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Why The French Pyrenees Have So Much To Offer Skiers
By Olivier Lepoureau | on September 10, 2015 | 2 Comments
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Pic du Midi.
Olivier Lepoureau has been skiing in the Alps for 40 years but it was only five years ago that he discovered the French Pyrenees. Immediately taken with the area's cute villages, and large, modern ski areas he set up Pyrenees Collection to introduce the British to a wintersports region that's little known beyond south-western France.
While the Alps might get most of the attention, the Pyrenees have a lot more to offer than most skiers realise. The French side is mainly north-facing, so it normally offers the best snow-cover and skiing conditions.
Obviously, the higher the better, so places like Piau Engaly (which has skiing going up to 2526m) are a good choice. Elsewhere, in recent years some areas have invested heavily in snowmaking, which, combined with expert grooming, has kept things open between snowfalls.
There are some very reasonable flights to airports such as Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees, but driving here offers a lot more flexibility and the area isn't as difficult to get to as you might imagine. After all, many people include an overnight stop-off when driving to and from the Alps, and you can easily break your journey along the way.
Then there's the relaxed ambience, combined with a genuine friendliness both on and off the mountain.
Photo: OT Font Romeu.
If you like to wallow in a pool or Jacuzzi at the end of the day then you'll enjoy the Pyrenean spas – in fact the area features France's greatest concentration of thermal spas.
Some of them date back to the 19th century when what is now the wellness industry developed during the Victorian era. Places like Cauterets, Bareges, Saint-Lary Soulan, and Luz Saint-Sauveur were stylish spa towns long before the arrival of ski tourism.
I'm not saying it's better here than the Alps, but everyone needs a bit of variety, and if you think these aren't proper mountains then you're in for a pleasant surprise. As well as decent piste skiing there's a lot of good off-piste, the surroundings are truly beautiful, and you'll be amazed by the prices, too.
Here's my pick of the best of Pyrenean skiing:
The biggest ski area in the French Pyrenees, Tourmalet (if the name sounds familiar, think Tour de France) is in the Hautes Pyrenees department, halfway between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It is made up of two resorts, Bareges and La Mongie.
Bareges
1250-2350m, 50 lifts, 120km of piste
The ancient spa town of Bareges is the second oldest ski resort in France (the oldest is Chamonix). It is set in a steep and narrow valley, 48km from Lourdes, which has its own airport: Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees. Toulouse is just over two hours' drive.
The biggest ski area in the French Pyrenees is linked with La Mongie and the two bases share 120km of piste accessed by 50 lifts. The terrain is particularly suited to intermediates, with attractive tree-lined slopes above the town.
The main mountain here, the Pic du Midi, is most famous for its iconic observatory on the 2877m peak. The first use of the mountain for research purposes began here as early as 1774. In 1963, NASA funded a telescope to take pictures of the moon's surface in preparation for the Apollo missions.
The Pic du Midi is also the leading freeride venue in the Pyrenees, with some spectacular descents. You can stay the night here, star gaze over a gourmet dinner, and make fresh tracks with a guide at sunrise.
The non-skiing activities in the resort are limited, apart from the Cieleo Spa which has sulphuric water for aches and pains. However, the restaurants serve good local food – especially if you are keen on duck!
Stay: Hotel le Central is a contemporary boutique hotel on the main street beside the river, located close to the ski hire shop and bus stop.
La Mongie is in a sheltered setting below the 2115m Col du Tourmalet. The downside is the appearance of the purpose-built resort. It's certainly no beauty and I can name lots of more visually attractive ski villages, but families will appreciate the value and the easily-accessible ski school facilities.
The skiing is in an open bowl. Although it's best suited to confident intermediates, it also provides confidence-boosting pistes for the less experienced. The resort is popular with snowboarders, too.
Lunch in the village at La Mama Italian restaurant provides a pleasant surprise: pricing for food and drinks here are as down-to-earth as you'd expect in the Pyrenees.
Nightlife is minimal compared to the Alps, lift queues are almost non-existent on weekdays (although there can be queues at weekends) and prices are low.
Stay: Tourmalet is a recently-built residence in the heart of the ski resort, south-facing towards the Pic du Midi and the slopes of the Grand Tourmalet ski area.
1300-2500m, 21 lifts, 35km of piste
Not far from Tourmalet is Cauterets, a traditional Pyrenean town that later developed into a ski resort. The town's prosperity began with the 19th-century fashion for thermal spa treatments. Back then, a tramway from nearby Pierrefitte brought rail travellers from the pilgrimage centre of Lourdes 30km away. Today's visitors arrive by road or by flights into Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport.
Cauterets is the most snow-sure resort in the Pyrenees and its 36km of groomed terrain is set within the Cirque du Lys, a vast bowl bounded by the twin peaks of Soum de Mauloc (2074m) and Soum de Grum (2657m). This means that wherever you're skiing you'll be in the same surroundings. The pistes themselves – even the blues – are often pretty steep. The Oakley Freestyle Park has some unique features such as a ride-able chalet roof.
