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TransferFix enables you to compare all transfer services between Les Houches and all the airports that service Les Houches. Depending on your needs, you can choose either a shared airport transfer service or a private one.
The comparison services of TransferFix provides you with real-time availability and pricing, meaning that you can buy your preferred service in two quick and easy steps.
TransferFix offers airport transfers to and from Les Houches in low cost shared transfers, mid-priced private transfers and premium private luxury limousine transfers.
Using TransferFix comparison services when booking your airport transfer to or from Les Houches is convenient and time-saving. And you won't have to worry about any additional cost, as the carrier companies are obliged by contracts to offer the same prices in TransferFix as they do on their own websites.
Transferfix is not available only in Les Houches. Compare and book airport transfers with Transferfix, in many alpine resorts, such as Sallanches, Megève or Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains.
Journey Times & Distances from Airports to Les Houches
From Geneva airport (GVA), the transfer to Les Houches takes approximately 1h 10m.
The distance from Geneva airport (GVA) to Les Houches is 90 km or 56 miles.
From Lyon airport (LYS), the transfer to Les Houches takes approximately 2h 10 m.
The distance from Lyon airport (LYS) to Les Houches is 212 km or 132 miles.
From Milan airport (MXP), the transfer to Les Houches takes approximately 2h 40 m.
The distance from Milan airport (MXP) to Les Houches is 237 km or 147 miles.
From Turin airport (TRN), the transfer to Les Houches takes approximately 2h 5 m.
The distance from Turin (TRN) airport to Les Houches is 175 km or 109 miles.
From Chambéry Airport (CMF), the transfer to Les Houches takes approximately 1h 25 m.
The distance from Chambéry Airport (CMF) to Les Houches is 132 km or 82 miles.
Transferfix compares services within the tourism sector and it allows for a selection of a service, order a service or pay for it, online and directly to the licensed transportation provider.
Shared Transfers to and from Les Houches
Shared transfers are an excellent low-cost option. You will be delivered to, or collected from your hotel, chalet or apartment, regardless of where you are staying in Les Houches. You will be sharing the vehicle with other people that will be collected from or dropped off at different locations in Les Houches.
You might have to wait for more passengers to be collected from the airport or the vehicle might travel through Les Houches to drop other tourists before you. This might increase the journey time, but always you will be notified in advance of your actual pick-up time.
On the other hand, you might just get lucky, with all passengers coming off the same flight, or flights landing within minutes of each other, and drop-offs in Les Houches might be close together, or you might be last to join the mini-bus and first to be dropped-off in Les Houches.
Either way, a bit of "give and take" is required when travelling in a shared vehicle and, provided that you keep a relaxed attitude, the shared transfer experience is a pleasant and economical way to get to your favourite ski resort. By choosing a seat in a shared vehicle you save money and leave a lower carbon trail.
TransferFix offers shared transfers to and from Les Houches throughout the whole year.
Transferfix offers shared transfers to and from Megève throughout the year.
What happens if my flight is delayed?
TransferFix is in the process of contracting with all of the carriers so that you might be able to benefit from transportation on the next available mini-bus.
Private transfers to and from Les Houches
TransferFix offers a great variety of private transfers from many different airports to Les Houches.
When you book your private transfer online, you receive an instant confirmation via e-mail or text message and your driver will meet you at the airport.
With TransferFix and a private ride to or from Les Houches, you can enjoy the privacy of a taxi service while paying less money than a premium luxury limousine service.
And don't worry! If your flight is delayed, your driver will still be at the airport to meet you when you arrive.
About Les Houches
Les Houches is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.
The village is located only 6 km away from the famous French ski resort, Chamonix, and it is a traditional French farming village which encompasses 152 km of ski pistes.
Les Houches assisted in the organization of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and it is home to the world renowned physics summer school, the École de Physique des Houches.
Les Houches is the starting and finishing point of the Tour du Mont-Blanc, a 7 to 10 days walk around the base of the Mont-Blanc massif.
From the village, you can take the Prarion lift to get up to the Prarion Plateau (1,900 m), from where you can enjoy the breathtaking scenery of Mont-Blanc.
You can also take the Bellevue cable car from Les Houches, which will take you to the Bellevue plateau (1,800 m), from where you choose from many hiking trails in unique landscapes.
The commune is a beautiful ski resort that will definitely appease everyone, regardless of their ski competence or even if they would like to enjoy other activities besides skiing.
Skiing in Les Houches
The ski area of Les Houches extends from an altitude of 950m to 1900m and it combines long and gentle descents with fascinating views of the mighty Mont-Blanc and the Chamonix valley.
Due to its gentle and long descents and the tree-lined runs, Les Houches is the perfect ski vacation destination for beginners and intermediates.
However, besides its four green runs (learner's level), five blue runs (beginners) and 12 red runs (intermediates), in Les Houches you will also find one international black run for advanced skiers, which is used for the annual international event, the Kandahar run, which is part of the Men's Downhill World Cup Ski Championships. The black run will definitely be challenging enough even for the most experienced skiers.
And you shouldn't worry about the lack of snow when in Les Houches! The village has a new network of 67 snow canons covering 19 hectares which provides artificial snow coverage, so you can fully enjoy skiing!
Les Houches has been aiming for years at becoming an ideal family resort, which they succeeded, as they have been awarded the "Familie plus Montagne" certificate by the French government.
Almost every activity is designed with the purpose of being entertaining for everyone, regardless of their age. Also, Les Houches provided excellent family discounts, for example, the "tribu" ski pass for three to five people (two adults and one to three kids), which is cheaper than the usual price.
The Spa des Granges d'en Haut has 600 square meters and it is one of the best spas in the whole Chamonix valley. This state-of-the-art spa offers an indoor swimming pool, hammam, sauna, Jacuzzi, fitness room and four individual treatment rooms for massage and other treatments.
Les Houches has another modern spa - The Spa et Beauté Montagne – which provides many services as well.
There are many nice small to mid-sized restaurants in Les Houches, most of them serving local dishes and providing great views over the Mont-Blanc massif. Such two restaurants are the Hors Piste and Les Vieilles Luges.
There are a couple of nice cosy bars in Les Houches, but as the village is centred on families, you won't have too many options. However, you can arrive in Chamonix in ten minutes by bus and the bus runs until midnight.
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Critics say Book's political clout gives Lauren's Kids an unfair advantage over hundreds of applicants vying for state discretionary funds.
"There are so many things this money could be used for," said Vicky Henry, a national advocate against sexual offender registration laws. "Take some of that $3.8 million and give more to school districts or church and scout organizations."
Lauren Book, chief executive of Lauren's Kids, said her nonprofit is on the same playing field as others seeking state funds.
"I believe the process is highly competitive," Book said in an email. "Projects receive intense scrutiny; first in budget subcommittees, then in full committees, on the floors of the chambers, and in joint budget conference committees. Following all of that, an appropriation is vetted by the governor's staff, and must withstand the gubernatorial veto process."
Book, who was sexually and physically abused by her nanny for six years starting at age 11, founded Lauren's Kids in 2007. Her father, Ron Book — an attorney who counts the Miami Dolphins, the GEO Group prison company and dozens of cities and counties as clients — is the organization's chairman. Last year, his firm collected $5 million in lobbying fees, state records show.
Grants aren't the only way government helps fund Lauren's Kids. Miami-Dade and Broward counties facilitate individual $1 donations by including a box for people to check on their car registration renewal forms. Lauren's Kids also has its own state-approved specialty Florida license plate, from which it collects $25 from each sale, according to its website. Lauren's Kids tax returns show that from 2011-2013 those $1 car registration renewal donations brought in more than $700,000. How much revenue has been generated by the specialty license tags, approved by the Legislature in 2013, was not available.
Lauren Book's most publicized annual event is "Walk In My Shoes," a 1,500-mile trek across Florida from Key West to the steps of the old state Capitol building. It's also a favorite of elected officials.
Book completed her sixth walk on April 22. Joining her at the Capitol were dozens of child sex-abuse victims and their families, her father and a lineup of powerful Republicans and Democrats. They included Scott, Lopez-Cantera, Senate President Andy Gardiner, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Sen. Bill Montford, a Tallahassee Democrat and vice chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Education.
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Lauren Book, who has hinted at a run for office, formed a political action committee last September called Leadership For Broward that has collected $525,257, mostly from her father's clients, including $100,000 from the Miami Dolphins.
Lauren's Kids' most recent tax returns show it received government grants of $486,116 in 2011, $1.6 million in 2012, and $1.1 million in 2013. Most of the combined $2.8 million was from the state.
The organization has yet to file its tax return for 2014, but Book confirmed previous media reports that Lauren's Kids received $3.8 million from the Legislature last year.
The 29-year-old Book's annual salary is on a similar upward trajectory, rising from nearly $68,000 in 2011 to $95,000 in 2013.
From 2011-13, Lauren's Kids collected $1.4 million in private contributions, more than half coming from the $1 donations via car registration renewals. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in other revenue has come through special events and the sale from books, including Lauren Book's self-published memoir, It's Ok to Tell.
Book says the bulk of Lauren's Kids revenue has been used to create and maintain an educational program called "Safer, Smarter Kids" that trains public school teachers and child caretakers throughout the state on how to identify signs of sexual child abuse and how to report cases to authorities.
Originally targeted to children in pre-kindergarten to third grade, the program has expanded to educate kids in fourth and fifth grades, as well as adolescents in middle and high school. To implement the program, Lauren's Kids hired Tallahassee advertising firm Sachs Media Group, which was paid a total of $1.6 million between 2011 and 2013. Sachs produces webinars, program materials such as brochures, palm cards and a mobile app, and a 30-minute TV program that was aired on network affiliate television stations throughout Florida, among other media services.
Lauren's Kids also paid $219,000 to the Monique Burr Foundation in Jacksonville for acting as a go-between with schools participating in the Safer, Smarter Kids program. It paid another $142,000 to the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence for staffing a crisis hotline and developing training materials and conducting training sessions for 15 school districts.
As a result of her organization's educational program, tens of thousands of Florida children now know to report incidents of sexual abuse, Book said.
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(A Brief Note Foreword Note from Niagara At Large reporter and publisher Doug Draper – The following news release, along with a detailed report, was released by the Ontario Ombudsman's Office at 9:30 a.m. this Wednesday, July 18th.
The news release and report are the products of a lengthy investigation the Ombudsman's Office launched following the seizure of the computers and notes of St. Catharines Standard reporter Bill Sawchuk and Niagara area blogger Preston Haskell by Niagara regional officials at the Region's headquarters this past December.
Toronto, Ontario – Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé today (July 18th, 2018) called on the Regional Municipality of Niagara to apologize publicly to a local journalist and a citizen blogger for seizing their property and ejecting them from a council meeting last December. The region's actions were unreasonable, unjust, wrong and contrary to law, Mr. Dubé's investigation found.
The Ombudsman is an independent, impartial officer of the Ontario legislature, established in 1975, who resolves and investigates public complaints about individual and systemic administrative issues related to provincial government bodies and municipalities, universities and school boards.
The Ombudsman been investigating complaints about closed municipal meetings since 2008 and general complaints about municipalities since 2016. Of the more than 7,600 general complaints received about municipalities since January 1, 2016, most have been resolved without need for formal investigation;.this case is the Ombudsman's fifth formal investigation of a municipality.
To read the Ombudsman's full report on this matter, click on – https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/Media/ombudsman/ombudsman/resources/Reports-on-Investigations/PressPauseFinal-ENJuly2018.pdf .
There is a group in Council who want to control everything to their advantage. Anyone who either questions or speaks out against them is "tarred and feathered ". Niagara voters need to replace this oligarchy with members who care about the Region.
Why don't they get it? We live in a society of laws and not men. All of the dirty men should resign.
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My writing pursuits have been forged largely in the fires of live theatre where, for thirty years, I have participated as an actor, director and playwright. Four of my stage plays have been produced locally and one in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Over the years I have produced more than a dozen original radio dramas plus radio adaptations of famous classical scripts like Oedipus Rex and Macbeth. Such fun! Really, there is nothing more rewarding than doing live radio drama. Try it, you'll love it!
All of my radio dramas were broadcast locally on Kootenay Co-op Radio. A few received additional airing on NPR stations in Minneapolis and Santa Fe (407 Arachne, The Chat and The Non-Resident) 407 Arachne, produced in 1999 by Minneapolis's Jerry Stearns, won the Mark Time Award which is given annually to the best work of science fiction in audio drama. Three other audio scripts of mine can be found in MRTW/NAFT script books.
In recent years I have focused my attention more and more on writing fiction. My short stories and poetry can be found in a variety of publications (Winners' Circle 8 & 9, Open Window IV, Oval Victory, Horsefly, the Elephant Mountain Review and The New Orphic Review). My story Sun Dancer won the 2009 Okanagan short story contest. In 2011 Badlands won the fiction prize in the Kootenay Literary Competition. In 2018 my short story Past Due won the Tisdale Writing Group prize for fiction.
In 2013 my novella, Eta Carinae, was published as an e-book by Vagabondage Press and is available online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc. My short story Black Friday can be found on the Strange Fictions website.
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Q. Two S Corporations have the same shareholders. Can each S Corporation take a Section 179 deduction?
A Section 179 states that if a corporation is a member of a controlled group, the $24,000 limitation and the $200,000 placed-in-service limitation must be apportioned among the members of the group. The controlled group is treated as one taxpayer for purposes of the taxable income limitations. IRC Section 1563 uses a 50 percent stock ownership test to define a controlled group. However, under Regulation 1.1563-1 an S Corporation is not clearly defined as a member of a controlled group and may be excluded. One author defined an included S Corporation as one that is subject to the built-in gains tax. The same author defined an excluded corporation as one that is not subject to the built-in gains tax and is not required to apportion the Section 179 limitations. There is not enough case law to follow and, therefore, proceed cautiously with applying the 179 to both S Corporations.
Q. Please explain further the details of the new, additional 30 percent deduction for depreciation included in the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002.
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No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every Friday for new suggestions from our TV critic on what to watch.
This Weekend I Have … 3 Hours, and I Like Stoner Jokes and Fantasy
'Wasted,' Hulu
Fair warning: The six-episode "Wasted" can be crude, and it includes non-negligible amounts of vomit and talk of genitals. But! It's also darling and hilarious, a rom-com by way of party-hard British humor. Our hero, Morpheus (Danny Kirrane), is a lovable schlub who, along with his pals, drinks and takes drugs an awful lot. During one bender, while getting a tattoo of Westeros, he has a vision of Sean Bean from "Game of Thrones" in full Ned Stark garb, who then becomes his "spirit guide," generally advising him on how to be less of a dope around women. Fans of "The Inbetweeners," "Fresh Meat" or "Peep Show," this is for you. (Add it to your Watchlist.)
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… 5 Hours, and I Like Comedy With a Twist
'The Detour,' Hulu
This underappreciated road trip comedy from TBS returns for its second season next month. Use this time to watch the 10-episode first season, now streaming, which initially seems like a slightly naughty single-camera, family-set comedy. It's more, though: The dad character (Jason Jones) is secretly on the run from the F.B.I., which adds a layer of danger to the proceedings. Although there are child characters, this is not a show for young viewers. It's much closer to "30 Rock" than to "Modern Family." (.)
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Two students in the Australian outback crash into a mysterious truck, and footage of the accident makes its way to an ambitious journalist — and his hacker brother. This 2014 series has all the hallmarks of a well-done contemporary political thriller: a secret industry with ties to high-ranking government officials; poor people that can be paid off by said shadowy organizations; lots of typing while characters say, "I'm in"; pistol-whipping and torture; an anxiety-building score; and a handful of familiar faces (Lucy Lawless; Aden Young of "Rectify"). If you like slick British or Scandinavian dramas, try this. (.)
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Suicide: Lover's life shortened by poisonous drug near crocodile's edge
Mass Suicide: Near the crocodile edge of Gadhda, a lover took a poisonous drug, shortened his life, decided not to live together and decided to die together.
The young man belongs to the late area of Gadhi's Samathi and the young woman belongs to the bank area of Vokli
Premipankhida near Magariadhar on the opposite bank of Gadha had shortened the life of the poisonous drug P. Crowds of people rushed to the spot and informed the police. Police have shifted the bodies of the two to the hospital for PM and are conducting further investigations. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the young man and the young woman decided to die together if they had a love affair and could not live together.
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Police shifted the bodies of the two to the hospital for PM to conduct further investigation
In the Magariadhar area of Gadda, young men and women have shortened their lives by taking poisonous drugs together. The deceased has not been identified. A police convoy rushed to the spot and took necessary action and shifted the bodies of the two to the hospital for postmortem. It is learned that the two have decided to die together as they are in love and cannot live together.
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The father had shortened his life with his son and daughter in Vartej 1 month ago
A month ago, Lalabhai Nagjibhai Chohan (age 30), who was living and working at Navagam under Vartej police station in Bhavnagar, had been having a domestic dispute with his wife for some time. When their financial situation was a bit weak, there were frequent quarrels between husband and wife.
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After the last quarrel, his wife Risai left her pier and after explaining, Lalabhai did not return. Unable to go out of business and his wife was angry, which made him tired. The first two children were tied to an iron pipe in the roof of the house and strangled, after which they too died after being trapped.
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Accept and work within the object and the mission of the BB and abide by the policies that underpin the work.
Fulfil the role they accepted when recruited and let the company captain know if for any reason they can't do so.
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Q: DIY distortion pedal help I'm trying to design a guitar distortion pedal, though it is not working as expected.
The built circuit behaves differently than the simulated LTspice model.
I currently do not have access to a scope, so right now I have no idea what's going wrong.
For some reason when I use the test pedal, the only distortion comes from the op-amp (clipping at the rails), however I would like for it to clip from the diodes.
I'm not too sure what's going on.  If the voltage is high enough to reach the rails, it should clip from the diodes, and this is also what happens on spice.
Any help as to why this is happening would be much appreciated.
The circuit left of "in" simulates the guitar pickup, and the last resistor simulates the amplifier (roughly.)

