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Carl Lee Jones (1905-1994) was born in Valdosta to Charles Lee Jones (1897-1949) and Virginia Irene Knight (1868-1940) and graduated from Valdosta High in 1924. After graduating from Georgia Tech in 1930, Jones went on to teach mechanical engineering at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He married Dorothy Lile Jones who grew up in Middlesboro, Kentucky, and New Philadelphia, Ohio, but moved to Valdosta and lived with her uncle and aunt, Maurice R. and Annie L. Ousley, while attending college. Dorothy graduated in 1930 from Valdosta Woman's College and became an educator, teaching for many years. During WWII Carl Jones was stationed as an instructor at Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Pensacola, Florida. Carl and Dorothy Jones moved back to Valdosta in 1993 and were active members of the community. Both are buried at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta. His photo and information is listed in A Calender for 1996; A Family Album Of World War II Memories, Book II which is on our web site at http://valdostamuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Part-2-1996.pdf
Jones 1986-514-1, 1986-514-01a TB 94R10Sd1
David Robinson Jones (1916-1986) was born December 23, 1916 in Ulster County, New York to John Ward and Leona C. Jones. He served in the Army July 15, 1940 through December 16, 1945. In 1957 he and his wife Betty Smith (1914-1988) made their home in Valdosta where he worked as a civilian for Moody Air Force Base as a Personnel Director until 1972. The photo of David R. Jones shown here is from a 1958 Moody Air Force Yearbook housed in the museum. He is listed in the 1972 Valdosta City Directory as working for the County Planning Commission until his retirement in 1977. They continued to live in their home in Valdosta until 1984. He died in Pinetta, Florida on October 13, 1986.
His WWII four pocket army jacket bears the infantry pin on the right lapel and US gold pins on both lapels. Ribbons pinned to his jacket included the American Defense and the European-African-Mid East Division with a the star, indicating he participated in a major engagement for 6 months. The garrison cap with dark piping has two silver bars indicating the rank of Captain. Included with his uniform is his mohair khaki tie and button fly khaki pants.
Kelly 2009-102 Tb 95R8Sd4
Col. Edwin Kelly began his affiliation with the military as an orderly for a Capt. Halcombe in Valdosta, Georgia. Later, while earning his Bachelors Degree at the University of Miami, Kelly joined the 121st National Guard Unit. He was then recruited by the 265th Coast Guard Artillery Unit and sent to Ft. Galveston, Texas. Seeing signs of a world war, Kelly resigned from his artillery unit to join the Army and was sent to Jefferson Barracks in Illinois where he was selected, along with 15 others, to attend Airborne Radar Operations Weapons System School. Kelly trained on the P-61 Black Widow as a Weapons System Officer, protecting pilots from B-25 and B-29 bombers. After training, he was stationed in Chengtu, China under the command of Major General Chennault as a radio communications officer with the infamous Flying Tigers. He was proud that during his duration, he lost no B-29's and the few B-25 losses were only due to a ground bomb raid. Later, Kelly was sent to Japan as part of the Occupational Forces and promoted to the rank of Major.
After WWII, Kelly worked in the Pentagon under General Curtis E. LeMay, and assisted in the development of the Command and Control Operation Systems Manual used in the Vietnam War. Not forgetting his home, in 1953, he brought a communications tactical squadron to Moody Air Force Base.
Kelly was appointed to the position of Communications Squadron Commander of Barksdale Air Force Base and under his command his squadron received top honors. While there, he developed a radar system that could track moving objects at night. Later he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, European Communication Area where he received the Meritorious Service Medal.
Kelly served his country during WWII, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam. He retired after 30 years of service with the rank of Colonel and resided in Valdosta until his death in 2015.
Edwin Kelly donated his Flying Tigers Patch and a blood chit pin.
Langdale 78-192 TB 10R10Sb1, 12R9Sd3
John Wesley Langdale (Feb. 8, 1917- 1998) attended North Georgia College, US Naval Acadamy, and the University of Georgia where he received his law degree. He practiced law in Valdosta in 1940 before joining the Navy in 1941. He was commissioned an officer in 1942. He was first assigned work as an instructor for the Naval Reserve School and received sea duty as an operations officer aboard the USS Owen, the flag ship of the Destroyer Squadron 52 in the South Pacific. While attached to the Destroyer Squadron 52, he was in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered.
With others from Valdosta, John Wesley Langdale is listed in the Roll of Honor of the First Baptist Church, Dec 27,1942 as an Ensign. He was later promoted to Lieutenant as shown by the two gold stripes and gold star on his uniform sleeve. At the end of his naval career, he had advanced to Lt. Commander according to a Valdosta Daily Times archived in the Susie McKey Thomas Vertical Files Collection in the museum. He was awarded a Bronze Star and the Pacific Theatre Ribbon.
After the war, John Langdale contributed to this area in many capacities. He served as Echols County Attorney, President of the Langdale Company, chairman and/or director of several local banks, Director of Georgia Power Co, Director of Georgia State Chamber of Commerce, Director of Georgia Forestry Association, and President of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce. He was also a Representative in the Georgia General Assembly (1949-1952), State Senator, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 1957-1958, on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia 1964-1971, and was active in promoting Valdosta State College for which the School of Business named a classroom in his honor and gave him an honorary degree. He was also active in the Rotary Club and the First Baptist Church of Valdosta.
Little 2016-53 TB 102R8Sb2
Albert Pendleton Little ( 1922-2016), a Valdosta native, son of Albert J. and Bessie Pendleton Little served in the Army Medical Corps in India during WWII. His military duffle bag was recently donated to the museum containing his stamped name and serial number and his tag with his home address located on Ashley Street and also his APO address. The back of the tag has his handwritten name and military number. His rank on the bag shows he was T/4.
Luke 2011-34 TB 106R8Sc1
Olan H. Luke (1909-1994), a Hahira native, was stationed at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida 1943-1945. His donated dress blues enlisted uniform patch shows him as a second class ship serviceman.
After his two year service, he established a men's store with his two brothers in downtown Valdosta and in 1957 went into business for himself. In the Susie McKey Thomas Vertical Files Collection of Valdosta Daily Times articles housed at the museum, Luke is quoted as saying "We were the first air-conditioned building in Valdosta." when speaking of his shop. Olan Luke was a founder of the Downtown Merchants Association and was awarded The Georgia Retailers Association's Retailer of the Year and the Southeast Merchant of the Year and was member of the board of directors of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce. He was in business in Valdosta for 53 years.


