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Sounds like your or someone is home most of the to feed the boiler.
We are unsatisfied owners of an econoline burner and their salesmen. We purchased an econo 150 instead of a 100 in August 2007 to be safe on...
Has anyone heard about the Econoburn made in New York state wood boiler or have one running
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (March 25, 2013)--Cyprus' central bank says all banks in the country except the two biggest will reopen for business on Tuesday, more than a week after they shut down to prevent a run.
Laiki and Bank of Cyprus will remain closed until Thursday, and a withdrawal limit from ATMs of $130 a day will also remain in place until then, the bank said.
Financial institutions in the country have been shut since March 16 as Cyprus and its international lenders struggled to reach agreement on a plan to raise funds so the island could qualify for a bailout package.


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Fist of the North Star game Hokuto Musou gets a video
Hokuto Musou, the new Dynasty Warriors-style Fist of the North Star game from KOEI, has a short gameplay video out.
It's over on Eurogamer France.
Not too much is known other than characters and gameplay style. It's also not announced for anywhere else other that Japan at the moment, for 2010.
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Excellent film from director Stuart Gordon, based on the short story "Herbert West Re-Animator" by H.P. Lovecraft. The film tells the tale of Herbert West (the always underrated Jeffrey Combs, "The 4400","From Beyond", "The Frighteners") as a mad scientist with a drug that can bring the dead back to life. Of coarse, things don't exactlly go as planned, and before you know it, you've got tits, gore, a horny severed head, great one-liners, vengeful intestines, zombies, and other things of the sort. What more could you ask for?
"Herbert West has a Very Good head on his shoulders...and another one in a dish on his desk"
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Breaking off a frozen ejaculate icicle (cumcicle), inserting it into a woman's vagina, and putting her under a tanning light to melt it thus reanimating the sperm.
During the week, I'm known as a mild-mannered accountant. On the weekends, I'm known as the reanimator.
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—The study by Dr Rosenthal and colleagues' presents the results of risk-adjusted mortality models. Their case inclusion rules for skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients are a potentially serious source of bias in comparisons of outcomes by their 3 hospital types. Of their original 89 851 cases, 10316 were admitted from SNFs, but 8421 of these original cases discharged to a SNF were omitted from subsequent analyses. One would expect that nearly all patients admitted from a SNF who survived their acute hospital stay would have been discharged to a SNF. Thus, the elimination of all cases discharged to a SNF virtually ensures biases in the hospital mortality data for SNF admissions. If patients died during their index hospital admission, they were included, but if they survived this hospital admission and were discharged to a SNF, they were excluded. The least adverse impact on mortality outcomes from this
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Opinion: Don't forget to support the Detroit Zoo
The regional millage to support the zoo is up for renewal next month, and the cost of supporting this cultural treasure is well worth it.
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The proposals would require developers to incorporate certain so-called community benefits, such as jobs, local hiring and environmental protections, in projects of a certain size if they receive public funding or city-owned land.
The regional millage to support the zoo is up for renewal next month, and the cost of supporting this cultural treasure is well worth it.
In the face of significant objections from Oakland and Macomb counties, time is dwindling for the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan to get a transit tax on the Nov. 8 ballot.
U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain says the law would place a disproportionate burden on blacks in the fall election.
The zoo is seeking a 10-year renewal of the one-tenth-mill property tax voters in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties approved in 2008 to support the zoo's operation. The renewal will go before voters Aug. 2.
Suzanna Shkreli has filed to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop this fall.
It's unclear if Tuesday's action applies to MI Legalize, which is trying to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Michigan.
Running a business and running a country are two different things, they point out.
The millage request for the $2.9 billion regional mass transit tax in metro Detroit will share a Nov. 8 ballot with what is shaping up to be a volatile presidential election.
A recent survey of 300 business owners and managers commissioned by Crain's Detroit Business and law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP underscores the tension facing policymakers trying to grapple with aging and, in many cases, failing infrastructure in Michigan and beyond: How to pay for it.
The Democratic presidential candidate addresses more than 3,000 Service Employees International Union members on Monday at Cobo Center.
Whenever the tone or substance of what passes this year as political "discourse" gets to me, I think back to a highlight of 2015: Seeing "Hamilton" on Broadway.
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Water groups seek help from Congress to address climate impacts
The most serious impacts of global warming involve water and the hydrological cycle:
- Sea level rise and storm surges
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- Loss of snowpack and inland glaciers
That's why "The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and a coalition of national water organizations called on Congress to recognize the severe impacts that global climate change will likely have on water resources in the United States." The groups noted that climate change is already begun to effect water resources around the country. The letter to Congress (here) calls for a number of measures including
Mitigation and adaptation strategies focused specifically on impacts of climate change on water quality and quantity, stormwater and flood control management and wastewater treatment. Examples of areas where research is needed include methods to increase water conservation; energy efficiency management techniques that help water utilities reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions; the development of alternative water sources such as reuse, recycling, and desalination; and multiple benefit quantification analysis of such practices as urban tree cover and green roofs to both control stormwater runoff and help cities adapt to the consequences of climate change.
Obviously, every group will be seeking help from the federal government to deal with climate change — especially given the trillions of dollars of that the auctioning of the greenhouse gasemissions permits will yield (see here for a list of who gets what in the Liebermann-Warner Bill). But water is more important than most, if not most important of all. The letter ends:
We call upon our nation's leaders to consider water resources as a key element in upcoming climate change legislation and to provide the necessary support and leadership to ensure that the nation's water utilities have the tools and resources necessary to address the climate change challenge.
