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La communauté de communes Atlancia-des-Vals-de-la-Vie-et-du-Jaunay, généralement désignée sous le nom de « communauté de communes Atlancia », est une ancienne structure intercommunale à fiscalité propre française située dans le département de la Vendée et la région des Pays-de-la-Loire.

Créée le , elle disparaît le  à la suite de la création de la communauté de communes du Pays-de-Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, entité résultant de la fusion d'Atlancia et de Côte-de-Lumière.

Territoire communautaire

Composition
La communauté de communes Atlancia-des-Vals-de-la-Vie-et-du-Jaunay rassemblait neuf communes.

Géographie
La communauté de communes Atlancia-des-Vals-de-la-Vie-et-du-Jaunay était située au nord-ouest du département de la Vendée, dans l'arrière-pays des stations balnéaires du canton de Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. Géographiquement, elle appartenait au Bas-Bocage.

La superficie du territoire communautaire était de , avec une altitude variant de  (à Commequiers et Notre-Dame-de-Riez) à  (à Coëx).

Elle était traversée par quatre cours d'eau principaux : le Gué-Gorand, le Jaunay, le Ligneron et la Vie.

Instances administratives
Toutes les communes de l'intercommunalité étaient contenues dans le périmètre du canton de Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, situé dans l'arrondissement des Sables-d'Olonne.

Histoire
Le , l'ensemble des communes du canton de Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie s'associent dans le cadre du syndicat intercommunal à vocation multiple (SIVOM) mer et Vie. Après un échec de transformation de la structure en district en 1991, les communes rétro-littorales du canton décident de s'unir au sein d'une communauté de communes, une intercommunalité à fiscalité propre créée par la loi du  relative à l'administration territoriale de la République. Ainsi, un arrêté préfectoral du  fonde la communauté de communes Atlancia-des-Vals-de-la-Vie-et-du-Jaunay à compter du . L'appellation intercommunale fait échos à l'océan Atlantique et se réfère aux vallées des deux fleuves côtiers qui traversent la communauté de communes, la Vie et le Jaunay.

Alors que la communauté de communes Côte-de-Lumière naît en 1997, des projets de fusions des intercommunalités sont préparés en 2000, entre 2003 et 2004 et entre 2005 et 2007. Néanmoins, ceux-ci n'aboutissent pas. En , après les élections municipales, un nouveau projet de fusion est esquissé, et se concrétise à l'été 2009. Les deux communautés de communes du canton décident finalement de s'unir à compter du , date de fondation de la communauté de communes du Pays-de-Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie.

Administration

Siège
Le siège de la communauté de communes était situé dans la zone d'activités économiques du Soleil-Levant, à Givrand.

Présidence

Participation à d'autres groupements

Compétences

La communauté de communes exerçait plusieurs compétences conformément aux Statuts de la communauté de communes Atlancia-des-Vals-de-la-Vie-et-du-Jaunay, créés par l'autorité préfectorale compétente, c'est-à-dire le sous-préfet des Sables-d'Olonne puisque le siège était situé dans l'arrondissement des Sables-d'Olonne.

Mis en place par l'arrêté préfectoral du , avec effet au , ces statuts ont fait l'objet de plusieurs modifications, par d'autres arrêtés :

 l'arrêté 121/SPS/03 du  ;
 l'arrêté 426/SPS/03 du .

Ces compétences étaient notamment :

Régime fiscal et budget

Régime fiscal
En 2009, le régime fiscal de la communauté de communes était celui de la fiscalité professionnelle unique.

Budget et fiscalité

Projets et réalisations

La communauté de communes disposait d'un site Internet, cc-atlancia.fr.

Identité visuelle

Notes et références

Notes

Références
 Recueil des actes administratifs de la préfecture de la Vendée   Référence notée « RAA » dans le texte

 Autres références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Histoire du découpage intercommunal de la Vendée
 Communauté de communes du Pays-de-Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie

Ancienne communauté de communes dans la Vendée
Division administrative fondée en 1993
Division administrative disparue en 2009

