PROMINENCE VIEW ON THE PARK!
Lovely end unit with a South back yard that backs onto a beautiful green space!
The main level boasts an eat-in kitchen with a South facing window for an abundance of natural light, laminate flooring, center island with an eating bar and ample cupboard and counter space. The formal dining room will easily accommodate a large table and hutch and is perfect for entertaining. The living room has a gas-insert fireplace, large windows and neutral carpets. The main floor laundry and two piece bathroom completes the main level.
The upper floor has two generous bedrooms with large windows, large closets and neutral carpets. The five piece bathroom with double sinks, separate shower as well as a large jetted tub completes this level.
The South facing deck overlooks a beautiful green space with mature trees and shrubs!
Truly a pleasure to view!


text:
This directory contains two pod specifications which can be used as synthetic
loggig sources. The pod specification in [synthetic_0_25lps.yaml](synthetic_0_25lps.yaml)
describes a pod that just emits a log message once every 4 seconds:
```
# This pod specification creates an instance of a synthetic logger. The logger
# is simply a program that writes out the hostname of the pod, a count which increments
# by one on each iteration (to help notice missing log enteries) and the date using
# a long format (RFC-3339) to nano-second precision. This program logs at a frequency
# of 0.25 lines per second. The shellscript program is given directly to bash as -c argument
# and could have been written out as:
#   i="0"
#   while true
#   do
#     echo -n "`hostname`: $i: "
#     date --rfc-3339 ns
#     sleep 4
#     i=$[$i+1]
#   done

apiVersion: v1beta1
kind: Pod
id: synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod
desiredState:
  manifest:
    version: v1beta1
    id: synth-logger-0.25lps
    containers:
      - name: synth-lgr
        image: ubuntu:14.04
        command: ["bash", "-c", "i=\"0\"; while true; do echo -n \"`hostname`: $i: \"; date --rfc-3339 ns; sleep 4; i=$[$i+1]; done"]
labels:
  name: synth-logging-source
```

The other YAML file [synthetic_10lps.yaml](synthetic_10lps.yaml) specifies a similar synthetic logger that emits 10 log messages every second. To run both synthetic loggers:
```
$ make up
../../../kubectl.sh create -f synthetic_0_25lps.yaml
Running: ../../../cluster/../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl create -f synthetic_0_25lps.yaml
synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod
../../../kubectl.sh create -f synthetic_10lps.yaml
Running: ../../../cluster/../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl create -f synthetic_10lps.yaml
synthetic-logger-10lps-pod

```

Visiting the Kibana dashboard should make it clear that logs are being collected from the two synthetic loggers:
![Synthetic loggers](synth-logger.png)

You can report the running pods, replication controllers and services with another Makefile rule:
```
$ make get
../../../kubectl.sh get pods
Running: ../../../../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl get pods
POD                                    CONTAINER(S)            IMAGE(S)                           HOST                                                            LABELS                       STATUS
7e1c7ce6-9764-11e4-898c-42010af03582   kibana-logging          kubernetes/kibana                  kubernetes-minion-3.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/130.211.129.169   name=kibana-logging          Running
synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod           synth-lgr               ubuntu:14.04                       kubernetes-minion-2.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/146.148.41.87     name=synth-logging-source    Running
synthetic-logger-10lps-pod             synth-lgr               ubuntu:14.04                       kubernetes-minion-1.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/146.148.42.44     name=synth-logging-source    Running
influx-grafana                         influxdb                kubernetes/heapster_influxdb       kubernetes-minion-3.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/130.211.129.169   name=influxdb                Running
                                       grafana                 kubernetes/heapster_grafana
                                       elasticsearch           elasticsearch
heapster                               heapster                kubernetes/heapster                kubernetes-minion-2.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/146.148.41.87     name=heapster                Running
67cfcb1f-9764-11e4-898c-42010af03582   etcd                    quay.io/coreos/etcd:latest         kubernetes-minion-3.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/130.211.129.169   k8s-app=skydns               Running
                                       kube2sky                kubernetes/kube2sky:1.0
                                       skydns                  kubernetes/skydns:2014-12-23-001
6ba20338-9764-11e4-898c-42010af03582   elasticsearch-logging   elasticsearch                      kubernetes-minion-3.c.kubernetes-elk.internal/130.211.129.169   name=elasticsearch-logging   Running
../../../cluster/kubectl.sh get replicationControllers
Running: ../../../cluster/../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl get replicationControllers
CONTROLLER                         CONTAINER(S)            IMAGE(S)                           SELECTOR                     REPLICAS
skydns                             etcd                    quay.io/coreos/etcd:latest         k8s-app=skydns               1
                                   kube2sky                kubernetes/kube2sky:1.0
                                   skydns                  kubernetes/skydns:2014-12-23-001
elasticsearch-logging-controller   elasticsearch-logging   elasticsearch                      name=elasticsearch-logging   1
kibana-logging-controller          kibana-logging          kubernetes/kibana                  name=kibana-logging          1
../../.../kubectl.sh get services
Running: ../../../cluster/../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl get services
NAME                    LABELS                                    SELECTOR                     IP                  PORT
kubernetes-ro           component=apiserver,provider=kubernetes   <none>                       10.0.83.3           80
kubernetes              component=apiserver,provider=kubernetes   <none>                       10.0.79.4           443
influx-master           <none>                                    name=influxdb                10.0.232.223        8085
skydns                  k8s-app=skydns                            k8s-app=skydns               10.0.0.10           53
elasticsearch-logging   <none>                                    name=elasticsearch-logging   10.0.25.103         9200
kibana-logging          <none>                                    name=kibana-logging          10.0.208.114        5601