[It should be noted that my wife works for WEF on legislative issues, but that in (almost) no way influenced my writing this post.]
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Here in Southeast Florida we are experiencing very hot, dry consitions and record highs already in May that normally occur in later summer.
The city of West Palm Beach last year pumped untreated water on the well fields and then used that mix for our water supply. Not long thereafter we had a boil water order placed on the supply for at least a week to two with free chlorine being pumped into the system for months. The city of course had no idea that the treatment would cause a flurry of bursting copper pipes throughout the city as the chlorine ate up the corrosion inside the pipes resulting in thousands of dollars of loss to city homeowners.
At the same time we had been under mandatory once a week watering restrictions and the first of this year we were rewarded for our conservation efforts by getting a 35% rate increase placed on water and stormwater usage. Revenues from taxes went down due to less usage and god forbid the city do with less.
To beat all we are now going to be paying even more in further rate increases for replacing a water treatment plant and infrastructure since the City mother (mayor) has been stealing the utilities surplus (about 4million year) and slipping it into the general fund. So $20 million that could have been used toward upgrades has now been blown on who knows what. to top it off she has built her own non green taj mahal in the center of town with absolutely no specifications for clean energy use. WHen you have friends like this in government, who needs enemies.
All of this is just an illustration of how bad it is going to get when one of the most precious resources we have is mismanaged and allowed to be abused by those who don't know any better.
35 years ago I decided not to have children because I thought water might be an issue for children growing up. Guess I wasn't far off.


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This Seiki TV is great - IF you can get one without a busted screen. On mine, the box was in perfect condition, but the top of the screen had broken glass.
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I have an LG 42" and a Phillips 42" I paid more than this TV for. I was skeptical when ordering this TV. I kind of took a shot in the dark because of the super low price of this TV. I was very impressed with the quality out of box first of all. After mounting it to the wall and turning it on, I started with "Avatar" on Bluray running at 1080p on a high quality HDMI cable. The picture quality was amazing and the colors are vibrant. Darks are very dark and whites can blind you at high settings. Our living room is about 250 square foot. We love movies and I am an avid gamer. This TV is a great addition for our family and I highly recommend it to anyone that Wants to save money and isn't concerned with brand names. SEIKI get an A++
This 60 inch LCD TV is $200 dollars cheaper than any other 60 inch TV out there. The Picture is great,1080 p, 120 hz resolution, has all the features for the money you would expect. It is 4 inch thick, but I didn't care. Sound seems fine to me. It does only have 2 channel stereo output, and a coaxial, non optical, audio output. The screen is made by Sharp in the tech specs. LED is for back lighting behind the screen and allows thinner set, but does have some negative aspects at lower light levels output. I recommend buying this TV. and it is a great value. The only negative is I had it shipped site to store and it took 9 days, but save 45 dollars in shipping. Everybody that has seen it thinks its great.
I have to say I don't normally write reviews (unless I hate what I bought and had to return it) but so far I'm pretty happy with this tv. For an off brand and buying it online I knew I was taking a shot in the dark in the hopes this would be a good hdtv. I was pleasantly surprised. Picture quality is as good as it gets for an LCD, bright whites and dark blacks. My one complaint is that all the inputs (hdmi, AV, etc.) are all along the left hand side and are a pretty tight fit (I had to have my son plug in some of the cords because my fingers were too big). But other than that, we love it!
The HDTV is a true 60" size, NOT the 54.5" size described in the specs. It is a great basic 60" LCD HDTV!
I have owned a ton of tv's and this is on par with any that I have owned! Great picture, the sound is as good as you get with any flat panel tv! And with a screen this size you would have surround sound anyway! For the 700 bucks I would have one of these in every room if my wife would let me! Don't hold out buy it!!!
Great bang for my buck, I am very pleased with this purchase. Delivery was quick and the service was excellent.
Although I haven't mounted it yet for use but I tested it oit and it's nice so I give it a overall five star with the amount I paid for it.
Can't beat this TV for the price. Picture is clear and bright. Only had it a week, but so far, so good.
Great TV, Great picture.. And Great sound
we read the reviews before ordering sounded good so we decided to try one
very pleased with tv. 1st time i have rated any thing excellent all the way thru.
this one is just as good as our other flatscreens just bigger
we have a 32" a 42" and a 50" and now a 60" going on the wall above fireplace.
This item is a great addition to our family.
Wonderful picture!!
I was very suprised at the quality of this TV for the price. The picture quality is good and it arrived in mint condition from the shipping company. The hookup was simple and it took lesss than 10 minutes from the time i removed the box until it was hooked up to my DTV box and ready to go. The sound could be a little better, but i will get a surround sound system to fix that. Highly recomended.
Was very concerned when we first set up the tv. Picture was not at all good. Then realized we had to switch the cable box to 1080. This helped but still picture was hazy except on closeups. Removed the coaxial connector and replace with an HDMI cable. Voila! All the difference in the world. Somewhat disappointed with the resolution but overall very happy as the price was very attractive.
This is a very inexpensive 60" TV. The picture quality is very good in HD. Average not in HD. However, the sound quality is much better than expected for a 60 " TV. I dont even need to use the surround sound with this TV. I am very happy with the purchase.