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Regional Forum on Developing and Financing Low Emissions Development Strategies for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Sector: Moving from Promise to Practice
In July 2015, USAID LEAF, with partners USFS IP, SilvaCarbon, USAID LEAD and SERVIR, held a regional forum on developing and financing low emission development strategies (LEDS) for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector. The workshop brought together over 130 participants from the government, civil society, academia, the international donor community and the private sector from 11 countries across Asia to discuss and debate the role of AFOLU LEDS and how to move from a promising start to implementation of sustainably financed large-scale LEDS that contribute to national emission reduction targets.
Over the three-day forum, participants shared experience and lessons learned from existing AFOLU LEDS efforts across the Asia Pacific region, identified best practices and core principles in developing successful AFOLU LEDS, and investigated ways to bridge the gap between financiers' interest in low emission investments and needs for financial support at the field level. In addition, country delegates outlined key next steps they will take back to accelerate LEDS efforts in their home countries.
Following are materials from the workshop:
Agenda: http://www.leafasia.org/library/workshop-agenda
Workshop Report: http://www.leafasia.org/library/afolu-leds-workshop-report
Program Update: http://www.leafasia.org/library/usaid-leaf-forum-explores-strategies-lower-emissions-afolu-sector
Setting the context
1. Global Emissions from the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors: Status and Trends (Ms. Indu Murthy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore): http://www.leafasia.org/library/global-emissions-agriculture-and-forest-sectors
2. Finance for Sustainable Development at the Landscape Level: Changing Architecture of Forest Governance (Dr. Steven Lawry, CIFOR): http://www.leafasia.org/library/changing-architecture-forest-governance
3. National Policies and Commitments to Achieve Emission Reductions in the AFOLU Sector (Dr. Natcha Tulyasuwan, USAID LEAD): http://www.leafasia.org/library/national-commitments-afolu-leds
What has been learned?
4. USAID's Investment in Sustainable Landscapes (Mr. Jim Barber, USFS & USAID LEAF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/investments-sustainable-landscapes
5. The World Agroforestry Centre's Low Emission Land Use Planning (Mr. Suyanto, World Agroforestry Centre): http://www.leafasia.org/library/world-agroforestry-centre-and-low-emissi...
6. The Sustainable Tropics Alliance's Low Emission Development for Rural Development (Dr. Claudia Stickler, Earth Innovative Institute) (in absentia): http://www.leafasia.org/library/fostering-low-emission-rural-development
Technical Data Needs
7. Lam Dong REDD+ Action Plan (Mr. Pham Thanh Nam, USAID LEAF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/lam-dong-redd-action-plan
8. SERVIR (Dr. Peter Cutter, SERVIR): http://www.leafasia.org/library/what-servir
9. ADB's Greater Mekong Subregion Program's Online Environmental Portal (Ms. Nguyen Hanh Quyen, ADB): http://www.leafasia.org/library/greater-mekong-subregion-programv
* Breakout Session Summary – Technical Data Needs: http://www.leafasia.org/library/technical-data-needs
Policy and Institutional Needs
10. Indonesia Forest and Climate Support (Mr. Neville Kemp, USAID IFACS): http://www.leafasia.org/library/indonesia-forest-and-climate-support
11. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Dr. Puja Sawhney, IGES): http://www.leafasia.org/library/policy-and-institutional-needs
12. Mainstreaming LED Strategy (Mr. Suyanto, World Agroforestry Centre): http://www.leafasia.org/library/mainstreaming-led-strategy
* Breakout Session Summary – Policy and Institutional Needs: http://www.leafasia.org/library/policy-and-institutional-needs-0
Stakeholder Engagements Needs
13. Low Emission Land Use Planning in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (Mr. Roy Banka, USAID LEAF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/stakeholder-engagement-needs
14. Stakeholder Engagement in Low Emission Development Projects (Dr. Julie Nash, CCAFS): http://www.leafasia.org/library/stakeholder-engagement
15. Community Forestry (Mr. David Gritten, RECOFTC): http://www.leafasia.org/library/community-forestry
* Breakout Session Summary – Stakeholder Engagement Needs: http://www.leafasia.org/library/stakeholder-engagement-needs-0
Financing AFOLU LEDS
16. Introduction to Financing for AFOLU LEDS (Dr. Jeremy Broadhead, USAID LEAF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/financing-low-emission-development
17. International Climate Change Financing for Land Use: Beyond a Paris Agreement (Mr. Ken Andrasko, Winrock International): http://www.leafasia.org/library/international-climate-change-financing
18. Private Financing for Land Use in Southeast Asia (Ms. Susan Roxas, WWF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/sustainable-finance
Low Emissions Business Models
19. Low Emission Business Models in Lam Dong, Vietnam (Dr. Tran Dai Nghia, IPSARD): http://www.leafasia.org/library/low-emission-business-models