A: The input stage makes little sense for a guitar pickup input.
It needs to be AC coupled and then the amplifier side biased to half supply.
Note that guitar pickup input stages are somewhat special as they need to provide a certain load impedance which also means not just resistive but capacitive loading too. Due to high gain there should usually be some RF suppression.
There should be plenty of examples like guitar amps with schematics how to build a guitar input stage, but defining which is the best way to do it depends on case and opinion.

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Washington, DC – As North Carolina communities grapple with the fallout from flooding during Hurricane Florence, community groups and an allied national coalition filed a legal complaint in federal court Sept. 28, challenging a Trump administration policy that exempts animal feeding operations from having to report emissions under a federal emergency planning and right-to-know law.
At the heart of the matter are two environmental laws – the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Both require reporting of releases of hazardous substances that meet or exceed reportable quantities within a 24-hour period in order for federal, state, and local officials to evaluate the need for an emergency response to mitigate the effects of a release to the community.
Back in December 2008, the EPA published a final rule that exempted all farms from reporting hazardous substance air releases from animal waste under CERCLA. Only large CAFOs were subject to EPCRA reporting.
Several citizen groups challenged the validity of the final rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals and, in April 2017, the court vacated the final rule.
In March 2018, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Omnibus Bill) was signed into law, a section of which – known as the Fair Agricultural Reporting Method Act (FARM Act) – amended CERCLA to exempt air emissions from animal waste at a farm from reporting under CERCLA.
Accordingly, on August 1, 2018, EPA published a final rule revising the CERCLA reporting regulations to incorporate the FARM Act's amendments to CERCLA.
Based on the criteria for EPCRA release reporting, the EPA maintains that air emissions from animal waste at farms do not need to be reported under EPCRA.
REACH and Sound Rivers are being represented by the nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice and are joined by Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Food Safety, Don't Waste Arizona, Environmental Integrity Project, Food & Water Watch, Humane Society of the United States, Sierra Club, and Waterkeeper Alliance in the complaint.


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Q: How to make a really basic reference? I'm trying to make a really basic reference.
Let's say I have theses lines in my document :
Lorem Ipsum ...
Lorem Ipsum ... [1] here ... Lorem Ipsum ...
Lorem Ipsum ...

I want to anywhere in my document make a reference to [1] here.
I thought it would be simple to find out but I searched for too long and I got confused with all the sets and making a simple reference now seems to be like rocket-science to me.

I want the following result :

When clicking on the colored number 1, the line [1] here get at the top of my document viewer so the user feels easy to find the line directly.

A: The hyperref package provides the pair of commands
\hypertarget{<name>}{<text>}
\hyperlink{<name>}{<text>}

for the creation of cross-references that are independent from counters. They are analogues of \label and \ref, respectively. Here's an example:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[breaklinks=true]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

Go to the \hyperlink{lip}{second}, or  \hyperlink{lipsys}{third} paragraph.
\newpage
The first hyperlink brings you \hypertarget{lip}{here.}
\newpage
The second hyperlink brings you \hypertarget{lipsys}{here.}

\end{document}

On the other hand, if you wish associate cross-references to a counter, you can try using the following declarations:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{etoolbox}

\usepackage[breaklinks=true,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}

\newrobustcmd*{\foo}[1]{{\refstepcounter{bar}\label{#1}\thebar}}

\newcounter{bar}
\renewcommand{\thebar}{\textcolor{black}{[}\arabic{bar}\textcolor{black}{]}}

\begin{document}

Go to \ref{lipsys}, and \ref{lip}.
\newpage
The second hyperlink brings you \foo{lip} here.
\newpage
The first hyperlink brings you \foo{lipsys} here.

\end{document}

In the example above, \foo{<key>} (1) globally increments the counter bar, (2) maps the key to the current reference string, and (3) prints the value of bar. \textcolor{black}{...} is used to override the formatting applied by the hyperref package (otherwise it's typeset in the same colour as the counter).


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Tracking venues: Christmas edition
Anton Ferrie
Theatre Columnist
The GG have your Christmas fix sorted, as we share the upcoming (virtual) theatre schedules of The Citizens Theatre and National Theatre Scotland for this festive season.
As a vaccine-coloured light appears at the end of a long, dark tunnel, Glasgow theatre continues to diversify.
Though occupying theatres en masse still seems a while away, audiences can get a fix of performance from two weegie powerhouses.
The Citizens Theatre has confirmed that a filmed version of Fibres, which received rave reviews when mounted at the end of last year, will be available online from Wednesday 25 November 2020 at 7pm. Tickets are free, and the film will be available for one month, making this the perfect festive night in.
National Theatre of Scotland has gone above and beyond, with a slate of digital offerings that run the gamut of genre, and brim with homegrown talent, including Johnny McKnight, Jackie Kay, and Janey Godley.
It seems appropriate that artistic director Jackie Wylie, who cut her teeth leading The Arches, is steering the ship in these unprecedented times; her experimental chops come to the fore as she serves audiences nothing less than an online festival of theatre over the holiday season, spreading joy from 13 December right through to New Year's Day. Rapunzel: a Christmas show for online and cinema audiences from Scottish panto legend Johnny McKnight, filmed at Stirling Castle, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland.
Selected cinemas, 22 December 2020. Available online 23 December 2020.
Makar to Cracker: the return of Jackie Kay's soulful poetry and music offering for the festive season.
17 December 2020 and 28 January 2021.
Alone III and IV: two brand new festive episodes of Alone, Janey Godley's online viral drama about Betty and Bobo.
Part III 26 December 2020, Part VI 31 December 2020.
A Queen's Speech: a very special alternative online message on Christmas Day from Dame of the Realm, Paige Ootabook, aka Johnny McKnight.
25 December 2020, 3pm.
A chance to win your own fairy tale experience whilst helping to raise money for the National Theatre of Scotland's Future Fund.
In conjunction with the launch of Rapunzel, NTS are also offering audiences the chance to win your own fairytale experience - inviting donations of £10 to be entered into a prize draw. All proceeds will go to NTS Future Fund, set up in the wake of Covid-19 to combat the devastation felt by the arts sector, and invest in new work and projects on the Scottish theatrical landscape.
Support the arts by having a very merry, jolly, and theatrical Christmas!
The battle for Christmas number one
If you do one thing this month…
Tracking venues: The Citizens Theatre


