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Le lac d'Aiguebelette est un lac naturel situé en France dans le département de la Savoie en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Principal lac de l'Avant-Pays savoyard, dans l'extrémité sud du massif du Jura, il est situé à environ  de Chambéry, environ  de Grenoble et à environ  de Lyon. Il possède une superficie de  et est à ce titre le septième lac naturel français après le lac Léman (en partie), le lac d'Hourtin et de Carcans, le lac de Grand-Lieu, le lac du Bourget, le lac d'Annecy et le lac Marville (aux Kerguelen). Bordé à l'est par la chaîne de l'Épine qui culmine avec le mont Grelle à  et à l'ouest par le mont Tournier, sa profondeur maximale est de . Au premier regard, il se caractérise par sa couleur souvent verte, alors que, dans la même région, le lac d'Annecy est plus bleu et le lac du Bourget plus souvent gris acier.

Le lac d'Aiguebelette est un lac privé qui appartient à la famille de Rivérieulx de Chambost de Lépin et à Électricité de France, qui ont confié sa gestion à la Communauté de Communes du Lac d'Aiguebelette. Ses rives se partagent quant à elles entre cinq communes riveraines que sont : Aiguebelette-le-Lac, Lépin-le-Lac, Saint-Alban-de-Montbel, Novalaise et Nances. Dans la partie sud du lac se trouvent deux îles, entourées de roselières.

Afin de préserver la qualité de ses eaux et de son environnement, les bateaux à moteur thermiques sont interdits sur le lac depuis un arrêté de 1967. Il est en outre depuis mars 2015 la première réserve naturelle régionale d'eau douce en France.

Géographie

Situation

Le lac d'Aiguebelette est situé à l'ouest du département de la Savoie au sud-est de la France, à proximité de la Suisse et de l'Italie. Ses rives sont partagées sur les territoires des communes d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac à l'ouest, de Nances au nord, de Novalaise au nord-ouest, de Saint-Alban-de-Montbel à l'ouest et de Lépin-le-Lac au sud.

Il s'étend sur  sur le territoire dit de l'Avant-Pays savoyard, au pied de la chaîne de l'Épine, qui le sépare de la ville de Chambéry, préfecture du département. À quelques kilomètres à l'ouest du lac se trouve une autre barrière naturelle qu'est le mont Tournier qui délimite le bassin versant du lac.

Les eaux du lac culminent à une altitude moyenne de . L'occupation des sols du bassin du lac est majoritairement partagée entre forêts (46,8 %) et prairies (32,9 %), l'urbanisation et les cultures ne comptant pour leur part que pour respectivement 8,6 % et 3,4 %.

Topographie

Le lac présente la forme d'un triangle isocèle dont la rive sud constitue la base. Sa plus grande longueur est de , sa plus grande largeur de  et sa plus petite largeur de .

Selon sa bathymétrie, le lac compte cinq bassins sous-lacustres, deux monticules immergés et deux îles. Sa profondeur maximale est de  et se situe relativement proche de la rive orientale, rapidement atteinte puisque située sur le versant abrupt de la chaîne de l'Épine. À l'inverse, sa partie occidentale, située sur une zone collinneuse et vallonnée, présente une topographie plus douce et moins profonde. La profondeur moyenne du lac s'établit à .

Son volume d'eau s'élève à  et la carte ci-contre indique qu'il comporte trois fosses :
 la fosse nord, près du lieu-dit « La Combe » () ;
 la fosse sud-est, non loin du port d'Aiguebelette () ;
 la fosse sud-ouest, entre les îles et Lépin.

La surface du lac a gelé complètement lors des hivers 1909, 1929, 1941, 1942 et 1956.

Géologie

Le bassin versant du lac repose sur une dominante géologique calcaire et les deux îles qu'il compte seraient pour leur part probablement d'origine morainique.

Le lac d'Aiguebelette est bordé à l'est par des calcaires du Valanginien, une bande de molasse marine du Vindobonien et du Burdigalien, tandis que ses rives ouest sont bordées par des terrasses dont le niveau le plus bas est à  et la plus élevée à , au Soujey. Sur l'ensemble des rives se trouve en outre une ceinture presque complète de dépôts du Quaternaire d'origine glaciaire.

Formation
Le mécanisme de formation du lac d'Aiguebelette est très comparable à celui du lac du Bourget :
 À l'ère secondaire (Jurassique et Crétacé inférieur), des masses énormes de sédiments se déposent en milieu marin ;
 À l'ère tertiaire, les reliefs commencent à sortir de la mer. Dans la fosse de Novalaise, lagune peu profonde, la molasse se dépose, le plissement amène la montagne de l'Épine et la chaîne du mont Tournier (anticlinaux) à leur altitude actuelle ;
 Durant la période quaternaire, le glacier würmien surcreuse une cuvette au pied de la grande faille de l'anticlinal de la chaîne de l'Épine. À cette époque, la glace atteint une altitude de plus de mille mètres, rabotant ainsi les reliefs et façonnant les cols de l'Épine et du Crucifix ;
 À la fonte des glaces, le lac se remplit. La moraine, au nord, les collines molassiques au sud, les anticlinaux, à l'est et l'ouest, délimitent la cuvette. L'eau va s'écouler par le point le plus bas, qui est une zone de faille dans l'anticlinal du mont Tournier.

Hydrographie

Le volume d'eau du lac d'Aiguebelette est de  de mètres cubes et son bassin versant s'étend sur une surface de . Le lac est par ailleurs considéré comme un lac monomictique à dimictique du , ce qui signifie que ses eaux de surface et de profondeur se mélangent une à deux fois par an.

Bien qu'alimenté par plusieurs menus cours d'eau, le lac ne possède néanmoins qu'un seul déversoir naturel : le Tier (aussi orthographié Tiers ou Thiers), un affluent de la rive droite du Guiers. Celui-ci trouve son origine au sud-ouest du lac au niveau du « Gué des Planches » où il constitue la limite entre les communes de Lépin-le-Lac et de Saint-Alban-de-Montbel.

Du nord au sud dans le sens senestre, ses cours d'eau tributaires sont les ruisseaux suivants :

 le Gua (Nances) ;
 la Leysse de Novalaise (Nances) ;
 le Neyret (Nances) ;
 le Janjoux (Novalaise) ;
 le Luizarat (Saint-Alban-de-Montbel) ;
 le Bourg (Lépin-le-Lac) ;
 la Tuilerie (Lépin-le-Lac) ;
 le Moulin (Aiguebelette-le-Lac).

Parmi ceux sus-cités, les tributaires principaux du lac sont le Gua, la Leysse et la Tuilerie. Par ailleurs, si la rive orientale du lac située le long de la chaîne de l'Épine ne compte aucune embouchure de cours d'eau, des résurgences sous-lacustres issues de ce massif sont néanmoins présentes.

Climat

Voies de communication et transports

En matière de transport routier, le lac est desservi par l'autoroute A43 reliant Lyon et Chambéry, qui le contourne par le nord et qui compte une bretelle d'accès à moins de  de la rive nord du lac sur la commune de Nances. Le lac est en outre longé sur ses rives nord et ouest par la route départementale 921, complétée par la route départementale 921d qui le longe sur ses rives est et sud de manière à pouvoir en effectuer un tour complet (route du « Tour du Lac »).

En matière de transport ferroviaire, le lac est longé sur sa rive sud par la ligne de Saint-André-le-Gaz à Chambéry. Cette ligne permet la desserte du lac au travers de deux gares ferroviaires que sont la Gare de Lépin-le-Lac - La Bauche sur la commune de Lépin-le-Lac à l'extrémité sud-ouest du lac, et la gare d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac sur la commune d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac à l'extrémité sud-est du lac. Ces deux gares sont desservies par des trains ou des autocars du service TER Rhône-Alpes entre Lyon et Chambéry ou entre Saint-André-le-Gaz et Chambéry.

En matière de transport aérien, l'aéroport le plus proche du lac est l'aéroport de Chambéry - Savoie, situé à une dizaine de kilomètres à vol d'oiseau mais séparé du lac par la chaîne de l'Épine. Il permet des liaisons avec plusieurs destinations d'Europe du Nord, en particulier durant la saison hivernale. Deux aéroports internationaux sont également présents à moins de  du lac : l'aéroport de Lyon-Saint-Exupéry et l'aéroport international de Genève en Suisse.

Toponymie
Aiguebelette est un hydronyme se composant du préfixe aigue- et du français belle. Il provient du latin Carbonaria, puis Aqua Bella, l'« eau belle » ou « la belle eau ». Le suffixe -ette ajoute la notion de diminutif et de petite taille, ce qui conduit à une traduction de « belle petite eau ».

Le lac est à l'origine du nom de la commune de Aiguebelette-le-Lac.

Toutefois, cette traduction est délaissée au profit de son équivalent pluriel « belles petites eaux », utilisée notamment par l'office de tourisme du lac d'Aiguebelette ou encore par le syndicat mixte de l'Avant-Pays savoyard. Une traduction par ailleurs également reprise dans l'ouvrage Lac d'Aiguebelette paru en 2005.

