taxes going to something for all of us. I just think they are ill informed at best. I am most perturbed with the intention to manipulate the issue with terms like "socialism" and "government control." In a democracy where the government is by the people for the people, it surprises me that there is a continued indulgence in skepticism of that elected government. The fact that all citizens have a franchise in the government through the voting system should be a huge facet in being able to participate in government control. The real argument needs to focus on the inadequacy of the system to include everyone and the practice of perverse amounts of money being used to lobby the government on behalf of the healthcare industry. It is that practice that we should hold up to further investigation and skepticism.
For those who have great insurance coverage provided by your employer I am happy for you. But in Michigan where most of the workers had great insurance coverage through the big three automakers, we have learned that you can't count on it lasting forever. I end my argument by stating once again that in countries where there is universal healthcare, the people are healthier and live longer - and that is a fact!


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Types of interior shutters
By Linda Merrill, Networx
Interior window shutters, as opposed to exterior shutters, are generally used for more decorative purposes with a small amount of functionality. They are not required to protect the home from the elements such as rain, cold or flying pests as exterior shutters are called upon to do. Interior shutters can be purely ornamental or provide some control over air-flow, light and privacy. There are several different types of interior window shutters available, which offer different looks and functionality.
Louvered Shutters
Louvered shutters come in moveable and fixed positions. These are the most common style of interior shutter treatments and the moveable options provide the most functionality of the two styles. The moveable option allows for positioning of the louvers for best control of airflow, direction of light and privacy. Fixed louvered shutters are purely decorative only and when closed, block most of the airflow and light and cannot be controlled. Plantation shutters are a type of louvered shutter that features a wider louver, sometimes up to 3-4", whereas standard louvers might be as narrow as three-quarters of an inch. The wider louvers allow for greater airflow and are particularly popular and useful in warmer climates although they enjoy great popularity regardless of climate for the strong architectural element they provide a room.
Interior Paneled Shutters
Interior paneled shutters were the traditional choice in the days before central heating was common. They were used to block the heat of the sun and keep drafts at bay. Generally speaking, they offer little control over light and airflow and these days offer a purely decorative old-style look.
Fabric Insert Shutters
Another nod to old-style charm are shutters that use a fabric insert rather than a flat panel or louvers. The fabric can be matched to the décor of the room and offer a charming, yet tailored, alternative to traditional fabric window coverings. As with other fixed shutter systems, fabric inserts don't allow for much flexibility of air or light control, unless you use sheer fabrics for a translucent effect.
Bahama Shutters
Bahama, or Bermuda, shutters have long been used in hot sunny climates for their excellent protection from strong sunlight, without impeding air-flow. These types of shutters, most commonly used on exteriors, hinge from the top of the window and pull away from the bottom. They keep the sun at bay while allowing cooling breezes to pass through the window. Generally, these types of shutters are a single board, either flat panel or with downward facing fixed louvers, that covers the entire window opening. Bahama style shutters are increasingly being used as interior shutters for their unique decorative qualities that bring to mind coastal and hot weather locations, especially in colder climates that require stronger exterior protection from the elements.
Interior Shutters for Unique Window Shapes
Unique window shapes such as arched windows or circular windows can also be covered with decorative interior shutters. Although they will likely need to be custom built to your exact specifications, they will provide some light and air control as needed. All window shutters offer at least some control over light and air-flow. The ability to keep out the hot sun, or let a cool breeze flow through, will have a tremendous effect on your energy usage as well. As we continue to be more and more energy efficient, the old ways of doing things -- blocking the sun, keep cold drafts at bay -- are coming back into style like never before.
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The West Virginia. Cyclopedia
St. Albans, West Virginia
A community in central Kanawha County, Saint Albans, WV (map), was laid out in 1816 along the Kanawha River near the location of Fort Tackett, c. 1786. The community was first know as Philippi, named after settler Philip Thompson, but was renamed Coalsmouth, as it developed at the mouth of Coal River. Incorporated as "Kanawha City" in 1868, it name was changed to St. Albans in 1871, a name suggested by a Mr. Parsons, according the the WV Geological Survey, a member of the town council who intended to honor his hometown of St. Albans, Vermont.
