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Weight loss surgery helps obese patients manage diabetes better than traditional therapies alone, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
This study analyzed long-term findings of the STAMPEDE trial (Surgical Treatment and Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently), designed to test the safety and efficacy of weight loss surgery as a treatment for diabetes. One-year results of the trial were promising but researchers wondered how patients would fare years down the road. Will patients keep off the weight years later and will they have better control of their condition? Are there any safety concerns that crop up years after surgery?
When the STAMPEDE trial began in 2007, a total of 150 obese patients with diabetes enrolled in the study and were randomly assigned to receive weight loss surgery plus traditional diabetes therapies or traditional therapies, alone. Two types of weight loss surgery were put to the test, including gastric bypass and the less invasive procedure called sleeve gastrectomy.
After following patients for three years, researchers concluded that long-term results were as encouraging as initial findings. Not only did patients receiving weight loss surgery have better blood sugar control than those receiving standard therapy alone, surgical patients weighed significantly less and used fewer glucose medications. Also, questionnaires showed that patients undergoing weight loss surgery had better quality of life compared to patients who didn't have surgery. And importantly, there were no major surgical complications that occurred in the three years following weight loss surgery.
Getting 150 minutes of exercise weekly improves blood sugar control in diabetics.
Patients with diabetes may want to think twice when choosing between whole wheat foods and legumes, like beans, chickpeas, and lentils.
Study shows that lifestyle intervention improves weight, fitness, blood pressure, and cholesterol in adults with diabetes, but doesn't reduce cardiovascular risk.
Researchers found that people achieving normal blood sugar levels, even for a short period of time, were significantly less likely to develop diabetes.
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'Santa Claus: the Movie' is a sprawling retelling of the legend of Santa Claus, with a subplot that involved a renegade elf named Patch who hooks up with a unscrupulous toy manufacturer before re-discovering the meaning of Christmas.
Despite its big budget and the star power of Dudley Moore, who passed away in 2002, the 1985 film was a box office flop. Nevertheless, it makes its way around at Christmas time. See what the cast of 'Santa Claus: The Movie' is up to these days.

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On occasion, I will hear some freakish woman declare that she doesn't like chocolate!! I can't comprehend this odd phenomenon, and in fact, I'm not entirely sure those women are human. The next time I hear one utter the words, "I don't care for chocolate," I'm going to tackle her to the ground and rip her face off to reveal that she is an alien.
My chocolate addiction is bad. Very, very bad. Two weeks ago, on my blog, I gave away a pound of Valentine chocolate. Five days passed between the time I posted a picture of the frilly box and the winner was announced. It was the longest five days of my life. Every morning, I would spy the chocolates and think, "I could eat these, and buy new ones for the winner."
But, it was the very last lacy, pink, heart-shaped box available, and even though it about killed me, I stayed true to the contest.
Hubby decided that February 14th would be the only day of the month that he would be out of town. So, I told him I expected the full Valentine's hoopla in advance. I excused him from a romantic dinner, and I didn't make him write a song, but other than that, I wanted it all.
Just before leaving, he brought a dozen red roses, a romantic card (because I had specified I did not want one featuring orangutans wearing lipstick, or a Hoops and Yoyo rendition of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"), ten lottery tickets, a 44oz half Diet/half caffeine free Diet Coke (in a plastic cup, not Styrofoam), and a large, heart-shaped box of chocolates from my favorite local chocolatier.
The man got it right on every level, even purchasing a separate, smaller box of chocolates for himself so that I didn't have to share.
He enjoyed a few of his candies on the drive to the airport, but I left mine at home. I resisted the urge to pluck one from his box, convincing myself that it wouldn't kill me to wait until I could get my hands on my own.
It came time to drop him off, and mysteriously, he left his chocolates in the passenger seat. We hugged and kissed, and I shed a few tears, knowing how much I would miss him during his 36 hour absence. As I pulled away from the drop-off zone, I absent-mindedly reached for a comforting chocolate. It helped, but it was really the second one that made my tears dry up. Or perhaps it was that third, caramel-filled one.
By the time I reached the on-ramp to the interstate, I had polished off a half dozen. I knew he would expect them to be intact when he returned home, so I quickly devised a plan. Stopping at the chocolate shop, I bought a second box, thinking I would replace the ones I had eaten. But when I got home, his original box was empty.
I faced a dilemma. Do I confess and give him the complete new box, or do I eat 3 or 4 out of it so that he thinks it's his original box? I sat down with my own pound of chocolates, and thought long and hard. I enjoyed the gooey ones, and the creamy ones, and the nutty ones, and the ones I don't like as much but I always eat anyway.
Hyped up on chocolate, and the caffeine from the regular portion of my Diet Coke, I made a decision. I will not be dishonest over something as simple as candy. If I am going to start a life of deception, I'm going to go big and rob a bank or plagiarize a novel.
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Editor's Note: As a part of our mission to help single Catholics deepen their faith and better discern dating and marriage, the CatholicMatch Institute held an essay contest to award scholarships for the National Catholic Singles Conference that will be held in Philadelphia on September 27-29, 2013.
Members had to answer the essay question: Describe how you have discerned that you are called to the vocation of marriage and provide one example of how you joyfully live out your faith until the time when you can fulfill your vocation?
The post below is one of our winning essays. Congratulations to Daniel Grossano from New Jersey! (Click here to see the rest of the winners.)
I have struggled for a long time with my vocation. Ever since my deeper conversion in college I did not feel called to a particular vocation. Now I do feel more called to marriage and there were three points which really influenced my discernment.
The first occurred while I was serving as a FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Student) missionary at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. To give some context, I just finished up serving for the last three years at that campus in May.
During my second year, I was traveling on the D.C. Metro with my teammate Cassandra who was inquiring about the state of my vocational discernment. I told her that I was really unsure, so she encouraged me to at least start by going on a discernment retreat with a religious community. She said that I needed to discern my call to religious life before starting to date so that I would not unintentionally break a young woman's heart.
So I heeded her suggestion and went on a discernment retreat with the Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph in Washington, D.C. It was an interesting experience, but I did not receive a personal calling to that life. After that I got the green light to explore dating from my spiritual director and my teammate Cassandra encouraged me to be proactive in pursuing women and not just wait around.
To further the pursuit of my vocation I became more active on CatholicMatch. I started to regularly spend time view profiles on the website and sent some women messages, but did not hear back from anyone. I still was not really convinced about my vocation, but I was trying to explore dating even though I was really nervous.
