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### 0.18.0 (2015-05-22)

#### Bug Fixes

- Omniture page tracking now correctly sends page path (@SuperheroicCoding)
- Google Analytics plugin now properly sends properties with falsy values
  (i.e. 0) (@birge)
- trackRelativePath option is now properly honoured by angulartics. (@0xR)

#### Features
- Adding page property to Google Analytics (@ormagomy)
- Google Analytics plugin now sends events to a default category 'Event' so you
  don't need to set this if you don't want to. (@trolleycrash)
- GoSquared support. See the appropriate plugin for options. (@pjkelly)
- Google Analytics plugin now has support for username tracking.
  (@ravishivt)
- Woopra plugin now can identify the user and set user properties.
  (@alfaproject)
- Segment plugin now has support for the registerSetAlias method.
  (@leore)

### 0.17.2 (2015-01-15)

#### Bug Fixes
- Added missing nuspec files (https://github.com/markvp) 8134f82e43d04c8ae6dd95731151ad81ab7aabc0
- Remove scope from analytics-on directive. Closes #195 (https://github.com/jantimon) e8bc48eea9c0aa47cd3201d36b02ea802b5b4194
- Inline injection of $location dependency (only load $location service if needed). Closes #29 (https://github.com/elegantcoder) cb20f5caf02d00fd942315520a18491168fae73f
- Segment - manually set the path and url becuase segment's JS lib always reports the path as '/' in `hashbang` mode 8543ef8d8cf6a933af78d9a5737c327042913a34
- Google Analytics - check for GA before _gaq (https://github.com/mkolodny) c3b33a464547a4bed39541584f93cf9542a46f5f
- Fix jquery-waypoints doesn't exist (may need to run `bower cache clean `) e68531de81526101aedca91e9721c9f0d2de322f
	- Big thanks to:
		- https://github.com/kentcdodds
		- https://github.com/imakewebthings
		- https://github.com/luisfarzati

#### Features
- Segment - identify user. Registered setUserProperties / setUserPropertiesOnce with an API to match the identify method from segment.com: https://segment.com/docs/api/tracking/identify/ (https://github.com/Normalised) 66e66f0a5a229390d1b2469ad997f13e7417c42e
	- Add optional parameters for event tracking `event, properties, options, callback`
- Add support for Google Tag Manager on Cordova resolves #258 using Tag Manager plugin. (https://github.com/kraihn) c77833d7608e865bd6b0879055c84c8b1b149735
- Add a plugin for http://tongji.baidu.com (https://github.com/miller) efbcac271ee673a11d755c2f1c387d2378b3ce98
- Google Cordova support with https://github.com/danwilson/google-analytics-plugin (https://github.com/emaV) d74387def225e49b6d6ab278d6882b14e38d79a9
- New developer mode to prevent sending data. Set `developerMode: true` in `$analyticsProvider` to stop sending data (https://github.com/tomasescobar) a0cce769f569dfb46f765eda1a97eccc2748c3f9
- Kissmetrics - enable setUsername and setUserProperties (https://github.com/jminuscula) d74387def225e49b6d6ab278d6882b14e38d79a9
- GA multi-account modification (https://github.com/robertbak) 047815f1891e7b2dfc4a4ec666b25afaca65c70d
Uses a ```$analyticsProvider.settings.ga``` object for configuration, which after initing multiple analytics accounts like this:

```javascript
    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-XX');
    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-XY', 'auto', {'name': 'additionalTracker1'});
    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-XZ', 'auto', {'name': 'additionalTracker2'});
```

allows to configure the additional providers on startup:

```javascript
config(function ($analyticsProvider) {
    $analyticsProvider.settings.ga.additionalAccountNames = ['additionalTracker1', 'additionalTracker2'];
  });
```

You can also change the configuration while running the app which, while not the most elegant solution, allows sending only some events to multiple accounts by:

```javascript
 $analyticsProvider.settings.ga.additionalAccountNames = ['additionalTracker1'];
 $analytics.eventTrack('eventName');
 $analyticsProvider.settings.ga.additionalAccountNames = [];
```

### 0.17.1 (2014-10-28)

#### Bug Fixes
- Adobe event tracking - download and exit events now sent (thanks to alexismartin)
- Fix angular-scroll directive (thanks to eshaham)
- Fix for Kissmetrics to allow Karma testing

#### Features
- Add Loggly support (thanks to zoellner)
- Add Localytics support (thanks to joehalliwell)
- Add CNZZ support (thanks to L42y)
- Add Hubspot support (thanks to asafdav)
- Add main attr to package.json to enable browserify support (thanks to adamscybot)
- Updates GA provider to support custom metrics and dimensions for universal GA on a per-event basis (thanks to Philo)
- Add `mixpanel.alias` support to call event after user signs up (thanks to tomasescobar)

### 0.17.0 (2014-10-02)

#### Bug Fixes
- Fix double page tracking - (don't set noRoutesorState to false if conditionals fail)
- Clean up dependency injections
- Angular-scroll now minification safe

#### Features
- Add Intercom vendor plugin

### 0.16.5 (2014-08-28)

#### Bug Fixes
- Google Analytics - do nothing if there is no event category (required)
- Mixpanel - look for the field __loaded before sending events
- Splunk - look for _sp with a dynamic function for anyone wanting to run setup in the module.config or not pull/compile the html of their app when running a testing framework like Karma

#### Features
Evaluate initial attribute values for properties.
- This is so that events that get fired immediately have an initial value for event properties.

### 0.16.4 (2014-08-21)

#### Bug Fixes
Fixed #182 double pageview tracking with ui-router

#### Features
Added basic debugging provider angulartics.debug.js that uses console.log to dump page and event tracking

### 0.16.3 (2014-08-20)

#### Bug Fixes
- Due to changes in routing logic, Angular 1.1.5 is now the minimum supported version.
- Update all samples to Angular 1.1.5
- Fix Adobe analytics sample

### 0.16.2 (2014-08-19)

#### Features
* Add marketo plugin. Thanks https://github.com/cthorner
* Better releasing with grunt-bump

### 0.16.1 (2014-08-06)

#### Features
* **analytics-if** - Analytics call will only be made if the `analytic-if` condition passes. Example: `<button analytics-on analytics-if="user.isLoggedIn">`
* Better buffering
* Support for multiple providers

### v0.15.20 (2014-07-09)

#### Bug Fixes

* **kissmetrics:** changing kissmetrics plugin to use global window object ([d505801](https://github.com/luisfarzati/angulartics/commit/d50580181c5cbb752c2bcb1d8334c65452aac9a2), closes [#161](https://github.com/luisfarzati/angulartics/issues/161))

#### Features

* **bower** add all vendor scripts to bower to enable automatic dependency injections via wiredep and similar tools [7cbcef1](https://github.com/luisfarzati/angulartics/commit/0108263228fe24c294c5cd120122bb6570a090a2)


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Cerepîn (în ) este o comună în raionul Ovruci, regiunea Jîtomîr, Ucraina, formată din satele Cerepîn (reședința), Cerepînkî, Korenivka, Lukișkî și Zaskî.

Demografie

Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației comunei Cerepîn era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de rusă (%).

Note

Cerepiîn
Cerepiîn, Ovruci
Cerepiîn, Ovruci, Jiîtomiîr

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One of the basic features of the accur8vision system is the 3D map. It's a key feature that adds uniqueness and attractiveness to the system. A three-dimensional view of the area of interest allows the operator to uniquely identify where the intrusion occurred. It can also be used as a tool to help place detection components in the right places before installing them in the real environment which is an exact replica of the map. Interaction between, for example, a detector, a rotating camera, and a moving object in the map is completely automatic and doesn't require the creation of camera presets.
How do I create a 3D map?
Simple! You can create it yourself. The system is designed not to require assistance of the system manufacturer to create the maps. A8V supports FBX format import. Therefore, you can insert a 3D model from AutoCad or from SketchUp. This is especially useful when the object doesn't exist yet and you are unable to scan it. For existing objects / areas, we recommend scanning the area. This gives you a realistic picture of the environment, including vegetation and surrounding terrain.
How to scan an area?
The easiest way to get a 3D model from a scan is to use photogrammetry technology. Photogrammetry is a technique that deals with the reconstruction of 3D shapes by measuring dimensions and positioning of objects, from the digital photographs taken. No matter if you use a normal camera or use a drone to take the pictures. The photographs must be partially overlapped and linked to each other in order to carry out the subsequent calculations. The drone can manage its flight mission autonomously, without pilot intervention making it very easy to do.
Mark the area for scanning.
The mission is then sent to the drone.
The drone starts, takes pictures of the area according to the set parameters, and then lands in the same place he took off.
To set up flight missions, to take photos, we recommend, for example, Pix4D. For post-processing, an example would be RealityCapture.
Do I need to worry about custom map creation?
Our certified partners have gone through our mapping training and are qualified professionals. Do not hesitate to contact them. Tacticaware then offers further editing and refinement of map data.
Scribing of badly scanned places on the map.
Inserting animated elements: light moving vegetation (trees, shrubs, grass), smoke from chimneys, moving water, birds, moving traffic, people, etc.
ALEEGO closely cooperates with TACTICAWARE in fields of drone aerial mapping, drone scanning of buildings & properties and post processing of collected data to produce accurate 3D models which are required for the A8V system. ALEEGO has a plethora of licensed pilots, experienced in 3D scanning and aerial mapping, and experts in post processing of data. ALEEGO can operate worldwide with modern equipment and with pilots having all the necessary permissions.


