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SENIOR PASTOR JOEL WILSON
Joel Wilson is the Lead Pastor at Lake Church. He grew up in Tennessee and received his BA from East Tennessee State University in 1986. He later earned a MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1990. He and Melinda were married in 1988 and have 2 daughters; Julia who is a graduate at the University of Oklahoma and Lydia who attends Montgomery High School. He and Melinda planted the Lake Church in 2002. They have served the Lord in Ministry their entire marriage. Their passion is seeing people come to Christ and discover His incredible planfor their lives.
WORSHIP PASTOR JAMES ZIMMERMAN
"It is a privilege and a joy to Share God's presence through worship with our Church family! My heart's desire is that God's people feel His love and are blessed with His Heavenly blessings each and every week." James Zimmerman
James was welcomed to the Lake Church family, along with his wife Ruthie, in May 2014.
A pianist, singer and songwriter, he manages and leads the Worship team, as well as assisting with other projects (web site, social media and kid's ministry). James and his wife Ruthie also lead a Life Group in Walden, an empty nester group who enjoys love and worship. For fun Ruthie and James enjoy taking walks to the lake and feeding the ducks, a nice night out for a meal or playing music with friends.
CHURCH SECRETARY RUTHIE ZIMMERMAN
Ruthie loves her Lake Church jobs! As Secretary for the Church, she handles most of the paperwork and communication for the everyday projects, including ordering supplies and taking care of repairs. She makes up the Sunday Bulletin and prepares for the service every Sunday. Ruthie then works the Media Booth for the service. She also helps James with the Worship Team organization. Ruthie and James host a Life Group in Walden and became a part of Lake Church in May of 2014 fitting right in with our warm family. Ruthie loves serving others, enjoys healthy cooking and hanging out with friends. If you have any questions about Lake Church, Ruthie is the person to call.
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Q: Generation of order on the Earth I learnt in a course on Biological Physics that it is possible to generate order without violating the second law of thermodynamics. This can be done if "high quality" energy is delivered to the system and "low quality energy" is emitted. In the system of the sun-earth this is exactly the case: the sun delivers sunlight to the earth in a periodic manner and the earth emits energy in form of heat. Have simulations or theoretical models been done on this concept? I am searching, but I can't find anything. I am not sure what keywords to use. There must have been studies done on this already and I hope someone can point them out to me.

A: Not sure what sort of simulation or model you are looking for. Our proximity to the Sun creates a temperature and energy difference across the surface of the the Earth that is essential to almost all ecologies on Earth (the exceptions may be lithophiles that live within the Earth's crust and ecologies around hydrothermal vents). All organisms have mechanisms that reduce the local entropy or disorder within the organism at the expense of exporting  disorder (as heat or waste products) to the surrounding environment. But the mechanisms for doing this are many and varied. The thermodynamic argument simply shows that it is possible for life to evolve without breaking the second law of thermodynamics - it does not constrain how life can evolve, so it is not something that can be simulated or modelled.
The Wikipedia article on entropy and life summarises the history of the thermodynamic argument, and provides a further reading list that may be useful.

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Stars standouts Seguin, Bishop facing 5-month surgery rehabs
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MacKinnon reaches 500 points in Avs win
Crosby's OT goal lifts Pens over Caps
Ryan 1st Wing to 4 goals in 1st 3 games
Hughes' 3-point 2nd period powers Devils
Panthers top 'Hawks on Vatrano's OT goal
Jets rally from 2 down to top Sens in OT
'Canes-Preds 1st NHL game off over virus
NHL pulls microchipped 'tracking' pucks
Avs send Cole to Wild for Pateryn
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin will need about five months of rehabilitation and recovery after surgery to repair the torn labrum in his hip that he played with during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Goaltender Ben Bishop is facing a similar recovery time following his second knee surgery.
The Stars said Seguin had surgery Monday in New York. Bishop had surgery Oct. 21 in Missouri to repair torn meniscus in his right knee, about five months after a previous procedure.
Seguin led the team with 50 points (17 goals, 33 assists) in the regular season. The six-time All-Star had two goals and 11 assists in 26 playoff games, with no goals and six assists the last 15 games.
Bishop didn't play after a first-round playoff game against Colorado on Aug. 31 because he never fully recovered from a previous knee surgery in May during the season's 4 1/2-month pause because of the coronavirus pandemic. Bishop has three years left on his $29.5 million, six-year contract.
The Stars last month re-signed goalie Anton Khudobin, who had become a free agent, to new a $10 million, three-year contract.
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A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems
Seok Hwan Park, Heunchul Lee, Sang Rim Lee, Inkyu Lee
This paper proposes an efficient beamforming scheme which attains optimality as singular value decomposition (SVD) based systems with low complexity utilizing transmit maximum-ratio combining (TMRC) techniques. The TMRC scheme is the optimum structure for single beamforming systems in terms of received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in multiple-input single-output (MISO) channels. In this paper, we generalize the TMRC scheme to multiple beamforming multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) systems which support more than one data stream in coded systems. We express each beamforming vector as a linear combination of TMRC vectors whose coefficients are optimized in a successive manner. Optimization of the beamforming vector is followed by the decorrelation process. All TMRC vectors used as a basis of the remaining beamforming vectors are made orthogonal to previously computed beamforming vectors. Exploiting the concept of the gradient ascent algorithm, we propose a simple non-iterative method of computing the precoder which obtains the near optimal performance. Also we derive a closed form expression of the output SNR distribution for the proposed scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves the almost identical link performance as the SVD-based system for arbitrary configurations with reduced complexity.
IEEE Transactions on Communications
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.06.070520
Closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
Transmit beamforming
10.1109/TCOMM.2009.06.070520
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Park, S. H., Lee, H., Lee, S. R., & Lee, I. (2009). A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57(6), 1847-1856. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.06.070520
A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems. / Park, Seok Hwan; Lee, Heunchul; Lee, Sang Rim; Lee, Inkyu.
In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 6, 2009, p. 1847-1856.
Park, SH, Lee, H, Lee, SR & Lee, I 2009, 'A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems', IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1847-1856. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.06.070520
Park SH, Lee H, Lee SR, Lee I. A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2009;57(6):1847-1856. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.06.070520
Park, Seok Hwan ; Lee, Heunchul ; Lee, Sang Rim ; Lee, Inkyu. / A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2009 ; Vol. 57, No. 6. pp. 1847-1856.
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A new 19,000-square-foot academic building opened in spring 2017 behind the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, off Whittier Place. The building will initially house the Psychology Department and the engineering shop during the construction of the Biology, Engineering, and Psychology project, but is designed for eventual use by the Art Department with studios for sculpture, ceramics, painting, and drawing. It will also house two art history classrooms, student workspace, and an outdoor sculpture garden. The new spaces allow for adequate room and facilities for current and future pedagogy for sculpture and ceramics, including a metalworking area, separate classrooms for wheel-throwing and hand-building, and glazing and kiln areas.
Overhead skylights provide much of the lighting for the studios, as well as make use of the building's advantageous location for northern light in the painting and drawing studio.
The building is one of Swarthmore's first to be built to the standards of the College's new sustainability framework, and as such has a number of interesting "green" features, including a photovoltaic array for electricity generation and a large geothermal well field for heating and cooling, which shares space with a stormwater-management bed that handles the runoff from the mini-watershed within which the building is located. The project manages stormwater from Kyle House, the Lang Center, the new building, and a portion of the DuPont parking lot. This will result in a significant decline in runoff reaching the Crum Creek and its steep banks. The project also features a small green roof and is constructed entirely of sustainable materials and bird-safe glass.
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Glaciers, whale watching, and world-class fishing: it's all on the Kenai
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The Kenai Peninsula offers Alaska's widest variety of activities in one of its most accessible regions. People come from all over the world to whale watch in Seward, see glaciers calve in Kenai Fjords National Park, fish for halibut in Homer, and explore the backcountry around Cooper's Landing. The area provides locals and visitors with quintessential Alaska wilderness just a couple of hours from Anchorage.
The Kenai Peninsula consists of more than 16,000 square miles of rugged mountains, fjords, rivers, and forests. With two main highways and towns scattered along the roads, exploring the region is relatively easy compared to other parts of the state. More, the Kenai's coastal climate is considerably less harsh than interior Alaska. Summer beckons with world-class hiking, kayaking, and fishing; the winter is great for backcountry skiing. Despite the convenience, the Kenai Peninsula actually gets fewer visitors than Denali National Park. If you must pick between the two, we recommend the Kenai.
Kenai Quick Facts
Location: Southern coast of Alaska, beginning 50 miles south of Anchorage
Size: 8,600 square miles, about the size of New Jersey
Access: The Seward Highway extends 130 miles from Anchorage to Seward
Geography: The glaciated Kenai Mountains cover the eastern side of the peninsula, with Prince William Sound to the east and Cook Inlet to the west. Kenai Fjords National Park is located on the southeastern side of the peninsula about 130 miles south of Anchorage
Top Towns: Homer and Seward
Things to Do: Hiking, rafting, fishing, Kenai Fjords National Park
Things to Do on the Kenai Peninsula
Kenai Fjords National Park
Located on the southeastern Kenai Peninsula, Kenai Fjords National Park is one of Alaska's most beautiful places. Tall mountains and glaciers plummet into cold waters, and the park is full of life including whales, orcas, eagles, moose, and bears. On a par with Denali for scenery, the Kenai Fjords are a 2.5-hour drive from Anchorage. Boat tours and guided trips depart from Seward.
A humpback breaching in Kenai Fjords | Gregory Smith
Halibut Fishing in Homer
The Homer "Spit" is a 4-mile long finger of sand extending from mainland Alaska into Kachemak Bay. The small town of Homer, known as the halibut capital of the world, is on the last paved road in Alaska and the terminus of the U.S. highway system. Homer has plenty of local shops and restaurants but the lifeblood of the town is fishing—it's easy to hop on a local halibut charter to fill your freezer at home with fresh catch.
Harding Icefield
The Harding Icefield (a network of interconnected valley glaciers similar to an ice cap) covers a vast expanse of the Kenai Mountains. It's one of the largest and most accessible icefields in North America, covering 700 square miles with more than 30 glaciers flowing from it. Just up the road from Seward, the 8.2-mile Harding Icefield Trail offers panoramic views of ice as far as the eye can see.
A great way to see wildlife on the Kenai Peninsula and beat the crowds is a rafting trip. The Upper Kenai River near Cooper Landing is ideal for families and enjoying the stunning surroundings of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. For serious whitewater, Six Mile Creek with headwaters in the Chugach Mountains offers class IV and class V rapids.
Rafting down the Kenai River | Frank Kovalchek
Salmon Fishing on the Kenai and Russian Rivers
They call it "combat fly fishing" for a reason: at the peak of the summer the salmon runs at the confluence of the Kenai and Russian Rivers literally are a battle zone. Even if you're not fishing, it's quite a scene: hundreds of fisherman line up shoulder to shoulder for a chance to cast a line into the salmon-rich waters. Protective clothing is recommended.
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Florence has a master's degree in Organizational Leadership and has achieved numerous content area certifications including Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP); Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE); and a Certificate in Servant Leadership. She has a strong reputation as a turn-around executive, grappling with troubling leadership, governance, and sustainability issues for several organizations during her career. Consequently, she has developed expertise in leadership development, governance, strategic planning, sustainability, team-building, and community affairs.
Over her 30 year career, Florence served as the CEO in three nonprofit organizations, most recently at Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission. Recognized as one of the most experienced board members in the country, she has served on the boards of numerous not-for-profit organizations and for-profit advisory councils. She has received such professional recognition as the Outstanding Executive award from the Kentucky Nonprofit Network (2013), the Outstanding Women of Northern Kentucky honor (2018), and was recently recognized by Community Action Kentucky with the Jesse Amburgey Award for Excellence (2018) in recognition for her years of service on the board of directors of this statewide association for Community Action Agencies. She has also received community service awards from two Chambers of Commerce (Northern Kentucky in 2018, and Richmond, Kentucky in 1998).