The surrounding peaks are among the highest in the Pyrenees, which accounts for some of the largest annual snowfalls (averaging around 5m) in the whole mountain range.
The restaurants here are cheap and serve local cuisine, but the nightlife is fairly quiet. The main attraction is Les Bains du Rocher spa centre, which has a 150sqm circular pool and an even bigger outdoor lagoon, the whole complex heated by natural thermal and mineral-rich springs.
Cauterets' other claim to fame is its cross-country skiing, a bus-ride away at Le Pont d'Espagne, which has 36.5km of loipe.
Stay: The 19th-century Hotel du Lion d'Or is situated in the town centre, the rear/upper entrance a 100m level walk from the gondola and right opposite the Bains du Rocher. It offers spotless rooms that are tastefully decorated in individual style.
Saint-Lary is close to the Spanish border, and conveniently located an hour's drive from Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees airport. It is in fact not one but three villages: Saint-Lary village (830m) which is the compact and authentic Pyrenean village at the foot of the slopes. Saint-Lary 1700 (or Pla d'Adet) and Saint-Lary 1900 (Espiaube) both have wonderful views and also provide bases for skiing.
Saint-Lary village (or Saint-Lary Soulan) is the sort of place where you'll find unspoilt stone-built houses and small country inns rather than big brash hotels and concrete apartment blocks. It's a four-minute walk from the village to the cable-car which takes you up to Saint-Lary Pla d'Adet, the more modern ski station.
The ski area is much bigger than it looks on the piste map, with 100km of groomed runs for most levels. The south-facing, more advanced runs are located between the peaks of La Soumaye (2370m) and Cap de Long (2450m) with some good terrain. Highly recommended is a run down (or on foot or on the Lac 2-seater chair-lift) through pristine forest to the Refuge du Lac d'Oule. It's a magical spot, with a sunny terrace overlooking a dammed lake.
To work off lunch there are some exhilarating long steeps. Sarrats, in particular – graded black on account of some steeper sections – is a good option for anyone looking to progress from blues and reds.
The Col du Portet Snowpark is a reknowned freestyle area where you can try boardercross, a sport created by the De Le Rue brothers (snowboard champions of the resort) on a blue run known as De Le Rue's Line.
The resort has a good spa called Sensoria which has been designed to look like canyons with waterfalls, geysers, whirlpools and underwater jet sprays. Near Saint-Lary village are the thermal baths which are now dedicated to health cures.
Stay: Hotel Les Arches is situated near the church, a few minutes' walk from the town centre and the cable-car. The rooms are functional but with comfortable, with large beds.
Some 60km of pistes are on offer here. But it's the quality rather than the quantity of the skiing here that's impressive. This well-designed, purpose-built ski area has a state-of-the-art lift-system planned around high-speed chair-lifts, with a handful of drag-lifts and two magic carpets serving the beginner areas.
The ski area, which is close to the Franco-Spanish border roughly halfway between Toulouse and Zaragoza, was created in 1988. Born of a marriage of two villages on opposite sides of the mountain, Peyragudes is also an amalgamation of their two names – Peyresourde and Les Agudes.
When they built Peyragudes, the powers that be were determined to avoid the mistakes of the '60s and '70s, and they've done a great job. It's all in the details: such as lifts rather than flights of steps from the car parks to the front de neige – very welcome when you're wearing ski boots and carrying skis!
From Peyresourde 1600 the Privilege chair takes you up to the Crêtes du Boum Belvedere, from where you can ski into the next valley for the long drop over into the smaller village of Les Agudes 1600. Almost all the groomed terrain is graded blue or red, with some steeper, albeit wide, runs. At the bottom, the Cap de Pales chair-lifts take you back up to the Crêtes du Boum.
The careful blending of landscape and pistes means that wherever you ski you get the feeling you're going somewhere, rather than experiencing more of the same; skiing here feels like an adventure. The pistes themselves are interesting too, with swoops and few straight sections, so you'll actually want to repeat them – particularly the long red run to below Les Agudes known as the Vallee Blanche.
Stay: Residence Les Jardins de Balnéa (in the Vallée du Louron, a 20-minute drive away) is at the edge of the Balnea gardens in the centre of the valley village with access to ski stations, a lake and a myriad of other activities, not least the Balneo spa centre.
1420-2600m, 9 lifts, 60km of piste
Piau Engaly offers the highest altitude skiing in the Pyrenees, with almost 750m of vertical between 1860m and 2600m. The surroundings are part of the Parc National des Pyrénées, giving it a wild beauty.
It's a car-free family resort about an hour's drive south of Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport (90min from Pau) next to the Spanish border, so Piau attracts cross-border skiers coming to enjoy the better snow quality of the north-facing French slopes. It is also just down the valley from Saint-Lary.
Families will love the large beginner area, and long green and blue slopes are reachable from the bottom of the station. The Pic de Piau chair takes you up to 2528m for a run down Grande Bleue which, at around 8km, is the longest blue cruise in the Pyrenees. Perdrix is a steep red, which leads into blue terrain and a choice of red runs.
Piau is also renowned for its freeride areas, located as it is in the heart of a natural amphitheater of 3000m peaks.