St. Albans is located about: 12 miles west of Charleston, WV; 10 miles west of South Charleston, WV ; and 40 miles east of Huntington, WV.
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Census Data
Population: 11,567 (2000 Census)
Elevation: 590 feet
Longitude: -81.8364
Latitude: 38.3856
Development of St. Albans, WV
In 1871, at present-day St. Albans, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), constructed a saw mill to cut lumber for the building of its railroad line through West Virginia. This in turn attracted additional mills and factories to the location, turning St. Albans a prosperous "lumber town." Several large timber companies soon located up Coal River, rafting logs downstream to the mills at St. Albans.
The growth of St. Albans was retarded for some time by the policy of the Central Land Company which, although it held lands at St. Albans, devoted all its attention to the development of Huntington. Later the preparation for a greater city was made by Grant Hall, who, after purchasing the lands of the Central Land Company, graded the streets and laid cement walks.
In 1900 contracts were made for the construction of the Kanawha, Pocahontas, and Coal River Railway along Coal River. The charter, granted in 1896, provided for a route via the junction of Marsh and Clear forks, thence via Marsh Fork to the Norfolk and Western Railroad (N&W) in Mercer County. The road was constructed from St. Albans through Boone, and into Lincoln County, in 1905-07.
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No one at our encampment did the Air Force shuffle in the mess hall. At least no one I saw.6. You recognize cadets at any CAP event in the future.7. You find you CAP ID number on random tshirts8. You can meet someone you haven't seen in months and instantly be reconnected.9. You've done things that most teens never have and never will do.
You might've gone to encampment if...1. You wake up at 0500 and do PT.2. Your alarm is revelry reveille.3.You know at least 50 ways to change into your BDU's in less than 5 minutes 4.You can take a complete shower in less than 2 minutes5. Your room is set to inspection standards6.When you're in line for food at school, you do the Air Force shuffle7.You don't stop talking about encampment until the next one startsPlease fill in your own...
Yes we did do the Air Force shuffle...
My flought flight didn't. Anyway we're getting off track.
...you wonder about the game plan of the cadet that showed up with only ONE extra pair of underwear in his luggage.
You're kidding, right sir?
-When you call your teacher ma'am
Quote from: aceofspades on May 21, 2013, 07:21:00 PM-When you call your teacher ma'amYou didnt before?
Disclaimer: in real life I do not use aint" or double negatives.
Quote from: TJT__98 on May 21, 2013, 09:21:11 PMQuote from: aceofspades on May 21, 2013, 07:21:00 PM-When you call your teacher ma'amYou didnt before?I know it's common in the south but no one really does it up north.
Depends on what you mean by north. Plenty of people I know living above the Mason-Dixon Line call their teacher ma'am or sir.


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On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City – lasting only half an hour – transformed how government protects workers. The company was in a building touted as fireproof. The conditions were hazardous -- operators had received many warnings. The owners refused to install sprinklers. They set up the factory for top output – not for safety.
The fire killed 146 workers. They were mostly teenage girls who died because there was no safe way for them to escape. They were trapped on the top three floors of a 10-story building that had bad fire escapes and doors that opened in. Despite the deaths, the factory reopened three days later in the same building. That building still stands – a monument to the need for worker protection and safety.
The New York State Department of Labor of today was forged in that fire a century ago. It was the driving force behind state rules to set standards for:
After the Triangle fire, Frances Perkins led the drive for stronger safety measures. She was named New York State Commissioner of Labor in 1929 and later became United States Secretary of Labor in 1933. She was the first woman federal cabinet official. At a memorial on the 50th anniversary of the fire, Ms. Perkins said of the Triangle workers, "They did not die in vain, and we will never forget them."
One victim of the Triangle fire was Daisy Lopez Fitze. She was a 22-year-old newlywed who was headed to Europe to start a new life with her husband. Daisy took a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory to save some extra money.
Saturday, March 25, 1911 was payday – and Daisy eagerly went to work. She never returned. Read her story, A Flower for Daisy, by her great-niece, Diana Fortuna.
