text: Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Seg, 2007-08-20 às 11:22 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu: > >> Manu Abraham wrote: >> >>> You will need to handle the IOCTL calls for analog operations some >>> place, whatever you remove. >>> >>> I don't see at any place you are handling the IOCTL's directly in the >>> drivers. So you will be using callbacks from the place where you >>> are applying the ioctl's >>> >> You are getting ahead of things, Manu. The tuner.ko module will >> continue to remain as the v4l2 / i2c_client interface to the tuning >> functionality. >> > > For now, at a first glance, the way it was mapped seems fine. The way > the struct is described, a frontend can handle digital and/or analog > tuning. This seems OK. > > Using void* priv will just create some troubles, since this will avoid > gcc to do typecast checkings for no gain. > > >> We do not (yet) have to add these ioctl calls to the >> card-level drivers, as they will continue to interact with the various >> tuner modules via tuner.ko's i2c_client interface. >> >> I do have plans to remove this tuner.ko interface in the future, but >> that is way way in the future, after most of my planned tuner >> refactoring work is complete. There will be a completely separate RFC >> issued at that time. When that happens, the card level drivers will >> include dvb_frontend.h, just as the dvb card drivers do, and access the >> tuning methods that way, through the dvb_frontend structure. >> > > Removing the common ioctl handling code done by tuner.ko doesn't seem to > be nice, since this would generate overhead on other drivers that will > need to absorb the common tuner handling and probing. However, as > pointed, this should be discussed later, after finishing the tuner > refactoring. > The plans that I have for this is an overall cleanup, and will be a significant improvement in code readability and handling. Meanwhile, I do not plan on introducing this idea for many months, probably for 2.6.25 or 2.6.26, maybe 2.6.27... so I would rather not discuss this now -- it is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. > Michael, > > I didn't reviewed yet the tea5767 changes. I expect to do it later this > week (maybe today night). Thank you -- I appreciate that. When I did my testing of tuner-simple and tda8290 modules, I ran into some OOPS as a result of some simple issue, easily resolved. As I hit those issues, I was able to take care that the problem would be prevented in all new modules... If you get an OOPS in your testing of tea5767, just send me the dmesg output -- I'll probably be able to fix it immediately, although I doubt there will be any problem. Thanks in advance for the testing. Cheers, Mike


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ARLINGTON, Va. — The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without these improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped declining in 1994 and started going up. This is the main finding of a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without these improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped declining in 1994 and started going up. This is the main finding of a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
"Death rates per vehicle and per mile have been going down for decades, and they still are. This study shows why," says Institute president Adrian Lund. "In recent years it's the vehicles, not better drivers or improved roadways. The study reveals not only the importance of the vehicle design changes and the kinds of vehicles motorists are choosing to drive but, on the downside, the loss of momentum for effective traffic safety policies on belt use, alcohol-impaired driving, and speeding."
Influence of vehicle design improvements Driver deaths per million registered vehicles, actual death rates vs. hypothetical death rates based on 1985 vehicle designs
The difference between the actual and hypothetical rates translates into an estimated 5,200 additional lives that would have been lost in 2004 without the vehicle changes.
The researchers separated vehicle effects from other effects on motor vehicle death rates during 1985-2004 by estimating what the death rate trend would have been if vehicle designs hadn't changed over the years — that is, if people still were driving the kinds of vehicles they drove in 1985. The death rate trend given this hypothetical vehicle fleet started to go up in the 1990s, which is very different from the actual downward trend during the past 10 years.
"This suggests that an increasingly dangerous traffic environment has been offset since 1994 only because people are driving vehicles that are more protective," Lund points out. "Of course, the vehicle design changes are good, but people shouldn't have to buy new, more crashworthy vehicles to maintain their safety. Our concern is that the efforts we had been seeing in the 1980s to mandate belt use and toughen DWI laws diminished in the 1990s at the same time that states were raising speed limits. This produced an increasingly dangerous traffic environment. It has become dangerous enough that, without the design improvements that have made vehicles more crashworthy, death rates would have started up. An estimated 5,200 additional lives would have been lost in 2004 without the vehicle design changes."
To clarify what has been making deaths per registered vehicle go down, Institute researchers focused on two factors that influenced the driver death rate during 1985-2004. One is how vehicle use patterns change as vehicles age. The other is vehicle design changes — the introduction over time of different types of vehicles and more crashworthy ones to replace vehicles that weren't doing as good a job of protecting their occupants. In the U.S. fleet these two factors can have countervailing influences. As vehicles age, their death rates go up. On the other hand, more crashworthy vehicles have been introduced, and their death rates are lower than in the older vehicles they replaced. Plus the types of vehicles in the fleet have shifted, and the shift from driving cars to SUVs can change the death rates.
The researchers computed death rates for vehicle models that didn't change in design over three model years — 1996-98 models during 1999, for example. This eliminated the effects of any design changes on the death rate because there were no such changes. Computing the rates for several model year groups without design changes during individual calendar years, the researchers found that, on average, the death rate per registered vehicle increased 1 to 5 percent in each year of the first 7 years on the road.
Then the researchers separated out vehicle design effects on death rates by following the same vehicles over time. The rates still were affected by vehicle aging so, having already estimated the age effects, the researchers factored them out too. This is when the data revealed that the downward trend in death rates would have ended in the early 1990s. An upward trend would have begun if not for the changes in vehicle designs.
"The downward trend in death rates even as speed limits were being raised on U.S. roads led some speed advocates to argue that posted limits don't matter," Lund says. "But our research shows that speed limits do matter because, once we adjusted for vehicle age and design, what became clear are the escalating dangers of everyday traffic. We have serious problems out there with faster travel speeds, and we need to address these problems with effective policies. Of course, we also need to continue to improve vehicles because right now this is the main protection in crashes associated with unchecked driving behavior like speeding."
The research report, "Trends over time in the risk of driver death: what if vehicle designs had not improved?" by C.M. Farmer and A.K. Lund will be published in the journal, Traffic Injury Prevention, later this year.
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I found it an interesting read and thought it should be shared with my readers. The figure of 108,000 is huge and impressive when it is meant the number of those who have converted to Islam (by choice?) since 1989 by a man who was once a Hindu. In the town of Matli of Badin district, Sindh, Deen Mohammad Shaikh, a 70-year-old, wishes to see the entire world becoming Muslim.
Frankly, he did not inspire me as his wish hurts my 'perfect world' philosophy which shapes a way to the coexistence of all human beings with different faiths, creeds, ideologies, and cultures. I have not intended to comment on this for the sake of just criticism, but the disappointment has provoked me to share those resentful feelings. The mindset of "Muslims winning, ruling the world" has a deep meaningful connection to Muslims psychological euphoria of being "superior." The superiority which they have inherited from their glorious history which has created winners and conquerors is a push that keeps the fire burning.
I would wait till the day when a Hindu or, for that matter, a Christian decides to convert Muslims and Muslims all over the world will go gaga, protesting, burning properties, and killing people from other religions. Hold on, how easily the great Pakistani Muslims have chosen to forget the hard work they have put in harassing, intimidating and killing Ahmaids, Christians, Hindus and many more?
The only Muslim and Pakistani Nobel laureate was Abdus Salam who won it for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces in 1979. No one else since then has reached to that level of excellence, and brought fame to this country, but he, too, suffered from the hate and negligence from this 'religion stricken country'. His crime was that he was a proud Ahmadi. We bask in the glory of Muhammad Bin Qasim and Mehmood Ghaznavi, but ignore the existing pride out of our extreme bias, hatred and prejudice for those whose beliefs are different. Muhammad Bin Qasim and Mehmood Ghaznavi are past and I am not fully convinced if they are my heroes, but Abdus Salam certainly is. This country needs more of such people and their religion is not my business.