```
The `net` rule in the Makefile will report information about the Elasticsearch and Kibana services including the public IP addresses of each service.
```
$ make net
../../../kubectl.sh get services elasticsearch-logging -o json
current-context: "kubernetes-satnam_kubernetes"
Running: ../../../../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl get services elasticsearch-logging -o json
{
    "kind": "Service",
    "id": "elasticsearch-logging",
    "uid": "e5bf0a51-b87f-11e4-bd62-42010af01267",
    "creationTimestamp": "2015-02-19T21:40:18Z",
    "selfLink": "/api/v1beta1/services/elasticsearch-logging?namespace=default",
    "resourceVersion": 68,
    "apiVersion": "v1beta1",
    "namespace": "default",
    "port": 9200,
    "protocol": "TCP",
    "labels": {
        "name": "elasticsearch-logging"
    },
    "selector": {
        "name": "elasticsearch-logging"
    },
    "createExternalLoadBalancer": true,
    "publicIPs": [
        "104.154.81.135"
    ],
    "containerPort": 9200,
    "portalIP": "10.0.58.62",
    "sessionAffinity": "None"
}
../../../kubectl.sh get services kibana-logging -o json
current-context: "kubernetes-satnam_kubernetes"
Running: ../../../../cluster/gce/../../_output/dockerized/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl get services kibana-logging -o json
{
    "kind": "Service",
    "id": "kibana-logging",
    "uid": "e5bd4617-b87f-11e4-bd62-42010af01267",
    "creationTimestamp": "2015-02-19T21:40:18Z",
    "selfLink": "/api/v1beta1/services/kibana-logging?namespace=default",
    "resourceVersion": 67,
    "apiVersion": "v1beta1",
    "namespace": "default",
    "port": 5601,
    "protocol": "TCP",
    "labels": {
        "name": "kibana-logging"
    },
    "selector": {
        "name": "kibana-logging"
    },
    "createExternalLoadBalancer": true,
    "publicIPs": [
        "104.154.91.224"
    ],
    "containerPort": 80,
    "portalIP": "10.0.124.153",
    "sessionAffinity": "None"
}
```
For this example the Elasticsearch service is running at `http://104.154.81.135:9200`.
```
$ curl http://104.154.81.135:9200
{
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "Wombat",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.4.4",
    "build_hash" : "c88f77ffc81301dfa9dfd81ca2232f09588bd512",
    "build_timestamp" : "2015-02-19T13:05:36Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.3"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
```
Visiting the URL `http://104.154.91.224:5601` should show the Kibana viewer for the logging information stored in the Elasticsearch service running at `http://104.154.81.135:9200`.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Sues, Characters, Level 6
Abigail Von Schtick
Name Abigail Von Schtick
Age Unknown, appears to be teenage
Abigail Ryun Berstoil Morningstar Von Schtick the 45th (アビゲアル・ボン・シュチック Ebigearu Bon Shutikku) was a Level 6 Sue.
Tall, blonde, and with far too obvious curves, Abigail was very much your typical garden-variety Sue. She twice appeared in a human-like form, though both times she wasn't quite human, being a half-fangire in the Kiva fandom and a Ryujin in the Abaranger fandom. She took on the form of a small yellow cat in the Warriors fandom. She preferred to take preexisting powers from the fandoms she enters, rather than create new uber powerful ones like most Sues. The canon powers she took were still very strong though.
She behaved in a sweet heroic fashion around canon characters, but her true angry and vicious nature becomes apparent when confronted by a Society member. She had a rather short temper and was prone to angry outbursts. While she was of course an extremely good fighter, she preferred to let canon characters do the fighting for her if possible. She doesn't appear to be part of the alliance of Sues and Stus, finding the goals of other Sues to perfect a world as stupid. Abigail's true goal was to pair herself up with a main character, though in the process she does preform many acts of perfectication.
Abigail was created by an authoress for a Super Sentai fanfic, but the authoress showed the fic to a friend of hers, who identified Abigail as a Sue and suggested her friend scrap the fic. Rather than be locked in the Vault of Abandoned Ideas, Abigail escaped and began her quest to find "true love".
She began in the Kamen Rider fandom and encountered the Society and Drake for the first time. Though she defeated the Society agent in battle, he still slipped a Prohibitor onto her wrist and she was forced to retreat. The two meant again in the Super Sentai fandom, Abigail using the story's protagonists to fight him. Drake allied with the villains and created a distraction before fighting Abigail a second time. He managed to defeat her by using his Double Storm Kick. The attack left both extremely vulnerable and Abigail would have finished Drake off, if not for the interference of a vengeful canon character. Abigail managed to escape, though she now has a scar on her leg as a reminder.
Some time passed before Abigail finally resurfaced in the Warriors fandom. She took over leadership of a Clan and gained nine lives, so that when Drake confronted her he was at a severe disadvantage, unable to use any of his Society gadgets due to his cat form. He still managed to take one of her lives before several of the main characters arrived and forced him into retreat. She was then lured into a trap by Drake and the two battled once more. The fight was close, but Drake managed to knock her out and drag her back to the Library Arcanium where she is now incarcerated.
It is assumed she met her end during Willowe's invasion of the Library and the agents' subsequent defense.
Retrieved from "https://acmses.fandom.com/wiki/Abigail_Von_Schtick?oldid=10798"

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Legion of Super-Heroes #2-1 Review
Obviously, much time has passed since Season 1 (Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5, at least, look a lot older), and Superman still hasn't returned to the future. Tidbit that I think will pay off later: Brainy mentions 'the Dominator threat'.
Suddenly a time warp opens out, and some guy who looks kinda like Superman but not really steps out and recruits Lightning Lad, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, Triplicate Girl and Brainiac 5 to come to the 41st century and help him fight a galactic conqueror named Imperiex. The 41st century is kind of a hole, and they definitely need the Legion's help. Superman-X and the Legionnaires fight off one squad of Imperiex's robots, and Brainy comes up with a plan for how to take out Imperiex when he and his army attacks the resistance base.
This works, kind of, but Imperiex recovers and steals Superman-X's time machine. He immediately takes off for the 31st century, stranding the Legionnaires. Then the Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths-like red antimatter bubbles start appearing, eating up this future that won't exist now that Imperiex is back changing the past. Our heroes make an emergency assault on Imperiex's cruiser, which is the only power source handy that can produce a time warp to bring the Legionnaires home and try to stop Imperiex back in the 31st. One of Triplicate Girl's bodies is killed during the raid, but the Legion does make it home, with Superman-X, only to find that Legion HQ has been thoroughly trashed.
Why another Superman? I just don't get why this is something that they want to do. I mean, I know that the real Superman is going to show up at some point, but I don't get what they want Superman-X around for. I don't get why this is something they want to explore. We've had the naive inexperienced Superman, now... a pragmatic warrior Superman? Perhaps it will become clearer later.
Imperiex has, of course, some history in DC Comics as a major space tyrant kind of villain. I've never read any of those comics, but my understanding was that the show creators wanted someone who was a sufficiently non-prominent character that they could do whatever they wanted with him. I wonder what he thinks he's going to do back in the 31st century without his armies to help him out? Guy didn't even bring a towel with him.
The quality of animation on this show has definitely not suffered. Everything looks great. Not just Superman-X's new energy and Crystal-Kid-like powers, but also the subtle things--check out Brainy's eyes as he's focusing them to analyze something far away in one scene.
When Superman-X and Brainy take Imperiex out, his robots all stop fighting and retreat. Why? Why would you build your robots that way? Doesn't make sense.
Interestingly, this is the second recent appearance of the 41st century in Legion lore, the first being Cosmic Boy's recruitment by the Knights Tempus in the main comic book. Yet I don't recall that ever coming up before. Curious.
But the main thing here is another chapter in the Superman/Brainy friendship. First, it's clear from the first scene just how important Superman is to Brainy; that's been hinted at before but never this strongly. Second, Superman-X hints at some dark things to come in Brainy's future. Third, both of these things are interfering with Brainy and Superman-X working together. I don't have any thoughts yet on how this is playing out, but it continues to be one of the key knots of idea at the heart of this series.
It all adds up to quite an intriguing and energetic season premiere. It's all very well done, but I'm unsure about the overall direction. Some of these new developments seem a little too extreme and proactive and totally in my face. We'll see.
Nice touches:
- K3NT
- Timber Wolf, voice of reason
- "Can I suggest something that involves less scowling?"
- the cool Cylon voice on Imperiex's troops when they say, "Long live Imperiex"
- the new visual effect for Luornu's power; similar to how they were rendering Phantom Girl's power toward the end of last season
Chameleon Boy's a member now, for one thing. Superman-X joins the cast but hasn't become a Legionnaire (yet). I presume Triplicate Girl is going to become Duo Damsel?
Promo images, the opening sequence, and the cast of this episode suggest that Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl and especially Saturn Girl are going to play a reduced role this season. This sort of goes along with that thing I read, I assume on the Legion Omnicom, about how a focus group of eight-year-old boys advised the show's creators that there were too many female characters. To which I say, shove it, eight-year-old boys; Saturn Girl's awesome.
posted by Matthew E @ 12:14 AM 9 comments