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Brooklyn Could Have Been A Contender
By John Tierney
Published: December 28, 1997
It is a little late to be running a correction, but The New York Times owes one to the people who gathered at Brooklyn's City Hall on New Year's Eve 100 years ago. They met on that miserably cold, rainy night for an ''observance'' -- they specifically refused to call it a celebration -- of their city's merger with New York at midnight. Brooklyn's Mayor got a long round of applause for his efforts to prevent New York City, which then consisted of just Manhattan and the southwestern Bronx, from annexing its neighbors to create the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The evening's featured speaker was another leader of the resistance, St. Clair McKelway, the editor of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Sharing Manhattan's tax revenues appealed to many Brooklynites (enough, at least, to vote for the merger), but McElway feared his industrious city would be corrupted by marrying for money.
''Brooklyn has repeatedly shown herself to be the most independent urban community in the world,'' McKelway told the somber audience. ''There need be no apology for the poverty of Brooklyn. It is an honorable poverty.''
Across the river, Manhattan's merchants, bankers and publishers celebrated their triumph with fireworks and a parade. The Times could not resist gloating. It ridiculed McKelway's speech in an article pretending to share his concern. ''Complete assimilation,'' The Times warned, ''would rob Brooklyn of
that treasured jewel, her poverty, by which, it appears, she sets such store.'' The Times described the ''peril'' awaiting Brooklyn: thriving new industries, ample tax revenues, less public debt, fine affordable homes for the new workers, improved public utilities, streets that would be ''well paved and clean,'' bustling business and shopping districts. Brooklyn would soon be so ''rich and noisy'' it would rival Manhattan.
McKelway's paper had tried warning Brooklyn's taxpayers that they couldn't afford New York's profligate style of government, but The Times vowed that consolidation would be a blessing to taxpayers in both cities: ''Brooklyn's taxes would fall at once. New York's would not perhaps fall at once, but they would fall certainly.'' Suggesting that The Eagle's opposition to consolidation was motivated by ''selfish reasons'' instead of ''regard for the public welfare,'' The Times reassured the Brooklyn paper that it would go on publishing ''with undiminished profit and honor in the same city with ourselves.''
Today, the latest incarnation of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle -- the original shut down in 1955 -- has a circulation of 20,000, which is approximately 1.7 million less than the circulation of the periodical in your hands. Consolidation has been very good for The New York Times and other Manhattan institutions. The public's welfare is another matter.
Contrary to The Times's prediction, Brooklyn is more of a poor relation today than it was a century ago. While some sections of Manhattan are booming, Brooklyn, with its factories closed and its piers abandoned, has a 10 percent unemployment rate, one of the highest in the country. It is part of a city renowned for decrepit roads and public utilities, high taxes, heavy public debt and a perpetual shortage of affordable housing. In retrospect, consolidation looks an awful lot like what the Brooklynites gathered on New Year's Eve called it: the Great Mistake.
Modern Brooklyn does have some success stories, like the revival of Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope and the new communities of immigrants. Russians have created a thriving Little Odessa in Brighton Beach; Mexican manufacturers have turned empty factories in Bushwick into Tortilla Triangle; other Hispanic, Asian and Caribbean entrepreneurs have reinvigorated neighborhoods and commercial districts. On Flatbush Avenue, Caribbean jitney drivers have created a mass-transit system that is better than the municipal bus lines and actually turns a profit. Large office buildings have recently opened in downtown Brooklyn, the first such development there in half a century -- but that's also the bad news. It shouldn't have taken so long.
Brooklyn today is famous mainly for what it has lost: industries, neighborhoods, a baseball team. As Pete Hamill writes of his fellow Brooklynites, ''An inner voice always seems to whisper: There was another place here once and it was better than this.'' The borough has become a convenient symbol for doom in movies like ''Last Exit to Brooklyn,'' a brutal story of hoods and striking workers in Red Hook's industrial wasteland, and ''Do the Right Thing,'' which ends with a riot by despairing blacks in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the Bay Ridge of ''Saturday Night Fever,'' the grand ennobling dream is to escape across the river to the City.
New York's consolidation was predicated on the philosophy that bigger was better, that a city would prosper under the centralized guidance of experts -- rule by the ''best men,'' as the consolidationists put it. In the first few decades of consolidation, Greater New York did thrive, partly because centralization produced some legitimate benefits (like simplifying the building of the subway system) but mainly because the city was already established as a hub of wealth and talent. Eventually, though, the best men's plans became too expensive and stifling, not only in New York but in the other cities that emulated its bureaucracies. New York inspired America's golden age of urban planning, which was marred only by the mass exodus of urbanites to suburban communities offering large houses, uncrowded streets -- and smaller governments that were not run by those best men.


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There are 4 comments on the Nerve News story from Dec 11, 2006, titled Actor Leguizamo criticises Costner. In it, Nerve News reports that:Actor John Leguizamo has slammed actor Kevin Costner for launching into a self-obsessed rant on the sets of 'Revenge' in 1990.
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Leguizamo who???? He is so not worthy of any attention. Where does he get off lying about Kevin Costner that way? Does he really think anybody will believe him? I don't.
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At least john still has a film career.
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Oh yeah, right. When was the last time Leguizamo whoever did anything current? Hmmmmm????? See, you can't answer because HE HAS DONE NOTHING. Buzz off, you nobody like Leguizamo
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That's funny ur knick is The Postman, oh and please Darby don't sweat it. Lizard Boy, sorry Leguizamo is just a hater because he had to play the cholo in Revenge, and didn't know how to take a pointer from someone who "can" act. Oh and I'm sure if I looked like KC I wouldn't like a failure to thrive shadow on my way so, step off the light,
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Frank Ocean, fun. lead Grammy nominations
Smooth-voiced R&B singer Frank Ocean and indie pop group fun. were the big nominees revealed for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
Ocean, who made waves both for his critically acclaimed debut album "Channel Orange" and for revealing he had a relationship with a man, picked up six nominations including for album of the year, best new artist and record of the year categories (the latter for "Orange" track "Thinkin Bout You"). »Read Full Article
'Malcolm and Teresa' has trouble finding heart of pair's connection
In early 1968, conservative British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was asked to conduct a televised interview of an Albanian nun. He had never heard of her. The world did not yet know her. It soon would: Her name was Mother Teresa.