En arpitan savoyard, le lac se nomme , prononcé localement .

Histoire des hommes

Légende du lac
La formation du lac d'Aiguebelette et la présence des deux îles sont mentionnées dans une légende locale, rapportée en détail par M. Chevron à Louis Schaudel dans le cadre de son étude parue en 1908.

Préhistoire

Des pieux enfoncés dans des zones peu profondes, sur la commune de Lépin-le-Lac, vestiges d'habitations sur pilotis, ou « palafittes », attestent d'une présence humaine dès l'époque néolithique et l'âge du bronze. C'est au milieu du  que des archéologues ont découvert l'existence de ces cités lacustres.

Les différentes campagnes de fouilles ont permis de découvrir 4 sites du Néolithiques et 2 de l'âge de bronze.

En 2020, un père et son fils sont interpellés soupçonnés d'effectuer des recherches archéologiques interdites  avec des détecteurs de métaux le long des berges, et au fond du lac munis de combinaisons de plongée. Une perquisition de la gendarmerie à leur domicile découvre 3000 pièces archéologiques, datant pour certaines de l'âge du bronze : flèches, haches, clefs ou encore statuettes.

Antiquité
Des vestiges de l'Antiquité ou du Moyen Âge, un sarcophage et une pierre à deux trous ronds, que l'on a appelé « pierre à cupule », ont été retrouvés sur la Grande île . L'appellation de "pierre à cupules" n'a pas été reprise par des archéologues du  ou du . En 1866, l'instituteur d'Aiguebelette, M.Chevron mentionnait un chemin mettant en communication les deux îles. L'instituteur Chevron avait également mentionné les vestiges d'une tour à proximité du site de Boffard. L'érudit savoyard Joseph Revil évoqua trente ans plus tard « un grand espace couvert d'une couche de ciment, vestige d'un bain romain » à la pointe nord-est de la grande-île , mais l'attribution de ce site tout comme celui de la tour de Boffard à l'antiquité gallo-romaine n'est pas retenue par André Marguet dans son inventaire archéologique de 1998. Les datations effectuées par Marguet sur des pieux prélevés sur la tour de Boffard placerait ce site aux alentours de l'an mil.

Par la suite, la région du lac d'Aiguebelette a été tantôt un lieu de passage ouest-est, tantôt un pays en marge. Une voie romaine passait par la rive sud du lac avant de gravir la côte du col Saint-Michel et de redescendre sur Chambéry qui s'appelait alors Lemencum. Cet itinéraire, direct, mais escarpé, était concurrencé par d'autres voies au nord (col du Chat) et au sud (Les Échelles), sans doute plus fréquentées si l'on en croit la pauvreté des vestiges archéologiques romains trouvés à Lépin comparés à ceux que l'on trouve vers Saint-Pierre-de-Genebroz et qui correspondent à la route des Échelles.

Moyen Âge et Temps modernes
Au Moyen Âge, la montagne de l'Épine fait partie du fief des seigneurs de Montbel qui dominaient la majeure partie de l'Avant-Pays savoyard, alors que Lépin, Aiguebelette et le lac faisaient partie du fief des seigneurs d'Aiguebelle qui avaient leur château au village d'Aiguebelette. Le nom d'Aiguebelette viendrait ainsi d'Aiguebelle.

L'itinéraire du col Saint-Michel est resté de loin le plus fréquenté pour joindre Chambéry jusqu'à la fin du . Au début du , pour un quart d'écu, des porteurs aident les voyageurs à franchir le col. Le seigneur de Villamont, qui emprunte le passage en 1588 estime qu'il est suffisamment bien gardé pour protéger le voyageur « des ours et autres bêtes sauvages » que l'on trouve dans les bois. À partir de 1665, sous le règne de Charles-Emmanuel II, duc de Savoie, de grands travaux sont initiés pour aménager la route des Échelles qui a le grand avantage d'emprunter le col de Couz,  plus bas que le col Saint-Michel. Dès lors, Aiguebelette n'est plus un lieu de passage.

Époque contemporaine

Avant 1860, le Lac d'Aiguebelette n'est pas situé en France, mais dans le duché de Savoie au sein du royaume de Sardaigne, à quelque quinze kilomètres de la frontière avec la France, délimitée par le Guiers. Au , les contrebandiers sont nombreux, et le plus connu est Mandrin, dont on peut imaginer qu'un certain nombre des compagnons étaient originaires des rives du lac, bien que ceci ne soit pas attesté.

Bien qu'à partir de la fin du , l'ensemble du trafic ouest-est a été détourné sur la voie des Échelles, la voie directe par les rives sud du lac n'a jamais été abandonnée et l'ancienne voie romaine devenue « Voie sarde » est restée entretenue. Un poste de la ligne de télégraphie Chappe Paris-Milan est construit en 1805 au col du Crucifix, au-dessus du lac. Pendant deux siècles, les communes du sud du lac, Lépin et Aiguebelette ne connaissent donc qu'un isolement relatif qui est rompu en 1884 par l'ouverture de la ligne de chemin de fer Lyon-Chambéry. Entre 1880 et 1884, le tunnel ferroviaire de l'Épine, long de , est percé entre les gares d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac et de Saint-Cassin-la-cascade. Alors qu'auparavant, les pourtours du lac étaient une région strictement agricole, l'arrivée du chemin de fer favorise le développement d'une petite activité touristique : les hôtels-pensions-restaurants se multiplient. Les Lyonnais forment une grosse partie de la clientèle et l'on voit apparaître également un certain nombre de résidences secondaires.

Le , le marquis Pantaléon Costa de Beauregard achète le lac à  l'état sarde. Simultanément, la commune de Saint-Alban-de-Montbel accepte de céder les îles du lac au marquis sous réserve que ce dernier fasse rebâtir la chapelle Saint-Vincent située sur la grande île. Après l'annexion de la Savoie en 1860, l'héritier du marquis vend, le , la propriété du lac au comte de Chambost de Lépin. Toutefois, à la suite d'un long procès,  Royer-Colland obtient en 1893 la rétrocession d'environ la moitié nord du lac du côté de Nances, Novalaise et Saint-Alban-de-Montbel, dont il est considéré que cette partie a succédé aux droits des primitifs seigneurs de Montbel. Cette partie nord du lac est ensuite cédée à la société Force et Lumière en 1919.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en , le premier camp des jeunes de la Milice française, l'Avant-Garde, a lieu près du lac.

À l'issue de la guerre, la décision de nationaliser les industries électriques et gazières conduit au transfert de propriété de la partie nord du lac à la nouvelle société nationale Électricité de France (EDF) en 1946. Par ailleurs, après guerre se développent les activités touristiques, dominées par le camping et le caravaning, et de nombreuses aires d'accueil sont installées autour du lac, les Néerlandais y étant une clientèle fidèle de juillet à août.

Dans les années 1960, la route nationale 6 est bloquée aux périodes de pointe par d'importants bouchons au tunnel des Échelles. Pour résoudre le problème, en 1974, on ouvre à la circulation l'autoroute A43 qui relie Lyon à Chambéry en passant très près de la rive nord du lac avant de s'enfoncer dans un nouveau tunnel creusé sous la montagne de l'Épine. Cette autoroute permet un accès plus facile au lac, mais elle engendre une série de menaces pour l'équilibre écologique du lac : déversement des sels de déglaçage et résidus de pneumatiques.

En mettant les communes riveraines du lac à moins de  de l'agglomération chambérienne, l'autoroute transforme celle-ci en zone périurbaine. Au début du , la population des communes qui avaient connu une décroissance constante correspondant à l'exode rural repart à la croissance. C'est un phénomène de réurbanisation qui se traduit par la construction de nombreuses habitations principales dans les communes riveraines.

Protection et biodiversité

Protection
Le lac d'Aiguebelette est inscrit à l'inventaire des sites classés depuis le . Le site est aussi inscrit Natura 2000 depuis 2006 et zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) de . Un arrêté préfectoral de protection de biotope (APPB) protège certaines parties du littoral depuis 2001.

Le 6 mars 2015, la région Rhône-Alpes adopte le classement du lac d'Aiguebelette en Réserve naturelle régionale pour une durée de dix ans. Il devient ainsi « la première réserve naturelle régionale d'eau douce française ».

Faune et flore

Poissons

La présence de diverses espèces de poissons dans le lac résulte à la fois d'équilibres naturels et de l'activité prédatrice des pêcheurs et de celle, compensatrice, de la fédération locale des pêcheurs qui reconstitue chaque année les réserves d'alevins (alevinage). Les poissons du lac les plus courants sont les poissons blancs (ablette, gardon, rotengle, brème, carpe, tanche), les perches, les brochets, les lottes et les Salmonidés parmi lesquels l'omble chevalier, la truite et le lavaret.

