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A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials, which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging industries. Many kinds of conveying systems are available and are used according to the various needs of different industries. There are chain conveyors (floor and overhead) as well. Chain conveyors consist of enclosed tracks, I-Beam, towline, power & free, and hand pushed trolleys.
Conveyor systems are used widespread across a range of industries due to the numerous benefits they provide.
Conveyor systems are commonly used in many industries, including the Mining, automotive, agricultural, computer, electronic, food processing, aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical, bottling and canning, print finishing and packaging. Although a wide variety of materials can be conveyed, some of the most common include food items such as beans and nuts, bottles and cans, automotive components, scrap metal, pills and powders, wood and furniture and grain and animal feed. Many factors are important in the accurate selection of a conveyor system. It is important to know how the conveyor system will be used beforehand. Some individual areas that are helpful to consider are the required conveyor operations, such as transportation, accumulation and sorting, the material sizes, weights and shapes and where the loading and pickup points need to be.
A conveyor system is often the lifeline to a company's ability to effectively move its product in a timely fashion. The steps that a company can take to ensure that it performs at peak capacity, include regular inspections and system audits, close monitoring of motors and reducers, keeping key parts in stock, and proper training of personnel.
Increasing the service life of a conveyor system involves: choosing the right conveyor type, the right system design and paying attention to regular maintenance practices.
A conveyor system that is designed properly will last a long time with proper maintenance. Here are six of the biggest problems to watch for in overhead type conveyor systems including I-beam monorails, enclosed track conveyors and power and free conveyors. Overhead conveyor systems have been used in numerous applications from shop displays, assembly lines to paint finishing plants and more.[1]
Poor take-up adjustment: this is a simple adjustment on most systems yet it is often overlooked. The chain take-up device ensures that the chain is pulled tight as it leaves the drive unit. As wear occurs and the chain lengthens, the take-up extends under the force of its springs. As they extend, the spring force becomes less and the take-up has less effect. Simply compress the take-up springs and your problem goes away. Failure to do this can result in chain surging, jamming, and extreme wear on the track and chain. Take-up adjustment is also important for any conveyor using belts as a means to power rollers, or belts themselves being the mover. With poor-take up on belt-driven rollers, the belt may twist into the drive unit and cause damage, or at the least a noticeable decrease or complete loss of performance may occur. In the case of belt conveyors, a poor take-up may cause drive unit damage or may let the belt slip off of the side of the chassis.
Lack of lubrication: chain bearings require lubrication in order to reduce friction. The chain pull that the drive experiences can double if the bearings are not lubricated. This can cause the system to overload by either its mechanical or electrical overload protection. On conveyors that go through hot ovens, lubricators can be left on constantly or set to turn on every few cycles.
Contamination: paint, powder, acid or alkaline fluids, abrasives, glass bead, steel shot, etc. can all lead to rapid deterioration of track and chain. Ask any bearing company about the leading cause of bearing failure and they will point to contamination. Once a foreign substance lands on the raceway of a bearing or on the track, pitting of the surface will occur, and once the surface is compromised, wear will accelerate. Building shrouds around your conveyors can help prevent the ingress of contaminants. Or, pressurize the contained area using a simple fan and duct arrangement. Contamination can also apply to belts (causing slippage, or in the case of some materials premature wear), and of the motors themselves. Since the motors can generate a considerable amount of heat, keeping the surface clean is an almost-free maintenance procedure that can keep heat from getting trapped by dust and grime, which may lead to motor burnout.
Product handling: in conveyor systems that may be suited for a wide variety of products, such as those in distribution centers, it is important that each new product be deemed acceptable for conveying before being run through the materials handling equipment. Boxes that are too small, too large, too heavy, too light, or too awkwardly shaped may not convey, or may cause many problems including jams, excess wear on conveying equipment, motor overloads, belt breakage, or other damage, and may also consume extra man-hours in terms of picking up cases that slipped between rollers, or damaged product that was not meant for materials handling. If a product such as this manages to make it through most of the system, the sortation system will most likely be the affected, causing jams and failing to properly place items where they are assigned. It should also be noted that any and all cartons handled on any conveyor should be in good shape or spills, jams, downtime, and possible accidents and injuries may result.
Drive train: notwithstanding the above, involving take-up adjustment, other parts of the drive train should be kept in proper shape. Broken O-rings on a Lineshaft, pneumatic parts in disrepair, and motor reducers should also be inspected. Loss of power to even one or a few rollers on a conveyor can mean the difference between effective and timely delivery, and repetitive nuances that can continually cost downtime.
Bad belt tracking or timing: in a system that uses precisely controlled belts, such as a sorter system, regular inspections should be made that all belts are traveling at the proper speeds at all times. While usually a computer controls this with Pulse Position Indicators, any belt not controlled must be monitored to ensure accuracy and reduce the likelihood of problems. Timing is also important for any equipment that is instructed to precisely meter out items, such as a merge where one box pulls from all lines at one time. If one were to be mistimed, product would collide and disrupt operation. Timing is also important wherever a conveyor must "keep track" of where a box is, or improper operation will result.
Since a conveyor system is a critical link in a company's ability to move its products in a timely fashion, any disruption of its operation can be costly. Most downtime can be avoided by taking steps to ensure a system operates at peak performance, including regular inspections, close monitoring of motors and reducers, keeping key parts in stock, and proper training of personnel.
Conveyor systems require materials suited to the displacement of heavy loads and the wear-resistance to hold-up over time without seizing due to deformation. In cases, where static control is a factor, special materials designed to either dissipate or conduct electrical charges. Example of conveyor handling materials include UHMW, Nylon, Nylatron NSM, HDPE, Tivar, Tivar ESd, and Polyurethane
As far as growth is concerned the material handling and conveyor system makers are getting utmost exposure in the industries like automotive, pharmaceutical, packaging and different production plants. The portable conveyors are likewise growing fast in the construction sector and by the year 2014 the purchase rate for conveyor systems in North America, Europe and Asia is likely to grow even further. The most commonly purchased types of conveyors are Line shaft roller conveyor, chain conveyors and conveyor belts at packaging factories and industrial plants where usually product finishing and monitoring are carried. Commercial and civil sectors are increasingly implementing conveyors at airports, shopping malls, etc.
Every pneumatic system makes use of pipes or ducts called transportation lines that carry a mixture of materials and a stream of air. These materials are such as dry pulverized or free flowing or light powdery materials like cement, fly ash etc. These materials can be transported conveniently to various destinations by means of a stream of high velocity air through pipe lines. Products are moved through various tubes via air pressure, allowing for extra vertical versatility. Pneumatic conveyors are either carrier systems or dilute-phase systems; carrier systems simply push items from one entry point to one exit point, such as the money-exchanging pneumatic tubes used at a bank drive-through window. Dilute-phase systems use push-pull pressure to guide materials through various entry and/or exit points. It is important to note that either air compressors, vacuums, or blowers can be used to generate the air flow. This will all depend on what the engineers think will be the most efficient and economical way of developing the system. Three basic systems that are used to generate high-velocity air stream:
A Vibrating Conveyor is a machine with a solid conveying surface which is turned up on the side to form a trough. They are used extensively in food grade applications where sanitation, washdown, and low maintenance are essential. Vibrating conveyors are also suitable for harsh, very hot, dirty, or corrosive environments. They can be used to convey newly cast metal parts which may reach upwards of 1,500 °F (820 °C). Due to the fixed nature of the conveying pans vibrating conveyors can also perform tasks such as sorting, screening, classifying and orienting parts. Vibrating conveyors have been built to convey material at angles exceeding 45° from horizontal using special pan shapes. Flat pans will convey most materials at a 5° Incline from horizontal line.
The flexible conveyor is based on a conveyor beam in aluminum or stainless steel, with low friction slide rails guiding a plastic multi-flexing chain. Products to be conveyed travel directly on the conveyor, or on pallets/carriers. These conveyors can be worked around obstacles and keep production lines flowing. They are made at varying levels and can work in multiple environments. They are used in food packaging, case packing, and pharmaceutical industries but also in retail stores such as Wal-Mart and Kmart.
Vertical conveyor - also commonly referred to as freight lifts and material lifts - are conveyor systems used to raise or lower materials to different levels of a facility during the handling process. Examples of these conveyors applied in the industrial assembly process include transporting materials to different floors. While similar in look to freight elevators, vertical conveyors are not equipped to transport people, only materials.
Vertical lift conveyors contain two adjacent, parallel conveyors for simultaneous upward movement of adjacent surfaces of the parallel conveyors. One of the conveyors normally has spaced apart flites for transporting bulk food items. The dual conveyors rotate in opposite directions, but are operated from one gear box to ensure equal belt speed. One of the conveyors is pivotally hinged to the other conveyor for swinging the pivotally attached conveyor away from the remaining conveyor for access to the facing surfaces of the parallel conveyors.[2] Vertical lift conveyors can be manually or automatically loaded and controlled.[3] Almost all vertical conveyors can be systematically integrated with horizontal conveyors, since both of these conveyor systems work in tandem to create a cohesive material handling assembly line.
In similarity to vertical conveyors, spiral conveyors raise and lower materials to different levels of a facility. In contrast, spiral conveyors are able to transport material loads in a continuous flow. Industries that require a higher output of materials - food and beverage, retail case packaging, pharmaceuticals - typically incorporate these conveyors into their systems over standard vertical conveyors due to their ability to facilitate high throughput. Most spiral conveyors also have a lower angle of incline or decline (11 degrees or less) to prevent sliding and tumbling during operation.
Just like spiral conveyors also a vertical conveyor that use forks are able to transport material loads in a continuous flow. With these forks the load can be taken from one horizontal conveyor and put down on another horizontal conveyor on a different level. By adding more forks more products can be lifted at the same time. Conventional vertical conveyors have the restriction that the input and output of material loads must have the same direction. By using forks many combinations of different input- and output levels in different directions are possible. A vertical conveyor with forks can even be used as a vertical sorter. Compared to a spiral conveyor a vertical conveyor - with or without forks - takes up less space.
Heavy Duty roller conveyors are used for moving items that are at least 500 pounds (230 kg). This type of conveyor makes the handling of such heavy equipment/products easier and more time effective. Many of the heavy duty roller conveyors can move as fast as 75 feet per minute (23 m/min).
Other types of heavy duty roller conveyors are gravity roller conveyor, chain driven live roller conveyor, pallet accumulation conveyor, multi-strand chain conveyor, and chain & roller transfers.
Gravity roller conveyors are extremely easy to use and are used in many different types of industries such as automotive and retail.
Chain driven live roller conveyors are used for single or bi-directional material handling. Large heavy loads are moved by chain driven live roller conveyors.
Pallet accumulation conveyors are powered through a mechanical clutch. This is used instead of individually powered and controlled sections of conveyors.
Multi-strand chain conveyors are used for double pitch roller chains. Products that can not be moved on traditional roller conveyors can be moved by a multi-strand chain conveyor.
Chain & roller conveyors are short runs of two or more strands of double pitch chain conveyor built into a chain driven line roller conveyor. These pop up under the load and move the load off of the conveyor.
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Fish Glow Green After Genetic Engineering
Fluorescence helps track what pollutants do to the body.
A genetically engineered fish that glows green from the inside out is helping illuminate what pollutants do inside the body.
Endocrine disruptors are substances found in a wide range of industrial products, including plastics, as well as in many female contraceptives.
The chemicals mimic the actions of sexual hormones, resulting in various reproductive problems in both people and animals. Previous research has shown the chemicals cause fish to change gender, and in people, endocrine disruptors have been associated with lower sperm counts and breast and testicular cancers.
Yet scientists have had difficulty tracking what endocrine disruptors do inside a person or an animal's body. So a team genetically engineered zebrafish to glow in places where an endocrine-disrupting chemical is present—and thus show where it may be harming the body.
"We've essentially put genetic elements within the fish [embryos that], over time, that are specifically designed to identify where the chemicals penetrate and act within the body," said study leader Charles Tyler at the U.K.'s University of Exeter.
"This genetic machinery produces proteins which don't interfere with the way these chemicals act in the body, but they fluoresce green under a fluorescent microscope, providing a reporting system to identify which body tissues are being affected.
"This, in turn provides a more 'intelligent' way of identifying where the [pollutants'] potential health impacts might be" in people.
(See "Glowing Animals: Beasts Shining for Science.")
Glowing Fish Confirm Past Findings
Tyler and team exposed the zebrafish to varying levels of chemicals known to affect the hormone estrogen, including ethinyloestradiol, found in contraceptive pills; nonylphenol, present in paints and industrial detergents; and bisphenol A (BPA), a component of many plastics.
All of these substances have become common freshwater pollutants that are connected to problems such as gender changes in fish and decreased fertility and increased cases of cancer in people. (Related: "Sex-Changing Chemicals Found in Potomac River.")
The researchers exposed the fish to different endrocrine disruptors at varying concentrations, and then used a microscope to see which of the small fish's organs glowed—and thus responded—to the chemicals.
The data should help identify the thresholds at which the chemicals affect various tissues and organs in the body.
For instance, observing the glowing fish confirmed previous findings, such as a link between bisphenol A and heart problems.
"We do see in this fish that the heart glows particularly in response to bisphenol A," Tyler said. "So we can target the heart and try to look at the mechanics of what is happening."
(Related: "Chemical BPA Linked to Heart Disease, Study Confirms.")
Tyler and colleagues also watched the chemicals light up other parts of the fish's anatomy, including its eyes and skeletal muscles. Endocrine disruptors' impacts to these parts of the body are unknown.
"It's often been assumed that these chemicals impact the liver or testes or ovaries, but in these fish we've identified them in many different tissues, including parts of the brain," he said.
For now, the fluorescent technology is limited to fish younger than six days old, because their skin has yet to develop pigmentation that would interfere with observing the fluorescence.
"The next phase is breeding these fish with a strain that lacks pigment in the skin," which would allow the team to observe the fluorescent reactions in adult fish as well, Tyler said.
The glowing-fish research was published April 18 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.