I stop here, enjoy the read….
MATLI: Such are Deen Mohammad Shaikh's powers of persuasion that he has converted 108,000 people to Islam since 1989, the year he left his birth religion Hinduism behind.
His multi-coloured business card describes the Matli dweller as the president of the Jamia Masjid Allah Wali and Madrassa Aisha Taleem-ul Quran – an institute for conversions to Islam.
The reedy 70-year-old brandishes an embellished cane. A red-and-white keffeiyah perched on his shoulder offers people a hint to his theological leanings.
As he speaks to The Express Tribune, his arm slices an invisible arc through the air. He is gesturing to a vast expanse of nine acres of donated land where converts are invited to pitch a tent and stay. "My heartfelt wish is that the entire world becomes Muslim," comes his response, when asked about the en masse conversions. His piety is matched only by its ambition.
But contrary to the grandiose proclamation, this preacher isn't a repository of rehearsed sound bites. It is only after he settles down on a charpoy that he deigns to embark on the journey of a Hindu named Jhangli who became an expert in evangelism.
"I always loved Islam," he begins. "I read the Holy Quran and realised that 360 gods were not of any use to me."
At first he had to study the Holy Quran in secret. There was the risk of being misunderstood if a Muslim caught him with the holy book. He started fasting and in fact he would begin a day before Ramazan started.
Shaikh's mother grew alarmed at her son's forays into another faith. She thought that if she married him off, he would not 'leave'. Thus, he was barely 15 when his wedding took place, followed by a quick overtaking by nature – four girls and eight boys.
But despite this, he was drawn back to his curiosity and managed to find a teacher, Sain Mohammad Jagsi, who instructed him in the Holy Quran and Hadiths or sayings of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).
Fortunately, Shaikh's uncle was of the same mind and the two men agreed that they would give each other the strength. Shaikh held off until his daughter was married to a Hindu as planned, since he had already "given his word". Then there was no turning back.
After his conversion, Deen Mohammad Shaikh made it his mission to woo others. He began in his own backyard, preaching to family, before venturing beyond this comfort zone. Encounters with the rich and powerful helped pave the way. Retired Pakistan Army general Sikandar Hayat, who owns a sugar mill in Matli, offered Shaikh money, which he turned down. Instead, he urged Hayat to give jobs to some of the new converts. Hayat and his daughter proved extremely helpful in providing assistance.
Now, Shaikh says, his fame has spread and people come to him from as far as Balochistan, members of all religions and sects, who would like to convert. A small mosque has sprung up in his residential compound along with a number of rooms where children – mostly girls – are taught how to say their prayers and recite the Holy Quran.
One of the teachers is 14-year-old Sakina, who is just 15 days into the job. "Only a few students are difficult to teach," she says while commenting on their ability to recite a text in an unknown language.
Shaikh is aware of the difficulties converts face while taking on what appear to be the initially daunting rigours of a brand new system. He makes life easy for the first 40 days. "They only have to pray farz!" he says while referring to the mandatory parts. This relaxed schedule ensures that they can 'confirm their faith'. He understands that if he demanded they start out with praying five times a day to offer even the optional and 'bonus' parts, "They would run away!" as he puts it with a look of mock horror on his face.
Other than this, he is reluctant to actually explain how he influences the people. All he offers is a nugget of fire and brimstone: "I tell them that I was a Hindu too and that they would burn in Hell if they are not Muslim."
More than saving a soul
There are other practical considerations that accompany conversions. In order to 'save' the converts from influential Hindus in other districts, Shaikh packs them off to Hub Chowk while the Kalima is still moist on their lips. "Their families would beat them up (for converting) otherwise," he explains.
This trick of the 'trade' he learnt from personal experience. He alleges that he was kidnapped along with his daughter-in-law by influential Hindus who threatened him so that he would stop converting people. "They don't want these poor Hindus to stand up to them when they become Muslims," Shaikh maintains.
Despite 108,000 conversions, for which a record is kept, Shaikh still doesn't feel his work is done. He wants everyone to be a Muslim and learn from his example. He also attends the Tablighi Jamaat's annual congregation in Raiwind, although he doesn't believe in sectarian divisions. "All groups are like brothers to me," he declares.
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|"Democracy" Under Chavez: A National Guardsman Holds a New, or
Perhaps Very Old, Type of Weapon Known as the Garrampiño to Intimidate Protesters
A Political Meltdown in Venezuela?
Things are heating up in Venezuela in ways we have not seen before. After revoking the broadcast license for independent television station RCTV in 2007, which removed it from the public airwaves in 2008, Hugo Chavez has now forced Venezuelan cable television services to cease providing the RCTV channel to their subscribers, along with numerous other stations he regards as threatening to his regime. This comes on the heels of his closure of some 150 radio stations who did not offer what he deems to be the proper level of support for his policies. Protests have sprouted up all over the country, though the strongest have been very large student-led demonstrations in Caracas and also in the western state of Merida, as police and national guard units have violently responded to what appears to verge on a mass uprising. There have been at least two deaths thus far, but the situation threatens to take a turn for the worse, particularly in Merida, where a new phenomenon has emerged within the Venezuelan resistance.
In the protests in Merida, the opposition has shot back.
The demonstrations in Merida took an ugly turn Monday when protesters responded to an appearance by the pro-Chavez Tupumaro militia who joined National Guardsmen struggling to resist protesters and restrict their movements when shots felled a 16 year old Chavez supporter named Yorsinio José Carrillo Torres. Other shots ensued, with at least one volley coming from the protesters themselves, who wounded several guardsmen, one of whom was taken to intensive care. An anti-Chavista student was murdered later in the week, which Daniel Duquenal reports was likely the work of the Tupumaro acting in retaliation.
|Pro-Chavez Tupumaro Militia Members in Merida Carry the Coffin of
16 year old Yorsinio José Carrillo Torres, Killed Last Monday
Source: El Nacional
|A National Guardsman Wounded in Merida is Taken to Intensive Care
Source: El Nacional
The protests have spread across the entire country to include the states of Merida, Lara, Zulia, and more. And the results are revealing cracks among Chavez's former supporters. There have been resignations from his cabinet, forcing him to name a new Vice President and Defense Minister. With mounting protests in the state of Lara, Chavez has threatened to nationalize its police force, but its governor and former ally Henry Falcon has rejected the takeover stating that the police in the state have "for months understood the necessity of their internal transformation so as to create an ethical and responsible compromise with the people of Lara." The implications of Falcon's use of the adjectives "ethical" and "responsible" provide some indication of the internal debate which must now be taking place among Chavez's supporters; a most telling sign of the pace and direction of political change in the country.
|Henry Falcon, Governor of the State of Lara and Historically
a Chavez Ally, Speaks to the Press on Friday, Rejecting
Chavez's Threat to Nationalize the Lara State Police
Source: Noticias24.com
Student Protests in Caracas: The Center of the Storm
The driving force behind the protests now underway all over Venezuela is clearly the activism of university students in Caracas, who have shown up every day this week to demonstrate and at times, especially last Monday, in the tens of thousands. They are presenting a unified resistance to the closure of RCTV and their dogged, stubborn insistence upon change is igniting and emboldening anti-Chavista elements across the country.
|Numbers Matter: Caracas Students Amassed for a
Demonstration Against Closure of RCTV Earlier This Week
Source: Noticias24.com
|Students Arriving for Demonstration
Source: Noticias24.com
The student demonstrations last Monday were peaceful in nature until they attempted to approach the Venezuelan communications agency offices of Conatel, when the police retaliated with tear gas and beatings to disperse them, a response that led to some of the students throwing rocks and returning the tear gas canisters in a substantial display of bravery in the face of intimidation from the regime.