Two freeriders run an unusual high-altitude bio snack bar here, Le Daily Cieux, which provides tasty, nourishing food with a difference. It's reached by the Campbielh chair-lift which whisks you up to the Col du Cantoural at 2170m.
Stay: A new slope-side three-star hotel will be opening for the 2015-16 season with 32 bedrooms.
Located in the middle of a nature reserve, with east-west facing slopes, the sunny ski area of Val Louron has beautiful views, good snow-cover, and is an excellent destination for beginners. The unspoilt valley houses some lovely little villages such as Avajan, Bareilles and Vielle-Louron, constructed from stone, wood and the local valley slate.
Good food is of great importance to the locals and there is consequently wide range of restaurants and farmers' markets in the area that sell local produce. Don't miss Gateau a la Broche, which is a layered cake cooked on a skewer.
Stay: L'Ancienne Poste is a recently renovated, chalet-style lodge in the peaceful village of Avajan. The resorts of Val Louron and Peyragudes, as well as the famous Balnea Spa are a short drive or bus-ride away.
The weather in the Pyrenees-Orientales or Eastern Pyrenees is affected by the Mediterranean, making for a warmer climate than elsewhere in the range. There is also quite a Spanish influence, with the border nearby and – pre-1659 – much of the area used to belong to Catalonia.
1600-2200m, 52km of piste, 21 lifts
Font Romeu is the largest ski area in the Pyrenees-Orientales, 19km from Perpignan (200km from Toulouse). The small family ski area has terrain going up to 2200m. The slopes are set on a plateau that mainly suits beginners and lower intermediates, and are located a 4km bus-ride from the village centre. The sunny location and mild climate can make early and late ski holidays unreliable.
Reputedly one of the biggest snow-making operations in the Pyrenees, Font-Romeu's snow-cannons cover some 50% of the slopes. There is also a good terrain park here.
Stay: Le Domaine de Castella is 300m from the centre of Font-Romeu's lively centre with its numerous shops. The cable-car with its 10-minute journey to the ski slopes of Font Romeu Pyrenees 2000 is 600m away.
Located 92km from Perpignan and 178km from Toulouse, the village of Les Angles is set high on the Capcir Plateau in the Pyrenees-Orientales. The resort is at the foot of the slopes, in fact it's the only one of the older resorts in the Pyrenees with ski slopes descending right into the village.
Above all, Les Angles has managed to retain its authentic character whilst at the same time providing everything one expects of a modern ski resort. Some 60% of the skiing is above 200m with trails cut through pine forests as well as on wide open pistes. Beginners have 14 green runs and 9 blue, so it's a good place to learn the sport. Snow-cannons cover 70% of the terrain.
Stay: Residence Prat de Lis is at the foot of the ski slopes, close to the ski-lifts and ski school, and 300m from the resort centre.
Ariege Pyrenees
The Ariege department is in the central Pyrenees, next to Andorra, its highest peaks visible from Toulouse. It is one of the most unspoiled regions of France.
This is another attractive old town with the skiing set above it – this time in three areas. As you can guess from its name, Ax-les-Thermes is most famous for its thermal baths – Les Bains Couloubret – with around 60 sulphurous hot springs (25-78°C). The waters were originally used by the Romans and it is claimed that they are able to treat rheumatism, skin diseases, and other maladies.
Stay: Family-run Le Chalet is centrally situated in the resort. With contemporary decoration throughout, this gastro-hotel is close to the Bonascre gondola that accesses the Ax 3 Domaines ski area.
A Few Others
La Pierre Saint-Martin is a family destination in the Pyrenees Atlantiques, providing relaxed skiing for beginners who also want to try other activities such as tobogganing, snow-shoeing, mountain biking on snow, snow-tubing and big airbag. It has 25km of piste, accessible by 11 lifts.
Gourette, also in the Pyrenees Atlantiques, is a friendly village set at the foot of the 31km of slopes. It has 14 lifts, and gentle descents alternating with a few slightly more challenging pistes.
Luz Saint-Sauveur is a charming medieval village in the Hautes Pyrenees where you can ski three slopes of up to 2500m in altitude: Aulian, Béderet and Cloze, with 60km of piste serviced by 12 lifts.
Luchon-Superbagneres is in the Haute Garonne, directly accessible by an eight-minute cable-car ride from the town of Luchon, and a 90-minute drive from Toulouse. Its 32km of slopes are divided into three areas with 15 lifts, offering skiing for all levels.
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"I started skiing when I was seven and loved it from Day 1," remembers Olivier Lepoureau. "That might explain why I live in the Alps now!" These days, he's Managing Director of Ski Collection and Pyrenees Collection and is most often seen on the slopes of Les Arcs. "My favourite piste with the family runs from the top of the Aiguille Rouge (3226m) all the way down to Villaroger (1200m). But if I'm on my own, and ready for a thrill, I like to test myself on the Robert Blanc black above Arc 2000." For more information, head to pyreneescollection.co.uk.
2 Responses to "Why The French Pyrenees Have So Much To Offer Skiers"
hertsman Reply
"Obviously, the higher the better, so places like Piau Engaly (which has skiing going up to 2526m) are a good choice "
Just because you write this, doesn't make it true. 2500 m is extremely low to top out a ski-area, especially down on the Spanish border.
Richard Johnson Reply
hertsman is ill informed about snow in the Pyrenees. Ski Miquel has been arranging inclusive tours to Baqueira on the North side of the range. The last twelve years Baqueira has had better snow than the Alps!