SATB, organ, 2 trps., 2 trbs., opt. horn, opt. tuba, opt. flute; 3'20".
A celebratory anthem based on the well-known Ephesians text on community in Christ. Level: Med-Adv.
My husband and I were asked to write a work based on Ephesians 2:19-21 for the 90th anniversary of our congregation in 1998. Below is the text for the anthem.
Jesus Christ, the carpenter of love.
In Christ our stubborn wills are joined as one.
A consecrated vessel for God's love.


Product prices and availability are accurate as of 2019-04-22 12:57:49 EDT and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on http://www.amazon.co.uk/ at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.
If you would like the Breville VTT235 Silver 2 Slice Toaster by Breville as a gift for your birthday or Christmas, then why not drop a hint by sharing this page with your friends and family on Facebook. Simply click the share button and let everyone know how much you like this item.
When it comes to a high quality toaster for 2 slices, then you have to consider checking out what Breville has on the market today.
We are proud to stock the brilliant Breville VTT235 Silver 2 Slice Toaster by Breville, that is one of the most popular 2 slice toasters.
With so many different 2 slice toasters on offer right now, it is great to have a brand you can trust. The Breville VTT235 Silver 2 Slice Toaster is certainly that and will be a perfect acquisition.
At this great price, there is not a better time than now to buy the Breville VTT235 Silver 2 Slice Toaster. It is a great quality item by Breville who have provided some nice touches making it one of the most popular 2 slice toasters.
Shopping for a perfect 2 slice toaster shouldn't be difficult now that you have read the above information about the Breville VTT235 Silver 2 Slice Toaster by Breville.
The Breville VTT235 2-slot 2-slice silver toaster is a sleek and smart addition to any kitchen boasting a number of helpful features. It has variable browning control allowing you to choose how dark or light you like your toast and variable width slots allowing breads of various thicknesses to be fully toasted. So whether it's a small slice or something a bit bulkier - all sizes are properly accommodated. Additional features of the VTT235 include a reheat button which brings cooled toast back up to temperature without burning it; a defrost button which automatically lengthens the toasting time to allow for the defrosting of frozen bread and a mid-cycle cancel button allowing you to stop the toasting process as and when you want to.


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Q: Blazor Client-Side Bootstrap-Select don't work I have a problem to use the complements of bootstrap-select from this page
Bootstrap-Select Page
At moment to development  use my css and js configuration
Scripts Configurations
Control Code
Control Running
But don't produce empty result, the html code  should change according to the use from scripts but stay match, to exception of control visibility, its hide and don't work.
I have running my app with Blazor Web Assembly Client Side with DotNetCore version 3.2. Bootstrap 4.5
Help me, please...
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Logo Development for the project "SWITCH," a campaign that brings awareness to the climate, its changing patterns, and our impact. This campaign is focused on skiers, targeting a group that cares about the environment, relies on the environment to do what they do, and a community that should take responsibility in having a positive impact where they have the means to do so.
Change needs to be made on a global scale, however through this campaign, I strive to have a tiny hand in raising awareness, and raising money, with regard to climate change and the future of our earth. The mentality has always been to leave your children with something better, and for one of the first times, we are doing just the opposite. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of my generation, and an issue that it is truly up to my generation to have any impact on. We are on a decline, as NASA says, in flux. There is visual evidence of environmental issues, and it is up to us to recognize those issues, understand those issues, and do what we can to make a change. I believe that one of the best ways to have impact, is to be educated on the problem at hand. Through this project, I have worked to better understand the problem, how it relates to skiing, and come up with a response to the problem.
After looking through NASA's "Images of Change," I was inspired by the clear differences shown in the images, and further, saw a way to incorporate these images into design. The bright colors and interesting patterns were aesthetically pleasing, contrasting the harsh and sad reality of what these beautiful images represented.


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Haeva ist eine germanische Göttin, deren Name nur auf einem heute verlorenen Votivstein aus dem niederländischen Malburg (Gelderland) überliefert ist, wo sie mit Hercules Magusanus gemeinsam genannt wird.

Durch die auffällige Schreibweise wurde der Name auch als die Hebe der griechischen Mythologie gelesen, die Frau des Herakles. Im Kontext mit Hercules Magusanus, als Hypostase des Donar, wird für Haeva überzeugender ein germanischer Bezug in der Forschung angenommen. Der Name wird seit Rudolf Much und Theodor Siebs zu germanisch *hiwan "heiraten" gestellt. Die Funktion der Göttin wird vom Namen abgeleitet und als Beschützerin der Familie gedeutet. Die Stifter des Votivsteins, ein Ehepaar, bitten pro natis, "für ihre Kinder". Eine konkrete Anbindung an spätere überlieferte germanische Göttinnen wie nordgermanische Göttinnen der Wikingerzeit muss spekulativ bleiben, insbesondere zur Figur der eddischen Sif als Frau des Thor. Jan de Vries vermutet einen funktionalen Bezug zur Frija.

Die Haeva wurde vor allem in der niederländischen Forschung mit der aus der Tabula Peutingeriana überlieferten Namensform Levefanum des römischen "Kastell Rijswijk" in Verbindung gebracht. Levefanum kann nach Saskia van Dockum, und zuvor durch B. H. Stolte, von Haeva Fanum, "Tempel der Haeva" abgeleitet werden. Stolte stellt diese Beziehung besonders heraus, um zum einen die klare germanische Indigenität der Gottheiten Haeva und Magusanus in Relation zu den germanischen Namen der Stifter der Votivsteine (i. e. der Magusanus-Inschriften) zu zeigen, und zum anderen, um die nicht überzeugenden Versuche, dem germanischen Gott eine griechische Göttin als Begleiterin zur Seite zu stellen, kenntlich zu machen. Der Ortsname lässt sich abweichend von diesen Darstellungen, wenn er aus dem Germanischen gedeutet wird, zunächst als Doublette des bei Ptolemaios überlieferten Ortsnamens Leufan stellen, hier lediglich ergänzt mit einem weiteren e als Bindevokal. Die hergestellte germanische Etymologie nach Scheungraber/Grünzweig deutet statt auf ein Heiligtum einer Gottheit auf eine profane (Feucht)Wiese hin, auf der Gras geschnitten wurde. Sie stellen Leve- einzig möglich zu germ. *lewa- = "schneiden" und  -fanum zu germ. *fanja- = "Sumpf, Moor" (Fenn) und vergleichen unter anderem mit altfriesisch fenne = "feuchte Wiese".

Siehe auch
 Germanische Gottheit

Literatur
 Saskia G. van Dockum: Das niederländische Flussgebiet. In: Tilmann Bechert, Willem J. H. Willems (Hrsg.): Die römische Reichsgrenze zwischen Mosel und Nordseeküste. Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1189-2, S. 77–88.
 Siegfried Gutenbrunner: Germanische Götternamen der antiken Inschriften. Niemeyer, Halle/S. 1936, S. 106f.
 Karl Helm: Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 1913, S. 378f.
 Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie ungermanische Toponyme Germaniens. Ein Handbuch zu ihrer Etymologie unter Benutzung einer Bibliographie von Robert Nedoma. Herausgegeben von Hermann Reichert. (= Philologica Germanica 34). Fassbaender, Wien 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3, S. 206–209.
 Rudolf Simek: Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie (= Kröners Taschenausgabe. Band 368). 3., völlig überarbeitete Auflage. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X, S. 165–166.
 B. H. Stolte: Die religiösen Verhältnisse in Niedergermanien. In: Wolfgang Haase (Hrsg.): Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt Bd. II 18, 1 Religion (Heidentum: Die religiösen Verhältnisse in den Provinzen), de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1986. ISBN 3-11-010050-9, S. 591–671; hier 650f.
 Jan de Vries: Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin – New York 3. unveränd. Aufl. 1970. Reprint 2010,  Bd. 2, ISBN 978-3-11-002807-2, S. 320.

Anmerkungen

Germanische Gottheit
Weibliche Gottheit
Germania inferior


Superman is the captive of an alien mad scientist and Lobo's out for Batman's head. And that was before Batman stole his ship! Still, they're not called The World's Finest team for nothing but they may need some help from the universe's finest heroes to get out of this one!
Tom Taylor's script for this issue is a wonderful throwback to the classic days of DC Comics team-ups, with stunning twists and a healthy dose of weird science. After seeing so many stories where he pitted Superman and Batman against each other, it's a real treat to see Taylor perfectly capturing Clark and Bruce as allies rather than enemies. And the cameo by the Green Lantern Corps is just the icing on the cake!
The artwork for this issue is largely excellent. This is the best work I've ever seen from Robson Rocha and the inks by Jay Leisten are accurately applied. There's a flew glitches in the coloring by Blond (note the unusually pale Superman in the final panel of the above page) but these moments are thankfully few and far between.


