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Advocate Editorial Board opinion: Thank you for showing support for soldier, family
By the Advocate Editorial Board
April 26, 2014 at 3:05 p.m.
Updated April 25, 2014 at 11:26 p.m.
The Crossroads has lost one of its bravest sons. On April 15, Army Spc. Kerry Danyluk, 27, of Yoakum, died after sustaining injuries in an exchange of small arms fire in Afghanistan on April 12.
Danyluk's death was a sobering reminder of the realities of war and military service, but it also showed us an amazing side to the Crossroads in the midst of this terrible loss.
When residents of the region learned that Danyluk's body would be returned and services would take place in Victoria, people immediately took action. Veterans groups and others came together to honor Danyluk's sacrifice through a moving display of support from the moment his body arrived at the Victoria Regional Airport on Wednesday.
As Danyluk's remains were transported from the airport to Grace Funeral Home, more than 100 people lined the route, many of them holding American flags, Texas flags, service flags with the Army emblem, yellow balloons and more. Members of the Patriot Guard Riders escorted the hearse along with police and fire department vehicles, and the people who came out stood by showing reverence and respect for a fallen warrior.
That scene was repeated Friday morning when Danyluk's body was transported from Grace Funeral Home to Faith Family Church for funeral services. Veterans groups asked residents to come out and show their support by holding American flags. Some businesses along the route passed out flags to people who came to pay their respects, and the Victoria Police Department and the Patriot Guard Riders once again served as escorts in the procession.
Knowing that another brave American soldier has died overseas is heartbreaking, and we offer our condolences to Danyluk's family in this difficult time. It is a stark reminder that while many of us are comfortable at home, there are still men and women serving overseas, putting themselves in harm's way to defend our country. It is something we should all remember, and we are grateful for the sacrifices these brave men and women have made and are making to preserve our freedom in these troubling times.
The community response to the return of Danyluk's body and the respect shown both to him and his family are wonderful expressions of solidarity and appreciation from residents of the Crossroads. We are proud to live in an area that places such high value on the lives and service of our men and women in uniform. As Danyluk is laid to rest, we know that this love for members of the military is an ingrained part of our community, and any veteran who comes home will receive a warm welcome.
Thank you to everyone who came out to show their support and gratitude this week. The men and women in our military are amazing people who are willing to put their lives on the line every day to serve our country. We should never forget their dedication and sacrifices. Thank you for showing Danyluk's family that they are not alone. And most of all, thank you to Army Spc. Kerry Danyluk for everything he has done. His sacrifice will be remembered.
This editorial reflects the views of the Victoria Advocate's editorial board.


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Finishes such as paint, upholstery, flooring, cabinetry etc… can all contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's). The
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This Kenny Dorham, medium-up Latin arrangement was recorded in 1955 on the "Afro/Cuban" album. This is fully arranged with great backgrounds during the open solos. The original personnel were: Kenny Dorham (Trumpet); Hank Mobley (Tenor Saxophone); J.J. Johnson (Trombone); Cecil Payne (Baritone Saxophone); Horace Silver (Piano); Oscar Pettiford (Bass) and Carlos Valdes (Drums).
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Aegean (2571) 2003-02-27 5:39
Lovely mysterious "misty" atmosphere...Soft toned colors and nice framing...Maybe a warm filter like 81B could work nice...But in any case is a fantastic photo...
riodda (617) 2003-03-03 14:04
It is a very nice landscape even if i find a strange blue tone in the fog, I would try to modify the white bal taking if to lower temperature.
Very Nice Pic.
Curioso (9271) 2003-07-22 18:17
Good point : I feel I'm trekking around the earth. Perfect illustration of the main topic of this website.
Colours could be less washed but the composition is great to me.
If you let me post your shot to the workshop, I already prepared two versions to submit.
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As tonalidades de cores ficaram perfeitas passando uma sensação de tranquilidade. Parabéns
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This is for anyone using the kernel26ck package in community.
The 2.6.17 kernel source was released today, followed very closely by the 2.6.17-ck1 patchset. I have just built the kernel26ck-2.6.17.ck1-1 package, and I will upload it as soon It's been tested. The package incorporates all config changes from the kernel26-2.6.17-1 package in the testing repo.
As with all community packages, kernel26ck depends only on packages in the current or extra repos, and therefore can only use mkinitrd to generate the required image, unlike kernel26 in testing, which uses both mkinitrd and mkinitcpio. For the same reason, kernel26ck has also been compiled with gcc 4.0.
As and when kernel26, mkinitcpio, and gcc 4.1 move to current, I will rebuild kernel26ck accordingly, at all times replicating any current and future changes made to kernel26.
I welcome any feedback on this, so please feel free to add any comments to this thread.
Why does GCC 4.1.1 isn't in current yet?
Looks pretty stable for me.
Because you can't move gcc on its own. Please read Arch News going back to 23 May for a rundown of everything currently in testing.
when will the move happen, because i'd need a initramfs to be able to conveniently load my custom dsdt for my buggy bios. i know that it's possible to use it on an initrd too, but it's just not handy.
This thread concerns a specific package in community. I am not a developer, so I do not know when the packages currently in testing will move to current. Please read about mkinitcpio regarding your dsdt issue.
I use custom kernel based on kernek26ck PKGBUILD. Nothing special, just add vesafb-tng (vanilla vesafb doesn't work fine for me) and made some changes in config.
mkinitcpio seems to work fine - i've use it for 3 days and there's no kernel panic or something. I did only 2 things: recompile klibc with 2.6.16-ck sources (need to change version in PKGBUILD) and play little bit with mkinitcpio.conf for image size minimization. My new init image's weights twice less than old (created with mkinitramfs)!
BTW, mkinitcpio and dependencies are in current now...it's time to switch.
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Thanks for the feedback, StormBlast - it's good to hear everything is working for you.
I've used the Arch klibc package with kernel26ck and various custom beyond kernels, with no need for a rebuild. I'd be interested to know why you found it necessary.
kernel26ck 2.6.17.ck1-2 will be in community very shortly.
And thanks to you for spending your time maintaining package. Not all people needs -beyond (sorry, iphitus - you rocks too ).
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no problems here, although it's still the base system (only 100 meg). thanks guys.
this weekend's project: LAMP. 8)
/me lurks
I've used the Arch klibc package with kernel26ck and various custom beyond kernels, with no need for a rebuild. I'd be interested to know why you found it necessary.
Yes it's not necessary, but usually I've build all packages from ABS on my testing laptop.
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I love this kernel!
What is the differnet between this and beyond?
and,Where is the CVS of this?
I want to make some changes and compile my own kerenl:)
I love this kernel!
What is the differnet between this and beyond?
and,Where is the CVS of this?
