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On 5 July 2021, the Delegation of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia composed of Ms. Lidija Tasevska, Head of the PABSEC Delegation, Ms. Cvetanka Ivanova, Secretary General of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mr. Ilir Selmani, Head of the Cabinet of the President of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia and Ms Bleta Bilali, Secretary of the PABSEC Delegation, visited the PABSEC Inter...
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Olympic Recap: Women's Volleyball Selected As No. 9 Seed In NCAA Tournament
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Ohio State women's volleyball ended the 2021 regular season with a 25-5 overall record and a 15-5 record in Big Ten matches, finishing tied for third in the conference and earning the No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
The Buckeyes began the season on a 10-match win streak, including a four-set victory over then-No. 4 Washington, to go undefeated in non-conference play. Ohio State went 12-1 in the Covelli Center, earning four ranked wins in Columbus.
Jen Flynn Oldenberg's squad finished the 30-game regular season on a seven-match win streak. The team ranked in the top three in the conference in nine statistical categories, including the league lead in assists per set (13.84), opponent assists per set (10.26), kills per set (14.92) and opponent service aces per set (.80).
Ohio State ended the year with sweeps over Rutgers and Maryland. The Buckeyes dominated the Scarlet Knights on Nov. 26, outscoring their opponent 75-52 in three sets before a more challenging clean-up of the Terrapins (25-19, 25-23, 25-18).
This year, the Buckeyes will play in their 26th NCAA Tournament and second in a row following a three-year hiatus. Ohio State — which has advanced to the Final Four twice in 1991 and 1994 — will face Howard in the first round at 7 p.m. on Friday, with the winner of the North Carolina-Tennessee match waiting in the second round at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
Ohio State women's ice hockey earned two wins over St. Lawrence and Penn State in the "D1 in D.C." tournament played in the nation's capital over the weekend.
The No. 2 Buckeyes defeated St. Lawrence, 5-2, and won their first non-conference game since the 2019-20 season after playing a conference-only schedule last year because of the pandemic.
Ohio State scored just once in the first period, as Gardiner capitalized on the Saints penalty with under eight minutes to play. However, the Saints closed out the period with another goal to take a 2-1 lead at the first intermission.
Ohio State won the game in the third period, propelling itself to a 4-2 lead. Gabby Rosenthal started the period with a game-tying goal at 4:36, tipping in a shot from Bizal. Jenn Gardiner's second goal of the day came during the Buckeyes' second power play at 15:03. Levis added another goal over a minute later, collecting her rebound and beating St. Lawrence's Lucy Morgan. Sophie Jaques tallied the Buckeyes' final goal, scoring an empty netter and a shorthanded goal with just 33.5 seconds to play.
Andrea Braendli recorded 15 saves in her seventh win of the season.
On Nov. 27, Ohio State (14-2-0) beat Penn State, 4-2, to improve to 28-8-1 in non-conference play under head coach Nadine Muzerall.
Jaques started the game with a goal. The senior capitalized off the Buckeyes' first power-play opportunity of the evening only 11 minutes into the contest. Clair DeGeorge added another goal 24 seconds later to give the Buckeyes a two-score advantage at the first intermission.
Penn State capitalized on two late-first period penalties by the Buckeyes with a goal in the opening minute of the second frame. Jaques restored Ohio State's two-goal lead with another power-play goal at 5:14 before Jenn Gardiner added the team's third man-up goal at 1:05.
The Nittany Lions scored their second goal to stage a comeback, but the Buckeyes maintained their lead to win. Braendli recorded her eighth victory, making 30 saves against Penn State.
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Q: Bases of orthogonal complements Suppose $w_1,..,w_n$ is a base of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and let $S_j$ be subsets of ${1,2,...,n}$. Define $H_j=span\{w_i : i\in S_j\}$. Does there exist a basis $v_1,...,v_n$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $H_j^{\perp}=span\{v_i : i\in S_j^{c}\}$?
For example in $\mathbb{R}^3$, I think we can do it using something like a biorthogonal set. But with general $S_j$ and in $\mathbb{R}^n$ I cannot make a proof that works in general.

A: Quite broad hint (but deliberately not a complete answer
If your question means "regardless of the choice of $S_j$, is there always a solution?", then we might as well take the set of $S_j$ to be the power set of $1, 2, \ldots, n$, since that results in the greatest possible collection of constraints (and any other choice for the $S_j$s results in a subset of this constraint set).
Now for each $k = 1, \ldots, n$ look at $T_k = \{1, 2, \ldots, k-1, k+1, \ldots n\}$, so that the corresponding $H$ will be the span of "all but the $k$th basis vector". The orthogonal complement of this $H$ will be a line, hence be spanned by a single vector, which (up to sign and length, which don't matter) must be chosen as $v_k$.
Now all you have to do is figure out whether these $v_k$ vectors ($k = 1, \ldots, n$) actually satisfy the constraints for every possible subset $S$ of $\{1, \ldots, n\}$.