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When Ben Smith left BuzzFeed to join the New York Times two years ago, the conventional wisdom in media circles was that the move signaled the top of the once-frothy new media startup market. Would-be disrupters like BuzzFeed, it turned out, didn't have the resources and ambition to displace Establishment Media after all.
And the Times, in particular, which looked wobbly at the beginning of the decade, had righted itself. It had a thriving business model because it had swapped out advertising dollars for reader subscription dollars. It was making excellent journalism, and it was hoovering up the best talent. "The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it's hired its biggest star," said this guy.
Now, Smith is leaving the NYT for a … new media startup. It's a yet-to-be-named outfit he's building in conjunction with Justin Smith, who has been running Bloomberg Media for eight years. Time for a new, new narrative?
Maybe not. Since Smith's departure from BuzzFeed, the Times has continued to spend aggressively to pluck ambitious journalists from digital and traditional outlets. We're particularly aware of it at Vox, since the list of NYT hires includes Ezra Klein, who co-founded Vox in 2014 and moved to the Times at the end of 2020.
So I asked Smith himself what we were to make of his move into the Most Established Establishment Media and back out. I got the quotable version of a shrug emoji: "The accordions accordion," Smith told me today. "The pendulum swings."
My translation: Both Ben Smith and Justin Smith are incredibly ambitious — ambitious enough that holding down two of the top gigs in media wasn't enough for them. By creating their own thing — funded with other people's money — they'll be owners, not just employees. That was a pitch that lots of startups made a few years ago, but is much less persuasive for most journalists now that we've seen a generation of media startups bump their heads on the ceiling.
Which means the Smiths are very confident they can fund this thing at scale, from the start. David Bradley, who used to own the Atlantic and employed Justin Smith as his top business executive there, has already told the Wall Street Journal that he wants to invest.
But Bradley sold his majority stake in the Atlantic to Laurene Powell Jobs in part because he didn't have unlimited funds to support journalism. So the Smiths will likely need more than his cash. Powell Jobs herself is not an investor in the new venture, a person familiar with her business tells me.
Ben Smith wasn't willing to tell me any more about his backers: "We'll announce it when we're ready to." (If you want to get a sense of how difficult it is to get anything useful out of Smith when he's in gnomic mode, check out his pleasant and maddening interview with the New Yorker.)
Speaking of translations: What exactly do the Smiths want to build? It will be big, they say, and they're focused on a theoretical audience of "200 million college-educated people around the world" — a curious descriptor Ben Smith used in the New York Times, and one that David Bradley also attributed to Justin Smith in the Journal.
And beyond that, it's quite fuzzy. "I think there's an enormous amount of space to innovate in the newsroom," Ben Smith told me, adding that perceptions of bias, and media organizations that catered to social media, had weakened the trust news consumers had in other media outlets.
Huh? I understand that positioning coming from Justin Smith, who has spent the past eight years at a publisher that takes great pains to present itself as a bone-dry, just-the-facts news purveyor for a business audience. Much less so from Smith, who delights in tweaking journalistic convention. He is the guy who famously published the so-called "Trump Dossier" in 2017, which enraged mainstream publishers at the time and does to this day.
I also don't think that whatever the Smiths say about their new publication matters that much, even to the people who back them or go to work for them. They'll sell the new org based on their resumes and output before it starts producing journalism. And once it actually starts making stuff, that's the thing that will matter.
If you want to hear more of Justin Smith's thoughts, you can listen to this Recode Media interview I conducted with him last fall — when, it turns out, he was talking with Ben Smith about launching this new venture.
And in the meantime let's give Ben Smith the last word: a response to my suggestion that his tenure at the Times, which started on March 1, 2020, had been brief. "Does the period beginning March 2020 seem short to you?" Smith said.
source https://www.vox.com/recode/22867616/ben-smith-justin-smith-new-york-times-bloomberg
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Passivhaus: What's in a name?
By Mark Siddall, Mark Siddall Mark Siddall2010-03-22T13:57:00+00:00
A lot actually, if you are claiming that a building meets a certain standard without the certification to verify it
If the UK is to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, the quality of the buildings that are constructed and refurbished need to be vastly improved. At the moment there is often a massive divide between the energy performance of the designs on an architect's computer screen and the completed building. Recent research by Leeds Metropolitan University has found that both low energy homes and even those built to meet current Building Regulations are not performing as promised.
It's not an issue unique to the UK. Back in 1983 Sweden developed an energy performance standard that limited the space heating to 50-60 kWh/m2 per year - that's the theoretical performance to the UK's current Building Regulations. In mainland Europe the Germans took note and, recognising that the average for their homes was closer to 200 kWh/m2 per year, realised that adopting the Swedish energy target would slash their energy consumption; what followed was the largely unofficial voluntary "low energy standard".