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Six Degrees of 'Who Cares?'
- Six Degrees of "Who Cares?"
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The latest online fad is to prove how popular, powerful, and interesting you are by not only being a member of an online social or business network, but by comparing how many people you have in your network as well. It doesn't matter if you don't know any of the 14,000 people you're linked tothey're still part of your network, so it's all cool.
America Online's new AIM Fight game appears to be mocking this trend. It takes the old Google War game (in which you Googled your name and someone else's to see who has more links -- ed. note: this site has since been shut down) to the next level. You type in your instant-message handle and one for someone else you know (or don't, for that matter), and you each get an overall rating number that indicatesat least in partnot just how many buddies you each have on your instant-message setup list, but also how many connections they link through to as well. The member with the higher number is victorious. Having one or two well-connected friends, it seems, can make all the difference in winning this game.
I had some fun with this the other day. PC Magazine executive editor Ben Gottesman sent me a note about the new game (thanks, Ben!), and I immediately began trying my handle out against other people's. I beat most AIM handles I know, which means that I must know someone with friends because, believe me, I do not have that many of my own. This is harmless amusement. But not all social-network engineering is so entertaining or innocent.
Ben and I traded notes and realized that we'd both recently been victims of people in the LinkedIn networks who were trying, by sending invite e-mails through the service, to enlarge their own networks for some kind of personal or business gain. (LinkedIn is one of many increasingly popular online business/social-networking services. You build valuable "relationships and even business alliances" through first, second, and even third-person connections and introductions.) I probably would not mind if I knew these people, or at least knew that we had a mutual acquaintance. But for the most part, they are complete strangers to Ben and me. Often they don't even bother to rewrite LinkedIn's boilerplate greeting text. So the e-mail invite sounds robotic, cold, and patently uninviting. Sometimes people do put a bit of personality in the note or mention they want to build their personal or business network (I've received e-mail invites from investment services and venture capitalists) and that they may eventually want to work with you on some important business opportunity. Still, without exception, I ignore and delete these invites. Ben has been kinder; he's actually asked the inviters if they knew him. They invariably didn't. One guy offered this lame excuse for contacting Ben:
"I send out invites about once a week but only to those whom are already in my Outlook who are already LinkedIn members. [If Ben's in his Outlook account, then he should know him! But the kicker comes next.]
"However, sometimes people will receive an invite because we have both been cc'ed an e-mail by someone we share in common. This has the effect of collapsing second-degree to first-degree connectionswhich isn't usually a problem."
In other words, he doesn't know Ben, but he apparently saves the names of all people cc'ed on any e-mail he receives into his Outlook address book, and then harvests those addresses later for random LinkedIn calls. Sounds like a virus to me. Continue reading...

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SAS hero's warning as he urges MI5 to hunt down ISIS terrorists who are 'exploiting' Britain and deploy more armed cops on the streets
Phil Champion has also demanded travel bans for those suspected of trying to join terror groups in the wake of the Manchester attack
AN SAS hero has warned Britain is "an easy target" and has urged MI5 to hunt down ISIS terrorists who are "exploiting" the country.
Security consultant Phil Champion has also demanded more armed cops on the street and travel bans for people who are suspected to heading to the Middle East in order to join terror groups in the wake of the Manchester attack.
Salman Abedi killed 22 people after he detonated a bomb at Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert on May 22.
In light of the attack, Phil told the Daily Star that Britain's security situation was "dire" and claimed the UK is an "easy target".
He also believes terrorists who are "exploiting" Britain by infiltrating the country after travelling to the Middle East in order to train with groups in Libya and Syria need to be hunted down by MI5.
Phil, who served in the SAS for 15 years, said the horrific event in Manchester was "not a surprise with the attitude we have got to out personal security in this country", adding that more should have been done and "a lot earlier".
The city of Manchester has been left devastated by the terror attack which claimed the lives of young children as well as adults.
A bomb exploded in the foyer of Manchester Arena moments after US pop star Ariana Grande left the stage.
Witnesses told how nuts and bolts were sent flying in the blast as fans made their way to Manchester Victoria train station next door.
Salman's younger brother and father were arrested in Libya, while his older brother was detained after masked officers swooped on him outside a Morrisons store in Manchester.
To show their support for the victims of the devastating attack, a number of musicians are due to perform at a charity gig tomorrow at 6pm.
Ariana Grande has returned to Manchester to headline a fundraising concert at the city's Old Trafford cricket ground for the victims of the suicide bombing.
All proceeds of One Love Manchester will go to the victims and their families.
Networks in China, Australia, South America and across Asia will also air the gig live and in full, with many more in talks.
The event will also be streamed online, meaning the total number of viewers around the world could surpass the estimated one billion who saw 1985's Live Aid concert.
Little Mix, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Take That are on the bill to perform alongside Justin Beiber and Katy Perry.
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The IIC's TMF in South Africa proved to be a thorough examination of all the supply and demand side issues testing regulators on the continent
The IIC's Telecommunications and Media Forum (TMF) in Johannesburg debated what constitutes best practice policy and regulatory decision making across Africa. Each day began with a keynote address from South African deputy ministers and the event was supported by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and sponsored by Microsoft, MTN, Multichoice and Vodafone.
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Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize, deputy minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, set the scene on the opening day where the focus was on infrastructure, funding and supply side issues with affordable, sustainable access recognised as a key development goal.
The first panel session picked up on the theme of broadband rollout and how Africa's broadband strategy is developing. Charley Lewis, senior lecturer at the Link Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, noted that in Johannesburg there is a lot of fibre infrastructure activity – there's clearly a connectivity revolution time he was still showing a slide highlighting the divide between up-market urbanites and rural villages.
Our biggest challenge is actually in human development and that is what's stalling programmes all over the continent.
Thabiso Thukani, who runs government and industry relations for Ericsson's Sub-Saharan Africa division, noted that it is promising that as of 2015, about 150 countries had put in place some form of national broadband policy or strategy. "But we also need to look at the quality of these broadband policies: are they implementable?" he asked, adding that there are good examples of how to combine broadband and regulatory policy with minimal government intervention, such as in Germany, which released sub-1 GHz digital dividend spectrum with conditions to cover rural areas. France is also a good example of a country with poor rural provision where similar digital dividend goals are proving to be successful.