I want to make some changes and compile my own kerenl:)
well you get a lot more patches inb beyond
i even got Kernel26ck1-2 with mkinitcpio, after removing scsi and sata( all my discs are ide). it mafde my startup time a blazing 8 seconds
Be yourself, because you are all that you can be
kernel26ck provides all patches from kernel26 and -ck patchset only.
Kernel26beyond provides -ck patchset plus suspend2, vesafb-tng, reiser4, fbsplash and and many other stuff.
kernel26ck is in AUR, here: kernel26ck
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Glad you like it.
Read the descriptions of ck and beyond for comparison.
For CVS, as with any Community package, follow the CVS link on the Package Details page in the AUR, or if you have an up-to-date abs tree, it will be in /var/abs/community/kernels/kernel26ck.
Have fun .....
ck kernel does include: the arch default patches; the performance patchset by Con Kolivas. In Con Kolivas page you can find many details.
In general, ck kernel does include many, safe performance enhancements, but does not include any new feature. On the contrary beyond includes both ck performance enhancements and lots of features (vesafbng, reiser4, suspend2, unionfs etc etc).
If you do not require any extra feature but you want a desktop-oriented, very stable kernel, ck is an ideal choice.
Mortuus in anima, curam gero cutis
I don't need much more then the orginal kernel has, I even don't neet most of it, but I do like more Desktop orinted kernel. So I guess CK is good for me, Say, How can I compile it to make it load much faster has you guys said?
You can compile it through abs (enable the community repo and modify the PKGBUILD).
For kernel compilation through ABS refer to the guides in the wiki.
Mortuus in anima, curam gero cutis
I know to compile things from ABS, I asked if there some cool tweaks to make it load faster?
And thanks to you for spending your time maintaining package. Not all people needs -beyond (sorry, iphitus - you rocks too ).
lies! lies! lies! everyone needs beyond! you all know it!
beyond does everything kernel26ck does, and more! and you can turn off the more if you like less. :twisted: :twisted:
can I compile kernel 2.6.17 with beyond patches and mkinitcpio through abs? is it as easy as modifing PKGBUILD file?
I don't know why, but the current 2.6.16-beyond kernel runs slow on my 2.5ghz P4 !! is beyond kernel broken at the moment?
Edit: Nevermind I missed the latest update to Kernel26-beyond, now it's 2.6.17
hii, I am having a problem with mkinitcpio.
When making my own kernel, or even download yours kernel, after doing pacman -s kernel26ck, I am doing mkinitcpio -k linux-2.6.17-ck -g /boot/kernel26ck.img
and when booting my system, it gets stuck. and say it can init the root disk, What is the problem?
my .conf file contain this
HOOKS="autodetect base udev ide filesystems"
do you have an ide or sata drive?
the following config worked with my sata + ide drive system.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide sata filesystems"
Try re-arranging the order of your config to look like the one above as the hooks are executed in the exact order that they appear in the conf file.
In an open universe who needs windoze and gates?
---for there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so....
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I've got a problem with this new version of the Beyond Kernel.
When I try to use suspend2, with the commande hibernate, everything seems to work fine.
But when I start the computer, it boots normally ( It doesn't load the suspend2 image ).
There is this strange message:
"Unable to find swap-space signature"
He is unable to mount the swap partition, and I need to run these commands to enable my swap: mkswap and swapon
I'm on a IBM T43 laptop, and suspend worker well before the update.
May the problem come from the new mkinitcpio ?
First, this thread is about ck, not beyond. Second, suspend2 works great with mkinitcpio, if configured correctly, read the wiki.
mkinitcpio -k linux-2.6.17-ck -g /boot/kernel26ck.img
You want to use "-k 2.6.17-ck". You do not need the "linux" prefix in there. It should mirror the $(uname -r) output on a system. Still, I guess that's an important error case to check. :oops:


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Detroit Area Study, 1976: A Study of Metropolitan and Neighborhood Problems (ICPSR 7906)
Principal Investigator(s): Farley, Reynolds; Schuman, Howard
This survey was concerned with respondents' opinions of their neighborhoods, public policy issues, and racial issues. Housing discrimination, Black/White racial attitudes, and busing to achieve school integration were among the issues surveyed. Information was also collected on respondents' employment status and reasons for moving from or staying in their neighborhoods.
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Sixteen artists, sixteen families, sixteen "files". Each file holds a family life in its embrace. An entire universe of intimate family life seen through the eyes of the artist unfolds before the viewer's gaze. This is a visual-anthropological journey into the family, which is our first reference point as human beings in this world. Similar to writers who tell a tale, the artists spread out before us a visual narrative. Human and aesthetic bonds, anecdotes from within family life, events, and relationships: some are in a penetrating documentary style, and other draw on a more fictional representation.
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Ancient Stone Knives Made by 'Smart' Humans
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Evolutionary history holds that the first humans emerged about 200,000 years ago. It was thought that these early people were in some ways sub-human, as the gradual development of higher-level thinking slowly separated them from their ape-like ancestors. But the archaeological find of an ancient crafted hand tool makes that assumption quite questionable.
Kyle Brown, an experimental archaeologist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, investigates ancient artifacts by reverse engineering them from raw materials. In a study published in Science, he and a team of fellow scientists reported that certain stone knives, some of which were found in sediment dated at 164,000 years, demonstrated manufacturing techniques that would have required a human-like cleverness.1
Evolution holds that over huge spans of time, humans learned to build complex tools specified to particular tasks and eventually to communicate abstract ideas using symbols. But evidence that these capacities were already fully formed in the most ancient humans keeps pushing back the evolutionary time when these uniquely human features first appeared.
So how ape-like were those knife-creating human ancestors, having only just "emerged" from ape-kind a mere 36,000 years before?
In order to make these knives, the ancients baked the local stones at a certain temperature for a specified length of time. Brown replicated the procedure by placing "crumbly silcrete stones," the same starting material that the ancients used, beneath a fire. The hardened substance was then brittle and easy to chip and shape. Brown told New Scientist, "These people were extremely smart."2 The presence of such knives at multiple sites also indicates a sophisticated level of communication, since the knowledge of their manufacture was shared.
The earliest human artifacts appear to have been fashioned by fully human people, and have now been dated back to mankind's distant archaeological past. But as the time of the "emergence" of fully human behaviors and faculties is pushed further and further back, less and less time is allowed for evolution to have developed those very faculties.
These cleverly crafted stone knives add to a growing list of ancient tools, like glue and artwork, that indicates that the "earliest" humans had the same faculties as modern humans.3 This is just what the creation model, which takes its history from the plain understanding of Genesis, would predict.
- Brown, K. S. et al. 2009. Fire as an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans. Science. 325 (5942): 859-862.