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Bolton Nuts » BWFC » Bolton Wanderers Banter » Banner.
Banner.
1 Banner. on Wed Feb 17 2016, 23:35
Any chance of a new one?
I mean, yeah... cancer and that at 63 - Awful, yeah.....obviously.
But it's been almost two weeks.
He's not lying in state at Bolton Parish Church or anything, so can we move on now please?
And he was quite a divisive character when all's said and done, so whilst I agree that it was appropriate to respect his passing, do we really need to carry with the whole maudlin black background, sad-looking Phil thing?
Just an observation.
2 Re: Banner. on Thu Feb 18 2016, 00:10
The new one is fitting and appropriate.
I feel like I'm watching "The God Channel on Sky 580: Please donate generously to guarantee your spot in Heaven!" looking at that.
Pledge fifty quid and you will be saved!
Sorry but I'm not interested in beatifying the man.
He played a massive part in driving our club to the brink of extinction so I'm not overly down with the idea of lauding him and celebrating his memory.
I've maintained for years that he was an objectionable character who only ever made a decision if it benefited his own personal agenda and I'm not changing my stance now just because he's dead.
Bollocks to him. Sorry for his family's loss and that but balls to him.
I think we should keep the banner until his funeral, assuming it hasn't already happened.
Mr Magoo
Location : North Devon
I agree Glos
Nicky Hunt
Breadman wrote: I feel like I'm watching "The God Channel on Sky 580: Please donate generously to guarantee your spot in Heaven!" looking at that.
Cheap shot, show a little decency, think you're in a minority mate
Impressive banner,but it does look like something that might appear on the front cover of 'The Watchtower'.
Phil Gartside has obviously been a divisive character for many Bolton fans particularly over recent years.
Nuts isn't here to tell people they were right or wrong about him - you're all big enough to make your own minds about that - but love him or hate him he is dead and as a mark of respect to a key character in the clubs present time (who died remember whilst still in service with them) the least we can do in my opinion is to pay tribute to his memory until after his funeral.
I believe that is the right thing to do and hope most people will accept that reasoning.
I was shocked to learn that there might not be a minute's silence at our next home game,because the family feel it might be disrespected.
If this is the case,it's very sad. Whatever our feelings about PG,it would be appropriate to mark his passing with due respect.
We're Bolton Wanderers. Let's do this right.
10 Re: Banner. on Thu Feb 18 2016, 13:04
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Impressive banner,but it does look like something that might appear on the front cover of 'The Watchtower'.
BTID did the first banner and Keegan did the current one.
We are very grateful to them both for giving up their time for free to do them.
We are happy to put whichever banner up people prefer or even a new one if someone else is good enough to do one for us.
Indeed any help at all in running this site would be very much appreciated (simply pm me or any of the other mods if you can and want to).
Go on, you know you really want to help out here!
I'd happily offer advice on health and safety.
Given that he died over a week ago and his family wanted to keep the details of his funeral private, I would suggest that it's already happened.
Fabians Right Peg
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: I was shocked to learn that there might not be a minute's silence at our next home game,because the family feel it might be disrespected.
Keep the banner up.
Once a Wanderer always a wanderer.
15 Re: Banner. on Fri Feb 19 2016, 00:47
Copper Dragon
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Once a Wanderer always a wanderer.
Thanks Owen
I like Owen, he had passion.
17 Re: Banner. on Tue May 03 2016, 21:20
Think it's about time we changed the banner. The present one is depressing.
Let's get an upbeat vibe going.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Think it's about time we changed the banner. The present one is depressing.
19 Re: Banner. on Sun Aug 07 2016, 18:21
Had to laugh at the new banner showing the league table. It wasn't so much the words "joint top" as the teams above us - Posh, Bury. Wozzle, Scunny, Gills and effing Millwall. Jaysus
20 Re: Banner. on Tue Jul 03 2018, 14:29
What's the deal with the fingers? Is this a 'young people' thing,or some kind of sign language.
Lingard's is for his initials JL - promoting his 'JLingz' brand.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Lingard's is for his initials JL - promoting his 'JLingz' brand.
Did Sterling not know how to do it?
The illuminati.
Does Sterling own a brand called Wanker Wear?
Why is he a wanker?
26 Re: Banner. on Wed Jul 04 2018, 16:31
No end product worthy of the name. Like these wind up toys that go like a bat out of hell, but goes in a straight line, and achieves nothing. He's a wanker, just a fast one, that's all
Why's he a wanker? Always comes across very well in interviews, only the tabloid press with a bad word to say about him
Thought Sterling was great last night, difficult to pick up and got between the lines. No coincidence the ball didn't stick once he came off IMO.
28 Re: Banner. on Thu Jul 05 2018, 13:19
RustyNail
Sterling was clearly the weak link on tuesday. Every time it got to him the move broke down.
Rashford above him every time.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Sterling was clearly the weak link on tuesday. Every time it got to him the move broke down.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrote: Why is he a wanker?
It looks like he's doing WW next to Lingard's JL.


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Q: Sklearn SVM - UndefinedMetricWarning I am doing a classification task in Python to classify audio files of different musical instrument into their respective class, in my case there are 4 class, which are Brass, String, Percussion, and Woodwind. I used 3 different algorithms, k-Nearest Neighbor, Naive Bayes, and SVM. My code looks a bit like this:
#X is feature matrix, y is class vector
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.3)

#k-NN Classifier
knn = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3)
knn.fit(X_train,y_train)
knn_pred = knn.predict(X_test)
print(metrics.classification_report(y_test,knn_pred)

#Naive Bayes Classifier
nb = GaussianNB()
nb.fit(X_train,y_train)
nb_pred = nb.predict(X_test)
print(metrics.classification_report(y_test,nb_pred)

#SVM Classifier
svm = SVC()
svm.fit(X_train,y_train)
svm_pred = knn.predict(X_test)
print(metrics.classification_report(y_test,svm_pred)

When I try to run this code, I got problem with my SVM Classifier. The error code looks like this:
      precision    recall  f1-score   support

  Brass       1.00      0.21      0.34        72
Percussion    0.38      1.00      0.55       279
 String       1.00      0.15      0.26       276
 Woodwind     0.00      0.00      0.00       156

 avg / total  0.58      0.43      0.32       783

C:\Users\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\metrics\classification.py:1135: UndefinedMetricWarning: Precision and F-score are ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples.

When I checked my predicted labels from SVM classifier(svm_pred), there are no Woodwind class predicted which results in the value of Precision and F1-Score for Woodwind class being 0.0. This problem only occurs for SVM classifier although I used the same training set for all 3 algorithms. Anyone know how to get around this problem?

Note: My dataset for all 4 classes are imbalanced which I suspect might triggered this error

A: i think that i know what is your problem. Probably it's because the SVM classifier do not classiffy any instance for Woodwind class correctly . Then, when he tries to calculate the precision of the Woodwind class he get 0, because to calculate the precision he do something like that:
true positives divided by (true positives+false positives).
But the value of the true positives is equals to 0, then he cannot calculate 0 divided by something. So that's why the value of the precision score is 0. The same thing happens with the recall and F1.
Remember that true positives is the number of instances for the Woodwind class that are correctly classified by the Classifier.