However, what this eventually led to was a tendency for architects and builders to make claims about having built low-energy houses simply because they orientated the house in a southerly direction or applied an extra couple of centimetres of insulation. After a while newspaper articles began to crop up with statements such as "family uses more energy in their new low-energy home than in the old heritage building they previously occupied". The German research that followed found that their low energy buildings did not always perform as expected. An eerily familiar message to the one by Leeds Metropolitan University.
The point to all this is that the focus for low-energy buildings is often on design targets. Whereas what might be a better approach is to focus on the process used to deliver the building. Ultimately what is needed is some form of quality assurance.
The problem was overcome in Germany with the development of RAL 965 for Low Energy Buildings. This simultaneously created a definition for low-energy buildings, protected the design standard from abuse and, as a basic term and condition for delivery and sale, provided the people requiring low energy buildings with a quality assured product.
Interestingly the most recent version of RAL 965, issued in 2009, also includes the Passivhaus Standard and requires that both low energy buildings and Passivhaus buildings are designed using the Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP).
By way of explanation, the PHPP is a simplified design tool and a means of ensuring that all the requisite aspects of the comfort criteria and building physics are addressed in the appropriate way and in the necessary detail. It carefully considers heat losses and gains associated with airtightness, ventilation, thermal bridging, solar gains, internal gains and the like.
For a Passivhaus the use of PHPP is the most fundamental aspect of the quality assurance process. One of the principal benefits that PHPP offers is that the designer does not have to return to first principles. In addition, not only does the tool include all the necessary aspects of building physics that need to be considered, but it also establishes a datum that allows one Passivhaus to be compared to another. The PHPP conveniently establishes a number of conventions that can simplify the design process and enable validation.
Recently I have had the issue of quality assurance in mind when I've read various articles in the press where journalists, clients, architects or builders have made claims about schemes that have been designed to the Passivhaus standard. At first I always find the reports of a new Passivhaus very encouraging, but after a while, as I read the article, I repeatedly find telltale signs - errors and omissions - that suggest that the projects are not actually Passivhaus buildings at all. Worst of all, in some cases, there are even claims of building in accordance with Passivhaus "principles" - these projects are certainly not Passivhaus buildings. While they are no doubt designed and built by well-meaning individuals, the projects have not been subjected to the same level of rigorous analysis (leading to inappropriate specifications), they have not used the correct design tools (leading to erroneous assumptions) and they have not been subject to the same standard of quality assurance both on and off site (which means that errors can creep in and as a consequence theory and reality will not converge).
Now, I can hear you say "Do such claims matter?" To me the obvious answer is a resounding "yes". For instance, imagine if someone claimed to have a BREEAM "outstanding" office. Would you expect them to have certification to prove it, or would you think it okay for them just to pass it off without actual substantiation - just because they say that they tried harder than usual?
At the moment what I have witnessed is that this kind of thing is happening with the Passivhaus standard. Here and there people are making ill-informed, often unsubstantiated, and false claims. While energy efficiency is the focus of the Passivhaus standard, it is an over simplification to suggest that it is "simply" an energy standard. It is in this respect that it should be recognised that Passivhaus is also a quality assurance standard. In order to deliver buildings that perform as predicted, as a quality assurance system, Passivhaus works on a number of levels and includes; certifiers, designers, components and ultimately buildings.
Is all this quality assurance required? Well, there is mounting evidence to suggest that buildings that are being designed to achieve thermal performance standards, including the Building Regulations, are in some cases consuming in excess of 70-100% more energy than the predicted values. In light of the recent discussions at Copenhagen, if there was ever a need for quality assured construction it is now. The old adage "you can not manage what you cannot measure" would seem particularly true here.
The rise of standards such as the Code for Sustainable Homes has led to a dearth of "innovators", each with their own untried and untested super product or concept. While it is great that the UK construction industry is finally thinking, there is an inherent danger of reinventing the wheel at great expense. Perhaps we could in fact be learning from projects that have already been developed, trailed, tested, verified and proven to work.
Mark Siddall is an architect and a certified Passivhaus designer. He is also the sustainability champion for Devereux Architects and is currently working on a 25 homes PassivHaus scheme
Passivhaus: the power of shared ideas
A road trip to Dresden reinforces the Passivhaus ethos – and provides an ego boost
Passivhaus diaries, part 21: Certification!
The Denby Dale home project draws to an end
Pioneering UK Passivhaus certified
First Passivhaus in the country to use traditional cavity wall construction cost £141,000 to build and will use 90% less energy for heating than average