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From Vulnerability to Resilience
Capitalizing on public investments (V2R+ project)
The V2R+ Project of Bangladesh is a part of Zurich Insurance Group's Global Flood Resilience Programme. This global programme (2013-2018) is also being implemented in Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal and Peru.
While Zurich is catalyzing this venture, Practical Action's role is technological innovation, IFRC's is global reach, and Wharton Risk Center & IIASA's is knowledge for action. Learn more about Practical Action's international role.
This V2R+ Project (July 2013−June 2017) aims to improve the resilience of 60,000 flood-vulnerable households of 17 unions (the lowest government units, as the project sites) of two districts of Bangladesh. The initiative builds upon the learning and best practices of recently completed V2R Project (2009−14) supported by the Z Zurich Foundation. It further capitalizes on the effective use of weather forecasts, flood early warnings and technological innovations and improved disaster governance to reach its goal.
All images © Zurich Insurance Company Ltd; photography by Elisabeth Real
The overarching Goal of the V2R+ Project is to improve the resilience of 60,000 households of 17 flood-vulnerable unions of Sirajganj and Bogra by effective use of weather forecasts, flood early warnings and technological innovations and improved disaster governance.
This project is working towards following 3 Objectives.
- To scale-up learning from V2R Project through extension to 10 core unions, benefitting 3,000 flood-vulnerable households
- To make weather forecast and flood early warning effective for 60,000 households of 17 unions (10 core + 7 additional) of 2 flood-prone districts through institutional and community resilience innovations
- To improve the understanding of national actors on flood resilience-innovation for scaling up at the national level
The project is expecting to achieve 4 Outputs:
- Best practices and innovations piloted for vulnerability assessments and community resilience
- Community secure access to climate resilience information and learning through institutional innovation
- Improved governance sustains community-led initiatives
- Drawing on learning from V2R and V2R+, knowledge on community resilience generated, captured and shared
The major Activities of this Bangladesh component include improve local governments' vulnerability assessment and planning processes, scale-up V2R best practices, support community-led DRR innovations, develop innovative Local Resilience Agents (or Skilled Volunteers) to support communities, establish innovative weather forecast and advisory service based upon existing public systems, connect local bodies with national funds, make flood resilience technological solutions available, establish learning platforms with relevant stakeholders, and conduct learning studies.
To implement the project, Practical Action brings together government, non-government, and research organizations and private sectors – at both national and local levels − to build resilient communities through technological innovations. It also brings in its internal experiences and strengths lying with DRR and Climate Change Programme, Practical Action Consulting and Practical Answers.
From Vulnerability to Resilience (2009-2014)
An overview of the initial V2R project, which ran in Bangladesh from 2009 to 2014. The project provided poor women and their families, in disaster-prone Sirajganj district, with the skills and opportunities to build more secure, resilient livelihoods.Read more
Our approach: 'From Vulnerability to Resilience' (V2R)
From vulnerability to resilience, or V2R, is a framework for analysis and action to reduce vulnerability and strengthen resilience of individuals, household and communities.Read more
From Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R) resources
Resources on the V2R Framework and how it can be used in practice. From Vulnerability to Resilience - V2R - is a framework for analysis and action to reduce vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of individuals, households and communities.Read more
From Vulnerability to Resilience: A handbook for programming design based on field experience in Nepal
This handbook is aimed at practitioners who seek examples of how the V2R framework can be used in practice, based on examples from Nepal. It offers a step process, workbooks and tools. It includes guidance on how to include long-term trends in programming with a focus on climate change.&...Read more
Disaster risk reduction and climate change
Poor people are the most vulnerable. Their lives are highly susceptible to shocks or disruptions caused by climate change, natural disasters, conflict and the spread of infectious disease. The overall programme goal is to strengthen the ability of poor people to use technology to cope with...Read more


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I admire every mom and dad out there. You deserve to be celebrated. You are AMAZING…raising kids is no joke. It is the most selfless season and despite how you feel, you're probably doing an amazing job.
But celebrating is hard for us. Many people innocently say "Happy Nearly Mother's/Father's Day" to us – and for us it just plain sucks to hear those words. For us another year has passed and while our hearts are filled with all the love in the world to give, our arms are empty.
This season is the hardest we have ever walked through. The intensity of the emotions and thoughts that flood us in this season are unbearable some days. Other days it is easy to put on a brave face.
I have sat in hospitals encouraging friends to breathe through contractions. I have had the privilege of bathing babies for the first time. I have celebrated with every friend who is pregnant. I have filled my house with all things lemon to help them combat "all-day-morning" sickness. I have smiled and cuddled every baby. But I have also handed them back to their parents. All I am left with is a heart filled with memories of moments with someone else's kids' cuteness – but my arms and home are empty.
It's a season of many questions and few answers. It is a season of "in between". It is a season when we feel like there is nothing but silence. Not all is doom and gloom. Jeremy & I have both encountered a peace. We are learning a new level of faith and trusting in God's timing and faithfulness.
But I need to remind people that your innocent jokes and questions/comments can be damaging and hurtful to those who are in our position. There isn't a need for you to know a couple's details…you don't have a right to pry into one of the most intensely private and delicate parts of people. Pretending to be pregnant isn't a joke. Comments on a woman's weight gain are hurtful. A little bit of sensitivity will go a long way.
We all need to learn a little kindness in this. Your curiosity or need to say something isn't more important than a person and what they are going through. The truth is, we want to celebrate with you…we want to be there. We just don't want our struggles to be brought up just to appease curiosity.
There are more people than you know of that have lost/miscarried a child. There are more people than you know of that are struggling to conceive or to carry a pregnancy full term. There are more people than you know of that won't be able to have biological children.
Jeremy and I are on our journey – the point is it is OUR journey not EVERYONE'S journey. Many other people are in the same situation. Respect those who are on this journey and in this season. They need support and most times silence – just be there. The questions and comments aren't important in this season.
We are filled with hope that God will bring His promise to us to pass. Until that time, we will celebrate with those who have the most precious gifts – children.
For all those couples who are in this season – you are not alone. Whatever path you're on, there is hope. The outcome might not come in the way you imagined, but if you're able to have hope and faith – there will be a day when your arms will no longer be empty and your hearts will be overflowing with love.
I used to feel guilty for not being able to be at a baby shower or show up at a Mother's Day celebration. It's okay to struggling. It's okay to question. It's okay to cry. It's okay to laugh. It's okay to be okay. It's okay to not be okay. It is okay to work through the ups and downs. It's okay…because it is your journey.