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Neko Case's voice shines in an elegant, melancholy set
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WHO now puts air pollution in the same category as tobacco smoke, UV radiation and plutonium!
This research on cancer is different from previous research that showed air pollution to cause heart disease and lung problems.
Fossil fuel emissions must end this century, warns OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development warned that fossil fuel emissions must end by the second half of this century to lower the economic cost of climate change.
As power of coal industry declines, coal baron asks Supreme Court for help buying politicians
The Supreme Court is hearing a major case on campaign finance law, but it's better thought of as a last gasp effort by the dying coal industry to reclaim power they've lost as we've begun to wean ourselves off the dirty fuel.
Haunting photos show human impact of digital waste
Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.
Air pollution in Beijing was so bad this weekend you could barely see across Tiananmen Square
The air pollution levels reached the point where "the entire population is likely to be affected."
Where Keystone XL ends, cancer rates are 15% higher and mortality rate is 40% higher than average
Ted Genoways at On Earth has an excellent report on the health effects the oil and gas refineries have had on Port Arthur, Texas residents.
Remember the hole in the ozone layer? We slowed that. We can slow climate change, too.
Ben Richmond at Motherboard highlights a climate change success story.
Imprisoned by the air. On the fear and anxieties of life in Beijing.
China has been engaged in a "growth at all costs" boom in recent years, but the high costs to the population are becoming nearly too much to bear.
Beijing has horrendous air quality, as usual (video)
Beijing has taken some steps to improve air quality in and around the city, but clearly it's far from enough...
It's so hot, plants are shutting down & air is more polluted!
OMG, it is SO HOT. Could it possibly be any worse? YES! It can! Apparently during extreme heat the air is also more polluted!
Is there really a "War on Coal"? And should there be? Yes and Yes.
Following President Obama's announcement of his climate change policy, talk about a "War on Coal" has increased. But has there really been a "war on coal' or is the "War on Coal" just another industry-backed marketing campaign created to rally support?
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Indonesia yesterday accused Singapore of acting "like a child" over choking smog from forest fires in Sumatra that has triggered the city-state's worst environmental crisis in more than a decade.
Singapore's record-breaking smog is so bad, birds are falling from the sky
Not the best time to go to Singapore if you have lungs...
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Things of Intrinsic Worth is a feature-length documentary which focuses on the ways coal mining is harming the livelihoods of Montana ranchers.
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Thanks to a sophisticated health impact assessment model, the scientists were able to estimate both the health and economic impact of the 300 biggest coal plants in Europe, as well as the potential impact of 50 projects still in the planning phases.
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Book signings.
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(Patricia and Lionel Fanthorpe, Stephen Briggs, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Stephen Baxter, Jacqueline Simpson)
Book signings
Jacqueline Simpson & Stephen Baxter book signing
Stephen Baxter
Jacqueline Simpson Folklore Lecture
Jan explains 'how to play Cripple Mister Onion'
The Mad Collector
Jason & Lisa
mC & Sjoerd
Louisa (Kin Arad), SF Elf
Jason, SF Elf and panellist, preparing the SF set (and probably praying by this point)
Jan, armed and dangerous
mC, Sjoerd, and Dotsie, Strangely Fascinating Elves
The SF Elves.
(michelanCello, Sjoerd, Louisa, and Dotsie)
Louisa and Dotsie, Strangely Fascinating Elves
Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe
Stephen Briggs plots the untimely demise of a pushy photographer
Pat Harkin (right) shares a joke with Stephen Briggs
Tino the Elf, working on Strangely Fascinating
Jacqueline Simpson, SF contestant.
The Strangely Fascinating Panel (sans quiz master Chris Boote)
(Left to Right: Stephen Briggs, Jaqueline Simpson, Pat Harkin, Jason)
Pat Harkin, Compare for the Maskerade
Pat Harkin comparing the Maskerade
I'm not sure the audience really needed much prompting.
Pat Harkin triumphant at the Maskerade
Maskerade zombie being offered a duck. (pardon?)
Looking for brains.......Epic fail!
Maskerade photo-shoot
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Ocean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine joining the 2M Alliance - comprised of Maersk Line and MSC - has fueled speculation about Maersk's ultimate motives, but the short term impact is a larger share on the transpacific trade, especially from Korea.
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A 25-year-old Parma man who said he is a self-employed recording artist pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court to having sex with a girl who turned out to be 15 years old.
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Sorensen said he met the girl at a gathering in a home in Rollin Township in September last year. "We were both intoxicated," he said, when they had sex. He said he learned later she was not of legal age to consent to sex.
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Scania First-Quarter Profit Beats Estimates on Job Cuts
Scania AB, the Swedish truckmaker controlled by Volkswagen AG, reported first-quarter profit that beat estimates after the company eliminated jobs to prepare for slowing demand and raised prices on some models.
Net income fell 29 percent to 1.79 billion kronor ($266 million) from 2.51 billion kronor a year earlier, the Soedertaelje, Sweden-based company said in a statement today. Profit was more than the 1.54 billion-krona average of 10 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales declined 3 percent to 20.1 billion kronor.