|A Venezuelan Student Wearing a Gas Mask Throws
a Tear Gas Canister Back at Caracas Police Last Monday
Source: Noticias24.com
The Chavez government's retaliation against the students has begun, and it is taking various forms. Andres Bello Catholic University is practically under a state of siege at this time, and students are being arrested, detained, beaten, and otherwise harassed as they come and go from the university grounds. Chavez refers to this move as a "revolutionary action," though the rest of us might view it as simple terror. And the intimidation of student protesters has gone all the way to torture, a charge the Chavez regime has unsuccessfully denied.
|Evidence of Chavez Regime Torture: Students Injured at Hands of Venezuelan Police
My thanks to everyone at Babalú
Analysis: Something Old, Something New
As has always been the case, it is very difficult to gauge the current political climate throughout Venezuela in terms of the impact of the closure of RCTV, the student demonstrations and larger protests around the country, and the at times brutal response of the Chavez regime. But there is now clearly something new in the mix; the opposition is becoming emboldened and for a number of reasons. RCTV has been one of the most popular television channels in the country for years, and this has as much to do with soap operas and other entertainment, i.e. "non-news," programming as anything else. Its closure cannot be viewed with satisfaction in the country by very many Venezuelans beyond the most disciplined Chavistas, an observation that is strengthened when the RCTV closure is grouped together with the other recent actions taken against hundreds of broadcast outlets in radio and television combined. And all of this is added on to the very real and serious complaints Venezuelans have with the regime for its gross mismanagement of practically all facets of the economy and public life. The students know they have an audience that is willing to listen.
But the most striking thing in my opinion is that the students themselves seem to be showing a newfound courage that leaves them optimistic about their prospects for success, and that is a little more difficult to explain. But take a look at the following photo of students within last Monday's demonstration:
|Students Protesting in Caracas Last Monday
Source: Noticias24.com
It is a purely subjective observation on my part, but I make it forcefully. There is something in those smiles and bright eyes that tells me they know something we don't. As best as I can explain it, they have seen the regime unmask itself before the Venezuelan people. Chavez recently acknowledged that he is a Marxist and what we are therefore seeing, in my opinion, are the steps necessary to put aside the trappings of Democracy and to impose dictatorship in its place. The divisions among Chavez's former supporters, the geographical breadth of the protests, and the intensity and courage of Venezuelan student activism tell me that he will fail and the students know it.
Chavez is on his way out.
Around the Blogosphere
The intensity of the recent protests in Venezuela has exploded within the blogosphere and it would be impossible to track it all. But I want to take this opportunity to identify the blogs I believe will offer the most informed insight and who I believe represent some of the finest work done on Venezuela that is now out there on the web.
Alek Boyd has really led the way, being one of the first to truly nail Chavez for what he is and who I acknowledge was a great influence upon my own decision to blog Latin American leftism. Check out his most recent commentary on the Wall Street Journal "weighing in" on the meltdown of the Chavez regime. I am ever an admirer of Gustavo Coronel, who blogs in both Spanish and English. Gustavo sees the significance of Chavez's clash with the students very clearly, give "dictatorship - vs - students: the death of the Chavez nightmare" a look, along with everything else. From within Venezuela, Daniel Duquenal's Venezuela News and Views blog is one of the very best and often has some of the finest insights delivered quickly and succinctly. The "Let's Do the Math on the Gerrymander" article in the Caracas Chronciles blog is only the most recent entry, keep an eye on the site for some excellent and serious analysis. Miguel at The Devil's Excrement has been posting some very fine content. I especially recommend his take on a recent and very influential editorial by Teodoro Petkoff of Tal Cual that seems to have touched Chavez to the quick, as he is now threatening retaliation against the newspaper.
Perhaps the first of the "Freedom Bloggers" on the web were the anti-Castro Cubans and/or Cuban-Americans--I wouldn't want to misname them--and they are not missing the significance of what is going down in Venezuela. The Babalú Blog is among the best at getting out the news in a hurry and you might find them among the first at reporting. Ziva Sahl's Blog for Cuba has been tracking what is going on, frequently in Spanish but at times in English, and very much worth a good look.
Finally, for those looking for exclusively Spanish content, I always recommend Martha Colmenares, who has been posting articles from Venezuelan news sources at a rapid pace recently and who does perhaps the finest job anywhere of "covering the bases"--I don't think Venezuelans would object to a baseball analogy--when it comes to presenting a comprehensive coverage of what is transpiring in the country she loves so dearly.
I will have much more to say on Venezuela in the coming days and months ahead. These are fascinating times.
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California public bus passenger set on fire
OAKLAND, Calif. – Police say a man was severely burned after he was set on fire while riding a public bus during evening rush hour in Northern California.
The Oakland Tribune says the driver of the AC Transit bus stopped the Line 57 bus to call for assistance after noticing the fire shortly after 5 p.m. Monday in Oakland. Several people exited the back of the bus.
AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson says the unidentified victim was taken to the burn center at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. Neither police nor Johnson could disclose the severity of his injuries.
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It's 15 minutes of fun, frivolity, and community creation that many geocachers anticipate each year. The 9th geocaching World Wide Flash Mob (WWFM) is approaching in just over two weeks. This year, on June 9, more than 200 WWFM events are already planned in 25 countries. More events are expected.
According to the creators of the WWFM, Sonny and Sandy of the Podcacher Podcast, a WWFM is, "… meant to be a fun 'opposite' of a Mega-Event. [It's] all the cool aspects of a geocaching event, crammed into 15 minutes of excitement. An added dimension is represented by the letters "WW" – World Wide. These events occur across the planet on the same day at (mostly) the same time! These caching events are intended to bring geocachers together in a creative way, as well as introduce others (newbies) to the hobby."
A WWFM event usually involves geocachers quietly gathering. They pretend they don't know each other. When the chosen time arrives, geocachers perform prearranged tasks like pillow fighting, bubble blowing, or flying paper airplanes. All the geocachers sign the logbook, then after 15 minutes, they quickly leave. Many geocachers meet up later to go geocaching together.
At least 10,000 geocachers are expected to attend WWFM IX events for the on June 9, 2012. Find an event near you by exploring the WWFM IX Bookmark list. If you want to organize an event, all WWFM events need to be submitted at least two weeks before June 9.
If you're attending an event, Sonny and Sandy say the advice is easy.
1) Arrive early
2) Act like a muggle before the event starts (don't congregate with other geocachers)
3) Enjoy the fun spirit of the WWFM
4) At the end of 15 minutes, leave without a trace
5) Plan to meet up with other geocachers later to spend a fun day caching
Watch this blog for WWFM IX updates. Are you planning on hosting or attending a WWFM event?


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Each year Brian Stucky's 2nd grade art class at Goessel Elementary School takes four class periods to make a red and green paper Christmas chain. Though there were only 16 students in the class this year, they broke the record with 318 feet. The old record was 315 feet.
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The dump-truck driver involved in a fatal bicycle accident in Lefthand Canyon on Friday was convicted for his role in a high-profile road-rage altercation with a cyclist in the same area two years ago.
Although the investigation into Friday's crash is still underway, preliminary results show the truck driver -- Christopher G. Loven, 45, of Boulder County -- was at fault because he failed to yield the right of way, Colorado State Patrol Cpl. Eric Wynn said Monday evening.
A decision has not yet been made whether to charge Loven in connection with the death of Eugene Philip Howrey, 73, of Boulder, Wynn said.
Loven could not be reached for comment Monday.
Howrey, known to family and friends as Phil, was riding with his wife, Sharon, at the time of the accident, his son, Mark Howrey, told AnnArbor.com on Monday.