20. Mangrove Conservation and Sustainable Shrimp Industry in Ca Mau, Vietnam (Mr. Ho Kim Cuong, IUCN): http://www.leafasia.org/library/mangrove-conservation-and-sustainable-sh...
21. Private Sector Engagement in REDD+: The Kasigau Corridor, Kenya (Mr. Brian Williams, Wildlife Works): http://www.leafasia.org/library/kasigau-corridor
* Breakout Session Summary – Low Emissions Business Models: http://www.leafasia.org/library/low-emissions-business-models
Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives and Emissions Reduction
22. The Potential of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Ms. Thuy Phung, USAID LEAF): http://www.leafasia.org/library/voluntary-sustainability-initiatives
23. The REDD+ Energy and Agriculture Programme (REAP) (Mr. Richard McNally, SNV): http://www.leafasia.org/library/snv-reap-program
24. Greenhouse Gas Emission and Oil Palm Sector: The RSPO Emissions Working Group (Mr. Faizal Parish, Global Environmental Center): http://www.leafasia.org/library/greenhouse-gas-emission-and-oil-palm-sector
* Breakout Session Summary – Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives: http://www.leafasia.org/library/voluntary-sustainability-initiatives-0
Financing Forest Conservation
25. Investors Supporting Sustainability Transformation (Mr. Adam Grant, New Forests): http://www.leafasia.org/library/investors-supporting-sustainability-tran...
26. Income for Coastal Communities for Mangrove Protection (Mr. Kenichi Shono, FAO): http://www.leafasia.org/library/income-coastal-communities-mangrove-prot...
27. Carbon Markets (Mr. Gabriel Eickhoff, Forest Carbon): http://www.leafasia.org/library/carbon-markets
28. "Grow Share Protect the Mangrove" project (Ms. Jeeranee Janrungautai, Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group): http://www.leafasia.org/library/grow-share-protect-mangrove-project
* Breakout Session Summary – Financing Forest Conservation: http://www.leafasia.org/library/forest-financing-needs
Addressing the Financing Gap: Constraints, Opportunities and Solutions – Who Needs to Do What?
1. Sub-National Level Recommendations: http://www.leafasia.org/library/sub-%C2%ADnational-level-recommendations
2. National Level Recommendations: http://www.leafasia.org/library/national-level-recommendations
3. International Level Recommendations: http://www.leafasia.org/library/international-financing-recommendations
Planning and Financing: Constraints, Opportunities and Solutions
Summary Remarks (Dr. Steven Lawry, CIFOR): http://www.leafasia.org/library/summary-remarks-steven-lawry
Country Group Work – Actions to Achieve National Emission Reduction Goals
1. Bangladesh Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/bangladesh-country-group-work
2. Cambodia Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/cambodia-country-group-work
3. India Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/india-country-group-work
4. Indonesia Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/indonesia-country-group-work
5. Lao PDR Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/lao-pdr-country-group-work
6. Malaysia Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/malaysia-country-group-work
7. Nepal Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/nepal-country-group-work
8. Philippines Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/philippines-country-group-work
9. Papua New Guinea Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/papua-new-guinea-country-group-work
10. Thailand Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/thailand-country-group-work
11. Vietnam Country Group Work: http://www.leafasia.org/library/vietnam-country-group-work
Click here to learn more about USAID LEAF's work in climate finance or here to see our work in low emission land use planning.
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REF6, JMJ12
RELATIVE OF EARLY FLOWERING 6 , JUMONJI DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 12
UNIPROT: Q9STM3
Noh B et al., 2004, Plant Cell
Yu X et al., 2008, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
Lu F et al., 2011, Nat. Genet.
Hou X et al., 2014, Nat Commun
General processes & autonomous pathway
Encodes a histone demethylase.
REF6 overexpressor is early flowering under both SD and LD conditions. ( Analysis performed in Ws background.) [Noh et al., 2004]
ref6 single mutant displays an ectopic increase of H3K27me3 marks, while REF6 overexpressor ressembles mutants defective in H3K23me3-mediated gene silencing. [Lu et al., 2011]
ref6 single mutant has increased FLC expression levels. [Noh et al., 2004]
ref6 single mutant is late flowering under both SD and LD conditions. [Noh et al., 2004]
Histone demethylase that demethylates Lys-27 (H3K27me) of histone H3. Demethylates both tri- (H3K27me3) and di-methylated (H3K27me2) H3K27me. Demethylates also H3K4me3/2 and H3K36me3/2 in an in vitro assay. Involved in the transcriptional regulation of hundreds of genes regulating developmental patterning and responses to various stimuli. Involved in the regulation of flowering time by repressing FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) expression. [Data from UniProt]
FT -- [Lu et al., 2011] -- [View TAIR record]
SOC1, AGL20 -- [Lu et al., 2011] -- [View TAIR record]
REF6, JMJ12 interaction network