"Lower vehicle deliveries and lower capacity utilization pulled down earnings, as did higher costs for future-related projects," while "a more favorable market mix had a positive effect," Chief Executive Officer Leif Oestling said in the statement.
Scania started cutting production globally by about 15 percent in January following a similar move in Europe in November as the sovereign-debt crisis deepened in the region. Scania let contracts lapse for most of its 1,400 temporary workers in Europe, and the majority of its temporary employees in Latin America also had to leave the company.
Industrywide registrations of heavy commercial vehicles in the European Union fell 11 percent from a year earlier in February, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.
Scania rose as much as 5.1 percent to 133.7 kronor and was trading up 4.7 percent at 9:53 a.m. in Stockholm. The stock has gained 31 percent this year.
First-quarter new orders fell 19 percent to 15,809 trucks and buses, the Swedish company said today. Deliveries decreased 15 percent to 16,238 vehicles.
The manufacturer is the first large European truckmaker to publish first-quarter figures. Swedish competitor Volvo AB is scheduled to report earnings on April 26. Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler AG, the world's largest truckmaker, plans to release profit figures on April 27, while MAN SE, the Munich-based commercial-vehicle manufacturer also controlled by VW, will publish its numbers on May 3.


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I have two programs, one in C++, the other in assembler. I want to compare how much memory they use when running respectively. How can I do this?
I am doing the testing on Windows, but I also would like to know how to do it on Linux.
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I have two programs, one in C++, the other in assembler. I want to compare how much memory they use when running respectively. How can I do this?
I am doing the testing on Windows, but I also would like to know how to do it on Linux.
Run the program in one shell. Open another shell and run 'top' command. it will list running processes and home much memory they consume. you can, i guess, poll /proc/yourprocessid/stat to see how much memory it is using over time.
On Windows you can use Performance Monitor.
Performance monitor usage
How to use the logged data
If you have opened the file using Excel, then using the option Save As, save the file in the Microsoft Excel format.
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The Windows Task manager can show you the memory usage of each process. I guess you could use Valgrind instead, but I don't see the point in that. On Linux, use Valgrind or ps.
On Windows you can use the GetProcessMemoryInfo Function.
Here is an example on how to use it:
Depends on your operating system - you would expect to have tools to tell you the memory consumed when the apps are running.
Trying to infer the answer by inspecting the code would be very difficult, run the apps, use your platform's diagnoistics.
Depending on the size of the programs, this could be nearly unfeasible.
If they are not very large, then you can see how much memory they allocate; for instance, an int would take up 4 bytes, a char would take 1 byte, etc. Assembly is very transparent in how much memory it is using, even on an x86 machine. Cpp is nearly as transparent, as long as you faithfully track object creation and memory destruction/allocation.
If the program is huge, you'll need to use specific tools for tracking/profiling memory use, like GlowCode (http://www.glowcode.com/summary.htm).
On Windows, you can use Microsoft's Performance Monitor to do it. Start, Run, "perfmon". This tool will report on all sorts of statistics about processes, and provide graphs for you. In general, you're going to be interested in reporting on the "Private working set". This will tell you how much memory your process has reserved for its own use.
If you want to just get your heap usage, and you want to do it programatically, you should look into the CRT Debug Heap.
I'm not sure about Linux though, sorry.
On Windows, I have found Address Space Monitor very useful, especially for looking at how fragmented your memory is.


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Create the 90-Second Body
I'm going to take a wild guess about the nature of your life. If you are like the thousands of women I've trained during the past twenty-three years, then you probably sleep five to six hours at night, waking early to commute thirty or more minutes to a job where you spend eight or more hours before commuting back home again. If you have a spouse and kids, you do 70 percent of the parenting and housework. Make that 80 percent. If you're single, you're out every night—socializing, volunteering, taking night classes, you name it. No matter your age, marital status, or career, you don't know the concept of spare time. Sleep? Cutting back on it is how you find time to write thank-you notes and balance your checkbook, not to mention make yourself that hot breakfast that everyone tells you is so good for you.
Exercise? You'd love to, right after you catch up on your sleep and figure out how to find an extra forty-five minutes every day. Supplements? You've been meaning to buy about thirty or so different brands that you've heard might give you more energy, but you haven't had time to get to the health food store. Stress relief? You'd love some, but the idea of finding twenty spare minutes to practice meditation, deep breathing, or progressive muscle relaxation stresses you out. Healthful eating? If only someone would invent a healthful frozen dinner and convenience food diet. (Well, someone has, and it's me!)
|You bought this book because you have no time to spare. I get that. Because I'm assuming you are too hurried to read this book word for word, I've provided you with speed-reading notes in each chapter. If you don't have time to read the entire introduction, this is what you need to know:
|You can drop a dress size, lose ten pounds, cinch your belt a notch tighter, and dramatically improve your health in just eight weeks.
|You'll do it by spending less time exercising, less time preparing food, and less time trying to balance it all. In fact, you can do it with just fifteen minutes of weekly exercise.
|You'll accomplish more—stronger bones, more energy, a better mood, a firmer body, greater peace of mind—with less time, less money, and less overall complication. That's what the 90-Second Fitness Solution is all about.
What if I told you that you don't have to trade off your personal sanity to create a healthier, stronger, sexier, younger you? What if I told you that you could firm up, lose weight, strengthen your bones, reduce joint stiffness, boost your mood and energy levels, improve your memory, and create glowing skin in less time than it takes you to pack your kid's school lunch box? Would you sign up? I bet you would, and it's true. With the 90-Second Fitness Solution you will:
Drop a dress size and tighten your belt one notch in eight weeks. If you currently suffer from joint pain or back pain, you can expect your pain to resolve within this period of time.