"It was very shocking and it still is shocking, but he died doing what he loved best, and we're all thankful that it was very quick and painless," Mark Howrey told the website based in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Phil Howrey -- a founding member of the Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society -- lived until a few years ago.
'Two separate incidents'
The Camera reported in 2009 that Loven was ticketed on suspicion of reckless endangerment after a cyclist said Loven used his truck to push him into oncoming traffic near Lee Hill Drive and Olde Stage Road. A witness confirmed the cyclist's account.
Court records show Loven pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to probation and community service in that case, which exacerbated tensions between bicyclists and drivers in Boulder County.
Wynn said investigators will use evidence only from Friday's crash in making a determination of fault.
"These are two separate incidents," Wynn said Monday. "You can't hold someone accountable in one case for something that happened in another case."
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said investigators typically consult with prosecutors about charges in accidents that result in death or serious injury, but his office hadn't spoken with anyone yet about Friday's accident.
Swerved to avoid truck
According to an accident report, Loven was driving a Kenworth W900 dump truck hauling a trailer with construction equipment west on Lefthand Canyon Drive when he turned left to go south on Olde Stage Road a little after noon on Friday, Wynn said.
The cyclist, Howrey, was heading east on Lefthand Canyon, Wynn said.
Howrey swerved to the right to try to avoid the truck, Wynn said, but the right side of the truck struck the left side of the bicycle. Howrey was thrown about 36 feet. He suffered fatal injuries and was declared dead at the scene.
Wynn said neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected in the accident, and he was not sure how long the investigation will take.
'Safest rider'
Mark Howrey told AnnArbor.com that the accident was all the more shocking because his dad -- an avid cyclist who was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident -- was extremely safety conscious.
"I remember as a kid we always had to wear helmets even when no one else was," Mark Howrey said.
Frank Lamitola, a member of the Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society, who went on many rides with Howrey during the years, seconded that.
"He was the safest rider I've ever ridden with," he told AnnArbor.com. "We rode tandem together quite a bit. He was constantly scanning the area and checking the intersections. He knew exactly how to handle a tandem."
Phil Howrey's wife, Sharon, declined to comment when reached over the weekend.
Camera Staff Writer Amy Bounds and AnnArbor.com contributed to this report.


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The Passion of Relisha Rudd
The first ominous sign that the Relisha Rudd case was slipping from the local Washington, D.C. imagination was when the police alert signs posted on the roads into the city had their messages changed, or were removed entirely.
For weeks after the news that the little eight-year-old girl was missing broke on March 19, the digital display boards had broadcast the Amber alert in their amber lettering, its grim message truncated in a style all too appropriate for the digital age: "BLK Female, 8 YRS, 4'0", 70-80 LBS," along with a contact number to report sightings. Radio stations had urged citizens repeatedly to be on the lookout.
Because I tend to leave WTOP news radio on a little too often when the children are around, my ten-year-old son grew preoccupied with the case, and because he cannot admit to himself that tragedy is ever actually happening, came to me and said, earnest with his watery blue eyes, "Mom, you know they found that girl."
Hoping, hoping.
My Brother John: A Eulogy for the Living
For some months now, I have been ruminating on the writer John Podhoretz's eulogy in Commentary magazine for his sister Rachel Abrams upon her death, from stomach cancer, at age 62. Commentary effectively being the Podhoretz family house organ, and the Podhoretzes effectively being the mythological family of the origin of neoconservatism, the essay would be of interest to anyone interested in cultural and religious sociology — or at least to me.
I, too, come from a family that has also tended to think of itself in somewhat mythological, contrarian terms — This is what Langstons are like — so a meditation from the heart of another large, bustling family is an immediate and natural draw for me.
But lay that all aside. The eulogy wins, and haunts, because it is the passionate remembrance of a sister by her brother. Despite their being part of a prominent East Coast family, its focus is relentlessly on the small acts of family and home that transfigure quotidian existence. Podhoretz dwells lovingly on Rachel as a housewife, a lifetime foul-mouth, an exuberant and dedicated mother, an artist, and finally a writer who let loose with political commentary in her late fifties as online blogs began gathering steam.
"I loved you, Rachel," he concludes poignantly, in words I could read over and over. "I liked you. And oh, oh, oh, how I admired you."
So much of that poignancy is derived from direct address to his sister, who is no longer there to receive it. Having just hit 45, Dante comes to mind: midway-through-the-journey-of-our-life-I found myself within a dark wood for the right way had been lost. Who can know how our days are numbered? The lesson for me is that I should tell of how I love my brother John, even as he lives.
The Bible as Icon
With six children in a Southern Baptist family in the 1970s, we could easily have had a dozen Bibles in the house. There was the giant, gray Family Bible with the embossed cover that resided on the bottom shelf of the living room, which nobody ever read. And there was a scattering of those palm-sized New Testament and Psalms around the place, like silverfish in a drawer — always white or pale green, with ersatz gold leafing that would flake off under the prodding of a fingernail.
There was a Novum Testamentum from when my oldest sister took Latin in college, sandwiched on a shelf. I also always liked the ones from the Gideons (do the Gideons even still exist?) that had translations of John 3:16 in the back. My favorite: Sinhalese.
The vast majority, though, were what could be termed "presentation Bibles." Invariably from Broadman Press (headquartered in Nashville, the Baptist Vatican), either slick shoe-polish black or steak-slab red "bonded leather" (Ooh, baby!), these had been awarded as part of Sunday school or Scripture memorization schemes, and always had about them the whiff of bribery, with the name of the person to whom the Bible was "dedicated" written in ostentatious cursive in the front. "The Words of Christ Are in Red," it was noted, and in the back was a sheaf of biblical maps, the topography of the Exodus, and Paul's missionary journeys rendered in Sweet Tart pink and blue.
On Leaning In
Well, somebody had to do it: Somebody had to go buy the incessantly hyped volume Lean In by the stratospherically successful Facebook COO (and mother of two) Sheryl Sandberg, and figure out what's behind the seemingly endless radio talk shows and online profiles — they have been following me, they have, filling up my car like clouds of incense and dinging on my phone with the book's mantra-like subtitle, Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
I bought this part-memoir, part self-help book on a gorgeous spring weekday when, because I work part-time, I was supposed to be home anyway. Because the pollen was getting to me and I had woken up groggy, my husband generously offered to take the children to school on his way in to work, something that Sandberg would applaud: husbands who will assume major leadership at home are a major key in enabling mothers to succeed.
I stumbled around the house in my nightgown for a while, then finally got dressed and picked up Lean In at the Target in suburban Largo, Md., which at 10 on a weekday morning, was as silent as a tomb.
I drove half an hour to have lunch with a homeschooling friend, folded laundry and cleaned some grout, picked up my children from school and finally settled down to read the book on the bench at my son's baseball practice, as the evening sun sank over the trees.
I found myself surprised by how much I enjoyed it: Sandberg, who's about my age and who shares some of my generational preoccupations, comes across as warm and intimate, gently self-deprecating in describing her own "monkey bar" career path (it's not a ladder, she says, because you can move sideways too), as well as some of her mistakes.
The Anniversary of My Father's Death
"After the first exile, there is no other."
—Rosellen Brown, The Autobiography of My Mother, 1976
The great wheel of the year has turned once more, and I find myself back at the beginning again. Not at the start of a brand new year, but rather, at the anniversary of my father's death.
I was eight years old when he died, on January 8, 1977, after six long months of decline from lung cancer. In the family's last-minute midnight scramble to the King's Daughters Hospital to offer a final farewell, I was adjudged too young and too asleep to wake up for the ride.
I found out that he had died when I crawled from bed at dawn the next morning, yawning and jonesing for cartoons, only to find a bath robed neighbor stoking the fireplace, and my father disappeared into ether.
That singular fact has been the still point of my turning world in the decades since.