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Decades-Old Convictions Can Now Be Sealed In The State Of New York
David Mirsky
Across the United States, over seventy million people have a criminal history with at least one conviction.
A single criminal conviction makes those individuals subject to a number of state and federal regulations and laws that limit their rights – their voting, housing, and employment rights, and their right to bear arms.
Some criminal convictions also impact the convicted person's driving privilege.
Many of the rules regarding prior convictions are sensible – keeping convicted child molesters away from minors, for example – but some of the regulations are entirely unrelated to a convicted offender's original crime and conviction.
If you are being routinely rejected by employers – or even by landlords – an old conviction on your criminal record may be the reason why.
Beginning on October 7th, a new law in the state of New York will allow many New Yorkers to have their criminal records permanently sealed from the general public – from landlords, employers, and anyone else who is privately investigating an individual's background.
Who will qualify to have their criminal convictions sealed?
Under the new law, you will be eligible to seal up to two convictions – but only one felony conviction – provided that the convictions are at least ten years old and that you have been in no additional legal trouble since that time.
However, persons who were convicted of a sex crime or a violent felony will not qualify to have those convictions sealed.
Prosecutors will be allowed to challenge requests to have convictions sealed; they'll have 45 days after a sealing request is made to notify the court of an intention to challenge the request.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR SEALING A CRIMINAL CONVICTION?
If a conviction that you need to seal is on your record, you'll need to submit a request to the court where the criminal charge was originally filed and prosecuted.
The details of the case, the conviction, and the sentence must be provided to the court along with the request for sealing.
If the court agrees to a request to have a conviction sealed, the court's decision will be entered into the state's permanent records.
The most immediate benefit of sealing a conviction is that conviction's removal from employment background checks.
However, if a prosecutor challenges your request to seal, you may need a skilled Long Island criminal defense attorney to help you prove that your conviction should be sealed.
The determination regarding whether or not to seal a particular conviction is ultimately up to the sentencing judge, who can – at his or her discretion – order a hearing to consider the individual's character and any other relevant factors.
HOW ARE NEW YORK PROSECUTORS RESPONDING TO THE NEW LAW?
District attorneys and their staffs in both Brooklyn and Manhattan will be sorting through what they expect will be an avalanche of requests to have convictions sealed.
Spokespersons for both offices insist that they are generally supportive of the new law.
A spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office told the New York Daily News that prosecutors in Manhattan do "not anticipate having to challenge the sealings, except on rare occasions."
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez told the newspaper, "An old conviction for a minor or a nonviolent offense should not hold people back from moving on with their lives."
A number of defense attorneys on Long Island and in New York City are already receiving inquiries from New Yorkers who are seeking to have old convictions sealed.
One criminal defense attorney in Manhattan told the Daily News, "You're talking about anybody who was convicted over ten years ago of an eligible offense. That could potentially be tens of thousands of cases."
Melissa Ader, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's employment law unit, told the newspaper that the new law will help New Yorkers have "a fair chance at finding a job."
Employers in this state are already prohibited from using criminal convictions as a reason for rejecting a job applicant, but according to Ms. Ader, the illegal practice nevertheless is common.
Sealing convictions, however, will prevent noncompliant employers from even knowing that the convictions ever happened.
"Really the best way for a New Yorker to have a fair chance at finding a job is for an employer to not know about that conviction," Ms. Ader explained.
WHO CAN STILL SEE A SEALED CRIMINAL CONVICTION?
Those who are requesting to have a conviction sealed should understand that "sealing" a conviction is not the same thing as "expunging" a conviction.
The expungement of a criminal conviction forever erases any trace of that conviction.
"Sealing" a criminal record hides that record from the public but continues to allow law enforcement officials to see the information – in extremely narrow circumstances – as specified by New York law.
Who can see a sealed criminal conviction in the state of New York?
– the defendant or the defendant's designated agent
– law enforcement agencies acting within the scope of their enforcement duties
– state or local gun licensing agencies
– employers of prospective law enforcement officers
– the FBI, when conducting background checks for gun purchase applications
If the conviction that you want to have sealed in the state of New York is only eight or nine years behind you, don't assume that you won't be able to do anything to help yourself for another year or two.
Sealing a conviction is a complicated legal procedure, so it makes sense to start preparing a sealing request – and to start compiling the information and documents that must accompany a sealing request – at least a year or more in advance.
Sealing a conviction is not automatic, and the decision is ultimately made by the sentencing judge.
Thus, if you are waiting for the ten-year time period to elapse, it makes sense to do the things that prove you have been rehabilitated and that you are now a productive member of the community.
Volunteer with a charity or some other community organization. Advance your education or seek additional job training. Stay out of serious debt, stay away from illegal drugs, and don't get into additional trouble with the law.
Thousands of convicted offenders in the state of New York are being given a unique opportunity to seal their old criminal convictions and to move on positively and constructively with their lives.
If you are one of those New Yorkers, do what it takes to have your convictions sealed, and contact an experienced Long Island criminal defense attorney for the legal help and advice that you'll need.
For more than two decades, David M. Mirsky has focused his Long Island law practice exclusively on criminal defense. He leads a team of attorneys with more than eighty years of combined experience representing clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors on Long Island and throughout New York City.
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The Irish Championship Meeting Professional Tournament was a series of golf tournaments played in Ireland. The Irish Championship Meeting had been instituted in 1892 by the Golfing Union of Ireland. The main event was the Irish Amateur Open Championship but in a number of years a professional tournament was also held at the meeting. A total of 6 tournaments were held between 1894 and 1901.