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Das Schloss Valmer () ist eine Schlossanlage nordöstlich von Chançay, einer französischen Gemeinde im Département Indre-et-Loire der Region Centre-Val de Loire. Es entstand ab 1524 durch Umbau einer mittelalterlichen Burg der Familie Binet und wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts umgestaltet und erweitert. Nach zahlreichen weiteren Veränderungen und Instandsetzungen während des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts wurde das Hauptgebäude durch ein Feuer im Jahr 1948 fast vollständig zerstört. Die Reste der Anlage im Stil der Neorenaissance gehören zu den zahlreichen Schlössern im Loiretal und stehen gemeinsam mit dem dazugehörigen terrassierten Barockgarten seit dem 1. Mai 1930 als eingeschriebenes Monument historique unter Denkmalschutz. Schlosspark und -garten sind seit 2004 als  ausgezeichnet. Sie können zusammen mit der in den Felsen gehauenen Schlosskapelle entgeltlich besichtigt werden, wovon pro Jahr 12.000 Besucher Gebrauch machen.

Geschichte
Im Jahr 1434 wurde Valmer das erste Mal genannt. Zu jener Zeit war es im Besitz von Catherine de Bueil, die somit die erste namentlich bekannte Besitzerin der Domäne war. Am 23. Juli 1461 kaufte diese Jacques Binet. Dessen Sohn Macé wurde im Jahr 1500 als Eigentümer aufgeführt. Aus seiner Ehe mit Jeanne Briçonnet stammte der Sohn Jean,  des Königs und der Königin von Navarra. Er ließ die bis dahin bestehende mittelalterliche Burg in der Zeit von 1524 bis 1529 umfassend verändern und zu einem wohnlicheren Schloss gestalten. Zeitgleich wurde in den Tufffelsen, auf dem das Schloss steht, eine Schlosskapelle gehauen, die am 28. November 1529 durch den Bischof von Autun eingesegnet und am 13. März 1535 geweiht wurde. Als während der Hugenottenkriege 1562 protestantische Soldaten das Schloss plünderten, gehörte es Jean Coustely, dem Bürgermeister von Tours. Um an das auf dem Schlossareal vermutete Geldversteck der Familie zu kommen, schreckten die Plünderer nicht davor zurück, Jeans Tochter zu foltern und ihr die Fußsohlen zu verbrennen.

Jeans Nachfahre Claude Coustely verkaufte Valmer am 23. Mai 1640 an einen Berater Ludwigs XIII., Thomas Bonneau, der umfassende Umgestaltungen und Erweiterungen an der Schlossanlage vornahm. Die Innenräume des Schlosses wurden im Stil Louis-treize überarbeitet, und nordöstlich des Schlossgebäudes ließ Bonneau 1646 bis 1647 einen Pavillonbau im gleichen Stil als Unterkunft des Schlossverwalters errichten. Weil der neue Schlossherr die alte Felsenkapelle als zu dunkel und zu feucht empfand, entstand an der Westseite des  genannten Verwalterhauses eine neue Kapelle, die am 25. Oktober 1647 gesegnet wurde. Südlich des Schlosses ließ Bonneau zudem neue Wirtschaftsgebäude bauen und das Tor als Eingang zum Schlossgelände errichten. Auch die heutigen Gärten und der Schlosspark gehen auf Thomas Bonneau zurück. Zwar gab es schon seit dem ersten Schloss aus dem 16. Jahrhundert einen zugehörigen Terrassengarten nach Vorbildern der italienischen Renaissancegärten, aber Bonneau ließ sie in barocker Manier überarbeiten und zusätzlich die Obere Terrasse () anlegen. In die neu gestalteten Gartenanlagen und den Park stellte er zahlreiche Vasen und Statuen. Bekannt ist die von ihm bei dem Bildhauer Jacques Sarazin in Auftrag gegebene Statue aus weißem Marmor, die Leda und Zeus (als Schwan) zeigt und sich seit 1980 im New Yorker Metropolitan Museum of Art befindet.

Nach dem Tod Thomas Bonneaus ging das Anwesen durch zahlreiche Hände und gehörte nie lange einem Eigentümer. Für das Jahr 1691 ist Etienne-Dominique Chaufourneau als Eigentümer überliefert, doch schon 1703 gehörte Valmer Gatien Pinon. 1736 stand das Anwesen wieder zum Verkauf und wurde von einem Herrn Duvelaer, dem Kommandanten des Lorienter Hafens, erworben, ehe es zehn Jahre später Nicolas Chaban de La Rivière am 5. Juli 1746 kaufte. Seine Nachfahren blieben bis 1888 Eigentümer. Er mehrte den Besitz durch Zukauf der benachbarten Seigneurie La Côte am 17. April 1756. Bei seinem Tod 1763 hinterließ er das Schloss samt zugehörigem Landbesitz seiner Schwester Marie Chaban und ihrem Ehemann Jacques Valleteau de Chabrefy, die es 1766 ihrem Sohn, dem Baron Thomas Valleteau de Chabrefy, vermachten. Nach dessen Tod im Mai 1792 kam das Schloss an seine Witwe Marie-Françoise Barré. Am 4. August 1810 wurde die Seigneurie La Côte wieder vom Besitz abgeteilt und Jérôme, dem jüngeren Sohn Marie-Françoises, übergeben. Der ältere Sohn Thomas (II.) sollte im Gegenzug Valmer erben, was im November 1825 geschah. Thomas (II.) ließ 1826 die Fresken in der jüngeren Schlosskapelle restaurieren, wovon seine Wappenkartusche in der Kapelle zeugt. Möglicherweise ließ er auch die heute noch erhaltene hohe dorische Säule im Zentrum des Hainbuchenlabyrinths sowie zahlreiche Vasen im Garten aufstellen. Sie stammen wahrscheinlich vom Schloss Chanteloup, das ab 1823 Stück für Stück niedergelegt und verkauft wurde.

