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Family Friendly This is an easily-traveled and lightly trafficked doubletrack for most if its length.
This little-used trail connects Glade Spring to Saltville as it follows the historic Norfolk and Western Rail Spur. This trail passes through pristine woodlands and picturesque farmland along the way. It's an easy ride that's perfect for the whole family.
The only downside is that for a small distance, in the community of Plasterco, it follows the highway due to a mine collapse several years ago that closed the adjacent portion of rail line.
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Delray Beach, Fla. — Office Depot enjoyed continued strength in its North American retail division during the fourth quarter, with sales climbing 15 percent, to $1.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in the year-ago three months, while comp-store sale jumped 5 percent.
North American retail at the office products and services chain reported a $119.1 million operating profit in the fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, or 6.9 percent of sales, up from a year-on-year $98.9 million, or 6.6 percent of sales. The improved gross margin was due to broad-based category-management improvement and increased private-brand sales, said the company.
Effective advertising, leverage from a 53rd week of sales and expense controls more than compensated for incremental costs associated with the addition of new stores during the quarter, and helped to increase operating profit.
The retailer reported a $7 million charge in the fourth quarter, compared with a year-ago charge of $2 million, and said, excluding the 53rd week, fourth quarter North American retail sales rose 8 percent.
During the fourth quarter, Office Depot opened 41 new stores, while closing one office supply store. At the end of the three months, the chain operated 1,047 office products superstores throughout North America.
Office Depot also announced the acquisition of a controlling interest in Best Office, a South Korean office supply company with revenue above $44 million, based upon more than 70 franchised and company-owned retail stores. Office Depot is hoping to boost its international financial results as competition continues to grow.
For the 12 months, North American retail sales climbed 10 percent, hitting $6.5 billion, up from $5.9 billion in the same period the previous year. Comp-store sales rose increased 3 percent.
Operating profit, however, dropped to $318.9 million, or 4.9 percent of sales, from a year-on-year $388.3 million, or 6.6 percent of sales.
Consolidated fourth quarter sales at Office Depot grew 7 percent, hitting $3.7 billion, up from $3.5 billion the previous year. Excluding the 53rd week, sales for the quarter climbed 2 percent.
Consolidated net earnings came in at $106.3 million, more than double the $52.1 million reported in the same quarter in 2004. Without charges and the 53rd week, earnings would have been $117 million, a 31 percent increase over the same period the prior year.
For the quarter, gross profit as a percentage of sales was 31.1 percent, down from 31.8 percent year-over-year, primarily attributable to a decline in the company's international division. Operating expenses for the three months dropped to 27.4 percent, from 28.9 percent last year.
For the 12 months, consolidated sales hit $14.3 billion, up from $13.6 billion in 2004. Net income slipped to $273.8 million, from a year-ago $335.5 million.
Office Depot's Q4 Sales Drop In N.A.


Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons' petition calling for a moratorium on growing or selling genetically engineered food in New Zealand was presented to Parliament today.
The petition has 91,000 signatures, including the signature of world-renowned conservationist and television personality David Bellamy.
It asks for a Royal commission of inquiry into genetic engineering, something the Green Party has been asking for since last year, and a moratorium until the risks of the GE technology can be better established.
The petition has been distributed at public meetings around New Zealand and was launched just seven months ago. Ms Fitzsimons said it represented "a groundswell of concern about the technology, which has been forced on New Zealanders by multinational companies and government agencies, often in secret".
"In the past seven months I have been averaging two genetic engineering meetings a week, and can't keep up with demand, mostly from non-party-members, to speak on the subject," Ms Fitzsimons said.
"Both National and Labour have tried to defuse genetic engineering as an election issue, but it will not go away. National has set up the Independent Biotechnology Advisory Council chaired by a known advocate of GE, which is "consulting" by calling for submissions. It suggests a moratorium on commercial GE releases for six months. But this is hardly long enough for the authorities to process Monsanto's application to grow GE canola on large acreages in the South Island."
Ms Fitzsimons said the public would not accept the Government-appointed advisory council in place of a genuine open inquiry, which would instead provide a forum for debate and for testing the evidence.
"This petition has pushed the Labour Party into supporting a Royal commission and we welcome that. But Labour is not committed to a moratorium on growing or selling GE food."
The petition will be announced in the debating chamber shortly after 2pm today. The Green Party has Oral Question 9, to Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, which challenges the Government to respond to the petition.


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Q: Writing and reading to/from gRPC full duplex channel in .NET simultaneously using async enumerables I have a client-server scenario with a pipeline fully implemented with gRPC duplex streams. The pipeline is initiated by the client. At every step (duplex call) the client reads items from an IAsyncEnumerable and writes them on the channel. The items are processed by the server and some of them are sent back on the channel asynchronously. Then the client returns the read items with yield. I have 4 methods chained up like that.
The pattern I use:
public async IAsyncEnumerable<Result> Results(IAsyncEnumerable<Input> inputs)
{
    var duplex = Server.GetResults();

    await foreach (var input in inputs)
    {
        await duplex.RequestStream.WriteAsync(input);
    }

    await duplex.RequestStream.CompleteAsync();

    await foreach (var result in duplex.ResponseStream.ToAsyncEnumerable())
    {
        yield return result;
    }
}

The problem with this pattern is that the server sends the data back before the second foreach (reading from the channel) kicks in. If there is a lot of data, the channel buffer becomes full (presumably) before the reading starts and an Operation cancelled exception is thrown by gRPC.
How can I refactor this without breaking the usage of IAsyncEnumerables and yield? If that is not possible, then how else can I achieve a "Write first, read next" scenario?
Just for clarification, I cannot use the following pattern:
while(await stream.MoveNext())
{
   // send
   // yield
}

The moment I call await duplex.ResponseStream.MoveNext() the client waits for the server to return data. But that is unpredictable which data is being returned by the server. So that would cause a deadlock.
I would be needing some kind of IsDataAvailableOnChannel but no such method exists on AsyncDuplexStreamingCall

A: You can hand off the sending of data to another task, then await it once you have finished yielding.
Given that I assume you have a normal ThreadPool scheduler, the await of each function should be interleaved.
public async IAsyncEnumerable<Result> Results(IAsyncEnumerable<Input> inputs)
{
    var duplex = Server.GetResults();

    var sendingTask = Task.Run(async () =>
    {
        await foreach (var input in inputs)
        {
            await duplex.RequestStream.WriteAsync(input);
        }

        await duplex.RequestStream.CompleteAsync();
    });

    await foreach (var result in duplex.ResponseStream.ToAsyncEnumerable())
    {
        yield return result;
    }

    await sendingTask;
}

It might be easier to manage if you place the anonymous lambda into a proper function.