Dès l'arrivée du froid, les ablettes du lac se regroupent en bancs et se déplacent vers le Gua, vers le déversoir ou vers le port d'Aiguebelette, probablement parce que l'eau y est moins froide et la nourriture moins rare. Non seulement les ablettes doivent assurer leur survie, mais elles doivent se garder de leurs deux grands prédateurs, les brochets et les pêcheurs. Heureusement pour la préservation de l'espèce, leur pouvoir de reproduction peut être très fort dans des conditions favorables, mais c'est néanmoins l'alevinage qui assure la forte représentation de l'espèce dans le lac.

Alors que le brochet chasse en eau peu profonde, à proximité des roselières, la truite, qui s'alimente surtout de nuit concurrence peu le brochet car elle chasse en eau plus profonde. Dans le lac, on trouve des truites arc-en-ciel, récemment introduites et des truites de lac, vivant discrètement en eau profonde, à l'abri des lignes des pêcheurs.

Les perches, très recherchées par les pêcheurs, sont en concurrence avec les lavarets, les lottes et les brochets.

L'omble chevalier n'a été introduit dans le lac que dans les années 1970. Sa reproduction qui doit avoir lieu à plus de cinquante mètres de profondeur est possible dans les grandes fosses du lac.

Le lavaret, lui ne vit qu'en profondeur, en eau suffisamment oxygénée, sauf au moment de la fraie où il monte en surface. Assez abondant, il représente une prise de choix pour les pêcheurs expérimentés du lac d'Aiguebelette.

La lotte, beaucoup plus rare, n'est pratiquement pas pêchée à la ligne. C'est un poisson de fond dont quelques spécimens seulement se prennent à la ligne de fond.

Oiseaux
 La foulque macroule est abondante sur les rives du lac, sauf pendant l'hiver.
 Le grèbe huppé est l'oiseau le plus visible du lac.
 Le canard colvert.
 Le cygne tuberculé.
 Le héron cendré.
 La poule d'eau.

Insectes
Le lac abrite un cortège de libellules (odonates) parmi lesquelles la cordulie à corps fin Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834), espèce endémique du Sud-Ouest de l'Europe et protégée en France.

Plantes de la zone humide
 Nénuphar
 Grande salicaire
 Houblon
 Aune glutineux

Écologie
L'étude d'un lac relève d'une discipline que l'on appelle la limnologie, fondée à la fin du  par François-Alphonse Forel.

Stratification et oxygénation

Le lac d'Aiguebelette est stratifié, d'avril en décembre, en deux couches : l'épilimnion, couche de surface d'une dizaine de mètres de profondeur et représentant environ le tiers du volume total du lac, et l'hypolimnion qui se trouve en dessous. Ces deux couches réalisent peu d'échanges entre elles.

Au printemps et en été, l'épilimnion, dont la température s'élève sous l'action de la lumière solaire, devient le siège d'une activité du phytoplancton, soit des végétaux microscopiques qui utilisent la lumière solaire pour faire de la photosynthèse et donner ainsi une couleur verte à certaines zones du lac. Des études ont montré la présence de  différentes de phytoplancton. En plus du phytoplancton, l'épilimnion est également habité par du zooplancton, animaux microscopiques, ainsi que des poissons. L'ensemble de ces êtres vivants consomme de l'oxygène. À la belle saison, il y a plus d'oxygène généré par la photosynthèse que d'oxygène consommé par les êtres vivants.

L'hypolimnion qui ne reçoit pas de lumière reste toute l'année à une température très basse (5 à ). Pendant la belle saison, le zooplancton qui y habite consomme de l'oxygène ainsi que les sédiments organiques qui s'oxydent. Certaines espèces particulières de poissons comme les corégones et les ombles chevaliers habitent également dans l'hypolimnion.

Pour que l'hypolimnion ne s'appauvrisse pas totalement en oxygène, il est alors nécessaire que les eaux des deux couches se mélangent. Pour le lac d'Aiguebelette, ceci se produit normalement en hiver lorsque la température de l'épilimnion descend suffisamment bas pour atteindre celle de l'hypolimnion. À température égale, les eaux des deux couches peuvent ainsi se mélanger. Le mélange est également favorisé par les tempêtes et les crues des ruisseaux qui se jettent dans le lac (les émissaires).

On considère que le lac est en bonne santé, ou oligotrophe, lorsque les deux couches sont bien oxygénées et que par conséquent les différentes espèces végétales et animales peuvent y vivre aussi bien en surface qu'en eaux profondes. Sinon, on parle d'un processus d'eutrophisation.

Eutrophisation
Depuis les années 1970, une réglementation assez stricte impose l'installation d'égouts tout autour du lac. De ce fait la pollution d'origine humaine est considérablement réduite et l'agriculture devient alors la source majeure de déversement de phosphates dans les eaux du lac. Les phosphates favorisent la production d'organismes végétaux : un peu de phosphate est nécessaire pour la production de phytoplancton, et donc de oxygénation de l'eau, mais trop de phosphates rend possible la production d'une telle quantité de phytoplancton et d'algues que la transparence de l'eau en est altérée et que la lumière est arrêtée en surface. De plus, une partie des algues et du plancton qui se développent est toxique.

Pour qu'un lac ne devienne pas eutrophe, il est admis une limite de  pour la teneur des eaux en phosphates. Dans le lac d'Aiguebelette, cette teneur était en 1974-1976 de . Elle était redescendue à  en 1984. À titre de comparaison, dans le lac du Bourget, la teneur était montée à  en 1978. La pollution en phosphate a donc été moins importante qu'ailleurs dans le lac d'Aiguebelette. En 2012, les études menées par Frédéric Rimet de station d'hydrobiologie lacustre de Thonon-les-Bains d'INRA de 1999 à 2011 montrent que le lac d'Aiguebelette est en bonne santé et proche d'un état oligotrophe.

Depuis 1974, date d'ouverture de l'autoroute A43, la teneur du lac en chlorures passe de  à . En première approche, il n'y a pas lieu de considérer qu'une telle concentration puisse avoir des effets dommageables sur la potabilité de l'eau ou sur des équilibres écologiques. Toutefois a pu être observée en 1984 une amorce de formation d'une « sous-couche » localisée, dont la concentration en chlorure atteignait les . L'implantation durable d'une sous-couche plus dense que la moyenne du lac pourrait limiter le brassage des eaux à la couche supérieure et aurait des conséquences néfastes pour l'oxygénation du fond.

Roselières

Une grande partie des rives du lac est occupée par des roselières. Les deux îles, en particulier, sont complètement entourées de ces roselières. Les roseaux se propagent par bourgeonnement des rhizomes. La base des tiges est immergée à faible profondeur. L'enchevêtrement des rhizomes et des racines constitue l'habitat naturel des écrevisses. Les brochets viennent y frayer. Les roseaux ont un rôle épurateur, c'est la raison pour laquelle leur destruction est interdite. Néanmoins, le développement des campings et la recherche de nouveaux accès au lac entraînent chaque année la destruction de nouvelles roselières.

Activités humaines

Activités touristiques et sportives

Tourisme

Le lac d'Aiguebelette est un lieu touristique important durant l'été. Celui-ci compte en effet plusieurs plages aménagées, réparties sur les cinq communes du lac :
 Nances : La Crique ;
 Novalaise : Novalaise-Plage, Pré Argent, Bon Vent ;
 Saint-Alban-de-Montbel : Saint-Alban-Plage, le Sougey ;
 Lépin-le-Lac : plage municipale ;
 Aiguebelette-le-Lac : plage municipale.

Ces plages, dont l'accès est payant, sont situées en majorité sur la rive ouest du lac du fait de la topographie plus favorable, toutefois les pentes abruptes de la rive est sont elles aussi prisées des baigneurs. À proximité des plages se trouvent par ailleurs une dizaine de campings.

La pratique du pédalo est répandue. Un arrêté préfectoral de 1967 interdit l'usage de bateaux à moteurs sur le lac.

Au nord du lac, sur la commune de Nances, est également implantée la Maison du Lac d'Aiguebelette, lieu destiné à la découverte du lac au travers d'expositions. Cet espace abrite notamment l'Office de Tourisme Pays du lac d'Aiguebelette  et le parcours spectacle du lac d'Aiguebelette, un espace pédagogique de découverte du lac. À travers bornes interactives, films, panneaux, témoignages et légendes, les visiteurs découvrent la géologie, l'histoire et les traditions du lac. La présentation de la faune et de la flore lacustres permettent de mettre en exergue les efforts de préservation menés autour du lac. Pour les familles, la visite peut se faire sous forme d'enquête à mener dans la scénographie et à l'extérieur.

Sport

Le calme plat régnant la majorité du temps sur le lac en raison d'un manque de vent dans cette zone de l'Avant-Pays savoyard le rend impropre à la pratique des sports de voile. Celui-ci est en revanche équipé d'une base d'aviron (sport), créée en 1981 à la place de l'ancienne villa de l'écrivain Frédéric Dard (San-Antonio), où viennent s'entraîner des équipes de haut niveau. Le lac a par ailleurs été choisi pour les championnats du monde d'aviron de 1997 et accueille en 2015, sur un nouveau bassin de compétition, la  des Championnats du monde d'aviron entre le 30 août et le 6 septembre. Avec 2 médailles d'or, 2 médailles d'argent et 2 médailles de bronze, les rameurs français signent là le plus beau palmarès de l'Équipe de France de l'histoire des Championnats.