The second step on my journey occurred when from then end of May until the middle of June 2012 I was blessed to go on a pilgrimage with FOCUS to Ireland. During the trip I especially spent much time with one of the participants named Victoria. For a little while I was discerning whether I was called to be in a relationship with her, but I did not feel that I was connecting with her enough on that level. Then when we were walking together in Dublin, as we were about to participate in some street evangelization, what she told me next was completely unexpected.
She said that I feel uncomfortable in saying this, but I felt like the Lord told me in prayer yesterday that you are going to make a wonderful father someday. It was the first time that someone had made such an unexpected comment about my vocation. It was different than the typical parishioner who sees a young man at daily Mass and assume he will become a priest.
The third was when I went to a former FOCUS' teammate's wedding, not long after coming back from Ireland. Besides being an aesthetically beautiful Mass, it was great to see a young Catholic couple whose relationship was totally rooted in Christ. They began their relationship with a novena to St. Joseph to see if it was the Lord's will that they be together. At the nuptial Mass, the priest delivered an excellent homily where he spoke about the great privilege and responsibility of marriage being an image of God's faithful love to the world.
I had never heard this before and not long after read the section in the Catechism that mentioned this. This spoke to my heart and engendered in me a greater desire for marriage. I knew that this couple was going to be a great witness in the world of marriage in response I felt an increased holy desire to want to witness to the world as a married person.
While I hope that my marriage and family will be the central mission of my life, in the meantime I hope to live the mission that the Lord has entrusted to me even now. One way that I am joyfully living out my faith is through using my charisms of excitement for learning about our faith and teaching for the benefit of my parish.
I was recently appointed the lecturer and the spiritual adviser, for our local Knights of Columbus council. I served in this capacity while I was a FOCUS missionary at George Washington University. Through this position I will be giving a talk at each meeting about an aspect of the faith, hopefully in order to help the men to enter into a deeper relationship with the Lord and greater knowledge of our wondrous faith.
Secondly, I was asked to be a catechist for the summer faith formation follow-up for the fifth graders as well as a regular catechist for the fourth graders. I hope to not only catechize these children, but do what I can to help evangelize them, help them to meet the person of Jesus Christ and commit to being His disciple. It breaks my heart that so many young people have fallen away from the Catholic faith and I hope that the Lord uses me to help give these children the foundation for life-long and zealous discipleship.
The Catholic faith is such a beautiful and rich treasure that needs to be shared with conviction and joy. I hope that through the witness of seeing a young man on fire for Christ and the Catholic faith as well as the content that is presented will help to foster deeper conversion in the hearts of those that listen to me. This time of relating to and teaching the faith particularly to children will be great preparation, God-willing, for relating to and imparting the faith to my children. Even though I not where I would I like to end up in life, I am thankful that I can serve the Lord in whatever circumstance that I find myself.


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Or something like Eclipse... It has to many plug-ins to name http://www.eclipse.org Also Open-Source Sjoerd -----Original Message----- From: Jon Wingfield [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: donderdag 18 september 2003 20:37 To: Tomcat Users List You could always try Vim on windows. http://www.vim.org/ You'll never use Notepad again (well, maybe ;)) JEdit has a plug-in (LogViewer) that is effectively a GUI tail. http://www.jedit.org Or go the whole hog and install Cygwin for a bash shell with tail, vi and all manner of *nix utilities. http://www.cygwin.com All Open Source, all free. Enjoy, Jon Cox, Charlie wrote: > you didn't provide your platform, but since *nix has tail, I'm assuming you > have windows. > Under windows I've never had a tomcat log file that I couldn't view, but you > may not be able to use your favorite editor. Notepad has always brought the > file up for me where other editors(including wordpad) can not while tomcat > is running. > > Charlie > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:email@example.com] >>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:19 AM >>To: Tomcat Users List >>Subject: RE: Desperation! Tomcat crashing inexplicably. :-& >>Fresh ideas >>needed. >> >> >> >>Howdy, >>Regardless, a setup where you can't inspect log files until the end of >>the day is unacceptable for more people/organizations ;) Try to get >>that corrected... >> >>Yoav Shapira >>Millennium ChemInformatics >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Peter Guyatt [mailto:email@example.com] >>>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:17 AM >>>To: Tomcat Users List >>>Subject: RE: Desperation! Tomcat crashing inexplicably. :-& >> >>Fresh ideas >> >>>needed. >>> >>>We did on our last project. But it was the JVM crashing and taking >> >>Tomcat >> >>>down with it. We just moved to a newer version just to make sure. >>> >>>Try and upgrade the JVM, what version are you using ? >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Andoni [mailto:email@example.com] >>>Sent: 18 September 2003 16:12 >>>To: Tomcat Users List >>>Subject: Re: Desperation! Tomcat crashing inexplicably. :-& >> >>Fresh ideas >> >>>needed. >>> >>> >>>That's the problem. I can't be more specific. One moment I was >> >>clicking >> >>>through the site and the next I get an Apache error saying >> >>it could not >> >>>find >>>the file. Then when I looked at the server processes Tomcat >> >>was down. >> >>>Unfortunately the log file is locked so I cannot see it until I bring >> >>the >> >>>machine down again at about 6pm but I doubt it will say very much >> >>either. >> >>>Do you use DBCP with Tomcat 4.0.x ? >>> >>>Andoni. >>> >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Phillip Qin" <firstname.lastname@example.com> >>>To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <firstname.lastname@example.com> >>>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:48 PM >>>Subject: RE: Desperation! Tomcat crashing inexplicably. :-& >> >>Fresh ideas >> >>>needed. >>> >>> >>> >>>>Be more specific. Describe "crash". >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Andoni [mailto:email@example.com] >>>>Sent: September 18, 2003 10:55 AM >>>>To: Tomcat Users List >>>>Subject: Desperation! Tomcat crashing inexplicably. :-& Fresh ideas >>> >>>needed. >>> >>>>Hello, >>>> >>>>I am trying to put live a new version of my web site. The biggest >> >>change >> >>>in >>> >>>>this version is that it uses DBCP connection pooling. >>>> >>>>The problem I am having is that after a while of being live Tomcat >> >>just >> >>>>crashes with no warning. >>>> >>>>What are the groups experiences with Tomcat crashing? >> >>What kinds of >> >>>things >>> >>>>make it crash? I am at a loss having tried every thing I >> >>can imagine >>to >> >>>>make it work. I would be eternally grateful for any new leads. >>>> >>>>My thanks, >>>>Andoni. >>>> >>>>Tomcat 4.0.4 (crashes) >>>>Apache 1.3.26 (keeps going) >>>>DBCP >>>>Ajp13 >>>>Oracle 9i (keeps going) >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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In Gilman, A Family Deals With Changing NEK Economy
06/04/12 7:50AM By Charlotte Albright
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the rest of the state, Vermont's
Northeast Kingdom has an image as a region unto itself: A place of
rugged natural beauty and independent, hard working people. But the Kingdom is
also a place hit hard by mill closings and the loss of manufacturing jobs. It's
a place where unemployment is higher, wages are lower and opportunities fewer
than the rest of the state.
