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To apply for paper/pencil exams, use the appropriate paper Candidate Application or apply online. The Candidate Application with the exam fees, as well as any correspondence and requests for information concerning the administration of CCO examinations, should be sent to:
NCCCO—Testing Services Department
34125 U.S. Highway 19 North
Suite 150, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Phone: 727-449-8525
Fax: 727-461-2746
NCCCO—Testing Services Department
34125 U.S. Highway 19 North
Suite 150, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Phone: 727-449-8525
Fax: 727-461-2746
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Candidate applications that arrive after that time cannot be accepted. Walk-in candidates cannot be accepted under any circumstances.
CCO written exams are carefully designed to provide a reliable and valid assessment of a candidate's knowledge and skills. Time limits are carefully determined for each written exam to allow enough time for a prepared candidate to complete the exam and to provide for an efficient and successful administration of all exams to scheduled candidates on testing day.
To provide each candidate with a fair and standardized administration of the written examination(s), and to ensure the reliability and validity of the written examinations is maintained, it is not recommended that a candidate schedule written exams totaling more than six hours of testing time on the same day.
Should a candidate be unable to sit for the examination, NCCCO must receive notification in writing no later than seven business days prior to the examination date. Candidate fees will be held up to one year. When the candidate reschedules, he/she will need to pay an additional $25 rescheduling fee.
Candidates who wish to reschedule their CCO Written Examination(s) must notify NCCCO and submit the necessary documentation and fees by the deadline for the rescheduled test date.
Candidates withdrawing or canceling after the deadline or not sitting for the examination will forfeit all application fees and will NOT receive a refund.
ONLY the following situations will be accepted as grounds for emergency cancellations or withdrawals:
Requests for medical and personal emergency withdrawals are handled by NCCCO's Testing Services Department upon submission of a letter describing the situation. Full name, address, and Candidate ID and/or CCO Certification Number must be included along with the scheduled test date, site number, and supporting documentation indicated above.
NCCCO MUST receive written notification within seven business days after the scheduled examination date or all application fees will be forfeited. Candidates will, however, be allowed to reschedule for a future examination administration.
Candidates will NOT receive a refund if they decide they no longer wish to take the test.
Paper/pencil CCO written certification examinations are available for administration on demand with at least four weeks' notice.
Tests can be administered at any time as long as the application deadlines are adhered to. Sample deadlines shown are for a test date of January 29.
For paper/pencil exams, approximately one week before the scheduled test date, registered and eligible candidates approved to take CCO Written Examinations will receive an admission letter by mail. The admission letter contains information regarding the test center address, the reporting time, the examination(s) the candidate is registered for, and the materials the candidate needs to bring on the day of the test administration. This admission letter should be presented at the Test Site to gain admittance to the examination.
Candidates must bring valid photo identification to the test site on the day of the test administration. Candidates will be required to sign the test site roster upon entry to the testing area.
Acceptable forms of photo identification for paper/pencil tests are a current:
NOTE: Candidates without appropriate identification documents will NOT be admitted to take the CCO Written Examination(s) and all fees will be forfeited.
Each candidate must bring the following items to the test site:
NOTE: No books, scratch paper, calculators, reference materials, beepers, cellular phones, or other personal items will be allowed in the examination room. Basic four-function calculators are supplied for Mobile Crane Operator Specialty Exams (not Core), Digger Derrick Operator exams, Rigger Level II exams, Lift Director—Mobile Cranes, Lift Director—Tower Cranes, and Mobile Crane Inspector exams.
CCO Written Examinations are electronically scored off-site at NCCCO facilities. For this reason, it is important to complete the answer sheet according to the instructions provided by the Chief Examiner on the day of the exam. Candidates will receive credit only for answers recorded on the scannable answer sheet. Answers marked in the test booklet(s) will NOT be counted toward a candidate's score.
All candidates will receive a score report of their performance. Examination results are mailed to candidates approximately 12 business days after the examination administration.
Candidates desiring to take their written exam(s) using the CBT option should visit the CBT Frequently Asked Questions page, which includes links to a directory of more than 300 PSI test center locations, fees, step-by-step instructions, and an online application form.
Online applications may be completed and submitted at any time. Candidates should apply to take CBT exam(s) as soon as possible, but no later than five business days before their preferred exam date. Please note that site availability is not guaranteed on the preferred exam date and availability can only be confirmed when scheduling the appointment.
After the candidate completes and submits the online application (with payment), the application will be processed within two business days. Candidates authorized for testing will receive a scheduling authorization email from PSI with specific instructions on how to schedule an examination appointment. For the fastest and most convenient test scheduling process, PSI recommends that candidates use its online scheduling service. Candidates follow the onscreen step-by-step instructions to register for their examination(s).
Candidates may also call the number provided in the email to schedule the test(s) with PSI; the PSI customer service representative will do his/her best to select a test date and location convenient for the candidate. PSI will send an appointment confirmation email within 24 hours.
The candidate must then go to the selected test center at the scheduled date and time; bring a valid photo ID and the authorization email, but be aware that materials such as cell phones, calculators, hats, coats, and bags are not permitted in the test room. Test results are available immediately.
Candidates must pay the appropriate CBT Written Exam fees when they apply online. A credit card (VISA, MasterCard, or American Express) must be used to pay online. CBT exam payments are valid for one year. If the candidate does not schedule and test within 12 months, he/she forfeits the fees; this does not, however, affect the specified deadline(s) for certification or recertification.
