 of people sang classics and Christmas tunes that filled the beautiful space with a wall of sound created by their voices and some nifty brass accompaniment. It was thrilling to sit in that space and let that sound flow over you, coming just from those people, who have worked so diligently to prepare themselves to let that music out. (Borderline alumnus David Burger was in the bunch.)
In the next week a standing-room-only crowd filled the Conservatory at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia for the Christmas concert of the Classic City Band, which has been around since 1978, belting out all kinds of music at civic occasions such as the Fourth of July: citizen performers, pursuing their careers by day and their music by night.
And then again on this past Saturday and Sunday, out-of-town family plans kept me away from the sold-out performances of the always popular Athens Symphony Christmas Concert in the Classic Center Theatre. There, the citizens were at it again, sharing their talents and their practice in their traditional free concerts.
Photo Credit: Wade Sheldon
Michael Brewer conducts.
Michael Brewer, to name just one, could be the poster child for all these citizens. He conducts the Classic City Band and also plays trombone in the Athens Symphony and with the Athens Master Chorale, where he also arranges music, as he does for the Symphony. He also directs the Athens Brass Choir, a community brass ensemble he founded. Michael grew up in Athens and is an applications programmer at UGA, where he earned degrees in music and math. He also contributes his musical skills to local theater, and even showed up as a waiter in Town & Gown’s recent production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, for which he grew a mustache and an Italian accent. Michael’s wife, Terri Tillman, whom he met in the Emmanuel Episcopal choir, sings in the Athens Master Chorale. How in the world they find the time, I don’t know, but they, like so many other people here, find it a labor of love.
This season is a reminder of the richness in our town, and of course the music is just one part of the treasure, along with theater, art, crafts and our writers. There’ll be more concerts in the spring, more plays, art openings, pottery sales, book signings, and of course more locally written, locally played music in the clubs.
It’s time once again to paraphrase what the great Samuel Johnson said about London: If you’re tired of Athens, you’re tired of life.Q: Temporary storage of long string data I am searching for the appropriate way to store a potentially very large string temporarily with a C program using standard libraries on a posix system. The string is the culmination of a linewise output of a C-function. After the last call of this function I want to process (output) the data further. Is there a simple compromise between allocating large amounts of memory and creating a temporary file? For example I could imagine writing to a pipe and reading again from this pipe once the data is needed. But I am not sure how the data would be treated internally in this case and whether it would be prefered over a temporary file.

A: It mostly depends on what you need to do with the data. If you need to access it randomly (for example if you need to sort it), you may find that to be much easier if the file is all in memory, despite the cost of using potentially large amounts of memory.
Expecially if you are able to access the data sequentially to process it, I would generally recommend a temporary file if you expect the data to be large.
A pipe will not help you unless you create another thread to read the data out of the pipe while your main thread writes it. Otherwise you will just quickly fill up the pipe's buffers and block (deadlock, in fact).

A: You could decide (according to your comment, you should decide this on a case-per-case basis) whether to hold it in memory or to write to disk. If you notice that the data grows over a certain threshold, you write to disk and switch the method for the remaining data to put.
A pipe would not be a good idea, as it is a inter-process communication method with very small storage size (about 64kiB since Linux 2.6, in 2.4, it was AFAIR even less - 4 kiB or so).
This entry was posted in HVAC Systems on December 13, 2018 by CoolBlew.
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Interviewee Gerber, Ellen W.
Interviewer Gislason, Kristen L.
Abstract Ellen Gerber grew up in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1930s and 1940s in what she describes as a "typical middle class Jewish American" family. Gerber explains that she was influenced by liberal politics and the expectation that she would have a career despite her gender. In the 1960s, Gerber received a doctorate in physical education and spent a number of years teaching in northern colleges and writing books about the history of physical education and women in sports. In 1972, following the passage of Title IX, she toured college campuses to speak about implementing this measure for women's athletics. In so doing, she became increasingly convinced that legal change offered the most viable route for achieving gender equality, and in 1974 she enrolled in law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gerber describes what it was like to be an "older" woman in law school during the mid-1970s and talks about her goals to help women with her law degree. Following her graduation, Gerber was hired by Legal Aid, where she worked for fifteen years before retiring. She describes how her own role evolved in Legal Aid after she became the managing attorney in 1980, and she discusses the impact of federal budgeting on legal service for the poor in North Carolina under the administrations of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. In addition, Gerber speaks at length about women's issues, ranging from her own motivations for advocating for women's equality and her participation in such organizations as the North Carolina Association for Women Attorneys.
Subject Topical Lawyers--North Carolina.
Jewish women--North Carolina.
Women athletes--North Carolina.
Women