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The Villager is a weekly newspaper serving Downtown Manhattan.

Background
Founded in 1933 by Walter and Isabel Bryan, it is part of Schneps Media whose Manhattan portfolio includes Downtown Express, Gay City News (formerly LGNY), Chelsea Now, Villager Express (formerly East Villager), AM New York, and Manhattan Express.

In 2001, 2004 and 2005, The Villager won the Stuart Dorman Award, honoring New York State's best weekly newspaper, in the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. It has also been called better than The New York Times by New York magazine: In 2005, in its "123 Reasons Why We Love New York Right Now," New York dubbed The New York Times Reason #51, "because our hometown paper is still the greatest in the world," the magazine said...before adding, #52, on the facing page: "...next to The Villager."

In September 2018, NYC Community Media, The Villager's owner, and Community News Group, were sold by Les and Jennifer Goodstein to Schneps Communications. Schneps also has extensive publications in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Westchester and Long Island.

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External links

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Weekly newspapers published in the United States
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The Week in Digital — November 30, 2015
Black Friday moves to mobile, digital trends influencing retail, more than 280 marketing resources in one place, the future of homeless media, Amazon's power play, how Facebook scales its culture, unimpressive ad growth at Snapchat, why audio content doesn't go viral, luxury brands' difficulty with storytelling, what that Facebook words quiz did to your privacy, how big brands measure social media, Silicon Valley's reputation problem, plus our weekly trivia challenge, the podcast pick of the week and more, it's The Week in Digital.
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The Thanksgiving holiday came and went, and with it, Black Friday. This year, the crowds at the stores were slightly smaller, as 34% of purchases were made on mobile devices.
But mobile app users are still reluctant to share their location, particularly if the use of the data isn't obvious. Location for a weather app makes sense, but why would you need it for a game, for example?
Most digital shoppers will see well-targeted ads. The key is to make them useful, revelant, and do it well.
And Walmart is completely overhauling its e-commerce technology as it ramps up its battle against Amazon. Some 3,600 engineers have developed custom solutions using open-source software and custom-developed hybrid clouds. If any company has the ability and scale to take on the online giant, it's Walmart. This should be interesting.
And finally, here are five digital trends influencing the future of online retail.
It's nearly 2016, and CMOs need to be aware of (at least) these five marketing trends: product digitization, mobile first, virtual reality, disruptive competition and the rise of adtech.
If you'd like a comprehensive set of tools to help you with your efforts, try this curated directory of more than 280 marketing resources.
A research team in Estonia reports that LiFi — data transmitted via light — is 100 times faster than WiFi. But don't expect a commercially-viable product just yet; it won't work through walls.
Are apps the new media? With so much content living within Facebook, it can be argued that content consumption within apps is the way to go, in terms of driving views and developing content.
Easier said than done. App developers are suffering, with too much saturation and high barriers to entry holding back their success. Building for the web may be easier. Case in point: the 10th most popular app has only a fraction of the traffic seen by the top app.
We're living in an age of homeless media: home pages and apps aren't really necessary any more; it's possible to syndicate content through different social channels and platforms now. This is indeed a new world of content distribution, and you need to be where consumers are, rather than forcing them to visit your site or download your app. But it that enough? What do you actually own as far as the customer experience?
Remember that unfortunately-named Facebook guy we mentioned last week? It was a hoax.
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Amazon is adding a number of other online video networks to its Prime Video lineup. This could be just the thing that will drive people to subscribe, as limited offerings in one network are a deterrent. The question is whether consumers will want to sustain multiple subscriptions (and how many).
Jeff Bezos says the Washington Post will become the new paper of record, as it has passed the New York Times in online viewers and is focused on quality journalism.
Meanwhile, the New York Times knows that liveblogging is a fast way to report breaking news.
You've probably seen your fair share of squabbles on Facebook over religion and politics (the third rails of decent discourse), perhaps to the point where you wonder if the future is bleak. The bottom line: Facebook reflects who you are and you have the power to clean up your Timeline. And as Mom always said, "You're judged by the company you keep."
The Royal Bank of Scotland is eschewing email for Facebook at Work. The 100,000-employee bank uses the platform because it allows them to communicate, discuss and solve problems that other solutions, such as email, simply can't.
Facebook's growth and its retention of its core values has been nothing short of impressive. Here's how Facebook manages to scale its culture. Too long; do read. And a related article from the Harvard Business Review indicates that company culture shapes employee motivation.
Instagram will have multiple account support on Android. An iOS version will follow. This will make it easier to switch between personal and brand accounts. We'll stand by, awaiting the inevitable I-forgot-which-account-I-was-logged-into fiascos that will ensue.
If your sports mascot is a controversial figure, it's probably not wise to tweet something on a holiday related to that figure. That's what the Washington Redskins discovered when they ignorantly wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving on Twitter. See Instagram, above.
Snapchat's ad business hasn't been all that impressive. To the point that its $16 billion valuation is being negatively affected. With an ad product that bumps up against the $500,000 mark and lack of metrics, we can't say we're surprised.
Trivia question: What new show offended riders of New York City's subway trains this week, and how did it go about doing so? *
After much scrutiny and publicity over issues with drivers, Uber is creating a safety advisory board. It's not yet clear what role it will play, but it will address all aspects of safety for the company.
From the delivery of flu shots today to covering rural areas that may not have available ambulances tomorrow, Uber is getting into healthcare. Another example of an industry completely unrelated to transportation that could be disrupted. It might even be better received than Obamacare.
Have a friend or family member who's too cheap to take Uber? Use Teleport to bring them to you. We can't wait for an IFTTT that couples Siri, Cortana, Google Now or Facebook M to allow you to execute the command by saying "Beam me up."
Without any kind of innovation in UX, we're unlikely to see audio content go viral.
You might think Spotify is a recent innovation. But the Telharmonium was the Spotify of 1906. "The old wheel turns and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before and will be again." - The Valley of Fear
Podcast Recommendation of the Week. This week, check out The Truth from Radiotopia. The Truth makes movies for your ears: short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Each story is different, and usually 10 to 20 minutes long. Do you have a podcast recommendation for us? Add yours to our Google Sheet: smonty.co/yourpodcasts
Content / Customer Experience
If you want to learn from the best, take a look at the UK's top storytelling brands of 2015.
Despite such successes, luxury brands seem to be struggling with storytelling. Why? "Content strategy is not your brand story. It cannot replace the ethos and the defining point of view of your brand...luxury brands need to summon the spirit and passion of their founders and turn them into modern culture."
And regardless of how you feel about content marketing — whether you think the term is overused or the segment overhyped — there's a business case to be made for content marketing.
When working with influencers, it's important to give them the creative freedom they need and treat them like publishers.
Privacy / Security / Legal
Bad news if you live in the UK: not only is it illegal to create pirated editions of music for sale, but you can't even make private copies of music.
Iranian hackers attacked U.S. State Department social media accounts. It must be a side effect of that nuclear deal. Either that, or they wanted to send "I thought you'd find this interesting" emails to John Kerry's contacts.