The Eclipse of the Airport Chapel
The San Francisco International Airport has a yoga room, but no chapel. At least that's what it looked like, when I was there a couple of weeks ago at six o'clock in the morning: The Yoga Room was obviously a point of pride, with extensive signage along the concourse, but there was no indication that there might be other kinds of religious — excuse me, spiritual — spaces.
It turns out that SFO does, in fact, have a chapel, though it is tucked away in the International Terminal, and is known as "The Berman Reflection Room," which, as an entry on IFly.com cites, "provides a center for quite self-reflection and meditation."
Assorted photographs from Flickr, if they can be trusted, depict the space as not much different than an airport gate, with carpet, lines of chairs and window-walls of glass, plus what appears to be a vestigial Chuppah-type structure, and some potted plants. (The website for a group called the Interfaith Center at the Presidio, incidentally, laments that it was asked to raise funds for the Berman Reflection Room, but not allowed to conduct any "programming" there.)
If the cliché that all trends move eastward from California stands, then the idea of airport chapels and other incidental religious spaces would appear to be in eclipse.
Which would be too bad, for I've always loved sighting the airport-chapel logo out of the corner of my eye, skidding my beat-up suitcase across the concourse, and entering a hushed space of—well, exactly what?
DIY Sacramental Tedium
Last Tuesday, after it became clear that Superstorm Sandy was going to bypass Washington, D.C., in favor of New York, I decided to stain the discolored grout in the bathroom.
It appeared that we had a few more hours to stay inside with our batteries and massive food stores—the rains were still torrential, the children were snuggled up under blankets watching a movie, my husband was practicing guitar—so I pulled out the blue painter's tape and the bottle of Grout Refresh (No. 14: Biscuit/Bizcocho) I'd gotten at Lowe's and kneeled down on the hard tile.
Painstakingly, and I am not one who usually takes pains—where do you think my son got his ADHD?—I cut strips of tape to edge either side of the lines of grout, a suggestion offered by a commenter on a home improvement forum. Otherwise, my gut would have been to trowel it on, freestyle, and hope for the best.
Once I managed to tape perhaps a three-foot-square section of the floor—I was too eager to invest the time for the whole space—I spread an old Snoopy toothbrush with the thick ecru paste, and dragged it slowly, evenly, down the lines, holding my breath.
I exhaled when I was done, and waited with expectation. Two hours later, after misting my handiwork with water and waiting another interval, I pulled up the strips of tape to see perfectly neat, unstained, biscuit-colored grout, like you might see in a new bathroom, in a new house somewhere.
Raising Sons and Raising Men
This past Saturday, on a brilliant fall morning, my eight-year-old son came bounding downstairs for breakfast. I reached into the refrigerator, grabbed a cold Diet Mountain Dew from in between glass-bottled organic milk and tomato juice, and served it to him with farm-fresh eggs, feeling the part of a drug dealer.
We had a long day ahead, and I wanted to see what happened.
I smiled to myself, imagining some upcoming event, the mothers' conversation all about peanut-free this and local that, when I'd pipe above the crowd to say, Hey sweetheart, how about your Mountain Dew?
The arrival of Diet Mountain Dew in my house is only the first in a cascade of little experiments we are now undertaking as a result of neuropsychological testing in August indicating that my son has a form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Our house has never lacked order or discipline, and yet now we are thinking about how to structure everything more explicitly.
Diet Mountain Dew, with its massive amounts of caffeine, is our initial effort in our goal of avoiding, for now, giving him any stimulant medications: Did you know that caffeine actually calms down a hyperactive person, allowing them to focus? Maybe that's why I've drunk eight cups of coffee every day since around 1985.
I tried the coffee with my son first, hoping I could cultivate a new bond with him over a shared habit. He detested the stuff. You could always give him Red Bull, one of my brothers said. I couldn't bring myself to do that, hence the Diet Mountain Dew.
The Final Chapter in a Promising Young Life
I was driving when it occurred to me that it has been 20 years since my old friend Geoff Sanders was murdered.
I was headed home from work, public radio blasting even though I really wasn't listening, the rosy beginnings of sunset blooming over the abandoned warehouses of gritty New York Avenue, the route I take every day.
Then a piece came on the radio — I've tried in vain to find it since. How my memory fails me — about a mentoring program for young inner-city men set in the context of a wave of gang violence that spread across Chicago this summer.
Even if you can't save everybody, the director was saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, it's worth it if you just save one.
Depression, Gift, and Legacy
Across five states and 20 years, on the couch at the psychoanalyst's, wadded Kleenex in my hands, and kneeling on the marble floor of the confessional, incense curling through my hair, I sorted through the jagged prisms of experience that, as a child, I did not understand: What it means to be in the constant presence of someone who does not look you in the eye, who lives beyond the bar of constant preoccupation.
I didn't understand then the tiresome vigilance I'd develop as a result—the almost unconscious, constant mental sorting to see if, at that moment, I was OK, or if others were about to abandon me forever—a reaction I've heard is common among children of alcoholics, and which I've seen myself in the needy inner-city children I have taught.
Along the way, I discovered that the seed of my mother's sadness had been there all along, from my earliest memory, well before my father died. And by the time I was a toddler, the seed had germinated in me, too.
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Hey everyone... I'm Amy from Coffee, Crafts & Cupcakes!
I'm thrilled to be a guest blogger today at Party Box Design.
I had cupcakes on the brain because really why wouldn't you be thinking about them? Oh there are some folks out there who say cupcakes have run their course, the trend is over...blah blah... I think cupcakes are here to stay just like cakes and pies. Sure there is probably an over saturation of cupcake shops BUT cupcakes will always have a special place in my heart and tummy.
With the popularity of Pinterest there is no shortage of fabulous cupcake images and recipes. I pin a lot of them hoping to actually try out the recipes...but I have to admit I haven't made one cupcake recipe! Not enough hours in the day.
Anyhoo...I thought I would share some of my faves that I pinned on my cupcake board. Each cupcake pin will take you to the actual recipe so if you're feeling ambitious let me know how they turn out!
OR if you're like me and just like drooling over the fab pictures...grab a tissue and drool away!
Happy Friday!
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The Battery Cable Connection at the Fuse Block May Break
Recall Details
The vehicle battery is connected to the fuse box via a heavy duty cable. It has been determined that the cable connection at the fuse box can degrade over time, resulting in increased electrical resistance. This increased resistance can cause the connection point to overheat and break, resulting in a loss of electrical power and causing the engine to stall, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will replace the positive battery cable connector and secure it with an improved method to correct this concern.
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Vehicle electrical power may be lost due to a faulty battery cable connection.
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Mangrove management in the Pacific has its unique challenges. Dr. Milika Sobey talks about these challenges and how IUCN's MESCAL project is helping to provide solutions.
Dr. Milika Sobey is the Water & Wetlands Coordinator for IUCN Oceania, and also manages the Mangrove Ecosystems for Climate change Adaptation and Livelihoods (MESCAL) project being implemented in five Pacific Island Countries. MESCAL focuses on addressing key challenges of mangrove management by using an adaptive co-management approach and improving baseline knowledge and management capacity.
Q. With today's growing population, economic pressures and climate change impacts, it seems that proper and sustainable management of mangroves is difficult to achieve. What are the challenges for Pacific Island Countries?
Q. What challenges have you encountered in implementing the MESCAL project?
Q. How is the MESCAL Project helping to improve mangrove management in the five countries?
Q. What approach(es) is (are) working in the Pacific to improve mangrove management?
Through my experiences, working with the governments works. Its given the MESCAL project more credibility, more clout, its allowed for government ownership and collaboration between the different government departments. A lot of other projects go through the communities and they have their successes as well. I think once you get recognition, and once its taken on board at the top level it really adds to the credibility and the momentum. Having senior level involvement really helps to improve the profile and also the outputs of the project. For example here in Fiji, the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Lands is now the Chair for the Mangrove Management Committee and that has been a big boost for the project.