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The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
Certainly, you cannot fuck with a film with a title like The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972), or so I thought while attempting to watch every single one of the surviving films of sadomasochistic queer gutter auteur Andy Milligan (The Ghastly Ones, Fleshpot on 42nd Street). Easily the worst of the films that the fucked filmmaker made while taking a temporary sabbatical over the pond in London (the others being Nightbirds, The Body Beneath, Bloodthirsty Butchers, The Man With Two Heads), the film is, somewhat absurdly, a lycanthropic anti-family melodrama of the ostensibly period piece oriented sort that was originally titled The Curse of the Full Moon and was shot in 1969, but the producer/distributor thought the film was too banal for even Milligan standards and later had the auteur shoot a series of pointless scenes in the director's then-hometown of Staten Island involving two rats that were actually named 'Willard' and 'Ben' to capitalize off the success of Willard (1971) and Ben (1972) and was finally released in 1972. Moneyman Mishkin did the same thing with Milligan's superior English era work The Man With Two Heads (1972), which, despite being a reworking of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and being originally fittingly named Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Blood, was renamed to cash in on the unwarranted popularity of Lee Frost's race-baiting blaxploitation-horror-sci-fi-comedy hybrid celluloid turd The Thing with Two Heads (1972) and released a couple years after it was actually completed. Admittedly, aside from wanting to complete my viewing of the director's entire oeuvre, my main interest in seeing The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! is due to the fact that it features auteur Milligan in a cameo role as a ghetto-dwelling arms dealer, which, at least in my less than humble opinion, is worth the price of admission alone, even if it is one of the filmmaker's more second rate fucked filmic family affairs. Unquestionably, the world's greatest (and probably only) werewolf melodrama and, for better or worse, easily more 'idiosyncratic' than the other American-directed London-set lycanthrope film An American Werewolf in London (1981), the flick will certainly satisfy Milligan maniacs, but probably no one else, not even spastic Troma fanboys. The film depicts in slow and painfully hetero-hating detail the suffering that an ancient English family suffers as a result of a longstanding curse of both the literal and figurative sort. Featuring a decidedly degenerating werewolf family led by a morbidly and elderly half-dead patriarch who is attempting to assemble a formula to cure the family curse, as well as an eclectic collection of siblings, including a belligerent beast-man who is fed live chickens and lives in a cage with said chickens, as well as a savagely sadistic sister who gets off to slaughtering both rats and peasants, The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! is a vaguely fleetingly charming and charismatic piece of celluloid crap directed by the horror genre's most exquisitely misanthropic and cynical anti-gentleman.
The Mooneys are a very ancient aristocratic family from "Northern Europe" who have been cursed ever since one of the patriarchs was bitten by a wild beast and developed a degenerative disease that he would pass on to every newborn family member. The family used to be much larger, but now only one line exists. It is the early 1900s and the current patriarch of the surviving family is Pa Mooney (Douglas Phair) and due to a formula he created that he is regularly injected with by his eldest daughter Phoebe (British TV actress Joan Ogden of James Mitchell's thriller series Callan (1967-1972)), he is 180-years-old, though he seems like he will croak at any moment. The eldest son of the family, Mortimer (Noel Collins), who seems like the humorous twin brother of Mr. Bean, is responsible for maintaining the family finances. Unquestionably, the most demented of the Mooney siblings is middle sister Monica (played by Milligan regular Hope Stansbury, who was responsible for penning the director's debut 1965 queer short Vapors), who is a sadist that wallows in morbidly mutilating and murdering her pet rats and torturing her younger brother Malcolm (Berwick Kaler of Milligan's 1969 arthouse masterpiece Nightbirds), who is the youngest and most animal-like member of the family. Indeed, Malcolm is so majorly messed up that his family members keep him locked up in a cage and feed him live chickens. When the youngest daughter Diana (Jackie Skarvellis of Milligan's The Body Beneath and Michael Sarne's The Punk and The Princess (1993) aka The Punk) returns home from medical school in Scotland with a husband Gerald (Ian Innes), she surprises the entire family, not least of all Pa Mooney, who sent his daughter away so that she could learn enough to help him with his scientific research and certainly not so she could bring home an outsider. Since Gerald is a starving artist of sorts, Diana thought it would be a good idea that she and her hubby move in with Pa so that they will be financially supported. Of course, little does Gerald realize that his wife's family is comprised of a bunch of loony lycanthropes that are just as liable to rip out the throats of each other as they are that of strangers and enemies. Indeed, as ruthless, degenerate blueblood rabble, the Mooneys are more or less incestuous cannibals who eat and fuck one another (indeed, as the eldest sister Phoebe reveals towards the end of the film, she and Pa used to practice father-daughter coitus).
Monica, a deranged bitch with a murderously sadistic streak, introduces herself by humorously stating, "Hello, I'm Monica, the middle sister…the bitch. The one they always talk about behind her back," and attempts to warn Gerald about his wife by telling him that his wife/her sister Diana is a self-centered bitch who only cares about herself. She also informs him that the Mooney family has a curse that he "better find out about now." Instead of taking heed of Monica's advice, Gerald says to his wife, "She has a few problems, doesn't she?!" and then proceeds to ask her about her retarded brother Malcolm, who she describes as follows, "He's a year older than me and he's not quite normal. He's almost animal-like. We don't know how it happened…the genes got mixed up in conception and he never developed into a normal baby. When he was a youngster, we had to keep him locked up in a room. He has the instincts of an animal. Oh, he's not dangerous or anything like that, but to this day we keep him locked up in a room." Diana also reveals that Monica hates her because they have different mothers and that her mother was mysteriously poisoned after she was born. Vowing to no longer keep secrets from one another, Gerald also describes his own rather unsavory family background, stating, "My father deserted my mother when I was five. Two years later, he was arrested for raping and murdering a six year-old girl" for which he was subsequently hanged where "he hung there for two weeks. His body became so hideous that they had to cut it down for health reasons. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the yard of an insane asylum. Two weeks later my mother died of grief and shame." After his mother died, Gerald was shipped to an orphanage in Scotland where he was regularly stripped naked and beaten by sexually sadistic nuns. Instead of being turned off and disturbed by her husband's story, Diana declares, "my god, I love you so much" and embraces Gerald, who has no idea that his wife is a two-faced wench that has pernicious plans for him and her family.
Eventually, Pa Mooney gets around to berating his daughter Diana, telling her that she is "playing with fire" due to her marriage and proclaiming, "…the Mooney's are a selfish lot…but we need that selfishness in order to exist. When we think of the family continuing, we must not think of ourselves but the family as a whole. We're the last of the Mooneys and we must protect our heritage. Society does not accept us because of what we are, so we're an enemy of society and we must protect ourselves by being self-sufficient." Of course, Pa loves his youngest daughter more than any of his other children and sees the rest of the family as completely expendable. After dealing with enough of his wife's family's demented behavior, Gerald confesses, "I'm not happy here" and "there's something not normal here, I don't like it" and even offers to give up painting and get a real job if she agrees to move out of Mooney manor, but she refuses. On top of that, Phoebe and various other family members encourage Gerald to divorce Diana, but he flatly refuses, even after discovering the mangled and dismembered corpses of chickens that retarded beast brother Malcolm has rabidly slaughtered and devoured. When brother Mortimer attempts to comfort Diana and recommends she divorce Gerald for the sake of the family, she responds, "I don't think this family stands much chance of surviving as a whole for much longer. I think we're on the verge of destroying ourselves."
Meanwhile, in a pointless subplot, Monica goes to a shop after killing her pet rat "Ben" with a butcher knife (since Hope Stansbury refused to kill the animal, Milligan apparently coerced a boy sporting a dress into killing the rodent) and buys a couple human-eating rodents from the cripple vendor Mr. Micawber (Chris Shore), who lost his arm and part of his face (which is partly black, as if Milligan was too cheap to get the actor's face completely covered in blackface) after his rats got a hold of him when he was asleep. After killing the rats, penny-pinching mad cunt Monica attempts to return them to Mr. Micawber because she doesn't want any "ungrateful rats," but he adamantly refuses as he spent all the money on booze, so she malevolently murders him. Meanwhile, Diana goes to a curious queen 'gunsmith' (played by Mr. Milligan) and has her hubby Gerald's silver cross turned into silver bullets, as she expects all her siblings to transform into wolves as a result of the full moon. Meanwhile, Pa Mooney finally kicks the bucket and eldest sister Phoebe becomes so upset that she reveals that she and her father carried on a love affair and that she also poisoned Diana's mother out of jealously. From there, Phoebe then transforms into a werewolf and all the other siblings follow except Diana. While most of the siblings end up killing each other while in lycanthrope mode, Gerald ends up shooting Mortimer with the silver bullets that were made from his mother's cross. In a twist ending, Diana finally reveals her true character by telling Gerald that she no longer has any use for him because he has impregnated her, declaring, "I'm different from the rest of my family…I can change myself at will," transforms herself into a werewolf, and slaughters her beloved.
In his biography The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan (2001), Milligan's comrade Jimmy McDonough wrote in regard to his decided dissatisfaction with The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, "RATS is hampered by a talky script; flat, amateurish performances; and effects that are bad even by Milligan standards. Seeing Hope Stansbury and the rest of the cast skulk through the shadows in very cheap werewolf makeup is funny for about a second, but the film meanders. It just doesn't possess the crazed energy one expects from Milligan in this period." Indeed, aside from dark-haired diva Stansbury, who seems like a meta-bitch prom queen high on coke and PCP, all of the performances in the film are conspicuously plagued by just plain bad and seemingly unending mediocrity and banality, not to mention the fact that the direction is shockingly dull and oftentimes nonsensical (with many of the scenes being far too dark to see anything), and the special effects and makeup are akin to that of a play put on by autistic preschoolers, yet the work will ultimately at least slightly wet the lips and semi-satisfy anyone that has gotten used to the nasty habit of devouring Milligan's misanthropic family melodramas. Notable for being Milligan's first PG-rated work despite featuring a pointless scene where a real rat is tortured and killed with a knife, The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! is arguably the most impotent and insipid werewolf flick ever made as a work where the lycanthropes are slow and clumsy like Special Olympics contestants and ultimately meet their demise in exceedingly anti-climactic ways that make it quite clear that the director had little, if any, interest in the horror elements of the film and was much more interested in the venomous verbal (and sometimes physical) bitch fights between the rather repellant female characters. Additionally, the film is also notable for the fact that the female leads look more like New Jersey-debased guidettes than cultivated members of a Northern European aristocracy, with the pseudo-medieval England of Torture Dungeon (1970), which was shot on the quasi-beaches of Staten Island and starred a number of sub-literate working-class wops, being even more believable. Indeed, despite being shot at the scenic Hampstead Heath estate in London, which was also used for Milligan's previous film The Body Beneath as well as Joseph Losey's big budget psychological-thriller Secret Ceremony (1968) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow, the film has about as much 'Gothic' atmosphere as an early 1990s mestizo boy band. If Tennessee Williams suffered brain damage after a car wreck, got addicted to Roger Corman horror turds and queer style misogyny, and was sent to England with a couple thousand bucks given to him by some scheming Semitic exploitation producer like David F. Friedman to direct a cheap quickie lycanthrope flick, it would have probably resembled The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, which is certifiably Milligan-esque in all the wrong ways!
"Anally raping a 6 year-old girl"...WOW...my knob nearly ripped through my trousers when i read that. Its so great when i read things that fall exactly in line with my obsession with Heather and JonBenet.
That bit about Tennessee Twat-iams, Roger Cor-girl, and David Fried-girl at the end of the last paragraph made me fall about laughing again, i really like all those absurd compari-daughters.
eddie lydecker said...
It still astonishes me that Milligans movies were shown in movie houses 45 years ago, let alone the fact that people were idiotic enough to pay $2 each to see them, audiences must have been much more forgiving of unwatchable garbage in those days.
"Mr. Micawber" ! ! !, Milligan must`ve been a big fan of that ludicrously over-rated British turd Charles Twat-ins.