Firm your body and burn fat with as few as fifteen weekly minutes of exercise. That's right. That's weekly exercise, not daily exercise.
Eat all of the world's healthiest foods without counting a single calorie or carb, reading labels, or cooking complicated recipes. My plan is so easy and so simple that you'll never need to grocery-shop with a list again.
Bolster your health with just three supplements—widely available online, at your local convenience store, and even at Wal-Mart—for a cost of just $10 a month.
Ease your mind with simple space-saving tactics, such as spending five minutes a few times a week to declutter your home or office.
Call it a gimmick if you'd like, but don't tell me it doesn't work until you try it. I'm confident that you'll be amazed by your results. Most of my clients were like you. They were leery when I told them about my plan. They didn't believe so little exercise could do anything. They didn't believe that they could stop counting calories and carbs. They accused me of blasphemy when I encouraged them to eat an avocado or two for lunch or dinner rather than make a gourmet meal with numerous side dishes.
Then they tried it. Their bodies got tighter and smaller. Their bones got stronger. They slept more deeply, handled stress better, and felt the best they had in years. Then they told fifty friends, who came to me feeling just as leery. I eventually made believers out of them, and I'll make one out of you too.
I only ask for you to have an open mind and to try it. Go ahead and grumble as much as you want about how you think a program this short and this easy could never actually work. Go ahead and tell yourself that you're only going to try it for two weeks. Moan and groan behind my back as much as you want, but do try it.
Once you try it, you'll see. You won't stop. The initial two weeks will turn into four and then into eight and eventually into a year and then the rest of your life.
I designed the 90-Second Fitness Solution primarily for my female clients, the ones who desperately needed and wanted all of the benefits of a fit and healthy lifestyle but who did not have the time, inclination, or lifestyle to fit in everything that the so-called experts recommended. It seemed every week a busy woman would call and tell me that she wanted to boost her metabolism, firm muscle, lift her mood, sleep more deeply, strengthen her bones, improve her health, boost her energy, and burn off that apple pie she'd eaten the night before. She'd tell me that she'd already gone to gyms and worked out nearly every day with personal trainers. She'd purchased any number of contraptions advertised on television. She'd tried most of the available exercise videos and DVDs, and she'd hated every minute of it.
She'd tell me:
"I don't want to sweat."
"I don't want to wear a leotard or expensive exercise clothes."
"I don't want to spend an hour every day working out."
She wanted a sensible plan she could stick with, one she would not abandon by January 15. (Most of my new clients come to me on January 2.)
It got me thinking. Just how much exercise do people really need? Sure, the government and the so-called experts recommend ninety daily minutes, but do people really need that much? Is there a way to make one exercise session so intense and so effective that someone could get the benefits of ninety minutes of exercise in just a few minutes?
I decided to find out.
I knew strength training—and not cardio—was the most efficient way to lose weight and get healthy. (If you're not convinced, wait until chapter 1. After reading it, you'll donate that old treadmill to charity.) I decided to create the most efficient strength training workout ever. I first recommended my female clients do the same weight lifting workouts men had been doing for years to build muscle and shrink fat, but when women did these eight-to-twelve-repetition, multiset weight-room workouts, they not only complained about the full hour they spent in the gym, but they also built more muscle than they wanted. They got big and bulky and, as a result, stopped exercising.
|When I started training with Pete, I weighed 247 pounds. My blood pressure was 145 over 120 and my blood sugar was high enough to earn me a prediabetes diagnosis. The excess weight put pressure on my joints, creating so much back pain that I could barely move.
|My husband accompanied me to my first appointment with Pete. I was frightened. I figured that I was going to be the fattest and the oldest person (at the time I was in my late forties) in the gym. I also wasn't completely convinced that Pete's workout was going to work. In fact, I thought it was impossible that one short, weekly workout was going to help me lose nearly a hundred pounds. He has since made me a believer. As I tell all of my friends, one workout with Pete is equal to six workouts somewhere else.
|At first I went just once a month. I was worried that doing anything more would hurt my back. Somehow I managed to lose ten pounds. Six months later, after I was convinced that my back pain had resolved, I began training once a week, and I also began taking Pete's eating suggestions seriously.
|Instead of skipping meals (my usual weight-loss tactic up to that point), I began eating regular meals, especially breakfast. I reorganized my kitchen, stocking my shelves with high-fiber, whole foods and getting rid of tempting foods that I didn't want to eat. I stopped getting my coffee at a cafÉ to avoid the temptation of eating one of those huge, six-hundred-calorie muffins. I began planning my meals better to avoid the temptation of coming home from work, feeling too tired to cook, and consequently ordering a pizza. Finally, I stopped celebrating with food. Instead of going out to eat to celebrate, I would go for a walk or go shopping.
|It took me a year and a half, but I did it. I got down to my goal of 150. As the weight dropped, my health improved. My blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar are now all normal. As I lost weight and got stronger, I transform...
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By Brett on November 17, 2009
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When I received Pete Cerqua's book The 90-Second Fitness Solution in the mail, I have to be honest, I snickered. I thought, `Here is another gimmick that doesn't work.' Frankly, if you have been reading my blog, you know I'm not into the `quick fix` mentality of health. So, the title `The 90-Second Fitness Solution` was a bit of a turn-off.