For now we are the world's best Aunty Tazz and Uncle Jerry to many kids. We will impact them…love on them and spoil them just because we can. One day we will get to do the same with our kiddos.
Don't give up hope💗
Be Brave. Be Bold. Be You.
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The American Reunion star says he's "really lucky" to have former Victoria's Secret model Lindsay Frimodt
Seann William Scott may be best known for his role as the ultimate dude in the American Pie films, but now the star says he's ready to settle down.
Asked at the American Reunion premiere about rumors that he's engaged, William Scott, 35, told E! Online Monday night, "I am [engaged]. Thank you."
Asked how he got former Victoria's Secret model Lindsay Frimodt to agree to marry him, he quipped, "I don't know how … She hadn't seen American Pie, thank god. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be engaged."
William Scott didn't reveal any other details of the proposal, but added, "I'm just really lucky."
American Reunion hits theaters April 6.


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I've finally seen the new Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi last Friday and it was awesome! I'll have to think some matters over but my overall impression is positive. NO SPOILERS here though – and I ask the same from you because hey, let's not be assholes, could we? Tchibo released some SW… Continue reading Star Wars doll tees!
Stormtrooper helmet for a doll
My friend told me about this Star Wars merchandising. It's a miniature stormtrooper helmet filled with candy, stickers and a small toy. Honestly, I was more interested in the helmet itself because it seemed to be of perfect scale for my dolls. There was an obstacle in my way, of course – I had to… Continue reading Stormtrooper helmet for a doll
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I've ordered several new wigs from Monique Gold Collection. Eric's Iplehouse wig was too stiff and voluminous (it looked "ancient-egyptian") and my cutting experiments with it weren't exactly succesfull. I'd make a horrible hairstylist. He's got a Monique Paris 7-8″ in off-black. The hair is very soft and smooth and looks much more realistic. There… Continue reading A bunch of new Monique wigs
Dolly Christmas presents
We've attended this year's Czech BJD community Christmas Fairy event! You can apply yourself (to make gifts) and your BJDs (to receive gifts) and have fun making presents for another collector's dolls. I am sorry to say I didn't make any pictures of the gifts I was sending away but at least you can see… Continue reading Dolly Christmas presents
Halloween BJD meet-up in Prague
My photos from a local BJD collectors' meet-up in Prague. (Last year was nice too.) Prague is a beautiful historic city with tons of photoshoot locations to choose from. There were several local people in the park but they usually just gave us a curious look and maybe added several compliments on our dolls 🙂
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Erik has got a new long-sleeved T-shirt from a knit fabric I've had in my box for two years. Handsome boy, isn't he? According to my husband, men's stripped tops are told to signify a lack of sexual experience. So far I do not believe it. 🙂 For Alexandra, I tried to alter her cap… Continue reading Some more tees
Erik has just got his new geeky T-shirt from me. More on their way. 🙂
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As I've promised, Erik's blue T-shirt had been refitted a bit to not be loose around his chest. Looks much better now. The T-shirt has an opened back fastened with press studs. It's much more comfortable when dressing a doll – you don't have to remove his head. My next plan will be sewing another… Continue reading Erik's T-shirt refitted


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Taco Bell is reportedly spending at least $10 million to get customers to try its breakfast Thursday.
The chain is giving away free A.M. Crunchwraps between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. after losing a World Series bet.
Giving away the $2.50 breakfast sandwiches for free will cost Taco Bell at least $2 million to start, according to a Bloomberg estimate that assumes the 6,000 Taco Bell restaurants participating in the deal will hand out two Crunchwraps a minute.
The sandwiches cost Taco Bell about $0.68 to make, Bloomberg reports.
Add to that the cost of advertising the promotion on TV — which likely totals $2 million to $3 million — and expenses related to the chain's ongoing promotional deal with Major League Baseball (between $10 million and $15 million). So it looks like Taco Bell is spending upward of $10 million to give people free food, according to Bloomberg.
That's a costly way to drive traffic to your restaurants. We reached out to Taco Bell for comment on whether the estimates are accurate, and we'll update when we hear back.
Taco Bell is probably hoping that customers buy other items, like sides or drinks, when they pick up their free Crunchwraps Thursday.
But the main reason for the promotion is to generate buzz around its breakfast offerings and get people to try the morning menu, which launched in March 2014.
The chain's Crunchwraps consist of bacon or sausage, scrambled eggs, shredded cheese, crispy hash browns, and creamy chipotle sauce inside a grilled tortilla.
Breakfast accounts for roughly 6% of Taco Bell's sales. By comparison, rival McDonald's — which has the biggest share of the fast-food breakfast market — gets about 25% of its business from breakfast sales.
Taco Bell made the promise of free Crunchwraps last month. The chain said if a base was stolen during the first or second game of the series, then it would give away the free food.
Kansas City Royals player Lorenzo Cain did just that in the first game October 27. Cain stole second base during the sixth inning of the game against the New York Mets.


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John Henderson: Jinbao, China — If any of you plan on attending the Olympics, don't just stop at Beijing. Branch out. Find another part of this country to visit afterward. Depending on where you go, you'll feel you've been put in either, one, a time warp; two, an Oriental tapestry; three, a Marxism class; four, the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
China is huge, varied, maddening and remarkable. You can't see it all. Slice off a layer and savor it like a morning cup of black tea.
I took a week off before the Opening Ceremonies and wound up here in Guangxi Province for two reasons. Initially, I wanted to see Mongolia. However, Korean Air, the main carrier between Beijing and the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, has learned the fine American art of price gouging and charged the equivalent of a Ming vase.
I considered Tibet but learned the roads this time of year are even worse than usual, and Tibetan roads at best are never mistaken for Highway 9 to Breckenridge. Also, journalists were being jailed in Tibet. I didn't think Chinese police would release me if I told them I had to cover Michael Phelps' 400 IM.
So I came to this sprawling rural province just northwest of Hong Kong and Friday confirmed my choice. I had done about everything here: taken boats up the Li River through the towering limestone cliffs, rode a bike three hours up the Yulong River and had a fisherman float me back on his bamboo boat. I went to the spectacular Li River light show.
But I met an English teacher named Kevin at my local breakfast nook and asked him what's the funnest thing he's done. He said he took his motorcycle to a Buddhist temple. This was no American Express bus tour. This was the real rural China.