As it continues to comply with the takedown requests of search results coming out or Europe, Google has identified the top sites that have been requested. Among the top 10 are Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The toy company VTech has had a data breach. It stores the data of some 5 million adults and 200,000 children. Just in time for the holidays.
You probably played that "most used words on Facebook" quiz recently. As we suspected, they've got a treasure trove of data about you (and your friends) now.
Measurement / Metrics / Data
People often wonder how big brands measure and communicate social media success.
Senior marketers agree that a data-driven approach to marketing is key to success. But what do they measure? Aside from profitability, they increasingly look at how it can affect messaging and creative.
* Answer to the trivia question above:
The advertising for the Amazon original The Man in the High Castle was a little controversial: the Nazi-U.S. symbols were plastered all over New York subway, giving some riders a vivid memory of how Jewish prisoners were transported to death camps. The ads were removed.
When You Have the Time: Essential Watching / Listening / Reading
Online communities have been around for a while — and they can be described in fairly broad terms. Often overlooked with respect to the newer, sexier social platforms, online communities have fundamentally changed the way we work.
People outside of Silicon Valley have strong opinions about how the tech hub is perceived, and the negative-positive split is quite marked. But the question remains: should Silicon Valley do something about its reputation problem?
You think fighting for a good app review is slog? Try getting a Michelin Star. It's such an albatross that some world-renowned chefs don't want a Michelin rating. Consider that the next time you're telling off a dissatisfied Yelp reviewer.
The key to being a better boss: radical candor.
And when you're thinking about your hiring practices, remember that the best candidate doesn't always have the perfect resume. How to think about scrappers vs. silver spoons.
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Book News: Hilary Mantel's New Book Reportedly Will Star Margaret Thatcher
By Annalisa Quinn
Hilary Mantel accepted the award for Costa Book Of The Year in January 2013 in London.
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
English novelist Hilary Mantel, who has twice won the Booker Prize, is said to be taking a break from writing about Tudors to publish a short-story collection titled The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. The Guardian notes, "Few clues are forthcoming from her publisher at 4th Estate. According to her editor, Nicholas Pearson, 'Where her last two novels explore how modern England was forged, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher shows us the country we have become.' " The Telegraph adds that "Mantel's publishers have not confirmed plotlines, but have said that the book features the late former prime minister as a character in 10 stories with 'contemporary settings.' "
A new study by the Pew Research Center found that "though e-books are rising in popularity, print remains the foundation of Americans' reading habits." It adds, "Most people who read e-books also read print books, and just 4% of readers are 'e-book only.' "
Laura Richardson, daughter of Cold Comfort Farm author Stella Gibbons, is looking to publish two of her mother's unpublished novels, which have been lying in a drawer since her mother's death. Richardson told the Camden New Journal, "The first is called An Alpha and is about a young woman who is from the Far East. She moves to Britain and becomes a successful writer," she is quoted as saying in the newspaper. "The second is called The Yellow Houses and is a bit of a ghost story. It was about a house where spirits flourished. They were finished and I would love to see them published."
Publisher's Weekly speaks to James Frey, the best-selling author who gained notoriety when it turned out that his memoir of addiction was not strictly true. Frey is coming out with a new young-adult novel soon, but tells PW: "I am about to finish another novel, which is a more traditional book for an adult audience. It will be the last one for a while."
Kate Aurthur on Flowers in the Attic author V.C. Andrews: "As eerie as her books were, Andrews' tragic personal life and unlikely rise — which was not even impeded by the small matter of her death — have rendered her equally mysterious. For the first time, members of Andrews' family have agreed to be interviewed about the woman who terrified — and delighted — a generation of readers."
Elias Muhanna contends in The New Yorker that the recent torching of a library in Tripoli, Lebanon, "prompted something that two years of suicide bombings and assassination attempts had not: a public outcry." He writes: "Within hours, civil-society groups set up a barn-raising effort to secure and catalogue the undamaged books, clean up the shop, and build new shelving. Someone launched a fundraising initiative. Book drives were organized around the country. An international courier announced that it would ship books from anywhere in the world to Lebanon to replenish Father Sarrouj's collection."
Annalisa Quinn
Annalisa Quinn is a contributing writer, reporter, and literary critic for NPR. She created NPR's Book News column and covers literature and culture for NPR.
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The Cube | What Next?
I admire my friend Kelly so much. We got to know each other when we both worked at the same international school in Hong Kong and we've stayed in touch ever since.
Here are Dave and me sitting across from Kelly and her husband Aaron at a Quiz Night we used to go to together in Hong Kong.
Kelly is much younger than I am but she's equally passionate about writing and over the last decade I've been following her determined efforts to write and publish a book. Kelly is the kind of person who doesn't just talk about doing something, she takes action. During a job transitioning period she planned for time off from her career to finish her manuscript. Then she hired an experienced editor to help her hone her science fiction novel.
She started a blog where she detailed her writing journey. She joined a writers' association to make connections and grow professionally. She sought advice from other writers by interviewing them and then writing about what she had learned on her blog. Kelly fine- tuned the art of writing query letters and started sending them out to publishers. She went to writing conferences and met with publishers there.
As you read Kelly's novel The Cube you are going to be just as intrigued as Kelly's protagonists who are trying to figure out this coded message after gathering the symbols from locations all over the United States.
She hired a designer to help her create the intriguing symbols which are at the heart of her novel's plot. After a period of determined effort to find a publisher for her book she decided to publish it herself with the assistance of Windy City Publishers and set about planning her book launch and a publicity campaign to bring attention to her book. After all that hard work her dream has been realized and her book is now in the hands of readers.
Of course as soon as I heard the news I ordered Kelly's book and I've just finished reading it. I'm a sucker for a good romance and The Cube certainly offers that so I was hooked right off the bat. Because I am not a gamer at all, I admit the intricacies of The Cube which is a virtual reality game, initially confused me, but when I reached the section where the book's hero Will enters The Cube and tries his hand at the various tests of intellectual skill and physical endurance I was completely caught up in his quest and read furiously to see if he would be successful.
Dave and I have visited Kelly's family in Chicago and so the fact that the book is set in that city made it even more interesting to me, and will appeal to others who either live in Chicago or who have traveled there and been charmed by its history, geography and culture. Although Kelly's book is an entertaining mystery it also makes you consider ethical questions around the success of large social media entities who know so much about our personal lives, and as the last American election showed, have so much power. Will they use their power to make the world a better place? Is it safe for them to have so much influence? Kelly's two main characters have different opinions about that and it really gets the reader thinking. One thing I appreciated about Kelly's book is that it gives readers hope for the future while many other novels present such a dark, dystopian picture of what is to come.
Kelly is a role model for me as I write new manuscripts, hone others and attempt to get them published. Her determination and dedication to the writing craft is inspirational. You can order her book The Cube from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.