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OWL To Release "The Last Walk"
Tuesday, 21st October 2014 By Dead Rhetoric
Less than six months after the crushing release of their Into The Absolute EP, German death/doom obscurists OWL are preparing to return with a 25-minute opus entitled "The Last Walk".
On this release, Owl continue their ever-evolving and unpredictable path by combining their ambient style with sorrowful doom metal, influenced by bands such as My Dying Bride, early Anathema, Nadja, Dead Can Dance, alongside ambient music as well as band leader Christian Kolf's experimental project, Gruenewald.
"The Last Walk" was written, recorded, and produced by Kolf in his own DH Studios from March – September 2014. Mastering was done by Simon Hawemann at Sludge Studios.
The song will be available as a digital download via Zeitgesiter on November 19th.
Owl – Orion Fenix (Zeitgeister Music)
Owl – Into the Absolute (Zeitgeister Music)

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PETER RYAN. CEDA urges Morrison Government to back Labor tax changes (ABC News).
By P&I Guest Writers | On 12 March 2019
An independent economic think tank is urging the Morrison Government to do the politically unthinkable ahead of an expected May election and back Labor's plans to end unsustainable tax breaks.
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) says tough decisions need to be made about controversial tax credits on dividends and capital gains tax to ensure the anticipated return to a budget surplus is long-term instead of a one-off.
In the case of the tax credits that Labor wants to abolish, CEDA says the cost to the budget has ballooned and the winners are individuals with big investment portfolios rather than small investors.
CEDA says the cost to the budget has surged from $550 million when the break was first introduced in 2000 to $5 billion today, mostly to individuals with big investment portfolios.
A recent study by the Parliamentary Budget Office found more than half of excess franking credits went to self-managed super fund accounts with balances more than $2.4 million.
CEDA chief executive Melinda Cilento told the ABC's AM program that current and future governments could not "continue to kick hard decisions down the road".
"They are only becoming more challenging and this puts a greater burden on future generations," Ms Cilento said.
"Addressing tough issues now and embedding better discipline will create more opportunities and time for transition. The longer we wait, the more blunt and abrupt necessary changes will need to be."
In addition to targeting refundable franking credits, CEDA wants to rein in concessions on work-related expenses and capital gains tax to reinstate budget discipline.
CEDA also suggests savings across the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), industry assistance and healthcare programs.
CEDA's tax options
CEDA's report on framing a sustainable budget found there were several short-term options to shore up the long-term Commonwealth Government tax base.
"It will ensure that there is enough revenue to fund the services and supports that the community expects, while minimising the drag on the economy from the most inefficient taxes," the report said.
"At this stage, there is no need to rush through tax changes with the singular purpose of revenue raising."
Fiscal implication
Tighten work-related expenses $7b a year (ATO estimate) Broadens the personal tax base, simplifies administration and compliance
Cut capital gains deduction $32b over 10 years (PBO) Reduces the distortionary impact it has across different asset classes, particularly housing
Limit negative gearing Up to $3.9b a year (Assoc prof Ben Phillips, ANU) Lower priority as CEDA says the case for cutting CGT discount is stronger than the case for limiting negative gearing
Removing dividend imputation refundability $5b a year (PBO) Addresses revenue sustainability concerns as more Australians enter concessional tax treatment in retirement.
Changing alcohol tax $1.3b a year (Vic Health) Move to uniform volume-based tax; simplifies the system, broadens consumption tax base and better targets the social costs of alcohol use
Source: CEDA
Burden on future workers
"There have been welcome improvements in the federal budget position. But there are real risks to reaching and maintaining a surplus as we seek to pay down debt accumulated since the global financial crisis," Ms Cilento said.
"At a time when households are already dealing with sluggish incomes, you can't have a tax system that places an increasing burden on workers and bracket creep is an important area to address."
While conceding that the push for a lower company tax rate has been shelved for now, Ms Cilento warns that the budget relies too heavily on traditional tax collections.
She also warns that in the absence of hard decisions, the budget is exposed to global shocks that could force any future government to take remedial action that could impact social welfare programs the community expects.
This article was published by ABC News on the 8th of March 2019.
Peter Ryan is the ABC's senior business correspondent. With more than 30 years of journalism experience, he contributes to a range of ABC News programs including the flagship radio current affairs programs AM, The World Today and PM, in addition to ABC News Channel and ABC News Online.
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This photo of a Blue-headed parrot is by Glenn Bartley, and is appropriate as we frequently see Blue-headed parrots from the Dawn on the Amazon Cafe.
For a birdwatching enthusiast of more than 4 decades, Iquitos and in particular my room with a view, provide a constant source of delight. With the Itaya River winding into a kind of oxbow with a shoreline rising and falling according to season this is a haven for birds of many kinds.
There are 3 species of Vultures from the small and drab Black to the larger more colourful GreaterYellow-headed with Great Black Hawks and an occasional Falcon for variety. The Vultures are commonplace and patrol as relentlessly as the street vendors and beggars, occasionally visiting the streets for early morning forays through rubbish bins, perhaps overturned by hungry dogs.
Then there are Waterbirds such as Egrets, Terns, Herons and a host of smaller more secretive species lurking quietly in the vegetated banks and often only distinguishable by a swaying lily leaf as they skulk the muddy banks.
Tanagers, Antbirds, Wrens, native Peruvian Sparrows and other finches in addition to an occasional regally plumaged Cacique complete this array of feathered fauna and within 5 weeks my window list has grown to an impressive 65 species.
Of course Peru is rich in birdlife, claiming in excess of 1800 different species within its borders, second only to Colombia in avian biodiversity so my tally is comparatively puny when measured against this figure. Iquitos and surrounds boast perhaps one third of this total with the balance restricted to the drier pampas of the far south or the coastline and montane peaks of the Andes. As I write this I'm momentarily disturbed by a small unfamiliar bird in the palms that foreground my view across the river, a female Crimson Finch actively forages through the foliage searching for seed or perhaps a hapless insect as this uncommon species is omnivorous. No.66 is thus added to my window list.
Peru and Iquitos are a must for any serious birdwatcher as many of these may be seen nowhere else on Earth.
Hello, this is Bill Grimes reporting from Iquitos Peru. Adrian Walker and his family are living and bird watching from one of my apartments with a view of the river and jungle on the other side, while looking to open a lodge. He was kind enough to write this series of articles for my Captain's Blog and the Iquitos Times. We hope this is Chapter five of his new book, The Road to Iquitos. To read chapters one, two, three, and four, please click these links to The Road To Iquitos, and The Road To Iquitos Part 2, The Road To Iquitos Part 3, and The Road To Iquitos Part 4, Ups And Downs In Iquitos.


Rose Justice is an American ATA pilot who spends her days ferrying planes to troops across Britain and composing poetry, not quite believing what she thinks is anti-German propaganda about the horrors of occupied Europe. When she is captured by German forces and sent to Ravensbruck, a notorious women's concentration camp, she discovers that the rumors about prisoner treatment are not only true, but mild compared to the reality she faces. Rose cannot simply just endure her imprisonment, but she must find a way to fight back if she and her new friends are to survive.
Like she did with Code Name Verity, Wein tells Rose's harrowing story through journals, letters, and other written accounts. The novel begins when Rose starts her journal, detailing her day-to-day tasks as an auxiliary pilot and abruptly stops when she is captured, only to begin again months later when she has been rescued. Rose's narrative is interjected with letters from friends and her own beautiful and heartbreaking poetry. Oftentimes with epistolary novels readers must suspend a certain amount of disbelief at how the story unfolds, yet Wein manages to build beautiful characters through Rose's impassioned memories of her friends, she creates tension and suspense as Rose struggles to put her story to paper after her escape, and above all she tells a magnificent story that makes you forget that you are not reading primary documents. Wein's unconventional choices regarding narrative and viewpoint pay off in big ways as they not only tell a story of survival, but address the difficulties the concentration camp survivors faced after the war in telling their stories, obtaining justice, and learning to live again. Do not miss this book.
Cover Comments: This cover is pretty in a foreboding way. I love that it has a glimpse of the sky and the airplanes, as that is actually significant to the story.
Book received as a gift!
This is Elizabeth Wein's second book about young women in WW II. While not quite the multi-layered masterpiece that she gave us in Code Name Verity, this is still a gripping adventure story as well as a sobering look into the awful reality of the Ravensbruck women's concentration camp. Highly recommended.


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In this parable, we'll meet two very different characters. Both were well-known types of people in 1st Century Israel, and each character exhibits vastly different ways to approach God. This morning we'll ask ourselves: In light of Jesus' words, how should we approach God in prayer? And how does that change the way we pray?


What can be said of a team that began the season with such high expectations, only to find themselves around .500 going into the All Star Break. They show little glimpses of what we all expected, and just when you think they are going on a roll… the bats fall asleep again. They looked flat losing to the Braves twice at home this week each by a score of 2-1. Then today, they were outplayed in virtually every aspect of the game – hitting, pitching, defense, basic fundamental baseball by the Cardinals. Very disappointing indeed.
The lingering feeling I have though is how un-likeable this team is. There are few story lines with this team that really excite. Sure the Bobby Scales and Jake Fox's and Randy Wells and Sam Fulds of the world are good stories. But the rest of this squad is hard to really love. There's been a lot of whining, tantrums, and very poor fundamental play among these guys. None of those traits are likeable.
Among my biggest disappointments is the sophomore performance of Geovany Soto. At first the talk was he was behind due to participating in the World Baseball Classic. But to my (admittedly untrained) eye, he is overweight, his bat is slow, his arm is not as sharp, and his numbers reflect that. To his credit, he has obviously handled the pitchers well, but perhaps his pot-smoking digression wasn't an isolated lapse in judgement? He just doesn't seem to be as hungry (as it were) as he was last year. Now he pulls an oblique that will likely put him on the shelf for a full month. Here's a question; when Soto comes back from the DL, will his weight be higher or lower than it is now? Will he be better conditioned or will he have to work his way back? …will he be as hungry as he was in his rookie year?
Ok, now for a tiny bit of sunshine. As bad as this team has looked at times, they still are very much in the hunt for NL Central Division Championship. Maybe they can put together a few winning series and make a little run after the All Star Break. I'm a believer in stats, and guys tend to end up a season plus or minus 10% or so of their recent years performance. Usually. Unless the player is injured or at the end of his career, they usually are in the ballpark of their average lifetime numbers. If that's the case, then this team has a heckuva ride in store for the second half!