Q. Despite the challenges, what are the rewards in this type of work?
Seeing the enthusiasm within each country for their mangroves - they've discovered more species and more mangroves than they thought they had - that enthusiasm for mangrove resources and creating awareness and just taking ownership of it is a reward for me. Also just seeing the capacity of local countries to do their own surveys and to be able analyse their own data, and that they aren't relying so much on external consultants doing it for them.
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Calorie values are based on the Atwater system for determining energy values. The factors used in the calculation of energy in the database are given in the food description file of the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release. The basis and derivation of these factors are described in
Merrill, A.L. and Watt, B.K. 1973. Energy Value of Foods...Basis and Derivation. Agriculture Handbook No. 74. U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC. 105p.
This reference is out of print, but a scanned copy is viewable on our home page. It may also be available at many university libraries. The Atwater system uses specific energy factors which have been determined for basic food commodities. These specific factors take into account the physiological availability of the energy from these foods. The more general factors of 4-9-4 were developed from the specific calorie factors determined by Professor Atwater and associates. For multi-ingredient foods which are listed by brand name, calorie values generally reflect industry practices of calculating calories from 4-9-4 kcal/g for protein, fat, and carbohydrate, respectively, or from 4-9-4 minus insoluble fiber. The latter method is frequently used for high-fiber foods because insoluble fiber is considered to provide no physiological energy. If the calorie factors are blank or zero for an item in the Database, energy was calculated by recipe from ingredients or was supplied by the manufacturer.
How is Carbohydrate, by difference determined?
Carbohydrate is determined as the difference between 100 and the sum of the percentages of water, protein, total lipid (fat), ash, and, when present, alcohol. Total carbohydrate values include total dietary fiber.
Total carbohydrate by difference = 100 - [water, protein, total lipid, ash and alcohol in g/100g]
Why don't the individual fatty acid or the fatty acid classes add up to the total lipid (fat)?
The fatty acids are reported as grams of fatty acid per 100 grams of food. They may not add up to the total lipid value provided in a database because the fat value may include some non-fatty acid material, such as, glycerol, phosphate, sugar or sterol. In the case of vegetable oils that are 100% triglyceride, 95.6% is fatty acid and the remaining 4.4% is glycerol. For other fats, the percent of fatty acid will be even lower. Lipid conversion factors for specific fats define the amount of fatty acid (in grams) per gram of fat. The factor is 0.956 for triglycerides and lower for other fats. The factors used in each section of Agriculture Handbook No. 8 were published in an appendix table. In addition, the individual fatty acids may not add up to their respective total fatty acid classes (saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated) and in turn, the sum of the total for each class may not add up to the value for total lipid.
How do I get a copy of Agriculture Handbook No. 8?
The electronic version of Agriculture Handbook No. 8, the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference can be downloaded from this Home Page. A program allowing you to search the database is also available. Reports giving the content of each item in the Database are available online. Printed copies of Agriculture Handbook No. 8, Composition of Foods, are no longer available, though copies may be available at libraries in universities with departments of nutrition or food science. Since there is no copyright, you are free to make additional copies.
What is the status of the USDA Database for the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) of Selected Foods?
In 2012 USDA's Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) removed the USDA ORAC Database for Selected Foods from the NDL website due to mounting evidence that the values indicating antioxidant capacity have no relevance to the effects of specific bioactive compounds, including polyphenols on human health.
There are a number of bioactive compounds which are theorized to have a role in preventing or ameliorating various chronic diseases such as cancer, coronary vascular disease, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. However, the associated metabolic pathways are not completely understood and non-antioxidant mechanisms, still undefined, may be responsible. ORAC values are routinely misused by food and dietary supplement manufacturing companies to promote their products and by consumers to guide their food and dietary supplement choices.
A number of chemical techniques, of which Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) is, one, were developed in an attempt to measure the antioxidant capacity of foods. The ORAC assay measures the degree of inhibition of peroxy-radical-induced oxidation by the compounds of interest in a chemical milieu. It measures the value as Trolox equivalents and includes both inhibition time and the extent of inhibition of oxidation. Some newer versions of the ORAC assay use other substrates and results among the various ORAC assays are not comparable. In addition to the ORAC assay, other measures of antioxidant capacity include ferric ion reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and trolox equivalence antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assays. These assays are based on discrete underlying mechanisms that use different radical or oxidant sources and therefore generate distinct values and cannot be compared directly.
There is no evidence that the beneficial effects of polyphenol-rich foods can be attributed to the antioxidant properties of these foods. The data for antioxidant capacity of foods generated by in vitro (test-tube) methods cannot be extrapolated to in vivo (human) effects and the clinical trials to test benefits of dietary antioxidants have produced mixed results. We know now that antioxidant molecules in food have a wide range of functions, many of which are unrelated to the ability to absorb free radicals.
For these reasons the ORAC table, previously available on this web site has been withdrawn.
What is the status of the USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods?
In 2012 USDA's Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) removed the USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods from the NDL website due to constant changes in formulations for commercial, multi-ingredient foods, the primary contributor of added sugars to the diet. Though a reevaluation of these foods, their ingredients and ingredient proportions is integral to our ongoing monitoring program, we are not recalculating added and intrinsic sugars at this point in time. This is, in part, because brand name market shares and ingredients are changed so rapidly that these estimates are more a temporary cross-section in time than fixed values. No method can analyze for added sugars so their amounts must be extrapolated or supplied by food companies, many of which are not willing to make public such proprietary information.
For these reasons the Added Sugars Table, previously available on this web site, has been withdrawn.
I'm looking for dietary advice. Can you tell me which foods are best for me to eat?
NDL does not provide any kind of dietary advice. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services has prepared Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. We recommend nutrition counseling by a qualified professional. The American Dietetic Association maintains a service to find a Registered Dietitian in your area. Other resources include your local dietetic association, health department or hospital.
Where can I get information on Dietary Supplements?
The Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), in collaboration with the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (ODS/NIH) and other federal agencies developed a Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID) to evaluate levels of ingredients in dietary supplement products. ODS/NIH conducts research on dietary supplements and has collected information on vitamins, minerals, and botanicals, which is available on the ODS web site. USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center has also compiled a number of resources on dietary supplements.
Dietary supplement ingredients were prioritized for analysis based on public exposure, public health significance, research needs, and the availability of validated analytical methods and reference materials. Representative supplement products are identified and sampled using statistical sampling plans. Samples are then analyzed by experienced laboratories and these data are statistically evaluated by ingredient. The third release of DSID (DSID-3) provides analytically derived estimates of levels of vitamins and minerals in adult, children's, and non-prescription prenatal MVMs. The DSID-3 release includes data tables, data application tables to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, research summaries and online MVM calculators. For the first time, DSID-3 also reports on the estimated relationship of label and analytical values and variability in omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements (ALA (alpha-linolenic acid), EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)). DSID predicted estimates are based solely on the labeled level for each product category and the predictions are not brand or supplement specific. For these reasons, the DSID data are appropriate for population studies of nutrient intake, rather than to be applied to content adjustment in individual products.
Where can I get information on nutrition?
, provides easy access to all online federal government information on nutrition. This national resource makes obtaining government information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety, easily accessible in one place for many Americans. More nutrition information is available in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines,and on the ChoseMyPlate.gov Web site. USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center has compiled a wide variety of links to food and nutrition resources on the Internet. Some of the resources they have developed contain information on food allergies, food, labeling, food safety, dietary guidance, dietary supplements, nutrition and cancer, vegetarian nutrition and many more. USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion also has information on preparing nutritious meals andother nutrition information. The American Dietetic Association also has a variety of nutrition information on their Web site.