La chaîne de l'Épine, sur le rive nord du lac, a été équipée d'une via ferrata dite De la tête de cheval, interdite d'accès depuis 2005 pour des raisons de sécurité. Le parapente est très présent, avec un décollage de la crête de l'Épine (La Province), les parapentistes pouvant venir se poser près du lac (Les Marais).

Autres
De nombreux pêcheurs, occasionnels ou plus réguliers, s'adonnent à leur occupation favorite, en amateurs uniquement car le commerce du poisson du lac est interdit.

Culture
Dans la littérature, le lac d'Aiguebelette a inspiré quelques écrivains :
 Henry Bordeaux, écrivain d'origine savoyarde, élu à l'Académie française en 1919, a passé des vacances à Aiguebelette et y a situé le cadre de l'un de ses romans, le Paon blanc ;
 Henri Vincenot, Les Voyages du professeur Lorgnon, Denoël, 1983 ;
 Frédéric Dard, originaire de Bourgoin-Jallieu, qui possédait une villa au bord du lac, y situe une partie de l'action de Tango Chinetoque (1965), signé San-Antonio.

Urbanisme
Le lac d'Aiguebelette constitue au début des années 2000 une réserve d'eau potable pour une douzaine de communes situées dans ses alentours.

Sites palafittiques

Fouilles

La découverte des sites palafittiques du lac d'Aiguebelette est relatée dans les années 1860.
Au début du , le préhistorien Louis Schaudel mène une étude plus approfondie dont les résultats sont présentés en août 1908 au Congrès préhistorique de France alors tenu à Chambéry, puis, des ramassages d'objets sont ensuite effectués par Louis Léger en 1921 et Henri Brun en 1938.

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des reconnaissances en plongée sont effectuées à partir de 1954 par le groupe de Recherche Archéologiques Lacustres, sous la direction de Raymond Laurent de 1962 à 1972. Entre 1983 et 1997, de nouvelles campagnes de repérage et de datation sont menées sous l'égide du Centre national de recherches archéologiques subaquatiques (CNRAS) d'abord et du Département des recherches archéologiques subaquatiques et sous-marines (DRASSM) ensuite. André Marguet et son équipe du DRASSM croisent alors les datations au radiocarbone par des datations de dendrochronologie.

Deux des sites palafittiques du lac d'Aiguebelette ont été classés au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO en 2011 sous l'intitulé « Lac d'Aiguebelette (zone sud) » et l'identifiant 1363-064.

Descriptions
En 2013, sont répertoriés un total de 18 sites palafittiques dans le lac d'Aiguebelette. Ces gisements ont été identifiés dans les eaux peu profondes proches des rives du lac. Les occupations successives de ces sites ont pu être datées par le radiocarbone et la dendrochronologie : les plus anciens, Beau-Phare sur la commune d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac, et Le Gojat sur la commune de Novalaise, relèvent du Néolithique final, l'abattage des arbres ayant servi à faire les pieux les plus anciens ayant été datés respectivement à 2702 et 2699 av. J.-C. pour chacun de ces deux sites. Sur les autres sites, les datations de pieux correspondent aux différentes périodes de l'âge du bronze (2200 à 800 av. J.-C.) ou à l'Antiquité tardive. La répartition des gisements selon leur époque est la suivante : 4 du Néolithique, 2 du Bronze final, 5 de la période antique, 3 de la période médiévale, 1 de la période moderne et 3 de période indéterminée.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Avant-Pays savoyard
 lac naturel de France
 Lac du Bourget
 Lac d'Annecy
 Lac de Paladru
 Championnats du monde d'aviron
 Farou

Bibliographie

 Emmanuel Cabrit, Voyage intimiste aux portes de la Savoie, 2019. Ouvrage photographique, 60 pages
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Liens externes

 Office de tourisme du lac d'Aiguebelette
 Page géologique de Geol-Alp sur la région du lac d'Aiguebelette
 Fédérations des associations de protection du lac d'Aiguebelette (FAPLA)

Vidéos
Rendre visible l'invisible, court documentaire réalisé par Emmanuel Cabrit et Benjamin Cabrit. Sélection à la Journée du Green Documentaire #2 2019 de la fondation Yann Arthus Bertrand.
Traces, réalisée par Benjamin Cabrit, Emmanuel Cabrit et Maxime Boutillon. Sélection au Festival International du Film de Tourisme à Riga (Lettonie) en 2019.
"L'Avant Pays" Une Cachette Extraordinaire diffusion France 3 dans le documentaire "Filme Ton Quartier" 2016, réalisé par Emmanuel Cabrit et Benjamin Cabrit.
, Savoie Le Département
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Discographie
 Emmanuel Cabrit : Sous la Brume... Un trésor à préserver. 2015. Reportages sonores sur la préservation du Pays d'Aiguebelette, sa faune, sa flore, son Histoire et ses histoires. (Intervenants : Jean Baud (FAPLA), Jean-Pierre Blazin (Mémoires des Pays du Guiers), Yvonne Coudurier (Musée Francépoque), Lisbeth Peyré, Christine Muscat, Julien Schneider (AAPPMA Lépin-le-Lac), et Catherine Bernardy (FAPLA et Musée Lac et Nature) - Voix off : Bernard Grolleron) (Le site de Sous la Brume... Un trésor à préserver)

Notes et références

Aiguebelette
Aiguebelette
Aiguebelette
Aire protégée du massif du Jura
Site Natura 2000 de la Savoie
Aiguebelette-le-Lac
Avant-Pays savoyard

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How can I make this line of code work, such that the source link is dynamic? Currently it does work with the dropdown selection when embeded into an iframe. I am guessing probably something to do with the compute function, am not very sure
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A: You should be able to make use of v-bind directive in your template, like so:
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As for your data property, I believe you can use normal string concatenation to make your dynamic url:
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The {{}} double curly brace syntax is for use in your html code of your vue app. Hope it helps!