text:
Haverford's Commencement Speaker Explains Why He Called Out 'Arrogant and Immature' Student Protesters
William Bowen, former president of Princeton University, delivers his commencement speech to the graduates of Haverford College on Sunday. He called the controversy over a planned speaker sad and troubling.
Clem Murray—AP
By Josh Sanburn
Correction appended, May 20, 2014
On Sunday, former Princeton University president William Bowen used his graduation address at Haverford College to admonish a group of students whose criticism of the planned commencement speaker, former University of California, Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau, led him to bow out of the event.
Nearly 50 students and three faculty members wrote a letter faulting Birgeneau for his handling of a 2011 student-led Occupy Cal protest, in which police used batons against students. The letter laid out nine demands for Birgeneau before he could be given an honorary degree, including a pledge that the former chancellor lead efforts to retrain campus police, support reparations for affected Occupy protesters and issue a public apology. Birgeneau spurned the offer — and the ceremony. He was one of a handful of prominent voices who withdrew from commencement events this year following pressure from students. Earlier outcries led former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bow out as a Rutgers graduation speaker, International Monetary Fund head Christine LaGarde to withdraw from the Smith College commencement and Brandeis University to rescind an honorary degree offer to writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Bowen, who replaced Birgeneau as Haverford's speaker, used his remarks to criticize what he called a sad and troubling series of events. In a conversation with TIME, Bowen talks about the reasons he directly responded to the controversy and why he believes social media has amplified the voices of a few in ways he hasn't seen since his first position as a Princeton professor in the 1950s.
Why did you feel compelled to speak out about the students' demands of Birgeneau?
Various people in the academic community got in touch with me and felt I really had to say something, that it wasn't satisfactory from the standpoint of the broader academic community for there to be silence about this. I thought, alright, I can. I got in touch with [Haverford College] President [Daniel] Weiss and volunteered. It wasn't his idea.
You think the students' approach was immature and arrogant.
I think that when you disagree with someone as some of the students and a few faculty also did with Birgeneau's handling of unrest at Berkeley, you communicate your displeasure, but in a civil way. You don't issue a peremptory set of "demands" that really read like an indictment delivered by a self-selected jury absent counter-argument. You just don't do that. And if your interest is in debating these issues, that's not the way to encourage a debate. The way to encourage a debate is to say, we have these concerns, these disagreements. Please come and discuss them with us. That would've been I think the right way to proceed.
But do you put some of this on Birgeneau as well? Do you think he shouldn't have backed down?
I do. I do. I thought he should've been there. Some years ago at Princeton, George Shultz [who was appointed to several positions in the Nixon administration] was given an honorary degree in the midst of the Vietnam War. But our honorary degree process at Princeton concluded that Shultz had been a quintessential public servant through good days and bad even though many of us disagreed with this particular set of political decisions about Vietnam. And so we went ahead. And the students mostly behaved very well. The protesters stood and turned their backs when Shultz got his degree to show their disapproval. And he just sat there calmly and we went on with it. He had the courage to realize that there were going to be protests and he just accepted it.
You've been in higher education since the 1950s and seen protests against the Vietnam War and South African apartheid and now movements like Occupy. How has student activism changed over the years?
I would say this is mild compared to that. It's in part a product of social media. The fact that it's so easy today for a few voices to get a lot of bandwidth. And that didn't used to be the case, so that's changed. The rules of the road say protesters have the right to their views and to express them in non-disruptive ways and there should then be a discussion and debate. The rules of the road haven't changed, but this suggests that sometimes sharp voices raised inappropriately and really stridently can discourage that kind of conversation.
It's curious this year that several high-profile speakers declined to speak at graduation ceremonies. What do you think is going on?
Contagion, and I think that's one of the reasons so many people urged me to say something. I hope that my talk may have in some way helped to arrest contagion. I think it perhaps has.
You received a standing ovation from some family and guests. What did you expect the response to be?
I had no idea, and it wasn't actually anything on my mind. I've learned over many years through thick and thin to say what I believe is the right thing to say and then let the aftermath be the aftermath. I am fortunately now on a wonderful perch in the sky in that I have no responsibility for running a particular institution, so I have a wonderful luxury of saying what I believe.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the scale of the standing ovation.


text:
The Global South continues to fuel credit union growth
November 9, 2022 by Greg Neumann, World Council of Credit Unions
While membership in the world's 87,914 credit unions grew by 5% to surpass 393 million in 2021, that increase was hardly equal across all 118 countries surveyed for World Council's 2021 Statistical Report.
In fact, credit union markets in the Global North are growing at a much slower rate than the rest of the world. Membership growth rates are either below the world average or in decline in several countries, including:
United States 4.2%
Great Britain 2.9%
South Korea 2.2%
Canada 0.7%
Japan -1.1%
New Zealand -1.2%
Poland -1.8%
Australia -2.6%
In comparison, most credit union markets in the Global South are experiencing massive growth—signifying that emerging markets are going to be where the movement's future expansion lies.
Membership growth rates in several African, Latin American, Caribbean and southeast Asian nations are booming, including:
Burkina Faso 28%
Senegal 19%
Brazil 13%
Haiti 13%
Dominican Republic 10%
Kenya 10%
Philippines 7%
Guatemala 6%
What is the Global South? It is a term now widely used by political and academic institutions to designate less-developed countries (shown in red above) located primarily, in the southern hemisphere.
World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) is seeing this growth first-hand. We currently administer a USAID-funded project in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Guatemala, and just finished a pilot project in Senegal in March 2022.
WOCCU works through its International Projects to reach underserved populations, with a specific focus on rural communities, women, youth and migrants. An increasingly important goal is to promote resilient livelihoods, as well as address inequitable access to affordable credit for individuals and small businesses. Credit union members and communities demand resilience-focused credit and other products to weather shocks and realize their full potential.
Digitalization will drive more growth
And while that project work plays an important role in growing credit union membership, we also realize addressing priorities identified by credit unions themselves will be equally as important. So, when 81% of national credit union associations identified digitalization as a top priority in the 2021 Statistical Report, it reinforced that the work WOCCU started with our Challenge 2025 initiative must be accelerated to meet demand.
WOCCU envisions a future where shared solutions through platforms and fintech partners drive greater access, improve efficiency, reduce friction, and enable credit unions to deliver better digital products and services to their members.
Advocating for regulatory reform in the Global North
Equally important, WOCCU also advocates for credit unions in the Global North, which identify stifling regulations as their biggest obstacle to growth and innovation—and regulatory reform as the top priority.
WOCCU's International Advocacy team works to strengthen its European Network of Credit Unions (ENCU), with Europe often at the forefront of the standard setting that flows down to other countries over time. WOCCU aims to replicate this successful regional approach in other regions to support national-level advocacy agendas.
By continuing to influence international standard setting bodies to create an enabling environment for sound, viable, strong, resilient and sustainable credit union systems, credit unions worldwide can better secure their role as essential providers of financial services that benefit everyone.
Greg Neumann
Greg Neumann is Director of Communications for World Council of Credit Unions. He directs the tactical and strategic management of World Council's communication efforts, and works to build WOCCU'... Web: www.woccu.org Details
January 20, 2023 – by CUNA News
World Council 2023 Distinguished Service Award nominations open
December 29, 2022 – by Andrew T. Price, Esq., The Telegraph
November 29, 2022 – by CUNA News
USAID, World Council, Visa launch entrepreneurship development platform in Peru
November 11, 2022 – by Robbie Young, CUInsight.com
CUInsight Weekly Minute with Robbie Young – November 11, 2022
October 24, 2022 – by CUNA News
Digitization is top priority for global credit union movement