Published on Friday, August 24, 2012.
American columnist, writer, musician and illustrator Carl Pettit, author of Among The Wild granted an interview to The Western Online.
Carl Pettit: Among The Wild is a story about a 13-year-old boy, Noah Adair, who is orphaned on the Oregon Trail in 1847. His uncle beats him and his aunt rejects him in favor of his little brother. Noah flees on a stolen horse after he learns that his uncle has hired a man to kill him. He later discovers that his uncle, not a flood, killed his parents. After hiding in the desert, he decides to track down his uncle and rescue his brother. He deals with starvation, thirst, Cayuse Indians, strange Mennonites and a dogged assassin on his trail. Among The Wild is a story about survival, honor, family, and how to make the most out of a human life, even when dealing with situations that one could never have imagined.
Carl: Well, it takes places on the Oregon Trail, which immediately gives it a Western and pioneer setting. The gun technology is a bit simpler than what you find in stories set a few decades later, but the main protagonist (Noah Adair) manages to get his hands on a late model Colt Paterson. Of course, there are also some spectacular horse-riding scenes and chases, as well as Indians who are both sympathetic, and unfriendly to Noah's cause, plus an entire host of other characters he has to contend with. While the settings are austere, the emotional lives of the characters are very rich.
Carl: At first, Noah is motivated by sheer survival. He has to evade predators, an assassin, and deal with the basic necessities of procuring water and food. Later, he's pushed on by familial obligation. Toward the end of the novel, a strange blend of revenge and sympathy become the driving factors that propel him forward.
Carl: It's a fairly broad term, actually, even though a lot of people probably don't think so. The many novels by Louis L'Amour define one end of the genre, and then you've got beautiful books like Lonesome Dove out there, which won the Pulitzer Prize. You also have the likes of Cormac McCarthy, who pushes the bounds of both prose and violence in his Westerns. I suppose a Western novel is about a place in time, and a way of living and dealing with problems on your own.
Carl: The beauty of the landscapes described, the basic stories of survival, and the battles between anarchy and civilization that weave their way through many a Western narrative.
Carl: Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark and Haruki Murakami would be at the top of my list. Most people wouldn't associate Murakami with Westerns, but if your read the Mongolian and Russian sections of his book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, you can see the imprint of the Western genre at work, I think. Harsh men living in and dealing with harsh settings.
Carl: My favorite Western movie is John Ford's The Searchers. It's a beautiful film, and you get to see John Wayne play a different kind of character than he normally played. I know I'm not alone in my admiration for this film.
Carl: Westerns offer a classic hero/antihero conflict against a tough antagonist, or wild nature. The stories are elemental, and resonate within the human psyche and soul. I think they will never really go away, although the setting might change some day. Perhaps we'll have Westerns taking place on Mars, with heroes riding atop robotic horses.
Carl: I have the outline for a sequel to Among the Wild finished. The novel ends with the main protagonist 'in motion,' which means he's in for a wild ride in the next book. Right now I'm also working on a follow up to an illustrated children's book I wrote, entitled Raindrop's World.
TWO: How do you feel about writing in general?
Carl: I think the Western genre is one of the few genres left where a fast-paced story, written with beautiful prose, is still appreciated. I know book editors and other writers who believe prose doesn't really matter anymore. The modern reader simply needs a story that moves at breakneck speed. While I appreciate books that move things along (mine certainly does), I also enjoy the music of words. Reading takes place with the eyes and the brain. A great story, written beautifully, can take you places a film just can't.
Carl Pettit is an American columnist, writer, musician and illustrator. He writes for an array of colorful publications, and also finds time to produce a fair amount of fiction for adults and children. Education and work, plus good old-fashioned curiosity have taken him all over the world. He's lived in China, the Czech Republic, England, Korea and Portugal, and has traveled to dozens of more countries to boot. When not writing or working on his very rusty drawing technique, he's most likely planning his next adventure, or out to dinner with friends.


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More than two years ago, Henry Montgomery saw a need to provide small companies in Hawaii professional accounting and financial services to help them stay afloat. This mission—to provide smaller enterprises the same cost-effective accounting and financial management capabilities as the bigger organizations—became Montgomery Professional Services Corp. or MontPac's primary driving force.
Indeed, not long before its establishment, MontPac has made significant impact on their clients, relying on the advantages of outsourcing and globalization.
"By leveraging outsourcing, small businesses can now obtain the type of "big company" accounting and financial management services at a fraction of the cost they would pay a U.S.-based accounting firm," writes Henry in Outsourcing to Philippines (April 2008).
Beyond cost arbitration, Henry also trusts that his company helps in the professional and economic upliftment of their employees offshore.
MontPac serves as a textbook model of an organization leveraging outsourced talents to provide quality service and create much needed career opportunities otherwise not afforded in developing countries.
Henry has held esteemed tenures in a wide array of organizations including Memorex, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, McKinsey & Company and Arthur Andersen & Company. He co-authored "Enron Provides Lessons on Audits for Accountants and Public Companies" for the Washington Legal Foundation, and "Directors Need to Set the Tone" for the Silicon Valley Biz Ink.
His vast corporate and professional experience aside, Henry is actively engaged in the non-profit arena. Today he sits as treasurer to the Honolulu Symphony, a task perfectly aligned with his skills.
In this interview, Henry narrates his extensive professional background and his eventual foray in to entrepreneurship. He shares with us the value of leveraging one's skills and talents to create an impact to the wider community.
Listen to this interview and find out why Henry chose to take on the entrepreneurial path after decades in the corporate setting. Find out more about Henry Montgomery, chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of MontPac, only here on Greater Good Radio.


Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain authors. Check out previous entries on Toni Morrison, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, and others.
Get recommendations for where to start with Gloria E. Anzaldua's poems and prose.
Where to start with the young adult and middle grade novels of Neal Shusterman.
Interested in Paula Danziger, but not sure where to start? Follow this reading pathway!
Remembering the plays and other works by the prolific Sam Shepard with an overview of his evolution as a writer.
Where to start with the work of Russian journalist and nonfiction author Masha Gessen.
Where to start with the young adult novels of the recent Margaret A. Edwards Award winner Sarah Dessen.


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I've officially hit 60 days in my new role as Head of Developer Advocacy with Elastic Path. I feel both new to the company and as though my last role was a lifetime ago. Having been in the commerce space for almost two decades I wanted to share my first impressions.
I've never experienced such a positive company culture before in my career. I have seen everything from toxic managers to trendy companies with foosball tables and unlimited free snacks. My favorite working experiences have always been with small startups, the feeling of camaraderie of a small team pushing themselves towards a common goal. Startup employees can become your family and generate life-long bonds. This experience has always been generated by the employees, sometimes despite poor management.
Working at a larger company with games, snacks, coffee, and free lunch was also a wonderful experience. Who doesn't enjoy a freshly made cappuccino on your foosball break? These perks could never replace a great collaborative team, but they did smooth over any complaints as hardworking long-term employees were passed over on raises or promotions for new hires.
Elastic Path is a larger company, leading the way for eCommerce to adopt a composable approach, yet it embodies the collaboration and culture of a small startup. What's more impressive is that while startups rely on employees to generate this culture, at Elastic Path it is initiated and re-enforced by the company.
After only 60 days, I don't fully understand how the leaders at Elastic Path have accomplished this task, or how much each component from onboarding to bonus.ly impacts the results. What I can say is that Elastic Path has an amazing company culture steps ahead of every other company I've worked for. Either I have had the worst luck in choosing jobs or Elastic Path has something incredibly special.
The core product offering is Elastic Path Commerce Cloud. While it's not the perfect solution it is able to stand out from a crowded market of API-Commerce platforms through three core areas speed, flexibility, and completeness.
Fast - Every company is going to tell you their software is fast. If anyone is willing to admit to things being slow, it must be extremely slow. For most of these companies it's just marketing hyperbole.
This makes it more difficult for people to distinguish a truly fast API as opposed to industry average. The current trendy marketing push is MACH (Microservices, API-First, Cloud-Native, Headle... erm API again). The list of MACH companies is growing longer than the list of fast software. Elastic Path Commerce Cloud has the foundation to be considered MACH, but so is Fabric, whose customers have needed to deal with serverless cold starts and extreme latency. The MACH Alliance is filled with companies that lack MACH architecture. It won't be long before MACH loses all meaning and becomes just another buzzword.
Microservices and cloud-hosting can certainly improve API performance and Elastic Path customers benefit from that approach, but Commerce Cloud takes it much further. From choosing a compiled programming language to orchestrating intelligent caching and edge delivery, every aspect of the Composable Commerce technical stack optimizes speed, reliability, and performance.
Flexible - API solutions are inherently more flexible than monolithic software. Having developer focused APIs for every action means never writing a proprietary plugin or trying to hack at direct database access.
APIs are the new standard for SaaS, it won't be long before companies who don't follow an API-First approach are fully replaced by newer options. Flexibility with Commerce Cloud goes beyond the API. The data model of each microservice can be extended with any additional fields required. New REST endpoints can be created by calling an API or just a few clicks on the mouse. Events can be sent directly to a cloud queue or leveraged through webhooks to ensure they can be read from any environment.
This extreme flexibility is a developer's dream as any commerce solution can be built, in any programming language, and hosted on any server or cloud.
Complete - While every other company chases Composable Commerce, it feels like Elastic Path has moved on to Complete Composable.
Product features are not considered complete after an API is released, instead it must be fully supported by the business tooling (Commerce Manager), be represented in the documentation, and included in the learning center. Our CTO proclaimed, "We build products, not APIs", which is a refreshing sentiment in a sea of headless commerce.
The company is ready to support the entire Composable Commerce stack. Companies don't have to be the first layer of IT support, diagnosing the issue so they can determine which vendor to contact.
Instead of building out MVPs or POCs, the Elastic Path product team talks about Simple Lovable Complete (SLC) which is a far better approach to rolling out new features and products.
The HUB provides ready-built integrations so that adding or replacing components in the composable commerce solution is simple and fast instead of a costly development project.
Gartner is convinced every company needs to move to a Composable Commerce approach and adopt best-of-breed offerings. I absolutely agree with this assessment, the days of buying everything from a single vendor are gone, eCommerce has become too robust and complex. However, a prospect from my old job once told me that headless commerce is incomplete, and at the time I did my best to convince them otherwise, but in retrospect they were correct. There is a lot missing from a typical headless commerce offering, going well beyond the required head. Composable Commerce is necessary for companies to compete, but Complete Composable is necessary for companies to thrive.