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Kapcsándy Merlot Roberta's Reserve and Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin
BY STEPHEN TANZER | JUNE 26, 2019
On more than one occasion, I have singled out the Kapcsándy Family Winery's Roberta's Reserve as one of the world's greatest Merlot bottlings not made on the Pomerol plateau, and arguably the finest example from California. It's a Merlot with extraordinary depth of flavor and structure, and it appears capable of evolving in bottle for at least two or three decades. In some vintages the wine has even overshadowed the estate's Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin in the early going for its uncommon depth and perfumed complexity. But a stellar vertical tasting of these two elite bottlings side by side at the winery in March proved that the Kapcsándy family's outstanding Yountville site excels with both varieties. Their two flagship bottlings show remarkable density and refinement of texture, outstanding small-berry intensity and depth, and uncommonly suave tannins. If my scores seem ridiculously high, that's because the wines are ridiculously good—and far more impressive than wines from young vines (the oldest will be 18 this year) have any right to be.
The first Roberta's Reserve was made in 2005. This was also the first vintage from which the estate bottled a varietally labeled Cabernet Sauvignon—actually, "Grand Vin" was not indicated on the label until the 2007 release. In its first two vintages of production, the winery had offered just a single Cabernet-based proprietary blend, which included 10% Merlot in 2003 and 40% in 2004.
The no-nonsense Kapcsándy winery
The Origins of the Kapcsándy Project
Lou Kapcsándy came to America from his native Hungary following the Soviet invasion in 1956, and quickly converted his degree in chemical engineering to an American one at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, going to work as a junior chemical engineer. He subsequently moved to California's Bay Area, where he worked in the petroleum and pharmaceuticals industries. In 1974, he relocated with his wife and young son, Louis Jr., to Seattle, where he eventually ran a general industrial contracting company and was involved in the construction of a couple of wineries in Woodinville.
Throughout his adult life, Kapcsándy had been a wine lover, with a particular fondness for Bordeaux, but his involvement with wine would eventually become far more hands-on. Kapcsándy cited a long lunch with Château Léoville-Las Cases proprietor Michel Delon in 1999 as the trigger for his going into the wine business (one reason for this decision was so that he could buy Delon's wines). He established a small wine importing business, Grand Cru Imports, specializing in Bordeaux and Hungary's Tokaj wines.
Meanwhile, Kapcsándy was also thinking about buying a vineyard in Napa Valley as a retirement project, initially with no plans to make wine himself. In 2000, the State Lane Vineyard in eastern Yountville, about a half mile inside the Silverado Trail, came to his attention. This 20-acre site, owned by a retired California highway patrolman who had purchased it in 1993, had supplied Beringer Vineyards with a core component for its flagship Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve through the 1980s and continued to be used to make smaller-production vineyard-designated Cabernets in the '90s. Beringer had recently ripped out the vines due to the spread of phylloxera and had a plan to replant them. Kapcsándy had heard through friends that the site was available and he snapped it up. "I couldn't believe that Beringer wasn't all over it," he told me in March.
The Kapcsándy vine rows are planted magnetic north-south
The Early Years of a Great New Estate
Inspired by the proven quality of the site, Kapcsándy decided to create his own wine estate in partnership with his son Louis, Jr., with the objective of making a first-growth style of wine in Napa Valley to compete with the finest wines of Bordeaux. The Kapcsándys quickly went to work replanting the vineyard to 15 specific blocks, mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. They brought in their friends Helen Turley and her husband John Wetlaufer to help them organize the new vineyards. Lou, Sr. credits Wetlaufer for convincing him to plant his vines using a magnetic north-south row direction, which was unusual at the time in Napa Valley but is increasingly practiced today. This approach is believed to offer the most uniform possible ripening of the fruit and to prevent grape sugars from racing ahead of phenolic ripeness. (As a long-time claret lover, Kapcsándy was intent on making wines with moderate alcohol levels and sound natural acidity.) And in very hot years, the shading effect of the foliage on the west side of the vines can prevent the fruit from being burned by the hot afternoon sun. Wetlaufer also recommended vertical shoot positioning, using a double wire, which further protects the grapes against shriveling by creating a hedge row effect.
The vineyard was also planted at a very dense 2,600 vines per acre, common practice in Bordeaux but far tighter than most vineyards in California. (Previously, the State Lane Vineyard had been planted at just 850 vines per acre.) Thanks to the high-density spacing (1 meter by 1.5), the vines produce smaller berries with a higher skin-to-juice ratio, which in turn yield wines with more intense flavors and greater structure. Yields are quite low for vines on the valley floor, and especially low in terms of fruit per vine, with the Kapcsándys generally managing their vineyards to get between 3 and 3-1/2 tons of fruit per acre.
Helen Turley was responsible for making the 2003 and 2004 vintages: the '03 at Martinelli Winery, where Turley was also making her own wines at the time, and the '04 in a facility on Howell Mountain built by Bill Smith, then-owner of La Jota. The Kapcsándys' own small state-of-the-art winery, made without any wood surfaces, was finished literally a few days before the 2005 harvest; Denis Malbec, who was born and raised at Château Latour, where his father worked and where he later began his winemaking career, was brought on as winemaker. Malbec remained in charge of winemaking until his untimely death at the age of 46 in a car accident in the summer of 2016. Tony Arcudi was subsequently hired as his successor. But from the start of the Kapcsándy project, Lou, Sr. and Louis, Jr. have overseen all aspects of vineyard management. Lou, Sr. and his wife have a house on the property while Louis, Jr. lives close by, on the north side of the town of Napa.
Kapcsándy's Block 8 Cabernet Sauvignon
Capitalizing on a Privileged Terroir
A visitor to Kapcsándy Family Winery at noon on a summer day might be forgiven for thinking that this so-called valley floor site is a hot place. But in fact, cooling breezes coming up from San Pablo Bay to the south reliably arrive during the afternoon and temperatures routinely drop by at least ten degrees in a matter of an hour or two. Nights are normally cool here—Lou Kapcsándy told me that the hottest temperature he has ever experienced at this site was 119 degrees at 4:30 in the afternoon. But at 5:00 the next morning, he maintained, the temperature had plunged to 48! With pronounced diurnal temperature variation, the berries plump up at night and the increase in grape sugars—and the concomitant loss of acidity—is gradual in the weeks leading up to the harvest, which takes place on the late side. Through the 2012 harvest, the Roberta's Merlot was picked in October every year except 2008, with the Grand Vin Cabernet typically coming in during the second half of that month. But picking times in recent years have generally been a week or two earlier. As Louis, Jr. explained, "in many vintages before 2012 sugars were ahead of flavors, thus delaying our harvest dates. But as the vineyard is maturing, phenolics are tracking more harmoniously with sugar loading, so we are now able to achieve optimum flavor at lower sugar levels."
The Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin comes from the 191 clone in Block 8, one of the original 2001 plantings, on heavy clay soil with volcanic rock, plus Block 5, which was originally planted to Merlot but was grafted over to Cabernet Sauvignon in 2012. (At the outset, the acreage planted in 2001 and 2002 featured about 33% Merlot, but today that percentage is more like 20%.) The Grand Vin blend routinely includes about 2% Cabernet Franc, which Lou Kapcsándy says brings "lift, tension, different tannins, more color and a hint of graphite." Meanwhile, the Merlot Roberta's Reserve (the wine was named after Kapcsándy's wife) was planted in 2002, in heavy clay and volcanic rock on the western side of the property, next to the Napa River. Incidentally, through the years the Kapcsándys have dug dozens of soil pits on their property, and they have discovered that the topsoil never goes down more than two feet before hitting a mineral-rich "plastic" clay layer that the roots rarely penetrate. But the alluvial soil and clay are intermixed with a significant quantity of volcanic rock, and the Kapcsándys continue each year to remove rocks that work their way to the surface.
Kapcsándy vineyards as seen in the Vinous Map: The Vineyards of Yountville, by Antonio Galloni and Alessandro Masnaghetti, © Vinous Media 2019