This week in the series Kingdom Comeback we look at how the region is trying to transform its economy into one where jobs are more plentiful and the future is brighter.
Today in part one of our series, we meet a family that's been rolling with the punches as the region's economy has changed.
Unless he's doing part-time duty as Deputy Sheriff, you can usually find Bill Dixon in a cramped office at the municipal water works in the village of Gilman. It's down a dirt road from the paper mill where he started baling paper when he was sixteen, and worked his way up to Superintendent of the mill's hydro-electric steam and water plant.
"That was my whole life. Just like everyone else in this town, that was their whole life," Dixon says.
But about 15 years ago, the mill shut down for good, and about 150 workers, most of the town, were suddenly out of work.
"I mean we were doing good, we were making Harry Potter paper, and that's what I couldn't believe, but the place was so worn down and we needed, I think, something like $500,000."
As sole operator of Gilman's water treatment facility, he makes about $37,000 a year, about half his former salary as superintendent at the mill. Like the mill, the village's water system is worn out.
"And there's no money because there's no money in town, the town is dying," Dixon says.
To upgrade the facility would mean raising water rates by as much as $360 per year per household, which Dixon says few could afford, especially older people on a fixed income.
"The people that I knew when I was a kid are still here and I hope they're here for a long time, but I make sure they're taken care of," Dixon says.
Bill's wife, Carol, also has a soft spot for the town's elderly. They often start their day chatting with her at the village post office, where she's Postmaster.
"I think I'm the only person they see during the day. So they have someone to talk to," Dixon says.
And the job means a lot to Dixon, "I love my job, and I love all the people that come in here. We're like a big family here, and whenever the town goes through something bad we all go through it together. "
But what if the next bad thing is the death of this rural Post Office, which is on a closure list? Carol and Bill say maybe they would have to move to North Carolina, where two of their five children have gone to find jobs. Carol says it's hard, watching so many young people move out of town.
"It's sad, it's sad, and I hear all the old stories from the old people how this town used to be hopping and there was hotels and barbers and butchers and drugstores and everything here, bowling alleys, restaurants, and now we have a Post Office, a school, and a senior center," Dixon explains.
But even though his town isn't in great shape, Carol's step-son, Adam Dixon, is hanging on in the Northeast Kingdom. He had planned to work at his father Bill's paper mill, but when that closed, he ended up in a factory, which he hated, and then in construction.
Now he works as a foreman at quarries throughout the state, crushing stone.
"I fell in love with this industry, you kind of have to be a certain kind of person to work on a crusher," Adam Dixon says.
But Adam, at 37, is about 20 years younger than the typical stone crusher.
"It's hard to find the new generation to work but the jobs are still there I guess if somebody really wants to work I think they can find one."
Still, Adam Dixon would be surprised if his own son follows in his work-boot-steps. He says the nine-year old is fascinated by smart phones and computers. His fifteen-year old stepdaughter wants to work as a make-up artist on horror films.
Those aren't easy jobs to come by in the Northeast Kingdom. So, like other members of the Dixon family, they may have to leave home to find work.
Tomorrow in part two of Kingdom Comeback, we look at efforts to revive the wood products industry in the face of global competition.


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Target: United Nations Environmental Program Executive Director, Achim Steiner
Goal: Applaud the UN for introducing a campaign to reduce food waste and end hunger
The United Nations has launched a campaign to reduce food waste in order to help combat the environmental and economic problems caused by discarding edible food. More importantly, because there would be enough food to feed the entire world population if so much of it did not go to waste, this campaign has the potential to address the problem of hunger that affects people throughout the world.
The UN introduced this campaign after a study found that half of the food produced in the world does not end up being eaten. While agricultural businesses are largely responsible for using wasteful methods of food production, the campaign plans to focus on helping markets, restaurants, and consumers reduce their food waste.
The campaign aims to change the way people in industrialized countries view food, since so much of it is thrown away due to unnecessarily high standards for the physical appearance of the food. Markets know that consumers will not buy produce that is not aesthetically pleasing, so the markets themselves throw away edible food, or farms throw it away because they know the markets will not buy it. The campaign hopes to encourage consumers to change their standards for judging the quality of food so that less food will be discarded.
The UN is encouraging the contribution of ideas from local organizations for using food more economically. For example, an organization in Atlanta, Georgia helps restaurants eliminate all of their food waste by encouraging them to donate extra food, compost food scraps, and save used oil that can be used as biofuel. The compost and used oil can be sold to community residents, which brings more customers to the restaurants, ensuring that there will be motivation for the restaurants owners to participate.
Agricultural businesses claim that in order to feed the world's population, more food must be produced. However, there is already enough food being produced to feed everyone in the world. If the UN also focuses on encouraging big agricultural businesses to stop wasting resources and harming the environment, the campaign could have a significant impact. Support this campaign and encourage the UN to call on big businesses to join the fight to reduce their environmental impact and end hunger throughout the world.
Dear Achim Steiner,
The campaign that the UN recently introduced to help reduce food waste has the potential to end hunger, significantly reduce our impact on the environment, and address economic problems. The campaign has already started making helpful suggestions for individuals and businesses to reduce their food waste. Hopefully, organizations that have been addressing the issue of food waste locally will contribute their expertise on the subject so that their ideas can be used in more communities throughout the world.
Although individuals and small businesses can benefit from this campaign and learn to reduce their food waste, agricultural businesses should not be permitted to continue using methods that save them money while harming the environment and wasting resources. The UN should be applauded for launching this campaign, but it should address the waste that big businesses create in addition to focusing on individuals, markets, and restaurants.