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The Constitutionality of Killing al-Awlaki
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In light of the recent news that the CIA has killed al-Awlaki, I thought I'd flag my essay at CATO entitled "The Federal Protective Power and Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens"
Here is an excerpt:
My reading of the Constitution leads me to believe that there are circumstances when the president may order U.S. citizens to be killed. It may be akin to the facts in al-Awlaki, where one is actively making war against the United States, or it may be in lesser circumstances that threaten the instruments of federal power. Let's start with a settled example where a killing was authorized to protect the federal government. In Cunningham v. Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890), the Court addressed the killing of a U.S. citizen by Neagle, a federal marshal who was dispatched to protect Justice Field from an anticipated assault. While on a railroad dining car, the assault occurred (as expected) and Neagle reacted by killing the assailant with two pistol shots; Neagle was subsequently arrested on homicide charges and held for trial. The question the Court addressed was whether Neagle, acting upon orders but not a statute, had authority to kill a man in defense of Justice Field. The Court found that Neagle was acting pursuant to lawful authority, because the President was entitled to authorize protection for a sitting Supreme Court Justice. Justice Miller wrote:
That there is a peace of the United States; that a man assaulting a judge of the United States while in the discharge of his duties violates that peace; that in such case the marshal of the United States stands in the same relation to the peace of the United States which the sheriff of the county does to the peace of the State of California; are questions too clear to need argument to prove them.
While the Court characterized the questions as "too clear to need argument to prove them" this was in fact the first time the Court ever articulated what was long thought to exist—a federal protective power. The Court went on to explain that the structure of the Constitution itself suggested there was an inherent executive power to protect federal officers in the discharge of their duties.
Neagle was reinforced five years later in In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895), a case involving the attorney general's attempts to prohibit interference with interstate commerce. In Debs the Court noted that the president was acting on inherent powers embedded in the Constitution and existing statutes, both of which allowed him to act as the primary agent of the national government to "prevent any unlawful and forcible interference" with interstate commerce. The Court went on to state that the president could use "the entire strength of the nation" including "the army of the Nation, and all its militia" to protect interstate commerce. Moreover, the Court cited numerous English and state authorities for the proposition that "when the choice is between redress or prevention of injury by force and by peaceful process, the law is well pleased if the [Executive] will consent to waive his right to the use of force and await [the law's] action," (emphasis mine) but such waiver is not constitutionally required. The import of Neagle and Debs is perhaps best summarized by the dissent in the Steel Seizure case, "[t]he Executive is authorized to exert the power of the United States when he finds this necessary for the protection of the agencies, the instrumentalities, or the property of the Government."
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Q: Is there any documentation for EasyPost that shows the raw JSON for the requests, including headers? Or e.g. a PostMan collection? I'm just doing the preparation for an integration with EasyPost's Shipping API, which will be server side C#, but we always build a PostMan collection for new integrations, so that we can test data separately from the application if there's an issue.
While I do love the fact that EP provide C# libraries and examples, I'm struggling to find anything that just gives me a list of required headers and the raw JSON format for the body of any requests. It feels a bit like they're just being a little too helpful.
I'll be looking at the Orders endpoint probably.
I've got an account, I've checked all their documentation and searched the internet but haven't found anything so I'm hoping I'm not the first developer to want to use a client application for testing outside my code.

A: Update:
EasyPost now does have a public workspace https://www.postman.com/easypost-api
with at least 1 public collection

A: The curl examples are basically the same as json:
For the Address creation example:
-d "address[street1]=417 MONTGOMERY ST"

is the equivalent of
{ "address": { "street1": "417 MONTGOMERY ST" } }

(you might have to escape some characters to be valid json).
Check out How to stimulate cURL request to a request using postman for postman with HTTP Basic Auth.

A: EasyPost does not provide a public Postman collection; however, here is an example of a shipment Postman body (raw) that could be used. You can adjust the values, actions, objects, etc to your needs.
Using the following, you shouldn't need to pass any headers. You'll pass your API key under the username field with the Basic Auth authorization type.
{
    "shipment": {
        "to_address": {
            "id": "adr_123..."
        },
        "from_address": {
            "id": "adr_123..."
        },
        "parcel": {
            "id": "prcl_123..."
        },
        "carrier_accounts": {
            "id": "ca_123..."
        },
        "options": {
            "address_validation_level": "0"
        }
    },
    "format": "json",
    "controller": "shipments",
    "action": "create"
}