The Kapcsándys have always been brutal about selection at the harvest, routinely carrying out what Louis, Jr. described as a triple sorting: leaving a good bit of fruit behind in the vineyard, removing "unacceptable" clusters as the fruit is carried by an incline belt into the destemmer, and finally sorting berry by berry on a conveyor belt. "We're not competing with other California wines," Lou, Sr. summarized. "We're competing with Bordeaux and the other best wines of the world."
Kapcsándy emphasized that Merlot is "a very difficult grape to grow and vinify," adding that "most people don't get that message." He went on: "Great Merlot is finicky and temperamental. It likes heavy clay soils and it often has problems during flowering. It requires far more attention and care than Cabernet Sauvignon. In order to bring in uniformly ripe and balanced fruit, it requires a tremendous amount of sorting in the vineyard. The yields are low and the farming expenses are high. That's why I affectionately call it "Merlittle" in Napa Valley. Merlot is a noble grape and it requires that it be treated nobly."
"If our Merlot gets to 14.5%, we declassify it," he added. "We're not making California Merlot!" I asked Kapcsándy how his Merlot ages as slowly as it does. "It's a combination of our special site and the fact that we craft our Merlot like the Delmases have done at Haut-Brion—to taste great when young but to age for a long time. Our best vintages will last more than 30 years, especially as the vineyard matures."
Interestingly, the pHs of the Kapcsándy Merlot have routinely been lower than those of the Grand Vin Cabernet, and quite low by the standards of Napa Valley icon wines. The Roberta's Merlot was typically in the 3.55 to 3.65 range through the earlier years, but has been more like 3.5—or even a tad below that—since 2013. In comparison, the Grand Vin Cabernet was normally between 3.7 and 3.8 through 2012 and has been around 3.65 since then. Lou Kapcsándy noted, though, that total acidity levels for the Merlot are not particularly high at harvest, "so we have to have the patience not to tweak the acidity during fermentation. We may have added acidity in 2009, 2012 and 2015, but very little.
The vines in Roberta's Block 1
The Making of the Kapcsándys' Flagship Wines
Denis Malbec, whom the Kapcsándys hired as winemaker in 2005, helped them put their young estate on the world wine map during his tenure. Malbec quickly introduced a pre-fermentation cold soak lasting five to seven days, using a bit of sulfur as well as carbonic snow to delay the onset of fermentation. He also made more use of extended maceration than Helen Turley had done: following about two weeks of fermentation, he kept the wine on its skins for another seven to ten days. Malbec relied on a daily pumpover and the occasional délestage, eschewing punching down the cap.
According to Lou Kapcsándy, extraction during vinification has always been relatively gentle, "depending on the quality of the tannins each year." But he added that "if we know we're sitting on a great vintage, we might be more aggressive." These days, the fermentation temperature is prevented from exceeding 86 degrees, although Kapcsándy mentioned that in a few earlier vintages Malbec allowed slightly higher temperatures. In the past couple of vintages with Tony Arcudi handling the winemaking, the cold soak has lasted three or four days and there has been very little post-fermentation maceration.
Malbec typically aged the estate's two top wines in 90% to 100% new oak. Helen Turley had preferred heavily toasted new Taransaud barrels, but Malbec quickly cut back on toast levels and brought on additional coopers beginning in 2005 (six were used that year). Kapcsándy noted that Malbec had already begun reducing the percentage of new oak as of 2013 and that this trend has continued, as the Kapcsándys do not want to make overoaked wines from Bordeaux varieties. "We're also selecting our coopers and forests more carefully," he told me.
The wines are racked after the malolactic fermentation, then by taste to avoid reduction. Normally that means three rackings in the first year, another one during the second November or December and then a final racking for the assemblage. Both the Grand Vin Cabernet Sauvignon and the Roberta's Reserve are routinely bottled 20 months after the harvest (i.e., during the second May or June), without being fined or filtered. And, consistent with their distinctly French style, these wines are adamantly dry, typically finishing with under 0.6 grams per liter residual sugar. "Not one of them has as much as one gram," said Lou Kapcsándy. Not surprisingly, the Kapcsándy wines enjoy a strong following in the U.K., with many additional bottles going to Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.
The Grand Vin and Roberta's Reserve are expensive wines, with the former bottling typically retailing for about $400 and the latter a bit less. But then there are only around 650 cases a year, on average, of the Grand Vin and about 300 of the Merlot, out of the estate's total annual production of about 2,000 cases. Consumers who would like to experience the Kapcsándy style have some less-expensive options, since the family has introduced a number of additional bottlings over the years, both to showcase other varieties and types of wines (i.e., white, rosé and dessert wines) and to protect the quality of their two top bottlings. Their Estate Cuvée, first made in 2005 as an attempt to offer an earlier-drinking wine, began as a roughly equal blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon but steadily morphed into a classic Bordeaux blend based on Cabernet Sauvignon and frequently including small percentages of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The Endre proprietary red was introduced in 2007 as another Bordeaux blend, at a much lower price than the estate's other red wine offerings, but after vintage 2012 its production was discontinued as most of this fruit began to go into the Estate Cuvée. And the Rapszodia was first made in 2010 as a Cabernet Franc/Merlot blend. More recently it has become almost entirely Cabernet Franc. (One and a half of the estate's 15.3 acres of vines are planted to Cab Franc.)
In 2011, the estate began making serious, powerful Rosé, using Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and aging the wine in once-used barrels for 16 to 18 months. The estate also offers a dessert red blend called Vino del Sol, in recent years mostly from Cabernet Franc and Merlot, and a captivating dry Furmint (still the only one, to my knowledge, in Napa Valley), made in stainless steel from a 2007 planting of cuttings from a famous vineyard in Tokaj.
A double vertical with Louis, Jr. and Lou Kapcsándy
The Results of a Spectacular Tasting
First off, when I say that the Roberta's Merlot is reminiscent of Pomerol, I'm not talking about a plump, jammy version from a fringe area of this small appellation. We're talking about a powerfully structured, deep, long-aging wine like Château Pétrus. (Lou, Sr. has sometimes mentioned Château Le Pin as another direct competitor for the Roberta's, but Le Pin is usually a bit more decadent in its youth—at least in the riper years.) Although some vintages of the Roberta's Reserve are distinctly easier to taste than the Grand Vin Cabernet, it's still typically an austere wine by the standards of Napa Valley Merlot. The wines show palate-saturating density and develop at a snail's pace. Even if some recent vintages are tastable owing to their fleshiness and sweetness of fruit, only the '07, '06 and '05 bottlings in my vertical were embarking on their peak-drinkability planes, and those wines have years of life ahead of them. Clearly, the Roberta's Reserve is not a Merlot that requires Cabernet Sauvignon for added spine.
Some vintages of the Grand Vin Cabernet are even more brooding and backward at the outset, but the Merlot in most years gives every indication of lasting at least as long—and that would be an extraordinary achievement. If anything, my recommended drinking ranges may prove to be overly conservative for these wines. Still, I wonder how many consumers will wait even 15 years to drink them.
Finally, and not surprisingly in light of the pedigree of the State Lane Vineyard, I was struck by the strength of site character, which expresses itself in both of these extraordinary bottlings. The Grand Vin Cabernet and the Roberta's Reserve are characterized by a combination of red, black and blue fruits, underlying stony minerality, notes of sweet tobacco, brushy herbs, licorice, violet and lavender, and an element of medicinal reserve, and by their combination of uncanny density and refinement of texture.
See the Wines from Youngest to Oldest
Chateau Montelena Cabernet Estate: 1977-2010, Stephen Tanzer, May 2019
Vintage Retrospective: The 1999 Napa Valley Cabernets, Stephen Tanzer, May 2019
Lail Vineyards J. Daniel Cuvée: 1997-2016, Stephen Tanzer, May 2019
Beaulieu's Georges de Latour Private Reserve: 1965–2016, Stephen Tanzer, April 2019
Dunn Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain Vertical: 1979 – 2014, Stephen Tanzer, August 2018
Vintage Retrospective: 1991 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, Stephen Tanzer, July 2018
Kapcsándy Family Winery
Vertical Tastings of Mondavi's Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve and I Block To Kalon Vineyard Fumé Blanc (May 2016)


