Health advantages: Whole body vibration machine, clients reap benefits

When a new client climbs onto a GOGA whole body vibration machine, they can't help but to break into laughter. It's a feeling like you are standing on top of a washing machine in full spin cycle, its website said."Everybody laughs when they first get on," said GOGA Studios co-owner Mary Jane Windle.But the benefits her clients are claiming are no joke.Framed testimonials from clients hang on the walls inside the studio. They claim everything from weight loss to lowered blood pressure and cholesterol.Cathy Beall, a client of five months, said her blood pressure medication has been cut in half since she started GOGA-ing."I had high cholesterol and blood pressure controlled by medication. I'm on half the medication I was on before," she said.Beall's blood pressure before was 170/80 on full medication and is now 112/68 on half the medication, she said."I think I'll be able to get off the meds completely in a couple of months," she added.
Standing on the machine produces a side alternating rocking movement (oscillation), which simulates a walking motion, claimed the Canadian company's website.We care more about the price of sand washers.That motion for just 10 minutes a day helps with bone density, weight loss, back and joint pain and overall well-being, the website said.Mary Jane and Wayne Windle opened the franchise in January after Wayne's father fell in love with GOGA and purchased his own machine in Houston.Although the company has no franchise fees, there is a strict franchise agreement.The studio must serve its clients ionized water before, during and after a "workout," which also includes 15 minutes in one of their two infrared saunas.There are also several Himalayan Mountain salt deposit lamps, which claim to emit negative ions into the air.The company's slogan calls it a 10-minute no-work-workout saying it equals a one-hour normal workout by contracting muscles from 4000 to 6000 times.
"It's great for people who need to exercise, but won't," Mary Jane Windle said.Carol Doolittle met her new friend, Beall, at the studio where the two visit on a daily basis, sharing one of the saunas to chat and catch up."Four years ago, this is exactly what we thought would happen. These illegal machines would start popping up in various locations," Sheriff Todd Entrekin said in a prepared statement. "That is why we ask the county commission to create standards for electronic gambling devices in the county. To date, there has not been a machine to meet all the created standards."Terri H. Smith, 57, of Rainbow City, was charged with one count of possession of a gambling device and one count of promoting gambling. Both are misdemeanors. Smith, the manager of VFW Post 8600, was released from the county jail on $2,000 bond.

We care more about the price of sand washers

Price always be the main factor no mater what people want to buy, the sand washer price is concerned by the users before they make a decision to buy it. So what are the main factors that affect the price of sand washing machine, and how the price change, here is the brief introduction about that. The raw material and human resource costs are the main factors which caused the price change of sand washing machine.Sand Washing Machine is widely used at quarries, mines, transportation projects, utilities, and in the building material and chemical industries. The Sand Washing machine can improve the quality of the sand because the sand washer can reduce the dust and stone powder which mix with the final sand. The sand washer ensures cleaning and dewatering through a novel-style sealing structure and a reliable transmission device.
As we all know, steel is the main raw material of sand washer, the influence of steel on sand washer price is very big. By the state macro-control effects, fluctuations in the price of steel always be there, coupled with plenty of market funds, this directly pushed up steel futures prices. And the steel price change directly affect the cost of sand washer machine.The shortage on human resource is another factor that affect sand washer price. In recent years, Chinese business frequently have employment shortages, this affected production of manufacturers, a large number of orders can not be completed. In order to attract more people, companies in wages, benefits and increase investment to attract the eyes of job seekers. It led to the sand washing machine production costs. Directly reflected in the sand washing machine prices.
Sand washing machine is widely used for cleaning materials in the following industries: quarry, minerals, building materials, transportation, chemical industry, water conservation and cement mixture station and so on. Our sand washer has the characteristics of high cleaning,reasonable structure,big process load, small power loss, low loss of substances in process of washing.An efficient lead management can make workforce optimization. It can achieve the goal that least people work most. Many experts believe the next true breakthrough in organizational financial performance will not come from technology or process improvement, but rather in the human side of the equation. Just as it is important to put the right people in leadership roles, companies can also benefit greatly by putting the right people in the right jobs I recently had a discussion with our minister about his desire to move our youth director into another position at the church. The youth director has done a good job and really enjoys youth work. She is passionate about it. His rationale for considering the move is that she just completed course work to become certified in another aspect of church work and would benefit from getting experience there.