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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
10 rules for handling disagreement like a Christian
10 rules for handling disagreement like a Christian
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
When I began my term as the rector of the major seminary in Detroit a little over 10 years ago, one of the problems I had to help my students deal with was the often-sharp differences of opinion that we find within the Church.
The seminarians looked to me as the pastor of that community to help them navigate through the contentious expression of differing viewpoints. To fulfill my responsibilities as the father of that seminary family I composed what I called "Ten Rules for Handling Disagreement Like a Christian."
Whether or not the clash of opinions within the Catholic community in the U.S. has grown stronger or weakened over the last decade I couldn't say; however, I do know that with some frequency we still find ourselves at odds over what we think and where we want to head.
With that in mind, I thought that I, now serving as pastor of the family of the Oakland Diocese, could profitably share these "Ten Rules" with all of you. So, here they are, along with my own brief commentary on each.
1. The Rule of Charity: "Charity is primary."
This has to be the place to start whenever we disagree with one another: with love. St. Paul said: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Cor. 13:1). No matter how wise my insights or astute my plans, they count for nothing if I do not offer them with love.
Now, that charity is the first and fundamental requirement for all authentic Christian speech does not mean that such speaking can only be weak, but it does mean that whatever is said ought always to be offered respectfully and for the genuine service of others, especially my hearers. In fact, all of St. Paul's sage advice in the "Hymn to Charity" in 1 Cor. 13 spells out eloquently this "Rule."
2. The Rule of Publicity: "Think with the mind of the Church."
This rule is simply a translation of the Latin axiom "Sentire cum Ecclesia." This means that, when we disagree, the final measure for judging what's on target and what's off the mark is what the Church thinks, not, ultimately, what you think or what I think – not private opinion, but what the Church has said to all to know.
This is the reason I call this the "The Rule of Publicity." The criterion for our deciding our disagreements is not one's own private opinions, but the mind of the People of God, what the Church thinks.
In order to apply this rule effectively, we need to use a corollary: "Measure everything against the authoritative documents of the Magisterium."
The logical question to follow any call for us to "think with the mind of the Church" is: How do I know what that is?
The answer is: "Look in the places where the Church has expressed her mind with authority." Look in the writings of the Councils and the popes, in the Church's laws, and in the teachings of her Fathers and Doctors. Any survey or poll, no matter how extensive or accurate, if it contradicts the Magisterium, is not the Church's mind.
3. The Rule of Legitimate Freedom: "What the Church allows is not to be disallowed."
This rule means that in situations where the Church says that a variety of views or opinions is legitimate, I should not impose my option as a mandate on others. For example: we can receive Holy Communion in the hand or on the tongue. Either one is acceptable.
4. The Rule of Catholic Freedom: "There's something for everybody, but not everything is for everybody."
This fourth rule is an extension of the one above. It applies the same sort of respect for diversity to the wider spheres of our common life. This rule is based on the recognition that "It's a big Church." God has given gifts of grace in an almost dizzying variety. Some folks are attracted to the Carmelite Third Order, others gather for charismatic prayer. Nobody has to live the Christian life exactly the way I do.
Remember: "Think (and act) with the mind of the Church." We need to respect every practice or approach that has a legitimate place in the life of the Church, and we cannot make our favorite practice or approach mandatory for others if the Church has not.
5. The Rule of Modesty: "Not all of my causes are God's causes."
Yes, it's true that in many cases we invest our heart's devotion because that's what God commands for all his people. But that's not necessarily so in every instance. Some of my agendas are mine. It's right to embark on projects with a zealous desire to give God glory, but I have to remember that while it may be his will for me to take this on, there are cases when it's not his will for everyone else to join me.
6. The Rule of Integrity: "To do evil in order to accomplish good is really to do evil."
Breaking one of God's commandments is not the way to advance his Kingdom, ever. If, in the service of Christ, I act in an un-Christian way, I become a highly effective ally of the very forces I set out to combat. (Among those who are big "Star War" fans, this rule is sometimes referred to as the "Darth Vader Axiom.")
7. The Rule of Realism: "Remember that Satan is eager to corrupt my efforts to build up the Kingdom, and he's smart enough to figure out a way to do it.
This rule is strong statement about the need for each of us in our disagreements to practice that form of realism, for which the more common name is "humility." My cause may be right or my view may be true, but I have to watch that their goodness is not corrupted by my infidelity.
8. The Rule of Mystery: "Not all the habits and attitudes which belong to a society governed by a representative democracy are appropriate in the Church."
In every age there is a tendency – often unconscious – to shape the life of the Church after the pattern of the secular order of the day. In the Middle Ages, the governance of the Church was often configured to the feudal system of the times, sometimes with very harmful consequences. For example, bishops and abbots were identified with the barons of the nobility.
In our own day, we could make a similar sort of mistake: thinking that the responsibility and authority of the Church's pastors are of the same sort as that of our elected officials. In such mistaken identifications, what is at work is a forgetting that while the Church is, yes, a human reality, she is also a divine reality, a mystery, unlike any other community every known in the history of the world.
The Church is neither a democracy nor a monarchy. She is the Church, the Lord's own creation, constituted according to his will and plan.
9. The Petrine Rule: "Nobody ever built up the Church by tearing down the pope."
This rule follows quite logically from the one immediately above. The Holy Father's leadership is part of the Church's constitution from Christ. Because the pope is not the sort of democratic leader we are accustomed to in civil society, there is a tendency by some observers to characterize his office as a "throwback" to times that we have surpassed, a "burden" for the Catholic people that we would well be freed from. Not so.
The pastoral care we receive from the Holy Father is a great grace, St. Peter's own service of his fellow disciples continuing to this very day. A great pope makes us a better Church.
10. The Eschatological Rule: "The victory is assured; my job is to run out the clock with style."
Christ is risen – truly, body and soul risen and in glory at the Father's right. He has conquered sin and death and all the forces that threaten us. Whatever is at stake in our trials or conflicts, the certainty of Christ's victory is not in doubt.
And he promised he would be with us always, until the end of time (cf. Mat. 28:20). He will never leave his Church, and his victory will be ours as long as we abide with him in his Mystical Body.
This rule, of course, is not an excuse for giving less than our full effort to spread the Kingdom; that would be a kind of presumption. However, this rule is a call to remember that there is one Savior, and it's not you or me. Our mission is to serve the Lord in fidelity and hope, and be ready for him to act, for he surely will.
Bishop Allen Vigneron
Sept. 19, 2005
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Thanks for copying it here.ReplyDelete
Some dioceses scrub websites after one bishop leaves and another takes over. I wasn't sure if that woud remain after he left Oakland, so I copied it over after finding it when he was named to Detroit.
I'm hope it gets around. These are very reasonable rules to meditate upon.
Further, those who choose to use anonymous options in blog comboxes, or psuedonymns in various online venues, should also take these things to heart.
I hope to see some dialogue on them.
Thank you for sharing! This is wonderful, and I expect, a great help for those who have a habit of disagreeing with anyone (by which I mean everyone). I shall have to copy and print this out, and keep it as a visible reminder to myself! Thanks again!ReplyDelete
- Al KrestaJune 22, 2011 at 8:37 PM
Thanks for saving these. We're planning on sending them out as a commentary to listeners in the next few days. Like Kate said these are rules to keep in front of you.
I remember linking and posting that on a forum I once moderated as a sort of guideline for civil discourse.ReplyDelete
If i recall correctly, I think I was accused by both sides of sympathizing for the other side.


