450 bags of Victorias sugar missing

Monday, June 25, 2007

By Nicolas C. Delfin

A 30-YEAR-OLD male driver is now being hunted by authorities for alleged robbery of 450 bags of Victorias Milling Company (VMC) refined sugar.

Dennis Castañares of Green Village Subdivision, Barangay 13 in Bacolod City is nowhere to be found after his employer Manuel Chua of L&M Company in Bacolod accused him of stealing the 450 bags of sugar supposedly to be stored at a warehouse at Bredco Port in Bacolod.

Records from the VMC Guard House disclosed that Castañares with the company’s 10-wheeler truck reportedly took the 450 bags of refined sugar from the VMC warehouse Thursday afternoon last week. He, however, arrived at Bredco the next day with empty truck.

According to Chua who reported the matter to Victorias City Police Office (VCPO), Castañares only told him that he hasn’t loaded the sugar because the truck suffered mechanical trouble.

But Chua said it was clear from the logbook of the security guards at VMC, that indeed, Castañares had already loaded the 450 bags of sugar worth P700,000.

In a phone interview, Senior Police Officer 2 Luis Mulato, desk officer- on-duty at VCPO, said they’ve already went to Castañares’ residence but the suspect was not around.

In case Castañares won’t surface, criminal charges are now being readied to be filed against him, Mulato said. L&M has the right to do so since it’s the consignee of the missing sugar, added Mulato.

Source : http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2007/06/25/news/450.bags.of.victorias.sugar.missing.html

Non-Invasive Blood Sugar Control

by Carol Bogart

24 June, 2007

A year or so ago when I was diagnosed with diabetes, I was told I could control it with diet and exercise. Since then, I’ve completely eliminated desserts, walk the dog more often and have dropped 40 pounds.

My sugar levels were a lot better this last time they were checked, but even so, the “diabetes educator” gave me a finger prick gizmo to keep track of my levels – four times a day!!!!

Somehow, right off the bat, I managed to break the gizmo. Not reading the directions may have been a factor. Not wanting to jam a needle into the tip of my finger (especially after experiencing how bad it hurt when I experimented with stabbing the fatty tissue under my thumb) was probably, at least subconsciously, another.

Years ago, I invested in a company called Biocontrol Technologies, because they had something called a “Non-Invasive Glucose Sensor” in the works. With diabetes running so strongly in my family, I hoped maybe, by the time I got it, this company would perfect an alternative to the finger stick. Instead, the company went bankrupt. Sigh.

Now, though, there’s new hope on the horizon!!
According to Health Day News, two new devices are proving accurate using light to test for sugar levels. One, trade name GlucoLight, focuses a beam of light on diabetics’ skin. Over four days, the device proved accurate.

Israeli researchers have developed a device called the NBM-100. Using red near-infrared light to measure blood sugar, it, too, proved accurate.

Both devices have been presented to the American Diabetes Association (http://www.diabetes.org/).
I’m hoping that long before I become insulin dependent (dad controlled his diabetes without finger sticks for almost 20 years), these new, non-invasive gizmos will be on the market for scaredy-cat diabetics like me.

Source : http://www.bloggernews.net/18070

Labasa Sugar Mill Manager defends mills performance

By fijivillage

The Labasa Sugar Mill manager has defended the mill's performance on why lesser quantity of sugar is being produced by crushing large amounts of cane.Bhan Singh has accepted the report by FSC that by crushing 110 tonnes of cane, one tonne of sugar was produced in the first week. However, he said that remaining amount of sugar is not lost as it is in the system.

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However Singh said the mill is not performing up to par.

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According to FSC's report previously on average one tonne of sugar was produced by crushing ten tonnes of sugarcane however now the 21 tonnes of cane is crushed to produce one tonne of sugar.FSC chief executive, Abdul Shamsher is expected to comment later.

Meanwhile, Chaudhry is expected to meet sugar stakeholders this Wednesday to address the issue of mill performances.

Source : http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_39192.shtml