I went to the bus station and sat in a public bus that looked like a giant VW van from the '70s with the peace stickers rubbed off. We had a Chinese departure. In other words, we waited for the bus to fill before leaving. We were going to this tiny village of Jinbao, about 30 miles northwest of Yangshuo, the Shangri-la lookalike where I was based.
The 80-cent bus ride alone was worth a thousand pictures. With my feet resting on three giant bags of rice, I passed farms holding hundreds of geese in walled ponds, the same geese I saw cut down the middle at Yangshuo's public market. I passed water buffalo tilling rice paddies. I passed through fishing boats bobbing up and down on the Yulong.
Jinbao consists of four dusty streets spoking off from the central bus station. Half the town's folk appeared asleep in the shade to hide from the piercing 90-degree heat. Two bored women sat behind a fruit stand in a public market with no visitors. Big black fish frantically swam around a wading pool serving as the town fish store.
My Yangshuo hotel helped me write the Mandarin characters for "temple" and the words "take me there." I approached a local with the note and he immediately took me to the main square where two men sat with nowhere to go and nothing to do, despite their gleaming motorcycles.
One read the note, put up two fingers for 20 yuan (less than $3) and pointed to the back of his bike. Off we went. On the north edge of town we veered up a dirt track and started snaking up a mountain. Soon, we were nearly 2,000 feet above the village and all of Guangxi Province was below me, a green, gold and brown quilt work of rural China.
Terraced rice fields lined a facing mountain. Rice paddies filled much of the valley floor. Quaint villages similar to Jinbao dotted the landscape. The air was as clear as a Colorado fall day. While western China is plagued by poverty and the cities are wracked with pollution, Guandxi Province may not be the real China but it's part of the China the government wants to become.
When we reached the top of the mountain, greeting us was a Buddhist temple. There were no souvenir stands. This was a monastery. Bald Buddhist monks padded around the grounds. An old woman with a bristle haircut greeted me with a smile and invited me in. I gave a few yuan offering, lit an incense stick, bowed and pretended to pray to a god I didn't understand.
Religion and communism in China has always been an interesting mix. The government is based on atheism and has equated religion to old power that controlled the masses before communism and Mao Zedong took over in 1949. During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, monasteries were disbanded, temples destroyed and monks killed.
In 1982, realizing this wasn't helping public relations much, the Chinese government amended its constitution to allow religious freedom – with a caveat. Anyone belong to a church couldn't be a Communist Party member. I'm sure they managed. I couldn't quite see these old bald women in saffron robes and plastic flip-flops marching lockstep behind tanks.
One monk invited me to lunch. I declined, partly because I was still full from the honey French toast that morning and also the rice and gelatinous green fluid in her bowl looked like what I saw in the back of my refrigerator after returning from France two weeks ago.
Instead, I sat in the blissfully cool mountain air, listened to the monk talk to the motorcycle driver who had as much in common with her as I did and enjoyed a slice of China few Westerners ever see.
And you won't see that at the Olympics.
Denver Post reporter John Henderson is covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China.


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I have been pushing for Developer Edition for almost a year now. I knew that I wanted it, I knew that it would be kewel (cool). What I didn't know was exactly what it meant to web developers and web designers until I started testing it. It was like having my hands untied, or taking the rev limiter off your sports car. Now, I could do things that I had seen on other sites, but were beyond the capabilities of code generation.
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If I have caught your interest, then you likely want to know more about what's inside the new edition. Developer looks the same as other editions. What's new is a "In-line code editor". When you are working with a page, you click the "custom code" option in the popup menus. What you see is the generated source code. Inside the code, there are input boxes we call "insert points" in which you can type your own custom code. There are over 150 of these insert points at key places in the processing. Some are "events" like "after open dataset" and "on focus" of a control. Others do not related directly to an event, but more to places in code where you may want to add your own code, an example is "CSS Includes" it is not an event, but you may wish to include your own CSS files at this point in the source code. As you may have gathered, there are insert points for both client and server side scripting.
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Just like in the song by The Byrds, there is a season for everything. This fall I will be transitioning from Inner Health Colon Hydrotherapy to Juice on Main, a cold pressed, organic juice and smoothie bar in Medfield. We don't have the exact opening date yet, though we hope to be up and running by the end of September.
As with all changes, I have very mixed feelings. I am really excited about opening Juice on Main. Juicing has amazing health benefits and fits with my personal and professional mission of helping people improve their health.
I am sad about winding down with Inner Health, which I opened in 2004. During this time I have been blessed to share your journey to better health and will miss you.
I am exploring ways to keep Inner Health running and will keep you informed of changes as they develop. Right now I am open to different possibilities.
As for more practical matters, I will have regular hours for colonics through the month of August. In September I will be working only two days a week. If you have unused sessions that you bought as part of a package, please call to set an appointment to use them. Unused sessions must be done by the end of September. I am very sorry that unused sessions are not refundable. If you are not able to use them and want to transfer them to a friend or family member, we could arrange that.
I will let you know when we open Juice on Main. I look forward to continuing our relationship, and hope to continue to be part of your health journey.
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The AI Journey, ready to surf the 3rd wave!
By Faisal Parvez, CIO & Director in IT Service Delivery, Asia, Middle East and Africa, BT and Rishabh Makrand, Principal, BT
Faisal Parvez, CIO & Director in IT Service Delivery, Asia, Middle East and Africa, BT
Turning the concept into reality back then, proved to be a bigger challenge than what was anticipated. So, over the decades, people have changed their ambition to solve small to mid-sized problems, like building intelligent chess games using AI, an obvious and popular one. The matches between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue (IBM's smart machine) in Philadelphia and New York, is a good demonstrable example. The actual agenda of delivering the biggest disruption that mankind would have experienced was, Lost!
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S.A), last year mentioned about the 3 waves of AI, 1st wave of AI was the traditional flowchart type programming. That's really all the programming in AI that has happened over the decades with various logical approaches, statistical approaches, and so on, but, essentially, programming. Biggest disadvantage of this wave was, programmers figure out how to solve a particular problem, then turning 'their' insights into code. I guess this was the reason why Kasparov won in 1996, when 'Logic' improved, Deep Blue won in 1997.
2nd wave, started less than a decade ago. In this era, cheaper compute power and large volume of available data gave a boost to industry and the programmers got better avenues to the build models which can collect, massage and correlate data to derive actionable insights.
With digital transformation taking center stage, presence of demanding customers have pushed large organizations and their thought leaders to create and deliver the value-add opportunities by tapping deeper into the potential of AI.