The cathedral was built between 1202 and 1285 in an early English Gothic style out of the local limestone. Over the centuries, it has been restored and renovated many times, notably by Sir Thomas Newemham Deane in 1863.
The round tower beside the cathedral is believed to have been built around 849 and is around 100 feet tall. It is missing the usual distinctive conical cap but has a viewing platform for the public to view the city and countryside. The cathedral has a magnificent atmospheric interior in beautiful condition and obviously lovingly cared for.
"In our present number we give an illustration of the new pulpit recently erected in S. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. It has been executed in a highly creditable manner by Mr. C. W. Harrison, sculptor, of 178, Great Brunswick-street, from a design by Mr. T. Newenham Deane, architect, under whose superintendence the works of restoration at this noble pile are being carried out, and drawing towards completion.The pulpit is principally composed of Caen stone ; it is octagonal in form, supported by marble columns, with carved capitals and bases. Each of the sides of the upper portion has trefoil arches, supported by Galway green marble shafts, and carved capitals and bases. The cost was somewhat over £100." The Irish Builder, August 15 1869.


Said to resemble his trademark, mushroom-like hat, this remarkable tea was originally created as gift honoring the Panchen Lama of Tibet. We imagine he appreciated its ingenious artisanship as much as we do.
As this tea wakes up, its initial aroma and first steep comes off as a bit smoky and mesquite. The tea opens up beautifully into the most amazing creamy/malty quality - an incredibly rare find in a Pu-erh. Certainly, a Pu-erh deserving of its own dedicated Yixing pot.


How close to God do you want to be? Are you satisfied where you are in your relationship with Him now? This week we are going to be spending time observing a conversation between Moses and God. We are going to see how really close Moses was to God.
Take your time reading this rather lengthy but captivating passage.
What a beautiful passage of scripture! Oh to have that kind of sweet and close personal relationship with God. Moses had an interesting, even rough life with those Israelites but what a relationship He had with Mighty God! That is what I want!
We may not be hearing Him with our physical ears as Moses did but He speaks in our hearts and He wants us to walk closely with Him.
Obviously, we have entered in the middle of a situation. Moses is talking with God after going down and finding the Israelites in complete chaos, depravity, and idolatry. This is where he threw the first set of stone tablets containing the 10 Commandments down and broke them to pieces.
Moses would meet with God in a tent just outside the camp. This may have been where they were when this conversation took place. He is interceding for himself and the Israelites.
It is so wonderful to know God knows us by name and that when we receive Christ we find favor with Him. Thank You, LORD!
Interesting that Moses did not say, "You are pleased with me," with a 'Now I have made it in' attitude and 'that is all I need to do.' Moses is concerned with pleasing God even as he goes about the LORD's business.
Isn't it amazing how knowing God makes us want to know Him more? Moses knew God. He watched God display His might and tenderness in Egypt. He saw Him divide the Red Sea, bring water from a rock, and send manna from heaven. Moses knew God intimately because he had been in His presence in conversation with Him so many times. Though he knew Him well, he knew there was so much more to know. Moses was compelled to know Him more.
I do not know anyone personally who knows God like Moses did. Do you? I am compelled to know Him more!
The better we know Him, the more we want to find favor with Him. The key to finding favor with God is knowing Him.
We get to know Him in His Word, the Bible. I know you know that but I want to be sure!! We may not sit in His presence in a tent and hear His voice audibly but He has written us a letter – a book actually and He has given it to us, not as rules to live by and laws to uphold, not as traditions to keep and history to learn – though all these things are part of this amazing book. He gave it to us as the primary way of knowing Him. Yes, we can pray and He can speak in our hearts but primarily, we have a stable unchanging picture of Him in His awesome beautiful Holy Bible. It is a tangible inerrant way to know Him and He planned it that way for us.
Oh friend, that we might know Him!
Moses intercedes for the people here. He knows that without God's presence they will all meet with nothing but calamity and even death.
We will pick up tomorrow with verse 14. Have an amazing day!
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Tivernon est une commune française, située dans le département du Loiret en région Centre-Val de Loire.