For more details about the Trangle factory fire, visit these web sites:
On the centennial of the fire, the New York Committee for Occupational Safety & Health produced Don't Mourn, Organize. It quotes leaders in worker safety and health, government, labor, education, and community organizations. Download a copy of the booklet.
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Phoenix KC Series 100 Hook Key Cabinet with Electronic Push Shut Latch Mechanism Lock
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Back to the seed of their love
Daniel Craig arrived in Toronto last night to work on reshoots for Dream House. Rachel Weisz is supposed to be working on it too. Dream House of course was filmed last year, February/March-ish and then 6 months later, Weisz and Darren Aronofsky were done and Satsuki Mitchell can't be found.
It's fair to say then that the seed was there, right? The seed of their love? From where it grew? Where they couldn't deny their chemistry and went home thinking about each other and made every kiss longer and linger and couldn't wait to get to the set the next morning to be together again…?
Anyway, turns out Lorella Jeopardy was on Craig's flight. She sent me a note – he's VERY handsome. And then she emailed me this:
Omg when we were in the customs lineup (craig was in it) someone whistled the james bond theme and a bunch of people giggled. Hilarious.
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Although our HLVM project is intended to bring modern VM techniques to modern programming languages without requiring any new research, we have ended up producing several enlightening new results. This article takes a look at some of the weird and wonderful techniques we used in HLVM.
GC as a metaprogram (good!)
Whereas most VMs use a garbage collector written in C or C++, the GC in HLVM is written in its own intermediate representation. This unusual design has a variety of benefits:
- The GC acts as a test for the compiler.
- The GC benefits from improvements we make to the compiler.
- The GC is simplified by being able to use features like tail call elimination and higher-order functions.
Overall, implementing the GC in HLVM's own IR proved to be hugely beneficial: the GC was very easy to write and is easy to maintain.
Fat references (bad!)
Most VMs store header data in each heap-allocated block that describes the size and type of a value in order to allow the garbage collector to traverse it. In HLVM, we moved this header data into the reference itself. This allows C data structures to be used directly without having to be copied in order add the header, simplifying and improving the efficiency of the foreign function interface (FFI).
This adds a 4-word space overhead for duplicated references. Fortunately, duplicate references are rare and no significant space overhead has ever been observed in practice.
However, there are two disadvantages. Firstly, we have observed significant performance degradation as fat references are pushed onto the stadow stack, requiring 4× more bandwidth than 1-word references would. Secondly, our fat references cannot be updated atomically so our VM is not memory safe.
Lack of memory safety is a major concern and the best solution we have come up with to date is to resort to 1-word references as pointers to heap-allocated header information. Note that HLVM currently calls malloc twice for each allocation (once to allocate a mark bit and again to allocate the actual data) so moving the header information back into the heap need not require more allocations. The obvious solution of placing the header alongside the mark bit would incur false sharing when the GC thread writes to the mark bit and a mutator reads the header information. If that proves to be a problem then a better solution might be to store an index that can be used to look up the mark bit and header data from two separate arrays.
Shadow stacks (adequate!)
Xavier Leroy dismissed our proposed shadow stack, saying "probably the worst approach performance-wise; even a conservative GC should work better". Our motivation for using shadow stacks was always simplicity rather than performance. Shadow stacks are simply because LLVM's GC support is highly experimental (to date, only two people claim to have managed to get it to work) and shadow stacks facilitate accurate GC in an uncooperative environment). In fact, our results have already proven that Xavier's statement is not true in general and, in fact, we believe it may even be wrong in general.
Specifically, of the six benchmarks from our benchmark suite than handle references in the inner loop (thus incurring manipulation of the shadow stack), HLVM is significantly faster than OCaml on four of them. So our shadow stack cannot be degrading performance that much! Moreover, OCaml is 9× faster than HLVM on our n-queens benchmark only because its generational collector allows short-lived values to be recycled very efficiently and that has nothing to do with the shadow stack.
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A skier reportedly escaped an avalanche he triggered along a ridge on Peak 1 near Frisco Tuesday afternoon, according to Summit County Rescue Group officials.
The individual made it to the bottom of the mountain without injuries after triggering a slide below him.
"That can happen sometimes when you're skiing down," SCRG spokesman Charles Pitman said. "The compression will set off a slide below."