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U.S. Rep.-elect Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, landed a spot on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. He'll join fellow Washington Democrats Adam Smith and Rick Larsen there.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to serve on the Armed Services Committee," said Rep-elect Kilmer. "Not only does the military play a vital role in keeping our entire nation safe and secure, it also has an enormous impact on the lives of many residents in our region. I look forward to the opportunity to play a meaningful role in helping to strengthen our military and support our servicemen and women and their families."
Suzan DelBene, who represents part of Kitsap County until Jan. 3, will be on Judiciary. Denny Heck, who like Kilmer is new to Congress, will be on Budget.


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The Chipstone Foundation's upcoming exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-century South Carolina opens April 26. I will write more about the exhibition next month, but I want to give you a preview of one of the objects that the Chipstone Foundation just acquired for its collection.
In preparation for the Museum exhibition, I have been researching face jugs and visiting institutions and collectors around the United States for the past year; viewing their collections and learning more about the different forms. Chipstone owned one face jug, which is what first piqued my interest in the subject, but the rest of the objects for the exhibition needed to be borrowed from other institutions and private collections. There is a limited number of the early African American made face jugs, and they don't come up for sale often.
So then, imagine my surprise and excitement when a few weeks ago Chipstone was offered the opportunity to purchase one of these rare 19th-century vessels!
Face jugs are stoneware vessels with faces on them. The eyes and the teeth are made of kaolin, which is the material that porcelain is made out of. They were created by slaves in the Edgefield District of South Carolina in the second half of the 19th century, and were produced for a period of only about 30 years.
The face jug offered to Chipstone is amazing. It has a face that is different from any other face vessel that I have seen, and the jug's form suggests that it is early, probably from around 1862. The unique features weren't the only thing that captured my attention though–this particular face jug has writing on the back!
Writing on a face jug is very unusual. There is only one other face jug, owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, that I have seen with an inscription. One of the peculiarities of face jugs is that the individual makers are not known. Would this new face jug give us a clue as to who made it? Would it provide us with the name of a slave potter?
Needless to say, the Chipstone Foundation purchased the rare, inscribed face jug.
When it arrived, it was clear that the script did not match the Smithsonian's face jug's lettering, eliminating the possibility that they were made by the same maker. The writing also did not match the famous Edgefield potter known for writing on his vessels, Dave Drake. That eliminated the possibility that the face jug was made by Dave.
One of the words on the back (as you can possibly make out on the detail above) spelled "Squire", but the other was much more ambiguous. The Chipstone curators and other Southern ceramic scholars came up with two possibilities for the second word. It could be either "Peter" or "Posey". Initial research turned up that a slave working at the Thomas Davies pottery, a pottery known for producing face jugs, had one child named Squire and one child named Peter. Could he have been the maker of the face jug? Did he make any of the other face jugs that will be exhibited this spring?
What if the second word actually spells Posey? I then did initial research on the name Squire Posey and came up with a planter who was born in South Carolina and moved to Alabama. Was he the owner of the slave who made the face jug?
Was this jug a present for Posey, or was the inclusion of the name a way for the slave to ward off the master's fury?
At the moment, there is no conclusive answer, but come by to see Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-century South Carolina between April 26 and August 5 in the Museum's Decorative Arts Gallery and see this wondrous face jug for yourself.
What do you think it says?
Claudia Mooney worked for Chipstone, the Milwaukee-based foundation dedicated to promoting American decorative arts scholarship. She researched objects and created relevant programming for Chipstone's exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum and in the community.