Pete Cerqua, a NYC based Personal Trainer, attempts to get us to do the unthinkable...be fit in 90 seconds. Look, the reality is, everyone needs a gimmick to get people's attention. And the title of the book, in this case, is a bit of a gimmick. You are NOT going to be fit in 90 seconds alone. However, the principle behind the book, does revolve around a 90 second concept. This is the scoop:
1. What 90 Seconds Really Means: In short, Pete Cerqua's The 90-Second Fitness Solution is to take strength training's conventional 2 to 3 sets of 8 to 15 repetitions of a single exercise, and convert them into a single 90 second exercise. The exercises require you to either hold a position for 90 seconds, to do one repetition in steps within 90 seconds or to do no more that three repetitions within 90 seconds. Essentially, this concept adopts the isometric approach to exercise. Isometric exercises rely on your larger muscles becoming tired, and as a result, engages other muscles to keep you in a position. Basically, you are killing a few muscles with one exercise.
2. The Workouts: Pete Cerqua provides four different workouts. Home routines Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3, and a Gym routine. Truth be told, the efficacy of these routines is completely dependent on your current level of fitness.Read more ›
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By Michel Gordon-kaplan on January 25, 2009
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I have been working out with Pete for the past year and a half. This is the longest period of time I have stuck with an exercise program ever and I am 46 years old, so I have certainly tried many other approaches! I started working out with Pete because I wanted to lose ten pounds. However, I have lost 20 pounds! Pete's philosophy is twofold. People need to eat sensibly and exercise sensibly. Very few people have the luxury of working out for hours everyday and really, would you want to if you could? I work out with Pete twice a week for 15 minutes each session. When I first started, I lied to family and friends and told them it was 45 minutes because I knew they just wouldn't get it! In the book, Pete explains how this can be achieved at home, so you don't need to work out with a trainer. You can easily do the exercises in a hotel room if you travel frequently. The nutritional advise Pete gives in his book applies to everyone, whether or not you want to lose weight. There are no foods or equipment that you don't already have or at least have easy access to. In order for a nutritional and/or exerise plan to work, it needs to work for the long haul. It needs to work when you don't feel great, have a bad day at work or a fight with one of your loved ones. (Quite franky, I am experiencing at least one of those scenarios at all times!) Anyone can eat well and workout when everything is going great. However, what sets Pete's fitness/nutrition plan apart from the rest, is that you can do this even during difficult times. We all experience stress and the way we choose to eat and exercise needs to continue to work during stressful times. The reason this works for me is because it takes very little time out of my day. I have so much more physical energy, and even more importantly, I no longer have to think about how I need to lose weight or join a gym.
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I give this book 3 stars for a couple reasons: I hope it gets people to read it since there are plenty of 5 star reviews and just one 1 star, I have a medical education background and so I can speak to some of the claims and I think this book is great...if only it could be ordered minus a few chapters.
Now for the review itself: THE GOOD: Pete's concepts are reasonable with regard to strength training and muscle building. He is getting people who are inactive into more active lifestyles. His eating plan--the regular one--of real foods is absolutely sound. People who eat good, whole, as-close-to-natural foods as possible are the healthiest, trim people. Protein is good in the right forms, fiber is important and fresh veggies and fruit without added butter and sauces are the greatest thing going. Using eggs, beans and nuts for protein are terrific options. Getting rid of "boxed" and "bagged" food (outside those convenient veggie packets) is the best thing for your body. You can get in shape and be strong and fit with a LOT less exercise when you eat real food.
THE BAD: The liquid diet thing is just not all that great. Take out that chapter. The supplement chapter is best discussed with your doctor. Sure, take a regular multi-vitamin/mineral tablet. However, adding more B vitamins, etc. can get tricky. A "regular" plain, cheap vitamin usually has lots of vitamin C and D and B vitamins. When you add another B vitamin, it usually contains more C and/or other vitamins that in addition to the regular multi-vitamin gets to that point of worry with "overdosing." Before using supplements, especially combining them, speak with your healthcare provider and don't trust a book.Read more ›
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This 214 page soft cover book (The 90-second fitness solution by Pete Cerqua with Alisa Bowman) was actually written for women, which I was not aware of at the time I purchased it... Read morePublished 3 months ago by Joseph J. Truncale
Effective, simple and safe workout and some decent ideas on dieting. If you want to learn how to improve your diet and lose bodyfat, there are better books or websites on the... Read morePublished 5 months ago by Montana Jack
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I love that this bool makes getting in shape easy and accessible for anyone, even busy moms. You can also use this along with other exercise if you are worried about getting bored. Read morePublished 21 months ago by StillWaters
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this book is one you will come back to over and over - the version with videos is really wonderful!!!Published on February 15, 2014 by Prof
I thought this would be an easy book with good easy exercises. It is a LARGE book with a complicated, progresseive program. I just wanted something simple.Published on April 4, 2013 by Mich G-ma
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This one-bedroom apartment has one bathroom and is located in a six-story co-op building.
Property Plus: Newly renovated
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This 3,900-square-foot, single-family home has four bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms.
Property Plus: The home has a large rear yard.
Broker: Joe Nehmad of Fillmore Real Estate, 718-332-8800
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All Rise...
Judge Jim Thomas thinks the 2013 sequel should be titled Just Die Already.
Editor's Note
Our reviews of Die Hard 2: Die Harder (published April 20th, 1999), Die Hard 2: Special Edition (published July 4th, 2001), and The Die Hard Collection (published June 25th, 2007) are also available.
The Charge
"McClane, you're the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong
The Case
Christmas Eve finds Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis, Die Hard) at Washington-Dulles International Airport, waiting for his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia, Presumed Innocent) to land. All hell promptly breaks loose as a group of mercenaries led by renegade Colonel Stuart (William Sadler, The Shawshank Redemption) somehow takes control of the airport control system, leaving jets stranded in their holding patterns. Stuart is out to rescue General Esperanza (Franco Nero, Force 10 From Navarone), the leader of a Latin American nation who has fought against communism, but is now charged with being an international drug lord (imagine Manuel Noriega as the leader of 1980s Nicaragua).