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Lockdown is an annual television special and former professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted every spring by the American professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling (formerly Total Nonstop Action Wrestling), was considered one of the flagship Pay-per-views in the company, alongside Slammiversary and Bound for Glory. The event was created in 2005 and is highlighted by the premise that all matches take place inside the Six Sides of Steel cage (or, starting in 2010, a regular, four-sided steel cage). In addition to the cage, the event usually features additional gimmicks added on to the steel cage stipulation. Trademark Lockdown specialty matches include the Lethal Lockdown, Xscape matches and exclusive to the TNA Knockouts the Queen of the Cage.
Originally, Lockdown was to have only two cage matches to highlight the name, but soon after the premise was changed to the current all cage match format by TNA President Dixie Carter. With the exception of the 2005 and 2006 event, the show has been held outside the Impact Zone. The Family Arena has hosted Lockdown twice in 2007 and in 2010. Other cities that have hosted the event were Lowell, Massachusetts (marketed as Boston), and Philadelphia. The 2011 event was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. On January 9, 2015, Lockdown was broadcast as an Impact Wrestling television special on Destination America .
10 Lockdown (2014) March 9, 2014 Coral Gables, Florida BankUnited Center Team MVP (MVP (captain), The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) and Willow) versus Team Dixie (Bobby Roode (captain), Austin Aries and The BroMans (Robbie E and Jessie Godderz)) in a Eight-man Lethal Lockdown match with Bully Ray as the special guest referee.
11 Impact Wrestling: Lockdown (2015) February 6, 2015 New York City, New York Manhattan Center Team Angle (Kurt Angle (captain), Austin Aries, Gunner and Lashley) versus The Beat Down Clan (MVP (captain), Kenny King, Samoa Joe and Low Ki) in a Eight-man Lethal Lockdown match.
Over the years, Lockdown has become a featured PPV in Impact Wrestling's monthly schedule, several gimmick matches have become recurring highlights of the show. These matches are intended to provide a different "flavor" to the show as opposed to a simple eight cage match card.
The first match ever announced for a Lockdown pay per view was the Lethal Lockdown, a variant of the WarGames match popularized in World Championship Wrestling. The match features a multi-man competition in which opponents from each team enter in alternating fashion. Victory can only be gained after everyone has entered the cage. The match has evolved over the years, developing from a three-on-three match (2005) to a four-on-four (2006, 2009, 2010-2011 and 2014) to a five-on-five (2007-2008, 2012-2013). Since 2006, the match also includes a roof to the cage, making it the only match with such a feature in TNA, until TNA introduced The Asylum.
The second annually featured match on a Lockdown PPV was the Xscape match. Consisting of a multi-stage, multi-wrestler competition, the rules involve wrestlers eliminating each other by pinfall or submission. Once the competition is down to two wrestlers, the two remaining competitors attempt to escape the cage by climbing out over the top or through the door. The second stage of this match is based on the concept of the Blassie cage match.
Introduced in 2008, the Queen of the Cage match has been held at 2 Lockdown PPV's, and it features the TNA Knockouts. The match when it debuted began as similar to a reverse-battle royal involving eight wrestlers. The first two wrestlers that entered the cage then competed in a one-on-one match that was won via pin fall or submission. The winner became the number one contender for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship. In 2009, the match was a four-way. Since then, the match have not been added in the pay-per-view anymore.
Every match contested in the six sides of steel!
Lockdown (2015) (aka Impact Wrestling: Lockdown) was a professional wrestling television special produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The show was taped on January 9, 2015 at the Manhattan Center in New York, New York. It is the eleventh event under the Lockdown chronology. Unlike the previous events, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) and instead, was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling on Destination America.
Lockdown (2016) (aka Impact Wrestling: Lockdown) was a professional wrestling television special produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), The show was taped on January 30, 2016 at the Wembley Arena in London, England as part of the TNA Maximum Impact 8 Tour in January 2016. It was the twelfth event under the Lockdown chronology. Like the previous years event, Lockdown 2016 was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) and instead, was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling on Pop TV.
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Preeclampsia is a condition that occurs in the last half of pregnancy and up to six weeks after the delivery of your baby. It occurs in 5-10% of pregnancies and can be harmful to you and your unborn baby if not caught early enough.
There is no cure except to deliver the baby, which can be a problem if your little one isn't mature enough. However, measures can be taken to control preeclampsia long enough to allow your baby to mature enough to survive on his or her own.
Preeclampsia can be tricky to diagnose because there isn't a single cause or test. High blood pressure, excess swelling in the hands, feet and face, a weight gain of more than 5 lbs in a week, and protein in the urine are all signs and symptoms.
Other symptoms can include abdominal pain, headaches and visual disturbances. Excess protein is a sign the kidneys aren't working properly, which can also cause the swelling in the hands. However, having high blood pressure or swollen feet doesn't necessarily mean you're developing preeclampsia. Your doctor will want to monitor you and your baby carefully.
Risk is greater in women carrying multiple babies, women over 40, and teens. It's also more common in first pregnancies, and first pregnancies with a new partner. If you have gestational diabetes, have had kidney problems, immune diseases such as lupus, high blood pressure or a family history of preeclampsia you are more at risk as well.
Research has shown that women with high levels of two certain kinds of proteins in the blood may be more prone to preeclampsia. These proteins can lead to problems with the blood vessels of the placenta and their discovery may lead to future screening tests to help diagnose preeclampsia.
Doctors screen your urine for protein, check your blood pressure and record your weight at each visit to help monitor for preeclampsia. Because there is no single test to diagnose preeclampsia, your doctor may want to see you more regularly if there's concern for developing the condition.
If you've been diagnosed with preeclampsia, your doctor will want to run a series of tests, such as liver function and other blood tests, an ultrasound and a fetal non-stress test to ensure the baby's safety.
If your vision changes abruptly, you experience headaches or abdominal pains, or you have extreme swelling that doesn't ease up call your doctor. It's better to be safe than sorry with this harmful condition!