Als Thomas (II.) im Januar 1846 verstarb, folgte ihm sein Sohn Jérôme-Charles Valleteau de Chabrefy als Schlossbesitzer nach. Er ließ das Anwesen ab Juni 1847 modernisieren und im Stil der Neorenaissance verändern. Dazu engagierte er den bekannten Architekten Félix Duban, der sich mit der vier Jahre zuvor begonnenen Restaurierung des Schlosses Blois einen Namen gemacht hatte. Was genau Duban an Umgestaltungsvorschlägen machte und ob diese auch umgesetzt wurden, ist jedoch nicht bekannt. Weil seine Rechnung an Jérôme-Charles Valleteau de Chabrefy sehr niedrig ausfiel, geht die Forschung davon aus, dass sein Anteil an den Veränderungen nur sehr gering war. Einen wesentlich größeren Anteil an den Umgestaltungen hatte Dubans Schüler Jules Potier de La Morandière, nach dessen Plänen in der Zeit von 1855 bis 1856 zahlreiche Umgestaltungen vorgenommen wurden. Mit Ausnahme der Nordostseite wurden alle Fassaden durchgreifend verändert, indem unter anderem die Kreuzstockfenster entfernt und die renaissancezeitlichen Lukarnen ersetzt wurden. Das Hauptportal an der zum Ehrenhof zeigenden Südwestseite erfuhr ebenso eine Umgestaltung wie die Nordwestseite, an der de La Morandière zwischen zwei Ecktürmen eine zweigeschossige Galerie einfügen ließ. Außerdem wurde dem Hauptgebäude an der Südostseite ein niedriger, eingeschossiger Küchenflügel angefügt. Die Veränderungen erstreckten sich jedoch nicht nur auf das Hauptschloss, sondern umfassten auch Wirtschafts- und Nebengebäude. So wurde zum Beispiel die alte Mühle 450 Meter nordwestlich des Schlossbaus 1855 abgerissen und an ihrer Stelle eine Unterkunft für den Pächter des Wirtschaftshofs sowie eine neue Scheune errichtet.

Bei Jérôme-Charles Tod 1874 ging der Besitz an seine drei Kinder aus der Ehe mit Marie Amélie de Bonnard, Jérôme, Henriette und Marguerite. Sie verkauften Valmer im September 1888 an Paul Lefèvre, einen Börsenmakler aus Paris. Dieser engagierte nur sieben Monate nach dem Kauf den Architekten Léon-Auguste Brey, um ab 1889 auch noch die bisher unveränderte Nordostfassade des Hauptgebäudes umzugestalten. Zusätzlich wurde das Obergeschoss der Galerie an der Nordwestseite vor 1902 durch eine Loggia mit Rundbögen und dorischen Säulen ersetzt. Um den Zeitraum von 1890 bis 1900 ließ Lefèvre außerdem die Felsenkapelle neu gestalten. Einige der Gartenvasen wurden von ihm um 1900 weggegeben und befinden sich heute im Schloss Pierrefitte in Auzouer-en-Touraine. Im Gegenzug schaffte er andere Vasen und auch Säulen an, um sie im Schlossgarten aufzustellen, und ließ zwei Gewächshäuser errichten. Nach seinem Tod 1925 wurde das Schloss durch seine Witwe und seine Tochter Renée sowie deren Mann Adhémar Barré de Saint-Venant bewohnt, als in der Nacht vom 20. Oktober 1948 durch ein vergessenes Bügeleisen ein Feuer im Hauptgebäude ausbrach. Nur wenige Teile des Gebäudes wurden nicht durch den Brand zerstört, darunter der Keller, zwei Treppen, die Loggia und der Küchenflügel. Das Hauptschloss stand jedoch 20 Jahre lang als ungesicherte Brandruine da, ehe die Reste im August 1968 endgültig niedergelegt wurden. 1949 gab es zwar den Plan, einen Teil des Schlosses wiederaufzubauen, um darin ein Altersheim einzurichten, doch dieser wurde nicht realisiert. Lediglich der Orangerie genannte Küchenflügel erfuhr durch den Architekten Maurice Boillé eine Instandsetzung. Die Arbeiten waren nur eine von insgesamt vier Renovierungsmaßnahmen, die während des 20. Jahrhunderts vorgenommen wurden.

Die heutigen Schlosseigentümer Aymar de Saint-Venant, ein Urenkel Paul Lefèvres, und seine Frau Alix halten die ausgedehnten Gartenanlagen instand und haben sie für Besucher geöffnet. Außerdem bewirtschaftet das Paar gemeinsam mit seinem Sohn Jean die zum Schloss gehörigen Weinanbauflächen und vermietet die Orangerie für Feste und Empfänge.

Beschreibung

Schloss Valmer liegt im Tal der Brenne an einem Hang am östlichen Flussufer. Die Architektur samt Terrassengärten und Schlosspark präsentiert sich dem Besucher als ein typisches Ensemble des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts.

Architektur

Hauptgebäude
Der Standort des einstigen Hauptschlosses wird heute durch in Form geschnittene Eiben markiert. Er lag mittig in der von Südwesten nach Nordosten verlaufenden Achse der Anlage. Die zwei Geschosse des rechteckigen Gebäudes waren von einem Walmdach bedeckt. An drei der Ecken standen dreigeschossige Viereckstürme. Die fünfachsige zum Ehrenhof gelegene Südwestseite war als Schaufassade gestaltet. Über dem mittig gelegenen Haupteingang befand sich eine statuenbesetzte Nische, die von einem Rundbogengiebel bekrönt war. Die Lukarnen im Dachgeschoss besaßen an dieser Seite Giebel in Muschelform, während die Lukarnen an der nordöstlichen Längsseite des Gebäudes reich skulptierte Giebel in anderer Form aufwiesen. Die dortige Fassade besaß nach Veränderungen am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts auch wieder Kreuzstockfenster. Zwischen den beiden Ecktürmen an der Nordwestseite stand ein zweigeschossiger Galeriebau, dessen Fenster im Erdgeschoss von Pilastern gerahmt waren. Das obere Geschoss war als Loggia ausgebildet. Ihre drei Rundbögen wurden von dorischen Säulen getragen, zwischen denen sich eine Brüstung befand. Der Bau war von einem hohen Walmdach abgeschlossen. Bis in das 19. Jahrhundert führte eine Zugbrücke von der Südostseite des ersten Geschosse zur Oberen Terrasse des Gartens.

Im Erdgeschoss des Hauptgebäudes lag neben zwei Wohnräumen, einem Treppenhaus, einem Büro und einer großen Küche ein Großer Salon () genannter Raum, dessen zentrales Deckengemälde dem Maler François Lemoyne zugeschrieben wurde. Es war von Eckmedaillons in Grisailletechnik umgeben. Die Bibliothek des Schlosses besaß eine bemalte Balkendecke und einen Kamin, der ein Porträt des französischen Königs Heinrich IV. zeigte. Dieser Kamin blieb bei dem Feuer 1948 unbeschädigt, und der Graf Saint-Venant verkaufte ihn anschließend, sodass er später in einem Schloss in der Normandie installiert wurde. Ein weiterer bemerkenswerter Kamin stand im Esszimmer. Er war aus alten Steinfragmenten des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts zusammengesetzt und dort Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts installiert worden. Zu den wenigen Teilen, die von dem Brandunglück verschont blieben, zählte auch ein Türsturz aus Tuffstein von der Nordostfassade des Hauptschlosses. Er zeigt einen Hirschkopf als Vollrelief und ist heute am Kamin in der Orangerie angebracht. Im ersten Obergeschoss lagen sechs Wohn- und einige Wirtschaftsräume, im Dachgeschoss befanden sich zusätzlich noch diverse kleinere Zimmer.

und Felsenkapelle
Das 1647 erbaute  dient den heutigen Schlosseigentümern als Wohnsitz. Der eingeschossige Pavillonbau besitzt ein schiefergedecktes Walmdach. An seiner nordwestlichen Seite schließt sich die ehemalige Schlosskapelle an, die noch bis 1890 in Gebrauch war. Ihre Innenausstattung ist noch erhalten, darunter Fresken mit Szenen aus dem Leben Christi und Mariä Himmelfahrt. Die Malereien wurden 1935 restauriert.