Andrew Kirkaldy won the first of these tournaments, in 1894 at Royal Dublin Golf Club. The 1895 and 1896 tournaments were won by Sandy Herd, while Willie Fernie won in 1897. There was no tournament in 1898 but at Portmarnock Golf Club in 1899 Harry Vardon won convincingly, beating J.H. Taylor 13 & 11 in the final. The final tournament was held at Royal Dublin Golf Club in 1901 and was won by Sandy Herd who beat Harry Vardon by 1 hole, having been 6 down after the morning round.

History
The 1894 Irish Championship Meeting was held at the Royal Dublin Golf Club, Dollymount from 4 to 8 September. A handicap event was held on the first day with the Irish Amateur Open Championship taking place on the next three days. On the final day, a Saturday, the Royal Dublin Club arranged a 36-hole stroke-play tournament for both amateurs and professionals with total prize money of £50. There were 10 prizes, with the first 5 of these being available to both amateurs and professionals, the remaining 5 being for professionals only. Since professionals occupied the first five places, none of the prize money went to the amateurs. The Kirkaldy brothers, Andrew and Hugh, led after the first round with scores of 78. George Pulford, an English professional, was the brothers' only challenger in the second round. He scored 76 but finished a shot behind Hugh Kirkaldy and took third prize. John Ball, who had won the Irish Amateur Open Championship the previous day, was the leading amateur, although 11 strokes behind the winner.

In 1895, the Irish Championship Meeting was held at the Royal Portrush Golf Club from 10 to 14 September. The Irish Amateur Open Championship was held from 10 to 13 while a professional tournament was held over three days, from 12 to 14. The professional event was a knockout match-play event. With 32 entries, two rounds were played on each of the first two days with a 36-hole final on the final day, a Saturday. Prize money was provided by the Portrush club and totalled £100 with 16 prizes. A consolation event for the professionals and amateurs was held on the last day with further prize money of £20. On the first day of the professional event Harry Vardon beat both the Kirkaldy brothers, Andrew 5&4 in the morning and then Hugh 5&3 in the afternoon. The final was between Vardon and Sandy Herd. The match was always close but Herd eventually won by 1 hole. Peter McEwan Sr., who had travelled from England for the tournament, arrived on 10 September but collapsed as he was getting out of his carriage at the club house and died. He was travelling with son David. David and his brothers Douglas and Peter withdrew from the tournament.

The 1896 Irish Championship Meeting was held at the County Down Golf Club from 8 to 12 September. An informal competition was held on the first day with the Irish Amateur Open Championship on 9 to 11 September. The professional tournament was held from 10 to 12. Total prize money was £100 with £40 for the winner and 7 other prizes. The first day of the professional event consisted of 36-hole stroke-play with the leading 8 qualifying for the match-play stage. Ben Sayers led the qualifiers on 155. Sandy Herd met Harry Vardon in one of the quarter final matches with Herd winning 2&1. Sayers and Herd met in the 36-hole final. Herd led by 2 holes after the morning round and eventually won 4&3.

The 1897 Irish Championship Meeting was held at the Royal Dublin Golf Club, Dollymount from 31 August to 4 September. The Irish Amateur Open Championship was on the first tour days. The final day involved a 36-hole stroke-play event for amateurs and professionals. Prize money was only available to the professionals and totalled £65. There were 8 prizes ranging from £20 down to £3. Ben Sayers scored 74 in the first round and led by 4 strokes. He took 80 in the afternoon and was beaten by Willie Fernie whose rounds of 78 and 75 gave him victory by a stroke. Open Champion Harold Hilton, who had just won the Irish Amateur Open Championship, was the leading amateur, tying for 4th place. Sandy Herd and Harry Vardon had played an exhibition match the previous evening which Vardon had won by a single hole. The two disappointed in the tournament with Herd scoring 84 in the morning round and Vardon 82.

When the Irish Championship Meeting returned to Royal Portrush Golf Club in 1898 there was no tournament. An exhibition match was arranged between Sandy Herd and Harry Vardon on 3 September. Herd won 3&2. Later in 1898 the County Down Professional Tournament was played at County Down Golf Club.

The 1899 Irish Championship Meeting was held at Portmarnock Golf Club for the first time. The meeting was from 29 August to 2 September. The Irish Amateur Open Championship was on the first tour days. The professional tournament was over three days, from 31 August to 2 September. Total prize money was £105 with 10 prizes. The first day of the professional event consisted of 36-hole stroke-play with the leading 8 qualifying for the match-play stage. Harry Vardon led the qualifiers on 151. Vardon met J.H. Taylor met in the 36-hole final. The final was very one-sided. Vardon was 10 up after the morning round and eventually won 13&11.

There was no professional event at the 1900 Championships but it returned in 1901. The 1901 Irish Championship Meeting was held at the Royal Dublin Golf Club, Dollymount from 2 to 7 September. The first day was allocated to a series of amateur international matches with the Irish Amateur Open Championship was on the next four days. The professional tournament took place on 6 and 7 September. The entry consisted of 8 invited players with total prize money of £80. Sandy Herd and Harry Vardon met in the 36-hole final. Vardon led by 6 holes after the morning round. Herd putted well in the afternoon and had reduced the deficit to 2 holes at the turn. Vardon was still 2 up after 14 holes but Herd won the 15th and 16th to level the match. The 17th was halved but Vardon drove out of bounds at the final hole and Herd's four was enough to win the match. The final day also included a 36-hole event for Irish professionals. This was won by Henry Magee, the Greenore professional, who scored 174.

In May 1902 the London and North Western Railway sponsored the Greenore Professional Tournament at Greenore, where the company ran a hotel. In April 1903 the Lord Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland organised a series of mostly informal events in the Dublin area, with a number of the leading professionals invited. There were two 18-hole stroke-play events, at Royal Dublin Golf Club and Portmarnock Golf Club, both won by James Braid.

From 1903 the increasing number of entries meant that the 36-hole final of the Irish Amateur Open Championship was moved from Friday to Saturday and the professional events were discontinued.