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Q: Css files not working another component in Angular the css rules I created for header and sidenav do not work when I use it in the dashboard component, where do I make a mistake?
header.component.html
<mat-toolbar>
  <mat-toolbar-row class="justify-content-between">
    <button mat-icon-button (click)="toggleSidebar()"><mat-icon>menu</mat-icon></button>

          <button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu" class="user mt-2 d-flex align-items-center">
            UserName
            <mat-icon>keyboard_arrow_down</mat-icon>
          </button>
          <mat-menu #menu="matMenu">
            <button mat-menu-item>
              <mat-icon>exit_to_app</mat-icon>
              Logout
            </button>
          </mat-menu>

  </mat-toolbar-row>
</mat-toolbar>

header.component.ts
import { Component, EventEmitter, OnInit, Output } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-header',
  templateUrl: './header.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./header.component.scss']
})
export class HeaderComponent implements OnInit {
  @Output() toggleSidebarForme : EventEmitter<any> = new EventEmitter();
  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
  }

  toggleSidebar() {
    this.toggleSidebarForme.emit();
  }

}

header.component.scss
mat-toolbar {
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  z-index: 100;
}

ul{
  li{
    list-style: none;
  }
}

button{
  border: 0;
  outline: none;
  background: transparent;
  letter-spacing: 0.7px;
}

::ng-deep {
  .mat-menu-content {
    width: 160px;
  }
}

sidenav.component.html
<mat-nav-list>
  <mat-divider></mat-divider>

Applications

  <mat-icon>dashboard</mat-icon>Dashboard
  <mat-icon>supervised_user_circle</mat-icon>Users
  <mat-icon>compare_arrows</mat-icon>Link 2
  <mat-icon>verified_user</mat-icon>Link 3
</mat-nav-list>

sidenav.component.scss
.mat-divider {
  border-top-width: 2px;

}

.mat-icon {
  margin-right: 0.6rem;
}

.mat-list-item {
  color: #f2f2f2;
  font-size: 0.8rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.6px;
  height: 44px;
  margin-bottom: 4px;
  ::ng-deep{
    .mat-list-item-content {
      border-radius: 5px;
      margin: 0 8px;
      &:hover {
        background: #32325c;
        border-radius: 5px;
      }
    }
  }

}

.list-item-active {
  color: #f2f2f2;
  ::ng-deep {
    .mat-list-item-content {
      background: #32325c;
      &:hover {
        background: #32325c;
      }
    }
  }
}

.mat-subheader {
  font-size: 2rem;
  color: #f2f2f2;
}

sidenav.component.ts
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { AuthService } from '../auth.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-sidenav',
  templateUrl: './sidenav.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./sidenav.component.scss']
})
export class SidenavComponent implements OnInit {

  isLoggedIn$ : Observable<boolean> | undefined;

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {

  }

}

dashboard.component.html
<app-sidenav></app-sidenav>
<app-header></app-header>

app.component.html
<router-outlet></router-outlet>

According to the css rules here, the sidenav background should not be white, but when I use the sidenav component in the dashboard component, the background comes up as white. How can I solve this?

A: ::ng-deep .selector { ... }

must not be nested inside any CSS. Just try to see if you can remove all the ::ng-deep CSS defs outside any other CSS definition and check if that is working
WRONG:
    .parent {
       ...
       ::ng-deep .child {
          ...
       }
}

CORRECT:
    ::ng-deep .parent {
       ...
       .child {
          ...
       }
}


A guitar that John Lennon played on the recording of The Beatles hit, "Paperback Writer", is headed to auction in London next month.
The Telegraph reports Lennon gave his Gretsch 6120 guitar to his cousin, David Birch, in November 1967, a year after the hit single was produced in April 1966 at London's Abbey Road studios as part of the sessions for the band's "Revolver" album.
"I was just cheeky enough to ask John for one of his spare guitars," said Birch, who was trying to start his own band at the time. "I had my eye on a blue Fender Stratocaster that was lying in the studio but John suggested the Gretsch and gave it to me as we were talking."
Issued as a single in May of 1966, "Paperback Writer" went on to hit No. 1 in the US, the UK and several other countries.
The instrument is one of the most significant of Lennon's guitars to come on to the market in the last 30 years, said auctioneers TracksAuction.com.
Online bidding for the guitar, with an estimated sale price of between £400,000 and £600,000, begins on November 14 and concludes with a live auction at Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly, London, on November 23.
The auction contains more than 100 lots of Beatles memorabilia including a copy of the Sgt. Pepper album signed by all four members of the band and more.