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RV & Van Living in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado
Published: April 15, 2019 Updated: March 30, 2020
Photos by Nathan @ Wand'rly
"So, why did you decide to build your cabin in Durango?" a family member asks us one day as we're toiling away at digging a well.
"Well," I reply with the short version, "it's the best place to live and explore in the United States." Bold statement, for sure, but after ten years of traveling the US and otherwise we've seen nearly every cool little town this country has to offer. But, we weren't just basing our decision on one town. It was about the entire region.
For example, the Oregon Coast is one of our favorite places to travel, so much so that we cooked our second son in Manzanita and he was born in Astoria, Oregon. However, there is essentially one road–and a fine road it is indeed–US 101. You can drive up and down it, but there's very little in the way of offshoots. You quickly get used to that drive. Not to mention it takes several hours to end up anywhere with conveniences greater than a grocery store. So say you need a new pair of pants or some shoes for the kiddos, well, it's going to be a roadtrip.
Hip towns like Bisbee, Arizona, which could easily have been a contender if we were solely basing our decision on the town itself. But it's a long drive to anywhere from there. I could go on in a similar fashion about a dozen or two more places in the country.
We wanted nature, community, solitude, a small town with a decent city nearby, and adventure in every direction you could go. Affordability and a ski mountain across the street certainly didn't hurt.
These are attributes that Durango holds in abundance, and which continue to flow throughout the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. It's a world where you can escape the snow of winter by driving 30 minutes south, or watch the leaves change in succession as you gain thousands of feet in elevation while driving the Million Dollar Highway from Silverton to Ouray. Fancy shops and food can be had in Telluride or free desert camping outside of Mancos.
New Mexico's endless desert expands to the south, Utah's red rocks to the west, and a plethora of national parks and charming towns can be found in abundance throughout the rest of Colorado to the north and east. Let's explore everything the San Juan Mountains have to offer as we loop them in our modern day vanlife. We'll break it all up into regions and highlight our favorites as we go.
Oh, and are you into pushing wood? Skateboarding that is. We'll highlight all of the skateparks in the loop as well, because, you know, skating is super rad.
Durango is that perfect, not too big, not too small type of city where you could still get to know your local barista or bartender's name, but there's enough variety that you don't find yourself in the same places over and over again. It also has a few big box stores like Walmart and Home Depot should you need such amenities.
Tarpley RV is your go-to shop for RV supplies. You can also camp for free in the Walmart parking lot, though it's definitely a grey area as to whether this particular Wally World is giving permission or just looking the other way. People have been ejected for overstaying their welcome, though granted these are mostly homeless people living out of their cars as opposed to vanlifers and RVers choosing to live out of their rigs. As usual, don't put out the camp chairs and keep it low key and you should have no problem. We've utilized this parking lot five or six times without issue, but only pulled up when we were ready to go to bed and didn't let the kids get a game of wiffleball going or anything like that.
There's definitely an old-time feeling to Durango, particularly Main Street, where a small two lane street divides breweries, Western apparel, a skate shop, multiple vape shops, and restaurants galore…with almost no chain stores directly on Main Street at all. People are more or less friendly but it's already grown to the size–and welcomes enough tourists–where everyone doesn't say hi to everyone else anymore.
There are a handful of RV parks in town and Durango is surrounded by the San Juan National Forest, so boondocking–particularly for vans and truck campers–is abundant. You'll notice, even in the winter, a healthy share of truck campers and vans clearly meant for living in strutting around town, as well. While much of downtown Durango's streets have parking meters–parking in the downtown business district overnight will get you towed–there are plenty of legit places to park for the night if you want to remain in town and can keep it down so you're not obviously living out of your vehicle and raising a stir amongst less forward thinking locals. There's even an official campground with a handful of spots offering water and electric at the in-town fairgrounds, which puts you within walking or biking distance of everything Durango proper has to offer.
Some of our favorite things about Durango include Maria's Bookshop on Main Street, downtown, and Durango Outdoor Exchange–a used gear shop–still on Main Street, but a mile or so north along the stretch of Main that isn't in the historic downtown area.
Best Places to Camp near Durango, Colorado
For vanlifers and RVers alike, Durango has a myriad of options when it comes to pitching your proverbial tent-on-wheels.
Should you like or need full-hookups, United Campgrounds of Durango is just north of town, and backs up to the historic steam train that runs from Durango to Silverton, Colorado. That means some noise, but we tend to see it as more of a novelty than annoyance. You can catch a trolly (this is the northernmost stop) that'll take you to downtown and back for $1. This is a full service RV park with showers, a pool, picnic tables and so on. You can also stay in the La Plata County Fairgrounds (call 970-382-6468 before 5pm, and typically a day or three in advance) which is much more bare bones, has hookups but no sewer, and puts you significantly closer to downtown, as mentioned above.
Otherwise, if you don't mind driving to town, Lightner Creek Campground and Cabins, west of town, and the Durango KOA east of town are both about a 10 minute drive back to Main Street.
For free camping near Durango we have two favorite spots. Twenty five minutes west of town, Madden Peak Road has ample places to tuck yourself away in fairly large gamble oaks, some with pretty good views, while just ten minutes east of town BLM land by the name of Durfield places you in the desert, more sparsely surrounded by pinyon pines. Both places have decent cell service should you need it (and better than some of the private RV parks above, actually.)
Free camping at Madden Peak, east of Durango, Colorado.
For a truly forested experience, with or without electric, you can check out the forest service's Junction Creek, where you'll camp in towering ponderosa pines, with a fire pit and picnic table, vault toilets and little to no service on your personal handheld communication device.
Recreational Pursuits in Durango
What to do once you're all setup and ready to explore? Durango, like most of Colorado in general, is big on outdoor recreation. Trails galore surround the city for hiking, biking, dog walking and the like. There is no shortage of playgrounds for the kiddos, and the further from town you go, the more experiences open up.
Some of our favorites are floating the Animas River (plenty of tube and kayak rental places can be found, including shuttle services) which is a pretty mild float. North of town, a place by the name of Baker's Bridge is an excellent swimming hole where you can make some pretty large leaps into the water below–just be sure to check with locals–preferably at an outdoor shop–before going, as the river is not always deep enough to pursue such falls. Even if you don't want to launch from heights unnatural into the water below, it's a beautiful place to dip your feet in the water, let the kiddos have a swim, and pack out every last piece of trash (the trash can is going to be overflowing, so plan to bring it back to town and drop it off at an available garbage can somewhere) as you picnic on the rocks.
Baker's Bridge, just north of Durango, Colorado.
Durango is also home to a fairly large skatepark. Two bowls of varying sizes, a pyramid / fun box and large quarter pipe await. Expect to share the park with others–including BMXers and razor scoot kids–as the park is not only popular, but along the trail that lines the river, so it attracts significant attention. The Boardhaus downtown can help with any gear you might need, or there's (surprisingly) a Zoomies in the dying shopping mall on the Walmart side of town.
Things to Do with the Kiddos in Durango
Traveling with youngsters? While any of the recreational activities above are golden for grandpas and grandkids alike, give the whippersnappers some scientifical learnin' at Powerhouse Science Center, along the river trail opposite the skatepark (ie, across the river) near downtown Durango.
Our kids explore Durango's Powerhouse Science Center.
The city's Rec Center (near the La Plata County Fairgrounds if you choose to camp there) boasts a rock climbing wall, swimming pool with tube slides, showers and a plethora of indoor sports from basketball to pickleball. Free WiFi can be had as well, and it's about $6 a person to get in.
There's also an excellent local ice cream shop by the name of the Cream Bean Berry on Main Street, where smiling staff will happily allow your kiddos to taste samples before making the plunge, and they offer nitro cold brew coffees for those larger humans who aren't necessarily into ice cream (weirdos!)
One portion of the swimming pool at the Durango Recreation Center.
Our Favorite Haunts in Durango, Colorado
While not necessarily a culinary bastion, Durango has a plethora of restaurants, from upscale Mexican to authentic New Mexican, French to Himalayan. Noting that we're often partial to breweries and Mexican food, ourselves, here are some of our favorite places to restock your calories.
Carver Brewing Companh claims to be Durango's first brewery and it's a cool, fairly standard restaurant style location with plenty of seating inside, a patio out back, and a small bar on the sidewalk where you can people watch the day away. I go with the Main Street or Vapor Trail IPA, but they have a great Bloody Mary and no doubt their other beers provide something for everyone, too.
For a family affair, J. Bo Pizza & Rib Company has great pies, an outdoor patio with ping pong and giant Jenga, a handful of pinball machines inside, and every football game on their many TVs, come pigskin season.
If you're interested in Mexican, a place by the name of Macho's, which has two locations, serves up the authentic stuff (along with more Tex-Mex style varieties) and also adult beverages should that be a requirement for your dining out experience. Cantera is owned by the same folks, but provides a completely different experience–high end, easily date-worthy Mexican food in a fitting setting.
Finally, an outdoor food cart location closer to the north end of the historic section of Main Street is a fun, if unfortunately not dog friendly, place where you can find everything from pizza to barbecue, burgers to sushi. And, since this is Durango, there's a bar there, too.
Not exactly a town, this part of La Plata County just north of Durango is often referred to as "North County." It's just a handful of businesses and homes that have sprung up around the Purgatory Ski Resort (sometimes still referred to as Durango Mountain Resort.)
"North County" near Purgatory Ski Resort.
It's entirely shrouded in the San Juan National Forest, and much more low key than Durango or Silverton, the two closest towns.
The ski resort is open nearly year round, with a quick break after ski season ends (which varies, but typically some time in April) until Memorial Day kicks off the summer, and then again in October or November, while they prepare for snow bunnies and ski bums from around the world to get to shredding. In the winter, a handful of restaurants and shops–from a liquor store to a Burton shop, women's clothing to Purgatory-branded gear–are open, and which of those choose to turn the lights on come summer vary, but summer activities are in no short supply as the resort offers a "mountain coaster", which is a combination of an actual roller coaster and an alpine slide, go carts, mountain bike trails and a short zip line.
Best Places to Camp near Purgatory Ski Resort
There are no private RV parks in the immediate area, but ample opportunity to find a place in the woods to camp.
At the southern end of Old Lime Creek Road, grassy glades play host to RVs all summer long, with easy access for RVs and vans alike. Approaching from the northern end, a rocky, high clearance but not necessarily four wheel drive road leads you to some beautifully rare river camping in the area. Note the warnings above about trying to drive this road in its entirety, though, and absolutely do not drive it with an RV or trailer! You can get to the campsites on the southern end of the road with no problem, but as the road passes the lake, no RV could make this journey intact, and it would be pretty rough going even if you approach from the north to visit those forested sites.