Creating proactive and pre-emptive customer service with a quick turnaround is one example of riding the wider digital transformation wave. Through the benefits of AI, BT has been able to deliver step change in Service Experience that is specifically aimed around how we Sell, Deliver and Assure our customer solutions intelligently. Transforming the Service Experience of a business successfully using AI will not only increase customer satisfaction, but only significantly reduce a company's cost base.
The challenge coming up with the statistical models as an outcome of 2nd wave of AI are, statistically they are impressive but individually still unreliable, even less than 1percent of targeted distortion, if added up with the actual and accurate dataset, can lead to inherent flaws of the statistical approach and the prediction accuracy percent drops drastically. Skewed training data can create maladaptation. For example, if you have trained a bot to respond for your twitter feed, with some distorted training data sets, it can start responding offensively towards internet trolls as individually it's still unreliable.
None the less, 2nd wave has actually created a bigger entrepreneurial market world-wide as far as technology is concerned.
We are currently enjoying the cusp of 2nd and 3rd wave, where technology has started to support the inception of AI with the inception of new programming languages, scripting tools, new applications that have taken over market in last couple of years. The open source development forums have fundamentally contributed a lot as well.
Where we are heading to?
In 3rd wave (future), is going to be the era of Explainable AI, here we need to move beyond our statistical models and adapt contextual explanatory models. There is a need to bring in more intimacy and immediacy. We need systems that can actually learn immediately, interactively in the field that can reason, that can explain themselves. A system which understand why something worked and why something isn't positive, knows when it will succeed and when it will fail, knows when to trust and when not to.
Machines must learn in the same way as a human child
Whereas, the approach with 3rd wave is going to be around enabling the machine to self-learn and execute, ability to reason and respond without being assisted, something that comes under the category popularly known as unsupervised machine learning. A system that can interpret whatever it comes across and use that information to learn interactively.
Interactive learning, context, memory, remembering things, reasoning, are a few key attributes of real intelligence. IBM's latest AI product release (Debater) is a good example to mark a flag off for the phase 3, it is all set to act as your next Lawyer.
Phase 3 will also see AI not being offered as a good to have but an inherent and core part of a product, it is the new normal. A classed example of this is Telcos who are targeting to participate in installing and managing the 5G network, are building Self- Organizing Networks (aka SON), SON aims at reducing the cost of installation and management of 4G and future 5G networks, by simplifying operational tasks through the capability to configure, optimize and heal itself on its own. SON is considered today as a driving technology that aims at improving spectral efficiency, simplifying management, and reducing the operation costs of the next generation Radio Access Networks (RANs).
The wave of AI has not only caused massive disruption within the industry but has also has created a conducive environment for innovators and a massive opportunity for entrepreneurship.


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Marxist theories of the state played out in Venezuela
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October 15, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Steve Ellner's Blog on Venezuela, Latin America and Beyond — An abridged version of this article was published in Historical Materialism, volume 25, no. 2, 2017, pages 29-62
The Chimes at Midnight: Trotskyism in the USSR 1926-1938
To the memory of my grandparents, Dorothy and Charlie, who probably wouldn't have approved of the content of this essay, but hopefully I still made them proud.
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I. Midnight in the Century
Spanish state moves to end Catalan self-rule after people power saves independence referendum
By Dick Nichols
Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to stop it?
The holding of Catalonia's October 1 referendum on independence shows that it is: all you need is a mobilised people with a clear view of where they are going, Europe's most powerful and persistent social movement to help guide them, and a government that's committed to carrying out its promises.
Add to those already rare ingredients imperviousness to provocation and violence, ability to improvise when logistics are sabotaged and determination to prevail in spite of a sea of difficulties (including severe tensions within your own camp), then you've uncovered the recipe for victory.
'One Hundred Years', a poem by Steve Bloom on the centenary of the Russian Revolution
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'Africa Rising' in retreat: Signs of new resistances
By Patrick Bond
October 3, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Monthly Review — At the very moment that Africa's GDP ceased its rapid 2002–11 increase, a profound myth took hold in elite economic and political circles, embodied in the slogan "Africa Rising."[1] That myth persists.Deutsche Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann claimed in June 2017 at a Berlin conference, "Africa stands ready to benefit from an open world economy. Its economic outlook is positive."[2] The conference was arranged by German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble to promote his G20 "Compact with Africa," whose "main aim is to lower the level of risk for private investments" (but in the run-up to the German election, he and Angela Merkel were obviously also concerned to give the impression the strategy would reduce Europe's African refugee crisis).[3]
The Philippines: On the frontline of Duterte's 'war on drugs'
In its first year in operation, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's 'war on drugs' has cost more than 13,000 lives and left the country mired in a human rights crisis.
One of the organisations at the forefront of opposing Duterte's war is In Defence of Human Rights and Dignity Movement, iDefend, a coalition of more than 50 human right and grassroots organisations.
Peter Boyle spoke to iDefend spokesperson Ellecer "Budit" Carlos about the situation.
"Music can and should belong to all' - An interview with Dave Randall, author of 'Sound System: The Political Power of Music'
September 27, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Barry Healy speaks to Dave Randall, author of Sound System: The Political Power of Music
Pakistan: Repression of tenants at Okara Military Farms continue, Baba Jan's final review petition underway
By Farooq Tariq
September 25, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières — The repression of tenants at Okara Military Farms continue for the last one and half years. On 21st September, Malik Salim Jakkar was arrested in Okara once again. He had spent most of the last two years (2015-2017) in jail and some two months back, he was released on bail.
Malik Salim Jakhar along his five friends came to see me a night before his arrest in Lahore, his first meeting after his release. However, he was arrested very next day. He has been facing 95 police cases, he was released only after he tendered an unconditional apology to the authorities. Despite that, he is arrested because many hundreds of peasants met him during his brief freedom.
Catalan referendum: a 'democratic tsunami' rises against Spanish state siege
By Dick Nichols
September 24, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The most critical week in modern Catalan history began today, September 24. With one week to go to the October 1 referendum on independence, the battle lines in what will be a decisive clash have formed. On the one side, the 80% of Catalan people who support their right to decide their country's future; on the other, the 10,000 Spanish National Police and paramilitary Civil Guard charged with stopping the October 1 vote.