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Intermittent furnace lockouts, fouled nozzles, combustion air, and cold basements
Hey all,
So, recently I've been going through an issue with my furnace. Its an oil fueled Weil-Maclean (spelling?) with a Carlin burner. I started experiencing intermittent latch-ups (red light, resets with the button and seems to start back up). Its been happening early-mornings, but the reset will usually last the day.
We had the furnace serviced. They cleaned it out, replaced the nozzle, replaced the oil filter, etc. It was fine for a few weeks... then started acting up again with more intermittent latch-ups. They came back out today and found the nozzle was fouled up again (carbon deposits). The did a bunch of other testing while they had everything apart. The tech noticed the blackened insulation above the furnace (soot) as well as the dusting on the top of the furnace just below the interior vent of the furnace exhaust.
He then played with the basement door to the outside and could feel the pressure created when he opened/shut the door. He recommended a combustion air intake (we do not have one currently). I'm guessing he suspects less than ideal combustion could be causing the carbon deposits due to no air feeding the combustion process.
My first question for you HVAC guys.... Does this sound like a plausible cause of the latch-ups on the furnace as well as the fouled-up nozzles? I just want to make sure I get a second opinion before I go cutting holes in my basement.
Given they're correct, obviously the next step is to install a combustion air vent. Here's where I'm concerned. If I open up the small basement windows or door... the draft coming into the house from these openings is significant (probably confirms that the furnace was starving for air). I'm worried that if I go and add the vent... my basement is going to become a frozen zone (we're in NH btw).
My basement level is a 2-car garage connected to a finished area connected to the utility/storage room. This is all on the same slab level, with no door in-between the utility area and finished portion (there's just an entry way connecting the two by the stairs to the main floor). So... any air entering the utility area will likely just flow into the finished area, chilling everything.
I've seen the ideas of putting the end of the combustion air pipe into a bucket or looping it up into a "J" shape... but I'm not sure that would slow the air that much as I believe the negative pressure of the house would overcome those mitigation efforts. Is my only solution to that problem to identify where the air might be escaping the house in an upper floor (a leaky flu, attic fan louvers, attic stair access, etc.), and therby hoping to keep the leaky spots from creating a negative draft that would suck more air in constantly?
Am I missing anything? I just don't want to solve one problem and cause myself another by now having a freezing basement that has to be heated to counteract the fact that the furnace can't burn efficiently without the air that's now causing the cold! :)
Thanks all!
Look for and fix the leaks in the upper floor area first. Then use the pipe in a bucket to prevent excessive air infiltration from the combustion intake pipe.
I guess no matter what happens, if I add the vent or not... I should be plugging any leaks on the upper floors regardless to help keep heat in the house instead of flowing out.
So... thanks, but either way... would the incomplete combustion lead to a fouled nozzle like they were theorizing? Or... is really the only way to end up with a clogged nozzle to have bad, gunky fuel?
Incomplete combustion can cause it. Depending on how bad it is.
Ok... so... did some experimenting with air flow.
In order to test the theory that the furnace wasn't getting enough combustion air I opened the small window in the basement. I had it open enough that it was a 1 ft sq. worth of air flow... more than what most vents would bring in.
Sure enough... the furnace still goes into lockup. Since last Tuesday (5 days ago), its now repeating the latch-up at least 2-3 times a day. It wouldn't be such an issue except when it does it at 1 AM and I wake up to a 55 degree house and my wife and 2 year old are freezing!
According to the documentation on the burner... "If flame is not established within 15 seconds (TFI) of oil valve actuation lockout (everything off) will occur. Lockout is indicated by a "solid on" red LED and closure of the alarm contacts". If I'm not getting flame, what's going on?
The lock-up seems almost random. We had the furnace on and running for over an hour this morning while trying to get the house back up to temp. We noticed it wasn't running... but the thermostats were calling for heat. We checked and it was locked out again. It always seems to reset and run without much of a problem... until the next lock out at some point later.
Could it be bad oil? I have a filter on the tank, and the pressure gauge is in the green... so I don't believe its a flow problem.
If its another clogged nozzle... could the bad oil be good enough to flow through the filter yet bad enough to clog up the nozzle and shut down the burner? I thought the filter was supposed to keep junk out of the system and the nozzle. I looked at the nozzle they took out. The gold mesh portion of the nozzle is black and clogged
Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm already into this for about $350-400 worth of service calls... I need to get to a solution before I'm broke or I freeze!
The intermittent lock outs can be caused by a weak ignition transformer, a bad/dead spot in the burner motor's start windings, weak or dirty cad cell(its what sees the flames), a weak safety circuit in the primary control. Along with another bad nozzle, improperly set electrodes, and a few other things.
When you reset the control. Does it light with a puff smoke?
Where would I see the puff of smoke come from, the flap valve between the back of the furnace and where it enters the chimney in the wall? I can't say I've seen any smoke come from any area as I've watched it re-start. But I haven't really been looking for that.
I would have assumed that the tech that was here for 2.5 hours the other day would have checked all those things you mention, but... their bill mentions they checked the following:
1. Pump screen
2. Oil line vacuum
3. Venting
4. Combustion Air
5. Ignitor
6. Fuel pump pressure
So... it doesn't specifically call out that they checked the CAD cell, start windings, safety circuit or electrodes. I'll have to talk to them about that on Monday.
Thanks for the help beenthere!
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Cheers to love, for what it is.
Morning light is shining in through the car window, while I'm waiting for my breakfast. Guess I'm taught to appreciate the sunlight like every photographer, for morning sunlight is just too warm and too amazing to be missed. And then comes the song "Sing-a-long song" that simply "perfected" the whole scene. I'm fascinated instantly, as I personally love this song, and it reminds me how love....love could be simply wonderful and powerful enough to give the sense of belonging.
Falling in love is beautiful. Whenever I'm doing photo shooting for couples, nothing more I wish to capture than the romantic vibes, their moves. Which then you say to yourselves, "you both are amazing, carry on the love, for you're doing it great."
Don't give it away, as it makes everything beautiful. Never take it for granted, as money can't buy love. And it can only be perfect, if you share. :)
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Recycled-Paper Magazines Booming in a Down Market
As the modern world continues to transition to a paperless/digital society, the Environmental Paper Network's 2011 State of the Paper Industry report contains an encouraging statistic: The annual volume of paper trashed in U.S. landfills decreased by 16 million tons from 2005 to 2009, or a reduction equal to a line of trash barges almost 400 miles long.