Officials sent out the Flight for Life helicopter to survey the slide area. Officials do not believe anyone else was involved, as only one set of tracks was seen from the air.
The avalanche danger in Summit County is currently rated considerable on all north, east and southern slopes near and above treeline, according to a report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
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I've been really, really down for the past two weeks.
I know this because I'm eating like a mad woman. I'm not overeating because I'm hungry or even interested in food. When I get sad I eat like some people work or snark or run or Facebook. Like I'm desperately trying to distract myself from something I'm afraid of. Like I'm frantically trying to fill up an un-fillable hole.
I noticed that this frantic thing was happening a few days ago. Noticing is good. It's the first step, usually.
I eat mindlessly when I'm down and I get down when I'm lonely. I'm down a lot because I'm always a little lonely. I can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. It's just the way I am- I feel a little island-ish. I am both afraid of connection and totally desperate for it.
Do you know that I have 80, 000 of you but I haven't had a real live conversation with a real live friend for weeks?
I think I secretly believe that I don't NEED real live people. Like I can serve all of you here and that COUNTS as connection. Judging from my mental health this last few months- I'm not sure that's true. I actually think we might need real life time with real life people. This makes sense, I guess, but I also find it disconcerting.
I fell in love with Sean Penn during a recent interview he did from a refugee camp. He had moved there to help and was completely immersed in the people there. He was passionate and real and educated about the issues. Then the reporter asked him about his crumbling marriage. Penn paused and said, "You know, I love humanity. It's the humans I hate."
I loved him for that bit of honesty. It is so much easier to save the world than it is to save yourself. So much easier to serve the world than serve your family and friends.
I have to find a way to help myself out of this low-ness. It's been a while – it's time. So I am going to wrap this up here, and go jump in the shower. Then I am going to drive the kids to school and after I drop them off (on time!) I am going to get coffee with some other mamas from school. I am going to sit and be present and listen and share. With humans.
I am going to:
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The agribusiness/food sector is the second most profitable industry in the United States — following pharmaceuticals — with annual sales over $400 billion. Contributing to its profitability are the breathtaking strides in biotechnology coupled with the growing concentration of ownership and control by food's largest corporations. Everything, from decisions on which foods are produced, to how they are processed, distributed, and marketed is, remarkably, dictated by a select few giants wielding enormous power. More and more farmers are forced to adopt new technologies and strategies with consequences potentially harmful to the environment, our health, and the quality of our lives. The role played by trade institutions like the World Trade Organization, serves only to make matters worse.
Through it all, the paradox of capitalist agriculture persists: ever-greater numbers remain hungry and malnourished despite an increase in world food supplies and the perpetuation of food overproduction.
Hungry for Profit presents a historical analysis and an incisive overview of the issues and debates surrounding the global commodification of agriculture. Contributors address the growing public concern over food safety and controversial developments in agricultural biotechnology including genetically engineered foods. Hungry for Profit also examines the extent to which our environmental, social, and economic problems are intertwined with the structure of global agriculture as it now exists.
Hungry for Profit demystifies the reasons why hunger proliferates in the midst of plenty and points the way toward sustainable solutions. Perhaps most important, it highlights the ways in which farmers, farmworkers, environmental and sustainable agriculture groups — as well as consumers — are engaged in the struggle to create a just and environmentally sound food system which, its editors argue, cannot be separated from a just and environmentally sound society.
This is a timely and useful book … packed with thoughtful ideas and challenging analyses…. The editors' overview is excellent, characterized by clarity and force … the editors have done an excellent job in the selection of articles and/or the assignment of topics. They have packed a great deal into what is really quite a short and tightly edited manuscript.
A strong and timely collection … a compelling, historically oriented survey of the political economy of the state-supported corporate takeover of world food production.