In den Tufffelsen, auf dem die obere Gartenterrasse liegt, wurde in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts eine zweischiffige Kapelle geschlagen. Zugang in ihr Inneres gewährt ein korbbogiger Eingang, über dem sich eine Nische mit der Statuette des heiligen Rochus und ein neugotischer Kielbogen befindet. Diese Gestaltung ist jedoch nicht aus der gleichen Zeit wie die Kapelle, sondern stammt erst vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Jedes Kapellenschiff besitzt ein flaches, zweijochiges Kreuzrippengewölbe, wobei das Hauptschiff durch eine kleine Altarnische verlängert ist. Darin steht ein Altar, dessen Mensa an der Vorderseite von einem Relief in Form eines Triptychons geschmückt ist. Es zeigt in der Mitte eine Pietà, die an den Seiten von den Porträts und Wappen der beiden Stifter gerahmt ist. Bei diesen handelt es sich im Jean Bernard, der von 1441 bis 1466 Erzbischof von Tours war, und seinen Neffen Guy. Das Relief stammt ursprünglich aus der erzbischöflichen Sommerresidenz in Vernou-sur-Brenne und wurde unter Paul Lefèvre am Altar angebracht. Er ließ auch die beiden Fenster mit Glasmalereien aus dem 16. Jahrhundert in der Kapelle installieren. In zwei kleinen Nebenkapellen an den Längsseiten der Schiffe steht ein romanischer Taufstein und eine bunt bemalte Steinstatue des heiligen Martins aus den 1530er Jahren. Die Figur wurde 2012 restauriert. Eine große Tontafel mit Inschrift erinnert an die Gründung und Segnung der Kapelle im Jahr 1529.

Wirtschaftsgebäude
Die Wirtschaftsgebäude des Schlosses gruppieren sich an drei Seiten um einen kleinen Hof in der südlichen Ecke des Schlossareals. Die drei Gebäude an der nordwestlichen Hofseite dienten früher als Pferdeställe, Unterkunft für Kutscher und Pferdeknechte sowie als Weinpresse. Alle besitzen im Dachgeschoss einen Kornspeicher und grenzen den Wirtschaftshof von einer der Gartenterrassen ab. An der zur Straße zeigenden Südwestseite steht ein wuchtiger Rundturm mit flachem Kegeldach. Er diente früher als Taubenturm und war mit seinen 1339 Nistlöchern im Inneren für rund 3000 Vögeln ausgelegt. Weitere Gebäude, die zur Schlossökonomie gehörten, waren eine Molkerei, eine Remise, ein Backhaus, Kuh- und Schweineställe, Schuppen und ein Zwinger für die Meute der Jagdhunde. Das Kuriose an den Wirtschaftsgebäuden ist, dass ihre zum Hauptgebäude zeigenden Dachseiten mit teurem Schiefer gedeckt sind, während die vom Schloss abgewandten Seiten eine Deckung mit preiswerteren, roten Ziegeln besitzen.

Schlosspark und -garten

Der zum Schloss gehörige Park und Garten ist vollständig von einer Mauer umschlossen, an deren Nordwestseite zwei Rundtürme stehen. Eine mit Rosskastanien bepflanzte, rund 450 Meter lange Allee führt von Südwesten auf das Schloss zu und öffnet sich in einem Halbkreis vor einem großen rustizierten Portal mit Gittertor und gesprengtem Dreiecksgiebel. Dahinter beginnt der Terrassengarten, der im 17. Jahrhundert entlang zweier Achsen angelegt wurde. Die erste verläuft in Verlängerung der Allee von Südwesten nach Nordosten, durchquert nach dem Eingangstor die von drei Wirtschaftsgebäuden flankierte Vorterrasse (), überquert mittels einer dreibogigen Steinbrücke den fast 15 Meter breiten Trockengraben, um schließlich nach der Terrasse der Florentiner Brunnen () und dem einstigen Schlossstandort im Waldpark zu enden. Die zweite Achse beginnt im Südosten und endet im Nordwesten. Sie überwindet dabei insgesamt acht verschiedene Höhenniveaus und einen Höhenunterschied von 30 Metern. Sie startet an einer Böschung mit Eiben und Hibiskussträuchern, verläuft weiter über die Obere Terrasse () und die Terrasse der Florentiner Brunnen, durchquert die Terrasse der lothringischen Vase () und die Leda-Terrasse (), um über eine Treppe zur Terrasse der Anduz-Vasen () zu gelangen und nach Durchquerung des Küchengartens schließlich jenseits einer Straße am Großen Kanal (), der durch die Brenne gespeist wird, zu enden.

Terrassengarten
Der fünf Hektar große terrassierte Garten war bei seiner Anlage von den italienischen Renaissancegärten inspiriert, erfuhr aber später eine Umgestaltung zu einem typischen Barockgarten und besitzt heute in etwa das Aussehen, das er bereits 1695 aufwies. Die einzelnen Terrassen, die durch niedrige Mauern, Ziegelsteinbrüstungen und Treppen voneinander getrennt sind, tragen Namen, die aus ihrer Form und ihrer Dekoration resultieren.

Auf der von einer Brüstung abgeschlossenen Oberen Terrasse befindet sich ein Labyrinth aus Formschnitthainbuchen. In dessen Zentrum steht eine hohe, schlanke Säule mit Vase als oberem Abschluss, die ursprünglich vom Schloss Chanteloup stammen. Von dort ist die Terrasse der Florentiner Brunnen erreichbar. Sie trägt ihren Namen nach den zwei italienischen Vorbildern nachempfundenen Brunnen, die dort aufgestellt sind. Sie besitzen je drei Wasserschalen und sind von einem Putto aus Bronze bekrönt. Die Bepflanzung der Terrasse besteht aus Armands Waldreben, sehr alten Pfingstrosen, Glyzinen, Rosen der Sorte Pierre de Ronsard, rosa- und weißblühenden Tabakpflanzen sowie Salbei, Dahlien und Hundskamille. Am südwestlichen Rand der Terrasse stehen zwei große Japanische Schnurbäume. Ihre langen Äste reichen hinunter bis in den Trockengraben. Sie zählen gemeinsam mit einer uralten Zeder zu den drei bemerkenswerten Solitärbäumen des Schlossgartens.

Der Trockengraben des Schlosses bildet noch einmal einen kleinen Garten für sich. Er ist über eine in den Felsen gehauene Wendeltreppe aus dem 15. Jahrhundert von der Leda-Terrasse erreichbar. Im Graben wachsen unter anderem verschiedene Arten von Hortensien und Baldrian. In Form geschnittene hohe Sträucher imitieren Strebepfeiler.

Die Brunnenterrasse wird an ihrer Westseite von der Terrasse der lothringischen Vase begrenzt und liegt mit dieser auf einer Ebene. Südwestlich der Brunnenterrasse liegt – von dieser durch den tiefen Trockengraben getrennt – die symmetrisch gestaltete Vorterrasse. Sie bildet eine Art Vorhof, der durch gerade Wege in vier Vierecke geteilt ist. Nordwestlich davon liegt eine, ebenfalls symmetrisch gestaltete Obstwiese.

Über eine Treppe gelangt der Besucher von der Terrasse der lothringischen Vase auf die tiefer gelegene Leda-Terrasse. Sie erhielt den Namen von einer früher in ihr aufgestellten Marmorstatue, die von dem Bildhauer Jacques Sarazin angefertigt wurde. Sie ist aber mittlerweile durch die Statue einer männlichen Figur ersetzt worden. Auf der Terrasse finden sich vor allem weißblühende Pflanzen, so zum Beispiel die Rosensorten Avon und Marie Pavié sowie Myrtofolio-Kirschlorbeer. Am Fuße der von Gutedelreben bewachsenen Mauer stehen Schwertlilien, Lavendel und Prachtkerzen.