- Callaway, E. Earliest fired knives improved stone age tool kit. New Scientist. Posted on newscientist.com August 13, 2009, access August 18, 2009.
- Thomas, B. Stone Blades Cut Back Evolutionary Dates. ICR News. Posted on icr.org April 10, 2009, accessed August 18, 2009.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on August 24, 2009.
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Family photos have a way of piling up, demanding organization and care. Fortunately, today we have many avenues available for arranging these family treasures. We are now able to email them, store on our computers, send to an online service for processing and post on a web site for anyone to view. However, one way that is not as well known is printing digital photos on fabric.
The Genealogy Society of Rockland has asked Debra Calyo, an avid quilter, to the June 26 meeting starting at 7 PM. Debra will bring samples of her creative work and explain the process.The technique is not limited to just quilts as most fabrics will take the images. Banners, clothing, tote bags are a few of the ways you can create family scrapbooks. For those with planned summer/fall family reunions, this concept may be a great way to share family memories with others.
The Genealogy Society always welcomes guests and those who are curious about genealogy. Meetings are scheduled on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. The group does not meet July, August and December. Hope to see you.


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 The full-line vending revolution was driven by the demand by major industrial enterprises for the delivery of food and beverages to large numbers of assembly-line workers in the short time specified in union contracts for lunch and coffee breaks. Half a century later, the technology which a former Vendo president called "labor storage" continues to enhance workplace productivity by offering round-the-clock access to a variety of food, beverage and snack items -- but those large blue-collar workforces are gone.
With them went the limited range of tastes, characteristic of mid-century America, that could be satisfied with a dozen or so sandwich and entrée varieties. The greatest damage to the classic vending model, though, was wrought by the advent of much smaller workforces, typically with greater flexibility of access to vending and a more insistent demand for a wider range of choices. When there were a thousand employees in a location, the operator could do well even if a substantial percentage of them brought their lunches from home. When there are a hundred employees, it's essential to maximize participation.
To meet this need, the industry has taken advantage of the popularity of single-serve convenience meals -- unheard of in the 1960s and '70s -- and a new generation of equipment, both frozen and refrigerated. This larger toolbox is enabling operators to meet the demand of today's downsized, productivity-driven workplaces for convenient 24/7 access to food.
Scott Halloran of Halloran's Refreshment Services (Richmond, VA) recognized early in his 15-year vending career the importance of offering fresh, refrigerated food machines to win and retain the business of the larger, more lucrative accounts.
Requests for food from locations not quite large enough to support the labor and waste associated with a refrigerated vender and demand for ice cream prompted the operator to add frozen food venders. He also saw the value in some sites of co-locating refrigerated and frozen venders to add frozen novelties to the mix.
FRESH v. FROZENToday, Halloran has 20 frozen machines and a dozen refrigerated food venders on his five routes. "We're more heavily into frozen; the longer shelf life definitely has its operational advantages, and ice cream is a big seller," he said. "But in many sites, we're trending back to fresh food in response to customers' expectations and wellness programs they want for their staff. With the big wellness push, they want salads, yogurts, fresh fruit and tuna sandwiches, which you can't freeze."
The reality that many "healthier" items simply can't be sold frozen is only part of the reason behind the shift toward fresh food, Halloran told VT. Given the demand he's seeing, the operator said he finds the availability of frozen entrees, sandwiches and other foods formulated for health-mined consumers to be limited, driving many of his customers to insist on freshly prepared meals that he gets from a local caterer.
He emphasized that while it's primarily the white-collar clientele that is focused on "wellness," it's only a matter of time before the movement takes hold in gray- and blue-collar locations.
"When it comes to food, just as with snacks and beverages, I think the industry as a whole has to have good answers to wellness initiatives that our customers are being asked to implement by their human resource departments and health insurance companies," Halloran stressed. "It's a struggle because we're restricted to what manufacturers make and what our distributors supply. Until the big vending suppliers see the volume to bring in less mainstream items in that are healthier -- which I think they are doing more and more -- we have to take it upon ourselves to reach outside the box to satisfy our customers."
PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTThe Virginia vendor said he has been pleased with the industry's progress on the technological front, and has embraced the newer tools available to enhance the service model for his frozen machines. After years of assigning his route supervisor to run a dedicated food route covering a wide geographic area for two and a half days a week, Halloran recently installed InOne Technology's remote management devices on all of his coil-driven frozen food machines.
"Now we prekit our frozen machines, using the data we retrieve from the remote monitoring device that tells us what we need," he told VT. "The model is much more efficient. The drivers take care of their own food; there's no guesswork involved in determining what they need to take with them, and we don't have all the costly and often unnecessary windshield time that the supervisor had in the past."Halloran primarily favors U-Select-It's low-profile Alpine frozen food venders -- both the newer standalone models and older satellite units that share a controller with USI's Snackmart VI snack machines -- since he has found that the larger glassfronts generally have more capacity than necessary to satisfy his clients' needs.
"We do serve some of those absolutely perfect locations, like large trucking terminals and other sites with nontraditional work hours, with the bigger APi frozen food machines and in sites like that, the big machines are an ideal fit," he reported.
In half a dozen locations that want food but do not have large enough populations to support a dedicated frozen or refrigerated food machine, Halloran has found the perfect solution by using the "Entray" conversion kit, developed by Dixie-Narco to permit selling refrigerated food through a BevMax glassfront cold drink vender. "For smaller locations that need food, it's a great solution," he told VT. "There's no additional investment and it's first-in, first-out because it vends from spirals, so it's not shopped by date like a traditional food machine."
ENTER THE KIOSKThe Virginia vendor also recently ventured outside the box by offering suitable existing and potential clients the Avanti Market self-checkout kiosk system. In the few months since he replaced the vending banks in two Richmond businesses with the unattended c-store concept, he is convinced the model is a superior way to deliver food, fresh and frozen. Customers simply pick up the items that they want to purchase, scan the UPC barcodes at the kiosk and pay for them using a credit card or dedicated Avanti Market keytag.
"We're selling ice cream, sandwiches, pizza, and Lean Cuisines from a reach-in chest freezer at a higher ticket than we could do in vending, where you have items from $1 to a $3.50 price ceiling," Halloran pointed out. "We sell some fresh food items for as much as $7 and the volume of food sales is definitely significantly higher out of a 'Market' than a vending machine."
The operator added that many of his locations are still well-served by frozen food machines, but said his experience with Avanti Markets has demonstrated that it can be a better fit for others. One 200-employee vending account that received an Avanti system had a frozen food machine with sales that were sluggish, at best. "I converted that account to the Avanti market concept and, surprisingly, we're moving a lot of food, because we have the fresh sandwiches and the salads, along with the frozen foods in the chest freezer," he told VT.