You may notice that Matthew Hallgalley's avatar now notes him as Fantasy League Holder instead of CFCnet Member. This is the new designation that's been awarded him for the next 12 months, until we get a new champion (assuming he fails to win it again). I know there's also the FA Cup and UEFA Champions League ones, but hey, this ain't a perfect world! The league one is the biggie : 38 gamesweeks and no Ronaldo skewing everything next season.
If you would like the enormous honour of having your avatar thus enhanced come next summer...well, you know what you need to do.
I think it's safe to say we'll have a new holder come this time tomorrow.
grantdesmidt11 is our new Fantasy League Holder. Well done! Matthew Hallgalley worthily bore the title for the last 12 months. The league will be up and running in plenty of time for next season, I'll let you know when it's open for registration.
Doesn't look like I'm going to be winning anything this season after my disgraceful predictions thus far.
You'd think I'd of learned after the WBA Game!
Not too many guys look like retaining their crowns this year!
I'll update the Holders list when the last competition ends.
Congratulations to everyone who participated again this year. Nobody managed to retain their titles from last year - just shows how hard it is!
PS : I have no idea who Goke Goke or Mark Worrall are in terms of CFCnet personalities. If either of you can identify themselves to me, I'll update your avatars accordingly.


A short drive from Lethbridge (140 km), Divide Mountain (left) is a fun hike that can be done farily quickly. I forgot to bring my GPS so I don't have any technical details, but I made it from my vehicle to the summit and back again in under 3 hours. I do know that the elevation at the summit is 2641m which makes for an impressive view westward from the summit. I got the idea for climbing Divide Mountain from Sonny Bou's fantastic website.
To get to Divide, drive to the town of St. Mary and travel approximately 10km south of town. Just before a U shaped bend in the highway at the top of the hill, turn into the roadside turnout on your right. You will see an access road which will take you to the base of the mountain. I'd recommend a high clearance vehicle as the road is quite rough.
I took my Canon 7D along for the ride today. Usually I hike with my older Canon Rebel DSLR, but I thought I'd try something different. Here is a shot of Divide Mountain from the east. The ascent route follows the skyline north ridge from right to left. I gained access to the north ridge by going up along the vertical tree line that is pictured on the lower right hand side.
About a 1/3 of the way up Divide Mountain is an old firelookout that is perched precariously on the edge of a cliff. The summit lies in the distance behind the lookout.
Looking west from inside the lookout.
Looking up to the summit from inside the lookout. I thought that the wispy clouds made for an interesting visual effect.
Another look a the old fire lookout as I set out for the summit. The views to the east are not as exciting, but the prairies do hold their beauty. It must have been some experience to ride out a thunderstorm while inside the lookout!
The route I took to the summit followed the edge of the ridge (left).
Looking back down the ridge at my ascent route. You can barely see the fire lookout. The little town of St. Mary sits between Upper and Lower St. Mary lakes.
Once near the top, there are a few ways you can go. For fun, I scrambled up this rock band on Divide's east face.
A fun, but brief walk to the summit along a ridge of stunning green argillite.
It is a short scramble up the summit block.
The summit cairn of Divide Mountain Montana.
The view west and northwest into Glacier National Park. The summit of Divide is half in the Park and half out of the Park. Curly Bear Mountain is in the foreground on the left. Mount Siyeh is in the distant centre. Upper St. Mary Lake is also pictured.
The impressive view to the west. White Calf Mountain is on the left, behind it is Kapunkamint Mountain. In the middle is Kakitos Mountain and Curly Bear Mountain is on the right.
The view north. Going to the Sun highway and Upper and Lower St. Mary lakes are visible. Otokomi Mountain and East Flattop Mountain are in the centre. Why is it that many of the mountains in Glacier National Park are named in honour of the First Nations, while Waterton Park neglects this?
At the top is a memorial to a woman who lost her battle with lukemia. Here is the link to find out more.
My first American summit and number 5 for 2013. This was also number 20 since my 'scrambling rebirth' in August of 2010. I'm actually standing in Glacier National Park in this photo as the mountain is divided in half by the park boundary – hence the name.
White Calf Mountain in the foreground and Kapunkamint Mountain just behind it.
Looking west again at Curly Bear Mountain and Kakitos Mountain.
On the hike back to the car, I stopped at the lookout to chat with a friendly Blackfeet couple who were relaxing in the shade and enjoying the view. Earl showed me where his family has lived 'since the beginning of time' and we chatted for several minutes. I felt honoured to be a guest on his traditional land and I thanked him for the privilege of visiting.
One last look to the west and Curly Bear Mountain from inside the lookout.
A forest fire had raged through the valley several years ago and the white and black trees made for an interesting landscape. Divide Mountain was a fun morning and I was back in Lethbridge by the early afternoon. I will definitely return to hike more mountains in Glacier National Park.


In 2010, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole (La Métro: the metropolis authority) and its partners launched the Mur|Mur, insulation campaign to realise its objectives formulated in the "Air-Energy-Climate plan": a massive reduction of energy consumption while improving housing quality. This plan gave technical and financial support to citizens that want to renovate their homes in a highly energy efficient way. Between 2010 and 2014, more than 4.500 homeowners (owning apartments that were built between 1945 and 1975) have participated in the campaign. Because of the great success, La Métro continues its efforts and has launched Mur | Mur 2 that will run until 2020. The target group has been extended to owners of detached houses. The campaign was partly funded by City-zen.
Project overview with Sylvain Koch-Mathian, from Grenoble-Alpes Métropole (La Métro: the metropolis authority) and Arnaud Segon, from ALEC (local energy and climate agency of Grenoble metropolitan area).
What is the role of everyone in this campaign of insulation?
S.K-M. : Within the framework of its energy policies and its objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the city is the project owner and the coordinator of this operation. Mur/Mur 1's target group was owners of apartments built between 1945 and 1975 They were offered technical, administrative and financial support in renovating their apartments in a highly energy efficient way.
S.K-M. : And La Métro works with certified local building companies to facilitate the first contact by private homeowners and guarantee the quality of renovation activities. We developed our own label to this end.
What new challenges are you facing in Mur | Mur 2?
A.S. : The first difficulty is that 70% of the owners within the apartment complexes, must consent with renovation activities. Motivating the owners to vote in favor of ambitious projects, it's not always easy. In Mur/Mur 2, people have to choose between three levels of retrofitting, with different financial modalities: "progressive", "complete" and "exemplary". (In the framework of City-zen, only exemplary projects located in Grenoble city are eligible).
S.K-M. : In fact, it's not easy in terms of decision making but also in terms of administratives procedure that can be laborious. From registration to the end of the renovation activities, it takes between 4 and 5 years. Unlike the renovation of social housing where it is quite simple once the social landlord has made the decision. To get everyone on board, it takes a minimum of one to two years.
How will you overcome these challenges?
A.S. : We are lucky to have an attractive aid scheme that can facilitate the decision making. The consistent support proposed requires a lot of engineering to support homeowners projects, step by step as a turnkey retrofitting solution. And the feedback we have from Mur/Mur1 helps us to improve that. To find out what motivates owners, we have decided to set up workshops and test different kinds of methods.
S.K-M. : On the question of decision-making, we work with the University (EDDEN laboratory – Economy of sustainable development and energy), which gathers sociologists who will follow a dozen of apartment complexes to understand the issues with regards to group decision-making. The study will be published at the end of City-zen project.