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Vail gets first black bear reports of season
VAIL — The Stewart kids are getting a quick education in wildlife awareness this month. The first lesson, imposed by mom, is, "No, you can't feed the bear."
The Stewart family — mom, dad and five kids — spends some time every summer at a friend's Vail condo, a cool summer break from the heat of their Las Vegas home. In the early-morning hours a few days ago, Monica Stewart, mother to the five Stewart kids, spotted a good-sized black bear near the condo complex's trash container. The bear had its way with the can, wrestling the lid far enough out of whack that it won't latch any more. The bear was back that night, again looking for food, and had made at least one appearance on the family's back deck.
"He's fearless," Monica Stewart said. "We have a mastiff (dog) that weighs 110 pounds — the bear didn't bat an eye."
The Stewart kids immediately named the bear "Mr. Bones," since they thought the animal might be looking for the scraps — still safely in the kitchen trash — from the previous night's dinner. They want to see more of their new friend, of course, and asked Mom if they could put out some food. The "no" was immediate.
Mr. Bones — or another bear — was the subject of the Vail Police Department's first two bear reports of this year. Those reports both came Friday evening in the area of Kinnikinnick Road and Bellflower Drive in the Intermountain neighborhood. The second report indicated the bear might have overturned some trash cans in the area.
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While those reports are the first in Vail this year, bears have been prowling around for some time now. The lack of reports may have to do with the town's "wildlife protection" ordinance, which requires residents and business owners to keep their trash, pet food and other items locked up in secure areas.
Since January, Vail code enforcement officers have issued more than 160 warnings to residents, but just one ticket has been written.
The story is similar in Avon. There, Avon Police Officer Bryan Mullet said there have been few reports from residents.
"We've had one little bear in the town core area, but that's about it," Mullet said. Mullet added that he's seen very few violations of that town's wildlife ordinances.
That's good news, especially for the bears. If a problem bear is captured, tagged and relocated by state wildlife officers, then the animal is euthanized if it's captured again.
But it's remarkable to see wildlife, especially bears, as the Stewart family will attest. But there are lessons to be learned from being in such close proximity with those big creatures, Stewart said.
At the top of the Stewarts' list is closing and locking their condo's doors and windows every night. The family obeys the town's trash rules, of course, and even the kitchen trash is kept in an enclosed can. The dog doesn't go out unless it's attached to an adult with a leash. Everyone in the condo looks carefully out of the windows before going outside, especially in the early morning and the evening, and the kids are learning to be aware of their surroundings when they're out playing.
None of this is a particularly big deal, Stewart said. The kids use their binoculars to look for Mr. Bones out of the condo's upstairs windows, not out of fear, but to have a better vantage point. Awareness doesn't mean fear, she said.
"I've explained that this is where the bear lives, and he's just searching for food," Stewart said. "And it's a fabulous story they'll have to tell."
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IBM's Celebration of Service honored our employees, retirees, families and friends in their commitment to volunteer service throughout 2011. It supported their efforts with resources, a program of new and expanded grants, and the opportunity to pledge their participation in a global effort.
Join our Global Celebration of Service
Volunteering resources you can use
IBM's community service initiative, On Demand Community, provides resources that make volunteering simple and effective. As part of the Celebration of Service, IBM is sharing guides to some of our volunteers' most successful activities, along with supporting materials you can use in your own community. Most resources are available in a range of languages.
Stories of service
During the Celebration of Service, IBM volunteers, in unprecedented numbers, made history by sharing their time, skills and expertise at schools and community organizations worldwide.
Read the first story of success which is a compilation of volunteer activities that were conducted on IBM's Celebration of Service Day, June 15, 2011. The numbers grew to more than 300,000 IBMers in 120 countries logging over 3 million hours on over 5,000 projects. Read about the impact that some of the volunteers made.
IBM Celebration of Service Grants
This new program supported IBMers' service with grants of cash or equipment to the schools and organizations where IBMers volunteer. It expanded the existing IBM Community Grants program, and added two new grants. Catalyst Grants provided $10,000 to support projects by volunteer teams that apply their professional skills or improve their communities' sustainability. Centennial Grants funded projects that apply IBM's smarter planet strategies to community service, with 11 grants totaling nearly $1 million awarded worldwide in July 2011.
Service Jam: A global dialogue about service
In October 2010, IBM's groundbreaking Service Jam brought together thousands of participants from non-profit organizations, corporations, academic institutions, and government agencies in a series of online discussions on the future of service. IBM has produced a white paper summarizing its key findings and highlighting the creative ideas for social innovation that emerged. We encourage anyone interested in service to read and share the report, and use it to help innovate, design and improve service programs.
On Demand Community
The Celebration of Service builds on a model for empowering volunteers developed through On Demand Community. Launched in 2003, the program enables employees and retirees to find volunteer activities and identify skills and expertise they can contribute to a cause. In June 2010, On Demand Community passed 10 million service hours logged since inception by more than 150,000 participants. This year, we're hoping to increase this number significantly through our worldwide Celebration of Service.


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Over 1400 years ago, the spirit of justice and equality was paving its way into society through the example of Prophet Muhammad (S). Ibn 'Abbas told Ibn az-Zubayr, "I heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, 'A man is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbor is hungry.'" (Bukhari) On this day and others we channel this spirit in an effort to better society.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence nearly half a century ago as one of the greatest civil rights leaders in American history, making his life's purpose the eradication of injustice and inequality. He also spoke words that continue to resonate with us today, and once famously stated, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
It is the essence of Islam, as well as the essence of America, to do good for others. As American Muslims we are thus doubly accountable for the welfare of society and equally, if not more, responsible for serving others.
The Islamic Circle of North America, one of the nation's largest grassroots movements, is dedicated to the cause of serving the greater community. Established in 1968, ICNA's various projects have cemented itself among those organizations that respond to society's cry for help. Providing food and shelter to victims of catastrophes, protecting civil rights as a part of the American Muslim Taskforce, and establishing women's shelters and a family counseling hotline are a small fraction of the activities that highlight ICNA's dedication to countering society's troubles.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Americans everywhere volunteer to do some good for others. Take a look inside yourself and ask if your existence has affected society in a positive way. Today and every day we must work towards becoming more conscious participants in our communities; you can do your part by getting involved in one of ICNA's many causes, which include:
Haiti Earthquake Fund
Orphan Sponsorship
Foster Care Training
School Supplies Drives
Muslim Women's Shelters
Community Food Drives
American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections
Disaster Preparedness Training
To get involved, visit us at http://www.icna.org/contact-us/.
I am glad Muslims can recognize Dr. Martin's dream. I agree, we must become more conscious participants in our communities.


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Old Miss Campbell was nearly as great a favorite as young Miss Campbell, so a succession of black coats and white gloves flowed in and out of the hospitable mansion pretty steadily all day. The clan was out in great force, and came by in installments to pay their duty to Aunt Plenty and wish the compliments of the season to "our cousin." Archie appeared first…. Hardly was he gone when Will and Geordie came marching in, looking as fine as gray uniforms with much scarlet piping could make them and feeling peculiarly important, as this was their first essay in New Year's call-making. Brief was their stay, for they planned to visit every friend they had….
Sunday, January 1, 2012
For Auld Lang Syne
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Happy New Year! I love the post you started with this year and for sharing with everyone. Here's to a wonderfully, blessed year in Genealogy!ReplyDelete
Again, another winner of a post! I don't even know the words to express how articulate, timely and just all-round-inspiringly gracious your posts are. What a great way to start the year.
Have a great 2012!
PS - Loved the YouTube clip!
Happy New Year Jacqi!ReplyDelete
...and yes, this is another "winner of a post." I've mentioned in the past that I would have enjoyed sharing a lunch or two with Frank - and that same goes with you. Ones time is precious - but your blog and what you write is never a waste of time. May the new year bring you something that you seek in your quest through the ages.
Yes we are becoming the coffee Queens of Stockton! Let me know when you return from Kansas Dorothy and we'll set another date for a cup of joe!ReplyDelete


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Magic in the Air – Park City Fourth of July Parade
When the Quail Fire bathed Park City in smoke and ash on July 3rd and fireworks shows in Summit County were cancelled, I wondered if it would put a damper on the Park City Fourth of July Parade. With news that the residents in Alpine were safe as firefighters contained the fire, and the smokey skies quickly cleared, it turns out that was not a problem!
We decided to take public transportation to the parade but as we waited at the bus stop, a rust colored Jeep carrying two ladies pulled up. Our neighbor and her friend offered us a ride and it didn't take us long to jump in the backseat. Now I can cross "riding in an open Jeep with the wind in my hair" off my bucket list!
Our ride dropped us off near the Miners Hospital in City Park (close to the BBQ) and the parade end. The parade route was packed even though we got there an hour and a half early. The shady spot we found on the grass was about four rows deep. Walking up the street, I was excited to see parties on every porch and every spot on the curb taken by eager onlookers waiting for the parade to start. No worries about lack of participation this year.
Who gets an F-16 fly over from Hill Air Force Base at their hometown parade? We did and the crowd went crazy. The fly over signaled the start and before long we were enjoying marching bands, parade waves from classy cars, a parrot riding on the handle bars of an 1890's bicycle, karate kids executing spin kicks, horse drawn wagons, mariachis, and float after float. We overheard people excitedly announcing the upcoming floats, "Hey there's …. Deer Valley…. Skull Candy…. US Ski Team…. Park City Luge Team…Montage… Park Silly Market, etc"
After the parade, we headed to the BBQ at City Park, shared a table and ate pulled pork sandwiches and cole slaw while listening to the band. Someone from Frontier Bank inflated a beach ball and got the crowd going as the ball bounced from the dancers back and forth to the picnickers providing additional entertainment for everyone. I only observed one casualty – a lone beer spilled in the process.
Maybe it was the shared experience of the fire threat the day before that set the tone but I noticed something different – everyone seemed friendlier. It could be that it was always that way but I was just paying more attention this year because I live here now. I don't know. I have to believe there something magical was in the air.
Think about this. Just when Park City needed it the most, it rained. Did it rain on July 4th? No. After record setting consecutive days of no measurable precipitation, it rained on July 5th. It was just enough rain to perk up the grasses to give them their lush green color (hence the name Park City) and just enough rain to ensure the Quail Fire was thoroughly doused and no longer posing a threat to our precious town and our neighbors on the other side of the mountain.
But did it rain on our parade? No. Of course not.
Magical, isn't it?