Works under the supervision of the Laboratory Manager. The coordinator will be responsible for insuring the laboratory is operating in compliance with all accrediting agencies' standards. Their responsibilities will be approximately 80% work performance and 20% management of operations and processes. Responsibilities include: establishing and maintaining accurate and compliant policies, procedures and protocols; supervision (clinical and administrative) of the sections; timely review of quality control and process management; instrument maintenance and problem solving. The coordinator will assist managers in evaluation of new instruments/equipment and laboratory procedures. The coordinator acts as a resource for patient caregivers, laboratory management, the medical director and the laboratory staff and serves as the Technical Supervisor in the absence of management.
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Danielle Bisutti
Actress | Writer | Producer
Known for God of War (2018), Dwight in Shining Armor (2019), Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Curse of Chucky (2013)
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Known for Galavant (2015), Once Upon a Time (2011), Legacies (2018), Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
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Known for Pitch Perfect (2012), Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019), Love Beats Rhymes (2017), Patriot (II) (2015)
Rebecca Wisocky
Known for Devious Maids (2013), The Mentalist (2008), American Horror Story (2011), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
Kristina Klebe
Actress | Producer | Casting Director
Known for Hellboy (2019), Professor T. (2017), Proxy (I) (2013), Halloween (2007)
Nicola Posener
Known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Mythica: The Necromancer (2015), House of Anubis (2011), Endeavor (2019)
Jay Tavare
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Known for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015), Street Fighter (1994), Adaptation. (2002), Pathfinder (2007)
Max Arciniega
Actor | Producer | Writer
Known for Breaking Bad (2008), Better Call Saul (2015), Bosch (2014), The Wingwalker
Julie Dolan
Actress | Soundtrack
Known for Star Wars Rebels (2014), Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2016), Gilmore Girls (2000), BASEketball (1998)
Shelby Young
Actress | Miscellaneous Crew | Casting Director
Known for American Horror Story (2011), Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017), Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019), The Social Network (2010)
Actor | Miscellaneous Crew
Known for Hunter Killer (2018), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Air Force One (1997), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
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Known for The Crying Game (1992), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Let Me In (I) (2010), Fargo (1996)
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Known for Ninja Scroll (1993), Akira (1988), Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Cowboy Bebop (1998)
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Known for How High (2001), Blade II (2002), Exit Wounds (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Kaitlyn McCormick
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Known for Doctor Sleep (2019), Masha and the Bear (2007), The Boss Baby (2017), Fortune Defies Death (2018)
Ulka Simone Mohanty
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Known for The Moodys (2019), Nina's World (2015), Doggoned (2012), Needle in a Timestack
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Known for World of Warcraft: Legion (2016), Ultra Street Fighter IV (2014)
Known for Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures (2018), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba (2019), Fire Emblem Heroes (2017), Arena of Valor (2016)
Walles Hamonde
Actor | Writer | Stunts
Known for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Holby City (1999)
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Known for Deadly Women (2008), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), The Office (2005), Lost (2004)
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Known for MacGyver (2016), Toby Keith: Bullets in the Gun (2010), Dexter (2006), The Philanthropist (2009)
Jul Kohler
Known for Bury Me Not (2019), Slit (2017), The Ladies Restroom (2014), Undercovers (2010)
Dorit Kemsley
Known for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010), Vanderpump Rules (2013), Access Daily (2010), The Talk (2010)
Ava Bianchi
Actress | Stunts
Known for Alive in Denver (2018), Henry Danger (2014), The Birthday Boys (2013), Game Shakers (2015)
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Known for Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (2004), Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002), Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017), The Tower (2012)
Deborah Wittenberg
Known for Rudy (1993), ER (1994)
Joe Brogie
Actor | Special Effects | Miscellaneous Crew
Known for Injustice 2 (2017), American Princess (2019), Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019), What's Up North (2019)
Jeff Leach
Known for London Town (I) (2016), Two Days in the Smoke (2014), Total War: Warhammer (2016)
Luna Bella
Known for Tall Girl (2019), Shimmer and Shine (2015), Bordertown (2016), Three Days of Christmas (2019)
Lela Brown
Known for Just Roll with It (2019), America's Got Talent (2006), Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2014 (2013)
Julyza Commodore
Known for The Real O'Neals (2016), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Girlfriend's Day (2017), Tabloid (2014)
Jakari Fraser
Known for Ben Is Back (2018), Embattled (2020), Superintelligence (2020), Access Hollywood (1996)
Jason Frazier
Actor | Sound Department | Art Department
Known for Elena of Avalor (2016), Miles Across the Sea (2013), Peter Panzerfaust (2013), Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Mychal-Bella Bowman
Known for The Underground Railroad, Togetherness (2015), Hidden Springs, The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
Renee Dorian
Known for Randall and Hilda Are Not a Couple (2016), Black-ish (2014), The Funhouse Massacre (2015), The Buglys (2013)
Known for Chicks Flippin the Script (2014), BnB HELL (2017), Heartprints (2012), Sword Art Online (2012)
AnaSofia Bianchi
Known for SockMonster (2017), DCS (2017), Newsreaders (2013)
Known for Coin Heist (2017), Sleight (2016), Liked (I), FML (2016)
Anne Yatco
Actress | Sound Department
Known for Money Heist (2017), Blame! (2017), Knights of Sidonia (2014), Wild District (2018)
Joseph Sanfelippo
Known for Aquaman (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Hot Tamale (2006), The Founder (2016)
Bjørn Alexander
Actor | Second Unit or Assistant Director | Writer
Known for Game Shakers (2015), Paradox (III) (2016), Swedish Dicks (2016), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
Stephanie Southerland
Known for The Flash (2014), The Elder Scrolls Online (2014), Shadowverse (2016), Cutie Cubies (2017)
Dana Heath
Known for Scorpion (2014), PEN15 (2019), Sydney to the Max (2019), WellieWishers (2016)
Henning Fischer
Actor | Miscellaneous Crew | Camera and Electrical Department
Known for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), Castle (2009), Fringe (2008)
Artemis Snow
Known for 9-1-1 (2018), Clearance (2016), The Sound That Remains (2017)
Amanda Kruger
Actress | Producer
Known for 90210 (2008), The Fresh Beat Band (2009), The Last 40 Miles (2020), Contract (2017)
Cooper S. Lawrence
Known for Ballers (2015), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Is This Life?
Jenn Wong
Actress | Casting Department | Casting Director
Known for Yo-kai Watch Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow! (2014), Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012), Yo-kai Watch (2015)
Amber Romero
Actress | Producer | Stunts
Known for Cazadora (2018), Should I Do It? (2019), Further Instructions (2015), Lemon Drop (2018)
Andrew Eales
Known for Home Sweet Home 2 (2019), Return (III)
Jessie Schneiderman
Known for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth (2018), The Most Popular Girls in School (2012), Friday the 13th: The Game (2017)
Mike Truesdale
Writer | Producer | Actor
Known for Impress Me (2015), What's On (2017), Alex, Inc. (2018), Powerhouse (I) (2011)
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Alexandra Reed
Actress | Costume Designer | Producer
Known for Boundaries (2018)
Sean Rohani
Miscellaneous Crew | Actor | Director
Known for The Adventures of Rime and Reesin (2017), Foreign Birthday (2012), Inside the NBA Parody (2014)
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Coati babies playing – so cute!
Coati are raccoon like animals. This was taken in Costa Rica where they have taken over the Westin Resort! They are very well fed!
Coati babies eating – don't TOUCH!! Hummingbird buzzing around Squirrel and snake rumble!