Eine doppelläufige Treppe aus dem 18. Jahrhundert mit zwei große Löwenstatuen aus Stein am oberen Ende führt auf eine weitere, sechs Meter tiefer gelegene Ebene, auf der die Terrasse der Anduz-Vasen liegt. Deren Bepflanzung wird vor allem durch in Form geschnittene Eiben und Chinesische Lagerströmien der Sorte Sommerabend bestimmt. Heiligenkraut und Rosmarin verstärken den mediterranen Eindruck dieses Gartens.

Über eine weitere Treppe an der Westseite geht es zu dem noch einmal etwas tiefer gelegenen, einen Hektar großen Küchengarten, in dem über 900 Pflanzen kultiviert werden, darunter auch alte und fast vergessene Arten. Er ist nach dem klassischen Prinzip des 15. Jahrhunderts angelegt und durch zwei gerade Wege in vier von Buchsbaumhecken umstandene Karrees unterteilt, die wiederum in vier weitere Teile geteilt sind. Am Kreuzungspunkt der von Pflaumen- und Pfirsichbäumen gesäumten Wege in der Mitte des Gartens befindet sich ein großes Wasserbecken mit Fontäne. Neben Pfirsichen und Pflaumen werden im Garten weitere Obstsorten wie Nektarinen, Nashi-Birnen, Aprikosen, Feigen, Äpfel und Birnen angebaut. Eines der Pflanzvierecke ist Gewächsen mit kleinen Früchten wie Stachelbeeren, Johannisbeeren und Himbeeren vorbehalten. Eine Besonderheit ist die 100 Meter lange von verschiedenen Kürbispflanzen bewachsene Pergola. Im Küchengarten werden jedoch nicht nur Nutzpflanzen angebaut, an der Ostmauer dieses Bereichs wachsen auch Zierpflanzen wie Geranien und Säckelblumen. An der begrenzenden Westmauer des Küchengartens stehen zwei Rundtürme mit Kegeldächern, die heute als Lager und Abstellmöglichkeiten dienen. Früher waren sie die Unterkünfte für die Gärtner und wurden auch als Eselsstall genutzt.

Waldpark
Nördlich und westlich des  liegt ein 60 Hektar großer Waldpark, der sein Aussehen des 17. Jahrhunderts bewahren konnte. Sein Baumbestand besteht mehrheitlich aus Eichen und Hainbuchen, dazu Kastanien und Vogelkirschen. Zahlreiche gerade Waldwege, die den Park strahlenförmig durchziehen, bieten die Möglichkeit zu einem Waldspaziergang. An den Kreuzungspunkten stehen ähnliche Säulen wie jene auf der Oberen Terrasse des Schlossgartens. Ein erst kürzlich angelegtes Arboretum mit seltenen Bäumen und Sträuchern komplettiert die Pflanzenauswahl im Park. In ihm haben sich zwei alte Bauten erhalten: ein  genannter, kleiner Pavillon mit abgeknickten Zeltdach und eine Belvedere genannte und von drei Bögen aus Backstein getragene Aussichtsplattform, die früher dazu diente, das Jagdgeschehen im Wald zu beobachten.

Weinanbau
Schlossherr Aymar de Saint-Venant und sein Sohn Jean betreiben auf 28 Hektar Fläche Weinbau. Sechs Hektar davon liegen innerhalb des ummauerten Schlossareals. Die beiden führen damit eine alte Familientradition fort, denn schon für das Jahr 1888 ist Weinbau in der Schlossdomäne verbürgt. Angebaut wird – wie allgemein üblich im Weinbaugebiet Vouvray – die Rebsorte Chenin Blanc für einen Weißwein der AOC Vouvray und Grolleau für einen Rosé der .

Literatur
 Catherine Bibollet, Robert de Laroche: Châteaux, Parcs et Jardins en vallée de la Loire. La Renaissance du Livre, Tournai 2003, ISBN 2-8046-0754-2, S. 169–173.
 Josyane Cassaigne, Alain Cassaigne: 365 Châteaux de France. Aubanel, Genf 2007, ISBN 978-2-7006-0517-4, S. 346–347.
 Jean-Baptiste Leroux, Catherine Grive: Fasteux châteaux de la Loire. Déclic, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84768-173-4, S. 47–51 (auszugsweise bei Google Books).
 Xavier Mathias, Alix de Saint Venant: Le potager d'Alix de Saint Venant au Château de Valmer. Le Chêne, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-8123-0758-4.
 Jean de Montarnal: Château et manoirs de France. Band 3. Vincent & Fréal, Paris 1934, S. 7–14.
 André Montoux: Vieux Logis de Touraine. Band 4. CLD, Chambray-lès-Tours 1979, S. 21–27.
 Ludovic Vieira: Deux architectes célèbres au château de Valmer, à Chancay : F. Duban et J. de La Morandière (1847–1856). In: Bulletin de la Société Archéologique de Touraine. Jg. 47, 2001, , S. 153–167 (Digitalisat).
 Ludovic Vieira: L'incendie du Château de Valmer, à Chancay. In: Rivières tourangelles. Vallée de la Brenne. Société d'étude de la rivière Indre et de ses affluents, Monts 2001, S. 61–67.

Weblinks

 Website des Schlosses
 Einträge des Schlosses in der Base Mérimée: ,
 Informationen zum Schlosspark und -garten auf der Website des
 Fotos aus der Base Mémoire
 Videos zum Terrassengarten:
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Einzelnachweise