For CBT exam fees for each CCO program, see the Exam Fees page.
Other CBT Fees:
NOTE: After the candidate has scheduled his/her appointment with PSI, no changes can be made (adding exams, changing exams, etc.). If the name for the scheduled appointment does not match that on the photo ID presented, all fees will be forfeited.
CBT candidates may cancel and reschedule an examination appointment without forfeiting their fees if their cancellation notice is received at least 24 hours before the scheduled examination date. Candidates will NOT receive a refund if they no longer wish to take the test.
NOTE: To reschedule an exam appointment, candidates may log into their PSI account or call PSI at 833-333-4752 to speak with PSI Candidates Services Department. A voicemail message is not an acceptable form of cancellation.
A candidate's registration will be invalid, he/she will not be able to take the examination(s) as scheduled, and the examination fee(s) will be forfeited, if he/she:
Candidates must bring photo identification to the test site on the day of the test administration. Candidates will be required to sign the test site roster upon entry to the testing area.
Acceptable forms of photo identification for computer-based tests are a current:
NOTE: Candidates without appropriate identification documents will NOT be admitted to take the CCO Written Examination(s) and all fees will be forfeited. Work identification is NOT acceptable for computer-based testing centers.
NOTE: No books, scratch paper, calculators, reference materials, beepers, cellular phones, or other personal items will be allowed in the examination room. A basic four-function calculator is provided on-screen for Mobile Crane Operator Specialty Exams (not Core), Digger Derrick Operator exams, Rigger Level II exams, Lift Director—Mobile Cranes, Lift Director—Tower Cranes, and Mobile Crane Inspector exams.
CBT candidates receive their test results immediately following their exams and should retain these score reports for their records.
For the purpose of test security, candidates who sit for CCO examination(s) acknowledge that they understand the following:
Candidates may comment on the examination(s) as a whole or on specific items within an examination by writing their comments on the Candidate Question Comment Form. These comments should be accompanied by the candidate's name (which is optional), the specific examination and question referred to, the site code, and the test date. Examination comments are reviewed by NCCCO content experts on a regular basis.
Computer-based testing candidates may provide comments for any question by clicking on the "Comments" button to the left of the Time button. This opens a dialogue box where candidates may enter comments.
NOTE: Only comments completed on the Candidate Question Comment Form or provided during the computer-based examination at the Test Site will be considered for review.
CCO Written Examinations are criterion-referenced examinations; i.e., the passing score is set beforehand, and candidate performance on the examination is not compared to the performance of others taking the examination. In a criterion-referenced examination, a candidate must obtain a score equal to or higher than a predetermined passing score to pass the test. The passing scores represent absolute standards and are determined by panels of NCCCO content experts using a psychometrically accepted standard-setting methodology.
In reporting the examination results to candidates, statistical procedures are used to convert raw scores (i.e., the number of test questions answered correctly) to scaled scores, which are equivalent for all administrations of the examination(s). The scaled score is not a number-answered-correctly score.
Candidate results are reported as a scaled score, with a score of 70 representing the minimum passing score for this test.
Candidate scores are never reported by telephone, email, or facsimile.
Candidates not passing exam(s) may request from NCCCO a hand scoring of their answer sheets, provided the request is made in writing within three months of the test date.
Requests must be accompanied by a processing fee of $25 for one failed test score or $50 for two or more failed test scores per test administration. Requests should be mailed to:
NCCCO--Testing Services Department
34125 U.S. Highway 19 North, Suite 150
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Phone: (727) 449-8525
Fax (727) 461-2746
NCCCO--Testing Services Department
34125 U.S. Highway 19 North, Suite 150
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Phone: (727) 449-8525
Fax (727) 461-2746
In the event that the hand scoring of a failing candidate's answer sheet results in a passing score, the fee(s) will be refunded in full.
Candidates who fail an examination(s) may retake the examination(s). Candidates will need to reapply and pay all corresponding fees. CBT candidates may reapply at any time after taking their exam(s); however, the new authorization email will be delayed pending the receipt of the exam results from PSI, which normally takes approximately 72 hours.
NCCCO releases information pertaining to individuals who have successfully passed one or more NCCCO examinations according to its Information Release Policy.
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Finnish gothic metallers THE 69 EYES recently filmed a video for the song "Borderline" in New Orleans, Louisiana with Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, who has previously worked with DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE and KAMELOT, among others.
Commented THE 69 EYES singer Jyrki69: "My favorite music videos are basically all Elvis movies. What else you need: good music, beautiful girls and exciting location. When it comes to darkness, I think Danzig has got it in the way I love it — always seductive vixens involved.
"To make a video for 'Borderline', we thought to keep those mysterious 'black widows' from our previous 'Red' video there to continue the story. And naturally to have all that fantasy elements of New Orleans and Louisiana there as well. Elvis '56 photos, his movie 'King Creole', 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Easy Rider', 'True Blood' — those were basically the links and ideas I gave to director Patric Ullaeus.
"Needless to tell that he truly got all this and make this video just a modern-day cult movie masterpiece. It looks like my comics (if you ever seen them) and all above! Oh, did I ever mention that Russ Meyer's 'Beyond The Valley Of the Dolls' is also my all-time favorites… Miss Athena and Timo-Timo.
"Lords Chaz and Eric with legendary DJ Swamp, Southern belles Missus Praline, Athena, Heather and Perle, Mr. Mike Gunn and so on — there's all these true cult stars who make this one so unique and special. With the Helsinki Vampires, of course.