Since the middle of last week, the two sides have been engaged in intensifying skirmishes that will end in one of three scenarios: the humiliation of the central Spanish government of People's Party (PP) prime minister Mariano Rajoy (if the Catalan majority manages to vote); a setback for the movements for Catalan sovereignty and independence (if the police operation succeeds in closing polling stations); or a confused outcome due to some people getting into polling centres while others are kept outside by the "forces of order".
United States: Where any white police officer can kill any Black man at any time…
… And the police officer will not go to jail.
By Don Fitz
September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This is what has sparked protests by thousands of people in St. Louis since September 15.
In 2011, St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley fired five to seven shots at Anthony Lamar Smith, killing him. Stockley claimed that Smith was selling drugs, chased him at high speed and shot him to defend himself. The story was briefly reported as another drug deal gone bad and that it was just incidental that the police officer was white and the victim was black.
John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men', eighty years on
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
Penguin, 1993 (first published 1937), $8.95
September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This year marks the 80th anniversary of Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. At less than 200 pages it carries enormous force as a mythic account of alienation under US capitalism.
Catalonia referendum: resisting the Spanish government siege
By Dick Nichols
September 20, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In 1713-14, it took the troops of Spain's Borbon monarchy 14 months of siege before taking Barcelona and ending Catalan self-rule. In September 2017, Catalonia is again under siege, this time from the central Spanish People's Party (PP) government.
Under prime minister Mariano Rajoy the Spanish state is concentrating all its firepower on stopping the Catalan government's October 1 independence referendum. On that day, if this siege is successfully resisted, Catalan citizens will vote on whether "Catalonia should become an independent state in the form of a republic".
Since September 6, the day its parliament adopted its referendum law, Catalonia has experienced a "shock and awe" offensive aimed at forcing the pro-independence government of premier Carles Puigdemont to submit to the central Spanish administration. The adoption of the law by the parliamentary majority of 62 Together For The Yes (JxSí) and 10 People's Unity List (CUP) MPs was the culmination of an eight-year process that has seen over one million people mobilise every Catalan National Day since 2012.
United States: Trump's war on immigrants
By Justin Akers Chacón
September 11, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — At the press conference to announce his run for President in 2016, Donald Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as "drug dealers, criminals, rapists" who must be stopped by "building a wall." Since taking office, Trump has continued to reiterate that message through policy initiatives designed to further degrade the quality of life for undocumented workers and their families. The overtly racist targeting of migrant and immigrant people by Trump has excited the far-right, and emboldened their efforts to organise and mobilise on a national scale, and terrorise working class communities of colour.
Gracchus Babeuf revisited
By Doug Enaa Greene
September 11, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from RS21 — In most English language scholarship on the French Revolution, Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797) remains a marginal figure. At most, he merits a mention in a few paragraphs, where he is generally portrayed as an eclectic and utopian figure, who led an extremist movement doomed to fail. Sadly that view is shared by too many socialists, who dismiss Babeuf as just a Jacobin elitist with little to teach the present. Thankfully, Ian Birchall's Spectre of Babeuf provides a welcome corrective to the neglect of Babeuf by giving him the respect he deserves as a participant in the French Revolution and as an original socialist thinker from whom revolutionaries can still learn a great deal.
The Catalan national struggle and the left in the Spanish state—a dossier
Introduction and translations by Dick Nichols
September 10, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The June 9 decision of Catalonia's pro-independence Together For The Yes (JxSí) government to hold a referendum on whether the country should become "an independent state in the form of a republic" has created a raft of differences within the Catalan and all-Spanish left. The decision came after all efforts at a negotiating a Scottish-style referendum with the Spanish government had come to naught.[1]
Besides the social-democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and its regional affiliates, nearly all left currents in Spain support the right to self-determination of the peoples of the Spanish State[2]: they differ, however, over how that right should be concretely exercised.
The Green Revolution: Effects in Asia and implications for Africa
By Alan Broughton
September 8, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal —The term Green Revolution refers to the introduction of high-yielding varieties of staple food crops, particularly wheat and rice, into Third World countries, starting in the 1960s. Initially Mexico, India and the Philippines were targeted. The stated aim was to increase food production to end hunger and prevent uprisings.
The Green Revolution did increase agricultural production, and no more successful revolutionary uprisings occurred, but it failed to reduce hunger and poverty, improve nutrition, or protect the environment. While some of these failures are now acknowledged by the proponents, the answer is that "there was no alternative", and that for untouched areas of the world, particularly Africa, there is still no alternative. However, that alternative does exist: it is called agroecology. Science takes credit for successes but takes no responsibility for failures (Shiva 2001).
'People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution': An interview with Christina Schiavoni
By Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff
September 7, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from MR Online — Amidst imperialist interference, the people in Venezuela are carrying on the task of reorganizing their society. Real-life picture in Venezuela is far different from new-reports the mainstream media continuously circulates. The following interview of Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics. The interview was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff, in August 2017.
Why is Canada supporting Africa's most ruthless dictator?
By Yves Engler
September 7, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Pambazuka News — After amending the constitution to be able to run indefinitely Paul Kagame recently won 98.63% of votes in Rwanda's presidential election. In response Canada's High Commissioner Sara Hradecky tweeted: "Congratulations to Rwandans for voting in peaceful presidential election" and "Canada congratulates Paul Kagame on his inauguration today as President of Rwanda". The latter Tweet was picked up by the state propaganda organ New Times in a story titled "Heads of State, diplomats laud Kagame's 'visionary leadership'."
July 19 Revolution: a start towards a federal, democratic Syria
By Noursham Ibrahim
September 7, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Cooperative Economy — The July 19th Revolution, whose spark started in Kobanî [Kobanê / Ayn al-Arab] in 2012, soon echoing in the region and the world, has achieved considerable victories on the military, political, and social levels during the last five years ─ achieving unique progress in leading the community towards democracy and federalism, perceived by observers as the best solution not only for Syria, but also for the stalemate in the communities of the Middle East.
Catalonia terror attacks: 500,000 march for tolerance as Spanish establishment blames independence movement
September 4, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — After the August 17-18 terror attacks on Barcelona's Rambla and in the seaside town of Cambrils, the half-million-strong march in the Catalan capital on August 26 expressed the profound desire in Catalan society to stay tolerant, open and un-militarised in the face of the terrorist threat. But it expressed more than that.


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Cities across the country will be participating in National Drug Take Back Day on Sat., Sept. 26.
Manchester, New Hampshire, a city plagued by the heroin epidemic, is among the locations particpating.