Valmer
Monument historique im Département Indre-et-Loire
Neorenaissancebauwerk in Frankreich
Erbaut im 15. Jahrhundert
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Valmer
Schloss
Monument historique seit 1930
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— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) December 3, 2022
Although the Lakers won their first game against the Denver Nuggets on October 30 and the New Orleans Pelicans on November 2, they lost their next five contests.
In Lakers franchise history, the team started 2-10 in the 1957-58 and 2015-16 seasons. Los Angeles has won back-to-back games this season after snapping two five-game losing streaks. The Lakers upset the Milwaukee Bucks 133-129 at the Fiserv Forum on Friday night.
After a 2-10 start to the 2015-16 season, the Lakers are now 9-12 and in 12th place in the Western Conference.
Anthony Davis led the Lakers with a game-high 44 points in 40 minutes. LeBron James finished with 28 points, eight rebounds, 11 assists and two steals in 37 minutes. James also passed Magic Johnson for sixth on the all-time assists list (10,144).
After the win, LeBron felt it was the best game he, Russell Westbrook and Davis have played together since the front office traded for Westbrook last August.
Speaking of Westbrook, even though the nine-time All-Star is averaging a career-low 15 points per game, the guard is still showing his value as a sixth-man option. He has committed zero turnovers in two straight games.
With tonight's 133-129 win over the Bucks, LeBron James became the seventh player in NBA history to reach 900 wins.
via Lakers PR
— Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) December 3, 2022
After Los Angeles' 120-114 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Nov. 11, the team went 7-2 and Westbrook came off the bench. During that stretch, Davis scored at least 30 points in five of those games.
Have the Lakers turned a corner? Through 21 games this season, the team is averaging 114 points per game, which ranks 13th overall in the NBA. Their offensive efficiency rating ranks 23rd (1.077), but the Lakers are now shooting 47 percent from the floor.
At the same time, the team is allowing 115 points per game, 12th worst in the league. That's an improvement, though, after posting at least 120 points nine times this season. The Lakers' poor defensive performance was the result of last Saturday's 143-138 win over the San Antonio Spurs.
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Title: Plant Protection and Quarantine
ISSN 1606-9773; eISSN 2786-4960
Key-title: Zahist i karantin roslin
The Interdepartmental Thematic Scientific Collection "Plant Protection and Quarantine» was founded in October 1964. It is published once a year, in December.
Publishes research papers on plant protection against pests, diseases and weeds.
Articles are published in Ukrainian or English; abstracts of articles - in Ukrainian and English.
The publication is recommended for publication by the decision of the Academic Council of the Institute of Plant Protection of NAAS.
For researchers, teachers and students of agricultural educational institutions, graduate students, agricultural specialists.
The collection is a scientific professional publication, category B.
Branches of sciences: "Biology", specialty 091- Biology; Natural sciences ", specialty 101 - Ecology;" Agricultural sciences ", specialties 201 - Agronomy, 202 - Plant protection and quarantine, 203 - Horticulture and viticulture.
Approved by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated November 26, 2020, №1471.
Founder and publisher - Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. Certificate of state registration - series KV № 19085-7875PR from 08.05.2012.
Funded by the publication - Institute of Plant Protection NAAS.
For authors, the publication of the article is free.
Open access: The interdepartmental thematic scientific collection "Plant protection and quarantine" adheres to the policy of open access (Open Access).
A digital archive of published articles is available for download on the journal's website in the Archive section. Also available for viewing on the website of the National Library of Ukraine named after VI Vernadsky.
Printed copies of the journal are stored in the National Library of Ukraine named after VI Vernadsky, the National Scientific Agricultural Library of NAAS and other libraries of Ukraine.
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Rotary@105: April 24th – Donald M. Carter Day
Posted by Paul Kiser in Membership Retention, Passionate People, Public Relations, Rotary, Rotary@105
Club Members, History of Rotary, Paul Harris, Public Relations, Rotarians, Rotary, Rotary District 5190, Rotary International, Rotary policies
by Paul Kiser
For 364 Days a year, thousands of Rotary Clubs around the world are involved in programs and projects to help the local, regional, national, and international communities, but on one day, EVERY Rotary Club is asked to do a community service project. This year that day will be April 24, 2010.
Throughout Rotary we know this day as Rotarians at Work Day, but I like to think of it as Donald M. Carter Day. Who was Donald M. Carter?
If you do a Google search for him you will find a few articles that mention his name. You might find out that he was a patent attorney and that he was involved in attempting to obtain a patent on the Rotary cog icon, but that would hardly justify naming a day after him. If fact, to most Rotarians, Donald M. Carter is no one special….unless they know the early history of Rotary.
When Rotary was formed in 1905, Rotarians in the inaugural club established two reasons as the 'purpose' of Rotary. They were as follows:
The promotion of the business interests of its members
The promotion of good fellowship and other desiderata ordinarily incident to social clubs.
In 1905, Rotary was a networking club that promoted business within the membership. The organization was established for the sole benefit of the members.
In April of 1906, a patent attorney named Donald M. Carter was approached by Frederick Tweed, a new Rotarian, and encouraged to join. Carter was interested and asked about the objectives of the club. When told of the two stated purposes of Rotary and shown the newly created Club Constitution, he declined and said that a club should have a higher ideal, some 'civic' purpose. Tweed then suggested that Carter join and propose the new purpose to the club.
At this moment Carter could have just said 'no'. He could have thanked Tweed and sent him off with a handshake. Rotary might have remained a business networking club existing solely for the benefit of the members…but Carter didn't say 'no' to Tweed, or 'no' to his desire for a higher ideal for the organization.
The next month Donald M. Carter became a member of Rotary and later that year he composed the third purpose of Rotary:
3. The advancement of the best interests of Chicago and the spreading of the spirit of civic pride and loyalty among its citizens.
The third purpose was adopted in 1907 and Rotary ceased to become an inward focused group of business men. It became a group of people who promoted service and pride in the larger community outside of business and Rotary.
So on April 24, 2010, let's give a nod and a smile to Donald M. Carter who gave Rotary a challenge to be more than a pursuit of the personal interests of the members, and instilled the value of community service and civic pride into every member.
Thanks Donald. I glad you were a Rotarian!
A Century of Service by David C. Forward
(Special thanks to David C. Forward and his book, A Century of Service: The story of Rotary International. Book is available at www.shop.rotary.org)
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Business as usual for Buxton FC's players following the shock sacking of Gary Hayward
Buxton boss believes his side have platform to build on after Warrington Town draw
Buxton boss Steve Cunningham wants his side to put the pressure on Northern Premier League title rivals
Boss Steve Cunnigham wants to see Buxton rack up the wins and heap more pressure on their title rivals.
By Stephen Thirkill
Wednesday, 8th December 2021, 11:30 am
Updated Wednesday, 8th December 2021, 12:00 pm
Buxton FC v Morcambe (red) Steve Cunningham
The Bucks beat Scarborough 5-1 with an impressive performance to move to the top of the Northern Premier League.
Now Cunnngham wants his title-chasers to assert their authority and make their title rivals struggle to match their pace.
"We missed our chance a little with the Nantwich and Lancaster results, but the lads have been under pressure," he said.
"We have got a serious challenge on if we want to win the league and we can't afford to drop points.
"That is the new challenge, we have to stay up there as long as we can. It is just trying to put pressure on other teams now, but it is one game at a time.
"We will do one game at a time, we will work hard and be respectful and then hopefully we will be top of the table after 42 games.
"The FA Cup has been a distraction, I don't care what anyone says, how can it not be a distraction?
"All of a sudden to go top of the table, two clear and with a game in hand, the lads have done great.
"It is great for the club, it is great for the chairman. I am pleased for the players. It gives us something to fight for.
"The FA Cup is done and dusted and if you are mid-table with nothing to play for then how do you recreate that level of energy for your next game."
And if Buxton put in the level of performance shown against Scarborough each week then the Bucks will certainly be in with a great chance of winning the title.
It was a display which left Cunningham delighted with the quality and effort shown.
"We needed to get a result last night and any kind of win," added Cunningham.
"I didn't care about the performance, I knew they would be tired and we were limited on numbers with no John Granite. Ashley Chambers was injured and went on for me.
"We had one senior fit sub and we were limited.
"The performance was outstanding and it could have been double figures. We missed a lot of one-on-ones. We have put teams to bed earlier or we put ourselves under pressure, but I can't complain when we have beaten a top 10 team 5-1 when it should have been double figures.
"We showed class and character. It was the best attacking performance I have seen by a team at this level.
"Jamie Ward was breathtaking last night. The players are running through brick walls at the minute and I can't thank them enough.
"As a new manager coming in you have got to earn that level of respect so that a player will do that for you.
"I have seen a shift in the last two weeks where the players have really bought into what we are about."
The win over Scarborough was watched by 447 fans - a level of support which Cunningham is delighted to see.
"There have been a lot of home games recently and to see the crowds we have had has been brilliant," he added.
"The figure might say only 447 last night, but that was still tremendous.
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"The crowd on Saturday was unbelievable and it was amazing walking out to them.
"Everyone at Buxton FC appreciates the support we are getting and we want to say thankyou to all the fans."
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Most of wireless is focused on the design of the physical layer. If you talk to any professional and ask them to show your their tool kit, they will likely pull out a whole array of mobile testing devices, USB network adapters, and diagramming software that would make AutoCAD jealous. All of these tools focus on the most important part of the equation for wireless professionals – the air. When the physical radio spectrum isn't working users will complain about it. Wireless pros leap into action with their tools to figure out where the fault is. Either that, or they are very focused on providing the right design from the beginning with the tools validating that access point placement is correct and coverage overlap provides redundancy without interference.
These aren't easy problems to solve. That's why wireless folks get paid the big bucks to build it right or fix it after it was built wrong. Wired networkers don't need to worry about microwave ovens or water pipes. Aside from the errant fluorescent light or overly aggressive pair of cable pliers, wired networks are generally free from the kinds of problems that can plague a wire-free access layer.
However, the better question that should be asked is how the users know it's the wireless network that's behind the faults? To the users, the system is in one of three states: perfect, horribly broken, or slow. I think we can all agree that the first state of perfection almost never actually exists in reality. It might exist shortly after installation when user load is low and actual application use is negligible. However, users are usually living in one of the latter states. Either the wireless is "slow" or it's horribly broken. Why?
As it turns out, thanks to some of the reporting from companies like Cape and Nyansa, it turns out that a large majority of the so-called wireless issues are in fact not wireless related at all. Those designs that wireless pros spend so much time fretting over are removed from the equation. Instead, the issues are with services.
Yes, those pesky network services. The ones like DNS or DHCP that seem invisible until they break. Or those services that we pay hefty sums to every month like Amazon or Microsoft Azure. The same issues that plague wired networking exist in the wireless world as well and seem to escape blame.
DNS is invisible to the majority of users. I've tried to explain it many times with middling to poor results. The idea that computers on the internet don't understand words and must rely on services to translate them to numbers never seems to click. And when you add in the reliance on this system and how it can be knocked out with DDoS attacks or hijacking, it always comes back to being about the wireless.
It's not hard to imagine why. The wireless is the first thing users see when they start having issues. It's the new firewall. Or the new virus. Or the new popup. It's a thing they can point to as the single source of problems. And if there is an issue at any point along the way, it must be the fault of the wireless. It can't possibly be DNS or routing issues or a DDoS on AWS. Instead, the wireless is down.
And so wireless pros find themselves defending their designs and configurations without knowing that there is an issue somewhere else down the line. That's why the analytics platforms of the future are so important. By giving wireless pros visibility into systems beyond the spectrum, they can reliably state that the wireless isn't at fault. They can also engage other teams to find out why the DNS servers are down or why the default gateway for the branch office has been changed or is offline. That's the kind of info that can turn a user away from blaming the wireless for all the problems and finding out what's actually wrong.
If I had a nickel for every problem that was blamed on the wireless network or the firewall or some errant virus when that actually wasn't the case, I could retire and buy my own evil overlord island next to Larry Ellison. Alas, these are issues that are never going to go away. Instead, the only real hope that we have is speeding the time to diagnose and resolve them by involving professionals that manage the systems that are actually down. And perhaps having some pictures of the monitoring systems goes a long way to tell users that they should make sure that the issue is indeed the wireless before proclaiming that it is. Because, to be honest, it probably isn't the Wi-Fi.
This entry was posted in Tech Field Day, Wireless and tagged Analytics, Cape Networks, DNS, Mobility Field Day, Nyansa, Wireless by networkingnerd. Bookmark the permalink.
Or the flip side: it's almost always the WiFi on my side. How do I know? Because most if not all of my issues go away as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable. There are also 40+ SSIDs in my vicinity. And sometimes when everything starts breaking, I ping my local router and get 5000ms pings. You could make a case about the modem being the issue … but then pings to my Ethernet-connected PC are also giving out 5000ms pings. It's definitely the WiFi.
It's interesting that there are so many different factors that go into having a wi-fi connection. I'm going to be studying network systems next semester, and reading these tips has been very useful. I never thought about the perspective of the wireless pros, having to defend their designs and configurations.