"The video will be premiered on this week. If you're impatient, I would recommend meanwhile to see Walt Disney's 'The Princess And The Frog' — another source of inspiration! 'Doncha push your love over the line…'"
The "Borderline" video starts with a scene in which the local vampire tour legend Lord Chaz draws five Xs on the crypt door of the voodoo queen Marie Laveau's resting place in Saint Louis Cemetery #1. "Easy Rider"'s famous psychedelic scene was also filmed there.
"Borderline" comes off THE 69 EYES' latest album, "X", which sold around 1,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The effort landed at position No. 17 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
As previously reported, "X" entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 47 and the Finnish chart at No. 4. The CD, which was released in Europe on September 28 via Nuclear Blast Records, was mixed by Stefan Boman (THE HELLACOPTERS, BULLET).
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Sierra Mae LaMar, 15 year old was last seen on March 16, 2012, in Morgan Hill, CA
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This is Harry Reid on the firing of GM's CEO:
I wish people who were pro-socialism would just come out and say it – rather than pretending that their ideas aren't what they are. Then, at least we could have an honest debate about the merits. For whatever reason though, the whole government-can-do-everything crowd doesn't want to acknowledge that they hold socialist philosophies. Could that be because socialist philosophy is built on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles – and if the American people actually realized that, they would reject them?
This interchange wins:
Reid: "Well, I don't know what the definition of a socialist ideal is but…"
Levin: "Look it up, idiot."
Hendrickson: "Government control of companies"


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In recent years digital technology has changed significantly. In the UK alone, up to £300 million per year is spent on the surveillance industry with an estimated 300,000 cameras covering shopping areas, schools, housing estates, car parks and both public and private buildings. A recent survey suggests that people in the UK are caught on camera up to 200 times while travelling to work.
The industry has expanded from these areas to include the data centre and computer room environment. IP security is taking over from conventional analogue CCTV and access control systems, and although these products are currently more costly than their analogue counterparts, this cost will reduce as more devices come on to the market. These cameras and systems can use the same cabling systems as computer networks, which can simplify the cabling and at the same time reduce the cost of installation.
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The program uses guided visualization and breathing exercises, body sensations understanding and self-hypnosis techniques to help the expectant mothers go through the pregnancy, the stages of labour and the birth, as well as provide them with post-birthing strengths. The course helps the women communicate with their baby throughout their pregnancy and solidify the bond between the mother/parents and the child. During the program, the women are encouraged to address emotional issues or concerns, and, if necessary, the women might be seen individually (for a discounted fee).
The HBP course consists of enhanced and evidence-based hypnotherapy exercises for pregnancy and childbirth; the program contains progressive relaxation, hyperempiria, double induction, Gestalt-based visualization, dream inducement, mindfulness, meditation, Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT) and NLP exercises to reframe, desensitize and cope with challenging situations while maintaining a balanced and positive attitude during labour and birth. The expectant women are advised to begin the program earlier in the pregnancy (15-20 weeks). The program includes 5 meetings. The women/couples have the option of attending a sixth session, after giving birth (for a separate fee) to address post-birth issues (i.e., lactation, weight loss, fatigue, etc.).
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With the opening of a brand new section of paved, non-motorized trail way through Alabaster Township last fall, the Tawas Bay Pedestrian and Bicycle Path now extends some 10 miles along Michigan's Lake Huron shoreline. It offers a safe and scenic, off-highway route that shadows US-23 through Tawas and East Tawas, ending at one-of-a-kind Tawas Point State Park.
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by Magdala
Sacred Sex - Ancient Teachings for Women is a book about the emerging of the feminine that is taking place today all over the world. The women are truly creating the new world. And as this new world is created, the women are in need of the ancient wisdom that holds the understanding of the sacredness of the feminine and the knowledge of how the women must understand and embrace their divinity. Sex is the door from which human beings entered into this realm, and the way to move on is to become one again within the self. Sacred love is the way of becoming one with the self - uniting both the feminine and masculine sides of yourself. We have waited a long time for this book to be written and for this story to be told. When the feminine was hidden, the human beings could not find that part of themselves to create this sacred bonding. Now, with the emerging of the feminine, human beings can embrace love as the bonding, making the inside self and the outside self the same. Peace can be brought into the world. Soft Cover, 190 pages, ISBN: 1419639242


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When Shoshana Bean put on the green greasepaint to become Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked," she had a built-in fan base — theatergoers who loved the character and the show.
Parlaying her theater success into a singing career means finding new ways to reach her fans, says Bean, but she has found social media to be invaluable.
"Thank God for YouTube and Facebook," she said in a recent phone call from her Los Angeles home. "As an independent artist, it's all I've got. It's the reason I can be as successful as I am."
Bean will be the headliner for the closing weekend of the 11th Orlando Cabaret Festival, which runs through Sunday, May 12. She'll perform a show titled "AbSOULutely," featuring the R&B music from her latest album, "O'Farrell Street."
She's looking forward to sharing her music with cabaret fans at the festival, presented by Mad Cow Theatre.
"They're the first theater company that's given me the opportunity to do this," said Bean, 35. "I'm really grateful to them for letting me have a foot in both worlds."
Bean will always have a place in the theater world, thanks to the fierce devotion of "Wicked" fans.