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Alcohol And Health Insurance Don't Always Mix
In more than half of the country, if you get injured while you're under the influence of alcohol, health insurers can refuse to pay for your medical care.
And that could really add up, since as many as half of the patients who wind up in ERs or trauma centers have been drinking. When these nonpayment laws were first passed starting in the 1940s, policymakers thought they might deter drinking and drunk driving.
A positive test could mean that hospitals and doctors would have to eat the charges if patients under the influence don't make good on the bills. To sidestep the problem, the hospitals often don't screen patients for alcohol use.
You might think that an organization like Mothers Against Drunk Driving would support these so-called alcohol-exclusion laws. But the opposite is true. MADD opposes them. The reason? The laws put a damper on testing for intoxication, and that's a critical step in preventing drunken driving.
Testing helps gauge scope of the problem and can aid prosecution of offenders, says Nick Ellinger, a spokesman for MADD. "If someone is involved in a crash, and if they have alcohol in their system, the doctor can institute screening and intervention, and set them on road to not doing it in the future."
Screening can also lead someone to get counseling. And that's important. A recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine found that patients who were identified as problem drinkers and given a single 7-minute counseling session significantly reduced the number of drinks they consumed in a week over the next year. The counseling also cut down on the episodes of binge drinking and driving after drinking compared with a group that received standard care.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an early backer of alcohol-exclusion laws, developed a model statute that states could use as a blueprint for their own laws. In 2001, the organization switched gears and recommended against such laws. Since then, at least 15 states have repealed their laws.
Copyright 2023 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit Kaiser Health News.


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Duplicate Contact Manager 0.9.2 Requires Restart
by Marian Steinbach, Copelnug
Facilitates handling of duplicates in your address book(s). Allow to search and remove similar contacts.
About this Add-on
The Duplicate Contact Manager searches for duplicate contact pairs and presents each pair to the user. The user can decide how to handle the pair.
Currently only one address book can be searched at a time. Users with multiple address books cannot search for duplicates between address books. This feature is planned for a future version.
(de-dupe, dedupe, duplicates, doubles, redundant, dupes)
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Version 0.9.2
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Flying high: Mallards one of highest flying birds documented
We have many wonderful volunteers at the Dickinson County Nature Center, and one of regular front desk helpers loves to bring in articles with interesting animal facts. The last article she brought in from "Smithsonian" magazine told that the highest bird flight ever recorded was by the Ruppell's griffon, a vulture native to Africa. It's Read More »Read More


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Charlottesville, Virginia – Parents and high schools are more aware than ever of the importance that colleges place on writing skills. High School Writing 3.0, by Niles Technology Group, is a parent's or school's answer to improving student writing. A comprehensive writing and thinking guide, High School Writing 3.0 app teaches the intricacies of writing sharp, direct arguments. Designed for the iPad and iPhone, students get both the best of mobile technology and essay writing instructions.
Niles Technology Group is the premier essay writing app developer in the App Store. Written and developed by educators dedicated to writing, High School Writing 3.0 gets straight to the fundamentals. Essays included are first and third person narratives, compare and contrast, cause and effect, argumentative, descriptive and even opinion essay. The SAT and college admissions essays are also part of the app. Each tutorial explains the purpose, research requirements and the crucial argument development process of that specific essay type. Students are guided using a proprietary simple-to-follow and understand format. With focus on the fundamentals, students receive just the right amount of information for the writing task at hand.
"The ultimate goal is to get students to write well and to enjoy doing so," explains Michael A. Niles, president of Niles Technology Group. "The trick is to keep students' interest with engaging, thought-provoking content that is the correct length to answer their questions and to teach, but not too long to become boring or too short to be inadequate. High School Writing 3.0 and all Niles Technology apps ensure that the instructional content is always the optimal length. Based on the excellent reviews and emails received from students and parents, we are proud to say Niles Technology has accomplished its goals."
Parents, teachers and schools are discovering the efficacy of Niles Technology apps. Each month, school volume purchases of the apps increase, which indicates that the use of mobile technology in schools is becoming more commonplace. Parents are also catching on because Essay Workstation 2.1 is the No. 1 gifted app in the Niles inventory. Middle School Writing 1.0 and High School Writing 3.0 are virtually tied as solid No. 2 bestsellers, with both parents and schools purchasing the apps.
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Manila: 10 Things to Do
It's cosmopolitan and chameleonlike, equal parts cool and kitsch, and animated with an irrepressible vitality that's capable of reinvigorating even the most world-weary among us. Yet for many folk Manila remains a city less traveled, because its myriad attractions are obscured by a flawed p.r. machine. The city's cultural gumbo of Malay, Spanish, American, Chinese and Arabic influences is heady and rich, but takes a while to fully appreciate. As in many developing-world cities, the traffic is stifling, the poverty pervasive and the urban sprawl daunting. But it's the Philippine capital's very elusiveness that gives it the edge over places that readily reveal their spoils. Embrace its beautiful chaos, even for just a day, and you'll be rewarded.


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Get your Warface on and take aim as beta servers open for highly anticipated free-to-play shooter from Crytek and Trion Worlds
Trion Worlds, the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era, today kicks off the closed beta for Warface, the upcoming free-to-play shooter, in cooperation with renowned developer and co-publisher Crytek GmbH (Crytek). Warface will be accessed through GFACE®, Crytek's social entertainment platform that is designed to enable its users to play games together live and to discover and share entertainment content with friends. The Warface beta servers are scheduled to be open from January 17 at 9:00am PST / 5pm GMT until the official Warface launch in Spring 2013.
"Trion Worlds and Crytek have been working closely to bring Warface to Western players looking for a first-person shooter with striking graphical detail and unsurpassed gameplay – for free," said Dirk Metzger, General Manager Publishing at Crytek. "We look forward to making the experience even more engaging as waves of pre-registered players are invited to join the Closed Beta and play their part in shaping Warface ahead of its final launch." Players looking for fast-paced, exhilarating multiplayer and co-op gameplay, from one of the world's most renowned first-person shooter studios, who have not yet registered can still do so at: www.warface.com.
The game casts players as part of Warface, a select unit of elite warriors that have banded together to fight Blackwood – the ruling brute-force government. Featuring intense first-person shooter co-op and competitive multiplayer gameplay, with regularly added new content, Warface gives players plenty of level-up opportunities and various upgrades, keeping you on your toes and forcing you to switch up your combat strategies in the heat of battle.
Learn more about Warface at www.warface.com
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Trion Worlds is the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era. Powered by a breakthrough development and publishing platform, Trion is revolutionizing the way games are developed, played and sold. Trion's world-class team delivers high-quality, dynamic and massively social games operated as live services across the biggest game genres and devices; including the critically acclaimed blockbuster, Rift® and the highly-anticipated End of Nations® and Defiance™. Trion is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in San Diego, Calif., Austin, Texas, and at Trion Worlds Europe in London, UK.
About Crytek GmbH
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront of the interactive entertainment industry, and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating standout experiences for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, mobile devices and games-as-service using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.
The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Crytek also has studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham (UK), Shanghai (China) and Istanbul (Turkey).
Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for excellence in its field, earning accolades such as the 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio and a 2010 Red Dot Design Award. Its multi-award winning games include Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards), Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010) and Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game of Gamescom 2012). For more information, please visit www.crytek.com.
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A 2,000-year-old image of a royal woman has been found in the ancient city of Meroë, in Sudan. When the artwork was created, Meroë was the center of the Kingdom of Kush; the Kushite lived along the Nile and, at times, invaded Ancient Egypt and ruled as Pharaohs there. But back to the image: She is, as Owen Jarus writes for LiveScience, "stylishly overweight."
The sandstone relief shows a woman smiling, her hair carefully dressed and an earring on her left ear. She appears to have a second chin and a bit of fat on her neck, something considered stylish, at the time, among royal women from Kush.
While researchers do not know the identity of the woman, they are quite sure she is royal: "It's similar to other images of princesses," archaeologist Krzysztof Grzymski tells LiveScience.
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Why royal women in Kush preferred to be depicted overweight is a long-standing mystery. "There is a distinct possibility that the large size of the Candaces represented fertility and maternity," wrote the late Miriam Ma'at-Ka-Re Monges, who was a professor at California State University, Chico, and an expert on Kush, in an article published in The Encyclopedia of Black Studies (Sage Publications, 2005).
Or! Maybe it was a sign of health and wealth? Or perhaps the Kush found larger women just plain foxy? Perhaps instead of asking why being voluptuous and having a double chin was cool, we should ask why not? After all, some consider Venus de Milo to be the epitome of beauty, while others would rather worship Venus of Willendorf.
Ancient Carving Shows Stylishly Plump African Princess[LiveScience] Image courtesy Krzysztof Grzymski