- Introduction, FRED MAGDOFF, JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, & FREDERICK H. BUTTEL
- The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism, by ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
- Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today's Agriculture, JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER and FRED MAGDOFF
- Concentration of Ownership and Control in Agriculture, by WILLIAM D. HEFFERNAN
- Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture and the Possibilities for Sustainable Farming, by MIGUEL A. ALTIERI
- The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian, by R.C. LEWONTIN
- New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice, by GERAD MIDDENDORF, MIKE SKLADNY, ELIZABETH RANSOM, and LAWRENCE BUSCH
- Global Food Politics, by PHILIP McMICHAEL
- The Great Global Enclosure of Our Times: Peasants and the Agrarian Question at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, by FARSHAD ARAGHI
- Organizing U.S. Farmworkers: A Continuous Struggle, by LINDA C. MAJKA & THEO J. MAJKA
- Rebuilding Local Food Systems from the Grassroots Up, by ELIZABETH HENDERSON
- Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality, by JANET POPPENDIECK
- Cuba: A Successful Case Study of Sustainable Agriculture, by PETER M. ROSSET
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Am I the only one who wants to puke when they look at these "bambino paradises"?
All that being said, there is a lot to do (and by that I mean buy) before the baby comes. SR is worried that all of my nausea is a "rebellion against motherhood." But it's more complex than that. There are many baby things I have found that I like, but there is something scary about arranging the details of little C's life. What if something goes wrong? It seems the more I buy, the more attached I will be and the harder dealing with a loss would be. But SR made the great point that it would be devastating no matter what we buy.
Beyond that, though, it would be nice to get used things and wait for the baby shower. And there is an inherent danger in saying "I like dinosaurs" and then ending up with dinosaurs coming out your ears after getting all the shower gifts. But, there are some items I have found that look really nice.
- Jardine changing tables
-Bundle me by JJ Cole
-Diaper bag by JJ Cole
-Baby Bjorns
-Graco carseats
-Arm's Reach Co-Sleepers
-Deuter Kid Comfort II (baby backpack)
I haven't found the ultimate baby jogger and would love recommendations if anyone has experience with them.
Oh and speaking of running, the hip is much less painful now! I am going for more physical therapy and another chiropractic adjustment this week and I can't wait. Perhaps we will get to run a bit in Florida next weekend. And it seems my running fate is now resting in the hands of two beautiful blonde sisters who live in my town: my chiropractor and my yoga instructor. The goddesses of health and femininity in my world. They have taken a genuine interest in me, for some reason, and I am grateful that they are committed to healing me and getting me running again. Granted SR calls them "boobular and ditsy." But with their help I continue to bike, swim, elliptical and do yoga every day.
Oh, and speaking of boobs, we had an exciting incident last night! I'm sure you're wondering where I'm going with this. Well, after we had sex, I actually started to leak milk. I'm thrilled about this since it means I shouldn't be unable to breastfeed.
Finally, I am so happy for SR. He won another 5k race yesterday. I unfortunately didn't see it since I was out of town. But I know it was around 0 degrees F. And now he's done with his hard rotations for a while, so we'll be able to spend more time together. We're both so happy about that. It's time to get ready for baby, now, I guess!
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3 cups cooked cold rice
1 1/2 cup roast pork
2 cups shredded cabbage
1/2 cup frozen assorted seafood
1/2 cup green beans. cut into small pieces
1/2 cup green onions, minced
4 dried mushrooms
2 cloves garlic minced
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 small chili peppers, minced
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons broth
2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 onion sliced
2 eggs
Cover dried mushrooms with hot water for 20 minutes, then squeeze the liquid out and cut into thin strips. In a small bowl, beat eggs with a teaspoon of the sesame oil and a teaspoon of the green onions. Cook like an omelet in a large hot skillet, tilting to spread the egg mixture across the surface of the pan, about 2 minutes. When the top of the omelet is almost set, flip the omelet and cook for 1 minute on the other side. Remove to a plate and cut into thin strips. In a large wok or deep skillet, heat the oil. Add the mushroom, onion, garlic, ginger, and the rest of the green onion. Cook for 2 minutes over high heat, stirring until the onions have started to soften. Add the cabbage and green beans. Toss and cook for 2 minutes. Add the seafood, the pork, the broth and soy sauce. Toss and cover the pan. Cook for 3-5 minutes until vegetables are tender but still a bit crunchy. Uncover and add rice, stir frying until the rice is hot and the liquid has been absorbed. Stir in the egg strips and remove from heat.