"It's awesome to see the loyalty of those people; I still see people who I remember from the show," she said. "These are people who have stuck around."
Not that taking on the role of Elphaba — Oz's future Wicked Witch of the West who belts the anthem "Defying Gravity" — wasn't intimidating back in 2005. For one thing, Bean was replacing Idina Menzel, the super-popular Tony-winning originator of the role.
"It was terrifying," Bean said. "She had so many fans, it was too much to take on. It was pressure enough… I was in denial about it."
She played the part for a year, and later spent a few months headlining the show's first national tour before focusing on her music. Does she miss Broadway?
"I miss the community, I miss having that family" she said. "I don't miss the schedule. The freedom of what I do now is incredible."
Of course, that has some drawbacks: "I'm in charge of my career now. When things go wrong, I can only look at myself."
Bean's cabaret will mix soulful classics from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Otis Redding with her original songs. R&B has a special place in her heart.
"I was raised on a lot of it," she said. "It's like a coming home for me. R&B and sould music has always been my most favorite music to sing, and to listen to. I really wanted to honor it."
She hopes the audience will enjoy hearing old favorites — but also be open to her new works.
"I'm an audience member, too. If I'm introduced to something new, I like be introduced through things I'm already comfortable with," she said. "It's why everyone wants me to sing 'Defying Gravity.' They know it and love it. But there are Aretha Franklin songs they'll love, too."
Shoshana Bean
• What: Performing 'AbSOULutely' at Orlando Cabaret Festival, which features multiple acts and runs through May 12
• When: 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 10-11
• Where: Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St., Orlando
• Tickets: $35; $45 for premium seating
• Call: 407-297-8788
• Online: OrlandoCabaret.com


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Some mail from the last two weeks.....
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"Luck favors the prepared"
Amazing color on the Hubbell, bikerider60!
Last couple of arrivals:
WOW nice pickups, picked this up last night....Don't know anything about this card. I picked it up for $ 15.00 , just thought it would something to talk about.Originally Posted by jay1065
Very nice. Cards like that always make for a nice bit of research. I picked this one up a few months ago:Originally Posted by bikerider60
According to the stamp box on the reverse, the card was produced between 1904 and 1918. The most info I could find about the Jags was that they were a minor league team in the New York State League. They played under the name Jags because they represented three cities - Amsterdam, Johnstown, and Gloversville (1902 and 1905-1907.)
I could be completely wrong, though. The 'T' on the cap doesn't seem to hold up to my research. Although it could mean "tri" (city.)
For lack of a better word, that Hubbell is Sexy!
Always looking to add to my vintage pc's and set needs, let me know what you've got!
Now this looks familiar!!!
My latest T-202 with Reds.
I'll get my signature updated a little later.
Goudeys, Diamond Stars,Wide/Fine Pen, Heads-Up, Tobacco cards, Autographs, Reds Team Set, & For Sale List.
I posted the question on Net 54, didn't really get a exact answer. One member said it could be from 1910-19, a wise ass also posted "MCI or the former phone company".Originally Posted by jay1065
Sweet stuff everyone!!!
Got this in today:
Looks like it has been well-loved over the years, huh?
Great pick-ups everyone!!
Nothig to add at the moment - a bit of a flat phase in my collecting!! Should change shortly though...
English baseball card collector.
Prime Cuts I (50 cards) - 0 incoming
Prime Cuts I Subset - MLB Icons Material Signature Prime 50/51 - 0 incoming (98.04%)
I need - Johnny Bench /5
T206 49/520 - 5 incoming
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Something different. I don't remember if I posted these on a previous board but I think they are kind of neat and are a good addition to my Reds collection. They are M 101-2's.
Goudeys, Diamond Stars,Wide/Fine Pen, Heads-Up, Tobacco cards, Autographs, Reds Team Set, & For Sale List.
Looks great, Scott! Congrats.
Mailman dropped these three off yesterday (first two are blank-backed):


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Start building your own personal AR-15 today. This is a complete AR-15 upper receiver (Assembly optional)
This is a complete AR-15 upper receiver without a 80% AR-15 lower receiver. (Assembly optional)
All of our completely assembled uppers are test fired for cycling.
The parts included are below:
AR-15 Upper Receiver
- 10.5″ Stainless Steel Wylde (.223 & 5.56)
- 10″ Quad Rail Hand Guard
- Pistol Barrel Length Gas Tube, and low pro gas block
- Forward Assist
- Ejection Port Cover
- Charging Handle
- M-16 Bolt Carrier Group
- Flash Hider with Crush Washer
Lower Parts
- Pistol Buffer Tube with cushioned grip
- Lower Parts Kit
Anodize Color Options
This kit come with Upper Receiver in the following colors
- Black Anodized
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- Bronze Anodized……… extra
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- Boxing: all values are allocated on the heap, so basically everything is a pointer, thus, there is no ambiguity between pointers and values.
- Tagged pointers: pointers are distinguished from ordinary values by some sort of tag. This information is often encoded in the pointer or value itself for a very compact representation.
- Type-passing: each parameter of a function is associated with a set of operations, usually referred to as a "dictionary", which is similar to an interface in object-oriented languages. This dictionary defines a collect() operation for each type, which will traverse the structure looking for garbage. This dictionary can be passed into every function, or it can be reconstructed from the stack.
Why Are Special Representations Needed?
One might first ask why special representations are even needed. At compile-time, it's generally perfectly clear what types are being used, as well as the types of the various data structures.