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Our team welcomes you from 7am in the cosy setting of our restaurant where our delicious "local" breakfast awaits you in the form of a buffet. The Hannong hotel has chosen authentic asacien produce for you, healthy and tasty, with the best producers and craftsman of the region.
On the menu: Hot drinks, breads and home-made patisseries, Kougelhopf, yoghurts and farmhouse cheese, fine hams from Alsace, organic cereals, fruit juices, regional jams and honey, boiled eggs, sausages and bacon, fruit selection...
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We are welcoming, open and affirming to all. Our services begin at 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Religious exploration for school-age children and childcare for preschoolers are available from September to May. Learn more about us and what happens Sundays at UUFF.
Our growing Unitarian Universalist fellowship is led by Rev. Leslie Ahuvah Fails, who joined UUFF in September 2015. About half our Sunday Services are lay led or feature guest speakers, ensuring a diversity of topics and voices.


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You know government spending is out of control when Washington is sending stimulus checks to people who have been dead for four decades.
An 83-year-old Baltimore-area man just got a $250 check in the mail -- addressed to his mother, who died in 1967.
"It shocked me and I laughed all at the same time," James Hagner told WBALT TV. "I don't even expect to get one for myself, and I get one for my mother from 43 years ago?"
Social Security officials conceded that of the 52 million checks sent out, about 10,000 went to people who are no longer with us. The agency blames the mistakes on a tight, June deadline for getting the checks out, leaving little time for records checking.
It's a federal offense to cash the checks if they're made out to someone else, and the government is asking anyone who mistakenly gets one to return it. But Hagner doesn't want to give his mother's check back -- he wants to frame it.
"I just want to keep it as a souvenir," he said. "I'll never cash it."


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This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources.
That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983.
NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn't own AOL, so Huffington Post isn't affiliated with them.
But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates "the illusion of choice," Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit aren't owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Penfield Leyden Fleece
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- AnonymousDecember 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM
hey arkadaş bu kıyafetler bir harika bunlar kendi tasarımınızmı çok güzel görünüyorlarReplyDelete
Looks much better on the mannequin than on this dude, I'll take one in navy. Very nice.ReplyDelete
navy no doubt.ReplyDelete
So true!
The navy one has such a great nautical look/feel.ReplyDelete
Skip- Twitter speak on the blog...that's a first.
Is it possible for you to make your links external pages?ReplyDelete
Nicholas- I'm not the most tech savy guy, but I assume you talking about links opening up into new tabs so you don't have to keep clicking back? Do you know how I can implement this into blogger? Shoot me an email if you'd like to help fix this issue...haha...thanks.ReplyDelete
Haha, I think it took me a few days to figure out how to write a comment on these blogs, nevermind engineer them. Definitely can't be of help there. You've got some great stuff though; keep it up.ReplyDelete


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The Comic Strip Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 - 1979 will be published later this year.
The expected release date of 30 September 2012 has recently been posted on the Telos Publishing website, along with the reveal of the cover and blurb. Judging by the comments posted online in reaction to this announcement, it appears that there are many readers eagerly awaiting the book's publication. I count myself among them. I may have spent countless hundreds of hours researching, writing and revising over the past five years, and I'm very keen to see the finished product.
The Comic Strip Companion is a guide to an aspect of Doctor Who that may be unfamiliar to many fans, as all the comic strips published in the years covered by this book are long out of print. The book does not reprint the actual strips. For rights reasons this is not possible. The book does feature an 8-page colour section featuring a selection of relevant comic strip covers.
Each individual episode has a plot synopsis, so anyone who has not read some, or perhaps even all, of the comic strips under discussion should still find the book entirely accessible. It also provides a lot of information that even readers who do have the strips to hand will not have known about before, sourced from original correspondence, synopses, scripts and interviews with some of the writers and artists.
The fifteen year period covered in this book details every Doctor Who story, produced by Polystyle Publications (formerly TV Publications), that appeared in TV Comic, Countdown and TV Action.
The Doctor's comic strip adventures began in November 1964; one year after the television series was first broadcast. For the following fifteen years, Doctor Who appeared in comic strip form almost every week, amassing many more individual stories than the television series. In May 1979 the strip was discontinued. After a five-month hiatus the strip was re-launched as a regular feature in Doctor Who Weekly (later Doctor Who Magazine, where the strip continues to this day). This break and subsequent change of publisher marks the conclusion of the book's comic strip coverage. I am writing a follow-up volume that will pick up the story of the comic strips from October 1979 onwards.
Most of the book is taken up with a year-by-year, story-by-story coverage of the weekly strip, but there are sections included for the comic strip adventures in The Dr Who Annual, the Dalek books and annuals, and The Daleks, a weekly strip that appeared in TV Century 21. The book also has appendices that detail all of the reprints, adaptations, humorous strips and even a handful of associated text stories.
The book is an A5-format paperback, around 500 pages in length, and is now available to order from Telos.


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Director Tom Holland putting a stake in the heart of Chris Sarandon (Fright Night – 1985)
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Dirty Horror Dance-Off: 'Fright Night' Vs. 'Fright Night Part 2'
I don't know about you, but I'm ready for dance-off! A bit random, yes – but a good dance-off can really make or break the week. Our first competitors are Jerry Dandrige and Amy Peterson from the 1985 movie Fright Night. Jerry is sporting a rather large neck-hole sweater to bust his moves in and the duo will be dancing to the Evelyn 'Champagne' King song "Give It Up". Let's see what they've got!
Oooooh. Steamy! You could really feel the chemistry between the two of them. That is until Charley Brewster showed up and started cockblocking and ruined the mood. Speaking of Charley, he's up next in the Dirty Horror Dance- Off with his partner Regine Dandrige (ooooh sibling rivalry going on!) from the 1988 sequel Fright Night Part 2. I'm not sure that they'll be able to top the sensuality and poise of our first couple, but let's see what they can do to the tune of "Come To Me" by Deborah Holland.
Wow – talk about upping the ante! Charley's hands were all over Regine. The black onlooking vampire with the impressive 80's hair clearly approved. Nice appearance by the rosary too. I didn't know that props were allowed, but we'll let it slide here. Hmmmmm……this is going to be tough. On one hand, Jerry and Amy brought the heat fast and hard and Jerry's sweater gets points regardless of this outcome. On the other hand, Charley & Regine took it to another level, included some appropriate props, and Regine even went full vampire to try and secure the win. So after tallying up the votes, the winner of the very first Dirty Horror Dance-Off is……………………
Regine went full vampire, and we all know that going full vampire results in a victory.