That's great news, though a more sobering statistic reminds us that an amount of paper trash equal to a line of barges 640 miles long is still being trashed. In fact, only about 50 percent of the paper used in office buildings in America is currently recovered for recycling according to PaperRecycles.org.
That's why Green America's Better Paper Project continues its work to shift the magazine industry onto environmentally preferable paper, building even greater demand for recovered paper, and the good news is… it's working. As Better Paper's Frank Locantore reports, with greener magazines' newsstand sales are booming, while the magazine industry as a whole reports decline.
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If you're looking for a good adult fairy tale, we've got just what you need. With so many fairy tale reboots recently coming out of Hollywood, we thought this would be an opportune time to look back at some exceptional fairy tales best appreciated by adults.
1. The Red Shoes
The finest of the Powell-Pressburger collaborations, The Red Shoes tells the story of a beautiful, passionate young ballerina, Vicky (Moira Shearer), who is tutored by the great composer Lermontov (Anton Walbrook.) Lermontov tells the young dancer that she can either choose love or ballet, but she can't have both — one will always sap the other. Vicky falls in love with the young and equally fervent composer Marius (Julian Craster), and Lermontov grows furious with jealously. The ballet featured within the film is Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, a production that could propel Vicky and Marius to stardom. The movie is tragic and gorgeous, with Jack Cardiff's use of three-strip Technicolor and his dreamy photography giving the film a feeling that's timeless and romantic, and the centerpiece — a 15-minute ballet scene choreographed by Robert Helpmann and scored by Brian Easdale — has more emotion than most entire films.
2. Pan's Labyrinth
We wrote about Guillermo del Toro and this film's lush score recently. A young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) moves with her mother to the rural Spanish countryside to live with her new step-father (a frightfully fierce Sergi López), a Falange Captain in Franco's fascist regime. Ofelia loves books and seems to spend more time in her imagination than her awful life (her new step-father even tells her she's not allowed to read.) But she soon discovers that she may be a reincarnated princess. Del Toro conjures awe-spurring imagery and sustains a sotto voce mood of magical longing: the sapient old fawn (Doug Jones, always a brilliant physical performer), the nightmarish child-eating Pale Man (also Jones), and the looming tree (not Doug Jones) that splays out in two deep curves, as if reaching up to the sky, but over time, its will has been broken. Guillermo Navarro won an Oscar for his cinematography (he shot digital before digital was the new normal), and save for the dated CGI, the film is aging impeccably.


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A personal anecdote from Troy Seidman:
In my childhood home, in the laundry room, were two exhibition posters from the AGO.
One was for Van Gogh's "Irises" and the other was Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" - both were successful exhibits in Toronto in the early 1980's.
I was always intrigued by "The Dinner Party" and this was years before I had learned the word "installation".
While no one at home at ever explained the works to me or discussed seeing these exhibitions, I absorbed an important lesson about the capacity of art; specifically that it existed and evolved without definitions or boundaries.
As a child I had understood "The Dinner Party" as a sort of sci-fi banquet...with an elaborate lobster meal being offered to the guest who sat at the triangle table's apex.
"The Dinner Party" came up for discussion while I was studying Art History at McGill.
I nearly fell out of my seat when it was explained that this was one of the most radical, successful and reviled works of art of the 20th century...and that vaginal imagery was an essential part of the work's aesthetic.
Chicago began work on "The Dinner Party" in 1973 - the same year this amazing screenprint was created.
Its abstract composition both alludes to some of the Op Art of the era. It also foreshadows some of the motifs Chicago used in "The Dinner Party"
Caviar20 is excited to be offering this fantastic example from Judy Chicago from the most important era of her career.
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Attic Doors
Hi -
I'm trimming out a house where interior wood doors are used for access to the unheated, uninsulated attic space. These are nice, 24" fir panel doors. Buidling inspector says that they must be insulated doors. Does anyone know a system to add insulation to these doors (that will pass fire code)?
Or is the solution to replace with an exterior insulated door. This is not the first choice, as the existing doors are really nice doors.
I would confirm with the inpsector or someone familiar with the code he is citing before you proceed. "Insulated" is sometimes interchanged with UL labeled fire doors. It may need to be just a steel door or actually a labeled door. In either case, I doubt you'll be able to just tack on some insulation to meet the inspectors requirement.
The inspector is referring to R-value insulated type doors. When we install doors such as described, for example: an attic knee wall door - we insulate the back side of it. We attach 3/8" plywood or 1/2" OSB over the back, non-visible side of the door panel, facing the attic storage area (non-conditioned area). Then we install rigid foam board over the plywood using adhesive and simple 2" drywall screws.
Example of foam board:
As stated, confirm with the inspector that he will pass this type of arrangement. We have never had a problem with it.
Additionally, you will need to install proper "weather-stripping" around the door frame.
Thanks for your ideas.
I will confirm with the Bldg Inspector before proceeding. The plans specify, and he confirms this, that the door needs to meet U-35. Doors are spec'd by U rather than R - sort of the inverse of R-value.
My approach will be to add 3/4 polystyrene (sp?) to the back of the door, like you recommended. I'll have to box it in, covered with plywood, as there can't be exposed insulation (so says the BI). Lock set will present a challenge. And, yes, I'll definitely add the weather stripping.
I'll probably need a letter from the engineer anyway.
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Hospice Care in Feasterville-Trevose
Hospice care focuses on comfort rather than curative care when symptoms of terminal disease or progressive disease become too difficult to treat. Hospice care is available for patients who face a limited life expectancy of about six months or less. Hospice provides medical care and pain treatment for the patient, as well as emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. Hospice provides patient care in the home environment, nursing homes, or facilities (long-term) residential care.
The National Hospice and Palliative Care incorporates the belief that everyone has the right to die in peace and with dignity. Hospice care draws attention to the purpose for patients dealing with illnesses receive end of life care and psychosocial support they need to die this way.
Palliative care begins when the attending physician and the patient (or power of patient care) determine who will no longer be a cure through aggressive treatment plans, such as chemotherapy, blood transfusions, or medicines for prolong life. Medicare Hospice Benefit provides medical team palliative care team has to look specifically for each patient they serve. In addition to a qualified staff, hospice also uses trained and dedicated volunteers run errands, provide companionship and help patients and families in ways that are appropriate under hospice services.
Hospice serves all patients regardless of race, religion, age or illness. Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurance plans, HMOs, and other managed care organizations covering hospice services in full or with minimal copayments.