While this is true of simple C-like languages, it isn't true of polymorphic languages. C is what's known as monomorphic, meaning all parameters have a fixed, known type at compile-time.
By contrast, polymorphic languages can have function parameters that can accept any type, and this type is not fixed at any time. A simple example is the identity function:
val id: 'a -> 'aThis function accepts a parameter of any type, and returns a value of the same type. But since you can't know this type ahead of time, you need some way to encode the type in a running program so the garbage collector has enough information to traverse it in its search for garbage.
This problem only really crops up with the combination of polymorphism and separate compilation, meaning you compile a program to a single machine code file which can then be distributed without prior knowledge of how it will be instantiated and used. The .NET CLR is an example of a platform which supports polymorphism, but not separate compilation, since it uses the JIT to specialize methods that use generics. A specialized method is GC'd differently depending on whether it's instantiated with a reference type or a value type. In separately compiled languages, this is not true, hence the need for a special representation.
All boxed values are allocated in the heap, including integers and floats. This is the most straightforward representation, and the least efficient of the options both in terms of space and time.
The extra space use comes from the additional pointer needed to indirect to an int, and the additional allocator headers required to track it.
The additional runtime overhead is incurred when repeatedly indirecting the pointers to access the values, and the additional garbage collector pressure from having so many small values.
Allocating many small types like this could also lead to significant memory fragmentation, which balloons memory use, and induces poor locality of reference.
A boxed version of the identity function would look like this:
void * id(void * v) {Basically, we don't know anything about the value involved, and the void pointer just points to a heap location where the value is stored.
return v;
There is a single flag stored in the allocator headers to indicate whether this is a compound structure or a value. An int is a value, and a (int,int) pair is a compound. All compounds consist of pointers, so the collector just recursively traverses all of the pointers in the structure, and halts when it reaches values. For compounds, the size of the structure must also be encoded in the header.
Tagged Pointers
Tagged pointers have a long tradition in functional languages. Typically, all of the tag bits are encoded within pointers and values themselves, so the representation is very compact. This is important for functional languages in particular, since they encourage the allocation of many small objects.
Modern memory allocation algorithms generally segregate free space in variously sized buckets. The smallest bucket is generally the size of a pointer, or perhaps twice the size of a pointer. This is generally 4 bytes on a 32-bit machine, so at the very least, the pointer will always point to an address aligned on a 4-byte boundary.
However, most pointers are byte-addressable, meaning they can point to addresses that are aligned on a single byte boundary. This means that the lowest two bits of a pointer are generally wasted space, since they will always be 0. So let's use that wasted space for something!
Let's say we use the lowest bit to differentiate between pointers and integers on the stack and in data structures. This means an int will no longer be 32-bits, but 31-bits, with 1 bit going to this flag. If the lowest bit is 0, it's an int, and if the low order bit is 1, it's a pointer. This means we can scan a stack frame or a data structure one word at a time and easily distinguish integers from pointers by just checking the lowest bit.
So now we can have fully unboxed integers, which saves a lot of time and space in programs since we no longer need to allocate them on the heap. Anything larger than a word must still be heap-allocated.
Field offset calculations now require us to omit the lowest bit, which involves subtracting 1 from any offset. Since most offsets are statically known, this costs nothing at runtime.
There is one remaining problem with the above representation, namely, we still don't know the size of a structure! When the GC traverses a structure, it will iterate right off of the end since it doesn't know when to stop.
The paper I linked to above places the size in a header word present in every structure. This header word is split into multiple fields. On a 32-bit machine, the lowest 22 bits are used for the size of the structure in words, the next two bits are used by the garbage collector (typically a mark-sweep), and the last 8 bits are used for the constructor tag, ie. Nil or Cons. The constructor tag is typically present in every data structure, but using a whole word for it is somewhat wasteful, so this more compact representation is quite useful.
This representation may also permit some interesting optimizations. Since word-sized values are unboxed, all heap allocated structures will be at least 8-bytes in size, consisting of the header word followed by a number of data words (a commenter pointed out that this doesn't necessarily imply 8-byte alignment however; while true, as mentioned above allocators segregate memory into variously sized buckets, and so we need to simply ensure that these buckets are multiples of 8-bytes). This means the third lowest order bit is also unused, giving us two free bits in every pointer.
Consider the following type declaration:
type 'a Foo = Foo1 | Foo2 of int | Foo3 of 'a | Foo4 of 'a * 'aSince Foo1 does not contain any embedded values or pointers, we don't need a pointer for it at all and it can just be represented by a simple unboxed integer.
Foo2 contains an integer, so we must allocate a heap structure to contain this case.
Foo3 and Foo4 are the interesting cases. 'a is a polymorphic value, and if instantiated with a pointer type, we don't need to allocate a heap structure for it. Basically, we can use the two free bits to encode up to 3 constructors for such values, and remove a level of indirection. Pattern matching on such structures is broken down into 3 cases:
- If it's an int, then it's one of the empty constructors.
- If it's a pointer, and the second and third lowest order bits are clear, extract the constructor tag from the header, and the value is just after the header.
- Else, extract the constructor tag from the pointer, and the pointer is a pointer to the value.
Coming back to the question of identifying structure sizes, an alternative representation which I have not seen described anywhere, is to use the unused third lowest bit as a mark bit to terminate GC scanning, and use the second lowest bit to distinguish structures with nested pointers, and those that are pointer-free.
