EXCHANGE STUDENT KILLED WHILE LOST WHITE BREAD STUDY SAYS IT CAN'T HURT.(Main)

Byline: Associated Press Associated Press

A 16- year-old Japanese exchange student who went to the wrong house while looking for a Halloween party was fatally shot by a man inside, police said.

Rodney Peairs was questioned in the shooting Saturday of Yoshihiro Hattori, but wasn't charged because "there was no criminal intent," said Maj. Bud Connor of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department.

A grand jury scheduled to convene Nov. 4 will determine whether any charges should be filed, District Attorney Doug Moreau said. The case remained under investigation.

In New Orleans, Consul-General Yasuhiro Hamada said the Japanese community …

NATO: US troop dies, Taliban commander killed

A senior Taliban commander disguised as a woman was killed by Afghan and international forces after he opened fire with a pistol and tried to throw a grenade south of the capital Kabul.

NATO reported a U.S. troop died in a roadside bomb attack Saturday in southern Afghanistan, and a small explosion detonated in an area that houses foreign embassies and government offices in Kabul the same day, but caused no casualties.

The troop death brought to 85 the number of international service members killed so far in June _ already the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year-old war. The figure includes at least 51 Americans.

Intelligence sources tracked the …

SUNDAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS

AMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING_Joyce, Tampa Bay, .365; Bautista, Toronto, .350; MiYoung, Texas, .335; AdGonzalez, Boston, .329; HKendrick, Los Angeles, .322; MiCabrera, Detroit, .315; Aybar, Los Angeles, .313.

RUNS_Bautista, Toronto, 43; Granderson, New York, 42; MiCabrera, Detroit, 38; Ellsbury, Boston, 35; ACabrera, Cleveland, 34; AdGonzalez, Boston, 33; Joyce, Tampa Bay, 33; Kinsler, Texas, 33.

RBI_AdGonzalez, Boston, 45; Beltre, Texas, 41; Konerko, Chicago, 39; Granderson, New York, 37; Bautista, Toronto, 36; MiCabrera, Detroit, 36; Teixeira, New York, 36.

HITS_AdGonzalez, Boston, 72; MiYoung, Texas, 67; ACabrera, Cleveland, …

Degussa steps up aminosilanes supply. (Paints and Coatings).(Brief Article)

Degussa says it has starred up a plant at Mobile, AL that doubles the company's worldwide capacity for its Dynasylan brand aminosilanes, targeting the coatings sector. The company declined to specify its total capacity; it also makes aminosilanes at Rheinfelden, Germany.

"Demand for specialty silanes continues to increase" because coatings formulators want to use them as adhesion promoters, comonomers, and coupling agents for organic and inorganic materials, says Richard Owins, v.p. and general manager of Degussa's Aerosil and Silanes business unit. The company announced the startup at the recent International Coatings Expo (ICE) (CW, Nov. 6, p. 37). Aminosilanes are …

Yuhasz, Gus G.(Capital Region)

ALBANY Gus G. Yuhasz passed away on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the Albany V.A. Hospital. Gus was born in New York City on June 15, 1943. He lived the majority of his adult life in Schenectady, N.Y. Gus proudly served in the United States Army and worked with the railroads until his 2003 retirement from Amtrak. Gus is survived by his long term girlfriend, Joan Marsh; his wife, Mary Ann; his son, Brian, daughter, Kimberley Gass and husband Colin; grandchildren, Mallory, Gus, Amber, and Charles; his …

CURTIN CLOSES AT SHEN.(SPORTS)

Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer

Kevin Curtin has resigned as head boys' basketball coach at Shenendehowa High after just one season.

The main issue was an English-teaching position.

With Curtin gone, former Plainsman standout Greg Koubek could be in line to get the job.

Shenendehowa athletic director Matt Jones received Curtin's resignation by mail last week.

``It just didn't work out,'' Curtin said. ``It was a financial thing. If things were different, I'd still be there, but never being in the building except to coach didn't make sense.''

The next step is for Jones to post the job internally once school begins. If …

Ice cream machines can bring extra sales; investment depends on operator's goals: a new generation of ice cream machines gives operators more opportunity to expand into ice cream. Upfront costs for expanding into ice cream varies depending on how much of this business the operator plans to add.(Business basics: building blocks for small and medium size operations)

Fiscal 2002 was one of the worst years in the vending industry's history, as every vend product category posted a net revenue loss from the prior year, with one exception--ice cream. The 2003 Automatic Merchandiser State of the Vending Industry Report, published in August, revealed ice cream as the lone product segment posting a sales gain, not including manual foodservice, which also posted a gain.

Ice cream, long viewed as a chore by the average vending operator, has gained new importance. To a large extent, it's riding the expansion of the frozen food machine, the one machine that continues to grow despite customer downsizing, as also noted in the State of the Vending Industry Report.

While ice cream manufacturers have yet to focus a lot of marketing support on the vending channel, vending operators of all sizes have begun to recognize the segment's unique opportunities.

Many operators, particularly smaller ones, have expanded into ice cream almost by accident. Frozen machine manufacturers have noticed that many vending operators see the new-generation frozen food machines as a preferable alternative to refrigerated machines, due to the elimination of product waste. And while many operators buy frozen food machines to vend food, they inevitably find themselves in the ice cream business.

It isn't long "after operators buy their first frozen machines that they realize ice cream is more profitable than food, that it tends to have stronger brand recognition, and is an excellent account pleaser.

Success in ice cream does require an education for the first-time ice cream vendor, however. Operators experienced in handling food are usually able to make the transition fairly easily, as the same storage and transport equipment is needed for ice cream as frozen food.

But for the operator who has never vended ice cream or food, an understanding of handling and transportation practices and equipment is necessary. Operators do not, however, need trucks with built-in freezers to operate ice cream machines.

One thing is for sure: the new-generation, multi-product machines are replacing the single-price, 3- and 4-select machines of yesteryear. Established ice cream vending operators, many of whom service ice cream machines for other vending operators, have been quickly replacing the old-generation machines with the new …