A: I have figured out the answer:
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A: should use <router-link> inside <b-dropdown-item>, like this:
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A Rough Time for the City Game
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For the last few years, it has been obvious to almost everyone that New York metro area college basketball is in a slump. Since Seton Hall and Iona went to the N.C.A.A. tournament in 2006, not a single local school has followed. While three years may not seem like that long in most places, it's a virtual eternity in the supposed mecca of hoops.
"It's a big drought," said Seton Hall Coach Bobby Gonzalez, who previously took two Manhattan College teams to the tourney. "It surprises me."
"A double dagger to my heart," Manhattan Coach Barry Rohrssen, a New York City native, said. "It's painful and it hurts."
To put it in historical context, the last time the area went three seasons without sending a team to the N.C.A.A. tournament was from 1964 to 1966. Even then, there were Bill Bradley's Princeton squads, so if you want to be generous and include those as being in the metropolitan area, you have to go all the way back to the first years of the tournament — from 1939 to 1942 when there were only eight teams in the bracket — to find a comparable drought.
Either way, that four-year span at the beginning of World War II is the record in danger of being equaled should no local school get to the tournament this coming March. Although the season's first six weeks have given some teams hope of ending the skid, there are certainly no locks. Things are still very iffy. The most promising teams have yet to start conference play.
So how did we get here?
"I do not have an explanation for that," Villanova Coach Jay Wright said at first, apparently remembering only his halcyon years coaching in the area at Hofstra.
Wright then took a moment to ponder it.
"I think it's timing," he said. "When you look at all the coaches in the metropolitan area, they're kind of in their third or fourth year when they get it going, and if you look at all of them, I think it's just timing. I think this year, next year, the next couple of years, they'll all be back."
Wright's successor at Hofstra, Tom Pecora, agreed. "I think you're going to see some of the local teams get in this year," he said.
Unlike Wright, however, Pecora had no problem coming up with reasons for the drought, beginning with the expansion of the Big East, which resulted in a lot of talented players leaving the New York area for college.
"When the Big East was a smaller conference," he said, "there weren't those other six schools that were also Big East schools where guys could come in, snatch 'em up and say: 'Hey, you're gonna play in New York against Seton Hall, St. John's. You're gonna play in the Garden in the Big East tournament.'"
Ironically, Wright has been one of the Big East's biggest poachers of metro area talent since going to Villanova, but Pecora is correct that more recent conference additions such as West Virginia and Cincinnati have joined the club. Each has multiple players from the area on its current roster.
St. John's Coach Norm Roberts notices more players are leaving the metropolitan area than in the past, too.
"Ten, 15 years ago, all the Jersey kids were going to Jersey schools with Seton Hall and Rutgers, and all the New York kids — not all of them, but a lot of them — would stay home," he said. "I think now you have kids that are seeing different parts of the country from a young age that it's easier for them to go all over the country."
Furthermore, Roberts doesn't think local players are as superior as they once were.
"The whole country's gotten better," he said. "Basketball's gotten better everywhere, and I'm talking about in Oregon and places where it wasn't very good, it's gotten better. So now there's good players everywhere, where once it was 'the city game.' It was just New York a lot of times."
"It's become not only a national game but a global game, so everyone's better at it," Pecora said. "Now there's rural kids who are outstanding basketball players. The game has broadened and there's a much more level playing field."
Pecora also offered a couple of theories about why specific schools haven't gone to the N.C.A.A. tournament recently.
No. 1: "In 2006, Seton Hall got in and Iona got in. They made coaching changes at both places within two years. I think that's kind of strange."
No. 2: "At a number of colleges, decisions regarding conferences might be questioned."
Fordham and Hofstra, anyone?
Anyway, that's more than enough reasons for the drought, already. What are the solutions? How does it end?
Rohrssen suggested it may take more cooperation between local high school and college coaches to keep talent in the area. "We just have to do a stronger job convincing some of those kids that are interested in leaving home the benefits of being here," he said.
The loquacious Pecora picked up on that theme. "One of the things we talk to all our recruits about all the time is, 'Well, when you graduate, do you want to come back and live in the metropolitan area?' 'Yeah.' 'Well then, you're crazy to go somewhere else. They're gonna tell you they have alums in this area who are gonna take care of you, but nowhere near to the degree that our schools do in the metropolitan area.' People come from all over the world to live in this city and we've got young men at 18 leaving, and we have advisors and parents allowing them to do it. I think in the long term there's gonna be a negative effect whenever they're done playing basketball."
Roberts, on the other hand, thinks the local programs need to do well first; then high school and A.A.U. coaches will direct more players to those schools. "New York is a little different; the metropolitan area is a little different," he said. "Some places you may get three or four bones thrown at you, 'O.K., now get good.' New York is, 'Show me first and then we'll give you three or four bones.' "
As for getting good, Roberts said, "It's a process, and it's not easy."
Gonzalez said he doesn't like the word "process," but he has a step-by-step plan for getting good. "You gotta get to where you're competitive and you're .500 first, and then you've gotta get to where you're winning on the road second, and then I think you've gotta have a winning season third, and then I think you've gotta beat some people you're not supposed to beat fourth. I think there's a philosophy, a strategy, a mentality when you bring in a winning culture."
Pecora noted that there are now many more Division I teams than when the tournament went to its current format in 1985, so the percentage of teams going is smaller. "It's time to expand; they're talking about expanding to 96 teams, he said. "If you were to chart that back three years, there would be a number of New York teams probably playing."
Although Pecora was undoubtedly the most talkative on the topic of the drought, we'll give the last word to Rohrssen, since he seemed to be the most emotional about getting the metro area back to the N.C.A.A. tournament.
"I am a New Yorker," he said. "No one wants to do this more than me."
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Zesa Holdings has said it will have to raise electricity tariffs by six percent to cater for salary arrears amounting to $117 million arising from a gazetted 2012 collective bargaining agreement which management ignored.
The power utility conceded bungling by not honouring the collective bargaining, but is arguing that abiding by the award will result in the payroll shooting by $5,6 million per month, a figure that can only be raised through increasing tariffs.
The arbitrary award, which would have a heavy bearing on electricity consumers, was granted by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ahmed Ebrahim and Professor Emmanuel Magade.
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Zesa head of finance Mr Eliab Chikwenhere said the firm was in a "parlous financial situation" and its liabilities exceeded the assets.
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Responding to the ruling yesterday, a Zesa senior executive said any compliance with the award meant an increase in tariffs.
He said the firm was prepared to part with only $21 million to avoid increasing tariffs and burdening consumers.
"The demands by the workers are unrealistic, but we have come up with a concessionary figure which reflects what the business can pay," said the senior executive.
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Added the senior executive from Zesa: "Implementing the award will require a six percent tariff increase to meet the $5,6 million additional figure per month of the current payroll. This will burden the already overburdened consumer as well as impacting negatively on service delivery."
The collective bargaining agreement provided for Zesa to effect a minimum increment of $275 and 12 percent grade differentials, 2,5 percent step (notch) differentials, non-pensionable allowance (30 percent of basic salary), $70 transport allowance and $23 canteen allowance (grade 1 to D2) with effect from January 2012.
In their ruling, Justice Ebrahim and Professor Magade said the power utility should honour the collective bargaining agreement and conduct a re-grading exercise.
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Which reminds me, I have a post for how ridiculously Whitlow has us trained. Dammit we're suckers for stupid furry animals the lot of us.


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If you're anywhere near the New Orleans metro area, you probably heard about Give NOLA Day yesterday and the website crash that prevented some donors from giving! Apparently people were being just too generous for the website that runs Give NOLA Day's donations, along with 53 other community giving days. Although frustrating, it's great news that so many people are supporting their local non-profits.
First of all, a huge thanks to everyone who was able to donate to the Southern Food & Beverage Museum through the Give NOLA Day website yesterday! Your support is so essential to the museum and our mission, and we are deeply grateful for your generosity.
If you did have trouble giving yesterday, thank you again for taking the time to do so! The Greater New Orleans Foundation is working on the best way to move forward, but in the meantime, you can still support the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and our programs through the Give NOLA Day platform. Here's a pledge form you can fill out to pledge your support and have your donation count for SoFAB's Give NOLA Day donations (so we can be eligible for Lagniappe Funds!). Please send these to kelsey@southernfood.org by Thursday, May 5 for your pledge to count! You can also email kelsey@southernfood.org with your name, email, pledge amount, and phone number so we may send this directly to the GiveNOLA team.
Did you donate yesterday but you're not sure if it went through? Contact givenola@gnof.org directly to ask! If you did donate, please rest assured that the technological issues surrounding Kimbia's issues in no way compromised any credit card information. Please let us know if you have any other questions, and check on the Give NOLA Day website for the most up-to-date information.
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum is a special organization. As one of the only non-corporate food museums in the country (let alone the world) we've given ourselves a fun, always challenging, sometimes crazy mission. How do you even begin to narrow down the history and culture behind food, especially making enough sense out of it to display to visitors? That's why our job is to not only showcase foods, culinary traditions, and products is not a typical museum experience. We want to engage our visitors, make them share their favorite food memories and must-haves in each state. We also want to make food, to share techniques and stories of eating, and to sip a cocktail.
Your support helps us develop new exhibits and programs, allows our staff to focus on creating wonderful experiences for our patrons, and helps all of our projects come to fruition. As a division of the National Food & Beverage Foundation, SoFAB is a part of a greater effort to understand our identity and culture through food and drink. Take a look around our website to see all of the projects that your donation supports.


The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) has organized and been invited for many training camps with other countries mostly in Asia and Europe in the recent years. Among the important ones were the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Malaysia and Korea in 2014 and Malaysia and Indonesia in 2015 respectively.
This year, BAM has once again taken the initiative to invite the Korean team to join the training camp in Malaysia. Back in 2014, the national juniors enjoyed a training stint in Korea while Malaysia played host last year in Kuala Lumpur. Adding to that, the invitation has also been extended to Indonesia as it will be a joint training camp between the three countries.
BAM's technical director, Morten Frost felt that it was a good idea to organize such camps.
"Although we have had the Korean team joining us before, inviting the Indonesian team was first time since the signing of the MoU with Indonesia Badminton Association (PBSI) in March 2015. Hence, we decided to get the ball rolling as Malaysia will be the first among the three countries to organize it for this year", said Morten who will also be visiting the training camp at Alor Setar.
Through this MoU, the national juniors have experienced various training programs and also gained more knowledge as they are given the opportunity to train under foreign coaches.
The training camp will be held from 20 – 29 April at KBA Hall in Alor Setar, Kedah. In order to maximize the effort between all parties and our juniors, BAM has decided to send its potential twelve juniors players.


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Зиляхово (, Димос Неас Зихнис) е дем в област Централна Македония на Република Гърция. Демът обхваща 20 села и един манастир в историко-географската област Зъхна в Източна Македония. Център на дема е едноименното село Зиляхово.

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Дем Зиляхово е създаден на 1 януари 2011 година след обединение на две стари административни единици – демите Алистрат и Зиляхово по закона Каликратис.