A '1' in the second lowest order bit position flags a "value structure" which contains no pointers. In other words, it consists entirely of integer-sized data, so the GC does not need to scan this structure. Alternately, a '0' in this position indicates a "compound structure" which contains pointers, and which must be scanned by the GC.
A '1' in the third lowest order bit position flags the last pointer in a data structure. This bit is only set in pointers within data structures, and is clear everywhere else.
Note that only the last pointer is used for the halt condition, since the collector cares only about pointers and ignores unboxed values. The compiler can optimize garbage collection by placing all pointers at the beginning of a structure. Also, when extracting a pointer from a structure or writing one into a structure, it should be masked to clear or set the appropriate bits.
Using this representation, we free the 22-bits used for the structure size in the header. We can thus reserve a full 24 bits for the GC, which expands our choice of GC algorithms considerably. Even ref-counting becomes feasible with 24-bits in the header.
One possible downside of this representation is that the size header was also used for array lengths. The length must now be stored in its own field in the structure, so we've effectively grown the array type by one word. Considering the size of arrays compared to a single word, this seems like an acceptable overhead for this representation's uniformity and flexibility.
Type-passing, aka tagless GC, is the most sophisticated GC technique. There are two approaches that I'm aware of:
- Dictionary-passing: a dictionary consisting of functions specific to the type is passed along with all values of that type. These functions know how to collect values of that type.
- Type Reconstruction: basically, the concrete type of a polymorphic function is reconstructed at runtime by inferring the type from previous activation frames. Monomorphic functions have all the type information needed to fully specify any polymorphic parameters, so we just search the stack for the type information stored there.
To my knowledge, only two languages have used this technique, Id and Mercury, and only Mercury is still available as far as I know. The .NET CLR's technique can also be considered a form of type-passing.
The downsides of dictionary-passing are that every polymorphic parameter is paired with a dictionary parameter, thus increasing the parameter lists of all polymorphic functions. The additional pushing and popping can outweigh any advantages that might be gained from dictionary-passing.
Type-reconstruction can remove the need to pass this parameter at the expense of additional runtime overhead. Basically, we don't need to pass this dictionary to every function call, we just need to get it paired with the parameter in the monomorphic function which calls the first polymorphic function. As we walk the stack we can then extract the dictionary for a given parameter from the last monomorphic function. This becomes more complicated with closures, since the dictionaries for polymorphic parameters must now be saved in the closure environment as well.
This process is essentially a form of type inference performed at runtime. Unfortunately, type inference often has pathological corner cases with exponential running time. These cases are unlikely, but inference in general has substantial overhead (see the Id paper).
Many thanks to Andreas Rossberg, of Alice ML fame, for patiently wading through my sometimes confused ramblings. :-)
[Edit: GHC's recent pointer tagging paper actually discusses the constructor inlining optimization I describe above, along with some hard numbers to quantify how many constructors can be eliminated. Turns out that >95% of constructors contain 3 cases or less, so the technique could amount to a substantial savings. Theoretically, it seems that every second nested data type could be unboxed in this fashion.]


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I designed my job description. I had really enjoyed being a principal, but wanted to press more on what I learned in my Ed.D. dissertation: using social media to connect home and school. Much of what I'm now doing is working across 18 buildings, 2,500 teachers and 100 administrators to build capacity for using social media tools to be more transparent in our approach. The idea is not only to provide for current teachers' professional development, but to let the community see a new way of teaching, learning and leadership on a daily basis. I've been working with schools on things such as embedding Twitter feeds on teacher websites. Sounds simple, but not a lot of teachers are doing that, and unless your parents are tweeting, how are they seeing everything you're sharing on social media on a daily basis? So it's creating more opportunities for the general unconnected learner audience to take advantage of that connected work, which in turn will create an appetite for "Oh, I didn't know you could do that" types of conversations.
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I'm a big believer that principals, superintendents and other leaders are dealmakers or deal-breakers in terms of this connected teaching, learning and leadership. If they get it – can visualize how this works and how it takes the organization to a new level – they're more likely to model those tools and experiences, and that will take some pressure off of teachers to have to be trailblazers in their schools. It's up to all of us to model digital citizenship, to show kids what lifelong learning means, what it means to be a curious, inquisitive person who's always trying to find more information and to connect and collaborate, even from 10,000 miles away.
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I have a Twitter account and I share different chat topics that relate to our school and organizational goals each day there. I use the hashtag #ff to suggest innovative teachers that people in the district should be following. I blog, sharing stories about where I am in the district and what the teacher I'm with is working on. I identify best practices in family and community engagement, as well as digital citizenship and where we can be more innovative in our policies. We're planning a 1-to-1 BYOD rollout next year, so I'm going out to other districts, seeing what people are doing and leveraging human experience and expertise.
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This is a podcast (an audio recording) I created with my ten year old daughter Emma about her fascination with owls, how she got interested in them, and what she's learned about them (the image you see above is a quick sketch of Emma's "logo" owl drawing). She'a a very bright girl (if I do say so myself), and as my wife and I have taken charge of our kids' education through homeschooling, it has been a joy to help our kids find topics they're interested in, and encourage them to explore. We try to let our kids, the learners. lead the way with what they want to learn, rather than focusing on "depositing" knowledge into them from a set curriculum. We feel like we have a lot in common with the "hackschooling" approach described by 13 year old Logan LaPlante in his popular TEDx talk (though we're nowhere near as cool as his parents seem to be :-).