Do not pass this lake with anything larger than a van, and even then larger Sprinter vans, even Ford Extended vans, are not recommended!
Open air camping via the northern entrance to Lime Creek Road.
Otherwise, for an absolutely simple national forest camping experience, Haviland Lake Campground south of Purgatory is an easy, paved drive in and has the usual USFS amenities–vault toilets, fire rings and a picnic table.
Cell reception is extremely spotty, so don't expect to binge your Netflix.
Outdoor Recreational Opportunities near Purgatory Ski Resort
If you don't want to pay for lift access, but love mountain biking, it's possible to shuttle–or I have even seen folks bike–up the forest service road that lines Purgatory. There's also no shortage of road cyclists who make the trek from Durango to here and sometimes on to Silverton, climbing 4000′ or more. The entire jaunt clocks in around 50 miles. Both towns are roughly 25 miles from Purgatory.
Looking down over Purgatory Ski Resort and the US 550 corridor in North County.
Not into biking? Don't want to spend a fortune on gimmicks at the resort? You can canoe and fish at various locations in the area, the most secluded and least utilized likely being Columbine Lake, a mile south and across the street from Purgatory's entrance. Signs say it's a private lake but plenty of people come here to enjoy the pristine waters where no motorized boats are allowed, making it perfect for canoes or kayaks, or just to stand along the shore while Fido gets himself nice and muddy. Just note signs that indicate three very important rules: no motors on the water, fishing is strictly catch and release, and should you be visiting in the winter, four wheel drive is absolutely mandatory. And as always, don't just pack your own trash out, pick up any litter you find while you're at it.
Columbine Lake near Purgatory Ski Resort.
For a more harrowing experience, look up Old Lime Creek Road, where an increasingly narrower dirt road (which allows two way traffic, making for some dangerous passing situations) hangs from the edge of the mountains connecting some epic camping spots. Beware though, it is absolutely possible to die from falling hundreds, possibly thousands, of feet into the valley below. We did this in our 2006 Ford E-350 and it was the most frightening drive of my life. We won't do it again. But, we know plenty of Jeepers and folks of that ilk who love this sort of thing. For our money, and safety, crossing Blackhawk Pass, a dirt road where high clearance is necessary and four wheel drive recommended, takes the same dirt road from Purgatory–with some 4,000 feet of elevation gain (you begin around 9000′)–before ending up on the paved CO-145, which you can take north to Telluride or south to Dolores.
Big cliffs are rare on this route, while historic old cabins and mountain vistas can be had in abundance.
View from an old mining cabin on Blackhawk Pass.
If you brought your skateboard, you won't find much to roll around on in this area.
Aside from putting their lives in danger on Old Lime Creek Road, everything we talk about here is a-okay for the youngins to participate in. If they're just looking for a good old fashioned playground though, just north of Purgatory make a right onto Twilight Lake, where a shiny new playground awaits.
The Best Bars and Restaurants near Purgatory Ski Resort
There's actually only one restaurant in this area that isn't also a bar, and it's located in the ski resort. We tend to stray away from those places though, largely because they officially close at 6pm and will often turn the lights off even earlier.
South of the mountain, within two miles drive, the Old Schoolhouse Cafe is a family-friendly dive bar (though many patrons' language will ignore this) with a free pool table, shuffleboard and excellent pizza. It can get really crowded on the weekends, and doesn't usually open until 4pm in the summertime. A little closer to the mountain is the miniature Nugget Mountain Bar, with an outdoor fire pit, food cart featuring mostly burgers but occasionally tacos, too, and plenty of TVs and a variety of craft beers and mixed drinks. It also tends to fill up as its the best bar in the area, so expect some company.
Silverton, Colorado
Silverton is a sleepy little town with what some might forecast as a bleak future. It's livelihood depends largely on tourists visiting from Durango, however forest fires in recent years, and avalanches most winters, close the road to the town, leaving tourists unable to visit and residents trapped there.
Camping just outside of Silverton, Colorado.
That said, the many, many days of the year access is available, Silverton is a paradise for adventure seeking skiers, ATV enthusiasts, hunters, campers and middle-aged women who wish they could dress like upper class cowgirls alike.
Nestled in the San Juan Mountains, views are 360° fabulous and camping opportunities just outside of town rival that glory. Silverton is not only home to excellent pot shops, a handful of breweries, and other restaurants, but home to splitboard icons, Venture Snowboards which–while they don't really offer official tours–typically are happy for enthusiasts to drop by and see how they make these game changing winter toys.
Best Places to Camp
There are dozens of places, suitable for RVs and the rest of us alike, to camp outside of Silverton, and nearly all of them are smack dab in the beauty of the national forest. For our pursuits, Golden Horn Camping Area is the best, a big open space along the river where you'll no doubt have company on busier weekends, but the views can't be beat and unless it's the 4th of July or something, you shouldn't be too close to your fellow campers. Explore to your heart's content though, and you'll no doubt find utter seclusion should that be on your to do list.
River camping at Golden Horn Camping Area.
Otherwise, if you just want to be in town, or require showers or full hookups, there are three RV parks in town, with Silver Summit and Red Mountain being the easiest to walk the main streets.
Recreational Opportunities near Silverton
Folks love their side-by-sides and ATVs in Silverton, and they're even allowed on most streets in town. Off-roading can be found in abundance if that's your cup of A-tea-V. Sorry, had to do it.
In the winter, this place is home to an experts-only ski mountain, though small, where you're typically required to have a guide take you up the lone chairlift.
And no doubt you can come here to shoot an elk or fish a bass, too, if you're that type of outdoorsman.
As to skateparks, Silverton has a wooden mini ramp on the south end of town. Not exactly a park, but more than my friends and I had growing up, for sure.
Silverton's skatepark is a lone mini ramp.
Things to Do with Kids in Silverton, Colorado
Though the town is obviously named for the silver mining operation that put it on the map, today you can take your little ones to the Mayflower Gold Mill for a tour, where they can experience a taste of what it was like living here before the trek was a mere drive along the beautiful US 550.
For free and outdoorsy pursuits, head south toward Molas Pass, where alpine lakes and big open meadows provide the perfect natural playground for kids of all ages.
Promaster vans gather at the Molas Pass overlook.
An alpine lake along US 550 from Durango to Silverton, Colorado.
Our Favorite Haunts
Despite having a conversation with a waitress one time where, upon asking for a Bloody Mary, she told me, "No, we don't have those, we're more of a restaurant with a bar than a bar with a restaurant," the Brown Bear Cafe is a great place to have a beverage and some breakfast. It's kid-friendly and right in the middle of town, the type of place with homy signs all around and never pretentious. Think "I Spy" for hours.
Silverton's Golden Block Brewery isn't on most brewery tour maps, but gets the job done in that arena as well.
Ouray, Colorado
For whatever reason, people feel the need to dub this place the "Switzerland of America." We think Switzerland should instead be called the "Ouray of Europe," because making comparisons like that are just plain silly. Ouray doesn't need to be advertised as some other places, given the grandeur it holds all on its own. The town is charming, quaint, and nearly completely devoid of chain stores outside the usual gas station fare. It is literally squeezed into a valley, with steep slopes limiting potential real estate opportunities on both sides of town.
Ouray, Colorado.
"What housing problem? I own multiple empty homes in Ouray," a sticker posted on a restaurant in town reads, a snide jab at the reality that this is an expensive town made more so by the many rich people who purchase real estate but don't actually live here. This is further exemplified by how locals take advantage of this type of tourism, and who could blame them?
"Lemonaide for sale!" a young boy with a small stand on the sidewalk advertises. We love to support local businesses, and when they're run by adorable 11 year olds all the more. "That'll be $16," he tells us, our kids already halfway through their homemade lemonade. His father appears from the beef jerky store behind him, making it clear that this isn't just some youthful operation, but a bit of a ploy to add profit where jerky cannot.
Still, if you manage to keep your wallet in your pocket, it's a lovely workout exploring the hilly streets that comprise Ouray.
Given the terrain, camping is limited immediately outside of Ouray. A handful of spots, like Thistledown Campground and Ampitheater Campground (the latter being a bit more realistic to walk to town) exist as national forest campgrounds, while two private RV parks–with Ouray RV Park being the crowd favorite–exist in town. We've seen all types of wildlife in this area, including a curious black bear who participated in a solid staring competition with us, from the safety of our van, before running back into the forest.
Of course, remember never to approach wildlife, especially bears, and keep your food safely locked away. "A fed bear is a dead bear" is true, and we've read numerous reports of bears put down because someone fed them, or left food out, they became a little to comfortable with humans and had to be shot to protect everyone.
Recreational Opportunities in Ouray, Colorado
Ouray is known for its ice climbing, but of course that will be a wintertime pursuit and only the toughest of vanlifers will be able to survive comfortably in this snow-laden Rocky Mountain paradise.
For summertime pursuits, the Perimeter Trail is a 4.5, "moderately easy" trail with grand views of town and all the glory of nature that surrounds it.
For skateboarders, Ouray has a skatepark at the northern end of town that essentially consists of a concrete rectangle with quarter pipes on both end. One one side, they sandwich a rail and stairs feature while on the other, a flat ramp sits in the middle. It's a fun park for kids or beginners, for sure, but nowhere near the best the region has to offer.
Near the skatepark mentioned above, Ouray Hot Springs Pool and Fitness Center boasts a series of pools, some meant for lounging in hot springs water, others more kid-n-splash friendly.
Also check out Cascade Falls Park, which is basically a handful of trails leading to waterfalls of varying sizes, easy enough for kids to do with that waterfall payoff every hiker loves to add to their list of accomplishments.
Best Place to Eat
Hands down, our favorite place to eat and drink in town is Ouray Brewing, a three story affair with outdoor seating on the rooftop. Watch the thunderstorms crackle through the valley and tourists bustle around Main Street below as you enjoy good brews with typical dishes like burgers and wings along with falafel, a variety of salads and a chicken sandwich named for the greatest American of all time, Chuck Norris.
Ouray Brewery, Ouray, Colorado.
Ridgway, Colorado
What seems like but a blip on the map as you roadtrip from Ouray to anywhere else you may be headed, Ridgway is a burgeoning village ready to make itself a destination all of its own.
A sleepy main street with the name Sherman occasionally fills with tourists, more and more so, on busy weekends. Grand views of jagged mountains in the distance give the town its name (presumably) and friendly faces abound. We often look at and judge towns not by what they already have, but what they have the potential to be, and were you the real estate investing type, no doubt Ridgway is one of the few remaining spots in Colorado where you could get a steal of a deal that one day would contribute heavily to your retirement plan.
Ridgway State Park could be the posterchild for Colorado State Parks in general. In a state with sweeping mountainscapes and grand forests, for some reason the state parks tend to clear away the trees, or at least place their campgrounds in wide open spaces. Ridgway's offering isn't much different, but as camping in the area goes, it tops our list.
Another private RV option is Basecamp 500, a more typical squeeze-em-in facility that charges extra for showers, and we all know that's lame when you're already dishing out $40 per night to stay there.
As Ridgway becomes more and more of a destination, we expect more private parks to open up, but free camping close to town is non-existent, at least in any officiated way, so for now we like Ridgway as a stop more than a place to setup camp.