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We have known for quite some time now that various tech giants like Samsung, Nokia, Sony, and Huawei will be displaying their upcoming smartphones at the MWC 2018. Right until now, there was no news regarding Asus. Although looking at recent speculations, it seems like the company will be launching its Asus ZenFone 5 Lite at the event.
Quite a lot of rumours and leaks have been doing the rounds regarding the upcoming Asus smartphone. Earlier leaks about the ZenFone 5 Lite suggested that the phone will be fueled by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with support for LTE connectivity. But recently, Evan Blass, a well-known tipster revealed photos of the Asus ZenFone 5 Lite mobile on Twitter.
Asus ZenFone 5 Lite: Specifications & Features
The revealed photos show that the new addition to the ZenFone series will come with four camera sensors. This indicates that the phone will sport two 20-megapixel sensors on the front and two 16-megapixel sensors on the back. The rear panel renders shows the dual cameras in a vertical setup along with the dual-LED flash module.
Additionally, the front camera features dual sensors with front-facing flash for capturing selfies. The front camera is also presumed to come with beauty mode and artificial bokeh mode. Though there is no confirmation, the rear camera is expected to come with a 120-degree wide-angle lens.
Also as per the renders, the rear panel sports the fingerprint sensor just like most smartphones these days. The renders of Asus ZenFone 5 Lite also show that the phone will launch in 3 colour variants– Midnight Black, Moonlight White, and Rouge Red.
Another interesting photo of the ZenFone 5 Lite that surfaced online was posted on Instagram by the Asus Marketing Executive Marcel Campos on his personal account. The photo posted on Instagram reveals that the phone will feature a Full HD+ display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and a screen resolution of 1080×2160 pixels.
Furthermore, according to the pictures, it looks like the latest Asus smartphone has ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack. Apart from that, the phone has a glossy black panel. The phone is unlike any other phone from the ZenFone series. However, as of now, these are the only specifications that the leaked photos have revealed. Details about other functions and features will be revealed during the official launch.
Tweet Corner:
Evan Blass: @evleaks
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…in (from left to right) Midnight Black, Moonlight White, and Rouge Red pic.twitter.com/yPVqnidM7g
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) February 10, 2018
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Østfinlands regionsforvaltning (svensk: Östra Finlands regionförvaltningsverk eller Regionförvaltningsverket i Östra Finland, finsk: Itä-Suomen aluehallintovirasto) er den regionale statsforvaltning i det østlige Finland.

Den 1. januar 2010 blev Østfinlands len nedlagt, og lenets hidtidige opgaver blev delt mellem Østfinlands regionsforvaltning og de nyoprettede Erhvervs-, trafik- og miljøcentraler.

Geografisk område
Regionsforvaltningens hovedkontor ligger i Sankt Michel, og der er afdelingskontorer i Kuopio og Joensuu.

Regionsforvaltningen dækker følgende landskaber (svenske navne i parentes):
 Pohjois-Karjala (Norra Karelen)
 Pohjois-Savo (Norra Savolax)
 Etelä-Savo (Södra Savolax)

De største byer i regionsforvaltningens område er:
 Kuopio, Joensuu, Mikkeli (S:t Michel), Savonlinna (Nyslott) og Varkaus.

Erhvervs-, trafik- og miljøcentraler
En Erhvervs-, trafik- og miljøcentral (svensk: närings-, trafik- och miljöcentralen (ntm-centralen, ntm), finsk: elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus (ely-keskus, ely)) har tre ansvarsområder. Det er:
 erhverv, arbejdskraft, kompetencer og kultur
 trafik og infrastruktur
 miljø og naturressourcer

Centralen i Kuopio, (Norra Savolax) tager sig af alle tre ansvarsområder, mens centralerne i Sankt Michel (Södra Savolax) og Joensuu (Norra Karelen) hver tager sig af to ansvarsområder.

Finlands regionsforvaltninger
Etableret i 2010


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Loukas joined the School of Economics in 2022. Before that, he was Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Innsbruck (where he still holds a part-time position). He has held several positions in academic administration, including Head of the Department of Public Finance and chair of the faculty board in Innsbruck. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, has taught in a number of European universities, and also worked for the OECD Development Centre.
Loukas has been one of the co-founders of the Special Research Area on Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior, based at the University of Innsbruck. He is currently chair of the board of the Diligentia Foundation for Empirical Research, and a board member of the Austrian Economic Association.
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PhD (Edinburgh), MSc (Edinburgh), Bachelor (Piraeus), Habilitation (Innsbruck)
Experimental and behavioural economics
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Asymmetric information and credence goods
Chair of the Board, Diligentia Foundation for Empirical Research
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Chair of Excellence, Ca'Foscari University of Venice (2022)
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Duh. All of his investigations have been such.
He's the go-to cover-up king and has been for 30+ years.
Still waiting on those low level FBI agents to testify and be the heros and blow the lid on the whole thing.
That is why Representatives Doug Collins, Mark Meadows, and Jim Jordan sent a letter to Huber, the U.S. attorney, this week that essentially exposes the fraud.
The letter then asks for information in four areas where Huber cannot reply without further demonstrating that this is a fake investigation.
There is also mounting evidence that hiding facts is common in deep state political crusades.
Unfortunately, crooked, corrupt, criminal, liberal Mueller has a long history of hiding key evidence.


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China Palace re-opened after shut down by health department

Health Department closes China Palace

The Kern County Department of Public Health has shut down China Palace after multiple violations were spotted during an inspection.
UPDATE: (3/26/18 12:05 P.M.)
China Palace has reopened after being closed by the Kern County Department of Public Health.
Peter Wang, owner of China Palace Restaurant, in a statement says, "China Palace has been family-owned in Bakersfield for more than 30 years, and we have enjoyed serving our customers delicious and fresh Chinese food for that entire time."
It goes on to say that the inspection showed concerns with an external handle on a freezer, potential cross-contamination of food in storage, necessary floor and wall repairs, and lack of cooling table for food preparation. Wang says a majority of the violations were immediately and positively fixed.
"We were re-evaluated and received an 'A' rating by Tuesday afternoon and reopened on Wednesday, March 21, for lunch," says Wang in the statement. "We understand our customers' concerns, and we are committed to renewing the trust that Bakersfield has given us for over 30 years."
The restaurant on California Ave. was given an inspection score of 70% on March. 16. According to the report, cooked chicken was not being kept at the correct temperature. Cut vegetables and raw shrimp were also not at the desired temperature.
It was also stated that raw meat was uncovered in storage, and that repairs were not made to the restaurant that were required in the previous inspection.
Other needed repairs were noted in the report. It's unclear when China Palace will be reopen for business.