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John Michael Pendley
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Missing Max
May 25, 2021 Uncategorized
I worked with Greg Gilford, a/k/a Max Gilford, some years ago. He produced and arranged backup vocals, among other things, on my album "Delano" in 1997. He was shy for some years about his prestigious fame at 18, co-founder and performing with "The Thomas Group," recording with the "Wrecking Crew," P.F. Sloan, son of the famous 1940's actress Anne Gwynne and actor Chris Pine's uncle. I guess some of that prestige explains how his storm trouper temperament would present itself when production sessions hit "sub-standard" results.
Rob Ward, a/k/a "GuruJonz," introduced us back in the early 90's when Max use to drive a long gas slugging LTD. He was was living in the Bronx and smoked 2 packs of Pall Mall a day, which he finally kicked in '98 after an acute health scare. Our common interest in music couldn't have been more immediate after our first meeting.
His instincts and musicianship were a remarkable tool and influence while producing my Delano album. Like myself, he could play guitar, piano, percussion and sing remarkably well; but his back-up vocal arrangements were right on the money, no different than what one hears in The Thomas Group recordings from back in 1966. I believe he did have perfect pitch, if not a cent or two off.
Below is a track from JMP album "Delano," 1997 "Dead Man Walkin1." Max Gilford Back-up vocals and arrangement. This song is for adult audiences only, not recommended for "anyone" under the age of 18.
"Dead Man Walkin" (Delano 1997)
When writing this tune for my "Delano" album in 1997 a funny thing, Jungian of sorts, was happening in another creative circle on the West Coast.
When studying at UCLA Music Dept in the mid-80s, there was a darling pianist of the music department, a protege – Jake Heggie that studied with Johanna Harris, (soon to be Heggie's wife) widow to composer, Roy Harris.
Jake and I studied in Paul Des Marais's composition class, while the other composition majors battled under the wings of Paul Reale or, preferably – Henri Lazarof, my orchestration professor.
F-FWD a few years. In 2001 I heard an NPR promotional stating that my old school "mate" Jake Heggie – just penned music for an "Opera," on the schedule for performance at the New York City Opera, Dead Man Walking. Truly, truly – fascinating.
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Nuclear Chemistry
Course abbreviation: P_JCHB
Course code: B0531A130029
Course duration: 3 years
Degree Course Characteristics
Nuclear chemistry is a scientific discipline concerned with the properties of matter and phenomena of chemical and physico-chemical nature, having origin in the nucleus of the atom or in which the nucleus and its transformations play a participative role. Understanding the properties of the nucleus and its behaviour can often be immensely helpful in studying and finding a solution to many problems – not only of chemical character. Such insight, however, is to be based on solid foundations of chemistry and physics.
The idea of the Bachelor´s Degree Course in Nuclear Chemistry is to offer students both quite strong foundations of mathematics and physics, and of theoretical and practical training in the fundamental branches of chemistry, i.e. in physical, inorganic, analytical, and organic chemistry as well as biochemistry. The course curriculum goes deeper, and includes both theoretical and practical courses in nuclear chemistry. Besides the fundamental principles of general nuclear chemistry, the course includes lectures on detection of ionizing radiation, dosimetry, radiation protection, and respective legislation. A special cluster of lectures presents topics on the role and safe operation of nuclear power plants. Laboratory experiments are invaluable for gaining practical experience. Chemistry labs and practicals in all branches of chemistry, and selected sections of physics and the knowledge gained in lectures add substantially to the job potentials of future graduates. Labs in radiochemical techniques and in detection on ionizing radiation bolster theoretical aspects of courses and, at the same time, bolster habits for handling open sources of ionizing radiation and management of experiments.
The three-year degree course aims at training graduates whose prospects on the labour market will be equal to the prospects of graduates in other fields of chemistry. Moreover, beyond their general qualification, our graduates equipped with a theoretical and practical background in nuclear chemistry are ready to work without any guidance in institutions operating open and closed sources of ionizing radiation (emitters). The course curriculum also encompasses knowledge of physical principles of radiation protection and relevant legislation, trains independent work habits, planning, and a high degree of concentration of attention, which is useful in science and research positions in industry, power engineering, nuclear safety, radiation protection, or the country´s administration. To sum up, the graduates have excellent chances to continue their academic training in chemistry and be admitted to the Continuation Master Programme "Nuclear Chemistry" (in preparation) to be offered by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering.
The course equips students with broad foundations of mathematics and physics, a good basis for broadening their horizons of chemistry, namely physical, inorganic, analytical, and organic chemistry, and biochemistry, as well as nuclear chemistry - the key course of the degree programme.
The solid theoretical and practical foundations for various chemical disciplines of the course programme equip students with a set of skills requisite for independent work in a chemical or radiochemical lab, as well techniques used in chemistry, including chemical processes, chemical design of complex instruments, and instrumental analysis. A very special skill in nuclear chemistry is safe manipulation of open an closed sources of ionizing radiation because such activities require planning and organizational skills and are closely relate to radiation protection and doing work with efficiency. Great stress is also laid on analytical and interpretation skills obtained via assessment of experimental results.
Competency:
Graduates will have obtained skills and knowledge required to assume positions in nuclear and chemical industry, in research, power engineering, health care, and environment protection institutions. Solid background in radiation protection and legislation makes them eligible for positions in supervision and control bodies such as the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SÚJB), the Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (SÚRAO), and the National Radiation Protection Institute (SÚRO). Their academic background makes them also eligible to take an examination in special professional competence for jobs in ionizing radiation protection. Language courses in two languages qualify graduates even for international career openings. And also, they can advance their academic training by applying for admission to a Continuation Master Programme in any discipline of chemistry, and, preferably, in Nuclear Chemistry offered by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering.
State Final Examination
Details on the examination and its parts are subject to valid legislation and internal regulations and rules and are available at Study Programmes and Regulations.
Guarantor:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry
Fields of Bachelor Programme (Bc.) - New Programmes
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Nachtmahr est le projet solo de Thomas Rainer (aussi connu pour ses autres groupes : L'Âme Immortelle mais également Siechtum, aujourd'hui dissous). Son style musical est la techno industrielle (Power noise).