Once again, McClane is forced to piss off police, airport administrators, and the military, because Holly's plane is low on fuel and there aren't many gas stations at 10,000 feet.
Where the movie works: adrenaline-pumping action sequences. Director Renny Harlin really worked on getting the most out of the various action set pieces, and they are all solid, from the relatively small scale stuff, such as McClane going one-on-one against a terrorist in a snow bank, to the medium, such as a pitched gun battle in an airport concourse, to the really big stuff, like hand-to-hand combat on the wing of a moving 747.
What doesn't work: The sequel is a much darker movie than the original. Die Hard, between the banter with Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson, who makes a brief appearance here), to the radio sparring between Hans Gruber and McClane, to "Ode to Joy," had a slightly playful feel to it. Here, though, a grim tone is set from the beginning, with Col. Stuart exercising in his hotel room, nude, totally focused, ruthless enough to destroy an airliner and all aboard merely to prove a point. A side effect of the grimness is that humor is harder to pull off; aside from McClane's one-liners, the bulk of the humor is offloaded to the Holly and Richard Thornburgh (William Atherton, Ghostbusters) storyline. Interestingly enough, John McTiernan changed the bad guys from terrorists to thieves specifically to avoid such a grim tone; tellingly, the sense of playfulness returned along with McTiernan in Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Another weakness of the sequel is that the film's implausibilities pile up like the drifting snow, as McClane starts to drift away from being an everyman figure to a superman who cannot be defeated. It's the curse of the sequel, really, and there's not a good way around it, unless you do something to take the character in a new direction. While these are weaknesses, the pumped-up action never gives you much of a chance to dwell on it, and so the movie works.
The AVC-encoded video is good, but not great. Grain is evident, and there are noticeable compression artifacts in some of the explosions. The original stereo sound was remastered to 5.1 for the DVD release, and shifted to DTS-HD for Blu-Ray, and it pretty much sounds like an indifferently mastered surround track; the rear channels are used inconsistently, and simple sound effects such as footsteps aren't adequately blended into the soundscape. It gets the job done, though.
The extras are brought over from the 2001 Die Hard 2: Special Edition. The commentary track with Harlin is fairly engaging, though Harlin seems to take credit for everything. The featurettes are pretty routine, though they do offer a closer look at what had to be a production designer's nightmare. The visual effects breakdown is perfunctory, though the dual angles of the fight on the 747's wing are kind of neat.
Trivia: There are several now-famous names making early film appearances in Col Stuart's roster: Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Law & Order: SVU), and John Leguizamo (Carlito's Way); in addition, a pre-NYPD Blue Dennis Franz annoys McClane as the head of airport security.
Trivia: William Sadler does a very good Renny Harlin impression.
The Verdict
Listening to Harlin's commentary track, it's clear that he fully understands that various tropes that make up the terrorist action movie, and he makes sure he hits every genre mark. That's really a hint as to why this sequel doesn't quite measure up to the sequel. Harlin takes a bigger is better approach (whether it's bloodshed, bodies, or explosions), but he doesn't bring anything new to the table. The first movie was rightly called a game changer because it changed the rules; the sequel doesn't change any rules, but instead validates them. Compare that to Alien, which changed one set of rules, and Aliens, which changed a completely different set of rules.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Blu-Ray) is a solid sequel on a decent but hardly overwhelming disc.
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annoying, irritating, exasperating, infuriating, provoking, maddening, goading, vexing, galling;
affronting, insulting, offensive, inflaming, rousing, arousing, inflammatory, incendiary, controversial
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sexy, sexually arousing, sexually exciting, alluring, seductive, tempting, suggestive, inviting, tantalizing, titillating;
indecent, pornographic, indelicate, immodest, shameless;
erotic, sensuous, slinky, passionate, sexual, piquant, racy, juicy, risqué, raunchy, steamy, coquettish, amorous, flirtatious, come-hither
informal kinky, tarty
vulgar slang fuck-me
provocativeness sustantivo
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- Although Foster does have a slight grumble at the 'curiously late' analysis of Ireland's entry into the EU, he welcomes the provocativeness of Ferriter's analysis of the transformation throughout the century in question
- When a modern artist or filmaker makes a work criticising Christianity or capitalism the BBC usually goes out of its way to explain the rationale for its provocativeness.
- In this regard, there is a recurrent provocativeness in Weick's analyses, coupled with an impish spirit that often dances beneath his elegant prose.
Late Middle English: from Old French provocatif, -ive, from late Latin provocativus, from provocat- 'called forth, challenged', from the verb provocare (see provoke).
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Volume 35, Issue 6, June 2008
- SAMs Professional: Auditorium B
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — A Regulatory Update
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There have been a number of new NRC orders that impact unescorted access to Category 1 and 2 materials such as gamma knife and blood irradiators. Fingerprinting and FBI background checks must now be done. In addition, 10 C.F.R. Part 35 requires that a preceptor statement be signed by an individual that is an Authorized medical Physicist,Radiation Safety Officer, Authorized User or Authorized Nuclear Pharmacist. Recently the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued findings against signors of preceptor statement for falsifying information. This session will address the liabilities of medical physicists in signing preceptor states, in serving as the "trustworthy and reliable" official for a license in determining unescorted access. It will address differences in non‐agreement states and agreement states.
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