While it's not the biggest skatepark in the world or anything, Ridgway's skatepark (on Chipeta Drive in the "Ridgway Athletic Park") is our favorite along this route. It's got a small bowl that transitions into a larger vert area, and several small features surrounding, giving it a beautiful flow and something for skaters of all abilities to tap their trucks on. It's often completely empty, as well.
Ridgway, Colorado's skatepark.
Ridgway's skatepark.
Restaurants of Note
A little joint that's slowly become a local chain, Gnar Tacos is a hip affair with offerings including "the Rick Rock Sauce," whatever that means. People rave about this semi-fast food place that, I believe, originated in Telluride, but I'd say it's just okay. The real draw here is simply that a sleepy town like Ridgway could attract such an establishment, paving the way for more, less down home fare to follow.
While a bit "red" (Fox News will be playing during your meal), should that matter to you, the True Grit Cafe is comfort food in a setting that loves John Wayne. 'Nuff said?
Ah, Telluride. The beauty and opportunity for fun times of all varieties here is astounding. The town is charming, sans-chains and a walkable delight to behold. On the other hand, it's not only owned by the mega-rich (Tom Cruise owns a $59million mansion and property here, which he reportedly cannot get rid of) but the feeling that anyone short of that is not welcome just seeps through the air.
"Fuck the man," being one of our favorite sayings though, and knowing full and well that "the man" is the rich first and foremost, we could give two used diapers about that and love visiting anyway. We just try not to buy anything (truck your beers and groceries in from elsewhere, there's no large grocer and the market in town is pricier than a Whole Foods in Dubai.)
Looking beyond all of that, the street combing through a town full of yupsters and Colorado's outdoor elite–those members of the superfit who's abs are rivaled only by the price of their yoga pants, which are apparently suitable to be worn day and night, even in fancy restaurants or during bank loan applications–is one to check off any small town traveler's bucket list, and the opportunities for free adventure do still exist.
Camping, for example, is just about all free (or cheap) as there are no private RV parks in the area, whatsoever.
And the free camping not only bears no price tag, it's absolutely exquisite. While a few paid national forest campgrounds–with toilets, tables, etc.–exist, free places like Alta Lakes (it's a narrow road not recommended for RVs or trailers, though I have personally seen some up there) put you in the boon of this side of the San Juan's godly glory. For us, though, Last Dollar Road is jam packed with towering aspen groves and rock slide perched truly epic vistas of the mountains beyond, and is absolutely free. We've never had trouble finding a secluded, available spot, even on busy weekends.
Last Dollar Road, Telluride, Colorado.
Camping along the road to Alta Lakes south of Telluride, Colorado.
Directly within Telluride proper, Town Park is a typically first-come-first-served, no hookups campground that puts you immediately within everything town has to offer. It's nearly impossible to get into, though, as it has limited spaces and is highly desirable. It also switches to a reservation during certain events like the Ride Festival, so unless you really want to stay in town, save yourself a few hair follicles and check out Last Dollar.
Note that there is absolutely no overnight parking for RVs or vans allowed in Telluride. This doesn't stop people from doing it, and we have personally stayed in our van one 4th of July night, but flashlights were shown in–they didn't catch us, the kids already sleeping and the adults not moving a muscle–so it's not exactly comfortable.
Recreational Opportunities
The same Town Park which offers camping as noted above acts as a hub for a series of hiker/biker trails, fishing and various outdoor sports. This includes one of the town's two skateparks, more on that below.
Various music festivals are held in the park during the summer, and since there's a kids' playground here, you can basically get in to listen to the music–though not technically be "in" the festival–for free if you just hang around with the kiddos (should you own a set.)
Further toward the end of town, a Via Ferrata–Italian for "the iron way"–climbing course is a somewhat psycho way to traverse cliffs where you walk along iron bars jammed into the mountainside, apparently as a recreational pursuit. While not big on climbing ourselves, no doubt those who are–or just thrill seekers in general–will find this to be infinitely amusing, if not exhaustively challenging. You do get to be harnessed in and there's a safety rope involved, but you'll need to hook and unhook along the way to make it over the places where the rope is attached to the mountain.
Telluride's relatively new mountain bike park was free last year (2018) but though it now comes with a fee, that includes access to the lifts as well, and judging by the amount of Spandexed traffic you see in town, is a popular pursuit.
When it comes to skateparks, Telluride has two. The skatepark in Town Park is the better, though the more popular as well, and features a long quarterpipe on one end with varying heights and trannies, while a deep, slick bowl with a pill on one end is more or less there for the pros. Expect loads of company, from impressively good young kids pushing wood to BMXers and razor scooters alike. Several other features make this a fun place to kick wood for an afternoon, though.
Youthlink Skatepark is in the center of town, south of Colorado Avenue (the town's "Main Street") and is a wood park with a plethora of features.
Youthlink Skatepark, Telluride, Colorado.
If you're still looking to save a buck in Telluride, and the kids are in tow, check out the free Gondola that goes from downtown Telluride (catch it on San Juan Ave between Aspen and Oak Streets) to Mountain Village, one of the larger and more impressive ski villages we've ever seen. You'll have plenty of opportunity to drop a few bucks on ice cream or quite a few on dining should you desire after arriving there.
View from the free gondola in Telluride.
The skatepark in Town Park also has a pump track, a small dirt loop for kids and their bicycles, and there are man-made and natural playgrounds through the park as well.
Finally, the Telluride Free Box, on the corner of Colorado and North Pine, is a series of shelves with things people are giving away, and while it's often full of single ski boots or dolls with their heads ripped off, you can occasionally find a gem or two hidden in the pile.
Where to Find Sustenance
Though the service typically sucks and the wait can be long, Smuggler's Brewpub is a popular spot to grab a beer and some food, and rightfully so. Both the indoor seating and, to a greater degree, the small patio make for an excellent place to take a break from all of the action and relax over some storytelling of the day's pursuits or plan making war room for tomorrow.
High Pie Pizzeria is an elbow bumper of a hot spot where you can get good food and great craft beers, too.
Dolores, Colorado
We've spent admittedly less time in Dolores than the rest of the towns along this tour, and if you began your loop in Durango and followed us all the way to Telluride, in many ways the best is now behind you. Dolores is a much sleepier town, where you won't find hoards of tourists walking the streets, but worth a few notes anyway.
There's limited camping in the area, nothing particularly suited for RVs, but Burro Bridge is natural camping all the same and suitable for truck campers, vans and tents. Expect a forested setting, vault toilets and a picnic table. You're likely to have the place all to yourself during the week, especially as the season winds up or down.
The Riverfront Bar & Grill is a roadhouse with decent food, a smattering of craft beers and, as the name implies, a riverside deck where you can watch people tubing the Dolores River. You might even be tempted to do so yourself.
Rumor has it there's a skatepark in town, but we haven't found it, though we haven't exactly tried that hard either.
Cortez, Colorado
At first glance, Cortez seems a bit run down, more like a town in New Mexico than what you typically find in Colorado. Upon closer inspection, though, things to do and the affordable pricing of a less touristy town begin to seep into vision.
The best camping in Dolores can be found north of town at McPhee Reservoir, where national forest spots like the aptly named McPhee Campground and House Creek offer hookups (or not) and more or less wide open spaces to camp where no pesky shade will block your views.
Otherwise, three private RV parks are situated directly in town, Sundance being the most conveniently located should you want to stroll the curious streets of this aging village.
Cortez Skatepark
Cortez' skatepark is probably the largest of any park in the San Juan Mountains, with more flow than most as well since all of its features, from quarterpipes to broken bowls and flat ramps, are connected and you're never really separated one from another like Durango's similarly sized park tends to feel. Graffiti betrays the fact that someone must have skated here at some point, but we've only ever seen it empty.
We can't personally attest to much in Cortez, having only ever visited Main Street Brewery & Restaurant (several times now, for some reason) but Main Street is full of eclectic fare, from sushi to breweries, Chinese to more breweries.
Mancos, Colorado and Mesa Verde National Park
Mancos is positioning itself as an artist's town, and while it's nowhere near as touristy as Telluride, Ouray or Durango, it certainly feels up-and-coming. With plenty of national forest camping and proximity to Mesa Verde National Park, it's the perfect balance of low key and tons to do.
Two private RV parks, with full hookups, sit just across the entry to Mesa Verde National Park. Both Ancient Cedars and Mesa Verde RV Resort are actually better bets than camping within the park itself, as they're similarly priced and nearly equally positioned as far as access to the park goes. Morefield, the campground within the national park itself, tends to disappoint, particularly in the bathroom domain, enough so that the allure of camping in a national park wears off quickly.
Durango local and former Mancos resident Ivey Patton also clued us in to Jersey Jim Fire Lookout, where for $40 per night you can rent said lookout tower for epic views, or nearby Transfer Campground (both the fire lookout and Transfer are run by the forest service) or camping near the trailhead to Sharkstooth Trail to Centennial Peak to stay nearby with your own home-on-the-road.
By far, our favorite place to camp–for free–is within the pinyon pines of County Road 34, BLM land with views of Mesa Verde, a little traffic now and then, but otherwise much more seclusion than Morefield and certainly the RV park players in the area.
Recreational Opportunities near Mancos, Colorado
The number one pursuit here is exploring Mesa Verde's many trails, especially visiting the cliff dwellings and pondering what ancient city life would have been like here. The people who built these structures into the side of the mountain predate what we think of as Native Americans. The Ancestral Puebloans, as they're known, were living a stationary life here, before whatever unknown circumstances drove them to branch out into various native tribes and spread across the Four Corners.
The Cliff Dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park near Manco, Colorado.
While not as visually stunning as other national parks in Colorado and neighboring Utah, this is a richly informative place that pulls on the pondering strings of anyone interested in what life was like before the Ford Motor Company, iPhones and European domination of the continent in general.
"Yes," Patton continues, "they have a skatepark, and find the library – it's awesome and tucked back on the river."
Things to Do with Children near Mancos, Colorado
The Junior Ranger program at Mesa Verde National Park a great way to get your young ones interested in America's history, pre-"America", and out into nature in general.
As we've never eaten in Manco, we turned again to Ivey Patton. "The best restaurants in Durango are actually in Mancos," she winks, "Absolute Bakery is a must visit in the Four Corners area for food, vibes, and baked goods, Mill Wood Junction is so dang good and has amazing alternative music sometimes," she says, mentioning that they also have outdoor seating. "Farenheit Coffee is by far the best coffee in the area." So there you have it!
For us, touring the San Juan Mountains is as much about the sheer grandeur of the landscape, the ample free camping and river floating beauty as it is exploring the small towns and all they have to offer. Like we said, after traveling this nation–and beyond–we decided this would be the perfect place for us to set up shop, build a cabin and have somewhere to call "home" should the road ever prove a bit too weary.
Free Camping with Cell Service in Colorado
Our top ten picks for finding gorgeous free camping in the State of Colorado, replete with enough cell service for digital nomads to get the job done.
Greetings from Durango
Cowboy bikers, steam engines and the convergence of Utah red and Rocky Mountain silver.