Do you have a copy of the RDAs on your Web site?
In 1996 the Food and Nutrition Board, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council began developing Daily Reference Intakes (DRIs) to replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). These new DRIs are published by the National Academies Press. Copies of the RDA and DRI tables are available on the National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information Center's Web site
In 1973 the FDA developed the U.S. RDA system to replace the minimum daily requirements which had previously been used for nutrition labeling purposes. The U.S. RDAs were based on the Food and Nutrition Board's RDAs, but were not identical to them. The Daily Values (DV) used on current nutrition labels are based on the U.S. RDAs and can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Part 101.9.
What is the difference between calories and kilocalories?
In the U.S., energy in foods is expressed in kilocalories (kcal). The scientific definition of a kilocalorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water one degree Celsius from 15? to 16? at one atmosphere. The true calorie, sometimes referred to as a "small calorie," is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius from 15? to 16? at one atmosphere. A kilocalorie is equal to 1000 calories. While the term "calorie" technically applies to the "small calorie," in common usage, such as in reference to food energy, the term "calorie" is actually a kilocalorie. Internationally, most countries express food energy in kilojoules (kJ). One kcal equals 4.184 kJ. The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference contains values for both kilocalories and kilojoules.
What are omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids?
These are types of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Linolenic acid, the shortest chain omega-3 fatty acid, and linoleic acid, the shortest chain omega-6 fatty acid, are essential fatty acids. This means they cannot be synthesized by the body from other fatty acids and must be obtained from food. The most common fatty acids of each class are linolenic (18:3), EPA (20:5), DHA (22:6) for omega-3 and linoleic (18:2) and arachidonic (20:4) for omega-6. Some of the food sources of omega-3 fatty acids are fish and shellfish, flaxseed, walnuts, and canola oil. A computer software package, KIM (Keep it Managed) can be downloaded from http://ods.od.nih.gov/eicosanoids. This software evaluates the balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet. A scientific discussion of physiological effects of omega-3 fatty acids can be found on the American Heart Association Web site.
Where do I get information on nutrition labeling?
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) regulates the labeling of meat and poultry. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for all other foods. Information on labeling is available from FDA's Home Page
My son/daughter has a science fair project. How does he/she analyze a food for a particular nutrient?
Methods for determination of nutrients in foods are published in the "Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International," The 18th edition comes in 2 volumes. If only earlier editions of the publication can be found, some methods such as the titrimetric method for vitamin C, have not changed in many years. There are also other publications which your child's science teacher can recommend. Caution: Many methods of analysis for foods require the use of strong chemicals, use of specialized equipment and adult supervision. Age and experience of the student should be considered when experiments are planned. Younger students may be encouraged to conduct simple experiments which are planned with the teacher's or parent's guidance.
Do you have resources for teachers?
ARS's Information Staff has prepared " Science 4 Kids." which is a series of stories about what scientists do here at the ARS. They have also prepared the " Whiz Kid" Activity Packet, which is intended for teachers, and is chock-full of fun and clever graphics to introduce agricultural research topics.


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Credit Cards (Unsolicited)
Federal Reserve regulations prohibit companies from mailing unsolicited credit cards to consumers. Nevertheless, retailers and banks say they are merely replacing existing cards with new ones, which is within the law.
The Federal Credit Reporting Act enacted by Congress in 1997 requires all credit bureaus to provide consumers a toll-free number they can call to prohibit the use of information in their files for any type of unsolicited credit offer.
By calling (888) 5-OPT-OUT (888-567-8688) you can have, your name added to a list of people who do not want their personal information used or shared with others for promotional purposes for two years. This national service allows consumers to opt-out of pre-approved credit offers with just one telephone call.
Even if consumers do not activate the card, it could have a negative impact on their credit rating because it gobbles up a chunk of what banks and creditors deem to be a consumer's acceptable overall credit limit. Cards sent through the mail also can be stolen and activated if someone gets your Social Security number over the telephone by posing as a bank employee.
If consumers choose not to participate, they should cut up the card and write to the issuer stating they decline the offer and request that any information added to their credit record be removed immediately. If a consumer decides to keep the card, they should not use it until the terms of the agreement, including the credit limit, annual fee, interest rate, and length of time for which the rate is guaranteed has been verified.
Credit card consultants say such an arrangement is extremely lucrative for stores because retailers and oil companies earn a percentage of the transaction fees issuers charge merchants.
The Federal Reserve has rules that such substitutions are legitimate as long as the merchant continues to honor its original, limited-use card. Industry critics say that replacing limited-use cards with full-service ones was never intended by the regulation, but the trend is likely to continue.
State member banks:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Division of Consumer and Community Affairs
20th and C Streets, N.W., stop 801
Washington, DC 20551
(202) 452-3693
Bank Credit Cards:
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Customer Assistance Group
1301 McKinney Street, Suite 3450
Houston, TX 77010
(800) 613-6743
(713) 336-4301 Fax
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University men's tennis team held a free clinic to local kids of the community Friday at Buccaneer Tennis Center.
"It was a nice way to spend time with the kids of the community, and help them develop their skills for free," Barry assistant coach Thomas Hipp said.
Members of the Buccaneers men's team volunteered their time to work with the kids, teaching them different tennis skills. Barry's coaching staff was also on hand to offer instruction.
"It was well received by those who attended," Hipp said. "We look forward to continuing to engage in other activities with our community, which we appreciate very much."
Barry will open the men's tennis season in the spring Feb. 2 at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Fla. The Buccaneers host Rollins College Sunday, Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. at Buccaneer Tennis Center in their first home match of the season.


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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An 11-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose parents filed a lawsuit challenging national transplant policies so she could receive two lung transplants will be released from the hospital on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for her family said on Monday.
The girl, Sarah Murnaghan, underwent an operation earlier this summer to receive the transplants in a case that set off a national debate about child access to organ donations. She had earlier been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
A federal judge cleared the way for the operation in June after her parents sued to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a policy that prevents children under 12 from receiving adult lungs.
Sarah, who has been hospitalized for six months, will be released on Tuesday from the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, the Murnaghan family's spokeswoman, Tracy Simon, said in a statement.
"Sarah is coming home tomorrow!" Simon said in the statement. Earlier in the day, she said, "Her new lungs are doing great."
After Sarah settles into her home in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, about 13 miles west of Philadelphia, she and her parents will meet briefly with reporters, Simon said.
Hospital officials said they were not immediately able to confirm plans to release Murnaghan.
Sarah had her first lung transplant on June 12, but complications forced a second transplant several days later.
Simon said Sarah was walking short distances with the help of a walker and that she no longer received oxygen through a vent, though she still uses a machine to help her breathe.
Sarah also recovered from pneumonia she caught from being intubated, the spokeswoman said.
The girl's recovery is now focused on rebuilding strength in her legs and arms, as well as the muscles around her lungs, Simon added.
(Reporting by Dave Warner; writing by Kevin Gray; Editing by Scott Malone, G Crosse and Dan Grebler)


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OFFERTA: Siate i primi a scoprire la nuova fragranza Eau de Minthé. Per ogni ordine riceverete un campione da 2ml.
OFFERTA: Siate i primi a scoprire la nuova fragranza Eau de Minthé. Per ogni ordine riceverete un campione da 2ml.
The diptyque story began in Paris at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain with, at its heart, three friends driven by the same creative passion.
Christiane Gautrot was an interior designer, Desmond Knox-Leet, a painter, and Yves Coueslant, a theater director and set designer.