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Golf tournaments in Ireland


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John McFarland
John McFarland (°1943, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, McFarland formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.
His artworks focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By investigating language on a meta-level, he tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
His works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.
His works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. John McFarland currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.


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North Central Rockies Forest, Part H, World Heritage Site
Posted on May 3, 2017 by harold
Arctomys Cave, Burgess Shale, and Spiral Tunnels
The southern parts of this ecoregion in Montana and along the US-Canadian border were included in an earlier post. This focus is north of the 50th parallel. The western slopes of the Rocky Mountains from the Fraser River headwaters to the Cariboo, Monashee, Selkirk, and Purcell Mountains are included in this ecoregion. The Columbia River begins south of Kootenay National Park and flows north, then completes a U-turn and heads south, all in this ecoregion. Major features are Glacier, Kootenay, and Yoho National Parks of Canada. The ecoregion continues south into Montana including the U.S.'s Glacier National Park, which was the subject of an earlier post. Sites are classified according to the mountain range in which they are found.
· Continental Divide ranges extend along the Alberta-British Columbia border and include the High Rock, Kootney, Mitchell, Opell, and Livingstone Ranges, bordered on the west by the Rocky Mountain Trench. This includes the upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers.
· Purcell Ranges are between the Rocky Mountain Trench and the Kootenay Lake trench, including the Duncan River. Bugaboo Provincial Park and Purcell Wilderness Conservancy are in this area.
· Selkirk Ranges are between Kootenay Lake and the south-flowing Columbia River, including the Upper and Lower Arrow Lakes. Major features are Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National Parks, Goat Range Provincial Park.
· Monashee Ranges are west of the Columbia River and extend to the North Thompson River.
· Cariboo Ranges are north of the North Thompson River and west of the Fraser River. Major features are the Wells-Gray, Cariboo Mountains, and Bowron Lakes Provincial Parks.
Coniferous forest is the dominant vegetation, and it benefits from Pacific moisture. Hemlock, yew, larch, and western red cedar, lodgepole pine, and Douglas-fir are common. There are many remnant old growth forests as noted in the site descriptions. In addition to coniferous forest, mountain meadows and low elevation foothill grasslands are found. Glaciers are noted in site descriptions in this northern area. Large carnivores such as the wolf and grizzly, as well as caribou, mountain goat and waterfowl use the intact forests, which are interrupted by only a few road corridors.
The World Heritage Site in this section of the North-Central Rockies forests is the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. It consists of seven parks chosen for classic illustrations of glacial geologic processes—icefields, remnant valley glaciers, canyons, alpine meadows, lakes, and waterfalls. Six of the seven parks in this designation are all or partially in the North-Central Rockies forests ecoregion: Mount Assiniboine, Banff, Hamber, Kootenay, Mount Robson, and Yoho. In addition, there are six national historic sites within these parks and therefore within the boundaries of the world heritage site.
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, is known as the Matterhorn of the Canadian Rockies. The park is accessible only on foot from the end of a gravel road from Banff to Sunshine Valley or from the Spray River south of Canmore in British Columbia. Included in the park are Mount Assiniboine Lodge (1928) and the Magog Lake Fossil Beds (N50˚54' W115˚38'), Mount Assiniboine (N50˚52' W115˚39'), and Sunshine Meadows (N51˚4' W115˚47'), the largest alpine meadow in the Canadian Rockies.
Athabasca Pass National Historic Site, Alberta-British Columbia (N52˚23' W118˚11'), commemorates the major fur transportation route traversed by early adventurers in the early 1800s. The first white man to cross the Rockies, David Thompson, used the pass in 1811, and it was a fur trade route to the Oregon territory for the next 50 years afterward. The site is accessed from Jasper National Park via the 7-km-long road to Moab Lake south of Route 93A, then by trail for 49 km along the Whirlpool River, a three-day hike.
Banff National Park, Alberta, is primarily in the Alberta Mountain forests ecoregion; however, the Bow River Valley from Banff downstream to the park boundary is within the North Central Rockies forests ecoregion. The Rocky Mountain Legacy Bike Trail extends from west of Banff (N51˚10' W115˚40') downstream to Canmore (N51˚5' W115˚21'), outside of the park. There are two National Historic Sites in the North Central Rockies forests ecoregion of Banff National Park. Banff Springs Hotel National Historic Site (N51˚10' W115˚34') was built between 1911 and 1928 by the Canadian Pacific Railroad and is still operated today. Banff Park Museum National Historic Site (N51˚11' W115˚35') is a natural history museum housed in a 1903 log building.