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Omans herrlandslag i fotboll spelade sin första match i Egypten i augusti 1965, där man åkte på förlust med hela 1-14 mot Libyen.

Historik
Omans fotbollsförbund bildades 1978 och blev medlem av Fifa 1980 och AFC 1979. Första landskampen 1965 mot Sudan, men Oman fick dock storstryk med hela 0-15. Största smällen kom 1966 mot Libyen med hela 1-21. Bästa resultatet nåddes 2017 hemma i Muskat mot Bhutan med 14-0. Oman har på senare år fått allt fler framgångar då man nådde AFC Asian Cup 2004 och 2007.

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1930–1982: Deltog ej
1986: Drog sig ur.
1990: Utslagna i första kvalomgången.
1994: Utslagna i första kvalomgången.
1998: Utslagna i första kvalomgången.
2002: Utslagna i andra kvalomgången.
2006: Utslagna i andra kvalomgången.
2010: Utslagna i tredje kvalomgången.
2014: Utslagna i fjärde kvalomgången.
2018: Utslagna i andra kvalomgången.

Asiatiska mästerskapen

2004
Oman tog sig något överraskande sig till AFC Asian cup efter att ha vunnit kval-gruppen Sydkorea och Nepal. I gruppspelet hamnade Oman med Japan, Iran och Thailand. Uddamålsförlust mot Japan kostade och då räckte inte 2-2 mot Iran samt 2-0 mot Thailand, Oman slutade trea i gruppen.

2007
Oman tog sig även till cupen 2007. I gruppspelet hamnade laget med Thailand, Irak och Australien. Oman slutade sist i gruppen efter att ha förlorat mot Thailand med 0-2. Laget spelade 1-1 mot Australien och 0-0 mot Irak.

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Home Top News EU oil embargo on Iran comes into effect; Tehran says will 'confront'...
EU oil embargo on Iran comes into effect; Tehran says will 'confront' sanctions
A European Union embargo on Iranian oil went into effect on Sunday, provoking anger in Tehran which says the measure will hurt talks with world powers over its sensitive nuclear activities.
Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi sought to downplay the embargo as just the latest punishment in decades of ineffective sanctions.
Iranian leaders have insisted they will forge ahead with their atomic program, regardless of the Western restrictions and others imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
Oil market observer bodies and analysts say the embargo, coupled with U.S. financial sanctions ramped up on Thursday, are gutting Iran's vital oil exports, which account for half of government revenues.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says Iran crude exports in May appear to have slipped to 1.5 million barrels per day (mbpd) as the market braced for the embargo, which has been phased in since being announced January 23.That is far less than the 2.1-2.2 mbpd Iran insists it continues to sell abroad.
"The sanctions have had no effect on Iran and will have none," Qasemi was quoted as saying on Sunday by the ISNA news agency.
"I do not see a problem in our enemies starting the sanctions as of today (Sunday), since these sanctions have existed for many years and nothing has happened and one should not anticipate anything new," he was also quoted as saying on the website of state broadcaster IRIB.
Qasemi and other officials admitted the "illogical" embargo had reduced exports to EU nations, but they said other nations had stepped forward to buy the oil.
"While we collectively exported 18 percent of our oil to them before, it is not difficult to substitute customers for this much oil in the world," Qasemi said.
It was not possible to verify that claim because Iran has turned off the mandatory location transponders on most of its fleet of 39 oil tankers.
The IEA and experts say most of the tankers remain anchored off Iran and are being used to store up to 42 million barrels of oil unable to be exported.
Before the embargo, Europe bought some 600,000 bpd from Iran, which sent two-thirds of its exports to China, India, Japan and South Korea.
The United States has granted exemptions to those Asian countries from its new sanction imposed on Thursday that targets foreign companies doing business with Iran.
That move averted a potential diplomatic row with China, Iran's biggest oil customer, which greatly increased Iran crude purchases last month after a sharp dip earlier this year because of a commercial dispute with Iran. Beijing refuses to go along with the Western sanctions.
"Plans in progress"
Non-EU nations wanting to buy Iranian oil face an obstacle in insuring the tanker shipments, as more than 90 percent of such insurance is by EU companies now barred from underwriting Iran oil delivery contracts. China gets around that by having its companies insure the tankers.
Iranian officials said the country has stored up imported goods and hard currency for a "battle" against the EU sanctions. They acknowledged though that the measures may cause economic disruptions.
Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said the country has stockpiled necessities to reduce the impact of the embargo hitting the oil and banking sectors.
"Today, we are facing the heaviest of sanctions and we ask people to help officials in this battle," Rahimi was quoted by state television's website as saying at a religious conference. He said the "dastardly sanctions" might cause "occasional confusion" in the market, but that the Iranian nation would not be stopped.
Central bank governor Mahmoud Bahmani also told the semiofficial Mehr news agency that Iran has "plans" to deal with the embargo and enough hard currency to meet its import needs.
"We have not remained passive. To confront the sanctions, we have plans in progress," said Bahmani. He did not elaborate on the plans.
Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi meanwhile ordered his staff to "mobilize" against "illegal sanctions," Mehr said. It did not say what the measures were.
Late Saturday Ghasemi told state television that Iran has weathered previous rounds of sanctions. "I do not see it as a problem that enemies have imposed an embargo today," he said. "They have imposed similar sanctions years ago, and nothing happened."
He said Iran has already stopped selling oil to many EU countries and sold to others instead. "Developing countries and countries with fast economic growth have no alternative to oil. Fortunately, because of the quality of our country's oil, all are interest in using it."
Mehr published its own analysis listing measures that Iran could take to counter the sanctions, including shutting the vital Strait of Hormuz off its southern coast that handles a fifth of the world's oil supply – a threat that has repeatedly been made by Iranian officials in the past. The semiofficial news agency's editorials sometimes reflect views held by top Iranian officials who do not wish to state them publicly.
On Sunday, however, Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi made statements to the official IRNA news agency about the Strait in which he did not mention any plans to close it – remarks that suggest that Iran is playing down the threat in dealings with the West.
Vahidi said Iran is the main protector of the waterway, and that Tehran "has confronted anybody who tried to endanger the Strait."
Mehr also suggested that Iran could make use of hard currencies other than the U.S. dollar and the euro, form its own insurance syndicate to replace foreign companies that withdraw from the market, store up oil in tanks for later sale so as not to cut production, or simply reduce oil production to save its reserves for the future.
The EU embargo is the latest — and most punishing — of a raft of international sanctions designed to pressure Iran to curb its nuclear program.
Most of the West fears that the Islamic republic is seeking to get to the cusp of being able to make nuclear weapons, despite Tehran's repeated denials.
Iran denies the charges, saying its nuclear program is aimed at peaceful purposes like power generation and cancer treatment.
The sanctions are part of a "carrot and stick" approach running in parallel with revived talks between Iran and the "P5+1 group" comprising U.N. Security Council permanent members the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, plus non-permanent member Germany.
After three inconclusive rounds that succeeded only in defining the wide gap that exists between both sides, the talks have been downgraded to the level of experts, with the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Istanbul.
Source: AlArabiya with Agencies


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Fresh shrimp delicately fried in a special spicy batter served with our tangy Tiger sauce, taste so good you will want to eat them as fast as popcorn!
A lean and tender pork chop fried in our special golden breading. Served with french fries.