Yakima's Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee has developed a new web-based app to help locate bicycle racks within the city as well as where you think they are needed or ones that are in a state of disrepair.
The city has created a bike rack data collection system application online at http://www.yakimawa.gov/bike-racks that seeks the public's input on where bike racks are located, where they're needed or where there should be more bike racks.
Users can also upload a picture to show space where a rack is needed or if there is a damaged rack in need of repair.
Visit https://www.yakimawa.gov/council/boards-commissions/ for more information about the Bike and Pedestrian Committee or other city of Yakima commissions, committees and boards.


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Seven Seas Entertainment, 9781935934295, 621pp.
This omnibus collection includes the first three books--Circles in the Stream, All That Glitters, and Cry of the Wolf--from the sweeping middle grade fantasy series, Avalon: Web of Magic. This edition comes brimming with lovely illustrations, ornate maps, and a bonus bestiary of fantastical creatures.
Three very different young teens--Emily, the shy one; Adriane, the outsider; and Kara, the power shopper--are all drawn to a secret place deep in the woods where they discover a portal to another world. Wondrous animals have emerged from the portal, on the run from a dark threat bent on destroying them all.
Emily, Adriane, and Kara are chosen to protect the magical animals and save their world, but to do so, the girls must overcome their differences and band together. They begin a perilous quest to discover Avalon, the lost, legendary home of magic, little knowing the terrible dangers they must face along the way.
Rachel Roberts is the author of Avalon: Web of Magic. She has revised the entire twelve-book series for this republication. Roberts toured extensively for the first release of the Avalon series in the "Avalon: Music is Magic Tour," a scripted musical event featuring songs, prizes, and author signings. She lives in California.


The Athens Nurses Clinic welcomes volunteer medical professionals and student interns.
If you are interested in volunteering or interning, please contact Erin Sheehan at volunteers.anc@gmail.com.
Barbara Flick, long time volunteer, prepares a patient for an HbA1C blood glucose test.


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'Doctor Who' spin-off review: 'The New Counter-Measures – Who Killed Toby Kinsella?'
Posted July 11, 2016 by Tony Jones Filed under
July 2015, and after four popular box sets, Big Finish killed off the Counter-Measures team.
The only survivor from the 1960s spin-off from 'Remembrance of the Daleks' was Sir Toby Kinsella (Hugh Ross). Gone were Group Captain Ian 'Chunky' Gilmore (Simon Williams), Rachel Jensen (Pamela Salem) and Allison Williams (Karen Gledhill), and time has rolled by. It is now the early 1970s, power cuts, three day weeks, and Sir Toby's turn to die.
Design as a chance to provide a new jumping on point, and also to jump the series forward a decade, this kind of story needs to remind us of what has been, tidy up and loose ends, and introduce something new for those fresh to the series. Over two discs this set achieves those goals to varying degrees.
The reminiscence is easy; one Sir Toby is dead up pop our three supposedly dead Counter-Measures team who were not dead at all. This gave plenty of chance for reminiscence, some comparison of the 1960s to the 1970s and a mystery. Who killed Sir Toby, what was he up to, and who is after Prince Hassan Al-Nadyr (Raad Rawi) a fried of Sir Toby's from school?
As investigations proceed, we find out about Sir Toby's past, and that he has swept up all the loose ends from the first sets of stories. He has been so good, nobody knows who the Counter-Measures are. This brings them into conflict with MI5 in the form of Overton (Belinda Stewart-Wilson) who believes an assassination is in the offing and doesn't know who are the good guys and who the bad.
The two parts are written by John Dorney and director Ken Bentley. There's plenty of action, intrigue and machination. John Dorney shows evidence of his work elsewhere on the 1960s Avengers series, and in some ways this set struggles to make the characters feel as though they have aged and could almost still be set in the 1960s with Cold War connivances and just a veneer of contemporary news.
Perhaps this is reasonable, but in the form of Overton the new (and possibly returning?) MI5 operative, we have a character who wouldn't be out of place in an episode of Spooks. She's excellent but how much of the time is she?
In this era we watched Softly Softy, The Avengers and Mission Impossible. We hadn't yet reached The Sweeney so aren't into Life on Mars territory (yet). Is this important? Perhaps not.
Purist concerns aside, this is a great burst of energy for an already popular series, and we have to wait until December for the next four-disc release. Roll on the 1970s!
Released in July 20156 by Big Finish Productions Ltd.
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Winding Brook neighborhood lights up to help local charities
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 1:43 PM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 2:45 PM EST
MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- For the past 45 years, a Mishawaka neighborhood has been giving back by plugging in thousands of Christmas lights!
Every year, the Winding Brook Park neighborhood sets up a light show for charity.
It's been going on for 45 years!
This Christmas season, the lights are still shining bright.
"I put them all around the bushes and up on the roof and every where that I can and out in front because I like to have some lights for the people who are collecting the money," said Joan Berta, a Winding Brook resident.
All of the donations are divided equally between eight local charities.
You can catch this great light show for yourself, every night through Dec. 26.


Transform your home with beautiful hand crafted rustic furniture.
When purchasing rustic furniture from an online retailer there are a few things to keep in mind to ensure you receive exactly what you are expecting. Most important, is to shop with a reputable company that has years of online selling and shipping experience. As we all know, you cannot judge a book by its cover, but we all do it and generally first impressions are a good sign of what's to come. A well-designed, easily navigable, and professional website are all good indicators of how much experience a retailer has selling online. These rustic furniture retailers understand the importance of making a good first impression and allocate the necessary resources to building sites that reflect the quality of their products, customer service, and delivery.
The dictionary definition of rustic pertains to "simple, artless, or unsophisticated." However, when talking about rustic furniture the meaning of rustic quickly shifts to "sophisticated and trendy." Genuine rustic furniture is very unique and comes in many different styles and colors. Rustic furniture continues to remain popular because of its distinct qualities such as the solid rustic wood construction, hand-forged iron hardware, and beautiful stains. When decorating a home, rustic furniture can add texture, style, and appeal to any room that other types of furniture cannot provide. With this in mind, taking care of rustic furniture is imperative to protect your purchase.