Va. has most registered machine guns in US

Virginia leads the nation in the number of legally owned machine guns that are fully automatic, according to federal figures.There were 30,220 registered fully automatic machine guns in Virginia as of March. Florida had the second-highest total with 29,128, followed by California with 28,774. Nationally, there were nearly 500,000 registered machine guns, according to an annual report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Virginia State Police keep a separate registry of machine gun owners but spokeswoman Corinne Geller said a breakdown of the information is not readily available.Federal law defines a machine gun as any weapon that will repeatedly fire more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger."Why do we have so darn many in Virginia? Who knows?" said Dana Schrad, executive director of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police.
Experts say several factors could be at play, including an increased use of military-style equipment by police departments and a large population of retired military personnel who might own machine guns as collector items.There also is the fun factor, for those who can afford the weapons, which sell for $10,000 or more."They are a blast to shoot," said Philip Van Cleave, president of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League."They are a hell of a lot of fun. Shooting a gun is fun anyway, and this just magnifies it."Fully automatic weapons are rarely used to commit crimes, Schrad and others said.
Requirements for owning and selling the weapons are more stringent than for other firearms.Prospective owners must submit photographs and fingerprints for a registry maintained by the ATF.Machine disorder is not a pretty sight.They also must submit a signed statement by the chief law enforcement officer in the locality where they live, stating there is no indication the machine gun would be used illegally.Gun dealers must have a special license from the federal government to sell machine guns."Machine guns actually are a really good example of why strong gun laws work," said Daniel Vice, senior attorney with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.Cases involving illegal machine guns are uncommon, said Brian McGinn, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for Western Virginia.
"Sometimes if you're in a good position that's when you have to turn your head around," Hayward said. "They're going to call pass interference if you're not in good position. So when you're in good position you try to turn your head around and locate the ball when the ball is coming to you."Hayward said two things helped him make the play. One was looking at Givens' eyes and the other was seeing the Rams' bench react as the ball came down along their sideline."I just ran with him," Hayward said. "He ran a 9-route, a go-route about 15, 20 yards down the field. I tried to locate the ball. Their sideline may have been giving me the heads up."Hayward did more than just pick off a pass. When he gave up a completion, he closed on it quickly and when he had to make a tackle in the open field, he did.House got off to a very good start, but during garbage time got beat for a couple of completions, including a 3-yard touchdown.

Rise of the machines continues at Ladbrokes

We are going to have to stop describing Ladbrokes as a bookie and call it a slot machines operator, as machine revenue continues to drive revenue growth.Group net revenue in the third quarter of 2012 was up 3.9% year-on-year, with operating profit up 0.4% to 49.2m from 49.0m in the third quarter of last year.Net revenue in the UK shops was up 5.4% on the third quarter of 2011. However, over the counter (OTC) net revenue was up just 0.6%, while machines net revenue surged 11.5% from a year earlier. The OTC gross win margin improved to 16.9% from 16.0% the year before, which offset a 4.9% reduction in the value of bets taken over the counter; the decline in amounts wagered partly reflected weather-related cancellations of race meetings, as well as the effect of the Olympics.
Digital net revenue was up 6.1% year-on-year.The group has been lagging behind its perennial rival William Hill with its online offering and is working on a new online sportsbook which Panmure Gordon, for one, sees as key to driving growth - it thinks the new online sportsbook could boost sportsbook revenue by around 20% a year. Shareholders will be comforted, therefore, by the group's assurance that the web site development remains on plan, and the first iterations of the new online sportsbook have been successfully released. The transfer of active and new customers to the new platform is on track to complete by the end of the first quarter of 2013, as previously indicated.
Once the group has launched the new online sportsbook, the focus will switch to improving customer relations management."Consistent growth of both machine and OTC net revenue, as well as a robust control of costs reinforces the resilience and strong cash generation of our UK Retail business. Despite having fully annualised last year's launch of the Global Draw terminals, we remain confident that our focus on player and machine yields, as well as an increase in machine density, will generate further growth," said Richard Glynn, Chief Executive of Ladbrokes."Though the economic outlook remains uncertain, we remain confident in our delivery and are in line with the board's expectations for 2012," Glynn revealed.
The operator of a piece of heavy equipment walked away from the machine just before it burst into flames on Peak 7 in Breckenridge Wednesday morning.He heard a popping noise and saw smoke and flames coming from the engine. In the time it took him to retrieve a fire extinguisher, the whole machine had caught fire.When firefighters arrived on scene, the machine, used to cut and stack trees, was engulfed by the blaze.Seven firefighters made a quick attack to control the fire before it spread to nearby trees, according to a Red, White and Blue Fire Prevention District statement on the call.