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The man in charge of the RCMP in British Columbia says the laborious process of firing or even suspending Mounties without pay after serious misconduct is "absolute madness," but making changes requires a commitment from the force's political masters.
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens said the RCMP Act is long overdue for change to allow local management to hire and fire like other employers in the country.
For example, Mr. Callens said an application was made years ago to suspend Cpl. Benjamin "Monty" Robinson without pay, but the request was rejected at RCMP headquarters in Ottawa.
Mr. Robinson was convicted last month of obstruction of justice in the death of a young motorcyclist in Delta, B.C. He admitted to taking two shots of vodka to "calm his nerves" after the accident and before he gave himself up to investigating officers, but the court heard testimony that Mr. Robinson would have known those actions can be used to cover up drunk driving.
A year before the traffic accident, Mr. Robinson was the senior officer in charge when Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was jolted several times with an RCMP Taser and died at Vancouver's airport.
Mr. Robinson and three fellow officers still face perjury charges, accused of lying under oath in that case.
Commissioner Thomas Braidwood concluded in his final report into Mr. Dziekanski's death that the officers deliberately misrepresented their actions during the investigations and during their testimony to his inquiry.
"I want him (Robinson) dismissed from the RCMP," Mr. Callens told a forum at the Radio Television Digital News Association annual provincial gathering on the weekend.
"Now he's convicted of obstruction of justice and so I say to myself, a reasonable-minded Canadian, a British Columbian, is outraged by that. I'm outraged by that."
The RCMP Act gives Mr. Callens the power to suspend an officer if he considers the officer's actions serious misconduct. He must get approval from headquarters in Ottawa if he wants an officer suspended without pay.
But Mr. Callens said the process becomes adversarial, similar to the criminal justice system.
"That's the problem with the RCMP Act. What I want to do is have the ability, for me personally, as the deputy commissioner, or for the commissioner ... to say 'No, you need to be fired from the RCMP."' The current process sometimes seems to overtake the necessity of decisive action, and that's why he supports its modernization, he told The Canadian Press in a later interview.
"I think what frustrates the community are cases where an RCMP officer is convicted of a serious criminal offence and yet an internal adjudication board must be held, and the delays that are associated to that occur, to determine whether a member should be dismissed from the RCMP," he said. "And it's quite obvious, or it is the view of the community that it's obvious, the individual should be dismissed from the RCMP."
Neither Mr. Robinson nor his lawyer were available for comment.
In the four months that Mr. Callens has been in charge of the B.C. division, he said he has taken the step to request suspension without pay four times.
But under the act, the RCMP isn't the employer and federal government statutes and regulations govern the way the RCMP operates, leaving a long and cumbersome appeal process for the RCMP and those fighting to keep their jobs, Mr. Callens said.
"We've seen people who've been dismissed and who have committed murder while still RCMP officers because they're in the process of appeal," he said at the forum, referring to a case other than Mr. Robinson's.
"It's madness. It's absolute madness."
Mr. Callens told the group he wants to see greater transparency and accountability on issues affecting the RCMP. He acknowledged the force hadn't done well in those areas in the past.
"Most importantly, I've come to understand the importance of public trust and confidence so that we are able to fulfil our duty and successfully meet our mandate to keep the communities we serve safe."
The Mounties' image in B.C. has been tarnished over several years by a profusion of bad public relations involving Robinson's actions, the RCMP-involved shooting death of Ian Bush and allegations by Cpl. Catherine Galliford of sexual harassment and abuse from senior officers.
Mr. Callens said he could see a distinct advantage to being able to hire and fire like other companies.
Fixing the RCMP Act hasn't been a priority for politicians for some time, but Mr. Callens said RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson is committed to moving the issue to the top of the agenda.
"As election cycles come and go, there's all kinds of different priorities and there's all kinds of different pressures on the agenda and fixing the RCMP Act has not been at the top of the agenda," Mr. Callens said.
"Our current commissioner is committed to having it at the top of the agenda."
The RCMP has assigned lawyer Kevin Brosseau to review the act and recommend changes to the federal government.
After a request for an interview, the Ministry of Public Safety issued a statement saying the Conservative government is committed to giving the RCMP the tools it needs to keep Canadians safe and ensure appropriate oversight is in place.
"We agree that some change is necessary to deal with what Commissioner Paulson called 'dark-hearted behaviour' displayed by a small minority of RCMP members."
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Daily Trouble
How Did it Find Trouble?
A few months ago, some may have thought they had found a relatively safe way to bet on the growth of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Quintiles Transnational was riding high on the outsourcing trend in these vibrantly expanding industries, and was also a major force in healthcare informatics. The logic went that Quintiles would benefit from the extremely active drug discovery and testing operations happening around the globe, but wouldn't face the risk of individual drugs coming up short in the regulatory approval process. As long as pharmaceutical companies were testing more drugs and continuing to increase their outsourcing, Quintiles would do well.
Unfortunately, things haven't exactly panned out that way recently. On September 15, Quintiles warned it would fall short of expected earnings estimates, mostly due to several large cardiovascular drug trials being suspended. The company guided analysts to expect $0.27 per share in the third quarter, well below the $0.39 per share Wall Street was expecting. Fourth quarter earnings estimates were also watered down to around $0.32 per share from the $0.39 range. Not surprisingly, the stock took it on the chin after the warning, losing nearly half of its value in a single, frenetic trading session.
As is common with companies that find their stock price tanking after such revelations, the class-action lawyers have entered the fray. Lawsuits pending against the company claim that Quintiles made false and misleading statements to artificially prop up its stock price, a fairly boilerplate allegation. Whether the claims have merit is yet to be decided, but the fact that the company is being sued hints at the trouble Quintiles has had both operationally and with its stock.
Since the earnings warning, there has been little news from Quintiles. Trading above $55 per share last December, the stock is now trading at a fraction of its old highs. Certainly, more than a few investors have to be feeling sick after such a gut-wrenching drop.
Business Description
Quintiles Transnational is the world's largest contract research organization (CRO). The company specializes in providing research, marketing, and a wide variety of other services for pharmaceutical firms looking to outsource portions of their operations. The services offered by Quintiles include performing clinical trials of new drugs, laboratory services, biostatistical analysis, and data management. Quintiles has more than 19,000 employees in 31 countries.
The Durham, North Carolina-based company was founded in 1982 and came public in 1994. Quintiles is a member of the Nasdaq 100 Index and is in the process of being added to the S&P 500.
