Tomatoes & Cucumbers?

A beautiful woman loved growing tomatoes, but couldn’t seem to get her tomatoes to turn red.
 
One day while taking a stroll she came upon a gentlemen neighbor who had the most beautiful garden full of huge red tomatoes.
 
The woman asked the gentleman, “What do you do to get your tomatoes so red?”
 
The gentlemen responded, “Well, if you must know, twice a day I stand in front of my tomato garden and expose myself, and my tomatoes turn red from blushing so much.”
 
Since the woman had tried everything else she could think of and was out of ideas, she decided to try doing the same things to her tomato garden to see if it would work. So twice a day for two weeks, she exposed herself to her garden, hoping for the best.

One day the gentlemen was passing by and asked the woman, “By the way, how did you make out? Did your tomatoes turn red?

“No,” she replied, “but my cucumbers are enormous.”:)


 - From Internet

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Serum lycopene decreases the risk of stroke in men

Abstract

Objective: Intake of fruits and vegetables and levels of serum carotenoids have been associated with decreased risk of stroke, but the results have been inconsistent. The aim of the present study was to examine whether serum concentrations of major carotenoids, α-tocopherol and retinol, are related to any stroke and ischemic stroke in men. 

Methods: The study population consisted of 1,031 Finnish men aged 46−65 years in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor cohort. Serum concentrations of carotenoids retinol and α-tocopherol were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography. The association between the serum concentrations of lycopene α-carotene, β-carotene, α-tocopherol, and retinol and the risk of strokes was studied by using Cox proportional hazards models. 

Results: A total of 67 strokes occurred, and 50 of these were ischemic strokes during a median of 12.1 follow-up years. After adjustment for age, examination year, BMI, systolic blood pressure, smoking, serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, diabetes, and history of stroke, men in the highest quartile of serum lycopene concentrations had 59% and 55% lower risks of ischemic stroke and any stroke, compared with men in the lowest quartile (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.45, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.25−0.95, p = 0.036 for any stroke and HR = 0.41; 95% CI 0.17−0.97, p = 0.042 for ischemic stroke). α-Carotene, β-carotene, α-tocopherol, and retinol were not related to the risk of strokes. 

Conclusions: This prospective study shows that high serum concentrations of lycopene, as a marker of intake of tomatoes and tomato-based products, decrease the risk of any stroke and ischemic stroke in men. 

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Tomato firmware

 Tomato 1.28

Submitted by jon on Mon, 2010-06-28 12:48

• Firmware

Version 1.28

• Fixes for udhcpc. Thanks to fedor for his help.
• Warn if saving an empty Access Restriction since it's the same as blocking everything.
• Add option in Admin:Access to select which menus are permanently expanded.
• Increase PPPoE username and password length.
• Increase limit for web_printf to avoid problems handling very long variables.
• Update Dnsmasq to 2.55.

This is basically beta 1812 with an updated Dnsmasq.



Currently, there are some changes made to the systems and will perform testing at a later date.

- wong chee tat :)

Tomato 1.28 firmware

Tomato 1.28
Submitted by jon on Mon, 2010-06-28 12:48

• Firmware

Version 1.28

• Fixes for udhcpc. Thanks to fedor for his help.
• Warn if saving an empty Access Restriction since it's the same as blocking everything.
• Add option in Admin:Access to select which menus are permanently expanded.
• Increase PPPoE username and password length.
• Increase limit for web_printf to avoid problems handling very long variables.
• Update Dnsmasq to 2.55.

This is basically beta 1812 with an updated Dnsmasq.


- wong chee tat :)

Tomato 1.27

Submitted by jon on Sun, 2009-11-29 11:44

• Firmware

Version 1.27

• Fix DDNS "-1" error when service used HTTPS.

»Download

Upgraded.
 
- wong chee tat :)

Tomato 1.26

Submitted by jon on Thu, 2009-11-26 22:43

• Firmware

Version 1.26

• Allow a different port to be entered in Basic:Network:Static DNS (enter as "ip:port"). Be aware that dnsmasq must act as the DNS server (the default setting) when not using the normal port 53.
• Allow DHCP to serve the user-entered gateway (in Basic:Network) if the option in Advanced:DHCP is enabled.
• Do not start miniupnpd early to avoid warning messages.
• Update Australian DST (need to re-select), add Darwin, Brisbane TZ. Thanks to Peter O. for the info.
• Avoid double loading of tomato.css
• Fix possible null dereference in sendpage
• Collapsed all menus. For the old look, set nvram: "web_mx=status,bwm,tools"
• Obscured some key/password fields when not in focus.
• Accept more than two MAC addresses per IP address (ex: one IP for a laptop either wired or wireless [one at a time]). Note: Some computers may not like seeing the same IP unless it's restarted.
• Added LED options back in Admin:Buttons/LED.
• Added ID for WLA2-G54L, TrueMobile 2300 thanks to Nick B. and David J.
• Added EditDNS thanks to Keith M.
• Added UTC+4:30 Kabul time zone.
• Fixed port set validation allowed more than what could be handled.
• Allow rstats to log if WAN port is used for LAN.
• Update dnsmasq to 2.51, miniupnpd 1.4, busybox 1.14.4, matrixssl 1.8.8. 

- wong chee tat :)