The first two collaborated designing fabrics and wallpaper for Liberty and Sanderson. They were joined by the third in 1961 and opened a shop to display their designs.
Yves became the administrator and consultant; Desmond and Christiane were the artistic soul. Bit by bit, with finely honed taste, the trio transformed the site into a one-of-a-kind setting, a kind of stylish bazaar where one found surprising articles unmatched in Paris, mined and conveyed home by the trio over the course of their travels.
The diptyque story began in Paris at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain with, at its heart, three friends driven by the same creative passion.
In 1961, three friends named Desmond Knox-Leet, Christiane Gautrot, and Yves Coueslant, all from the world of fine arts and décor, decided to open a store in Paris, on 34 boulevard, where they displayed and sold their own plain and print soft furnishings.
The oval labels echo the shape of an 18th-century medallion, a pattern found on the Prétorien fabric designed by Desmond Knox-Leet in 1963: The broad oval pattern suggests the shields of ancient Rome.
It is an emblematic shape, perpetually reinvented and found on all products made by diptyque. The oval is the signature shape of the eaux de toilette bottles and the white porcelain candleholders of the 34 boulevard saint germain line, as well as the scented ovals and solid perfumes.
While the dancing letters are a signature of the ovals in the home collection, the back labels of the Eaux de Toilette and Eaux de Parfum shows an illustration of each scent.
The oval label is found on the eaux de toilette bottles and candles.
In 2011, to celebrate and embody fifty years of creativity, diptyque set itself a new avant-garde challenge.
It was a daring experiment: To be "odor thieves", just like in the unforgettable novel by Patrick Süskind, and capture the scent of the flagship store at 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 5e.
Capture that complex olfactory symphony and bottle it, so as to give everyone the chance to experience a small portion of this place and its history.
Thus was born a unique fragrance, one for both body and home. And one name for this signature scent rang true as the obvious choice: 34 boulevard saint germain.
The olfactory range of the Home pays tribute to nature, through carefully chosen raw materials.
By choosing through a large palette of propositions one can create a unique, intimate and perpetually evolving universe throughout the seasons.
In 1968, diptyque composed its first eau de toilette, L'Eau, inspired by a 16th-century potpourri recipe and the scent of pomanders.
In 1968, diptyque composed its first eau de toilette, L'Eau, inspired by a 16th-century potpourri recipe and the scent of pomanders.
New creations followed: eaux de parfums, roll-ons, and a rare vinaigre de toilette. For 40 years, diptyque has been developing a sophisticated collection of personal fragrances giving it a clear, distinctive signature.
Over the course of the House's history, an unusual olfactory landscape has been formed. Guided by a fragrance legacy as broad as it is deep, diptyque continues to pursue olfactory creation unmatched in the palette of classical perfumery, blending scents to be worn by man or woman.
"Memories are the soul's perfume" wrote George Sand. The raw materials used to create diptyque products are noble, rare, and precious. Finding the perfect balance is a slow, painstaking process. diptyque does not shy away from challenges or compromise: the olfactory experience is all that matters.
In order to unleash the perfect effect, each candle is a blend of first-class waxes specifically amalgamated and assessed when hot and cold by wax experts. Every scent is blended to reach the right melting temperature. Candles contain 8 to 9 mineral waxes, and on occasion a few plant-based waxes to enhance them.
Advocating luxury craftsmanship, diptyque's containers are unique and elegant, demonstrating the art of handmade and designed in the most appropriate place.
diptyque has gone back centuries to find these forgotten meanings for twelve flowers and discovering the magic and the extraordinary story behind each fragrance.
With a catalogue of twelve flowers, our collection will fill your soul with poetry and your house with enchantment. A musical score of tender, joyous, passionate or nostalgic feelings, each flower takes us into its narrative imagination.
Our unique gift wrapping is a diptyque signature. It entails the combined use of three different colored sheets of tissue paper, which, through a clever composition of folds, signs and identifies all our products.
Each scent has its own dedicated color code.


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EA Phenomic's upcoming "social" take on Command & Conquer, Tiberium Alliances, hasn't gathered much good press. Probably because it looks about as enjoyable as punching yourself unconscious. It might be in line for a little more bad press, though, given the similarity between some of its unit designs and those found in tabletop war game Warhammer 40k.
Now, designs looking like other designs is nothing new. It's how art works, even in video games. Inspiration and homage are everywhere. Just look at how strongly StarCraft was influenced by, again, Warhammer 40K. But what EA is being accused of here isn't inspiration, it's straight up theft.
In question are two unit designs for the game's "Forgotten" faction, the Bombard and Grinder tanks. Eagle-eyed Warhammer fans have noticed that they're not just similar to vehicles introduced to the tabletop series over fifteen years ago (and to which rival publishers THQ own the video game rights). They're almost identical.
Below are the units compared with their Warhammer counterparts, the relatively obscure Ork Bonecruncha and the not-at-all obscure Imperial Guard Baneblade.
Yes. Hrm.
While you could make the argument that the game isn't technically "out" yet, and thus EA has time to change the offending designs, it has been in "open beta" for nearly a month now, so in many ways the damage has been already done.
We've contacted EA for comment, and will update if we hear back.


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'It's quite intense': Stephanie Rice wins Celebrity Apprentice
Olympic swimming gold medallist Stephanie Rice is a now a champion on dry land after winning The Celebrity Apprentice.
Rice found out about her victory just hours before the final aired on Tuesday night.
"It's been a whirlwind," the swimmer said on Wednesday, after beating runner John Steffenson, boxer Jeff Fenech and Sydney businesswoman Roxy Jacenko in the competition.
The 25-year-old Queenslander was stunned to make it to the final two alongside Steffenson, and was left breathless by her victory.
But then she had to go back and film an alternate version in which big boss Mark Bouris picked Steffenson.
"We basically had to do everything times two... it was just really awkward," she laughed.
"I threw back a champagne and said let's just do it, let's just be fake and get it done."
The different endings are a TV trick to keep the identity of the winner secret as long as possible, but for Rice, it didn't make the process any easier.
"It was so tense, oh my god, it was definitely just the longest boardroom ever," she said of the final judgement by Bouris and panellists Deborah Thomas and Dane Bouris.
But she was thrilled to share the final moments with Steffenson.
"I've been on Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams with him since I was 16 or 17," she said. "To see him come out and show a completely different side to what I think a lot of people's perception of him was, was wonderful."
Rice said the same applied to her, given her run-ins with the media in the past. She said she believed opportunities would always go to nice people with good hearts.
Roxy and I are definitely not going to hang out and have a coffee.
"I never wanted to make people not like me just because I wanted to win," she said.
"I guess that's what's been a little bit frustrating about some of the press that's come out about some of the other contestants."
She said there was no love lost between her and Jacenko who had an abrasive relationship on the series.
"It's quite intense making the series...if we were all sitting down having a coffee we would not have had the blow-ups we did," Rice said.
"Roxy and I are definitely not going to hang out and have a coffee.
"I understand her method works but it's not how I like to communicate with people."
Rice personally raised more than $100,000 for her charity of choice and decided to donate $40,000 of her $100,000 prize money to other contestants' charities, including her friends Prinnie Stevens and Kym Johnson.
"I think because I'd already raised so much money for Jump Rope for Heart... if I was to get another $100,000, I felt like it would be more beneficial to give all these other charities some money."
Rice took 2013 off swimming to have a shoulder operation, move to Sydney and launch her own line of children's sleepwear called Freestyle.
She said she's taken valuable experience away from Celebrity Apprentice.
"I don't have any experience in promoting brands, how to run an event, all of that was really new to me," she said.
"I'm really just trying to test a lot of different opportunities and see which one falls better, and what I enjoy more."
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Natalie Bochenski is a reporter for Brisbane Times.


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