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"""
    :copyright: Copyright 2014 by Łukasz Mierzwa
    :contact: l.mierzwa@gmail.com
"""

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django import VERSION

if VERSION >= (2, 1):
    from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView
    login = LoginView.as_view()
else:
    from django.contrib.auth.views import login

if VERSION < (1, 8):  # pragma: nocover
    from django.conf.urls import url, include, patterns
    nsurlpatters = patterns(
        '',
        url(r'^login2$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', name='login2_url'),
    )

    urlpatterns = patterns(
        '',
        url(r'^login$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', name='login_url'),
        url(r'^login/(?P<slug>[-_\w]+)$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login',
            name='login_args_url'),
        url(r'^login/user/(?P<user_id>\S+)$',
            'django.contrib.auth.views.login',
            name='login_kwargs_url'),
        (r'^ns/', include(nsurlpatters, namespace='ns')),
    )
elif VERSION < (2, 0):
    from django.conf.urls import url, include
    nsurlpatters = [
        url(r'^login2$', login, name='login2_url'),
    ]

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^login$', login, name='login_url'),
        url(r'^login/(?P<slug>[-_\w]+)$', login, name='login_args_url'),
        url(r'^login/user/(?P<user_id>\S+)$', login, name='login_kwargs_url'),
        url(r'^ns/', include(nsurlpatters, namespace='ns')),
    ]
else:
    from django.urls import include, path, re_path
    nsurlpatters = [
        path('login2', login, name='login2_url'),
    ]

    urlpatterns = [
        path('login', login, name='login_url'),
        re_path(r'^login/(?P<slug>[-_\w]+)$', login, name='login_args_url'),
        re_path(r'^login/user/(?P<user_id>\S+)$', login,
                name='login_kwargs_url'),
        path('ns/', include((nsurlpatters, 'ns'), namespace='ns')),
    ]


Market competitions force the engineers to design electronic devices more powerful but importantly smaller in size. Such smaller size electronic devices face the problem of heat generated from the process cycle, thus experience poor reliability. Efficient thermal interface materials that are able to remove heat from electronic devices have been in great demand.


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Glouster in Athens County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22
By William Fischer, Jr., January 4, 2009
1. Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22 Marker
Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22. . Approximately 150 feet east stood the Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22 tipple, in use from 1912 to 1925. The company name was derived from combining "Ohio" and "Pennsylvania," home states of its founders. Coal came from the mine portal in small railcars, was cleaned and sized in the tipple, and loaded into gondolas for shipment. The Mine No. 22 tipple had a brick and concrete frame, likely the only one of this type in Ohio. When demolished in 2000, it was one of the last tipples still standing as a reminder of Ohio's 1880-1920 coal boom and the Hocking Valley coal field's contribution during this era. . This historical marker was erected in 2001 by Village of Glouster, Ohio Mineland Partnership, Buckeye Hills R.C.&D, and The Ohio Historical Society. It is in Glouster in Athens County Ohio
Approximately 150 feet east stood the Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22 tipple, in use from 1912 to 1925. The company name was derived from combining "Ohio" and "Pennsylvania," home states of its founders. Coal came from the mine portal in small railcars, was cleaned and sized in the tipple, and loaded into gondolas for shipment. The Mine No. 22 tipple had a brick and concrete frame, likely the only one of this type in Ohio. When demolished in 2000, it was one of the last tipples still standing as a reminder of Ohio's 1880-1920 coal boom and the Hocking Valley coal field's contribution during this era.
Erected 2001 by Village of Glouster, Ohio Mineland Partnership, Buckeye Hills R.C.&D, and The Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 3-5.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Ohio Historical Society / The Ohio History Connection marker series.
Location. 39° 29.594′ N, 82° 5.14′ W. Marker is in Glouster, Ohio, in Athens County. Marker is on High Street (Ohio
2. Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22 Sponsorship Marker
Route 13), on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Glouster OH 45732, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Glouster Korea-Vietnam War Memorial (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Trimble Township War Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Todd and Tony Carr Memorial (approx. 1.3 miles away); Millfield Coal Mine Disaster (approx. 4.2 miles away); Millfield Mine No. 6 - 1205 Disaster (approx. 4.2 miles away); Athens County Infirmary (approx. 7.2 miles away); Hemlock (approx. 7½ miles away); Snake Ridge Lookout Tower (approx. 7.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Glouster.
Categories. • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Natural Resources • Railroads & Streetcars •
Looking east toward where tipple was located across road.
4. Hisylvania Coal Co. Mine No. 22 Tipple Under Construction
Top picture on the marker.
5. Hisylvania Coal Co. Mine No. 22 Tipple in Use
Middle picture from the marker.
6. Hisylvania Coal Co. Mine No. 22 Tipple in Decay
Bottom picture on the marker.
More. Search the internet for Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on January 23, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 1,657 times since then and 3 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on January 23, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.


Vanessa grew up in South Africa and moved to Seattle in the early 2000s. In 2010 she took her first hot yoga class at a small local studio and quickly fell in love. When Vanessa and her husband moved to Orange County in 2015 she took the opportunity to deepen her practice. She completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification at CorePower Yoga in the Spring of 2016.
Today she passionately shares the love of yoga with her students. Vanessa provides classes which strengthen your body, calm your mind and nurture your soul. Vanessa is grateful to be part of the transformation her students experience as they come to their mat.
When she is not in the yoga studio you can find her skydiving or playing with her two golden retrievers on the beach. Whether in the sky or on your mat Vanessa looks forward to meeting you and sharing in your journey.
Yoga practice is a wonderful way to transform one's body, mind and soul. I love sharing my passion for yoga with students, and being part of their yoga journey. The most wonderful feeling is when a student discovers their yoga and it's as if their whole life blossoms open.


Northstar Refrigeration Ltd., the Quinte Humane Society and Quinte Lost Dog Network have joined forces to bring back the popular comedy show "Raise the Woof", Friday June 7th 2019, at the Banquet Centre in Belleville. They are a troupe of comedians that travel across North America raising money for animal welfare and rescues with their own brand of hilarity. There will be an amazing array of Silent Auction items up for grabs as well as other fun surprises! Get your tickets today as seating is limited!
Doors open at 6:45pm, show starts at 7:30pm on Friday June 7th 2019.
Come early and bid on a lot of great auction items!
50/50 draw and door prizes!
Tickets include coffee, tea and dessert.
$30/person. 18+ only as may be adult content.
Bar is CASH only as are the 50/50 tickets.
VISA/MasterCard will be available if needed for Silent Auction payments at the end of the show.
Cheques will be accepted for Silent Auction donations.
Help us help the animals in need in your community!
A HUGE thanks to all our sponsors as well!


Has anyone configured Bandhelper to send MIDI System Real-Time Messages to start/stop an outboard sequencer keyboard playing? Can it be done without using raw MIDI?
If you turn on Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Send MIDI Beat Clock, then play a tempo, the app will send a start message when you start the tempo and a stop message when you stop it -- along with all the clock messages in between. If those a problem and you just want the start/stop messages, you can create a MIDI preset for each message. The raw MIDI is simple: FA for start and FC for stop. You can even pair the stop preset to the start preset, then click the start preset to toggle between them.
Thanks Arlo!! Any chance of setting multiple tempos in a single song?
You can't set multiple tempos per song or change the MIDI Beat Clock tempo during a song. But if the device you're controlling can respond to tempo changes using some kind of MIDI message, you could set up multiple MIDI presets to send those messages.


The fourth issue in NHeLP's Protect Medicaid Funding series examines the dire consequences for the health of tens of millions of individuals who rely on the Medicaid guarantee. "Any reduction of mandatory services would negatively impact the health of vulnerable populations, including children, pregnant women, seniors, and persons with disabilities, the authors state in the fact sheet. It also describes the adverse impact block grants or caps would have on the ability of states to provide myriad optional health care services, such as in-home and community care. This paper was updated in April 2017 with a personal story from an Illinois family. Jason, who was born with complex medical conditions has received the proper and timely care through Medicaid. Medicaid, his mother Debra says has played a significant role in providing the medical care and in-home services that have allowed Jason to thrive at home and in his community. Jason will celebrate his 40th birthday in May.