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Q: How to notify session about data change. Async communictation I have logged clients logged into my GAE based app, waiting for some information (GWT app if it makes any difference).
I have also servlet receiving REST data, saving it to datastore. Information is addressed to the particular client.
My goal is to pass a notification from the receiving servlet to the user session's servlet.
My time limit for data passing is 60s, 1k users/day, 1h for single browser session, 5 notifications per session.
I've considered following scenarios:
User client request data every 60s, then query datastore for new data.
This approach is simply bad - huge waste of datastore power (1000*60*n of datastore read operations a day), big consumption of processor time and big memory footprint.
Using memcache for passing notifications
Receiver puts notification into memcache, the client checks it, in case of success reads datastore.
All would be ok, with one exception - docs says "you can't trust the memcache", so if there is nothing in the memcache I have to also check datastore. In the effect I have a more complicated solution, with higher memory/processor footprint.
Queues
Almost good solution - I just need to put message into pipe, read it on the another side. In this particular case I have to create 1k queues a day what is far beyond the quota, or use tags in queues, when docs says "Experimental, can change in future etc." Using "experimental" service as the vital part of my application doesn't make me happy.
Channels
A bit tricky solutions. Browser opens channel on connection, on incoming data the receiver servlet just puts notification into channel, the notified web client calls it's own servlet for refresh data from datastore.
What I dislike in this approach is communication line - the servlet-servlet notification through a web client is probably not the best what can be done.
Have you any better ideas for pass notification from one servlet to the another in GAE cloud?