At the moment, Halloran only accepts credit cards at his kiosks and not in his food machines; he speculates that this probably is part of the reason food sales are higher in the Avanti sites than in vending machines. Halloran Refreshments is, however, gearing up to enter the cashless vending arena in the near future, which the operator says may demonstrate the importance of accepting alternative forms of payment in frozen food machines.
The company began operating its first two Avanti markets last summer, and is currently installing two more. So far, all of the accounts that have signed on for the self-serve kiosks are white-collar locations, but the operator is heavily pitching blue-collar sites, in which he sees an enormous opportunity.
"It's a good concept when you have shift work. You can provide food 24/7 and it's better than the vending model," commented Halloran. "They can have locally prepared soups and salads, ice cream and burgers to satisfy every taste and diet around the clock. A big reason it's better is because the product can be touched and felt. The customer can make a purchase decision before completing the transaction. In vending, you have to look through the glass. People don't want to risk spending $3 or $4 and risk not having the quality and freshness there."
A big plus with frozen product, whether merchandised through a vending machine or an Avanti Market, is instant recognition of well-known national brands and consumers' trust in the products' freshness, Halloran pointed out. The universal appeal of ice cream, which occupies 30% of Halloran's frozen machines, also adds incremental sales, whether through a vender or self-serve kiosk.
QUALITY CONTROLOn the other hand, a downside to vending food in a frozen rather than a refrigerated state is that a number of products do not hold up under the more prolonged rethermalization process required to bring them up to serving temperature. Through the years, Halloran said he has been able to identify those items best suited for frozen vending, including Michelina's entrees, White Castle hamburgers, Nestlé Hot Pockets, Pierre Foods chicken wings and a variety of pizzas and breakfast biscuit sandwiches.From a manufacturer's perspective, Steve Carvel, national sales manager for Buddy's Kitchen, is in complete agreement with Halloran about the shortcomings of heating some foods from frozen. "The longer it takes to cook in the microwave, the harder it is on the product, particularly the bread," he told VT. "My first piece of advice to anyone vending frozen food is to follow the directions on the package -- and try it yourself first. If it doesn't taste good after you take the time and effort to follow the directions, what do you think will happen if the customer just throws it in the microwave? Don't sell it!"
Carvel noted that his company's grilled sandwiches come out of the microwave oven properly crisped, whether reheated from a refrigerated or frozen state, and Buddy's English muffin breakfast sandwiches also hold up well. But its croissant sandwiches collapse during the lengthy heating process when frozen, so he chooses not to include frozen directions on the packaging.
"You want people to buy it again, and they won't if the bread comes out like a rock," the frozen food veteran cautioned. "They won't even come back to the machine, and they'll tell everyone else about their horrible experience."
Victoria Steck, vice-president of operations for Sanese Services (Columbus, OH), also takes great care to encourage patrons to follow proper heating instructions so they will be satisfied with the finished product. In locations in which the 45-route operation has both frozen and refrigerated machines, Sanese assigns separate microwaves to the products vended from each. The ovens feature buttons designated to heating frozen entrees and sandwiches that are programmed for the proper heating time.
"We take time to market the microwaves to the customers, so they know which one to use and which buttons to use because they're programmed to cook the product just right," she told VT.
Sanese Services has made a name for itself in Ohio by producing its own high-quality foods and marketing them extensively. "We have a strong following for our fresh food, but there are many locations where we would have so much waste and low participation that it's better to put in a frozen food machine," Steck explained. "We can provide a hot meal instead of just snacks and pop in places that don't warrant having a cold food machine, rather than put one in and waste food, or say 'no' to food altogether and risk an unsatisfied client."
The company's 75 frozen machines -- Crane's National 320s and Fastcorp's robotic venders -- are generally merchandised with a mix of 70% food, ranging from sandwiches and pizza to burritos and entrées, supplemented by 30% frozen novelties. In the summer months, the ratio is closer to 50:50.
LEAN AND MEANMichelina-branded entrées are especially popular among Sanese clientele, and they please diverse populations with selections ranging from "comfort foods" like fettuccine Alfredo with chicken and broccoli and Swedish meatballs to health-conscious Michelina's Lean Gourmet offerings.
The company also addresses the demand for food at a dozen or so locations with Tombstone-branded KRh Thermal Systems Hot Choice machines. The operations VP said the hold/heat/serve machines, stocked with items like frozen Tombstone personal pizza, Kraft macaroni and cheese and Oreo brownies, dispensed hot, are especially well-suited to locations with cafeterias that do not operate in the evenings. "It's a great machine to be able to put in," she said. "The food comes out piping hot and cooked to perfection. It answers the concern about patrons' not microwaving an item for the proper amount of time. It doesn't have ice cream or 'healthier' selections, but it gives customers a whole other option."
Steck said frozen food machines more often serve as a food solution in blue-collar sites than in white-collar venues, but she emphasized that frozen vending has a place in offices; there tends to be a strong following among women for the Michelina's Lean Gourmet offerings, she reported, for the same reasons Halloran cited.
"We've seen a big increase in demand for lean Michelina's. A lot of companies are trying to help their employees stay healthy because of insurance costs, and want us to have a certain percent of 'healthier' options available to them," said Steck. " The lean Michelina's line is one of the few frozen options available that takes dietary concerns into account, and consumers recognize it." She added that Sanese Services takes advantage of Michelina's-branded machines in many locations, to leverage the line's popularity.
To widen the "better-for-you" choices available from Sanese's frozen food venders, the company's dietitian developed its own Carmen's Cuisine line of freshly made entrees, formulated specifically to be vended frozen. All selections contain less than 10% saturated fat, less than 60mg. of cholesterol, less than 30% of total calories from fat and less than 30% sugar by weight.
In her 21 years with Sanese, Steck said the biggest change she has witnessed -- other than the health movement -- is that younger consumers moving into the workforce have more cultivated palates than they did years ago. "At a call center, where you have a lot of younger people, you can no longer offer just a hamburger; you need to have something more interesting and sophisticated, like a blackened bleu cheese burger," she explained. "It's easier for us to do with our fresh food, but we need to see more exciting frozen offerings."
To satisfy patrons' cravings for bolder flavors, Sanese merchandises Asian-inspired foods like Pierre's teriyaki chicken sandwich and Schwan's Minh egg rolls and Mexican favorites like José Olé burritos and Hot Pockets chicken quesadillas.
According to Steck, besides the limited variety of "healthier" and Gen-Y-friendly foods, the biggest limitation to frozen food vending at present is a low price ceiling. Sanese's prices range from $1.50 for ice cream to $3 for entrees.