Демова единица Алистрат

Според преброяването от 2001 година дем Алистрат (Δήμος Αλιστράτης) има население от 4121 души. В дема влизат следните демови секции и населени места:

 Демова секция Алистрат (2764)
 село Алистрат (на гръцки Αλιστράτη, Алистрати)
 Алистратски манастир "Света Неделя" (на гръцки Ιερά Μονή Αγίας Κυριακής)

 Демова секция Гара Ангиста
 Гара Ангиста (на гръцки Σταθμός Αγγίστης, Статмос Ангистис)

 Демова секция Грачен
 село Грачен (Грачани, на гръцки Αγιοχώρι, Агиохори)

 Демова секция Драчево
 Гара Драчево (на гръцки Σταθμός Λευκοθέας, Статмос Левкотеас)

 Демова секция Мандилево
 село Мандилево (Мандилово, на гръцки Μανδήλι, Мандили)

 Демова секция Скрижово
 село Скрижово (Скрижево, на гръцки Σκοπιά, Скопия)

Демова единица Зиляхово

Според преброяването от 2001 година дем Зиляхово има население от 10 952 души. В дема влизат следните демови секции и населени места:

 Демова секция Зиляхово
 село Зиляхово (или Зеляхово, на гръцки Νέα Ζίχνη, Неа Зихни)

 Демова секция Анастасия
 село Анастасия (понякога Анасташа, Αναστασία)

 Демова секция Здравик
 село Здравик (Δραβήσκος, Дравискос)

 Демова секция Доксамбос
 село Доксамбос (или Доксомбос, Μύρκινος, Миркинос)

 Демова секция Каратопрак
 село Каратопрак (Μαυρόλοφος, Мавролофос)

 Демова секция Клепушна
 село Клепушна (Αγριανή, Агряни)

 Демова секция Кочак
 село Кочак (или Кочан, Μυρρίνη, Мирини)

 Демова секция Порна
 село Порна (Γάζωρος, Газорос)

 Демова секция Рахово
 село Рахово (Μεσορράχη, Месорахи)

 Демова секция Сфелинос
 село Сфелинос (Σφελινός)

 Демова секция Толос
 село Толос (Θολός)

 Демова секция Хорвища
 село Хорвища (или Хорвище, Хоравище, Оравище, на гръцки Άγιος Χριστόφορος, Агиос Христофорос)

 Демова секция Чанос
 село Чанос (Νέα Πέτρα, Неа Петра)

 Демова секция Чепелджа
 село Чепелджа (или Чепелдже, Δήμητρα, Димитра)

Бележки


Frosty - This image of Frosty the Arabian is one of the very few photos which I have altered. It was a bright sunny day which muddied up the colors but I liked the way Frosty looked. I saved the photo by raising the brightness level all the way up, therefore washing the color out. The final results looks like a pencil drawing, but it is indeed a photo. Photographed in Warren County, MO with my Canon Rebel.


So after gaming last night, i start noticing this weird recurring noise in my desktop.
It sounds like a fan starting up, lasts a second, then dissapears, only to start again a few seconds later.
I used EVGA prescision to ramp up the SLi cards i installed a little to see if it was one of them, but i still heard it.
Well it' probably is a fan. Maybe your PSU? IF not maybe your CD rom is spinning up for some reason. You got a disk in it?
I checked for discs when it first happened, and sadly, no discs are in the drives.
All the fans are visably spinning .... is there anything i should watch/notice/look for to try to see if something is going wrong?
what psu do you have?? i have a zalman that randomly does that when i game!
Hmmmm ... maybe that's it?
I have a coolermaster 850 .... and i first noticed it after gaming for a couple of hours.
I turned it off today (usually runs 24/7) and I've yet to hear it so far .... :?
Give all your heatsink's a good dig out with the paint brush that slaveofconvention mentioned earlier. But get a screenie of your temps first, then see how much they have improved after the dusting, you'll be amazed!!
It's most likely a fan, perhaps a ball bearing has come loose which is known to make a loud vibrating noise when spinning fast enough.
thats a link to what it sound like, if thats what your hearing then its a fans ball bearing issue. if not, it could be your hard dist drive failing, or our optical drive checking itself maybe.
Well, I'm PRETTY SURE it's the fan on the back of the case that blows out above the video cards.
I have a Thermaltake Armor + MX, VH8000 case, and i feel the fan change vibration when i hear the noise.


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Sinking too soon? The Mexican Peso parity...
In the past 10 years the Peso-Dollar exchange rate variance, under a free flotation policy, has been steady from a 9 to 11 Pesos per Dollar. The former strong Peso stability was grounded on private capital inflows flooding the Mexican financial markets, and the existence of a very moderate macroeconomics management.
On September 14, 2008 the retail parity was $10.54 Pesos per Dollar; just before the beginning of the US financial crisis. However, Black October quickly moved the rate to $13 and by the end of 2008 the retail parity broke through the psychological barrier of $14. Despite months of intervention of the Mexican Central Bank to defend the scruffy Peso, in the first week of March 2009 the exchange rate hit a historic low of $15.55 to the Dollar.
Nowadays, the weakening of the Peso has become a constant as Mexico slides to recession with a predicted contraction close to 2 percent in 2009 GDP. The Mexican government failed on the original estimation of a relatively low impact from the crisis. The infrastructure investment initiatives, a strong domestic market and the job-protection measures taken since the beginning of 2009 were not sufficient to keep the serenity in the markets. The loss of confidence was translated into the currency.
The Mexican Central Bank intervention strategy
With the aim to safeguard the battered Peso, during the second week of October 2008 the Central Bank made "extraordinary" Dollar auctions in the domestic financial markets; adding together almost 10 billion Dollars. As a result, on October 8, 2008 the bank´s Parity Commission created a rule to intervene the market, with daily auctions of 400 million Dollars, whenever the Peso slip in more than 2% off the interbank parity reported on the previous day. This decision is grounded in the "sufficient" Mexican International Reserves (over 80 billion Dollars) intended to be used by the government in order to inject liquidity to the domestic market.
Furthermore, the Central Bank stepped into de marketplace on February 4, 2009 by buying Pesos in the financial markets when the parity hit a record low of $14.70 to the Dollar. This initiative was performed beyond of the auctions system established since October last year. The government officials mentioned that the market response to the auctions was not sufficient, and that more aggressive actions were needed to ease the Peso volatility.
The Central Bank purchases of Pesos were repeated on the following days (February 5, 6, 20, 23 & 27); for the first time in more than a decade, analysts focused their attention on the reflect that these decisions were going to have in the weekly account statements from the Central Bank; particularly in the level of the Mexican International Reserves.
The first week of March 2009 the Peso plunged to new lows at $15.55 to the Dollar. Earlier that week the Finance Minister, Agustin Carstens, stated that the Peso was undervalued. The Mexican Peso slumped as much as 47 percent in the last six months. Then, the Mexican government made the decision to shore up the Peso in a bid to rein in inflation. Since several goods traded in the domestic market were imported and paid in US Dollars, a weaker Peso was fueling the inflation (more or less 7%).
The Mexican Central Bank intervention strategy remastered
On March 5, 2009 the Central Bank announced the modification of the existent policy for intervention to the exchange market. The aim is to revisit the Peso to a more unbiased parity.
From March 9, 2009 three decisions will be in ruling:
1.- A new auction´s system will be implemented to offer, on a daily basis, 100 million Dollars to the market.
2.- The rule to intervene the market, with daily auctions of 400 million Dollars, whenever the Peso slip in more than 2% off the interbank parity reported on the previous day will continue but the auction´s amount is lowered to 300 million Dollars
3.- The "extraordinary" purchases of Pesos will remain possible when dealing with speculative attacks to the exchange market.
The arguments expressed by the Central Bank to shore up this strategy are based on the positive estimations made regarding the Mexican Balance of Payments for 2009 and 2010. With this perspective, the projected expansion of the Mexican International Reserves in 2009 (22 billion Dollars) will be used to gradually stimulate the Mexican Peso parity to the US Dollar.
Light on the horizon
Finally, it is important to mention that the current depreciated Peso is influencing in a positive way the export growth, the attraction of foreign investment for manufacturing in Mexico, and the acceleration in the transfer of multinational inter-company projects to Mexico.


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There are many restaurants and bistros in Montelimar - you could stroll along the Boulevard 'des allees' where the tables spill out onto the pavement one after another. But we like to sit outside at Le 45eme bistro and watch the goings-on in the newly landscaped Espace Saint Martin. For the best moules and a lively atmosphere, go to Cafe de la Bourse on Boulevard Meynot. Or, for a quieter atmosphere but to sample a superb steak, head to Le Grillon, just further along the road. La Petite France at the end of lane off rue Raymond Daujat is a bijoux place, hard to find among the narrow streets, but worth the effort. For a classic Croque Monsieur, sit with a beer at La Taverne, soaking up the atmosphere of the market square in the heart of the town.
La Table de Lea, in Villeneuve de Berg is one of our firm favourites - absolutely worth the 30 minute drive into the Ardeche. You won't be rushed - in true French tradition, the table is yours for the evening, and you won't want to leave. Book early to get one of the tables outside, then relax and enjoy. Another short drive from the house, in the village of Saint Marcel les Sauzet, you'll find another delightful outdoor dining experience at Le Prieure. Just south of Montelimar, special visit Le Domaine du Colombier for a very special meal.


"MY LITTLE TOWN" is a juried photography exhibition about Washington, DC. We are all familiar with the iconic images of Washington, DC. But what does our city mean to you? Show us the neighborhoods. Send us pics of your favorite haunts. Show us how you have made the big city "your town."
There will be an Artomatic in the DMV this year... stay tuned and I will tell you where soon... meanwhile, if you want to participate, sign up and stay in tune with Artomatic here.
Spain's Civil Guard has arrested three people in the cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona for trying to sell fake Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse drawings, El País reports. They have been charged with crimes against intellectual property and fraud.
It is the culmination of Operación Mirones (Operation Voyeurs), launched in July 2014 to put an end to an art forgery ring. The investigation kicked off during a routine check at the border control in Lleida, when the Civil Guard stopped an Andorran resident carrying a series of Miró drawings and their certificates of authenticity. The agents, suspicious, asked experts to analyze the works, which were confirmed to be fake.