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TFN Interview: Ultimate Star Wars Co-Author Tricia Barr
Posted by Eric on April 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM CST
This is part two in a four-part series of interviews with the authors of the new book Ultimate Star Wars. The DK reference guide is intended to both introduce new fans to the Star Wars franchise and refresh the memories of longtime fans about the state of the universe.
Tricia Barr, a self-published author, Star Wars podcaster, and blogger, wrote most of The Clone Wars content in the book, in addition to the weighty biographies of two rather major characters: Luke and Leia. It was also Barr's job to help pick the "Key Events" that are interspersed throughout the book, marking the most important moments in the saga. In our interview, she explained how rewatching The Clone Wars for this book reinforced the series' importance to the broader mythology.
What attracted you to this project?
Star Wars! [Laughs] That's the easy answer. What attracted me to it, ultimately—wow, I worked that in, too. I'm almost being punny!
So what attracted me was, this was going to be the new start for resource material for Star Wars, and I felt like I had a lot of my own perspective to bring to Star Wars as far as things I saw as a fan. I was looking forward to the next generation looking at this as a resource material, as a way to dive in. Also, I really have this great appreciation for what Star Wars fans who are there in it now, who buy this type of stuff, are looking for. I thought I had this mix of—you know, I've got nieces and nephews, and I hope they get into this kind of book and can fall into Star Wars that way and use it as a resource, but also, I know that longtime Star Wars fans love this kind of stuff.
I love this kind of stuff, so that's why I wanted to really dive into this project.
How did they pitch this to you?
It was sort of like the ultimate adult encyclopedia, of a sort. It's not totally [an] encyclopedia, but [it's] the resource that you could go to to find out about Star Wars now in this new era.
I like how you sprinkle in a few key events. Was there a lot of debate over which ones to choose, or were the choices obvious?
I think there might have been some debate. I helped pick the key events, so that was one of my tasks. I [created] a list with some alternatives, because you could go a lot of different ways, and it depended where they wanted to stick it—if you can make it relevant to vehicles or character moments or the planets. It all had to work out [thematically]. I helped break those out.
It really helps you frame the saga: What are the things that happened that were really key moments that you need to know going forward? You [will see those and] go, "Ah, yeah, that's important!"
Was this book going to be chronological from the start, or were you involved in the decision to do that?
That was decided long before I became involved. When you look at it and look at how they laid it out, it makes sense. As you watch [the saga], you can see [the book come to life]. Essentially what we got was a map that said, "These are the characters, this one is an A-level character and they have a couple pages." Different characters [got] different size information that you were going to have to pull up. That was all laid out when I came in. It was in there, it was decided, and it was pretty much, "Go," and find whatever you needed to make the characters or the vessels or the planets that you were writing about pop.
Finding the quotes was one of the hardest things. You [got] one quote to speak to a character. [Laughs] You had to make it work. What quote is going to make Leia matter, or really speak for her? Because she has a lot of snark. So then you're like, "Okay, how am I going to find the one that really works for her?"
What was the process like to catalog every single entry?
I did a lot of The Clone Wars stuff, [and I] somehow ended up with Luke and Leia with how they showed up in the timeline, which lucked out for me. When you're building out the big character pages—because it depended. If you were doing the smaller character entries, sometimes, especially in The Clone Wars, there's a lot of info and a lot of storytelling in The Clone Wars, and you're looking at a character like, say, Sugi, who comes up a lot of times, but you have to boil her down to 50 words, say.
But for the larger character entries, you essentially wanted to create three or four little stories that really framed who they were in the saga, and then take those and figure out the pictures that would be relevant. Then, of course, you're working at the same time [as the other authors] trying to find pictures. For instance, I had a lot of Luke and Yoda pictures that were coming up based on things I was working on, but they didn't want to conflict with pictures that were being used in other Dagobah or Yoda entries. [For] the Death Star, another big entry, you wanted to frame out three or four important, relevant things that spoke to that story.
How did you coordinate and split up the work?
There was this amazing lady, Jan, who was like the ringleader, who kept us all going and making sure that we were meeting our schedules and getting everything in and to the editors and reviewed. We were all working at the same time, we were doing our research, first getting pictures in. That helped lay stuff out, because later on we would have to come back and give them appropriate-sized captions. And [we were also] laying out the timelines that were on the side for characters and stuff like that. There were steps that you were given.
Sometimes, you'd say, "Well, that picture isn't really going to work." So they worked with you. Jan was the resource that pushed everything around and made sure the editors got what they needed, and then she would file back with questions from editorial or Lucasfilm. It was definitely a massive project-management task to keep it going.
Did you get to create any new tidbits of canon in any of the character backstories? Adam mentioned that he had given Ezra's slingshot some new backstory.