I made this podcast using the SoundCloud app on my phone, but there are lots of other tools and services that make recording and publishing a podcast easy (like Chirbit or Audioboo). We recorded the interview in my car (which can make a great impromptu sound booth), and it automatically uploaded to the SoundCloud service. From there, it was simple to grab the embed code and insert it into this page.
I can see us using a podcasts a lot more as we explore different ways of learning with our kids. There's something easy and natural about just having a conversation about a topic, and it's easy to hear the excitement and enthusiasm in their voices as you talk about things they have learned. Web and device based tools make it easy to make a podcast, and I'll likely be asking our kids to make more podcasts about things they're learning. Creating podcast as a digital artifact of learning is a a great way to construct and share knowledge.


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The News of the World phone-hacking scandal and subsequent public inquiry raised concerns that public interest journalism could suffer from efforts to curtail unethical practices through regulation. While investigating related police leaks, Scotland Yard invoked the Official Secrets Act to pressure a journalist to reveal sources for her coverage of the scandal. Authorities ultimately backed down from the unprecedented effort. Several journalists came under attack while covering mass riots in urban areas in August. Prime Minister David Cameron said news outlets must hand over raw footage of rioters and suggested the government restrict social media tools to curb street violence. The government drafted a defamation bill aimed at reforming the U.K.'s much-criticized libel laws. The measure had yet to go through parliament.
Attacks were reported against journalists covering mass riots that erupted in August. Sky News reporter Mark Stone was chased by rioters and forced to flee during disturbances near Clapham Junction in London; BBC and Sky News reporters had to retreat when their vehicles' windows were smashed in Croydon; and rioters knocked down and kicked Michael Russell, a reporter for the Ealing Gazette, before taking his camera on Ealing Broadway. In June, photographer Niall Carson was shot and injured while covering clashes in Belfast.
No one has been brought to justice in the murder of Martin O'Hagan, an investigative journalist with the Dublin newspaper Sunday World, who was shot outside his home in the Northern Ireland town of Lurgan on September 28, 2001.
Journalists killed with impunity in the European Union since 1992:
Greece: 1
Spain: 1
United Kingdom: 1
The United Kingdom is one of the world's top five safe havens for journalists fleeing threats of violence, imprisonment, or harassment for their work in their home countries, CPJ research shows.
Top host countries for exiled journalists, 2001-11:
United States: 180
Kenya: 66
United Kingdom: 38
Sweden: 32
Canada: 29
A University of Oxford study found that the average libel lawsuit costs defendants exponentially more in England than in the rest of Europe. U.K. libel laws strongly favor the plaintiff and enable a damaging practice known as "libel tourism," the practice of shopping for a jurisdiction with laws that are advantageous for plaintiffs.
In March 2011, the Ministry of Justice published a draft libel bill that aimed to reform libel laws to better defend the public interest.
Noteworthy libel cases, as documented by the Libel
Reform Campaign:
500,000 pounds: Fees The Guardian paid fighting a libel lawsuit by a South African businessman whose practices were criticized in the paper in 2007. The amount was equivalent to US $801,778. The Guardian prevailed, but recouped only a portion of its costs.
165,000 pounds: Damages awarded to an exiled Tunisian politician in a 2007 suit against the Dubai-based broadcaster Al-Arabiya. The station had accused the plaintiff of having links to Al-Qaeda. The amount was equivalent to US$264,500.
50,000 pounds: Damages a Ukraine-based news website was ordered to pay a Ukrainian businessman in 2008. The site, which had no more than a few dozen U.K. readers, had written about the businessman's upbringing. The amount was equivalent to US$80,000.
10,000 pounds: Damages awarded to a Saudi financier in a suit against Israeli-American author Rachel Ehrenfeld. Her 2003 book had accused the plaintiff of funding terrorist groups. The amount was equivalent to US$16,000.