A: This is an old problem: you can either do polling or pushing:

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*Polling: this is what you do in 1&2 above. Id propose you merge the two: use memcache and put appropriate object in memcache even if user does not have new data, in this case you can cover all three situations (1. no data ay all, 2. no new data, 3. new data), while still using memcache to minimize cost.

*Pushing data - this is a preferred way as it minimizes cost and immediatelly notifies users of new data. Use Channel API - here is a GWT wrapper: gwt-gae-channel.


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Q: What is a proper way to inject an object that needs parameter inside servlets in java ee? I'm making a java application using jsp and servlets. I want to store some data in HTTP session but I want to use the session only inside a RepositoryImpl class. I also have an interface called Repository with methods like addItem() and getData(). So my RepositoryImpl class implements these methods and uses HTTP session to store the data.
I want to inject the RepositoryImpl class into different servlets to use it as an instance of Repository interface. The problem is I don't know how to pass the session to the RepostioryImpl instance with ejb or cdi. What is the best way to handle my problem?

A: Let me see if i understand.
You want to store data in session, like a shopping cart?
If you want to store in session an entire object you can set it in a usebean.
<jsp:useBean id="objectname" scope="session" class="com.mypackage.myclass"/>

This way you can call the object and it's methods wherever the usebean is.
I hope this could help.


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Fates and Fortunes
Roy Clark Dead at 85
Country music Hall of Famer was 'Hee Haw' co-star
John Eggerton
Roy Clark, 85, the country music Hall of Famer and Hee Haw star died Thursday (Nov. 15) of complications from pneumonia at his home in Tulsa, Okla.
Image courtesy Time Life
Clark was a popular TV musician and comedian, including a memorable rendition of Malaguena on the Odd Couple in the 1970s and countless TV variety show guest shots. But it was for his lightning-fast picking, ever-present, often sheepish, grinning, and sweet-natured humor on the music/comedy staple Hee Haw for almost a quarter of a century for which he will be best, and most fondly, remembered by Baby Boomers.
Clark was born in Meherrin, a little town in southwestern Virginia, but grew up in Washington.
He could play banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle and toured with Grandpa Jones and Hank Williams after winning a banjo competition in 1950 and being invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. He also appeared on radio and TV with fellow Washingtonian Jimmy Dean and his Texas Wildcats.
After recording his first hit, Tips of My Fingers, Clark made appearances on American Bandstand and The Tonight Show beginning a string of TV variety show appearances before Hee Haw premiered on CBS in 1969 co-starring Clark and Buck Owens. The show lasted only a couple of seasons on CBS, but moved to first-run syndication, where it remained on the air until 1992.
Clark's survivors include his wife of 61 years, Barbara, and son Roy Clark II.
A memorial celebration will be held in Tulsa. No details yet on where and when.
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