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I went to the gym last night with my mom. What an adventure for both of us. I admittedly will say, it's been a couple of weeks. I get into these slumps and it's so hard to go back. But as I've said many times, once you go back… you want to keep going back. The first day back at the gym is always the hardest. Zumba is on the docket for tonight.
So as I try to eat healthy, I know three things are for sure. 1) Meal prep is soooo so so so key. I get ravenous and want to eat everything in sight and having packs of veggies and fruits and already cooked meats for din dins is super helpful! 2) Remove junk food from tha damnn fridge! If it's not in there, it can't as readily tempt you and 3) Eat more protein than carbs. My body reacts so very well when I minimize my carbs and I mean well! Even when I eat good carbs, my body just does better on protein. Is that the case for any of you out there?? (let me know)
So the question I have are what are your 10-15 staples that you alwaysss have the fridge that you can mix and match meals? (i.e. chicken, broccoli, almond milk, Ezekiel bread) What are they? I don't want to bite off too much, but I find myself with a fridge full of things, yet nothing to make that 'matches'. Does that even make sense?
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Automotive artistry has been around for generations. This art though hasn't always been accepted by the established art aficionados of the world. In recent years however, with the proliferation of social media, and car collecting becoming a high dollar industry, automotive art has been coming into greater focus. More and more artisans have been coming out of the woodwork with their paintings, photography, sculptures, and etcetera.
I will begin highlighting a few of these artists beginning with this post. Other artists will follow. Some names will by now be familiar. Some will be new to you. In either case, enjoy the stories and experience their talent by checking out their work. Don't forget to share this page to spread the news about automotive art.
Today's spotlight is on Danny Whitfield.
Danny grew up in Detroit, Michigan and started drawing early. His affinity for the automobile led him to a career with Ford, General Motors, and other design firms. Although he enjoyed creating fine art pieces, the art world didn't embrace him with open arms, initially. The industry for the most part hadn't expanded its vision yet to see this type of artistry as a valid genre.
Since then, and determined not to be held back, Whitfield continued to do his fine art pieces and broadened his efforts to have the automotive art genre be more greatly accepted. As a result, he is seen as a key artist in moving this art scene forward. His work has been featured as wall hangings, posters, published in magazines, and highlighted throughout the internet. In fact, social media network growth has aided in ballooning Whitfield's popularity globally.
Strong testaments to Whitfield's acceptance in the industry have included an invitation he received to do a commissioned work for the National Corvette Museum, and artwork that's been printed in car magazines such as Hot Rod, and Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords (among a few). He's even had Jay Leno and Bob Lutz as clients.
I reached out to Mr. Whitfield for a few questions. He was gracious enough to take the time to answer them. The Q&A follows.
Art has been a part of your life since you were a young child. Do you remember how you started?
To tell the truth I got started at the age of 5. Anything I saw was a canvas to me, school paper, the walls in my bedroom, basically any flat surface with empty space I would draw on. My passion was the automobile and I drew cars every chance I got.
Your work encompasses several fields. What media have you used to create your work over the years? What's your favorite? Photography, oils, charcoal, paint, CAD, etc…?
My absolute favorite is Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache paint. The paintings just come alive when using this type of paint. The colors are so rich and vivid, the cars look like they're popping off the illustration board.
Your drawings have had my attention for a long while now. Could you define your style of Drawing?
I start with drawing the line work of the cars and backgrounds on the illustration board or canvas. Once I mask off the areas of the line work I apply the paint using an air brush. Once I have everything created, I scan the art into a software to bring them even more alive. I am able to change the color of the car, and add to the backgrounds or change them.
What has been your most challenging piece to date?
The old Packard's, Dusenberg's, or basically any vintage automobile. Those cars have wire wheels, tons of chrome and very intricate details that can takes months to create. But, it's worth the labor.
What is the newest challenge or inspiration ahead of you?
As you contacted me a little while ago, I was right in the process of creating my latest production art piece. The 2016-2017 Corvette Z06
How long was it before one of your works was first published? What did it feel like?
Ohhh, you want people to find out my age, lol! It was 1989 and man what a feeling! It was like the first time you got paid for your artwork. Nothing compares to that first paycheck. Well my first publication was a news article and I must have made 20 copies of it at the time.