Chief Enouch "Nick" Willard says the takebacks will take place at the below locations between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Elliot Pharmacy at River's Edge
175 Queen City Ave.
New Hampshire National Guard Armory
771 Canal St.
Catholic Medical Center parking lot
Located south of the parking garage
The Manchester Police Department is partnering with Elliot Health System, Catholic Medical Center and the New Hampshire National Guard Counter Drug Task Force.
The DEA can accept pills and patches, but cannot accept liquids, needles or sharps.
The goal is to have every citizen turn in their unused, expired or unwanted prescription medication, so it can be safely discarded.
Last year, the National Take Back Day program included over 4,000 law enforcement agencies with over 5,400 collection sites. Over 309 tons of prescription drugs (617,150 lbs.) were properly disposed of and kept out of reach of unintended people, such as kids and others who may have a drug addiction/dependency.
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State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti is hosting an electronics recycling event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrew's Country Day School, 1545 Sheridan Drive, Town of Tonawanda.
Laptop and desktop computers, TVs, cellphones, printers, video games and other devices can be dropped off for recycling. A list can be found at www.sunnking.com.


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As you all know by now, I entered the Mad Men Challenge. I always adored Joan's green dress, but due to lack of time (moving and such), I decided to sew an other dress. One wich I already made twice and knew would fit. That saved me some time that I didn't have at that moment.
To be honest: the challenge wasn't the only reason to sew this dress. Moving made me realise that I don't have enough dresses and skirts. Time to change that. Aside from that, I also wanted some dresses I could wear with my petticoats. Because I did have petticoats, but no dresses to wear them with. It's my own fault: I shouldn't have donated the dresses I thought I didn't wear anymore. Because as it turns out: I do now! Oh well, just another excuse to sew :)
Back to the dress for the challenge. I used V8766 again, like I did for these two dresses. I really like the pattern: it's not hard and comes together easily. Ideal for a project like this. I kept the alterations i made before, but removed an extra 3cm on both sides of the center back; running to 0 just across the hip-line. Before I made these changes, it looked like my back was swimming in my dress, and I didn't really like that.
This time I omitted the lining, but underlined the buste because of the sheerness of the fabric. I didn't do this for the skirt because it's meant to be worn with petticoats.
There were a few pictures of Mad Men that contibuted to the inspiration for the dress. These next two are the most important ones. On the picture of the finished dress, it's not very visible, but the dress has a gold shine, quiet simular to this dress. I got my inspiration for the cut of the dress from the left dress and the flower motif from the right dress of this picture.
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Adult felines are pretty adaptable creatures. We can endure a lot, and we can usually find a way to get out of trouble. But tiny felines are very vulnerable. And when a tiny feline is only days old, they are practically helpless without their mother. After hearing that a litter of tiny felines were freezing in a bush, a kind human rushed over to help.
They did not even wait to go to the white coated humans. Instead, they immediately warmed up the tiny felines with the vents in their car. Then these kind humans took the tiny felines home. They bottle fed the tiny felines, but one of them, Bagel, stopped responding to the bottle.
The human rescuer got very worried. They thought that Bagel might not make it. After switching to tube feeding, they tried getting Bagel to eat from a bottle at every feeding session. Finally, one day, she nommed from the bottle.
Furiends, when Bagel finally nommed from the bottle, her human rescuer was very happy. And then they started to celebrate every milestone the tiny felines reached. When they started grooming each other, they celebrated. Eating solid food? That was a reason to celebrate. And the tiny felines, after given a chance to thrive, started to show off their personalities.
One of the tiny felines is named Spud. He's the feisty feline in the group. Pancake has become a little lap kitten.
As for Bagel, she is the most fearless. She jumped over the baby gate the human rescuer was using to keep her in a secured place. And she loved being held by her foster human.
Yes, I said foster human. You see, this kind human takes in felines, helps them grow strong, and then sends them to good homes. They admit that it is hard to let these felines go. But they also know that when they do this, they can help other felines.
Furiends, I know many of you say that you cannot bear giving up a feline you have grown to love and that is why you do not foster. But if there is room in your home to try, please do. You see, if this foster human did not take in Bagel, Pancake, and Spud, they never would have had a chance to thrive.
Please consider giving other felines a chance to thrive by fostering!


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Calabay Parc at Tower Lake is a gated community located in Davenport Florida, it is both quiet and safe, Calabay Parc at Towers Lake got its name from the lake in front of the community, 'Tower Lake', and offers guests and renters an opportunity to go fishing. No license is required to fish on this lake as it is considered private, the lake has been stocked for this purpose. There is a boat ramp for those who have a boat available or you can fish from the fishing pier.
There are many golf courses in the area for those who have gone for a golfing vacation, for discounted tee times visit our Golf Course page. Shopping is on your doorstep with the newly opened 'Posner Park' Retail Outlet only 10 minutes away! Close to grocery shopping, 5 minutes to Walmart, Publix, Dollar Tree, and restaurants. With easy access to both the I4 and the US27 highways you can reach many of the beaches in the Florida area. Busch Gardens & Tampa are just over an hour way. For the 'Golfers' in your party, you will be surrounded by a myriad of courses to play….. you really couldn't be in a better location!
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David H. Wesorick, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Disclosures: Dr. Chopra reports grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Wesorick has disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M16-1400.
Although originally studied only in patients with prohibitive surgical risk, there is now evidence that TAVI results in early and midterm mortality rates that are at least as good as SAVR, even in some patients with low or intermediate surgical risk.
More data are needed to understand longer-term outcomes, because the durability of the TAVI prosthesis is uncertain. However, with increased experience, technological improvements, and availability of longer-term data, TAVI may begin to play a larger role in the treatment of patients with aortic stenosis.
TAVI and SAVR are associated with different complications. The incidence of periprocedural myocardial infarction, major bleeding, acute kidney injury, and new-onset atrial fibrillation is higher with SAVR, but pacemaker implantation, vascular complications, and paravalvular leak occur more commonly with TAVI.
Familial clustering suggests that genetic factors influence risk for SAB.
The magnitude of the increased risk for patients with first-degree relatives with SAB is small compared with that of other known risk factors (e.g., HIV, diabetes, cancer, intravenous drug use, and catheter placement).
Although the immediate clinical implications of this finding are unclear, genetic factors placing hosts at increased risk for infection are of growing interest and may play a role in diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of common clinical conditions.
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