"It's a tough sell to price food any higher when people see Michelina's at a grocery store for 99¢; they feel they should be able to get it at the machine for the same price," Steck pointed out. "Grocery stores can afford discounts on certain items that vending can't, but the consumer doesn't understand that."
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by Shaunna Privratsky
You are on a mission to get your family to eat healthier. You go to the store to stock up on fruits and vegetables, only to be halted by the high prices. Stick to your produce plan by learning the tricks of purchasing the right way.
I spoke with Craig Crosby of Sunmart Foods in North Dakota. He said that there are many ways to save, including watching for promotions like buy one, get one free or getting free items with another purchase. Typically, items go on sale when they are most available, which leads me to the first and probably the most important tip on buying produce.
- Shop in season. There is a reason corn and cucumbers are practically given away in August and September, namely supply and demand. Likewise, you'll pay a small fortune for watermelon in winter.
- Check bulk buys against single or unit prices. Sometimes bigger isn't always better.
- Only buy what you will use. Even if bags of carrots are on sale for cheap, buying too many leads to wasting what you can't eat.
- Plan your meals around what is on sale. When corn on the cob is inexpensive in the summer, plan on having it several times for a barbecue cookout, a picnic, or an old-fashioned Sunday dinner.
- You can also stock up when a terrific bargain shows up. Freeze or can the extras to cash in on the savings for months.
- Go in with a friend for bulk purchases, like a case of peaches or a 20-pound bag of potatoes.
- Ask about slightly damaged fruits or vegetables. Your friendly produce manager can extend discounts or let you know when things will go on sale. Crosby mentioned that the store will often run in-store specials that don't appear in the weekly ads, so always check the produce section.
- Weigh prepackaged bags to make sure they are not "light." Sometimes, you can even score an extra apple or two in a heavier three-pound or five-pound bag.
- Check if your store has a return policy. Sunmart offers double your money back for inferior produce. Generally, you have to bring back the offending item and your receipt.
- Visit your local farmer's market. The produce is grown locally and quite reasonably priced. Many growers certify that they grow "naked" produce, which means with no commercial fertilizers or pesticides.
- Grow your own! Even if you weren't born with a green thumb, almost everyone can grow at least some of your family's favorites, like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, carrots, peas, cucumbers, pumpkins or watermelon.
- If you don't have room for a garden, set up some pots on your patio, balcony, or even in a sunny windowsill. Nothing beats that homegrown taste or the satisfaction of harvesting the fruits of your labor.
- Another alternative is community gardening. Check with your local Chamber of Commerce or ask at the Farmer's Market. Often you can grow a row or two for free, or pay a small fee for a larger plot.
- Finally, if none of these options work, keep your friendly neighbors in mind. Admire their bountiful garden, and they just might come knocking with a bag full of cucumbers or fresh-picked green beans.
Start saving for your future today. Consider these 11 ways to save $1000 while living paycheck to paycheck.
Banish the myth that eating healthier is more costly. By utilizing these tips on buying produce, you can buy your fruits and veggies and eat it, too. Now, does anyone want some cucumbers? Anyone?
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PUBLISHED: 16:14 28 December 2012
Lowestoft Town's match at Metropolitan Police on Saturday has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
The Ryman League have given clubs special dispensation to announce postponements for this weekends fixtures early than usual.
With the pitch already waterlogged and more rain forecast, Saturday's game has been postponed.
Lowestoft Town's reserve team's home game against Great Yarmouth is also postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.


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ATASCOCITA. Texas - An Atascocita golf course community marked by perfectly manicured lawns and expensive homes is having trouble with the owner of a dilapidated house teeming with mosquitoes.
The home is located in the Walden on Lake Houston subdivision.
"This is a family neighborhood. You can't have those sorts of things going on," neighbor, Rosemary Russo said.
The home at 8010 Mallardcrest Drive has a pool and spa in the back yard that is dirty and home to myriad insects, particularly mosquitoes.
"It's a problem because we're in 77346," neighbor James Leisinger said.
The Harris County Health Department has found both mosquitoes and dead birds infected with West Nile Virus in ZIP code 77346, near Lake Houston.
Code enforcement officers with the health department have cited the property six times since February, noting "unsanitary conditions that can harbor mosquitoes."
Local 2 Investigates tried to contact the owner of the property, without success. Neighbors, the Walden on Lake Houston's homeowners' association and the Harris County Health Department have not had much luck, either.
The owner, who appears to lives approximately 30 miles from his vacant rental home, will have an appointment with a judge if the property is not brought to code within the next four weeks.
A representative for the HOA said the group has already stated unspecified legal proceedings against the owner.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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By Mike Monroe
OAKLAND, Calif. – It wasn't a pick-up game, but the bright gold, high-tech, short-sleeved uniforms the Warriors unveiled gave Friday's contest at Oracle Arena the look of a five-on-five at the local playground on a summer afternoon.
It wasn't shirts and skins, either. The Spurs wore the old-fashioned black road uniforms they had come to trust in winning six of their first seven games on the rodeo road trip that is nearing conclusion.
By the end of the Warriors' 107-101 overtime victory, newfangled had trumped old school and a five-game Spurs winning streak had been snapped by a team that hadn't beaten them since Jan. 7, 2008.
The Warriors also had lost six of their previous seven games, but Jarrett Jack, who scored 22 of his game-high 30 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, credited coach Mark Jackson for pulling his team through its recent travails.
"He said something really profound," Jack said. "He said, 'I relish these moments because they are the times when you find out who's really with you.'"
The Spurs haven't lost more than two in a row all season, so Gregg Popovich has been spared the need for such inspirational rhetoric, but it was clear to him that Jackson's players were with him on Friday, especially at the defensive end. One night after Spurs point guard Tony Parker torched the Clippers for 31 points in 28 minutes the Warriors held him to 18 in 40 minutes and 29 seconds.
The Spurs' crunch time leader this season, Parker didn't score in the fourth quarter or the overtime session, crediting the Warriors for making him give up the ball.
"They were packing it in, everybody in the paint," Parker said. "I think I only took two shots in the fourth quarter because they were doing a good job. I was trying not to force it and Pop was calling plays for Manu (Ginobili) and Tim (Duncan) because they were rolling."
Always an admirer of great defense, Popovich acknowledged what the Warriors had done to one of the NBA's hottest players of late.
"They (played good defense) the whole game," he said. "They did a great job. They made Tony (Parker) the focus of their defense and made it tough for him."
The Spurs' defense was tough enough to have produced a victory on most nights, but not in a game in which they made only 38.9 percent of their own shots.
Both teams were horrid in the first half and perhaps the Warriors' flashy new uniforms were a distraction. Something had to account for the combined 35.2 percent shooting.