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How Could You Have Seen it Coming?
This portion of the Daily Double and Daily Trouble is always the hardest to write, since our vision is almost always 20/20 when looking back. However, trouble is not always as easy to see coming as we make it seem here.
Nevertheless, there were a few warning signs with Quintiles ahead of time. The most obvious risk factor that became real was the fact that the company was susceptible to profit problems after having drugs fail in the development process. This should have become especially apparent when Quintiles' peer, Covance (Nasdaq: CVD), had a similar blowup a few weeks before Quintiles' problems became widely known. While Quintiles and other CROs perhaps aren't as exposed as the drug companies themselves to the consequences of compounds falling short in clinical trials, recent events clearly show that successful drugs are much more profitable to service than ones with problems.
Another factor that investors should have considered is that the pharmaceutical companies themselves may not wish to give up control of the testing process. After all, the pharmaceutical industry is one where intellectual expertise is a closely guarded asset. The drug companies may be willing to outsource nonessential portions of their operations, but may be reluctant to have their valuable data in someone else's hands.
Finally, Quintiles represents the perfect example of why it is important to stay within one's circle of competency. The company does not exactly sell products and services that the average investor would be familiar with, and this means that investors need to study the company and its market much more carefully than they might normally.
Where to From Here?
Investors are left to wonder whether Quintiles' recent trouble is merely a temporary snafu or something more serious. Will pharmaceutical companies continue to outsource more and more of their operations? Will these same companies trust Quintiles with their essential data and expertise? How one feels about Quintiles going forward largely depends on how one answers those two questions. They aren't questions with obvious answers, either.
Looking at earnings, the market seems to have priced in much of the anticipated weakness. Even after the company watered down future expectations, analysts still expect Quintiles to earn $1.48 per share in FY 2000, which puts the stock at not much more than 10x forward estimates. There are certainly questions to be answered with Quintiles, but at these prices it is worth keeping on the radar while studying further. The company may just prove to be a compelling value if some of the fundamental questions can be answered.
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May 16, 2013
Season Review (PDF) | Record Book | Final Statistics | Updated Bios
The Colorado State women's water polo team, founded in 2005, completed its final competition on April 28. After a 1-2 finish at the WWPA Championships in Santa Clara, Calif., the Rams placed fourth, tying their best finish.
In 2012, Colorado State was picked to finish fourth in the WWPA preseason poll. The Rams were riddled by injuries, however, and entered the conference tournament ranked eighth. This year, CSU again was the No. 4 seed in the preseason poll, and the team was determined to live up to the high expectations. While the Rams' overall record wasn't where they would have hoped, CSU won the games it needed to, and finished fourth entering the Championships. After a first-round win against Sonoma State, the Rams concluded the tournament in the upper half, tying their best-ever finish (also fourth in 2010).
"I was really proud of the girls and how they responded to adversity this season," associate head coach Mike Moody said. "They faced a lot of it, both in the pool and away from it. Our overall win-loss record was not good, but the important thing is that we won the games that mattered most and put ourselves in a good position. We were picked to finish fourth, we were seeded fourth and then we got fourth in the tournament. We had a lot of success this season."
The water polo program was hit with hard news on Jan. 24, as it was announced that Colorado State University will discontinue the sponsorship of the sport. Water polo, in its ninth season, was CSU's newest sport until CSU announced that it will add women's soccer in its place.
While there was obvious shock and disappointment, the team responded to adversity by tying its highest-ever regular-season and tournament finishes. The team's final game was on Sunday, April 28, in the third-place game of the WWPA Championships. The program went 107-174 (.381) in nine seasons.
"I'm very proud of my team; I'm proud of these girls. They battled all year long, and this is exactly how I've wanted to spend my last eight seasons. I want to say thank you to everybody--from my players to the parents to the administration. I'm very honored to have coached CSU water polo with these girls."
The Colorado State water polo team earned a program-record four postseason honors April 22, as three different Rams were recognized by the Western Water Polo Association. Freshman Ariel Arcidiacono earned one of the top awards, being chosen by the league's eight coaches as the Newcomer of the Year. Joining Arcidiacono, senior Shelby Schaefer earned first-team honors, while Kelcy Barott was named an honorable mention (her second honor: 2012 All-Freshman team). Arcidiacono was also placed on the All-Freshman team. It marks the third straight season that a CSU player has been named to the All-Freshman team, and just the second time the Rams have received a first-team selection (Ali Pavlik in 2011).
"I'm really, really excited for these girls," Moody said. "They've worked so hard and have pushed themselves and their teammates, and I'm really proud of them."
After a win in the quarterfinals of the Championships and a fourth-place finish, Stephanie Weed and Barott were recognized, being named to the all-tournament first and second teams, respectively. It was the first time CSU has earned multiple selections.
Three CSU players--Ariel Arcidiacono (73 goals; fifth), Shelby Schaefer (59; eighth) and Kelcy Barott (42; 17th)--rank among the top scorers in the WWPA. CSU is one of four schools to have three players ranked in the top 17. Additionally, Stephanie Weed ranks 29th--with 32 goals. The foursome accounted for nearly 85 percent of the team's offensive production.
Not only are those players scoring, but they're also tallying assists for each other. Schaefer (41 assists; fifth) and Arcidiacono (31; 13th) also rank among the league's top passers. They are just two of six players to be among the top 15 in both categories, and the only set of teammates. On the defensive end, Weed ranks fifth in the league for steals (60), with Arcidiacono (43; 14th) and Barott (33; 21st) also ranking high.
Splitting time in net, Michelle Slagle (183 saves) and Melissa Fisher (111) rank eighth and ninth, respectively. The WWPA does not keep track of ejections drawn, but Barott had drawn 113 on the season, a program record. The previous high was 60. Making the statistics even more impressive, CSU played the second-fewest games among all WWPA schools.
In eight seasons with the Rams, Moody was known to piece together challenging schedules. More than half of his team's opponents over the past two seasons have been ranked at some point in the CWPA Women's Varsity Top 20 poll. Of the 20 teams ranked in the final poll, CSU faced 11 of them. Additionally, the Rams played Michigan and UC San Diego twice. What's more, CSU played an exhibition contest against Cal State Northridge in January--finished the season ranked No. 14--and defeated Brown on Feb. 9, which was ranked No. 20 at the time.
In the latest report by the NCAA, CSU's stength of schedule is ranked 23rd and its RPI is No. 28. The WWPA is the third-toughest conference, based on RPI.