I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don't want one because it is a "closed system." This is not the truth and I'll get to that after a little prelude.
I've had mine for about seven months now and really enjoy it. It's worked in to being a reasonable part of my daily life. About 80% of the non-comic book pleasure reading I've done in the last six months has been on this Kindle. When I do cardio at the gym I take it. When I need to be able to use Twitter or the the web in a mobile situation, I take it. When I shop the cheapo comic bins at a comic convention and need easy access to my collection inventory, I take it. This started as a luxury splurge for me, but it has become a daily tool of my life.
The counter argument I see over and over, in blog posts, in Facebook or FriendFeed comments when someone talks about the Kindle is something of the form: "I don't want one because it is closed. I don't want to have to buy all my books from Amazon." I'll give folks credit for not deliberately telling falsehoods, but that type of statement is not factual. You aren't required to buy all your books from Amazon. You can put arbitrary documents on there from a variety of sources. I certainly do, and I'd imagine that practically every person that owns a Kindle has something on there that they didn't purchase from Amazon.
I justified my Kindle purchase because in preparing for Reality Break interviews I get electronic copies of books. Sometimes these are prerelease manuscripts the author sends me, or electronic copies of a released book or in the case of Baen Books sometimes it is just temporary access to their Webscription catalog. Regardless of the path, I get ebook versions of a book I need to read to conduct an interview. Previously this required either reading on my laptop or printing out the book. I went to Dragon*Con 2008 with a giant stack of loose page printouts of books from Mur Lafferty and Tobias Buckell. It was a huge drag trying to read these things while standing in line or sitting in a restaurant with pages spilling everywhere. At that con, I thought "This would be so much easier with a Kindle." Before the next year's con, I did in fact own a Kindle.
In my seven months as a Kindle user, I have purchased exactly five books from Amazon for it: Gus Hansen's Every Hand Revealed, Anthony Artis' The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide, Scott Kirsner's Fans, Friends And Followers , Paul Melko's The Walls of the Universe and Douglas Rushkoff's Life Inc. In each case, the purchase process was simple and downright pleasant. I bought most of those from the regular Amazon web page but the Artis book I made a point of buying it from the Kindle itself as an experiment. Both ways of purchasing were equally easy and without issue.
I've paid Amazon around $60 (not all of these were the $9.99 price). However, I have hundreds of books on my Kindle. How did I get them? The first day after I bought it, I downloaded my entire library from Fictionwise and transferred it to the device. Because with Fictionwise you can choose a preferred format of books, I changed mine to MOBI and in 5 minutes had every book, short story and magazine that I had ever purchased with Fictionwise on my Kindle, in native format at that. Very sweet and easy.
It doesn't stop there. I did an experiment where I took the first page of my recommendation list from the newly revived AlexLit site (I've had an account on there for 12 years!) and for every book that is in the public domain, I went and downloaded it from Project Gutenberg. That put another few dozen books on there, all for no cost and without any intervention from Amazon. I put them on via USB so I'm not paying the $0.10 per document to have them transferred. Even if I had transferred them at a dime apiece, that would have been $2.50 or so.
Add to this, I keep on my Kindle two text files related to my comic book collection. I take the data dump of my collection and my wishlist from ComicBookDB, run them through a formatting program and put the resulting text file on my Kindle. At Heroes Con, Dragon*Con and XCon, when I dug through the 3/$1 bins I had my electronic wishlist at the ready. If I wasn't sure whether I had a specific issue, I'd switch over to my collection inventory to double check. It has a geeky irony to be using an ebook reader to handle my purchasing of paper comic books but it works out well.
These are just a couple of sources of books that one can use to get books for Kindle without paying Amazon. There is no definition of a "closed system" that this fits. One can argue that if such a proportion of my reading is non-Amazon why didn't I get a different device? Fair enough question. In my case, I fiddled with a Sony Reader and just didn't like it that much. I considered waiting for some cheaper Korean knockoffs but if my cheapo MP3 players are any indication, the spec sheets will tell one story while the actually usability is a whole different thing. I like the wireless access and I use it a little, for mobile tweeting and yelping and the like. It's not good enough to do that iPhone/Blackberry thing of ignoring everyone else at the table but it is good enough to use Twitter to find parties at a SF convention. That's good enough for me. It might be enough for you too. I'm not asking people to love the Kindle – everyone makes this decision for themselves. I am asking people to use valid and factual arguments when making the case for or against the device.
If you own a Sony Reader or a Kindle, and you are able to use this amazing device to read hundreds of pages while its soft blue glow exhales into your eyes, well, big ups. I'm very glad for you.
That's a clear indicator that Joe has determined these devices won't work for him without ever actually being in the room with one. They don't glow. That's kind of the whole point of e-ink, my friend. It doesn't glow, is opaque and easier on the eyes. It's why we pay a premium for black and white e-ink devices when LCD are easy and cheap – it uses less power and is easier on the eyes for long haul reading. It's OK to not like the device, but you should criticize it on aspects it actually has.
Update: I forgot a few other sources of books on my Kindle, all non-Amazon. I purchased the amazing King Dog by Ursula K. Le Guin from Book View Cafe, which is another up and coming source of electronic texts. I also purchased The Definitive ANTLR Reference from Pragmatic Programmers, which was more than a standard Kindle book at $24 but also cheaper than the paper version and allows me to download in MOBI, PDF or ePub but also tells me when the book has been updated so I can get an updated copy. That's using the low friction distribution to good effect there.