I don't think so. He had a little bit more leeway because he was working in the new era, more Rebels stuff. I was working on trying to take characters like Luke, Leia, [and] the Millennium Falcon and boil them down to all the things. [Laughs] You could look at Luke Skywalker's entry, say, on Wookieepedia, and it goes on forever. But you had to figure out what is important in his story from the movies. There's not really a lot of other source material. His material is from the movies.
It was sort of like distilling down, filtering out all the things that weren't really relevant—taking all that out of your mind, things that you thought and knew from Expanded Universe stuff. Who are these characters? What are their stories? What's relevant?
A lot of the entries I did were Clone Wars planets. Planets like Hoth and some of the other planets from the original trilogy didn't have a lot of political oomph in their stories. Hoth was essentially deserted, and that was a good thing for the reason it was in Empire Strikes Back. But Alderaan has a tremendous amount of political history that we see laid out in The Clone Wars. So you had to bring all that in and make it relevant. That was one of the tasks, especially going through The Clone Wars and saying, "What about Alderaan is important? It's not just a pretty planet that got blown up. It has some history that is relevant in the saga. And maybe someone hasn't seen The Clone Wars."
I'm hoping that people who haven't seen The Clone Wars read this and go, "This is really interesting. I want to go back and watch these [episodes]."
It strikes me that you had some of the toughest work, writing about Luke and Leia, the biggest characters in the saga. You're an EU reader. I know that you know all their EU travels. It seems like your challenge—to filter all that out—encapsulates the challenge that EU fans face as we pivot from that era into a new view of canon. How did you keep the EU from influencing your work?
Well, with Luke and Leia, [I] went to the movies, because that's really our resource on them. And yes, there are a lot of other things that we hope and believe about them. I felt like, as a storyteller myself, I would not want to box in future Star Wars storytellers—because that happened a lot, where, ten years ago, there'd be a little piece of something in [the EU] from a resource guide and they would say, "Well, you can't conflict with that." I was trying to not make any instances that would create a source of conflict for future storytellers.
This is really looking at the movies and the television show. But yes, The Clone Wars was a massive undertaking, just to sit down for some of the characters and…you had to really look and see what happened for those characters. I was watching The Clone Wars. It wasn't just reading. It was watching, going back through things. One of the best resources for me was the StarWars.com Databank, because I could find pictures for the episodes of The Clone Wars and figure out where I needed to go for those characters, to figure out what I was writing, if I had any questions.
What was your favorite part of working on this book?
One of my favorite things was working on the key moments. One of my favorite pages was one of The Clone Wars pages, it was 98-99, which had Mother Talzin, Savage Opress, Lux and Mina Bonteri, Greedo on that page, which is kind of funny because you think of him as original trilogy, but he kept popping up in The Clone Wars!
Yeah, you got quite a few characters in your section on The Clone Wars whom we think of as original trilogy characters.
Yeah, so that as fun, and I really just ended up with this great appreciation for the lore that was being built in The Clone Wars. I loved writing about the Daughter and the Father and the Son. The Mortis episodes [are] some of my favorite episodes. It was interesting to…sometimes you might have a designer who [would ask], "Are they just called the Mother, or…?" [Laughs] "How does that work?" And I'm like, "Yeah, the Daughter, and Son, and the Father." [Laughs] Trying to…it's like, wow, this is really deep stuff. Make sure you get it right. Don't mess it up! [Laughs] We knew there were good people there at Lucasfilm making sure that we got it all righ.t
One of the things this book emphasizes to me is how interconnected all of the canon stories are, especially the importance of The Clone Wars. Did you learn anything about Star Wars while putting this book together?
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I saw the book for the first time! I had seen the sheets and spreads, but [I saw] it all together for the first time at the convention, which was really exciting! [Laughs] It was an amazing honor and a pleasure to speak to everybody. I think I ended up signing for eight hours total. You end up realizing—I've heard professionals talk about, "How was the convention?" "I don't know, I was sitting at my booth, doing art or whatever." But I loved every minute, getting to talk to people and really reminding me of how important the fans are to Star Wars. That was fun and great.
The DK party was amazing. Just getting to take a couple photos with Anthony Daniels, who wrote an amazing foreword for this book. I had been able to talk to him at the costume exhibit at the Seattle EMP museum when it opened. It was funny, because back then, he had literally just written the foreword, and it had just all been signed off. So I knew he had written it, but it wasn't out there. So I said, "So, you wrote the foreword for Ultimate Star Wars." And he sort of looked at me, like, "How do you know that?" [Laughs] And I was like, "I'm one of the authors." So he says, "Oh, we're going to party at Celebration Anaheim." It was fun to get to see him again. We were definitely all being fanboys and fangirls [about] getting to take a picture with him.
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Q: trouble when testing solidity const assert = require('assert');
const ganache = require('ganache-cli');
const Web3 = require('web3');
const web3 = new Web3(ganache.provider());
const { interface, bytecode } = require('../compile');