Géographie

Localisation

La commune de Tivernon se trouve dans le quadrant nord du département du Loiret, en limite du département d'Eure-et-Loir, dans la région agricole de la Beauce riche.  À vol d'oiseau, elle se situe à   d'Orléans, préfecture du département, à  de Pithiviers, sous-préfecture, et à  d'Outarville, ancien chef-lieu du canton dont dépendait la commune avant . La commune fait partie du bassin de vie de Janville dont elle est éloignée de .

Les communes les plus proches sont : Lion-en-Beauce (), Poinville (, en Eure-et-Loir), Oison (), Chaussy (), Santilly (, en Eure-et-Loir), Toury (, en Eure-et-Loir), Ruan (), Janville (, en Eure-et-Loir), Dambron () et Le Puiset ().

Géologie et relief

Géologie
La commune se situe dans le sud du Bassin parisien, le plus grand des trois bassins sédimentaires français. Cette vaste dépression, occupée dans le passé par des mers peu profondes et des lacs, a été comblée, au fur et à mesure que son socle s'affaissait, par des sables et des argiles, issus de l'érosion des reliefs alentours, ainsi que des calcaires d'origine biologique, formant ainsi une succession de couches géologiques.

Les couches affleurantes sur le territoire communal sont constituées de formations superficielles du Quaternaire et de roches sédimentaires datant du Cénozoïque, l'ère géologique la plus récente sur l'échelle des temps géologiques, débutant il y a  d'années. La formation la plus ancienne est du calcaire de Pithiviers remontant à l'époque Miocène de la période Néogène. La formation la plus récente est des limons et lœss remontant à l'époque Pléistocène de la période Quaternaire. Le descriptif de ces couches est détaillé dans  la feuille « n°327 - Neuville-aux-Bois » de la carte géologique au  du département du Loiret et sa notice associée.

Relief
La superficie cadastrale de la commune publiée par l'Insee, qui sert de références dans toutes les statistiques, est de . La superficie géographique, issue de la BD Topo, composante du Référentiel à grande échelle produit par l'IGN, est quant à elle de . Son relief est relativement plat puisque la dénivelée maximale atteint . L'altitude du territoire varie entre  et .

Hydrographie
Aucun cours d'eau permanent n'est répertorié sur la commune.

Milieux naturels et biodiversité
L'inventaire des zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) a pour objectif de réaliser une couverture des zones les plus intéressantes sur le plan écologique, essentiellement dans la perspective d'améliorer la connaissance du patrimoine naturel national et de fournir aux différents décideurs un outil d'aide à la prise en compte de l'environnement dans l'aménagement du territoire. Le territoire communal de Tivernon ne comprend pas de  ZNIEFF.

Histoire

Urbanisme

Typologie
Tivernon est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols
L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (97,9 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (98 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (97,9 %), zones urbanisées (2,1 %).

L'évolution de l'occupation des sols de la commune et de ses infrastructures peut être observée sur les différentes représentations cartographiques du territoire : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et les cartes ou photos aériennes de l'IGN pour la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Voies de communication et transports

Risques majeurs
La commune de Tivernon est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : climatiques (hiver exceptionnel ou canicule), mouvements de terrains ou sismique (sismicité très faible). Elle est également exposée à un risque technologique : le risque de transport de matières dangereuses
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Entre 1989 et 2019, quatre arrêtés ministériels ayant porté reconnaissance de catastrophe naturelle ont été pris pour le territoire de la commune  : deux  pour des inondations et coulées de boues et deux pour des mouvements de terrains.

Risques naturels
Le territoire de la commune peut être concerné par un risque d'effondrement de cavités souterraines non connues. Une cartographie départementale de l'inventaire des cavités souterraines et des désordres de surface a été réalisée. Il a été recensé sur la commune plusieurs effondrements de cavités.

Par ailleurs, le sol du territoire communal peut faire l'objet de mouvements de terrain liés à la sècheresse. Le phénomène de retrait-gonflement des argiles est la conséquence d'un changement d'humidité des sols argileux. Les argiles sont capables de fixer l'eau disponible mais aussi de la perdre en se rétractant en cas de sècheresse. Ce phénomène peut provoquer des dégâts très importants sur les constructions (fissures, déformations des ouvertures) pouvant rendre inhabitables certains locaux. Celui-ci a particulièrement affecté le Loiret après la canicule de l'été 2003. Une grande partie du territoire de la commune est exposée à un aléa  face à ce risque, selon l'échelle définie par le Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM).

Depuis le , la France dispose d'un nouveau zonage sismique divisant le territoire national en cinq zones de sismicité croissante. La commune, à l'instar de l'ensemble du département,  est concernée par un risque très faible.

Risques technologiques

La commune est exposée au risque de transport de matières dangereuses, en raison du passage sur son territoire  d'une ligne de transport ferroviaire.

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial

Bloc communal : Commune et intercommunalités
La paroisse de Tivernon acquiert le statut de municipalité avec le  décret du  de l'Assemblée Nationale puis celui de « commune », au sens de l'administration territoriale actuelle, par le décret de la Convention nationale du 10 brumaire an II (). Il faut toutefois attendre la loi du  sur l'organisation municipale pour qu'un régime juridique uniforme soit défini pour toutes les communes de France, point de départ de l'affirmation progressive des communes face au pouvoir central.

Aucun événement de restructuration majeure du territoire, de type suppression, cession ou réception de territoire, n'a affecté la commune depuis sa création.

La commune est membre de la communauté de communes de la Plaine du Nord Loiret depuis sa création le .

La loi du  portant nouvelle organisation territoriale de la République (dite loi NOTRe), visant une réduction du nombre d'intercommunalités en France, fait passer de  à , sauf exceptions, le seuil démographique minimal pour constituer une intercommunalité et a un impact sur les périmètres des intercommunalités du département du Loiret dont le nombre passe de 28 à 16. Mais la communauté de communes de la Plaine du Nord Loiret, avec une très faible densité de population (inférieure à 30 % de la densité nationale), a un seuil maintenu à  et ne voit pas son périmètre changer et la commune de Tivernon en reste donc membre. Cette loi a toutefois un impact sur ses compétences avec l'attribution de nouvelles compténces comme de la gestion des milieux aquatiques et de la prévention des inondations à partir du .