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USA.com / Florida / Sumter County / Sumterville, FL / 33585
33585 zip code is located close to the center of Florida. 33585 zip code is part of Sumter County. 33585 zip code has 17.13 square miles of land area and 0.36 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total 33585 zip code population is 1,550, which has grown 99.49% since 2000. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 21.14% and is much higher than the national average rate of 11.61%. 33585 zip code median household income is $48,810 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 92.26% since 2000. The income growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 21.62% and is much higher than the national average rate of 27.36%. 33585 zip code median house value is $94,500 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 83.85% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 48.06% and is much higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers 33585 zip code is better than the state average in quality. The 33585 zip code area code is 352.
Population Growth 99.49% since 2000, rank #58
Population Density: 88.64/sq mi, rank #799
Median House Price: $94,500 at 2010-2014—83.85% increase since 2000, see rank
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ROSHAN'S REVIEWS
Must-see Movies
Film Diary
2020: A YEAR IN FILM REVIEW
Covid closes the cinemas and the future looks online.
Well, wasn't 2020 the worst year since America dropped the Atom bomb? Not just because of Covid-19 which has a 1.81 million death toll, but also because of the killing of George Floyd and the numerous celebrity deaths - we lost Sean Connery, Caroline Flack and Barbara Windsor this year among countless others.
It's hard to believe that 2020 all started out so well. Certainly for the film industry when Bong Joon-Ho's 'Parasite' (2020) scooped up the Best Picture Oscar. After decades of snobbery and celebrating mainstream prestige, the Academy finally opened their eyes to the beauty of foreign-language film-making.
'Parasite' was a remarkable film - I don't think there's been a better Best Picture winner in recent years. It could very easily and would definitely have made the No.1 spot in my list of the 'best films of 2020'. Except the majority of people saw it in 2019, starting with when it first played at Cannes in May last year. It was talked about so much in 2019's yearly round-ups and in the run-up to 2020's Oscars that I really think we've just about had enough of it for one year. And that's why it doesn't feature in this year's list, but neither does any film released before February 10th which is when the Oscars were held.
From then on, it was all downhill. The infection rates spiked and the death toll peaked and most of the world went into lockdown. As they did so, for the first time since World War II, cinemas across the world were forced to close. How could there be any movies with no cinemas to show them?
If the Covid-19 pandemic did anything at all, it was skyrocket and fast-forward the rise of streaming services. In September this year, TV streaming statistics reported that 6.7 million (24%) households signed up to 2 services or more. Cinemas have long been at risk from the emergence of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Curzon Home Cinema or whatever, but this pandemic put out the possibility that they just might not survive come the New Year.
Studios delayed their biggest budget tentpole blockbusters in hungry desire for good-value cinema money when the pandemic is over. The delay of the latest James Bond film 'No Time to Die' (2020) - which was expected to draw back the crowds to the auditorium seats in November - was responsible for the closure of the UK's biggest cinema chain - Cineworld which closed all 600 of its theatres both sides of the Atlantic.
Traditional cinema-goers were faced with an option. Do they endanger themselves in a pandemic world by going to the cinema and risk getting Covid? Or do they stay at home, download the new movie from Spike Lee on Curzon and have a family evening in for half the price of a £30 family cinema bill?
It's certainly the case that people's homes don't smell of popcorn or hot dogs and taking a bathroom break is pretty easy when you're sitting on your sofa - you just have to press pause. Unlike, at the pictures, where you have to sneak out halfway through the latest Christopher Nolan blockbuster.
Is it a wonder that Disney dumped two of 2020's biggest releases - 'Mulan' and 'Soul' - on their own streaming service Disney Plus?
To be honest, I think studios need to "man up" a little and just accept the fact that they aren't going to make as much money as they would in non-Covid times. If the vaccine prevails and the infection rates go down, 2021 could see a flood of blockbusters with big-budget leftovers from 2020 hitting the cinema every week. I just worry that, if this goes on for too long, there might not be any cinemas left to even show 'Black Widow', 'A Quiet Place: Part II', 'Dune' and countless others.
Still, hope is on the horizon. Several vaccines have been approved, Trump is on his way out of the White House and a Brexit deal has been reached. It's now all on 2021 to see if we can come out of this any stronger…
Here's a selection of my 2020 highlights. Please note. I've included many titles that didn't get a cinema release. A sign of the future of movie watching?
No big screen medium has suffered more in 2020 than the blockbuster. Gone were the days of a summer stuffed with studio tentpoles competing for the big bucks at the local multiplex. I wonder whether this whole tentpole culture will have to change and we can no longer depend on one big movie to hold up a cinema for a month.
Warner Bros. took a major gamble putting 'Tenet' (2020) - Christopher Nolan's latest head-scrambler - at the newly-reopened pictures back in August. I can't say it was a gamble that paid off. 'Tenet' was predicted to kickstart the post-pandemic cinema industry, but it barely scraped $200 million against its $200 million budget; rounding up with a very miniscule $362.6 million.
I guess there is some hope that 'Wonder Woman 1984' (2020) scooped up the biggest post-pandemic, face mask-wearing Box Office numbers with an estimated $16.7 million in North America over Christmas weekend. That is despite the film being released simultaneously on HBO Max.
Is this proof that movie-goers still have the appetite for the big screen? Perhaps. Only time will tell. I just think it's terrific that a female-led blockbuster is doing as well as it is.
American Indie Cinema
Oddly enough, independent cinemas are doing better than they have in years; reporting solid numbers with sold-out screenings and encouraging blockbuster fans to give arthouse films a try.
I can't tell you the amount of times I've tried to book tickets at Nottingham's Broadway Cinema only to find shows are sold out. I guess cinemas like Broadway don't depend on big-budget tentpoles (most of which are being delayed) for their revenue and I sincerely hope this new rise in independent cinemas gives low-budget films a platform for mainstream success.
The rise of streaming has certainly benefited American indie films. I've seen several of my favourite films of the year on streaming services such as Eliza Hittman's brilliant abortion drama 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' which skipped cinemas and was available on multiple platforms.
My favourite American indie of the year, though, was 'Clemency' - a stirring, tough, but ethereal drama about Death Row with Oscar-worthy performances from Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge and Wendell Pierce. I watched that on Curzon over the summer.
Streaming has certainly given independent cinema a platform that appeals to more than just the niche, arthouse market. Expect to see David Fincher's 'Mank' and Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' featuring heavily at next year's Oscars (if there are any). I just hope smaller films get the recognition they deserve.
What a brilliant year it has been for British Film. There have been so many outstanding titles from a wide range of BFI-funded productions.
I loved 'Lynn + Lucy', for example, from acclaimed British shorts director Fyzal Boulifa which is a really bleak and brilliant look at how tragedy can rip apart a friendship.
In Ireland, but directed by a Brit was 'Calm with Horses' - a terrifically tense gangster drama with doses of equine therapy and two outstanding performances from Cosmo Jarvis and Niamh Algar.
Even away from the cinema, the distinction between TV and Film continued to be blurred by Steve McQueen's immaculate 'Small Axe' series. The opening film in that - 'Mangrove' about the Mangrove Nine - opened the London Film Festival. I saw it on a big screen at Broadway and so it features in my top 10 of the year.
The best Brit film of the year, though, was 'Rocks' which really put Director Sarah Gavron on the map as the mistress of British feelgood realism. It had a genuine sense of light and dark which any film about childhood and adolescence needs.
For all the troubles going on on the globe, world cinema really came into its own or, should I say, came of age in 2020. With most American blockbusters delayed or dumped on streaming services, cinemas across the globe began showing local fare that didn't rely on the States for the big bucks. As a result, we saw an influx of foreign-language films showing up on multiplex schedules.
Of course, the year's success for World Film was skyrocketed by South Korea's 'Parasite' taking home Best Picture. It was a fantastic movie - the most close to perfect I've seen in a decade. But, again, most people saw it last year and the Oscar it won was recognising last year's movies. And so I class it as last year's movie…
What was definitely this year's movie was Celine Sciamma's 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' from France which I saw at Broadway back in March. What a wonderful film that was - classical yet sexy and costume-heavy, but cinematic. It was certainly the sexiest movie of the year with the scariest singing sequence of the year.
World Cinema really benefited from the rise of streaming too. I can't tell you the amount of foreign-language movies I watched on Curzon and BFI Player over lockdown. 'System Crasher' from Germany, 'Bacurau' from Brazil, 'The Orphanage' from Afghanistan, 'And Then We Danced' from Georgia...The list goes on, I tell you. But my favourite was 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'.
There's always a turkey in every year and, to be honest, 2020 was one big Turkey of a year. As I said, the s**test year since America dropped the Atom bomb.
The bad movies kept coming at the start. I nearly tore the cinema screen to pieces when watching the dreadful horror film 'The Turning'. There were some really bad horror films this year - 'The Grudge', 'Fantasy Island', 'Brahms: The Boy II' just to name a few.
The worst was 'The Ringmaster', though - a disgusting and disrespectful slice of torture porn from Denmark. It made me feel sick to be human. More sick than watching Guy Ritchie's Mockney claptrap 'The Gentlemen' which was a misogynistic, racist mess. If so many bad things happened in 2020, they somehow felt ok and bearable compared to watching 'The Ringmaster'.
Like I said, I've stuck to movies released in the UK in 2020 for my final 'best of the year' list. Although I've bent my rules of only allowing films that have played at the cinema (there's even one film on this list that played on TV!).
And 'Parasite' would definitely have made my No.1 spot had it not featured so heavily in the run-up to 2020's awards and on critics' 'end of year' lists last year. Either way, here are a couple of movies that didn't quite make the final list:
Lynn + Lucy
Top 10 Best Films of 2020
10. Soul
This was the last film I saw in 2020 and what a poetic end it made for. It's Pixar's best film since 'Inside Out' (2015) and a lovely, jazzy fable about life, death and the afterlife. The story of a failing jazz artist who finds himself literally caught between heaven and hell in the last few seconds of his life, this drew wholly invited comparisons with 'It's A Wonderful Life' (1946) and I don't say that lightly! Beautifully animated and made me shed a few tears.
9. Saint Maud
Morfydd Clark has a horror face to shiver your timbers and make you wet your bed. Rose Glass's sexuo-religious horror forgoes cheap genre tricks like jump scares for ideas about sexual jealousy, escapism and liberation. Genuinely scary and intelligent.
8. Calm with Horses
A moody, atmospheric crime drama about a former Irish county boxer torn between his life working as a hitman for a criminal family and his love for his autistic son. Cosmo Jarvis and Niamh Algar are astonishing as the couple split by divided loyalties and Jarvis's county boxer Arm finds solace in equine therapy - hence the title. Also features the best soundtrack of the year by Blanck Mass.
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Wherever you stand on abortion, you have no excuse not to fall in love with the documentarian authenticity and adolescent accessibility of this thermonuclear road movie. The story of a pregnant 17 year old and her best friend who travel across state lines in search of an abortion, this is a winning tale of sisterhood and friendship that just happens to have reproductive rights raging in its belly.
6. David Byrne's American Utopia
The most singularly pleasurable and uplifting experience of this year's LFF, I saw this on a big screen at Broadway. It's the filmed version of David Byrne's 2018 Broadway stage show 'American Utopia'. I know nothing about David Byrne and couldn't give a toss about music, but I loved this movie and you will too. Cinematic and accessible to all demographics.
5. Mangrove
Many people will question if this is even a film at all as, the first part in Steve McQueen's brilliant 'Small Axe' TV series, it played on BBC1 in November. I saw it on the big screen at Broadway when it opened the London Film Festival, though, and was so blown away by it. It's a biopic about the trial of the Mangrove Nine which became the first judicial acknowledgement of racial hatred in the Metropolitan Police. The story couldn't feel more contemporary than it does in this #BlackLivesMatter year and, despite being made for TV, it looks more cinematic than most big-budget motion pictures.
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Classical costume tropes got a rock n' roll makeover back in March in Celine Sciamma's spellbinding period romance. It's the tale of a painter who falls for her subject and is an ecstatic expression of passion through art, a coolly contemporary musing on beauty from the eye of the beholder and a saucy manifesto on the female gaze. Contains some of the sexiest scenes of the year and the scariest singing sequence in living memory.
3. Rocks
Sarah Gavron truly established herself as the mistress of British feelgood realism with this warm, witty, wonderful coming-of-age drama about a group of teenage girls scrabbling to survive in the East End of London. This movie really captures all the glories and grotesqueries of growing up, has a genuine sense of light and dark and terrific breakthrough performances from Bukky Bakray and Nottingham's own Shaneigha-Monik Greyson. Brilliant stuff.
2. Clemency
Chinonye Chukwu's Death Row drama isn't an easy watch - it's the story of a veteran death row warden who develops an attachment to a convicted killer awaiting execution and features several horrific lethal injection scenes. It's extremely well-researched, though, and, beyond its death row trappings, is a universal story of what it means to stare into an abyss only for the abyss to stare back at you. Alfre Woodard gives a career-defining performance as the tortured warden, but special praise must also go to Aldis Hodge as the convicted killer and Wendell Pierce as Woodard's long-suffering husband.
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster with brains was expected to bring the crowds back to the cinema seats back in August. Sadly it didn't do that; scraping just $362.6 million against its $200 million budget. I just remember seeing it on a big, juicy IMAX screen and being utterly immersed by so many great moments - the inverted fistfights, the plane crash, the backwards car chase. This is what blockbuster cinema should be - immersive and intelligent. If you can spend millions of dollars making movies that are this complex and this clever, why would you not? I hope 'Tenet' wins big at the Oscars! It's one of my favourite cinematic experiences.
Meet Roshan Chandy
Freelance Film Critic and Writer based in Nottingham, UK. Specialises in Science Fiction cinema.
Roshan's Top 10 Best Films of 2020
3. Rocks
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
6. David Byrne's American Utopia
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
8. Calm with Horses
9. Saint Maud
10. Soul
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FILM OF THE WEEK
(PG, 97 Mins)
Pixar's latest is a lovely, jazzy look at life, death and the afterlife. Their best film since 'Inside Out' (2015).
DVD OF THE WEEK
David Byrne's American Utopia
(Blu-ray and DVD)
(12A, 105 Mins)
Even if you know nothing about David Byrne and couldn't care less about music, Spike Lee's concert film will uplift the soul.
TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK
(18, 127 Mins)
Tues 12th Jan., 9pm, Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror
God, Christianity and the Devil do battle in William Friedkin's terrifying adaptation of William Peter Blatty's bestseller. Scary and subversive.


The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will be launched in 2021 to provide measurements of the Sea Surface Topography at an unprecedented resolution of 1 km. For various operational applications, the SWOT community is preparing the assimilation of SWOT data into ocean circulation models. The assimilation of SWOT data will present challenges never faced before, because they come in form of images (instead of lines in existing nadir-viewing altimetry) and with a spatial resolution about 10 times higher than historical data.
The goal of the internship is to implement and experiment innovative data assimilation techniques recently developed in IGE/MEOM group and specifically designed for SWOT. This work carries a huge potential for future operational applications. The detailed work plan will be established with the candidate consistently with the project advances.