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text: Beginning May 4th, visitors to the National Aquarium will find several exciting and innovative changes to enhance their experience and provide them with opportunities to view and interact with the National Aquarium's 16,000 animals in new and different ways. A highlight of the changes includes a redesigned dolphin program. The existing timed, limited-access and separately priced shows will be replaced with an exciting new format that offers every Aquarium guest all day access to the Aquarium's dolphins and experts, including during training, play and feeding times. Physical changes will provide greater opportunities for guests to interact with the dolphins, dolphin trainers and Aquarium staff. "We have learned from our guests that their dolphin show is key component of their Aquarium experience, but the current platform is limited," said John Racanelli, National Aquarium CEO. "In the past, our shows could serve only 50% of our guests on peak summer days, selling out quickly and inhibiting the rest of our visitors from enjoying all that the Aquarium has to offer. Our new Dolphin Discovery enables every visitor to spend as much time as they want – all day, if they chose – observing our dolphins and their interactions." Other changes to the National Aquarium include: Double the opportunities to interact with animals - scheduled and chance - including animal feedings and encounters, enrichment talks, and learning opportunities. Aqua.org, a redesigned website for both National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C. that provides more intuitive navigation, easy to access ticketing, more beautiful photography, calendars and up-to-the-minute news and intriguing facts about our animals. A single All-Aquarium Admission ticket that eliminates a supplemental dolphin show fee. New inclusive pricing is as follows: Adult tickets - $29.95; Children - $20.95. "We have learned from customer feedback that what really inspires guests are interactions with our animals and experts," said Nancy Hotchkiss, Senior Director of Visitor Experience. "These changes will improve visitor experiences and help our guests connect with us like never before!" Categories: Exhibits


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Praise for Limits of Power
"It's easy to become fully immersed in, and absorbed by, the narrative: [Elizabeth Moon's] great strength lies in the patient accumulation of telling detail, yielding an extraordinarily rich picture of the world's politics, philosophy, military structure, history, magic and alien cultures, where men and women stand as equals even in force of arms."—Kirkus Reviews
"Thoughtful and deeply character driven, full of personal crises as heartbreaking and hopeful as any dramatic invasion . . . Moon deftly avoids big literary explosions, preferring instead a slow boil that builds pressure without relief. There are plots within plots, but the complex story is never confusing. Fantasy fans will be delighted by this impressive foray."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Praise for Elizabeth Moon
"This is an excellent series, and Echoes of Betrayal is particularly well done. [Elizabeth Moon is a] consistently entertaining writer, and this book lives up to her standards."—San Jose Mercury News
"Moon's characters navigate an intricate maze of alliances and rivalries. . . . Close attention to military detail gives the action convincing intensity."—The Star-Ledger, on Kings of the North
"A triumphant return to the fantasy world she created . . . No one writes fantasy quite like Moon."—The Miami Herald, on Oath of Fealty


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Wine shelves, diamond bins and other loose bottle storage solutions are a great choice for high volume wine merchandising. Constructed from the same quality woods as our other racking and shelving, wine shelves allow you to store hundreds of bottles while displaying a few in a label-forward vertical position. Wine shelves are ideal for stores that have limited storage space or for product that you move very rapidly, as a wine shelf can easily hold hundreds of bottles in a small footprint. With either a wine shelf or diamond bin display, many bottles can be stored in a small space, allowing you to carry more bottles and saving time restocking shelves. Diamond bins are also visually unusual and attractive, drawing the customer's eye to your bottles.


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We don't have any puppies available at this time but we do have some very nice litters coming up soon. Feel free to email us and ask for a copy of our current waiting list. You can put a deposit down to hold a pick of a puppy already born (if one is available) or a future litter. Once a deposit is put down people usually pick out their puppies when they are around 6 weeks old and they can go home around 8 weeks. Here is more info on our process and how our Waiting List works. Our Contract is also available for you to look over and fill out if you would like to be placed on the waiting list. Please email us with any other questions, firstname.lastname@example.com
Clementine is due around April 8th and will have all ruby puppies.
Thank you for considering one of our puppies. Remember that all puppies are cute, but require a sincere commitment from you for the rest of their lives.
We at Hurricane Cavaliers are committed to providing you with a quality puppy from a well thought out and researched pedigreed Dam and Sire.
- We will provide lifetime support to the families of our puppies
- We will breed only health certified parents of the proper ages.
- We will not sell to pet stores or brokers or with full AKC registration.
- We feed a quality diet of Open Farm Catch of the Day Whitefish and also rotate the Pork, Salmon and Lamb varieties.
- We will only sell puppies in good health.
- All puppies are up to date on all shots and wormings as well as vet checks.
- All puppies include an AKC Microchip.
Please do not buy your puppy from a pet shop or broker as nearly ALL these puppies come from a Puppy Mill where adults live in cages every minute of their lives, are treated only as breeding machines, are not tested for any inherited genetic defects, and neither adults or puppies are properly socialized. Buy only from reputable breeders who are breeding to improve the health and quality of their dogs and who care about the welfare of the dog.


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Students of TMT Aviation enjoy twin-sharing hotel amenities like accommodation in Manila; Philippines' major tourist destination. This creates safe, conducive learning and living environment enabling students to focus on their aviation studies. TMT management & officers look into students concerns thoroughly through regular personal and group meetings and forums.
For Indian,Egypt and Saudi Nationals, we have an organized kitchen crew to provide tasty Indian,Egypt and Saudi foods which they will enjoy. Special food arrangement shall be provided for other nationalities who will come and train with our facility. Accommodations are provided twin sharing, however, single accommodation can also be arrange but additional fee shall be imposed. Female students will be provided with single room accommodation if there is no other female students. There will be a WIFI for internet connections. All students shall have their own laptops but not mandatory.
The academy at Philippines will provide air-conditioned accommodation to all students. A student ratio of 2 per room with a shared bathroom will be the norm. All accommodation are fully furnished with work tables,chairs, lockers, closets, beds and other necessities. Bedding, sheets, linen and towels will be provided and changed regularly. Transportation to school and back will be provided by TMT.
The Philippines academy uses a professional caterer to provide quality food services to all of its students and staff. Bed tea/coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks will be provided on a daily basis. The academy is equipped with vending machines for soda and snacks and the students may avail the facilities. Coffee and tea brewers are available in the school facility and hangar for staff and student use.
House Keeping
House keeping is handled by local helpers. They would also take care of other chores like laundry etc,.
Damage to Property
Normal wear and tear to housing is expected and would be addressed immediately. Malicious damage caused by any student would result in disciplinary action and monetary
Training Starts At Your Convenience!
International students should arrive two week before the scheduled Ground School begins. Domestic students should arrive one week before the scheduled Ground School begins.
To apply, all students must:
Manila Office- Unit 202 Jolliland Condominium 670 EDSA, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Mobile: +63-9162874709