A man who worked on Jasmine Crockett’s security detail was impersonating a cop, using multiple aliases, and driving a faux-unmarked car with stolen plates while running a side hustle, and has been shot dead by Dallas police after leading them on a chase and barricading himself in a vehicle in the parking garage of a children’s hospital.
Well, the racist/misogynist fucks are going to have a field day, Crockett being a favorite target already.
Now, she deserves ridicule for hiring the guy, but it will be tied directly to her race and gender.
Doesn’t the FDA specify the method to be used to measure Calories?
(1) “Calories, total,” “Total calories,” or “Calories”: A statement of the caloric content per serving, expressed to the nearest 5-calorie increment up to and including 50 calories, and 10-calorie increment above 50 calories, except that amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero. Energy content per serving may also be expressed in kilojoule units, added in parentheses immediately following the statement of the caloric content.
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21 CFR 101.9(c)(1)(i) Caloric content may be calculated by the following methods. Where either specific or general food factors are used, the factors shall be applied to the actual amount (i.e., before rounding) of food components (e.g., fat, carbohydrate, protein, or ingredients with specific food factors) present per serving.
(A) Using specific Atwater factors (i.e., the Atwater method) given in table 13, USDA Handbook No. 74 (slightly revised, 1973),
(B) Using the general factors of 4, 4, and 9 calories per gram for protein, total carbohydrate, and total fat, respectively, as described in USDA Handbook No. 74 (slightly revised, 1973) pp. 9-11;
(C) Using the general factors of 4, 4, and 9 calories per gram for protein, total carbohydrate (less the amount of non-digestible carbohydrates and sugar alcohols), and total fat, respectively, as described in USDA Handbook No. 74 (slightly revised, 1973) pp. 9-11. A general factor of 2 calories per gram for soluble non-digestible carbohydrates shall be used. The general factors for caloric value of sugar alcohols provided in paragraph (c)(1)(i)(F) of this section shall be used;
(D) Using data for specific food factors for particular foods or ingredients approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and provided in parts 172 or 184 of this chapter, or by other means, as appropriate;
(E) Using bomb calorimetry data subtracting 1.25 calories per gram protein to correct for incomplete digestibility, as described in USDA Handbook No. 74 (slightly revised, 1973) p. 10; or
(F) Using the following general factors for caloric value of sugar alcohols: Isomalt—2.0 calories per gram, lactitol—2.0 calories per gram, xylitol—2.4 calories per gram, maltitol—2.1 calories per gram, sorbitol—2.6 calories per gram, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates—3.0 calories per gram, mannitol—1.6 calories per gram, and erythritol—0 calories per gram.
I’m not going to pretend to know what any of this means, but I do see they specify a bomb calorimeter (with some adjustments). Looking back at the article, they said, WRT the using a bomb calorimeter "That method includes the calories in nondigestible ingredients — including EPG — in its count, he added. "
So, I have no idea if they’re saying they didn’t adjust for non digestible ingredients (or didn’t adjust correctly) or that it was improper to use that method on the first place or something else entirely. And, I’m not going to go down this particular rabbit hole trying to figure it out.
Wow, I guess in Britain, you’re not allowed to change your name to any Disney character name. This would include (just under “A”)
- Abby — Chicken Little
- Abigail — The Aristocats
- Abu — Aladdin
- Adelaide — The Aristocats
- Adella — The Little Mermaid
- Akela — The Jungle Book
- Aladdin — Aladdin
- Alcmene — Hercules
- Alice - Alice in Wonderland
- Amelia — The Aristocats
- Amos — The Fox and the Hound
- Anastasia — Cinderella
- Andrina — The Little Mermaid
- Andy — Toy Story
- Anna — Frozen
- Antonio— Encanto
- Apollo — Hercules
What an odd take.
Well, the passport staff clarified that “the guidance initially cited by staff applies only to individuals who are changing their names – not to children given the name at birth.”
The initial guidance being that they will not issue a passport to people whose names are from a Warner brothers film. I guess since Disney is not going to take over Warner bros now, it’s all good for the Disney names - just not anyone who changes their names to one from any Warner Bros. film ever made.
The British passport office are morons, and their “clarification” is also moronic.
Names that are trademarked. Not just any name that has appeared in something.
Oh absolutely, just not in the weird way you put it.
It’s stupid because the point of a trademark is to legally protect someone’s brand, particularly to avoid confusion. So, someone can’t, say, create a TV show about a woman named Daenerys Targaryen who controls dragons in a fantasy realm and trick viewers into thinking it’s a Game of Thrones spinoff. A real life person changing their name to Daenerys is no threat to the brand.
But as stupid as that is, they aren’t saying if you want to legally change your name to the common, non-tradenarked name “Bill” that you can’t because a character named Bill was in a WB project.
This fooferaw reminds me of the trouble a local burger hangout in Syracuse got into decades ago. They had a giant burger they’d sold for years as “The Whopper” - before Burger King came up with the idea of marketing their own Whopper.
Burger King’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist notice to the local burger joint, which began portraying itself as the victim of a Giant Corporation and enjoying the publicity.
They wound up changing the name of their burger to “The Vopper” .
The V for “victory” no doubt. Or maybe there are lots of German Americans settled there: “Ve vant sree Voppers und some freis, pleace.”
In town here there is a donut shop with a yellow and brown sign, “Vinchell’s.” If you look at it closely you can see where the missing half of the W was removed.
In Osaka, Japan, an 11-foot wide, 42-foot tall steel cylinder inexplicably erupted out of thd ground overnight in the middle of a city street.
City officials have not explained why it arose.
Attack of the mole people.
Close:
eta: Didn’t realize I got an Arabic(?) post - the Underminer from the Incredibles.
Persian, apparently. Google Translate says that the “panevis” web address is a link to a “spiritual interpretation” of the video.
Back when I lived in St. Louis there was a small city 20+ miles up the road that had a real Krumbly Burger. They predated the fictional Simpsons burger joint by a couple years.
Just now checking on them I see they shut down in May 2024 some 36 years after they opened. Here’s a ref from when they were still alive: Krumbly Burger Menu - Troy, MO. And another about their closing: Troy restaurant owners bid farewell after three decades – News in Style.
Except that The Simpsons featured a Krusty Burger restaurant not a Krumbly Burger restaurant.
D’oh! It’s been a long time … a long time … since I watched The Simpsons.
And then there’s Burger King of Mattoon, IL, which predates the chain and has the exclusive rights to use that name in the Mattoon area.
And this is about stupid MFers because?