In the Mosinee Elementary School gym, a group of about ten 5th grade girls run the length of the court, dribbling with their left, then their right hands.
They're part of just one of Mosinee's many youth programs, teaching kids the fundamentals of sports early on.
Here, they're instilling a foundation, and a love of the game that will pay off for Mosinee athletics years down the road.
"You have to have a basketball in your hand more to get good at the sport of basketball," said Tom McCarty, Mosinee's girls varsity basketball coach.
The results are evident: The girls basketball team is in the hunt for a Great Northern Conference Title. The boys team is undefeated, sitting atop the GNC.
But the success isn't just coming on the hardwood.
The football team finished second in the GNC this year, while the boys soccer team came within a goal of earning a trip to state.
The girls volleyball team did make it to their state tournament, falling to East Troy in the state semifinals.
The volleyball program is just now starting to see the results of a youth program in their community.
"This is kinda that first group that we've had a whole high school that's gone through and participated in our youth program, so it's kinda nice to see them all come together and really pay off," said girls varsity volleyball coach Justin Jacobs.
For Jacobs, and really all of these programs, having kids play together for years before they get to the varsity level can pay big dividends.
"We can do just so much more offensively, because their IQ of the game is so much higher. We're running 4, 5 different free ball plays. We got a lot of different options in serve/receive. They just know the game so much better, and it opens up a lot for us," Jacobs said.
Those years together also means these athletes are all playing at a much higher level when they reach the varsity level.
"They just have a better understanding than in the past, when some of the things we were teaching to 9th and 10th graders, or even our varsity teams, these kids have been doing for years," said boys varsity basketball coach Andy Bruess.
"It's a major advantage, just from a basketball IQ standpoint. We see our kids understanding the game at a higher level, they're reacting to game situations. We don't have to coach as many specific situations cause they've seen them more," McCarty said.
Most communities boast some sort of youth program, so that in itself doesn't make Mosinee unique.
But what most in Mosinee say sets them apart, is the total buy in they've gotten from their community.
'I think it's the community support and the parent support we have. Like I said, if it was just the varsity coaches expected to do this on their own, we never could. And so we have great parents, great communities that step up and help us," McCarty said.


The Kingston UV500 240GB (mSATA) looks nothing like your traditional Serial ATA solid state drive, and this is because it is not your traditional solid state drive. If you are looking for one in traditional 2.5" form factor, please read our Kingston UV500 240GB (SATA) review. You can also get it in M.2 form. This version of the Kingston UV500 240GB we are reviewing is an mSATA format SSD. It works on the SATA interface interfaced through an AHCI driver, and plugs into compatible motherboards directly. If you are not familiar with mSATA drives, it is sized 50.8mm by 29.85mm by 4.85mm. The layout is fairly simple upon closer inspection of the blue printed circuit board. A label on the UV500 SSD itself carries miscellaneous information such as its certification logos, brand, capacity, and serial number. Like many flash storage solutions we have reviewed in the past, this Kingston drive is made in Taiwan. Removing the label in question will void your five-year warranty, but there is no real reason why you need to do that, haha.
Peeling the sticker back, and you can see what the Kingston UV500 240GB (mSATA) is made out of. There are few components on the side where there are components thanks to the use of high-density TLC memory. The heart of Kingston's UV500 240GB is the Marvell 88SS1074 controller. As the drive controller is fundamentally very important to any SSD, let us dig more into the details of its brain.
The four channel 28nm Marvell 88SS1074 is a fifth generation SATA controller designed for use with TLC flash memory. There is not a whole lot of information on this controller floating around; furthermore, different manufacturers choose different features to enable with their custom firmware. What we do know is it comes with all the usual features like DevSLP support and SLC caching. Basically, entire blocks of flash can be switched between SLC mode and MLC mode. Due to the simplicity of a pseudo-SLC configuration, write operation performance can be significantly increased. In its downtime, the data 'cached' in SLC mode will be permanently moved to MLC blocks. Obviously, if writing becomes a continuous operation, previously cached data will be moved into SLC blocks at the same time as incoming data. To protect against physical flash failure, an internal redundant parity scheme called RAIN, or redundant array of independent NAND, is implemented. As with many SSDs on the market today, the Kingston UV500 240GB has built in 256-bit hardware encryption that meets IEEE-1667 and TCG Opal 2.0 standards.
Flipping the Kingston UV500 240GB around, and you will find two of the four flash integrated circuit chips of interest. The chips used are Kingston branded flash memory labeled FH64B08UCT1-31 with a capacity of 64GB per integrated circuit chip. These are triple-level cells manufactured on 15nm fabrication process. Its rated write endurance is 100TB, which equates to about 55GB per day for five years. This is pretty good, considering it is more than some high end drives out there. 16GB out of the 256GB total capacity (Just under 7%) is provisioned for the drive controller for overhead, so the actual usable space is 240GB, as advertised. You will see 223GB in Windows. One Kingston D1216MCABXGGBS memory chip is present; used with the Marvell 88SS1074 controller to ensure smooth operation. The specified weight is a paltry 6.7g for the Kingston UV500 240GB.
Rated at 520MB/s read, 500MB/s write, up to 79,000 IOPS over SATA 6Gb/s, these figures are about right for a budget SATA SSD and are identical to all the other UV500 variants. Surprisingly, it slots a little bit below its predecessor, the UV400. To see how it translates to numbers in our benchmarks, we will pit it against all the drives we have tested in the past to see how this new budget drive from Kingston steps up against budget and mainstream drives in the next eight pages or so. Please note the mSATA version is electrically identical to the 2.5" SATA version, so both results are consolidated under SATA. The rated power consumption of Kingston's UV500 240GB is 195mW idle, 500mW average, 1.17W read, and 2.32W write, which, for the most part, is an improvement over the UV400.


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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan…rejected claims by two of the plaintiffs that he had prejudged the case…The judge said there was no objective reason to believe he had been "anything less than entirely impartial"…[In] March [Kaplan] issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Ecuadorean plaintiffs from enforcing the judgment, and set a [November] trial date to decide whether to make the injunction permanent. An Ecuadorean court had…imposed the $18 billion judgment as a result of environmental contamination from 1964 to 1992 by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001…In seeking Kaplan's recusal, lawyers said Kaplan showed bias…They said Kaplan viewed the litigation as "a scheme fabricated by the Ecuadorean plaintiffs' counsel to hit Chevron…" Kaplan said there was no basis for the contentions…


CHEYENNE, Wyo. (CBS4) – While popup fireworks stands continued to attract the business of many Coloradans, others made the trek north this weekend to Wyoming in search of something bigger.
"A lot of our customers come from Colorado," said Petra Goldberg, manager at Phantom Fireworks in Wyoming.
Two miles north of the state line, in a remote Wyoming parking lot, dozens of Colorado-plated vehicles drove customers to a massive supply of fireworks.
"It is the busiest time of the year," Goldberg said.
Phantom sells everything from $1 priced snappers to a $1,500 variety package.
Todd and his daughter Molly drove from Denver to purchase their fireworks. They wished not to provide their last names to CBS4.
Many of those traveling to Wyoming for fireworks plan to use them illegally in Colorado, often within the limits of the Denver metro area. However, Todd said his family sets the fireworks off on private land in a rural area, where it is legal.
"The boom is fun," Molly said.
With many breaking the laws in Colorado with the fireworks they purchase, many law enforcement agencies have ramped up patrols for illegal use of fireworks.
"Last year was probably the worst year in the 30 years I've been in law enforcement," said Adams County Sheriff Mike McIntosh.
McIntosh told CBS4's Dillon Thomas his department created a fireworks task force that was assigned to address climbing fireworks complaints within the county.
McIntosh said the county responded to more than 100 reports of illegal firework use on July 4, 2017. The heavy amount of calls throughout the first week of July took deputies away from patrols they could be enforcing elsewhere.
"If (a firework) leaves the ground, or if it explodes, it is illegal," McIntosh said.
McIntosh said that unless there are unique circumstances involved those contacted for illegal firework use would be warned. After they are warned, if deputies have to respond again, they would be cited.
Also, illegal fireworks that are not allowed in the county, as mentioned above, would be confiscated.
Todd and Molly said they would never fire off the mortars they purchased in Wyoming within city limits. They encouraged the others shopping among them to reconsider their fireworks usage, if they intended to break the law.
"Don't ruin it for everyone else. Be smart and safe," Molly said.
"(Fireworks on the 4th of July are) about making memories and spending time with family," Todd said.


J98 says that "the system was changed in Gen V" I do not understand, was it made that even your own Pokemon will not obey you if they are over leveled?
After the 8th gym badge all Pokemon obey you anyway, and even after the 7th badge a lvl 65 Emboar will obey.
J98 may have to answer exactly what he meant, but the only thing I can think is that the levels at which Pokemon obey from badges are slightly different in B/W.
Badge 8 = all Pokemon.
How does the Generation V exp system work?
What Gym Badges allow usage of specific HM's in White?
Do gym badges really raise your Pokemons stats?


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Q: How do I shield my Windows contacs from 3rd party software? On Windows 7 I am using the onboard Windows contacts solution for all my contacts that contain a lot of personal information which I dont want to spread.
Are those contacts read-protected against other programs I might install? If not, how would I protect that valuable information other than blocking all programs with a firewall?
On mobile systems, the contacts permission is always a big deal but is never mentioned for desktops, which is kind if strange.


Yeah, that's a pretty "come hither" look. I thought of it as snarky. Speaking of the End (of RotK).... When I post the screencaps for the desk scene (Frodo writing in the Red Book), I have been planning to do a mention/excerpt/plug for Star of the Sea. I think I asked you about that ages ago and you said it was O.K.
Thanks, Pearl. I'll hold you to it. :) I don't know when it would be, but now it's in the "creative hopper."