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Mairead Ronan reveals reason she's leaving Today FM after almost 20 years
Liam De Brun
Ireland's Fittest Family presenter Mairead Ronan has revealed why she is leaving Today FM after almost 20 years with the broadcaster and said she'll 'bawl' on the day.
The mother-of-thee is presenting her final show for the station this Friday, December 10.
Speaking to RSVP Magazine, Mairead gave an insight to why she's decided to step away from her lunchtime show.
Mairead Ryan is leaving Today Fm after nearly two decades. Pic: Brian McEvoy
'I have have to say they were extremely surprised, but they were also extremely kind about it.
'I gave them the option and said, "I don't want to leave anyone stuck so I'm happy to see out the next couple of months." They asked me to stay until the end of the year which I was very happy with.
'Even though I've made this decision and I know it was the right choice to make, I will still bawl my eyes out on my last day! I've worked at Today FM for half of my life. It's been such an amazing place to work for such a long time. Very few people get to experience that so I know how lucky I have been,' she said.
The 41-year-old will continue to present Ireland's Fittest Family. Pic: Brian McEvoy
The guilt of not spending enough time with her husband Louis, teenage son Dara and young daughters Eliza and Bonnie 'has been constant' in Mairead's life over the years.
She explained: 'I don't want to go out with Louis on the weekends when I've been away from the kids all week, it seems unfair so we never do it. Whereas now I'll be like, "No no, they've had me all week long, let's go!"'
Despite her impending exist from the station, Mairead hans't ruled out a return to Today FM.
Mairead looks forward to spending more time with her husband and children. Pic: Brian McEvoy
'I wouldn't be surprised if I turn up on Today FM again – I could cover someone's holidays and I would totally enjoy that,' she said.
The 41-year old realised what was important in her life during the pandemic as she looks forward to spending more time at home.
'My career was such a focus of mine and now I've realised that home is actually the most important thing.
Mairead Ronan hosts one of Ireland's biggest shows. Pic: RTÉ
'Before I say yes to something I triple check my schedule and then decide, yes I can make that work, or no, taking that job means I'm going to miss the kids bedtime three times that week so I'm not going to do it.' she said.
The former Dancing with the Stars winner added: 'Before, I would have missed four or five out of seven nights because that's just the way my week would have gone, but I won't do that anymore. It's also about putting myself first.
'I've tied myself up in knots with work before and I look back on those situations and think what or who is that for? The most important people in my life are in my home.'
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Votes Magically Appear for Liberal Ex-Comedian
Hans Bader • 11/08/2008
In Minnesota, votes are appearing, seemingly out of thin air, for the liberal Senate candidate (and onetime comedian) Al Franken. Attorney Scott Johnson says that "the election appears to be in the process of being stolen."
Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman led in election-day results, but his lead keeps shrinking and shrinking, and is now down to an infinitesmal 200 votes out of more than 2 million votes cast.
For example, a bunch of new votes suddenly appeared in Minnesota's Mountain Iron precinct. But as Attorney John Hinderaker notes, "Mountain Iron uses optical scanning, so the Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the tape documenting the ballots cast on election night. St. Louis County responded by providing a tape that includes the newly-added 100 votes, and is dated November 2–the Sunday before the election. St. Louis County reportedly denies being able to produce the genuine tape from election night, even though Minnesota law, as I understand it, requires that tape to be signed by the election judges and publicly displayed."
(As John Lott notes, it's doubtful that the new votes are valid, but previously overlooked, ballots. If they were, one would expect the vote totals for other candidates, not just Franken, to rise as well. But even as new votes for Franken suddenly appear, other vote totals remain almost the same. Franken is getting nearly 3 times as many "newly-discovered" votes as Obama, for example.)
Minnesota's Secretary of State, who oversees the election process, was backed by the left-wing groups MoveOn.Org and ACORN. (ACORN has a long history of voter fraud and financial fraud).
The Powerline blog features continued coverage of the shenanigans in Minnesota, such as this update).
In Virginia, Tom Perriello unseated Congressman Virgil Goode by a margin of less than 600 votes. Thousands of college students' votes resulted in the outcome. Many out-of-state college students chose to vote in Virginia rather than their home state this year, despite the fact that some of them were registered to vote elsewhere, and had received absentee ballots from their home state. Thus, vote fraud may have affected the outcome in Virginia's 5th Congressional District.
I used to handle voting rights cases an attorney. So this is especially disturbing to me.
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Houston drivers have a lot to worry about when they are on the roads; from runaway spools and lose cargo on freeways to questionably-designed roads that feel like crash courses.
Another worry that many Houston drivers share? Speed traps.
It is crucial for police to monitor speeding drivers to try and keep roads safer. But, it's well-known among readers and drivers that there are strategically placed speed traps all over the city.
Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket for going less than five miles over the limit? Some of our readers share your pain.
The Chronicle asked readers to share where they see the most speed traps in their neighborhoods and compiled a list of their agreed-upon responses. Houston drivers should be weary of these areas and think about letting up off the gas at these roads and intersections.
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As part of the Conference of Creative Parties ArtCOP21, COAL and the Gaité lyrique invite you every afternoon, from 1 to 11 December, to a face to face with an international artist recognised for their commitment to climate challenges.
17h - Face to face with George Steinmann, artist (CH).
Moderated by journalist Lydia Ben Yitzhak.
George Steinmann was born in 1950 in Bern. He made graphic design, painting, music and African-American history in Basel and San Francisco. His work focused on the relationship between art, science and policy, questions the role of the artist in the context of major international policy conferences. Invited by the curator collective ARTPORT_making waves (New York - Paris) in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland,George Steinmann will explore this issue on the occasion of COP21, where it will act as the first artistic observer. More generally, the aim is to expand the scientific and political debate on climate change from an aesthetic perception and an artistic point of view.