Inspiré par de nombreuses années de DJing, Nachtmahr se décrit lui-même comme .

Le premier album, Kunst ist Krieg (L'art est la guerre), et son titre-phare, BoomBoomBoom, sont rapidement devenus une base dans le monde des clubs de musique industrielle et ont valu au groupe une place dans la bande originale du film américain Saw IV.

Cependant, le succès de l'EP a été largement dépassé avec la sortie de l'album complet, Feuer frei. Le single Katharsis a dominé les hit parades durant des mois, et a aidé l'album à rester dans le top 10 allemand Deutsche Alternative Charts (DAC) pendant plus de six semaines. Le plus grand et plus influent magazine de Dark Musique, ORKUS, a même déclaré que .

Pendant cette période, Nachtmahr a largement fait des tournées en Amérique du Nord et Central, en Europe, et en Russie - incluant la major partie des festivals comme Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Kinetik Festival, et M'era Luna - tout en préparent leur second assaut avec "Alle Lust will Ewigkeit".

Avec cela, le projet autrichien d'industrial continue son chemin sur des gros rythmes avec des basses et des mélodies attractives. Cette mesure a notamment conduit « Alle Lust will Ewigkeit » à la position No. 1 à la fois pour le single et pour l'album dans Deutsche Alternative Charts.

En 2010, le troisième album de Nachtmahr Semper Fidelis est sorti, également haut placé dans les chartes allemandes.

En 2011, Nachtmahr annonce qu'il développe leurs concerts en Autriche, Irlande, et au Royaume-Uni.

Polémique
Au festival Kinetik Festival de 2012, Nachtmahr a été critiqué sur scène pour l'ouverture d'Ad·ver·sary pour "avoir utilisé des propos misogynes et racistes dans la musique du groupe et le matériels publicitaires" . Durant les cinq dernières minutes sur scène, Ad·ver·sary "a monté une présentation multimédia qui est contre l'utilisation de la violence, du sexisme et du racisme de Nachtmahr (et de son camarade de tête d'affiche Combichrist), à l'aide d'exemples directs de leur travail qui font valoir son point de vue."