Machine disorder is not a pretty sight

I punish machines that don't work by wanting to destroy them beyond recognition.I must have MDD, or Machine Destructive Disorder, and may have inherited a mutant gene from my father. The man was compassionate and patient but hated nonworking machines and verbally abused them unmercifully, until they appeared to wince from his onslaught.I've been told to seek help — maybe support groups — but I want to kick MDD on my own. It's hard because I live with the dread memory of my father's most legendary outburst.He maintained a pristine vegetable garden with only a hoe and a hand-pushed little cultivator. He'd don coveralls and "sweat out the poisons" as he described his physical activity. After he worked a while, I'd watch him sharpen the hoe with a file, then light a Lucky Strike, admiring his manual labor. He was a happy man in his garden, until the day I saw the granddaddy of his machine-directed tirades, and I still quake at the memory.Our neighbor Roy became the proud owner of a self-propelled garden tiller. The man had no right to be near machines by 6 p.m. on most days: Roy always downed several Schlitz beers by then.Core Technologies Used for Virtual Machine Backup.I watched as the man erratically tried to guide the shiny tiller to my father's garden, the exhaust snorting with Roy bucking and weaving behind, heading out of control for Dad's vegetables.
"Here, Lee," Roy shouted above the roar. "Try this out. Top o' the line."Time stood still. Roy was digging a furrow across his own lawn. My father dropped his hoe and dashed in his baggy coveralls to the machine, but not before a row of peas and half the rhubarb had been destroyed. Beets lay in waiting."Turn the thing off," my father yelled, but Roy was too busy holding on. Eventually it stopped. Divine intervention, no doubt. Dad talked calmly and gently."Oh, it's all right, Roy. Didn't hurt much." Things like that.But in the kitchen the storm struck my mother and me with flashing, blue thunder bolts, language we could only dream of, all directed at the machine, not Roy.My father thought the tiller should be consigned to other places, namely anatomical locations, and he spoke of the machine as though it had illegitimate ancestry.Today I wish I possessed Dad's spirit with machines, but mine has manifested violently. The other day when my printer stopped working, a statue of Stan Musial flew across the room, knocking his cap cock-eyed, and I still can't find his bat.My wife calmly fixed the printer. She said I should stop throwing things. She's right. Mere cursing might have shamed that printer into submission. And Stan the Man would still be holding his bat.

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The 'virtual money machine', developed by Inwindow Outdoor, is an augmented reality, motion reactive video mirror that uses six HD video screens on the branch's street-facing wall.Anyone walking past can play the game, where they grab at virtual bank notes flying around the wall, with a chance to win $25 toward a current account, $100 toward an auto loan or $300 toward a mortgage loan.Steve Birnhak, CEO, Inwindow Outdoor, says: "The virtual money machine is a terrific example of a company reaching its audience in an entertaining way that can result in new customers before they walk in the door."Brian Holloway, assistant VP, marketing, Grow Financial, adds: "This is the first opportunity for Grow Financial to utilise digital technology in a virtual world. We look forward to creating new experiences at this branch and capturing the attention of new generations."
We are merely on the cusp of machines interacting with us, even in public places like airports or the mall. Whether its robots or vending machines, technology will make be reaching out to us to engage with it to change our attitudes, influence our actions, and ultimately to get out cash.Whether this campaign is successful or not at keeping Coke at the forefront of brand awareness, the company has come a long way from its terrible PR attempt to promote New Formula Coke in 1985 using what was merely called "Singing Robot":A 22-year-old Mars Hill man was nearly choked to death Wednesday morning when his clothes got caught in a bin piler machine at a potato house where he was working.
Maine State Police Sgt. Josh Haines commended the quick actions of co-workers for cutting Gregory Cousins loose from the machine, which uses conveyor belts to load potatoes into storage bins or trailer trucks.Haines reported that Crown Ambulance was called at about 10:30 a.m. to the County Farms LLC potato house at 114 Castle Hill Road in Mapleton, where Cousins was working when his clothing became caught in the bin piler machine which pulled him in causing "serious asphyxiation type injuries around his neck."

Apple Phone Patent War Like Sewing Machine Minus Violence

No one's accused Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt of threatening to throw Steve Jobs down a flight of stairs.In other respects, Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patent war inspired by its late co-founder against iPhone competitors using Google's Android system evokes an 1850s free-for-all among sewing machine makers, when Isaac Singer threatened violence after Elias Howe accused him of patent violations.The smartphone war including Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and other rivals is the latest dispute over innovations that have transformed society since the Constitution established U.S. patent rights. Inventions of the telephone, the airplane and electric-power delivery all set off years-long clashes that featured larger-than-life characters, created fortunes, and altered the course of markets.
"When the founding fathers set it up, I don't think they were looking to foment litigation, but the inevitable outcome of a patent right is to keep other people from infringing," said Jesse Jenner, a partner at Ropes & Gray LLC in New York.The number of patents is soaring.This Beautiful Design Finally Fulfills the Washer's Round-Machine Destiny.Of more than 8.3 million U.S. patents since 1792, more than a quarter were issued after 2000.The proportion of lawsuits to patents has remained stable, said Zorina Khan, an economics professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and author of "The Democratization of Invention." The number of U.S. patent lawsuits filed has increased an average of 4.9 percent a year since 1991, while patents issued grew an average of 4.5 percent, according to a Sept. 12 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study.
In recent years, there have been fights over diapers, air fresheners, oil drilling equipment, and one over heart devices that has lasted more than a decade. None of those got the attention that's being given to the smartphone wars, which have become fodder for late-night comedians or magazine covers. Still, the public interest isn't unprecedented: patent battles were front-page news a century ago."Everyone involved has been quite convinced, decade after decade, that the economy and innovation were being crushed by excessive litigation," Khan said.Orville and Wilbur Wright were accused of holding back the growth of aviation by demanding royalties from any airplane manufacturer or exhibitor. Glenn Curtiss, whose company in 1910 was one of the biggest aircraft makers, refused to pay, sparking a seven-year battle. It ended only when Congress forced a licensing agreement because the U.S. needed airplanes to fight World War I.