let accounts;
let inbox;

beforeEach(async () => {
  // Get a list of all accounts
  accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();

  // Use one of those accounts to deploy
  // the contract
  inbox = await new web3.eth.Contract(JSON.parse(interface))
    .deploy({
      data: bytecode,
      arguments: ['Hi there!']
    })
    .send({ from: accounts[0], gas: '1000000' });
});

describe('Inbox', () => {
    it('deploys a contract', () => {
    assert.ok(inbox.options.address);
  });

  it('has a default message', async () => {
    const message = await inbox.methods.message().call();
    assert.equal(message, 'Hi there!');
  });

  it('can change the message', async () => {
    await inbox.methods.setMessage('bye').send({ from: accounts[0] });
    const message = await inbox.methods.message().call();
    assert.equal(message, 'bye');
  });
});

after running the above code i keep getting the following  error
inbox@1.0.0 test C:\Users\user\Documents\inbox

mocha

Inbox
    1) "before each" hook for "deploys a contract"
0 passing (98ms)
  1 failing
1) "before each" hook for "deploys a contract":
     SyntaxError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0
      at JSON.parse ()
      at Context.beforeEach (test\inbox.test.js:16:44)
      at
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! inbox@1.0.0 test: mocha
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the inbox@1.0.0 test script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-07-03T13_17_54_895Z-debug.log
C:\Users\user\Documents\inbox\test>

A: When I changed my encoding from 'UTF-8' to 'utf8' in my compile.js file it worked.
My compile.js file looks like this
const path = require('path'); //for crossplatform
const fs = require('fs'); //file system
const solc = require('solc');

const inboxPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'contracts', 'Inbox.sol');
const source = fs.readFileSync(inboxPath, 'utf8'); //change to utf8 to UTF-8

module.exports = solc.compile(source, 1).contracts[':Inbox'];

A: Hi guys I am also face this issue before.
There is nothing need to change in complie.js file.
Just we need to dot the change in declaration part
like in your case :
instead of writing this
const {interface, bytecode} = require("../compile")
we can write  like
const {interface} = require("../compile")
const {bytecode} = require("../compile")

In this case we get the both interface and bytecode value which is exported form compile.js file.

A: uninstall your current version of solidity compiler and install solidity@0.4.17 (npm install --save solc@0.4.17) and make sure in your source code you have mentioned the correct version (pragma solidity ^0.4.17).