Reputed to be 26 percent lighter than a standard NBA uniform – as if those are somehow like trying to play in a ski parka – the shirts are supposed to provide "optimal performance on the court while providing fans with a new and unique apparel option," according to the official press release from the Warriors and uniform provider Adidas.
Already one of the fastest-paced teams in the NBA, it was impossible to tell if the Warriors got up and down the court any more quickly in the new gear, but they looked sharp doing so.
At least one Spur wasn't impressed.
"I'm no [ital]fashionista[end ital]," said forward Matt Bonner, whose typical off-court attire would fit perfectly in a camp full of lumberjacks, "but I would prefer they be flannel."
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DETROIT - It is said in politics, when everyone walks away from the negotiating table angry, you know you have a good piece of legislation.
Perhaps that is not so much the case in the long running battle over the Detroit International Gateway Project.
This morning, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Prentis Edwards, clearly chagrinned over the long running delays and the war between Matty Moroun's Detroit International Bridge Company and the Michigan Department of Transportation, handed down a decision that left both parties shaking their heads and residents of the neighborhood wondering what really was solved.
Edwards turned over control of the Gateway construction project to MDOT.
The judge's goal is to take massive amounts of truck traffic off of Fort Street and other Detroit city side streets and get it onto the Gateway plaza as soon as possible. The judge further instructed DIBC to place $16 million into an account by March 20 so MDOT can pay to begin construction. DIBC will pay more if it costs more too, says the judge.
The head shaking part comes from the frustration on Moroun's part at losing control over the project. The state, for its part, doesn't want the job. It had asked the judge to put a receiver in charge and have a third party do the work. No one is walking away happy here and there is no clear answer whether the judge's desire to get the truck traffic moved will happen any time soon.
Moroun's attorney, Godfrey Dillard, said he and his clients were greatly disappointed by the ruling because the DIBC can do this work in about six months. MDOT, he said, may not be able to complete the work in 18 months. When asked about Dillard's assertion, MDOT region engineer Tony Kratofil said he had no way of knowing how long it will take, and seemed more than a little stunned this massive project ended up dropped in his lap.
Furthermore, Edwards ordered DIBC owner and billionaire Moroun, his son Matthew and DIBC president Dan Stamper to appear at the next hearing on March 22. This appears to be the end of a year's long battle and more recent contempt of court citation for Matty Moroun and Stamper. Stamper spent a couple of nights in jail and Moroun spent one as they battled mightily to keep the Gateway Project work.
Their attorneys in court today raising what amounted to a white flag, assuring the judge they no longer wanted "war" with MDOT and set out a construction schedule they hoped would convince the judge they were serious about following his order. An MDOT attorney said for all the talk, Moroun and Stamper did not propose anything close to what the judge ordered two years ago. The judge was unmoved by the Morouns and obviously felt since MDOT got in bed with the Mourouns originally to do this billion dollar project nearly a decade ago, it needed to finish the work.
Moroun's made no bones about his desire to keep the construction project done to his specifications that would have been the jumping off point of a second span across the Detroit River. Moroun still hopes to build that second span in the larger battle with Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian officials. It is going to get quite difficult now because the judge's order requires the demolition of the so-called Pier 19, which is the bridge abutment sitting next to Fort Street where Moroun hoped to launch his second Ambassador span.
This entire battle, both the smaller one involving completing Gateway, and the larger pitting Moroun against Snyder, who favors a public bridge two miles south funded with Canadian money, has been a vicious fight. It pits the interests of a private company versus the state's belief in the need for serving the greater good.
It is a unique battle because this is the only privately owned bridge like it in the United States. Most bridges are government owned and operated. It is easy to understand how this give and take is contentious, especially since the Ambassador Bridge is such a lucrative crossing. Snyder's first act as governor was to call building the new bridge with Canada "a no brainer."
Moroun's biggest problem in getting his second Ambassador Bridge span is the Canadians do not want to empty truck traffic onto the side streets of Windsor as it has for roughly 80 years. Instead the Canadians want to move the bridge south of Windsor. Indeed you need a place to land a new bridge and you can't do that without a willing partner.
Still, the notion the state of Michigan and the Canadian government can simply take away a private asset on this scale leaves one wondering where they believe they derive that power. It is quite likely a court will end out sorting out those questions.
As it stands now, a judge is deciding the state needs to take on a job it doesn't want from an uncooperative company and the trucks keep creeping through a Detroit neighborhood and will keep doing so for the immediate future.
For all of the time and energy spent, for all the jail time doled out, for all the gnashing of teeth, what's been accomplished here today does little to solve the problem residents asked to have solved.
Yet it does move the whole "war" in another direction.
Indeed, be careful what you ask for.
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Strasburg feels better, has Saturday start in sight
By Bill Ladson / MLB.com
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals received progress reports regarding right-hander Stephen Strasburg and left-hander Ross Detwiler.
Strasburg, who suffered a mild lat strain this past Friday against the Braves, told pitching Steve McCatty that he is feeling better, according to manager Davey Johnson. Strasburg will throw a bullpen session Wednesday and, if everything goes according to plan, he could pitch against the Twins on Saturday.
"We'll see how he feels, but he did feel a lot better yesterday," Johnson said.
The Nationals are also hopeful that left-hander Ross Detwiler will be back on the mound soon. He is on the disabled list with an oblique injury. Johnson is hoping that Detwiler is four days from throwing off the mound and nine days away from being taken off the DL and rejoining the team. Johnson said Detwiler could throw a simulated game soon.
Ramos reports progress with hamstring strain
WASHINGTON -- Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, who is on the disabled list with a left hamstring strain, said he is running and hitting without any problems. It's not known when he will be back to squatting behind the plate.
There is a possibility Ramos could be going to Florida and play in extended spring games by the end of next week. Ramos said he has to be 100 percent before he could play in any games.
"I feel a lot better today. I have to keep working and get my hamstring stronger," Ramos said. "I'll come back ready."
Ramos re-injured the hamstring May 15 against the Dodgers after he singled in the fourth.
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• The Nationals are hoping Bryce Harper will come off the disabled list by June 11.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I am trying to program the following:
The bubble sort is inefficient for large arrays. Make the following simple modifications to improve the performance of the bubble sort:
a. After the first pass, the largest number is guaranteed to be in the highest-number element of the array; after the second pass, the two highest numbers are "in place," and so on. Instead of making nince comparisons on every pass, modify the bubble sort to make eight comparisons on the second pass, seven on the third pass, and so on.
b. The data in the array may already be in the proper order or near-proper order, so why make nine passes if fewer will suffice? Modify the sort to check at the end of each pass if any sway have been made. If none have been made, then the data must already be in the proper order, so the program should terminate. If swaps have been made, then at least one more pass is needed.