How would you encourage others coming behind you in the Automotive Art arena?
Grow and study your customers. They are the people you are doing this for if you're going to do it as a living. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN make a living at selling art but it doesn't happen all at once. It takes patience. Understanding what your customer's likes and dislikes are is very important. This is done by publishing your best art and waiting for the positive responses from platforms such as social media, blogs, and much more. Speaking of social media, the best tools you have is the computer and the internet. Gone are the days when art galleries, museums, auto publications, and magazines dictate your career. With the internet you go directly to your customer and build a large audience. With a properly designed website, social media, cars shows, and events you are in control.
Danny Whitfield's art career covers over 40 years. Although his strength has been automotive related, he has also done architectural structures, interior design, appliances and furniture. So, his breadth of knowledge and ability to convey it is vast.
Whitfield's future aspirations are also grand. He has a vision for a museum of automotive art. It would of course include his own work, but also that of the many artists he has inspired and respects.
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What is it about the "Global Population, Magnitude Of" thing that so vexes the world's rich people? I'm asking in light of the food crisis and the energy crisis bringing back that old "Malthusian population crisis" fear. I'm also asking in light of my kinda recent discovery that the American rights to the RU-486 abortion pill are owned by some super-secretive subsidiary of the Rockefeller-founded Population Council. (Which is, by the way, charging too much money for it.) But mainly I'm asking because I just read this NYRB piece on two new books about the population control movement in the '50s and '60s which, among other things, taught me this about the challenge Western family planners faced in getting (and sometimes coercing) Third worlders into embracing birth control:
"You just keep having children. This is how you keep a man," Sylvia, mother of twelve, told Maternowska. "If you don't give [children] to him, he doesn't give [money] to you.... And sometimes even if you do give, you lose anyhow. Life is hard." Women would do anything to keep a man. There was a brisk trade in sexy outfits and wild rumors circulated about love potions, some from voodoo healers, some home-made, including rice and beans cooked in water in which a woman had washed her underwear.
That's a passage about Haiti. Haiti, poorest country in the Western hemisphere…is there enough rice in Haiti to waste on a man who might leave? Or can a woman cook dirt cookies in her underwear water, too? Not uplifting questions, sure, but what exactly did the World Bank so fear from these people that they were willing to endorse the literal dragging of Indian women to sterilization clinics and worse, the measures that in China all too often resulted in forced third-trimester abortions? Well, eugenicists feared the introduction of the Pill into the First World would cause "the swamping of the Nordic and Anglo-Saxon races by imbeciles, blacks, Asians, and eastern and southern Europeans," and technically, that happened. By the late sixties, books like the Population Bomb had softened that message, focusing on India where the (not improbable) prophesy was that "squalid, teeming slums and mass starvation" would beget "imminent political collapse." Ahhh, political collapse, our generation knows it well! But then what?
Particularly after the Communist takeover of China in 1949, Washington policymakers began to fear the rise of an increasingly resentful-and rapidly proliferating-global population of poor people who were easily susceptible to radical ideas and militaristic leaders. But in the end such people, if they threatened anyone, were mainly a danger to themselves.
As we know from the poor countries in which we've brought about political collapse lately! Helen Epstein's whole review is worth reading — and the NYRB is worth subscribing to and makes a great gift for dads! — but here's a critical line. As anyone who has ever been in love knows, treating others humanely might come more naturally when you suspect they might have the capacity to hurt you.
The greatest threats to the global climate come from China and the West, where birthrates are extremely low. The future of the planet depends less on the number of babies born in Uganda than on the choices we in the West make, which, at the moment, are not good ones. As recently as 2004, a Japanese study found that when shopping for cars, Americans cared more about the size of the cup holder than fuel efficiency.[10] Our habits may be shifting, but ever so slowly.
The Strange History Of Birth Control? [New York Review Of Books] Earlier: Is It About Time We Made A "Pregnancy Pact" Of Our Own? [Jezebel] Related: New Limits To Growth Revive Malthusian Fears [WSJ] RU-486: Brought To You By John D. Rockefeller [Some weird website I don't think is related to antiabortion zealots]


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