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Last week, the independent California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group recommended that the state legislature not proceed with funding the proposed Los Angeles–San Francisco project. Its argument was grounded in concerns about "the California High-Speed Rail Authority's plan to start construction without any assurance of future funding from the federal government," according to The Wall Street Journal.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority responded with a "you'll be sorry" statement, asserting that it will cost Californians more not to build the system. It argued that the cost of expanding airports and highways will total $171 billion, a sum much greater than the rail system's projected cost of $98 billion to $118 billion. This claim is questionable at best.
It also illuminates the methodological trickery woven into the rail supporters' argument.
As Wendell Cox and Joseph Vranich write in today's Wall Street Journal,
Proponents based their estimate on train capacity (including empty seats) of 1,000. Their rail plan calls for trains with only 500 seats, but this fictional doubling of capacity nicely boosts the amount of highway construction they can claim would be needed if the train line isn't built. The authority also assumed that more than twice as many trains would run as they now plan to run when the line is complete. They even include the cost of some highway expansions that would not be needed for hundreds of years at normal growth rates.
The bad assumptions do not end there. In their assessment, authority planners count on hyperbolic ridership levels. Their projections for new demand for high-speed rail travel are inflated, which allows them to claim that highways throughout the Los Angeles–San Francisco corridor would have to be expanded by three lanes—regardless of current demand and congestion levels.
The fabrication of facts has squelched the hype surrounding other high-speed rail projects. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) ended high-speed rail projects when it became known that the trains wouldn't exactly run at high speed. Cox described the demise of the proposed Tampa-to-Orlando rail line last year: Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) decided against funding this project, which would have put taxpayers on the hook for $3 billion in cost overruns plus operating subsidies.
High-speed rail remains one of the most costly forms of transportation. Heritage's Ronald Utt has enumerated the fiscal pitfalls, pointing to lower-than-expected ridership rates, rising ticket prices, and exorbitant government subsidies in other countries with high-speed rail systems. As is the case in California, the price tag for high-speed rail projects often exceeds original estimates and puts an additional burden on states and taxpayers already struggling in a weakened economy amid massive budget deficits. How irresponsible and misleading it is, then, of the authority to keep pushing for the California project, especially when the methodology supposedly bolstering its argument is anything but sound.


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There are 5 installments to today's Downbeat. These will be dropping throughout the morning. One for every member of the F5. There will be 25 points of the Downbeat today. The U.S. Government may have shut down, but not MyLo. First up ... Trey Burke.
F1 - Trey Burke
F5 - Enes Kanter
ESPN.com ranked Trey Burke as the #161 best player in the NBA. Pretty high honors for a rookie point guard who has not logged a single NBA minute.
Trey Burke told the media on Monday that he learned a lot of things from Stockton. One of which was how to handle the screen. In this conversation with David Locke, Trey Burke glowed about John Stockton.
"It was an honor, first and foremost, to have the opportunity to meet him. ... He's such a basketball genius. He wants to stop you ... he wants to teach you. ... He taught me a lot about patience, ball screen, shot selection, different reads out of the pick and roll. He taught me a lot. Really. In the two, three days I was with him, I tried to soak it in and apply it. There was so much coming at me, I tried to take the important points he was teaching me. and take it in. The main thing he tried to tell me was that we were both small guards. When you're small you have to be smarter than the other guys. You gotta play at your own pace, you have to understand angles and spots on the court.
I'm impressed by Trey Burke's reverence towards John Stockton. Not only that, but his attention to everything that John Stockton was teaching him. He was a very attentive listener. He was a very willing learner. If he is willing to put that much skin into the game and pay the price with work while furthering his learning by listening to greats like Stockton, he is going to be an amazing addition to the Utah Jazz.
Trey was floated a hypothetical situation from David Locke. In the 3rd quarter on October 30th against OKC he calls for the screen. Russell Westbrook decides to go below the pick and roll. What is Trey Burke's next move? This is his response. Pay attention to what Trey Burke has already learned from John Stockton.
Burke: I'm going to call for the rescreen. Then come of the screen and it's going to be a good pocket pass or 5 foot jumpshot.
Locke: So you're not just banging the minute ...
Burke: Maybe before Spokane I would have done that. John, he told me, he told me he didn't like to start out the game shooting a lot of threes. If he missed a couple his percentage would drop.
Trey Burke has already shown that he has learned from Stockton patience in this whole process.
In addition to Stockton helping Burke become a better playmaker, Stockton shared with Burke the secret to becoming a better shooter. In true John Stockton fashion it had nothing to do with shooting.
He said something that stuck with me: 'The better passer you are, the better scorer you are going to be. Guys expect you to pass - a lot of times you are going to be open when you come off that pick-and-roll.
John Stockton sharing his secret. The secret to shooting better is distributing better. Classic John. John Stockton does have a point. If the point guard is seen as a multiple threat, meaning that any person on the floor is about to score at a moment's notice, rather than a singular threat then he is harder to guard and given more space to work with. Kudos, John. Kudos.
Count John Lucas III as a member of the Trey Burke bandwagon. He has been impressed by Trey Burke already just through their interactions during open gym and P3.
John Lucas III on Trey Burke: "Trey, he's going to develop into a wonderful player. He's going to be star in this league. He has the tools."— Jody Genessy (@DJJazzyJody) September 30, 2013


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A cigarette, a car backfire: Small sparks can make big fires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A carelessly discarded cigarette, a downed power line, a car's backfire or a chainsaw's pull. Just about anything could have started any one of the wildfires now tearing through Northern California, authorities said.
"Every spark is going to ignite a fire," said Ken Pimlott, the state's top firefighter. He said the risk remains "extreme for new starts."
Pimlott said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the causes, but no determination has been made at any of the sites of major wildfires blazing in Northern California. Authorities said 22 were burning Wednesday.
Pimlott, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection director, said "98 percent" of all wildfires are started by people and it's unlikely lightning is to blame for any of the fires that exploded overnight Sunday, killing at least 21 people so far.
California's most dangerous wildfire season comes in autumn, when summer heat and insects have left brush dead and dried out, and winds are especially hot, dry and strong.
"This is traditionally California's worst time for fires," Pimlott said.
Pimlott said firefighters typically respond to 300 blazes a week during this season, but nearly all are extinguished quickly and with minimal damage. It's unusual to have many major fires burning at once, he said.
However, conditions were ripe for wildfires in California wine country after record rains last winter created an abundance of dry vegetation, which combined with low humidity and unusually high winds gusting to 79 mph to create fast-moving infernos.
Pimlott told reporters Wednesday that the state was still feeling the effects of five years of drought and that the winter rain was gone, leaving behind critically dry vegetation to fuel fires.
None of the major fires has been contained. They are spread over a 200-mile region north of San Francisco from Napa in the south to Redding in the north, taxing firefighting resources.
Napa County Fire Chief Barry Biermann said fires had been moving too fast and unpredictably for firefighters to attack directly.
"The winds were extremely erratic during those conditions of high winds and a lot of things happened," Biermann said.
He and others said resources are stretched thin as firefighters battle so many major blazes simultaneously.
California Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said thousands of firefighters, law enforcement officials and others are responding. Airplanes are helping and fresh firefighters from Southern California and Nevada are streaming in to help.
The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a large drone to help map the fires and assess damage. The California National Guard is also providing gasoline to firefighters and other first responders because many service stations in the area are without power and unable to pump fuel.
The biggest and most devastating fire is burning in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 people 45 miles north of San Francisco. A fire there swept through several neighborhoods and business districts. Many residents had only minutes to flee. Many of the fatalities so far have occurred in and near Santa Rosa.
Many roads are closed throughout Northern California. California Highway Patrol officers are helping with security at evacuation centers and providing escorts to rescue vehicles traveling in dangerous areas, commissioner Warren Stanley said.
He also had a request for motorists in the area.
"Anybody who is driving around — if you're smoking in your car — please do not throw your cigarettes out the window," Stanley said.


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If one set of lab tests is good, then two should be twice as good, right? It turns out the answer is no. More healthcare is not necessarily better healthcare. Choosing Wisely Canada, a campaign organized by a team of leading physicians in partnership with dozens of Canadian medical organizations, is offering guidance to help clinicians decide which tests, treatments, and prescriptions are unnecessary. Hôpital Montfort, in Ottawa, Ontario, is using Power BI to help provide its physicians with the evidence to help them make some of those wise choices.
Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) helps clinicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests and treatments, and make smart and effective choices to ensure high-quality care. Unnecessary tests and treatments do not add value to care — in fact, they take away from care by potentially exposing patients to harm, leading to more testing to investigate false positives and contributing to stress for patients. And of course unnecessary tests and treatments put increased strain on the resources of our health care system.
Marc-André Lépine, Systems Administrator and Lead BI Architect, and Sébastien Landry, Director of Medical Affairs, both at Hôpital Montfort, were impressed with Power BI, and decided that lab utilization would be a great test case for using it to empower physicians with the evidence they need to focus their effort on the laboratory tests reduction initiative. Landry said of their test, "The power of Power BI is that … the data speaks for itself and lets physicians draw their own conclusions without any intervention from administrators."
Learn more about how Hôpital Montfort and Power BI worked together to reduce unnecessary testing and treatments, and save money on health care while still providing world-class support in this case study.