Here is the code I come up with:
When I compile the array, it does not show me anything. What did I do wrong in the program. Please anyone help me, I really would appreciate any help.Code:#include<iostream> #include<fstream> #include<cstdlib> using namespace std; int main() { double time, motion; ifstream sensin; ofstream sensout; sensin.open("sensin.dat"); sensout.open("sensout.dat"); sensin >> time >> motion; int num_data_pts = 10; double max = motion, min = motion, sum = 0; while(!sensin.eof()) { sum += motion; if( motion > max); max = motion; if( motion < min); min = motion; sensin >> time >> motion; } cout << "Number of Readings: " << num_data_pts << endl; cout << "Average Reading: " << sum/(num_data_pts) << endl; cout << "Maximum Reading: " << max << endl; cout << "Minimum Reading: " << min << endl; sensin.close(); return 1; }
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My name is Ki, Ki, 2011, 98 min.
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Veruca Salt in "Seether"
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Welcome to Forgotten Videos. Well, for some forgotten, for others just filed away, and for others still, a totally brand-new discovery. Whichever category you fall into, each week we'll feature a video that's possibly been collecting dust when what it really deserves is a fresh look. Or, we'll be giving a fresh look at a video that deserves to be collecting dust. We're not here to judge, we just want to take you on a little trip down memory lane. Yep, you'll remember when hair was really that big, when drums were that up front in the mix, when video was young(er) and so were you.
Veruca Salt
It was in 1994 when grunge saw one of its first female-fronted outfits hit the scene with the release of American Thighs featuring "Seether" and the stringy-haired, fierce vocals of Nina Gordon and Louise Post. It's almost hard to believe Gordon and Post started as two folk-singing coffeehouse troubadours before adding bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro to record a song that would likely never be heard in a coffeehouse. (It's also hard to believe they didn't name the band Violet Beauregarde.) "Seether" became a hit on MTV and landed the band a spot on tour with the always unpredictable Courtney Love and Hole. Though Veruca Salt was criticized by some as too pop to be grunge, American Thighs went gold and in 1997 the group traded ripped jeans and Dr. Martens for heavy metal chic when they released "Volcano Girls" off Eight Arms To Hold You. Unfortunately, as there were no cat fights or doll-eating humans in this video, it wasn't met with the same success. Gordon and Post eventually had a cat fight of their own and parted ways in 1998.
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Gainesville turned out to be a tough place for both the Belleview girls tennis team and the Forest Boys tennis team as both fell in its regional finals match.
Gainesville turned out to be a tough place for both the Belleview girls tennis team and the Forest Boys tennis team as both fell in its regional finals match.
The Rattlers lost to Gainesville Eastside 6-1 on Thursday with their lone point coming at No. 2 doubles where Naomi Dominguez and Amanda Holloway defeated Amaleah Mirti and Christine Pu of EHS, 9-8 (9-7). Dominguez lost her No. 3 match to Antonia Veltcheva 6-3, 7-5, while Holloway lost at No. 5 6-0, 6-0 to Angi Liu of Eastside.
At No. 1, Emily Louie-Meadors beat Lauren Bitter of Belleview 6-0, 6-0, Sarah Perkins of BHS fell to Alexandra Sourakov at No. 2 6-1, 7-6 (7-3) and Alex DeIorio was defeated by Murielle LeMaire of EHS 6-1, 5-7, 6-3.
No. 1 doubles was won by Eastside by default as the Rattlers Sarah Perkins was unable to play after rolling her ankle in her singles match.
For Forest, it fell to state powerhouse Gainesville 4-0 as the match was stopped after the fourth singles match due to rain.
The Wildcats Philip Libby lost to Zack Goldberg, a North Florida commit, at No. 1 6-1, 6-0.
At No. 2 Nick Wigelsworth lost to Cole Fiegel of EHS 6-0, 6-0, No. 3 Palmer Lovell of FHS lost to Peter Slaton 6-0, 6-0 and Jacob Gordon of Eastside beat Mark Debolt at No. 4 6-0, 6-0.
Belleview finishes its season 12-3, while the Wildcats finish their season 14-2 with both losses coming to GHS. Forest will return all of its players next year except for senior Tanner Weaver who was the No. 2 singles player until midway through the year when he was limited to just doubles because of an elbow injury.
OCA 7, JACKSONVILLE SEACOAST 2: At Arlington Little League Park in Jacksonville, the Crusaders are marching on to play in the FCAL championship game Friday night after they won their semifinals game thanks to some hot hitting.
Eight out of 9 hitters in the OCA lineup recorded hits on Thursday. Leading the way was Rus'Sharra Tolbert (1-for-5, 2 runs, 4 SB), Mikayla VanRijk (1-for-4, RBI), Julia Davis (2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI, 2B, 2 SB), Reyven Torres (2-for-3, RBI) and Ashley Lanza (2-for-4, RBI).
Allison Forsyth came up big for the Crusaders as well as she pitched all 7 innings, allowing just 4 hits and 1 earned run, while striking out 6. She also was 1-for-4 at the plate with a double, RBI, run and 2 stolen bases.
OCA (3-18) now will play Jacksonville Cedar Creek tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the FCAL championship in Jacksonville.
BELLEVIEW 4, DUNNELLON 1: At Belleview, the Tigers were led at the plate by Morgan Shalna (1-for-1, sac bunt), Leslie Maddox (1-for-2, 2B, run), Michelle Ruiz (1-for-4) and Dania Clark (1-for-3). Bianca Pierro pitched the entire game for DHS, yielding no earned runs and striking out 2.
The Tigers (4-17) will play Eustis in Hernando at the District 5A-7 tournament on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
LAKE WEIR 5, FOREST 4 (8 innings): At Lake Weir, Rachael Nohr came up with the game-winning walkoff hit in the bottom of the eighth that plated Cassidy Shannon to send the Hurricanes home victorious over the Wildcats on Thursday night. Nohr finished the game 3-for-5, while Shannon was 2-for-4. Others who played well for Lake Weir included pitcher Irene Medina who went all 8 innings for the 'Canes, Aura Blackburn who was 3-for-4 and pinch-hitter Lauren Feltman who came up with a big hit in her only at-bat of the night.
Forest was led by Kaitlyn Peters (4-for-4), Morgan White (2-for-4) and Nikki Blanton (2-for-4, run). On the mound, Claudia Henderson pitched the entire game for the Wildcats, giving up 2 earned runs and striking out 4.
Lake Weir (7-17) will host the District 6A-5 tournament and open up play Monday at 6 p.m. against Leesburg. Forest (17-5) will play at Vanguard tonight at 6 p.m.