Hamber Provincial Park, British Columbia (N52˚22' W117˚46') is a 24,000-ha wilderness park accessed by a 22-km-long trail from Sunwapta Falls in Jasper National Park. At the end of the hike along the Athabasca River is Fortress Lake. Vegetation includes spruce, balsam, and rhododendron.
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, extends from semi-arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain trench to the glaciers of the Canadian Rockies, and is along Route 93 between Radium Hot Springs and Banff. The northernmost point is in the Tokumm Creek headwaters (N51°19' W116°17') and the southernmost point is east of Invermere on Stoddart Creek (N50°35' W115°57'). The visitor center is in Radium Hot Springs. At the west gate of the park is Sinclair Canyon and the Redwall Fault, a deep canyon just outside of Radium Hot Springs on Route 93. To the east, Radium Hot Springs (N50°38' W116°2') are the largest hot springs pool in Canada. Restoration Area (N50°37' W116°3'), located at the Redstreak Campground at Radium Hot Springs, is viewed from an interpretive loop trail which discusses the role of prescribed fire.
The Paint Pots (N51°10' W116°9') were a location used by the Ktunaxa people for the collection of ochre for ceremonies and trade. A trail accesses the site from Route 93. The Rockwall (N51°6' W116°12') is a vertical limestone wall that stretches for 55 km along the northwestern boundary of the park. Across from the Marble Campground, Marble Canyon (N51°11' W116°8') is the deep gorge of Tokumm Creek upstream of its confluence with the Vermillion River. A trail provides numerous scenic overlooks. The hike to Stanley Glacier (N51°12' W116°5') is 10 km round trip and includes waterfalls as well as Burgess Shale fossils at the base of Mount Stanley.
Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, is 275,800 ha including Mount Robson, the highest point in the Canadian Rockies at 3,954 m. The park protects the headwaters of the Fraser River, the deepest cave in North America north of Mexico, 530-m-deep Arctomys Cave (N53°4' W118°54'), Precambrian fossils of the earliest life with hard shells, and 800-year-old whitebark pines. The westernmost point is in the Swiftcurrent Creek watershed (N53°3' W119°26'), the northernmost point is Whiteshield Mountain (N53°18' W119°21'), and the southeasternmost point is at Fraser Pass (N52°31' W118°19'). The Ramparts formation is along the eastern border of the park, separating it from Jasper National Park. Park facilities are along Route 16 which extends from Yellowhead Pass west across the park, following the Fraser River. From the Visitor Center (N53°2' W119°14'), Berg Lake (N53°9' W119°10') is accessible by a 22-km hike through the Valley of a Thousand Falls. A short 1.5-km walk along the Fraser River from the Visitor Center leads to Overlander Falls. From Yellowhead Lake (N 52°52' W118°32'), the Mount Fitzwilliam Trail leads to alpine lakes in a 14-km hike.
Yellowhead Pass National Historic Site, Alberta-British Columbia (N52˚53' W118˚27') is on Route 16 in Mount Robson Provincial Park. This major highway and rail crossing was also an early fur trade route across the Rockies from the 1820s to the 1850s.
Yoho National Park, British Columbia is 1,300 km2 and is known for its towering rock walls, waterfalls, and paleontology. Kootenay National Park is to the south and Banff National Park is to the east. The Burgess Shale Fossil Beds (N51°26' W116°29') are between Mount Field and Wapta Mountain north of Field and accessible only by a guided tour. Between 520 and 530 million years ago, hard-bodied animals first entered the fossil record. We know that because of the fossils found in Yoho National Park at the Burgess Shale. This fossil deposit is the best record of the diversity of life that first appeared in the Cambrian explosion. Many of the fossils are believed to be arthropods, although there is a chordate and many other fossils are as yet unclassifiable into phyla, or represent phyla that no longer exist. Burgess shale fossils may also be seen on the Mount Stephens guided hike, which leaves from the visitor center in Field.
Emerald Lake (N51°27' W116°32') is a scenic alpine lake at the end of the Emerald Lake Road, which begins south of Field. Kicking Horse River Canadian Heritage River consists of the 49 km within Yoho National Park from Wapta Lake (N51°26' W116°21') downstream to the park boundary (N51°14' W116°39') as well as 18.5 km of the tributary Yoho River from its headwaters near Twin Falls to confluence with the Kicking Horse River (N51°35' W116°31').
Lake O'Hara (N51°21' W116°20') is a hiking area accessible by bus leaving from the Wapta Lake parking lot 13 km east of Field. The area is noted for its hanging valleys and extensive trail network, with 34 maintained trails. A lodge and campground are at the lake.
Natural Bridge (N51°23' W116°32') is across the Kicking Horse River southwest of Field. Wapta Falls (N51°11' W116°35') is on the Kicking Horse River south of Field and is 30 m high by 150 m wide, accessible by a 2.3-km trail. From the Yoho Valley Road, trails lead to Takkakaw Falls (N51°31' W116°29'), 254 m in height, Laughing Falls on the Little Yoho River, and Twin Falls.
There are two national historic sites within Yoho National Park:
Kicking Horse Pass National Historic Site (N51°27' W116°17') commemorates the completion of the first railroad across Canada in 1885, unifying the country. It is the highest point on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at 5,538 feet. The historic site also includes the Spiral Tunnels (N51°26' W116°25'), visible from a viewpoint and hiking trails leaving Route 1 between Field and Kicking Horse Pass. These switchbacks were completed in 1909 to relieve the steep grade to Kicking Horse Pass. An eastbound train first spirals to the left in a tunnel for 891 m, exiting 15 m higher and then crossing the river. On the south side of the river, it spirals 991 m inside the mountain and exits 17 m higher.
Twin Falls Tea House National Historic Site (N51°33' W116°32') overlooks the spectacular twin falls in Yoho National Park. Constructed between 1908 and 1928, it is an example of the Rustic Design Tradition utilized in early national park architecture and is also recognized for its role in recreation and tourism in Canada. The site is at the end of an 8.5-km one-way hike from the Takkakaw Falls trailhead on Yoho Valley Road. There are rooms available for rent.
Ramsar Site
The Ramsar Site (Wetlands of International Importance) in the North Central Rocky Mountain forests is in the Rocky Mountain trench. The Columbia Wetlands Ramsar site consists of the Columbia National Wildlife Area and Columbia Wildlife Management Area, British Columbia. These properties are within a 180-km-long area in the Rocky Mountain trench from Fairmont Hot Springs (N50°20' W115°53') north to Mica Reservoir (N51°30' W117°9'). It is a key site on the Pacific Flyway. Wetlands along the Columbia River provide habitat for waterfowl such as ducks and swans. The Ramsar site includes the 17,000-ha Columbia Wildlife Management Area and Burges James Gadsden Provincial Park (N51°24' W117°3'), a 400-ha area that includes the Moberly Marsh, is on Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) north of Golden. It also includes four Canadian Wildlife Service properties which constitute the national wildlife area. These are at Harrogate (N50°57' W116°24'), Spillamacheen (N50°54' W116°23'), Brisco (N50°49' W116°17'), and Wilmer Marsh (N50°33' W116°4'), all along Route 95 between Windermere and Golden.
Other National Sites
Nationally designated lands in the North-Central Rocky Mountain forests include Kootenay and Yoho National Parks, described above under World Heritage Sites.
Barkerville National Historic Site (53°4' W121°31'), is a 457-ha property heritage property and park owned by the Province of British Columbia and managed by the Barkerville Heritage Trust in the Cariboo Mountains. In 1862, the town was the site of the largest creek-side placer gold deposit ever discovered. Today, it is the largest living history museum in western North America, with 125 heritage buildings. Even today, the site is remote, reached deep in the Cariboo Mountains at the end of Route 26 about 85 km east of Quesnel.
Glacier National Park, British Columbia, is 1,350 km2 on the Trans-Canada Highway between Mount Revelstoke and Yoho National Parks in the Selkirk Mountains. It includes Rogers Pass National Historic Site, described separately. The northwestern-most point is in the Mountain Creek watershed (N51˚28' W117˚53'), the easternmost point is on Grizzly Creek (N51˚20' W117˚12'), the southeastern-most point is at the Beaver River headwaters (N51˚4' W117˚16'), and the southwestern-most point is on the Incomappleux River (N51˚6' W117˚36'). The park features a hemlock-cedar rainforest at Hemlock Grove on the Illecillewaet River (N51˚15' W117˚40'), Glacier House (N51˚17' W117˚31'), a Victorian-era hotel site, and Rogers Pass visitor center. From Glacier House, trails lead to the foot of glacier and to alpine meadows. An old growth forest is along the Beaver River.
Kootenae House National Historic Site, British Columbia (N50°32' W116°3') is at the confluence of Toby Creek and the Columbia River between Invermere and Wilmer in the Rocky Mountain trench. The site of a fur trading post established by David Thompson in 1806 is interpreted. The post facilitated trade with the Ktunaxa people and served as a base of exploration of the northwestern Rocky Mountains.
Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia, is 260 km2 on the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 1) in the Selkirk Mountains. The approximate boundaries are Revelstoke in the southwest (N51˚0' W118˚12'), Illecillewaet River in the east (N51˚7' W117˚53'), and Maunder Creek in the north (N51˚11' W117˚59'). The major features are the 2,000-m climb by road or trail to Mount Revelstoke (N51˚3' W118˚9') and an old growth cedar and hemlock rainforest along the Illecillewaet River in the eastern portions of the park (N51˚5' W117˚55'). Large skunk cabbage plants are along the trails in the rainforest. The 26-km roadway to the 1,835-meter Mount Revelstoke is known as the Meadows in the Sky Parkway.
Rogers Pass National Historic Site, British Columbia (N51˚17' W117˚31') is on the Trans-Canada Highway in Glacier National Park of Canada and includes early railroad history sites, including the Glacier House Hotel site. The site commemorates the completion of the first trans-continental rail link across Canada. The pass was discovered in 1881 as part of an effort to survey alternative rail lines across Canada. When chosen as the preferred railroad route, Canadian Pacific needed to use new technologies to cope with a 12-m annual snowfall and avalanche danger. A system of sheds was built along the route. Completion of a railroad fulfilled the Canadian confederation's promise to connect British Columbia with the rest of the provinces. In 1917, the railroad over the pass was replaced by a tunnel. A visitor center and trails interpret the historic sites.