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Firefox 3.5 takes you back to a time before browser add-ons
Anthony Ha	 June 30, 2009 11:31 AM
There's been a lot of activity in the web browser market during the year since Mozilla released Firefox 3 — we've seen the release of Safari 4 and Internet Exporer 8, and Google has entered the competition with Chrome. Now Mozilla has a new release of its own, Firefox 3.5, with a bunch of new features. The most noticeable changes? One, it's much faster. But two, it's missing some key add-ons, which is like a big (if temporary) step back in time.
As someone who does most of his work in Firefox, my biggest complaint has been the occasional slowness and instability, which seemed to increase over the last few months. Mozilla says that using the Sunspider Javascript test, Firefox 3.5 is twice as fast as Firefox 3, and 10 times as fast as Firefox 2. I haven't given Firefox 3 a thorough test, but in the hour I've been using it, I haven't had to sit and watch my MacBook's spinning color wheel (indicating that I need to wait as a page loads), and that's a welcome change.
Then again, I can't make an apples-to-apples comparison, because none of my browser add-ons (namely, programs I downloaded to enhance Firefox) are working yet. The fact that many of my biggest loading programs occurred on pages that used Google Gears (which gives me offline access to applications like Gmail and Google Docs) probably contributes to the new feeling that my browsing is going really smoothly. Which is nice, except the availability of add-ons, particularly Gears, was one of the main reasons I switched to Firefox.
In his review of the new browser, Technologizer's Harry McCracken says, "Not all Add-Ons will be compatible with Firefox 3.5 out of the gate, but most major ones already work." I don't use enough add-ons to verify that, but I have asked Firefox and Google for comment.
Here are some of Firefox 3.5's other features:
Available in 70 different languages.
Private browsing mode, where none of the websites you visit or cookies you collect will be saved.
In the same vein, you can also tell Firefox to forget that you visited a specific site.
Viewing video and audio in the browser without downloading additional software like Flash or Quicktime, also making it easier to interact with video in web applications.
Location-aware browsing, so that websites can give you information that's specifically relevant to your geographic location.
Tear-off tags, allowing you to create a new window from a tab when one window is getting too crowded.
You may recall that Mozilla set the record for downloads in a single day when it released Firefox 3. There are no plans to repeat that stunt for Firefox 3.5, Mozilla says, because that might "melt the Internet."
Update: Mozilla's add-ons director, Mike Nguyen, emailed me to say that Google had a version of Gears ready that was compatible with Firefox 3.5, but it was delayed due to some "last-minute bugs." There should be a new version out next week, he said.
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University Of Phoenix To Stop Stripping Students Of Their Right To Sue School
By Chris Morran 5.19.16
A recent study found that student enrollment agreements at virtually all of the nation's biggest for-profit colleges have forced arbitration clauses that strip students of their rights to file a lawsuit against the school, and in most cases bar students from joining their similar or identical disputes together. Under pressure from lawmakers and consumer advocates who questioned how these schools could continue to take billions in federal aid while trying to avoid accountability in the courtroom, the nation's biggest for-profit educator has decided to stop using the controversial arbitration clauses. [More]
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Whistleblower Lawsuit Claims University Of Phoenix Defrauded The Federal Government
By Ashlee Kieler 3.9.16
You can now add the University of Phoenix and its parent company, Apollo Education Group, to the list of for-profit educators who find themselves on the defendant end of a whistleblower lawsuit. A former Phoenix employee is accusing the company of submitting false student aid information in order to receive federal funding it was not entitled to. [More]
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Struggling University Of Phoenix Parent Company To Go Private
By Chris Morran 2.8.16
Between its sinking stock price, sagging enrollment, and the hot spotlight of federal investigations, the nation's largest for-profit education chain has decided to go private. [More]
Where Are The Records?
Judge Orders University Of Phoenix Parent Company To Turn Over Documents To Feds
Just because the University of Phoenix may be able to once again recruit on military bases and enroll new students using the military tuition assistance program doesn't mean the for-profit college behemoth's problems are behind it. Instead, a court ruled last week that the school's parent company, Apollo Education Group, must provide records requested by federal investigators nearly six months ago. [More]
Look For A Change
University Of Phoenix May Be Up For Sale
Increased government scrutiny and falling enrollment at the University of Phoenix may be too much for Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the for-profit college mega chain. The company is reportedly exploring its options on what to do with the school, including a sale. [More]
Chairman Of University Of Phoenix Parent Company Dumps Millions Of Dollars In Stocks
By Ashlee Kieler 11.2.15
Just a week after University of Phoenix's parent company Apollo Education Group attempted to tone down the role the troubled for-profit college has played in the company's falling stock prices and public image, new regulatory filings show the corporation's own chairman may not have the same faith in the organization, as he dumped nearly $10 million in company stock. [More]
University Of Phoenix Parent Company Tries To Explain Sinking Stock Price
By Ashlee Kieler 10.23.15
For the second time this year, University of Phoenix's parent company Apollo Education Group attempted to tone down the role the troubled for-profit college has played in the company's falling stock prices and public image during a phone call with investors. [More]
University Of Phoenix Barred From Military Bases, Using New Tuition Assistance Funds
By Chris Morran 10.9.15
For-profit college chains like the University of Phoenix spend a lot of time and money recruiting active-duty military personnel. But the school has come under fire in recent months for allegedly crossing some legal lines in its efforts to attract students from the armed forces. Yesterday, Phoenix's parent company revealed that the school is currently barred from recruiting on U.S. military installations, and that Department of Defense tuition assitance funds can not be used to pay for classes for new students. [More]
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University Of Phoenix Stops New Enrollment At 14 Campuses, 10 Learning Centers
The country's largest for-profit college chain is about to get a bit smaller, as a new report reveals that The University of Phoenix is no longer accepting new enrollments at two dozen campuses and learning centers across the country. [More]
Looking Into it
University Of Phoenix Faces Probe Into Military Recruiting Practices
A little more than a week after federal regulators set their sights on the University of Phoenix for possible deceptive and unfair business practices, the California Attorney General's office is joining the investigation party by opening a probe into the for-profit college's military recruitment practices. [More]
Regulators Investigating University Of Phoenix's Business Practices
Apollo Education Group, owners of the country's largest for-profit college – University of Phoenix – is the latest target for federal regulators set on reining in the for-profit education industry for engaging in allegedly deceptive marketing practices. [More]


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What it takes to be a modern CFO
By David McCann at CFO.com on April 1, 2019
Most CFOs likely would agree that the job has only gotten tougher in recent years. While that's a subjective viewpoint, a new analysis may offer some objective evidence for the statement.
Using publicly available information, KPMG studied the backgrounds and experience of the CFOs at 100 technology and communications companies globally, as well as the immediately prior finance chiefs at the 75 companies for which such information was available.
The chosen sectors are "currently at the front of digital disruption, where continuous change, constant adaptation, and rapid innovation has become part of everyday life," KPMG wrote. It added that the sectors "offer very relevant learnings for other industries that have yet to feel the full force of digitization."
Here are some notable differences between the current and former CFOs, all of which speak to companies' wish to have more broadly experienced executives in the role:
79% of the sitting finance chiefs were external hires, compared with 58% of the prior ones.
40% of the existing CFOs had "strategy experience" prior to taking the job, against 24% of the former ones.
36% of the new-generation finance chiefs had prior operating experience, where the same was true for just 20% of the ex-CFOs.
The proportion of today's CFOs with MBA degrees is 55%, 11 points higher than their predecessors.
The premium placed on operating experience may be particularly relevant to a current CFO's success.
KPMG defined "outperforming" finance chiefs as those who satisfied both of two criteria: (1) their company outperformed the NASDAQ composite index during the CFO's tenure; (2) the CFO either remained in the role for at least five years or moved up to a new, higher-level role.
While the overall outperformance rate was 41% for the entire dataset, it was 50% for finance chiefs with prior operating experience.
KPMG advised aspiring CFOs to "consider a lateral move outside the finance function to build strategic and operational experience prior to pursuing a CFO role." The firm further recommended that they "be willing to look outside of their company, and even their sector, to accelerate their career path."
Additionally, KPMG offered several questions that CFOs should be able to answer in order to position themselves for success:
1. Have you prioritized the key technology or market trends that will have the biggest impact on your company's P&L in the next 36 months?
2. Are you actively involved up-front in strategy formulation efforts driven by your CEO, COO, or chief strategy officer?
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Leap Day Love: The Proposal
March 2, 2020 Featured, Fun, People & Things
The Irish tradition on Leap Day is for a woman to propose to her man, they even made a movie about it called "Leap Year." That was something we were hoping to catch on camera. It's why we partnered with Ridgedale Center and ran a contest called "Leap Day Love." We found out there were a lot of viewers ready to pop the question on television. But one caught our eye. Cheryl and Terry have been together for 13-years and Cheryl told us she was ready to take a big leap. So we sent Twin Cities Live reporter Kelli Hanson to help her pull it off on Saturday night.
Our Leap Day Love winners, not only won a lifetime of love, they also won big from partners at Ridgedale Center. Redstone Grill gifted the couple $400. TUMI gave them $300 to spend on great travel gear. Tommy Bahama at Ridgedale Center gifted the couple $300 and Helzberg Diamonds gave them $4,000 to spend on rings!


An effective and engaged nonprofit Board of Directors (BOD) can help take an organization to a visionary level. Ensuring it is well-managed and intentionally structured is key.
Get Your Board On-Board – No Passengers Please!
Which comes first – Vision or Mission?
Which comes first – Vision or Mission? In our view vision (clearly defined strategic direction) should always come first. If you don't know where you are going (big goal, looking to the future) how do you know what you need to do to get there (mission)?


I used a XL2 using 24p 2:3 - 16:9 to shoot a short, the final editing process must be transfered again to miniDv in 29.97 fps with the same aspect ratio and brodcast quality.
So the question is: The project must be Dv 24p NTSC?, if this is right i think i'm missing where do I specify the final output for the 30fps.
when shooting 24p 2:3, you usually edit in a 60i timeline, not a 24p timeline. this will allow you to transfer back to tape at 29.97 fps. When editing true 24fps, you want to shoot with the 2:3:3:2 pulldown and edit in a 24p timeline (just in case you wanted to know), then you are able to make a 24p dvd.
Thanks Wes, then I have to work in a 60i timeline, do I have to capture the footage again?, i will try it anyway.
I'm not sure, because im still working with ppro 1.5, and there were a lot of 24p issues changed around in the new version premiere pro 2. I have a feeling you might have to re-capture, but mabye someone else knows other.
A late answer but for people who'd like to know, no, you don't need to recapture, just create a new 60i project and import the AVI files into it. The capture does not change a thing to the footage. It is captured into standard 60i MS DV files regardless of shooting format. The timeline then dictates how it is treated (that and the 24fps flags added by the camera).


Sterling Partners is a private equity firm who decided to couple their business philosophy of "inspired growth" to their work environment by relocating their headquarters from the northern suburbs to downtown Chicago. The new office, located on the 33rd floor of one of the city's most prominent downtown high-rises, offers 360-degree views of Chicago's most desirable features: the lake, the river, the Loop and the Gold Coast. Brininstool + Lynch worked closely with the client to define a sense of place that would help reinforce the company's business philosophy in both appearance and operations.


Rebekah Westover Photography: This girl rocks!
Kate Benson is one of my favorite people in the world. She has helped me SO much with all things photography, and has become a great friend in the process. We talk on the phone at least once a week and love to get together just to chill and have fun. She has such an awesome family! Her girls are two of the funniest, sweetest, and most beautiful girls I know. And they are hands down the best dressed little girls I've ever seen too. Not just in pictures. ALL THE TIME. Kate loves to dress her girls in the cutest clothes:) And I love that she brings me GARBAGE bags full of her kids clothes for Violet to wear once her girls are done with them.