Circonscriptions de rattachement
Sous l'Ancien Régime, à la veille des États généraux de 1789, la paroisse de Tivernon était rattachée sur le plan ecclésiastique à l'ancien diocèse d'Orléans, sur le plan judiciaire au bailliage d'Orléans , sur le plan militaire au gouvernement d'Orléans et sur le plan administratif à la généralité d'Orléans, élection d'Orléans.

La loi du  divise le pays en  découpés chacun en six à neuf districts eux-mêmes découpés en cantons regroupant des communes. Les districts, tout comme les départements, sont le siège d'une administration d'État et constituent à ce titre des circonscriptions administratives. La commune de Tivernon est alors incluse dans le canton d'Achêres, le district de Neuville et le département du Loiret.

La recherche d'un équilibre entre la volonté d'organiser une administration dont les cadres permettent l'exécution et le contrôle des lois d'une part, et la volonté d'accorder une certaine autonomie aux collectivités de base (paroisses, bourgs, villes) d'autre part, s'étale de 1789 à 1838. Les découpages territoriaux évoluent ensuite au gré des réformes visant à décentraliser ou recentraliser l'action de l'État. La régionalisation fonctionnelle des services de l'État (1945-1971) aboutit à la création de régions. L'acte I de la décentralisation de 1982-1983 constitue une étape importante en donnant l'autonomie aux collectivités territoriales, régions, départements et communes. L' intervient en 2003-2006, puis l'acte III en 2012-2015.

Le tableau suivant présente les rattachements, au niveau infra-départemental, de la commune de Tivernon aux différentes circonscriptions administratives et électorales ainsi que l'historique de l'évolution de leurs territoires.

Collectivités de rattachement
La commune de Tivernon est rattachée au département du Loiret et à la région Centre-Val de Loire, à la fois circonscriptions administratives de l'État et collectivités territoriales.

Politique et administration municipales

Conseil municipal et maire
Depuis les élections municipales de 2014, le conseil municipal de Tivernon, commune de moins de , est élu au scrutin majoritaire plurinominal à deux tours, les électeurs pouvant modifier les listes, panacher, ajouter ou supprimer des candidats sans que le vote soit nul, pour un mandat de six ans renouvelable. Il est composé de 11 membres. L'exécutif communal est constitué par le maire, élu par le conseil municipal, parmi ses membres, pour un mandat de six ans, c'est-à-dire pour la durée du mandat du conseil. Delphine Bruchet, agriculteur, est maire depuis 1995.

Équipements et services

Environnement

Gestion des déchets

En 2016, la commune est membre du SITOMAP de la région Pithiviers, créé en 1968. Celui-ci assure la collecte et le traitement des ordures ménagères résiduelles, des emballages ménagers recyclables  et des encombrants en porte à porte et du verre en points d'apport volontaire. Un réseau de huit déchèteries accueille les encombrants et autres déchets spécifiques (déchets verts, déchets dangereux, gravats, ferraille, cartons…). La déchèterie la plus proche de la commune est située sur la commune de Bazoches-les-Gallerandes.

L'élimination et la valorisation énergétique des déchets ménagers et de ceux issus de la collecte sélective sont effectuées dans l'outil de traitement appelé BEGEVAL, installé à Pithiviers et géré par le syndicat de traitement Beauce Gâtinais Valorisation (BGV) qui regroupe le territoire des trois syndicats de collecte : SMETOM, SITOMAP et SIRTOMRA. Cet outil est composé d'un centre de valorisation matière qui trie les emballages issus de la collecte sélective, les journaux-magazines et les cartons de déchèteries, et d'un centre de valorisation énergétique qui incinère les ordures ménagères résiduelles et le tout-venant incinérable des déchèteries ainsi que les refus du centre de tri.

Depuis le , la  ne fait plus partie des compétences de la commune mais est une compétence obligatoire de la communauté de communes de la Plaine du Nord Loiret en application de la loi NOTRe du .

Production et distribution d'eau

Le service public d'eau potable est une compétence obligatoire des communes depuis l'adoption de la loi du 30 décembre 2006 sur l'eau et les milieux aquatiques. Au , la production et la distribution de l'eau potable sur le territoire communal sont assurées par le syndicat des eaux de Tivernon - Chaussy, un syndicat créé en 1927 desservant deux communes (Chaussy, Tivernon).
La loi NOTRe du 7 août 2015 prévoit que le transfert des compétences « eau et assainissement » vers les communautés de communes sera obligatoire à compter du . Le transfert d'une compétence entraîne  de  facto la mise à disposition gratuite de plein droit des biens, équipements et services publics utilisés, à la date du transfert, pour l'exercice de ces compétences et la substitution de la communauté dans les droits et obligations des communes.

Assainissement

La compétence assainissement, qui recouvre obligatoirement la collecte, le transport et l'épuration des eaux usées, l'élimination des boues produites, ainsi que le contrôle des raccordements aux réseaux publics de collecte, est assurée  par la commune elle-même.
La commune est raccordée à une station d'épuration située sur le territoire communal, mise en service le  et dont la capacité nominale de traitement est de  , soit . Cet équipement utilise un procédé d'épuration de type lit planté de roseaux. Son exploitation est assurée en 2017 par Tivernon                 .

L'assainissement non collectif (ANC) désigne les installations individuelles de traitement des eaux domestiques qui ne sont pas desservies par un réseau public de collecte des eaux usées et qui doivent en conséquence traiter elles-mêmes leurs eaux usées avant de les rejeter dans le milieu naturel. La communauté de communes de la Plaine du Nord Loiret a créé le  un service public d'assainissement non collectif (SPANC) qui a pour missions la vérification de la conception et de l'exécution des ouvrages pour les installations neuves ou réhabilitées et la vérification périodique du bon fonctionnement et de l'entretien des installations existantes.

Prix de l'eau
Le « prix de l'eau » doit permettre de financer l'ensemble des investissements (mise en place de nouveaux ouvrages, mise aux normes du patrimoine existant, renouvellement du patrimoine, etc.) mais aussi les frais de fonctionnement du service (frais de personnel du service, électricité, produits de traitement, renouvellement du matériel, analyses, élimination des déchets, etc.). L'observatoire national des services d'eau et d'assainissement publie la description actualisée des services publics d'eau potable et d'assainissement, qu'il s'agisse de leur organisation, de leur tarif ou de leur performance. Le prix au m est calculé pour une consommation annuelle de  (référence INSEE).

Population et société

Démographie

Culture et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 L'église Saint-Etienne, du XIXe siècle.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Michel Coloni (1927-2016), prélat catholique français.

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Loiret

Liens externes

 Tivernon sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Tivernon sur le site de l'Insee

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Commune dans le Loiret
Commune dans le canton de Pithiviers
Commune dans l'ancien canton d'Outarville
Commune dans l'ancien canton d'Achêres
Commune dans l'ancien district de Neuville
Commune dans l'arrondissement de Pithiviers
Ancienne commune de l'arrondissement d'Orléans

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