I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at this amazing book by M J Rose. It arrived in the mail on a Saturday afternoon and I took a quick peak at it…5 hours later I was still reading as I got dinner and 4 hours after that, Mr Kate was wrenching it out of my hands so that he could go to sleep.
When he asked me what was so good about it and whether he'd like it, I had no hesitation in recommending it to him. I told him that for me, it was like the thinking woman's Da Vinci Code. It has the same fast pace and elements of mystery, terror and suspense as the DC and a lot more. The characters are all so well drawn that you get pulled right into the story along with them.
"A bomb in Rome. A flash of bluish white light and photographer Josh Ryder's world exploded. From that instant, nothing would ever be the same.
As Josh recovers, his mind is increasingly invaded with thoughts that have the emotion, the intensity, the intimacy of memories. But they are not his memories. They are ancient…and violent. A battery of medical and psychological tests can't explain Josh's baffling symptoms. and the memories have an urgency that he can't ignore-pulling him to save a woman named Sabrina…and the treasures she is protecting.
Seriously, if you enjoyed the Da Vinci code and would like to see what an incredibly skilled female writer can do with a similar idea, read this book, you won't be disappointed.
Well, I'm like the only person on the planet who still hasn't read the Da Vinci Code, and I'm afraid the trauma of watching the movie has put me off the book for life. But MJ Rose's version sounds great! I've also heard THE EIGHT by Katherine Neville described as the intelligent woman's DC. Ever read that one?


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Members of the Construction Association of Prince Edward Island agree that, for construction work which is to be carried out on a competitive basis, the following provisions shall be followed in order to maintain the integrity of all competitive tenders:
A contractor shall use tenders only from qualified sub-contractors.
A bidder shall neither seek nor accept information concerning the competitor's bid prior to the opening of tenders.
A bidder shall never make known the tender of any sub-contractor to any other sub-contractor before the closing of tenders, and shall never use the tender of a sub-contractor in order to secure a lower proposal from another sub-contractor.
Sub-contractors shall be advised immediately after the award of a general contract as to whether their tender was or was not used in the making up of the successful contractor's tenders; sub-trade contracts should be awarded with the utmost possible dispatch.
A contractor should award each sub-contract to the qualified sub-contractor tendering the lowest price. If the award is made to any other sub-contractor, it shall be at the latter's tendered price.
A contractor shall pay all sub-contractors and suppliers promptly and in accordance with the terms of the contract for their contracted work.
All services performed by one contractor for another, where payment is required, should be recorded and signed for at agreed intervals; agreement with regard to the payment for such job services should be reached and recorded in writing before such work commences.
Competitive tenders which are publicly called should be opened at a fixed time in the presence of the bidder or their representatives.
An owner should not recall tenders unless there is substantial change in the scope of the work, in the market conditions, or other factors affecting costs. In such cases not more than the three lowest tenders should be invited to tender again.
The Association shall make every effort to apprise all concerned of these guidelines in order to ensure fairness to all. The Association shall, tactfully, discuss breeches of these guidelines with those elements of the industry who may unknowingly overlook these recommended Standards of Practice.
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The recent advent of wireless applications at the 2.4GHz level (e.g. wireless LAN, Bluetooth headsets, wireless mice and keyboards, remote controls, cordless phones, microwave ovens etc) creates a significant potential for widespread interference. Yet the most popular wireless protocols (e.g. Wi-Fi (802.11) and Zigbee (802.15)) currently lack the ability to switch in a coordinated manner to a different frequency once the channel currently in use becomes jammed. For example, Zigbee specifies a collision-avoidance algorithm (similar to 802.11b). Each device listens to the channel before transmitting to minimize the frequency of collisions between Zigbee devices. Zigbee does not change channels during heavy interference; instead, it relies upon its low duty cycle and collision-avoidance algorithms to minimize data loss caused by collisions. Hence, if Zigbee uses a channel that overlaps a heavily-used Wi-Fi channel, significant retransmission effort will be undertaken. In this paper we propose a simple channel hopping protocol to make wireless networks resilient to interference. In an exploration phase, each radio keeps track of how many neighbors are currently using each available channel. This phase continues until the empirical frequency of total number of neighbors in a given channel exceeds a given threshold. We present the results from a simulation test-bed and a physical implementation with SunSPOTs.