Discographie

Studio Albums
 2004 : I
 2008 : Feuer Frei!
 2008 : Katharsis
 2009 : Alle Lust will Ewigkeit
 2009 : Mädchen in Uniform
 2010 : Semper Fidelis
 2012 : Veni Vidi Vici
 2011 : Can You Feel the Beat?
 2014 : Feindbild
 2016 : Kampfbereit
 2016 : Mit Vereinten Kräften
 2017 : Unbeugsam
 2019 : Antithese
2020 : Flamme
2021 : Beweg Dich!

Compilation
 2017 : Unbeugsam

EPs
 2007 : Kunst ist Krieg
 2008 : Katharsis
 2010 : Mädchen in Uniform
 2011 : Can You Feel The Beat?
 2016 : Kampfbereit
 2018 : Widerstand
 2018 : Gehorsam

Liens externes

Références

Groupe musical autrichien

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Jean de la Teillaye, écuyer, chevalier, secrétaire du duc de Berry, receveur général à Carcassonne, receveur général en Languedoc, conseiller et ¨Panetier du roi de France.

Il épouse Jeannette, fille naturelle du Connétable de France Louis de Sancerre. Celle-ci héritera de son père défunt deux mille livres et son hôtel de Carcasonne avec ses dépendances.

Détails de sa vie

Jean de La Teillaye, qualifié comme l'un des chevaliers de la compagnie d'Olivier IV de Rohan, seigneur de Montauban, chevalier, est présent lors d'une montre faite le  pour le siège de Bécherel.
Il est mentionné dans une autre montre du , avec deux chevaliers et sept écuyers, au Mans. Jean et Lancelot de la Teillaie, chevaliers, commandent chacun une compagnie à Craon en 1380.

Secrétaire du duc de Berry et de Charles VI, il devint receveur en 1398 à Carcassonne et receveur général en Languedoc, commis par le connétable Louis de Sancerre (1399), garde du petit scel de Montpellier, panetier du roi, conseiller et trésorier général de la reine de Sicile, viguier de Béziers, conseiller du dauphin Charles.

Louis, duc d'Orléans, demanda à Jean de La Teillaye, de payer à Robert de Bonnay, chevalier, son chambellan, 200 livres tournois.

Jean de La Teillaye, Panetier du roi, est seigneur du Mesnil-Aubry du chef de Jeanne Dupuis, sa femme, le 1er octobre 1409. Jean de La Teillaye (1410) qui n'exerça sa charge à Caen que pendant quelques mois avant d'être nommé receveur des aides dans la généralité de Paris.

Alors que Jean était conseiller du roi, Jean Seaume, seigneur de Chateauneuf, receveur général, lui accorda une somme pour le dédommager à l'occasion des avances qu'il a faites pour le prix de coites d'armes, bannières, étendards et panonceaux, qu'il a commandés à Avignon, par ordre du roi Charles VII, aux mois de mai et juin, pour l'équipement de l'armée qui allait être mise en campagne, etc. (Mehun-sur-Yèvre, ).

Il fait partie de l'administration du roi de Sicile, René d'Anjou.

Famille, Descendance et héritiers

 Jean II de La Teillaye, son fils, ép. Anne  Boulargne,
 Jean III de La Teillaye, seigneur de la Chaise, son petit-fils, ép. Marie Geoffroy,
 Jehanne de La Teillaye, son arrière-petite fille, épouse le 14 septembre 1506 Guillaume Tenon († en 1526), Seigneur de Nanvignes en pie et Fonfaye  dont :
 Guillaume II tenon †/1585
 Jean V Tenon
 Etienne Tenon
 Jeanne Tenon

Divers

 Jean de la Teillaie, était malade de la maladie contagieuse et cloué au lit dans son logis, quand Lancelot, son frère, vint à la tête de sept brigands enfoncer le 1er mars 1449 sa porte  de sa maison de la Perrine en Athée, ancien fief de la baronnie de Craon. Les malfaiteurs pillèrent l'habitation et « donnèrent plusieurs coups audict malade. » Puis, ils se retirèrent avec leur butin. Ils furent bientôt arrêtés et condamnés à  tournois.

 Le Manoir de La Teillais était la propriété de la famille Teillaye ou Teillais en 1388.
 Ses armoiries seraient D'azur, au chevron d'or, accompagné de trois étoiles du même.

Notes et autres références

Personnalité française de la guerre de Cent Ans
Personnalité militaire de la guerre de Cent Ans