DUNNELLON 2, WEST PORT 0: At Dunnellon, Josh Tricomi spun a gem on Thursday for the Tigers as he allowed just 1 hit in 7 innings, striking out 7 en route to his second victory of the season. Dunnellon was led at the plate by Connor Wentz (1-for-2), Michael Roberson (1-for-2, RBI) and Matthew Livermore (1-for-3, RBI).
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WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- New research out of Japan
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years, the research showed that, overall, balding men face a 33
percent greater risk for heart disease than other men, and those
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The other three studies, comparing the cardiac health of balding
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risk among the balding group, and an 84 percent risk for younger
balding men.
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dependent on the severity of his hair loss, with more severe loss
translating into greater risk, the studies showed.
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is unknown, but they theorized that baldness could be a marker for
insulin resistance, chronic inflammation or an increased
sensitivity to testosterone, all of which are factors in the onset
of heart disease.
Regardless, Yamada said, balding men should do what all men
should do when it comes to controlling heart disease risk. "I
recommend adapting a heart-healthy lifestyle that includes a
low-fat diet, exercise and less stress [in order to mitigate
against] classical coronary risk factors," such as age, high blood
pressure, blood lipid disruption and a history of smoking, he
Cardiologist Dr. Gregg Fonarow, of the University of California,
Los Angeles, agreed that the tried-and-true approach to heart
health stands -- regardless of your hairline.
"Clearly, wearing a toupee or a hat is not going to lower the risk," he said with a chuckle. "But what is true is that well-established means of maintaining a healthy diet and weight, exercising, and watching blood pressure and cholesterol levels can all lower your risk for heart disease."
Dr. Christopher Cannon, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston, agreed.
"Unfortunately, this is bad news for me personally," he said. "But if you are at a higher risk for heart disease, as I myself would appear to be, then you have to try and reduce that risk by doing the things that have long been shown to help. And stay tuned for future research that may help us understand what is underlying this."
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Jan 31 (Reuters) - Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc said it would stop developing its experimental drug for major depressive disorder after it failed to meet the main goal of improving symptoms in patients in a clinical trial, sending its shares down about 8 percent.
The company said patients treated with the drug tasimelteon and those on a placebo showed about a 40 percent reduction in symptoms, based on a standard scale that measures severity of depression.
The trial, named Magellan, enrolled 507 patients in 43 sites in the United States, and was comparing a 20mg dose of the drug with a placebo.
Major depressive disorder is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States and affects about 14.8 million American adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
The company is also studying tasimelteon as a treatment for a rare sleep disorder, called "non-24-hour disorder" - a condition in which a person's body clock does not automatically set to the 24-hour day and affects a majority of blind people.
"Tasimelteon's application in the treatment of blind individuals with Non-24 remains our top priority as we pursue our planned NDA submission this year," Vanda CEO Mihael Polymeropoulos said in a statement.
Vanda said last week that tasimelteon proved effective in a second late-stage trial for non-24-hour disorder and that it planned to apply for a U.S. approval for the drug in mid-2013.
Vanda has an approved schizophrenia drug called Fanapt that is sold in partnership with Novartis in the United States. It also has an experimental drug for alcohol dependence, called VLY-686, that it licensed from Eli Lilly.
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Basic Single Stick Eskrima Volume 1
Instructor Thomas Sipin has been teaching martial arts for 35 years. His edged weapon program has been approved and purchased by the USMC and Homeland Security. Mr Sipin is a 9th Degree Black Belt in the Filipino system of Doce Pares Eskrima under Dionisio Cañete and is a former Director of the World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (WEKAF).
Five volumes to choose from.
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Item Number: SIPIND-V01
Volume 1Instructor Thomas Sipin and his son Kelii, a fourth degree Doce Pares Eskrima black belt, will show you the basic techniques for single stick eskrima. These techniques include gripping, multiple strikes and the classifications of strikes. The Sipins will also instruct on some advanced strikes and twirling, as well as basic attacks, abesedario, and tapi-tapi.
Volume 2Intermediate Single Stick and Introduction to Double Stick Eskrima.
Expands on the basics of single stick eskrima and introduces the basics of double stick eskrima. The double stick curriculum includes basic warm ups, strikes and twirling, and arko with footwork. The Sipins complete this segment with instruction on double stick abesedario, ska-hulog, corto orihinal, and partner drills.
Approx. 42 min.
Volume 3Eskrima Disarms, Locks, and Takedowns.
Learn to defend yourself from eskrima attacks with multiple defense techniques. These techniques include empty hand disarming, single stick disarming, striking with disarming, locking abesedario with and without takedowns, snaking, and live hand control. The Sipins also include variations of each technique to enable you to defend yourself from any type of attack.
Approx. 54 min.
Volume 4Eskrima Trapping Drills and Introduction to Controlled Sparring.
Introduces trapping drills and controlled sparring. Includes stick trapping as well as knife trapping. The Sipins then show you how to counter attacks with controlled sparring. These exercises include both trapping to single and multiple counters, again including variations for each technique for a more enhanced instruction.
Approx. 48 min.
Volume 5Introduction to Stick and Dagger.
Introduces eskrima stick and dagger techniques. This video includes lessons on blocking, angle attacks, abesedario and serra todo. The Sipins instruct on three and five count abesedario drills along with six count abesedario and double three count abesedario.
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Jenson Button believes his partnership with Sergio Perez will be "very strong" at McLaren this season.
With Lewis Hamilton leaving the team to join Mercedes, Button will get his first new team-mate since he moved to McLaren in 2010. Perez impressed with Sauber for much of last season as he scored three podiums, but Button said that while Perez has shown he has the ability to deliver results he's most confident about their ability to work well together for the good of the team.
"I had three fantastic seasons racing alongside Lewis, but nothing stays the same in Formula One and people move on," Button told the official McLaren website. "It's always interesting to have a new team-mate - there's that inevitable getting-to-know-you period when you're settling in, but I'm really pleased to have Checo at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. We all saw what he was capable of doing behind the wheel of a Sauber last year and I think he's a very good addition to this team.
"The most important thing is that you have a good working relationship, that you can share ideas and information freely and that you're working together with the engineers for the good of the team. That's never been an issue at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and I think we're going to work well together - Checo may only be 22, but he's very sensible and he knows what's needed to get the most from the car, so I predict it'll be a very strong partnership."
Button also said that he was hugely motivated to get in to the MP4-28 for the start of pre-season testing.
"Testing is where you see a racing driver at the opposite end of the spectrum to when we're in a grand prix - it's never really about raw speed; it's about process, repetition, repeatability, about following your instincts but backing it up with good engineering. It's an absolutely fascinating process, and you can see the fruits of your labour unfolding before your eyes, day after day. It's a part of the job that I really enjoy. Can't wait!"


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