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Handholds For B2B Marketers On The Slippery Slope To "Cost Center"
Posted by Lori Wizdo on February 24, 2013
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I recently stumbled upon a very old quote from Peter Drucker, which completely nonplussed this lifetime marketer. Mr. Drucker observed (in his 1973 book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practice) that the fundamental purpose of a business enterprise is to create a customer. And because of that, he said, "The business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs."
Today's B2B marketing execs know that Drucker's statement is a fragile hypothesis that gets tested at least every budget cycle and often every quarter. You know that if you are not able to quantify the business impact of the budget dollars spent on advertising, trade shows, and promotion, your CFO looks at marketing as a cost center: one of the first places to cut when the business indicators dip, and one of the last to be renewed when things turn around.
Revenue is the lingua franca of the modern enterprise
That's why demonstrating the revenue return on marketing investment (ROMI) is the No. 1 issue for B2B marketing executives. In Forrester's most recent B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey, when we asked marketing execs to identify the most important metrics for their marketing organization, 56% identified a revenue-related metric — compared with 44% for customer satisfaction and 40% for brand awareness.
Revenue performance management has become a widely accepted measurement criteria for the current crop of B2B marketers, but when the concept was first introduced (more than a decade ago) the idea was transformative. The practice required re-engineering of marketing and sales management practices and measurement systems, and would not have been possible (in a company of any scale) without the automation of sales and marketing tracking and reporting processes. Early adopters of the approach have seen significant gains by euthanizing underperforming pet programs and prioritizing investments on the basis of ROMI. But after copping the quick wins, revenue performance pioneers are finding it hard to continuously improve revenue performance. That's why it's time to take a balanced approach when measuring marketing performance.
A question of balance
Building a high-performing L2R process means finding an optimal balance of these component factors that drive ROMI.
■ Volume: Volume is the raw material in the process of manufacturing leads. These traditional benchmarks for marketing activities (e.g., the number of new names added to the database, tradeshow scans, followers and leads) are generally easy to capture and measure.
■ Value: It is often easier to move the needle on revenue performance by shifting the mix to higher value prospects than it is to increase volume. By analyzing the sources and programs that have yielded the highest value prospects, you can revise your mix to target the highest-value segments.
■ Velocity: Velocity is a measure of the time it takes for a prospective customer to advance through the stages of the buying process. Measuring velocity is the best way to pinpoint the execution shortfall in your end-to-end process
■ Efficiency: Efficiency metrics tell us how cost-effective our programs and processes are.
■ Effectivity: Effectivity metrics tell us which programs and channels deliver the best conversion performance. Analyzing these metrics, in conjunction with the other metrics, helps marketing leaders determine in which programs and channels to increase or decrease investment.
What it means
To get and keep the attention of top management – and to keep from inching down that slippery slope to a cost center – marketing leaders must consistently communicate the performance of the lead-to-revenue process in a way that resonates with the top agenda items for CEOs and CFOs. Measure performance with a mix of the relevant metrics (volume, value, velocity, efficiency, and effectivity) that drive ROMI. The benefits are manifest: more revenue, at higher margins, via shorter sales cycles, with a higher win rate, and more predictability. It's time to claim the destiny that Peter Drucker envisioned for marketing.
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"Type must be provided by the runtime" exception when trying to instantiate a Roslyn-emitted class referencing a generic type with Roslyn-emitted type parameter
I have the following test which fails with the September 2012 CTP, but shouldn't, as far as I can tell:
using System; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; using System.Reflection.Emit; using NUnit.Framework; using Roslyn.Compilers; using Roslyn.Compilers.CSharp; namespace Tests { [TestFixture] public class TestRoslyn { [Test] public void TestGenerics() { var code = @" using Tests; using System.Collections.Generic; using System; public class DerivedClass : TestBaseClass { public override object Test() { return new List<DerivedClass>(); } } "; var syntaxTree = SyntaxTree.ParseText(code); var compilation = Compilation.Create("DerivedClass") .WithOptions(new CompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary)) .AddSyntaxTrees(syntaxTree) .AddReferences( MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("mscorlib"), MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System"), MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System.Core"), new MetadataFileReference(typeof (TestBaseClass).Assembly.Location)); var assemblyBuilder = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.DefineDynamicAssembly(new AssemblyName("DynamicAssembly" + Guid.NewGuid()), AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndCollect); var moduleBuilder = assemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicModule("DynamicModule"); var result = compilation.Emit(moduleBuilder); var type = moduleBuilder.GetTypes().FirstOrDefault(t => (typeof(TestBaseClass).IsAssignableFrom(t))); var instance = (TestBaseClass)Activator.CreateInstance(type); Assert.IsNotNull(instance); Assert.IsNotNull(instance.Test()); } } public class TestBaseClass { public virtual object Test() { return null; } } }
An ArgumentException is thrown at the line
with the message "Type must be a type provided by the runtime".
That exception is triggered by the line
return new List<DerivedClass>();
in the code I'm compiling with Roslyn.
If I write "return new List<int>()", for example, then all is well. Using any type in an existing assembly as a type parameter to the generic type also succeeds. It is when the type parameter in the generic type is itself contained in the code I'm compiling that I get this exception.
Also I notice that result.IsUncollectible returns false in cases where the ArgumentException is thrown. This seems to be a bug too, as Collectible Assemblies for Dynamic Type Generation doesn't say anything about generic types preventing assemblies from being collectible.
Are these issues already known, and is there currently a workaround? I guess declaring closed generic types in a pre-compiled assembly would do it, but my actual scenario involves anonymous types, so that won't work for me.
- Edited by Samuel Jack Monday, January 28, 2013 12:09 PM Clarified title
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This is a bug in Reflection.Emit APIs. Unfortunately using Reflection.Emit is the only way how to produce collectible code. So although Collectible Assemblies don't have limitations on generic types the limitations are imposed by bugs in Reflection.Emit.
As a workaround you might be able to create a factory like so:
using Tests;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
public static class Factory
public static object CreateList<T>()
return new List<T>();
public class DerivedClass : TestBaseClass {
public override object Test() {
return Factory.CreateList<DerivedClass>();
Thanks for the confirmation of the bug, and suggested workaround. Unfortunately, I don't it will work in my specific case because I'm actually writing Linq queries involving anonymous types. When do you think the Reflection.Emit bug will be fixed? Any chance it might be in the next .Net 4.5 update?


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