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Fragrant summer blooms mask "dark side" to invasive plants, like Japanese honeysuckle and privet
By Paul Pugliese
If you've driven down the road alongside an overgrown fence or forested area in north Georgia lately, you were likely overwhelmed with a combination of fragrance from wild Japanese honeysuckle and Chinese privet. Many people assume they are native because they are so common, but neither one belongs on this continent. Both originated in Asia and were introduced to North America in the 1800s for ornamental uses in landscaping.
The success of these plants, growing literally everywhere, is attributed to the fact that they have prolific, seedy berries that are consumed and disseminated by birds. You will find them growing along almost every fence in Georgia because that's where birds like to perch.
These two weedy plants are actually more invasive and ubiquitous than the renowned kudzu, or the "vine that ate the South." For comparison, kudzu only covers an estimated 227,000 acres in Southern forests. Privet species cover roughly 3.2 million acres in Southern forests. Japanese honeysuckle covers more than 10.3 million acres of Southern forests.
Chinese privet is a large, semi-evergreen shrub that can grow 15 to 20 feet high. The thicket-forming shrubs can be found along bottomland forests, fences, flood plains, river edges and open field edges, where they crowd out native plants and trees.
Because privet grows so quickly, it was introduced as a landscape shrub and commonly planted as a privacy hedge. Occasionally, you will still find both plants still sold at garden centers. These varieties also grow aggressively if left unpruned.
The tiny white flowers of Chinese privet are formed in clusters along the tips of the branches. Privet flowers are extremely fragrant. Some people find the odor pleasant, while others find it overpowering. The fragrance is so strong and distinct that it can be detected from inside a car traveling at 55 miles per hour.
Another invasive plant that has left an indelible mark on Georgia's landscape is Japanese honeysuckle. As children, we would pick the flowers while waiting at the school bus stop and bite off the stalks to sip the nectar. The leaves of honeysuckle are semi-evergreen, hairy, rounded and smooth along the edges. The first leaves of the season often show a lobed edge.
Honeysuckle flowers are white, pink or pale yellow in color with an extremely sweet fragrance. There are also native honeysuckle species that are less aggressive. Native honeysuckle are usually distinguished by having a more reddish stem and hairless leaves.
Japanese honeysuckle vines can climb as high as 80 feet into forest canopies and form a dense ground cover. Honeysuckle's dense growth crowds out native vegetation and reduces the variety of native plants available for wildlife. The vines strangle, stunt or kill native trees.
Because privet and honeysuckle are so common and admired for their flowers, most people don't realize their dark side as invasive weeds. A recent issue of National Geographic magazine stated, "Invasive species are the second greatest threat to worldwide species extinction – second only to habitat destruction. The devastation caused by non-native, invasive organisms is one of the most serious and least-recognized tragedies of our time."
There's no turning back for those invasive species that are already here. For information about controlling these and other invasive plants, go to invasive.org/eastern/srs.
Paul Pugliese is the Agriculture and Natural Resources agent for the University of Georgia Extension office in Bartow County.
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CAES researchers examine blueberry quality issues for Georgia producers 01/20/23 Maria M. Lameiras
A multidisciplinary team of University of Georgia agriculture experts are working to determine causes and solutions to postharvest quality problems that have hit Georgia's blueberry growers hard in recent seasons. Funded by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Office of Research and UGA Cooperative Extension, the project will address "major issues" with fruit quality, particularly in rabbiteye blueberries.
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Winnie the Pooh's Adventures In Fairyland
Up until the Evergrande Group began stiffing creditors, Xi Jinping had it made. But being a communist dictator is serious business. And when the Ponzi finance structure underlying your country's second largest property developer begins cascading down it's no laughing matter.
One of the gravest moments for any communist dictator is when his nation's fortunes deviate from the course of the five year plans put in place to rule over it. Playing god to 1.4 billion people only halfway works, so long as the people's reality somewhat parallels the official communist party line. Otherwise, force and fear are required to maintain the lies.
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps," noted King Solomon (Proverbs 16:9). The good Lord, in heaven above and on the earth beneath, has a keen sense of humor; particularly, when serving up a slice of humble pie.
Xi Jinping, through happy accident, timed his entry into the world stage most perfectly. A 20 year economic boom had taken the People's Republic of China to a new place of global prominence. Yet rather than basking in the glory of his predecessors successes, Xi took to flexing his muscles abroad, and censoring and surveilling his citizens at home.
This summer Xi and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated a regulatory onslaught against Chinese technology companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Didi Global. Now property developers are suffering the CCP's wrath, with the imposition of new debt limitations – called "three red lines".
Evergrande is one of many leveraged developers in China. But it happens to be the most overstretched, and the first to have its cash flow come up short of its debt obligations. More developers will follow.
There are plenty of reasons why Xi would want to reign in over-leveraged developers. The industry has been out of control for many years; the uninhabited ghost cities demonstrate this. But we think Xi's reasons have to do much more with vanity than a renewed drive for common prosperity. Here's why…
Xi, through no fault of his own, bears an uncanny resemblance to Winnie the Pooh. Several years ago clever bloggers began posting memes of the plump, affable cartoon character with comparisons to Xi. The episode was quite hilarious. But not for the sullen central government…
The CCP responded by blocking all references to Winnie the Pooh inside the Great Firewall of China. China's censors will not tolerate ridicule of the nation's Supreme Leader. Xi is not to be mocked. He makes no mistakes. He must be adored by the population. He is above question.
What good is a country if the people can't make fun of its leader?
As far as we can tell, it's not a country worth living in. Moreover, when rich guys in a communist country become more famous than the Supreme Leader they must be taken down a notch – or two.
Take Jack Ma, for instance. The eccentric co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba harnessed the growth of the internet to become the country's richest man. Yet that was before he criticized China's regulators, and thus suffered the abrupt cancellation of affiliate Ant Group's much anticipated IPO. These days Ma is rarely seen in public.
Now Hui Ka Yan, founder and chairman of Evergrande, and until recently the country's second richest man, has also ran afoul of the CCP. Hui, more than anyone else, was a benefactor of policies out of Beijing.
When the 2008-09 financial crisis briefly stalled demand for Chinese made exports, the central government implemented a massive stimulus package. Part of this stimulus package included cheap, plentiful credit.
Predictably, property prices bubbled up across the country…from coastal megacities to interior regional centers. Real estate development became a near guaranteed path to wealth and riches. The bigger the developer, and the more land it had as collateral, the more it could borrow. With low interest rates the cycle was self-reinforcing so long as property prices only went up.
"Everything for me and Evergrande is given by the party, the state, and society," said Hui in a 2018 speech.
Perhaps Hui should have also thanked plentiful, cheap credit for his fortunes.
Of course, the flipside of credit is debt. And Evergrande now appears to be unable to make a succession of upcoming coupon payments. Alas, this is happening after it disfigured the countryside with some of the more dreadful structures to ever be imagined…
Bubble-ism – or communism with Chinese characteristics – has accomplished the spectacular. Supplied with cheap credit and the will of the CCP, Evergrande and other property developers took to outdoing each other in strange and tasteless ways.
The artificial islands of Hainan, the "Hawaii of China", in southern China, became ground zero for Chinese bubble-ism. What follows are several of the highlights…
There's the huge curved structures of Phoenix Island that light up in red. Ma Yansong, the founder and principal partner at Mad architects, explained the development's philosophy:
"It is an island in the sea. Architecture on the island should look like it grew out of the sea. They should be curvy, just like coral or sea star. It feels like they are a group when they are pieced together."
There's also the Beauty Crown Hotel, which features nine enormous tree-like structures. There's the Nanhai Pearl, an entertainment complex in the form of a massive yin-yang symbol. There's the Aloha Hotel and entertainment complex, designed to be like Waikiki – only grander.
Best of all is Evergrande's Ocean Flower Island; developed as a lotus flower, with five separate petals coming out from the center. Ocean Flower Island is part of its theme park division, Evergrande Fairyland. One designer explained it as follows:
"Our inspiration generally comes out of nature, out of geometry from nature and process from nature and things you see and feel and experience in nature."
The master plan for Ocean Flower Island Fairyland includes a 12-acre water park, hotels, museums, an amphitheater, an arboretum, cinemas, parks, shops, and an opera. The reported estimated cost pencils out to a round 100 billion yuan or $15 billion. By our back of the napkin calculation, the final cost will be double, or possible triple, the estimated cost.
According to the group's most recent annual report, it started taking customers on a trial basis earlier this year, with plans for a full opening "at the end of 2021." From what we can tell, Evergrande will not meet this deadline.
What's more, before Evergrande ran out of money, it intended to build 15 such Fairyland parks in China. Going broke, no doubt, is the best thing that ever happened to Evergrande and China. It prevents the further disfiguring of the landscape with madness.
Naturally, this is where one chapter of the story ends and another begins…
Xi may think he can yank the rug out from under Chinese developers after several decades of stimulating their excess without triggering a financial and economic disaster. But he can't compel real estate prices to only go up.
The flow of credit that once propelled real estate prices higher has turned to a cascade of debt. Lower real estate prices will follow. And for Winnie the Pooh, his adventures in fairyland have only just begun.
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solicit
used in The Count of Monte Cristo
to ask or plead for something
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"What?" said the count, the approbation of whose eye Villefort had frequently solicited during this speech.
Chapters 59-60 (63% in)
At each previous visit he had made to Rome, he had solicited and obtained the same favor; and incited as much by a religious feeling as by gratitude, he was unwilling to quit the capital of the Christian world without laying his respectful homage at the feet of one of St. Peter's successors who has set the rare example of all the virtues.
Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.
"I could scarcely walk when my mother, who was called Vasiliki, which means royal," said the young girl, tossing her head proudly, "took me by the hand, and after putting in our purse all the money we possessed, we went out, both covered with veils, to solicit alms for the prisoners, saying, 'He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.'
Noirtier looked the permission which she solicited.
A few men, the least impressed of all by the scene, pronounced a discourse, some deploring this premature death, others expatiating on the grief of the father, and one very ingenious person quoting the fact that Valentine had solicited pardon of her father for criminals on whom the arm of justice was ready to fall—until at length they exhausted their stores of metaphor and mournful speeches.
Chapters 105-106 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "solicit" in The Count of Monte Cristo.


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