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In an admission in some ways as disturbing as his famous novel, Lord of the Flies, author William Golding wrote in an unpublished memoir that he had tried to rape a fifteen-year-old girl when he was eighteen.
Biographer John Carey discovered the memoir among Golding's papers while doing research for his book, The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, available September 3. In it, Golding says he met the girl when she was 13, and that she was "beginning to burn sexually" at that time. By 14, he wrote, she was "already sexy as an ape." When he saw her again, on a visit home from Oxford, he said he "felt sure she wanted heavy sex, as this was visibly written on her pert, ripe and desirable mouth." This she-wanted-it language is obviously upsetting, as is the admission that he "unhandily tried to rape her." She managed to get away, leaving him calling "I'm not going to hurt you," and thinking he "had made such a bad hand at rape."
Sadly, none of this — from the assumption that physical attractiveness as a sign of sexual desire to the disingenuous claim that "I'm not going to hurt you" — is unusual. What is unusual is the source of the admission — an author who had written elsewhere about the darkness of the human spirit. Golding apparently wrote his memoir, which he called Men and Women Now, to explain his "monstrous" side to his wife Ann. It seems, however that he also wanted to excuse his actions, with claims that the girl was "depraved by nature." Confessing the attempted rape to his wife years after the fact, when it's likely that no restitution could be made, seems more like a selfish unburdening than a generous act of honesty. And Golding's repeated claims about the girl's sexuality suggests he wasn't ready, even at that late date, for true contrition.
Golding's papers also reveal that he pitted boys against each other when he was a schoolteacher, and that as he gave them more autonomy, his "eyes came out like organ stops" to witness their actions. These creepy war games, in which he "divided pupils into gangs, with one attacking a prehistoric camp and the other defending it," may have been an inspiration for the ultimately murderous conflict between boys in Lord of the Flies. Of that novel, Golding said in a publicity questionnaire,
The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature except the rescue in the end where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic life of the children on the island.
The author's words on evil and "the defects of human nature," along with his admission of his "monstrous" side, may be telling. If Golding believed that humans were evil at base, that given freedom they would turn against each other, then he might have thought his attempted rape was in some way mitigated. And his depiction of boys corrupted by a mysterious devil that at first appears external but more and more seems to operate within them may be a claim for the lack of free will in the face of the corrupting influence of human nature itself. Whatever the case, we know now that someone who wrote memorably about evil had first-hand experience with it, and saw it within himself, as much as he sought to excuse it.
Author William Golding Tried To Rape Teenager, Private Papers Show [Guardian]
William Golding, Author Of Lord of the Flies 'Tried To Rape A 15-Year-Old Girl' [Telegraph]


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Not sure if Julian Assange or Schwartz…
South Korea Arrests Man For Re-Tweeting Oppressive North Korean Government; Wins Ultimate Irony Award
from the isn't-imitation-the-best-form-of-flattery? dept
I have to admit, there are times when I find South Korea immensely confusing when it comes to technology. They appear to embrace the hell out of the more modern view of the music business. They're heavily invested in their population's internet connectivity. Yet they can also get goofy when it comes to intellectual property, such as when they decided patenting their military uniforms was a surefire way of keeping the North Korean military from dressing alike. They've also put in place a mildly enforced version of 3 strikes legislation to appease American entertainment companies.
Admitting all that, however, my surprise has boiled over upon learning that a South Korean man was found guilty of "praising, encouraging or propagandizing" North Korea under their "National Security Law" for tweets associated with his account. His crime? Well, mostly retweeting North Korea's official Twitter account, tweeting out a couple of links to North Korean propaganda songs, and tweeting nonsensical nonsense (is there any other kind?) about their neighbors to the north. Oh, and he also mercilessly mocked the hell out of this country he's accused of supporting as well.
Mr. Park denied praising the North Korean government and said his intention was to lampoon the North Korean regime. In a North Korean post that he tweaked and sent out on Twitter, he replaced a swarthy North Korean soldier's face with a downcast version of his own and the soldier's rifle with a bottle of whiskey.
A freedom of speech advocate, who authorities arrested for mocking governments and generally being a smartass? Huh, you know what? That sounds like something that might happen in North Korea. Just to wrap this up in a neat little bow for everyone, South Korea arrested a man for exercising speech because they incorrectly thought he was propagandizing a despotic country. The irony is so thick here, I can hardly breathe.
In his ruling, the presiding judge, Shin Jin-woo, acknowledged that some of Mr. Park's posts were parody. But he said Mr. Park's overall acts were tantamount to "supporting and joining forces with an antistate entity." The justice said his court suspended the prison term, however, because Mr. Park promised not to repeat his act.
You might read this and think that the court was lenient, suspending his jail sentence. I call BS on that. It isn't lenient to agree not to jail someone in exchange for giving up their rights. Now, lest you think that this speech right doesn't exist in South Korea and I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, that's under intense debate.
The United Nations and human rights groups have called on South Korea for years to repeal or revise the law, which the country's past military dictators had used not only against people suspected of being spies but also against political dissidents. But the law has proved resilient in a society where many fear North Korea, which has launched military provocations against the South in recent years.
See, South Korea today is a Republic. They're supposed to enjoy rights like the freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Oh, freedom of the press, that reminds me, I have to mention the final ironic cherry on top of this irony sundae.
The Twitter account whose posts Mr. Park forwarded is run by the North Korean government Web site, Uriminzokkiri, which the South Korean news media regularly cite in their reports.
That's right, kids. Mr. Park was found guilty of disseminating information from a North Korean Twitter account…that the South Korean press regularly uses to disseminate information. You can't make this stuff up.
Filed Under: free speech, north korea, parody, retweets, south korea


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The second Ignite Madison happened on February 12, 2014 and I was there… and if you weren't there, you can still see the video of me talking due to the magic of the Internet!
A few notes: Doing an Ignite talk requires a lot of practice. You've only got 5 minutes! I've given plenty of talks, and when you have a bunch of slides, and a bunch of time, and no specific timing to stick to, it's a breeze. But, add in 20 slides changing every 15 seconds and it gets a bit more difficult.
I managed to go slightly off-track twice, but in the end, I think it turned out OK. I won't be hitting the professional speaker's circuit anytime soon, but I am glad I did it, because, as you'll learn from my talk, learning, sharing and inspiring are the things that drive me to make.
If nothing else, I'm glad I could help out the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County by taking part in the event.
Oh, and check out the other presenters for the evening, they were all great! Thanks for the interesting evening, Madison!


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Philadelphia, PA, August 15, 2013 – A team of investigators systematically analyzed the effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on joint symptoms in a rigorous and controlled study of postmenopausal women. They found that supplementation did not reduce the severity of joint symptoms reported by the participants. Their results are published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The influence of low calcium and vitamin D deficiency on joint symptoms has been studied with mixed results. Only some observational studies have associated vitamin D with knee osteoarthritis and results from full-scale randomized trials have been sparse. "In the current study, we addressed for the first time in a full-scale, randomized clinical trial setting, the clinically relevant question of whether postmenopausal women using calcium and vitamin D supplements in currently recommended dosage would experience any favorable effect on joint pain or swelling, common symptoms in postmenopausal women," says lead investigator Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, PhD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.
Using data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) calcium plus vitamin D supplementation trial, researchers identified a subgroup of 1,911 postmenopausal women for the current study, who had been randomized to receive calcium carbonate with vitamin D3 daily or placebo and had undergone serial joint symptom assessment. Responses to a questionnaire provided qualitative information on joint pain and joint swelling before entry and two years after randomization.
Between the daily supplement use and placebo groups, joint pain and swelling at baseline entry was comparable, at more than 70 percent. After two years, analysis revealed no statistically significant difference for the frequency or severity of joint pain or swelling.
The research team also evaluated data to determine the potential for interaction with age, BMI (body mass index), physical activity, non-protocol calcium and vitamin D supplement use, race/ethnicity, and hormone therapy. Investigators found no interaction with age, BMI, race/ethnicity, or physical activity. No significant interaction was evident with non-protocol vitamin D supplement use at entry. However, participants using non-protocol calcium supplements at entry reported less joint pain compared with those in the placebo group. The influence of calcium and vitamin D supplementation individually on joint symptoms was not determined because both were provided combined in a single pill in this trial.
Dr. Chlebowski concludes, "Joint symptoms are relatively common in postmenopausal women. However, daily supplementation with 1,000 mg of calcium carbonate and 400 IU of vitamin D3 in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial setting did not reduce the self-reported frequency or severity of joint symptoms."
Dr. Chlebowski and his team add that these findings do not speak against current recommendations for vitamin D intakes for bone health and fracture risk reduction.
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics