We are a community of believers dedicated, in word and deed, to loving the each other and the people of the Shoals with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our vision is to build disciples of Jesus Christ from particular people who will be energized by the gospel to go to other people groups and impact the Shoals area socially, economically, and culturally.
We don't want life in our church to be motion without meaning. Our resources (our money and manpower) are too scarce and too precious to waste on action without vision or on programs without a purpose.
So what is our purpose? Why do we exist? What is our goal or mission?
We cannot do any of this on our own. God is the only one who can change a heart or a life. Only God can make a disciple or grow in his or her relationship . However, God uses his people (the church, the hands and feet of Jesus) to accomplish these things (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).
We cannot take all the responsibility for this mission on ourselves. We can only lead people to where they can enter into a relationship with Jesus but they must take responsibility for entering into that relationship with him (2 Corinthians 5:10).
God made each of us with different personalities, temperaments, experiences, gifts and abilities. These unique things about us are not an accident. We have been made this way by God for the benefit of others and God's kingdom. We have been made just the way we are because we were made for a specific ministry (Ephesians 2:10).
We want to see people who are profoundly impacted and never the same as a result of entering into a relationship with Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17).
We want to see people continuing to grow in their relationship with Jesus, enjoying good times of fellowship with him and enduring hard times with his help in a way that draws them closer to him (2 Corinthians 4:16).
Reformed – This speaks to our doctrine: We believe that God is sovereign over every area of life. There are no maverick molecules. Every person and every event is part of God's providential rule and plan for all of creation.
Connected – This speaks to our governing principles: We have voluntarily made ourselves accountable to other churches. We work in cooperation with other churches to reach people with the love of God.
Gospel-driven – This speaks to our emphasis: We believe humans are more sinful than they even realize, but in Christ, we are more loved and accepted than we ever dared dream. We believe that humans sin against God by failing in our obedience to God and by relying on our obedience and good morals to earn God's favor.
Reformed Theology – All of our officers adopt the Westminster Confession of Faith & Catechisms, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Bible.
Have a Personal Ministry, which means to serve others well and tell them about what God has done in your own life.
We are devoted to spending time with one another and helping each other do life. We admit we are broken and messed up, but that Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection give us hope and power of transformation. We seek to be a place of healing by providing a place to be honest about our struggles and encourage each other to turn to Jesus when we need help.
We welcome everyone into our community and are willing to talk about all issues in our culture with an eye on what the Bible says.
We are committed to equipping our members for service in the church, community, and world, by helping them discover the wonderful way God has designed them individually. We believe God gives each one of us a personality, temperament, talents, skills and spiritual gifts for the purpose of spreading his love and grace and bringing glory to himself.
We are a church plant and feel called of God to plant other churches throughout the region of Northwest Alabama.
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If there's one thing you need to know before you go to Dublin, it's that you're not Irish. This was one of the first things that my Irish friends taught me during my time abroad. It doesn't matter what your last name is or how you celebrate St. Patrick's Day or which county your great-great-great grandparents came from. None of these things make you Irish. I hate to break it to you, but if you were born and/or raised on American soil, you are American. Irish American, yes, but American nonetheless.
It's not to say that there's anything wrong with being American. For the most part, the Irish like Americans just fine. They like our president. They like making fun of Jersey Shore. They like our fascination with their country. They do not, however, like obnoxious American tourists. To truly immerse yourself in Irish culture and make the most of your trip, you need to let go of your tourist tendencies.
Turn down the volume. Americans are notoriously loud and obnoxious. Nine times out of ten, the voice you hear above the rest on the streets of Dublin is an American one. (The other times it's someone who's drunk. This, too, is often an American.) Blend in by simply lowering your voice. To really have some fun and impress your Irish friends, try picking up some slang. Wear a raincoat when it's lashing out, take a nap when you're knackered after sightseeing and always ask for a lift home rather than a ride. Use Irish slang well and you're likely to get some laughs and a cry of Good on ya!
Ditch the brand names. Although clothing stores such as Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister are becoming increasingly popular in Ireland, these clothes aren't really appropriate if you're older than college age. The classic North Face jacket paired with Ugg boots, ubiquitous on Notre Dame's campus, is unheard of in Ireland—go for a faux-leather jacket and brown or black boots instead. The one brand name you can feel free to embrace is Converse—Chuck Taylor All Stars are far better for blending in than white Nike or Adidas running shoes.
Close the tour book. I know Fodor's, Frommer's and Rick Steves are the three best friends that anybody could have, but keep your nose out of the guidebooks at least while you're in public. The best way to get to know Dublin is to wander it on your own, so don't be afraid to explore and get a little lost. Don't just cross big tourist destinations such as the Guinness Storehouse and Kilmainham Gaol off your checklist. Leave yourself some free time to try to get to the heart of the city, rather than dealing only with its touristy exterior.
Take a breather. Find some peace and quiet on an afternoon stroll through Saint Stephen's Green or take a nap in Phoenix Park. Buy a three-euro meal deal lunch at the Tesco on Lower Baggot Street and have a picnic lunch in Merrion Square. Take the DART in one direction to Howth and marvel at the gorgeous views from atop Howth Head, or take it in the other direction to Dun Laoghaire (pronounced "Dun Leery") and stroll down the beach to Sandycove and the James Joyce Tower and Museum.
Save some for later. Come to Ireland with the assumption that you'll be back again. There is no way you can see all that the city or country has to offer in a few short days, and if you try you'll be setting yourself up for exhaustion and disappointment. Pick a couple of priority destinations to visit each day but don't get worked up if everything doesn't go as planned. Be like the Irish and go with the flow. And once you get home, start saving up for your return to the Emerald Isle.


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Roon: everything you need to know
By Dan Sung 06 November 2020
A Roon server delivers music management and orchestration
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What is Roon? It's not the easiest music service to explain. The fact that Roon Labs has its own, dedicated Roon Knowledge website is testament to that. The shortest way to describe Roon is that it's a multi-device, multi-room music platform.
It manages your music library, cleans up your files and directs the flow of music to your motley crew of hi-fi kit. A walled garden of hardware this is not. Roon aims to be a well organised, carefully considered and implemented, democratisation of multi-room.
Roon's goals are also supreme usability and super high-quality sound. The interface is designed to be richer than anything else out there and it claims "bit-perfect playback of lossy and lossless file formats, including high resolution audio content (PCM and DSD)".
High ideals indeed but, like all good things, Roon doesn't come cheap. So, if you want to know exactly what the Roon music server is before you sign up, read on to find the big questions answered below.
What is Roon?
Roon is a connecting, streaming and music management software which brings multi-room smarts to your hi-fi equipment. It is the brains which tells your music what to do and where to do it - the policeman directing the traffic.
Roon is not a music streaming service in its own right. It does not offer you access to any music service to which you're not already signed up. Instead, it takes control of your internet radio, your music streaming services and your own personal music files, and sends them to audio output devices as controlled on a series of computer, smartphone and tablet apps. It joins the disparate dots of your listening ecosystem.
To do that, there are several key parts to Roon's structure - the Roon Core, the Roon app and the audio devices. Let's look at those individually.
What is a Roon Core?
Every Roon set-up requires a Roon Core. It's the conductor of your music streaming orchestra. It centralises the Roon application, which is responsible for all the thinking that your system needs to do. That way, you don't need to go updating all your bits and pieces of hi-fi every time Roon is fixed or upgraded.
Naturally, your Roon Core needs to be something with decent computational chops and, in most set-ups, its likely to be a Mac or Windows PC. It could also be a NAS drive or a dedicated music server (such as Roon's own Roon Nucleus) which is pre-installed or installable with the Roon Core server software. You can find a list of Roon partner products on the Roon website.
Wherever it sits, the Roon Core will manage the music from all of your digital sources: Tidal, Qobuz, NAS drives, HDDs, USBs, iTunes and live radio. It builds an interconnected digital library, with cleaned up, enhanced, up-to-date metadata, which is then tucked up into one, tidy interface with all the rich content that Roon can muster.
Those extras include photos, bios, reviews, lyrics, and concert dates, and makes connections between artists, composers, performers, conductors, and producers. The idea is to create a more searchable, magazine-type feel to your music.
As well as organising your collection, your Roon Core is responsible for music playback too, and its aim is to take as much of the heavy lifting away from your playback devices as possible. It does all the audio stream conversion and volume levels the output. It controls your play queue, your output devices and the multi-room zoning as well. It also handles all the software updates.
Keeping all of those computational processes in one place means that the audio circuitry of your hi-fi equipment can be freer of noisy chips and components which may otherwise harm the quality of music playback. It also means that your hi-fi kit won't become out-dated.
AirPlay for audiophiles
Roon Advanced Audio Transport (RAAT) is the technology that allows this all to work in a centralised way. Roon describes it as "AirPlay for audiophiles". It allows the Roon Core to do everything apart from act as your remote control or the audio output device itself. Consequently, it promises fewer drop outs, lower latency and streams of up to 32-bit/768kHz PCM and DSD512.
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What is the Roon Remote?
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This one's easy. Roon Remote is the name of the Roon app on most app stores. It is a software remote control for your Roon service. It's not the core, it's not your library. It's simply the way you access what you've got and the way you ask your Roon Core to play music on your devices.
There are Roon Remote apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac OS to use on smartphones, tablets and computers. They're all created with a single code base to make sure that the experience is uniform.
You browse and play music with Roon apps. You can install and use as many as you like. All the data is kept synchronized in real-time and Roon claims that there's no lag and no stale data.
Audio devices: which devices are Roon Ready?
"Audio devices" are the part of the system that make the noise. These might be networked speakers, a music streamer, headphone amps, USB DACS or even a laptop.
Look out for Roon Ready certification on your playback devices. These are the guaranteed Roon integrated bits of kit which have Roon's hi-res streaming RAAT technology inside. Roon will discover these without a problem and automatically deliver the highest possible audio quality to them.
You'll find networked Roon Ready output devices from the likes of Ayre, Bluesound, B&W, Cambridge Audio, Chord, dCS, Devialet, Elac, JBL, KEF, Korg, Linn, Mark Levinson, Meridian, Moon, NAD, Naim, Onyko, Oppo, Pioneer, Pro-Ject, TEAC and more. Take a look at the full Roon Ready list for more details.
Audio devices: what is 'Roon Tested'?
'Roon Tested' is a second tier of hardware partner program used by Roon. They're not guaranteed for the highest levels of audio quality but all Roon Tested devices have been checked and profiled by Roon to make sure that the software is configured to help these endpoints work at their very best.
The idea is to give users the confidence that Roon Tested kit will slot into their system easily and work properly. Roon Tested devices include those made by Audioquest, Denon, Marantz, McIntosh and many more. Take a look at the full Roon Tested list for more details.
Fortunately, that's not quite the end of it for Roon audio devices. There are one or two more commonplace audio and streaming devices and standards which still work with Roon.
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Does Roon work with AirPlay devices?
Roon will support most AirPlay devices, whether Apple-made or third party, and you should see them picked up by the Roon Core on your apps. Go the Audio tab on your Roon Remote and you'll find a list of all available AirPlay endpoints. If your AirPlay device is sleeping, Roon may miss is. Wake it and try again, if needs be.
The maximum resolution for AirPlay is a 'CD quality' 16bit/44.1kHz, though. So, Roon will downgrade any audio streams to fit with playback at that level.
Does Roon support Sonos?
Interestingly, it does! Sonos kit is fully supported by Roon. The maximum quality audio Sonos hardware can receive is CD-quality, 48kHz/16bit but, as with AirPlay, the Roon Core will downsample higher bitrate streams automatically to fit.
Roon also supports Chromecast
Anything that you can plug a Google Chromecast dongle into can also become part of your Roon system because, yes, Roon fully supports Chromecast with music streams up to 24bit/96kHz.
That works for Chromecast (gens 1 &2), Chromecast Audio, Chromecast Ultra, Google Home, Google Home Mini and Google Home Max. In fact, most devices with Chromecast built-in should also be detectable by your Roon Core. Head to 'Settings' and then 'Audio' on the Roon Remote to enable your Chromecast device.
You'll get streams of up to 96kHz/24-bit using Chromecast Audio. Other Chromecast devices will support sample frequencies of up to 48kHz. Any video-supporting Chromecast devices will also work as a display for Roon to show album artwork, artist photos, and track information, as well as the audio, with what's known as Roon Display.
Voice control and zone grouping will also work depending on your Chromecast devices.
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What audio quality can Roon stream?
We covered this above but just in case you're skim reading (as if?), Roon Ready devices can receive streams of up to 32-bit/768kHz PCM and DSD512.
Not all networked audio outputs can handle those bitrates, though, so a Roon Core automatically converts the audio streams to the optimal resolution for those other devices.
For details on the bitrates when using AirPlay devices, Sonos and Chromecast, see the relevant sections above.
Does Roon support MQA?
Roon and MQA are firm friends and that's very good news if you've got a Tidal subscription but your music streamer doesn't play nice with file unfolding.
Take Naim, for example – great streamers but no MQA support. In a Roon set-up, though, it's not the music streamer that decodes the files. It's the Roon Core. So, you can use your Roon Core to decode your Tidal Masters stream, unpack the MQA audio and then send it over to your Naim as a playback format which it can cope with.
The way it works is that the Roon Core decodes the MQA file into a MQA Core stream. That then produces a PCM stream at 88.2kHz or 96kHz which is passed on to your output device. That stream also happens to include further MQA information. So, if your player has an MQA-compatible DAC inside it, then it can do further unfolding of that stream to unlock more levels of MQA's audio potential.
What is MQA? Take a look at our guide to learn more about it.
How much is Roon?
'Not cheap' is the easy answer but the engineers at Roon Labs would doubtless beg to differ. There's a lot of work that goes into usability, functionality, look, feel and everything else, and the upshot is that Roon currently costs $120/year for the standard membership. That includes full Roon functionality for one Roon Core to manage your music library and unlimited remote devices.
The other option is to bet the house and go big. If you love Roon and think it's here to stay for more than six years, then $700 brings a lifetime Roon membership.
The best news? Head over to the Roon website and you can have a 14-day free trial.
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kdbur 27 February 2020 16:10
It is an outrageous price!
Roon are very greedy.
WhiteKnight2020 27 February 2020 19:45
So, let's compare this to jriver media centre.
Bit perfect audio, check
Streams to any dlna renderer, check
Can use many dlna controllers, check
Can stream over the internet to your phone, check
Handles video & audio, check
Costs about £30 for a perpetual licence, check.
Roon, £600, thanks but no thanks.
Jimboo 27 February 2020 19:54
Let's compare it to your average dude.
IKEA kallax check.
Hi- Fi check
Graig 14 July 2020 08:55
I'd like to comment on the idea that Roon is good for people with large libraries:
The iOS and android Roon Remote apps have no way to quickly scroll through albums. There is no "alphabet slider" on the side like basically every other music app has.
So, if you like to browse by album and have 500+ albums in your library, you will be swiping 30-40 times to get through your library from A-Z.
Lots of people have complained to Roon about this for over a year, but they've done nothing to address the problem other than suggest typing in the name of the album you want to hear, which isn't the same as "browsing". I have 1000+ albums ripped from CD and can't remember the titles of all of them. So i like to flip through and browse to find a forgotten album once in awhile. Tedious and painful on Roon.
Roon is great as an automatic jukebox app and as a Tidal controller, but I've gotta say, for people with big collections that they like flipping through and browsing, it's just badly designed for the purpose. I was excited to switch from Plex to Roon, but after 6 months, I've switched back specifically because of this.
Also, I'll mention here that things seem to break frequently on Roon. An update a couple months ago kills functionality on QNAP devices, for example, and they have a non-employee community member working on the fix instead of doing it themselves (!)
Previously, playback on most Android devices stuttered like crazy and had random, loud static pops and cracks that could damage your hearing. It took a couple months for that problem to get fixed, too.
MidwestAudioMan 02 September 2020 21:12
As a Roon owner (I bought a lifetime license), here in the USA, I must be missing something. From my viewpoint Roon is a great value with a combination of features that is not easily available anywhere else.
1. Seamlessly integrates music files I own on a hard drive with TIDAL and Qobuz, including MQA through TIDAL. It all looks like one library regardless of the source of the music. With a TIDAL or Qobuz subscription, I have access to more music than I could ever possibly listen to.
2. Outputs to any device with exceptional functionality with Roon testing hardware to ensure it works and certifying devices as Roon Ready if they have the required capabilities to integrate with Roon. Roon ready devices can sync audio throughout a home. You can have music playing throughout a house in near perfect sync as if they are hard wired together. You can move your music from one listening room to another so your playlist follows you where ever you go in your home. You can have different music playing throughout the hosue so each family member can listen to whatever they want. This all works super smooth and easy.
3. The operational paradigm is simple and efficient. You set up one core. This is the brains of your system and is always accessible within your home using wifi. Next, any computer, tablet, or smartphone acts as a remote giving access to all your music in a visually pleasing and intuitive interface that allows various people to have their own profiles and playlists. This is all accessed through your wifi. Last, your audio devices, wheather they are a smart speaker, a receiver with a Google Audio/Home puck attached, or a wifi enabled device like an Oppo UDP 205 or a NAD C368 DAC amplifier. You select the zone or device you wish to play music to using your remotes and you don't even need to be in the same room to start music playing somewhere else in your house. All of this just works.
4. Integration of external data. Concert dates, lyrics, summary information about the artist and albums is all pulled in from the Internet by Roon and integrated into the display. Do you like Jessie Ware's new album, What's Your Pleasure? I pull that up and see she is performing thee times in April 2021 in Glasgow, Newcastle, and Leeds. She was born in London in 1984 and earned a degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex. I can click on the credits which lists everyone involved in this album and can click on the names to see what other albums or projects each person has been involved with. I have gone down so many rabbit holes this way and found a ton of new good music by clicking on these links. Each track will list how many other versions of that same song are out there. I can click on that link and then listen to all the other performances of that song. Just another rabbit hole.
Last, I dispute there are issues with this software. I've been using Roon for over a year. Once in a great while there is a hiccup which more often than not is not a Roon issue. If TIDAL or Qobuz's servers are down you can't play that music. But I've found Roon to be rock solid.
In case you're wondering, I do not work for Roon or have any financial interest in Roon. If I have one beef with Roon, is they seem to be too busy to update the main page of their website. But that is really reaching for a straw to complain about. Roon is the one single purchase that has changed the way I listen to music and the level of enjoyment I get from my music. Nothing in my music system has impacted me more. Given what it has done for me. I believe it to be a solid value and is unequaled in the marketplace.
Jimboo 02 September 2020 21:57
It's a lot of money just to link stored bits of downloaded files and to give you info that is found on a typical Spotify package , seriously , given the size of the average house why do you need to hear it from speakers in every room? What are you doing playing an album while moving from the lounge into the kitchen taking a dump and then lying on your bed for five minutes.
If tidal or qobuz has an issue it brings down everything. You download an app on your phone and tablet and gee it acts as a remote anyway. I don't need pretty pictures on a screen to gain musical enjoyment. There is a massive head in the sand failure by hi fi buffs to understand that apps give you pretty much everything roon gives you including info on dates , other albums and associated artists. It flatters to deceive. It's Tidal and quboz that give you the opportunity to explore music , roon has sold you a product that isn't really needed. It will be a niche product in five years time.
When you have a party at your house, and my house is fairly big, it is nice to have the same party music playing everywhere.
When I finish up work in my office, I go to the kitchen to make dinner and move my playlist over there, and a Mahler Symphony takes some time to listen to. Taking that dump without a pause is nice. I'm sure Mahler does not mind!
I guess you make a case for why record album covers should be plain white with just the name of the band and album on it. Black ariel font only.
Read Roon's facebook page. Seems like the entire audio industry is getting on board. AURALiC, Arcam, and Trinnov Audio have just recently release new Roon Read products. I think Roon will be the Apple carplay to the audio industry. Why should a manufacturer have to develop their own system when they can use a good standard. Although NAD has gone out on their own and developed BluOS. Seems some manufactures find it important enough to go through the trouble to develop a similar solution on their own.
Did I mention it sounds truley awesome?
I can see the party angle but it's not a roon only concept , there are a myriad of ways of having your music played in such a manner. For me personally the covers and info displayed via a screen are not something I would want as my sole reference point. I still prefer the actual physical media and the ritual of actually playing them.
Again , manafactuaring companies don't have to develop their own system. You are missing the point that they only have to allow an app to play via WiFi , common,simple and cheap. Roon is at heart a simplistic picture book for stored music. With Tidal say it offers access to music without storage and gives you the info roon seems to think is a novel concept.
Streaming will and is already making ripping,storing and organising redundant. You just need a phone or tablet. As I said you get roon to show you tour dates and the artists discography etc. It's already on the app. Ripping ,storing and management systems are overkill. It's on the app. Roon is just audiophile clickbait. To the average consumer it is an unnecessary over engineered idea that gives your man on the street little extra to warrant adding to his monthly streaming bill. Why pay extra for something that is 95% covered by what you already get from a monthly subscription service ?
Trondi 01 December 2020 10:30
It sounds as though Roon has pinched all the best bits of Spotify and Sonos app.
Stunning room integration (syncing etc), 'radio' post-listening suggestions, searching across NAS and ALL streaming services (non missing!), excellent cd SQ from Qobuz and Tidal
The only elephant in the room is hires.
But, Sonos mesh reliability is second to none. This is not unimportant as any user will agree.
But you pays your money ........
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Above normal snowpack in some of last winter's driest regions
Precipitation in recent months chips away at California drought, but the water deficit will be hard to overcome.
Paige Blankenbuehler Feb. 2, 2016
At the beginning of February last year, South Lake Tahoe in California was nearly 60 degrees Fahrenheit, almost 20 degrees above its historic average. At that time, the drought had been dragging along for four years and chair lifts at nearby ski resorts were swaying over barren slopes. Representatives from the California Department of Water Resources called the Sierra Nevada snowpack "dismally meager," at only 23 percent of normal.
Now, it's a drastically different story. January has been California's best month for snowpack since 2011, and the state's measurements are at 127 percent of normal. Although California's snowpack is above normal this year, it's still not enough to make up the deficit from the persisting drought in the state. It is enough, though, to keep ski resorts running and reservoirs in the state from drying up.
Above normal snowpack measurements are tracking for most of the West, too. The season was off to a slow start with sporadic storms October through December, but January winter precipitation increased measurements across all states, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service's SNOTEL sites, which measure snow depth at thousands of stations nation-wide. Utah claimed the biggest increase from early season snowpack, from 84 percent to 118 percent snowpack readings on February 1. Over the past month, California snowpack increased from 90 to 127 percent, and Arizona jumped from 83 percent to 113 percent of normal.
Only two Western states, Montana and Wyoming, are below the historic benchmark for "normal" at this time of year — and not by much. North-central Wyoming and the eastern slope of the Northern Rockies in Montana are the low-snow areas. Both states are more than 80 percent of normal for this time of year, and February is a crucial month for snow. Snowpack typically builds until April, says Alan Haynes, a hydrologist for the California Nevada River Forecast Center.
But even states with snowpack measurements lagging behind, readings from early in the season have improved. Since December, snow depth in Montana has hobbled to 84 percent of normal — from 73 percent in early December. And Wyoming similarly increased to 84 percent, from about 75.
Measurements from SNOTEL sites across the West, which have been recording precipitation and snow depth this season since Oct. 1, 2015, are painting a reverse picture of last year. Areas that were far below average last year — the Tahoe Basin in California and the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest — are recording the highest precipitation in the West so far this season.
The most precipitation has fallen in Washington and Oregon. In terms of percent of normal snowpack, Nevada has been leading the region with nearly 140 percent of normal readings across the state, according to data compiled by NRCS.
In California, local forecasters say the past few months are finally chipping away at the state's five-year drought. The deficit will be hard to overcome, Haynes says, but if this season continues, the state might avoid fallowing fields. California gets 30 percent of its total water supply from snowpack, and reservoirs that have been low are now slowly filling up. Shasta Reservoir, one of the largest storage systems in the state is currently more than 50 percent full, or about 75 percent of the historical average for this time. "If we get shut out for the rest of the winter, the outlook could be bleak," Haynes says.
Winter recreation in California is also benefitting from the abundant snow. The Hagens Meadow SNOTEL site near South Lake Tahoe is reporting 53 inches of snow depth, or 158 percent of normal, and Ostrander Lake site, in south Yosemite National Park, has had 220 inches of snow.
Although the surplus of snow in the West is a positive sign for drought-stricken areas, it has been a dangerous season for backcountry recreators. Fifteen people have died in avalanches this season, and 12 of those deaths occurred in January alone. Ten of those fatalities, astoundingly, occurred in just an eight-day period spanning six Western states: Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and Alaska. January was the third deadliest month recorded since 2001, according to Karl Birkeland, director of the National Avalanche Center.
This January has been the third most deadly month for avalanches since 2001. Among the 15 deaths this season, 12 happened last month. Current advisories show heightened avalanche danger across the West following an early February winter storm. Credit: National Avalanche Center.
Sporadic storms from October through December created a weak foundation in snowpack across the region. The clear spells between storms allowed "depth hoar," a sugary and large-grained snow, to develop, and large storms in December and January added dense layers on top of the fragile base. "That set the stage of the cluster of avalanche deaths in January," Birkeland says.
While El Niño may be creating a more robust winter storm pattern, it's difficult to attribute all of the heavy snow to the global weather phenomenon. "This year has been a really strong El Niño, but we're seeing snowfall patterns that are somewhat unusual for this weather event," Haynes says. The Northwest, which would typically be fairly dry, is wet. And precipitation in south-central California hasn't lived up to early El Niño predictions for that part of the state. The U.S. Drought Monitor remains cautiously optimistic about recovery. According to the center's January 28 report, "the trend is going in the right direction for now with a good chunk of the snow season still left to play out over the next two months."
Paige Blankenbuehler is an editorial fellow at High Country News. She tweets @paigeblank
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Domonic Bedggood (Gold Coast (Australia), 18 de septiembre de 1994) es un clavadista o saltador de trampolín australiano especializado en plataforma de 10 metros, donde consiguió ser medallista de bronce mundial en 2015 en los saltos sincronizados mixtos.

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En el Campeonato Mundial de Natación de 2015 celebrado en Kazán (Rusia) ganó la medalla de bronce en los saltos sincronizados mixtos desde la plataforma de 10 metros, con una puntuación de 308 puntos, tras los chinos (oro con 350 puntos) y los canadienses (plata con 309 puntos), siendo su compañera de saltos Melissa Wu.

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The New Chinese Documentary
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In the introduction to her earlier, 2003 book, Documentary China: The New Documentary Movement in Contemporary China, Lu Xinyu described the movement, dated to the late 1980s, as "a new way of looking at the world from the grass-roots up; a way of clearly understanding what drives different classes to survive and what feelings they have. They see history as 'wide open' and 'clear,' promising that everyone has the possibility to be recorded in history. They create history."
Films in the activist movement have ruffled officialdom's feathers by examining, interpreting, and intervening in social, political, and historical issues in the nation. Contributors to a new book, The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record, edited by Chris Berry, Lu Xinyu, & Lisa Rofel (Hong Kong University Press; distributed in the US by University of Washington Press), relate the history and character of the new works. They explain that documentary films are becoming the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture as filmmakers open up new spaces of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization.
Topics in the volume include the representation of Beijing; gay, lesbian and queer documentary; sound in documentary; the exhibition context in China; authorial intervention and subjectivity; and the distinctive "on the spot" aesthetics of contemporary Chinese documentary.
The book, which is available in hardback, paperback, and e-book versions, features a 'who's who' of scholars and filmmakers who address key issues of identity, realism, spectatorship and counter-publics.
Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel describe the challenges and rewards of searching out Chinese independent documentaries
Chris had been studying the making of films in China for a number of years and Lisa had been conducting anthropological research on the transition away from socialism in China. The two of them began to notice that documentary films in China were becoming a new site for social critique. Meanwhile, Lu Xinyu had put out a seminal text in Chinese on this movement, Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement in China (Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company). We all decided to team up to produce this book.
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record originated in a grant that we (Lisa Rofel and Chris Berry) received from the University of California's Pacific Rim Research Program from 2003 to 2004. It enabled us to travel to China, and meet and interview documentarians and the owners and managers of the venues in which independent documentaries are shown in Beijing.
The book focuses on independent documentaries. The first Chinese independent documentary appeared around 1990. By definition, in the Chinese context, an "independent" film or video is one that has not been submitted to the authorities for censorship. Without being passed by the authorities, independent documentaries cannot be commercially distributed and exhibited. Furthermore, in terms of government-run archives, it means they do not exist and are not collected. The independent quality of the documentaries is a major part of what makes them interesting. However, it also creates particular circumstances and particular difficulties.
The informal quality of independent film and video culture in China means that systematic information about the films is absent. There are no statistics on the numbers of independent documentaries produced in China, for example. Along with the independent films themselves, a number of independent screening events and venues have developed over the years. New documentaries get known by word of mouth – and blog – as a result of being shown at these sites. But going from hearing about the films to seeing them is not straightforward, because it is not possible to buy most of the documentaries as commercially distributed DVDs. On the other hand, the prevalence of informal distribution circuits in China helps to compensate for this, and in practice people who are interested in independent documentaries copy and swap DVDs actively to build up their collections. Our research would have been impossible without the generosity of numerous documentarians, who were kind enough to give us copies of their own works.
Scholars wishing to carry out research on independent documentaries in China must contend with the absence of any central state archive collection. However, awareness has been growing of the danger that some documentaries will disappear without trace unless someone collects them. Therefore, Wu Wenguang's Caochangdi Station has been informally building a collection and making it available to scholars to view, and Lu Xinyu has also been informally building up a collection at Fudan University in Shanghai. In the United States, the library of the University of California at San Diego has a large collection of independent Chinese films and videos of all kinds. And dGenerate Films has been making key documentaries available commercially in the United States.
Hu Jie's Though I Am Gone can be found in 10 parts on Youtube, starting here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rge49CEpwl8&feature=related
Five extracts from Wu Wenguang's Bumming in Beijing, widely acknowledged as the first independent documentary in China, can also be found on Youtube: 1 2 3 4 5
Chris Berry is a professor of film and television studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lu Xinyu is professor and director of the broadcasting and television department of the Journalism School at Fudan University in Shanghai. Lisa Rofel is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her many writings include Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement (Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003). Her research focuses on the relationship between visual culture, mass media, and social development in China. Her English essays include, "Ruins of the Future: Class and History in Wang Bing's Tiexi District" (New Left Review, Jan/Feb 2005), "Deconstruction, Justice of the 'Other,' and Enlightenment Spirit: Notes from Reading Derrida" (TELOS, Summer 2010), "Chinese Modernity, Media and Democracy: An Interview with Lu Xinyu by Yuezhi Zhao" (Global Media and Communication, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010).
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The call of worldbuilding has been strong this year. So naturally, one of the projects in my 'Development' folder is a middle grade fantasy series of five books.
The road to building a world is a long one. Or at least in my opinion, it should be long with many twists and turns. An entire planet with species and associated civilizations (culture, infrastructure, politics, history) doesn't just materialize when you sit down to write.
As I continue sketching out this world (literally) and the main characters (also literally) I'm unravelling layers of what it means to build a world. The series I'm developing now marks a dramatic departure from my magic realism roots. It's a plunge into the icy waters of fantasy, for the hard-to-engage middle grade reader. And like many writers before me, I know the devil is in the details.
So with this in mind, I'm sharing my top worldbuilding questions. These are my thoughts on what you should ask yourself before and during the creation phase. They seem basic, but you do need to spend some time mentally dwelling on these areas. Keep reading and you'll see they're often questions within questions.
1.) What does your world look like?
This can be fun, but it's also daunting. If you want your world to be relatable and interesting, you need to make sure your continents, mountains, beaches, lakes, cities, and forests all exist and behave in believable ways. If you depart from what we know of planetary geography, you'll need to back it up with theoretical physics.
2.) Who lives where on the planet and why?
Consider the climate of your world and which species would live in which areas. Do you have one dominant species adapted to different regions, with a myriad of predator and prey animals in a separate food chain? Or do multiple advanced species inhabit their areas of origin and/or comfort? For the latter, what kind of ecosystems do you develop?
3.) How old is your planet?
The age of your planet may not be as important to the story as the age of your civilization(s), but consider both questions as you build. Are any areas of the planet geologically volatile? How long have the inhabitants had to evolve and adapt?
4.) Does your fantasy planet have a connection to Earth?
Bringing humans and Earth into the context of a fantasy story can be a great way to orient your reader. Some writers may feel it's needlessly gratifying to insert 'us' into a story where 'we' don't belong. In my experience as a reader, I like to see how humanity (and by extension, me) fits into the fictional world I'm visiting. You can make your fantastic world matter to the reader in a more concrete way if you thread it somehow into our own past, present, or future.
5.) Do humans live on your planet?
Related to the question above, but a distinctly different point. From Earth's post-human future to distant planets in a galaxy far, far away, it may feel more authentic to create a world that has no contact with humanity, if for no reason other than to honour the fact that we don't yet know of life outside our own world.
6.) How many stories will take place in/on your world?
Once you've built a world, you may decide it's worth more than one story. You might want multiple plots simply because of the current digital market business case for developing a series rather than a stand alone title. Personally, I like to tell a story as it evolves naturally. Do you need three books to get your characters where they need to go? Or will it be more complex, stretching into five, ten, or more books?
7.) How much history do you need? How much culture?
My favourite fantasy worlds are places with their own richly detailed history, art, music, and politics. With the good also comes the bad. How many wars are in your civilization's past? How does recent and distant history impact the characters in your story and the world they inhabit?
8.) Are you incorporating surreal geographic phenomena?
While this is a fun and fascinating realm to explore, you'll need to do some research to create something your readers will understand well enough to visualize. Start with some real world phenomena and you'll be surprised how bizarre you can get.
9.) Where does your plot take your characters?
Keep in mind the specific locations or settings where your story takes place and develop those areas the most. If your planet has an uninhabited continent not relevant to your plot, don't worry to much about the nuances of the topography.
10.) Are symbolism and/or allegory at work in your story?
Personally, I don't have a problem with the planet itself or the people on it representing something other than their literal realities. However, I believe it takes advanced skill to pull off symbolism in a meaningful and rewarding way. More skill than I myself possess. So if you're going to tackle creating a country or a civilization that represents a larger human truth, tread carefully or risk missing the mark.


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আপডেট: July 22, 2021 6:41 pm
Upping its guard against the devastating Delta variant of Covid-19, the Bangladesh government on Thursday announced the resumption of the countrywide strict lockdown from July 23.
The restrictions are to come into force at 8am on July 23 and will continue till August 5 midnight, unless extended again.
State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, however, told UNB that this lockdown will be stricter than the one imposed last time. Police, the para-military Bangladesh Border Guard and the Army will keep a strict vigil on the roads.
"Offices, courts, garment factories and all other export-oriented industries, everything to be precise, will remain closed. Strict restrictions will remain as before," he said.
Despite industry bodies BGMEA and FBCCI urging the government to keep garment and related industries out of the purview of the Covid lockdown, the Minister said that no decision was taken this month. "We will take a call as per the situation," he added.
Asked if there were any plans to ease the lockdown for those who went home for Eid, he said, "No, those who went back to their home districts can't return to the city before August 5. We had made it clear earlier too."
On July 13, the government decided to ease the lockdown restrictions in the country for eight days due to Eid-ul-Azha. The lockdown restrictions were lifted a day later.


One of the problems with this line of reasoning ia that while my wife is very intelligent indeed, she is also completely natural. So any thing she does happens naturally. If I find a cake that she baked, I might consider it unusual, but not unnatural. Nothing about the cake would imply the intervention of God.


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Insight on the results of three different correlation analyses between satellite TIR anomalies and earthquake occurrence
Carolina Filizzola1, Roberto Colonna2, Alexander Eleftheriou2, Nicola Genzano2, Katsumi Hattori3, Mariano Lisi1, Nicola Pergola1, Filippos Vallianatos4, Valeria Satriano2, and Valerio Tramutoli2
Carolina Filizzola et al. Carolina Filizzola1, Roberto Colonna2, Alexander Eleftheriou2, Nicola Genzano2, Katsumi Hattori3, Mariano Lisi1, Nicola Pergola1, Filippos Vallianatos4, Valeria Satriano2, and Valerio Tramutoli2
1Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Council of Research, Tito Scalo (Potenza), Italy
2School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
3Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
4National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Sciences, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Geophysics–Geothermics, University Campus, Panepistmiopolis – Athens 157 84, Greece
In order to evaluate the potentiality of the parameter "RST-based satellite TIR anomalies" in relation with earthquake (M≥4) occurrence, in recent years we performed three long-term statistical correlation analyses on different seismically active areas, such as Greece (Eleftheriou et al., 2016), Italy (Genzano et al., 2020), and Japan (Genzano et al., 2021).
With this aim, by means of the RST (Robust Satellite Techniques; Tramutoli, 1998, 2007) approach we analysed ten-year time series of satellite images collected by the SEVIRI sensor (on board the MSG platforms) over Greece (2004-2013) and Italy (2004-2014), and by the JAMI and IMAGER sensors (on board the MTSAT satellites) over Japan (2005-2015). By applying empirical spatial-temporal rules, which are established also taking account of the physical models up to now proposed to explain seismic TIR anomaly appearances, the performed long -term correlation analyses put in relief that a non-casual relation exists between satellite TIR anomalies and the occurrence of earthquakes.
At the same time, in the carried out studies we introduced and validated refinements and improvements to the RST approach, which are able to minimize the proliferation of the false positives (i.e. TIR anomalies independent from the seismic sources, but due to other causes such as meteorological factors).
Here, we summarize the achieved results and discuss them from the perspective of a multi-parameter system, which could improve our present knowledge on the earthquake-related processes and increase our capacity to assess the seismic hazard in the medium-short term (months to days).
Eleftheriou, A., C. Filizzola, N. Genzano, T. Lacava, M. Lisi, R. Paciello, N. Pergola, F. Vallianatos, and V. Tramutoli (2016), Long-Term RST Analysis of Anomalous TIR Sequences in Relation with Earthquakes Occurred in Greece in the Period 2004–2013, Pure Appl. Geophys., 173(1), 285–303, doi:10.1007/s00024-015-1116-8.
Genzano, N., C. Filizzola, M. Lisi, N. Pergola, and V. Tramutoli (2020), Toward the development of a multi parametric system for a short-term assessment of the seismic hazard in Italy, Ann. Geophys, 63, 5, PA550, doi:10.4401/ag-8227.
Genzano, N., C. Filizzola, K. Hattori, N. Pergola, and V. Tramutoli (2021), Statistical correlation analysis between thermal infrared anomalies observed from MTSATs and large earthquakes occurred in Japan (2005 - 2015), Journal of Geophysics Research – Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2020JB020108 (accepted).
Tramutoli, V. (1998), Robust AVHRR Techniques (RAT) for Environmental Monitoring: theory and applications, in Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3496, edited by E. Zilioli, pp. 101–113, doi: 10.1117/12.332714
Tramutoli, V. (2007), Robust Satellite Techniques (RST) for Natural and Environmental Hazards Monitoring and Mitigation: Theory and Applications, in 2007 International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, pp. 1–6, IEEE. doi: 10.1109/MULTITEMP.2007.4293057
How to cite: Filizzola, C., Colonna, R., Eleftheriou, A., Genzano, N., Hattori, K., Lisi, M., Pergola, N., Vallianatos, F., Satriano, V., and Tramutoli, V.: Insight on the results of three different correlation analyses between satellite TIR anomalies and earthquake occurrence, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-12298, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-12298, 2021.
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LIsle  (en occitan Eila) est une rivière du sud-ouest de la France dans la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, et un affluent de la Dordogne.

Géographie

L'Isle prend sa source dans le Massif central, département de la Haute-Vienne à l'ouest du hameau de Rongeras (commune de Janailhac) en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, à  d'altitude ; son cours est estimé à  dont 87 navigables (actuellement en plusieurs sections). Elle rejoint la Dordogne à Libourne. Sa pente moyenne est de . L'ensemble du bassin appartient au climat océanique aquitain. Le mouvement de la marée se fait sentir jusqu'à l'écluse de Laubardemont près de Coutras, avec un retard d'environ cinq heures par rapport à l'océan. Laubardemont est à , ou  de la pointe de Grave par voie fluviale. Le flux remonte donc à Guîtres et Saint-Denis-de-Pile.

Départements et communes traversés
L'Isle traverse trois départements et soixante-cinq communes dont les principales sont, de l'amont vers l'aval :
 Haute-Vienne : La Meyze, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Le Chalard ;
 Dordogne : Jumilhac-le-Grand, Périgueux, Saint-Astier, Neuvic-sur-l'Isle, Mussidan, Montpon-Ménestérol ;
 Gironde : Coutras, Guîtres, Saint-Denis-de-Pile, Libourne.

Principaux affluents
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 le Crassat (ou ruisseau de Larticie) (rd)
 le ruisseau Noir ou ruisseau du Moulin de Busseix (rd)
 le Périgord (rd)
 la Valouse (rd)
 le Lavaud (ou Laveau) (rg)
 la Loue (rg)
 l'Auvézère (rg)
 le Manoire (rg)
 la Beauronne ou Beauronne de Chancelade (rd)
 le Cerf (rg)
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 le Salembre (ou ruisseau de Salembre) (rd)
 le Vern (rg)
 la Beauronne ou Beauronne de Saint-Vincent (rd)
 la Crempse (rg)
 le Grolet (ou ruisseau de Grolet) (rd)
 la Beauronne ou Beauronne des Lèches (rg)
 le Martarieux (ou Martrieux, ou Martrarieux) (rg)
 le Farganaud (ou ruisseau de Fayoulet) (rd)
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 la Duche (rd)
 le Galant (rg)
 le ruisseau de Courbarieu (rd)
 la Dronne (rd)
 le Lary (ou Larit, ou lAry) (rd)
 le ruisseau de Galostre (ou ruisseau du Galostre, ou ruisseau de Galaustre)  (rd)
 le Palais (ou ruisseau du Palais, ou ruisseau de Ratut) (rg)
 le ruisseau de Lavie (ou le Basque, ruisseau du Basque, Lavie, Lavié, ruisseau de Lavié, ruisseau de Levié, ou ruisseau de Lévié) (rg)
 la Saye (ou ruisseau de la Saye) (rd)
 la Barbanne (ou ruisseau de la Barbanne) (rg)
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Les quatre plus longs (> ) sont indiqués en gras.N.B. : (rd) = affluent rive droite ; (rg) = affluent rive gauche''' Hydrologie

L'Isle est une rivière assez irrégulière, à l'instar de ses voisines du bassin aquitain ou du sud-ouest de la France.

 L'Isle à Coutras
Son débit a été observé et reconstitué durant une période de 33 ans (1972-2004), à Coutras, ville du département de la Gironde située peu avant son confluent avec la Dordogne. La surface ainsi étudiée est de , soit 86 % du bassin versant de la rivière qui en fait  au total.

Le module de la rivière à Coutras est de .

L'Isle présente des fluctuations saisonnières de débit fort marquées, comme c'est généralement le cas dans le bassin de la Dordogne. Les hautes eaux se déroulent en hiver et se caractérisent par des débits mensuels moyens variant de , de décembre à avril inclus (avec un maximum assez net en janvier et février). Dès le mois de mai, le débit baisse rapidement jusqu'aux basses eaux d'été qui ont lieu de juillet à septembre inclus, entraînant une baisse du débit mensuel moyen jusqu'à  au mois d'août, ce qui reste confortable, il est vrai. Mais ces données mensuelles ne sont que des moyennes et cachent des fluctuations bien plus prononcées sur de courtes périodes ou selon les années.

 Étiage ou basses eaux
Aux étiages, le VCN3 peut chuter jusque , en cas de période quinquennale sèche, ce qui peut être qualifié d'assez sévère, le débit de la rivière tombant ainsi à 7 % de son débit moyen.

 Crues
Les crues peuvent être fort importantes, compte tenu en plus de la taille étendue du bassin versant. La série des QIX n'a pas été calculée, mais la série des QJX l'a été. Les QJX 2 et QJX 5 valent respectivement 400 et . Le QJX 10 est de , le QJX 20 de , tandis que le QJX 50 se monte à .

Le , la station hydrologique de Coutras a enregistré un débit maximal journalier de . En comparant cette valeur à l'échelle des QJX de la rivière, on constate que le niveau de cette crue était à peine d'ordre vicennal, et donc nullement exceptionnel.

 Lame d'eau et débit spécifique
L'Isle est une rivière relativement abondante. La lame d'eau écoulée dans son bassin versant est de  annuellement, ce qui est légèrement inférieur à la moyenne d'ensemble de la France (), ainsi qu'à la moyenne du bassin de la Garonne ( au Mas-d'Agenais). C'est cependant inférieur de plus de deux fois à la lame d'eau de la Dordogne en amont de son confluent avec l'Isle ( à Bergerac). Le débit spécifique (ou Qsp) atteint  de bassin.

 Risque inondation
Les communes et zones indiquées ci-dessous dans cette section sont présentées de l'amont vers l'aval.

Plusieurs plans de prévention du risque inondation (PPRI) concernant l'Isle ont été approuvés :
 en 2016 pour le tronçon amont de l'Isle, concernant , depuis Corgnac-sur-l'Isle jusqu'à Antonne-et-Trigonant ;
onze PPRI individuels autour de Périgueux depuis Bassillac (rive gauche) et Trélissac (rive droite) jusqu'à Saint-Astier :
 Bassillac en 2002 (commune nouvelle de Bassillac et Auberoche) ;
 les dix autres en 2000 :
 Trélissac ;
 Boulazac (commune nouvelle de Boulazac Isle Manoire) ;
 Périgueux ;
 Coulounieix-Chamiers ;
 Chancelade ;
 Marsac-sur-l'Isle ;
 Annesse-et-Beaulieu ;
 Razac-sur-l'Isle ;
 Montrem ;
 Saint-Astier ;

 en 2009 pour le tronçon de l'Isle dans le Mussidanais, concernant , depuis Saint-Léon-sur-l'Isle jusqu'à Beaupouyet (rive gauche) et Saint-Martin-l'Astier (rive droite) ;
 en 2007 pour le tronçon de l'Isle dans le Montponnais, concernant , depuis Saint-Martial-d'Artenset jusqu'à Moulin-neuf (rive gauche) et depuis Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes jusqu'au Pizou (rive droite).

De plus, en , le préfet de la région Midi-Pyrénées, responsable du bassin Adour-Garonne, a signé un arrêté concernant entre autres le territoire à risques importants d'inondation (TRI) de Périgueux reprenant les onze communes autour de Périgueux déjà concernées par un PPRI précédent, depuis Bassillac jusqu'à Saint-Astier, en y associant Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac.

 Navigation
En 1244, Hélie de Talleyrand, comte de Périgord, demande l'établissement d'un port à Vauclaire, sur l'actuelle commune de Montpon-Ménestérol. L'Isle doit donc être navigable à l'aval à cette date. En 1274 et 1305, les Rôles gascons notent la volonté du roi de rendre la rivière navigable. En 1507, un arrêt du parlement de Bordeaux prescrit l'ouverture de pas au droit des moulins. En 1669, une ordonnance royale rend la rivière navigable. Les travaux d'aménagement sont entrepris à partir de 1670.

François Ferry, ingénieur du roi, dirige les travaux d'aménagement de 42 passelis ou pas-de-roi qui sont  situés dans le lit de l'Isle entre Laubardemont, près de Coutras, et le pont des Barris à Périgueux pour rendre la rivière navigable. Les travaux sont terminés en 1696, mais n'ont pas été suffisants pour rendre la rivière navigable.

En 1765, un arrêt du conseil du roi ordonne la création d'écluses à sas. Le tronçon Coutras-Mussidan est terminé en 1780. Guillaume Delfau constate dans Précis statistique du département de la Dordogne rédigé en l'an XI que l'Isle n'est plus navigable. Les travaux reprennent en 1821.

L'Isle a été rendue navigable pendant la première moitié du  grâce à quarante écluses réparties sur  depuis Périgueux jusqu'au confluent à Libourne. Au besoin, ces écluses ont été placées parfois sur des dérivations en site propre. Dans ses écluses de , l'Isle recevait une batellerie semblable à celle de la Dordogne, à savoir majoritairement des coureaux portant jusqu'à cent tonnes.

À Périgueux, un canal est réalisé en rive droite de l'Isle, du port de la cité et le centre-ville, entre 1857 et 1860.

La rivière a été radiée de la nomenclature des voies navigables le . Elle fait actuellement l'objet d'un projet de réhabilitation pour le tourisme dirigé entre autres par le syndicat mixte interdépartemental de la vallée de l'Isle (SMIVI). Des balades en gabare sont possibles sur l'Isle, en particulier au lieu-dit Moulin du Duellas sur la commune de Saint-Martial-d'Artenset.

 Environnement
Le bassin supérieur de ce cours d'eau est notamment pollué par de l'arsenic.

La vallée de l'Isle, de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne, intègre le réseau européen Natura 2000 (proposé comme site d'importance communautaire - SIC) au titre de la directive Habitat, dont l'objectif est la conservation de la biodiversité en protégeant les habitats (il est en effet plus efficace de protéger un milieu que les seules espèces qu'il abrite). Les limites du site sont précisées par un arrêté du .

 Patrimoine

D'amont vers l'aval, on peut découvrir :
 Le Chalard : l'ancien cimetière des moines ; le pont de la Tour
 Jumilhac-le-Grand : le château ; l'église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens ; le pont de la Tour
 Sarliac-sur-l'Isle : le château de la Bonnetie
 Antonne-et-Trigonant : le château des Bories
 Périgueux : la cathédrale Saint-Front ; le pont des Barris ; l'église Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité ; la cité médiévale-Renaissance ; les arènes ; la tour de Vésone
 Saint-Astier : l'église fortifiée ; le château de Puyferrat
 Neuvic : le château et son parc botanique
 Douzillac : le château de Mauriac
 Sourzac : l'église romane
 Saint-Front-de-Pradoux : l'ancien presbytère
 Saint-Martin-l'Astier : l'église Saint-Martin ; le manoir de la Roche
 Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes : le château de Fournils
 Saint-Martial-d'Artenset : le moulin du Duellas
 Porchères : le moulin
 Abzac : le château
 Guîtres : l'abbatiale Notre-Dame-de-Guîtres
 Saint-Denis-de-Pile : l'église romane ; le pont suspendu
 Savignac-de-l'Isle : le château médiéval
 Saillans : le château de Carles
 Libourne : le port (tours et portes du ) ; l'ancien couvent des Cordeliers ; l'hôtel de ville

 Notes et références

 Annexes

 Bibliographie
 Scaevola-Charles Girard de Caudemberg, « Mémoire sur les causes des avaries successives aux ouvrages de la navigation de l'Isle en 1824, 1825 et particulièrement en 1826 », dans Annales des ponts et chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatifs à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur,  1835, , lire en ligne et planche CI, voir en ligne.
 F. Julien, « Historique de la rivière de l'Isle. Partie comprise entre Libourne et Périgueux », dans Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, 1878, tome 5,  (lire en ligne)
 Ferdinand Villepelet, « Un syndicat de navigation à Périgueux pour la rivière de l'Isle en 1520 », dans Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, 1910, tome 37,  (lire en ligne)

 Louis Grillon, « L'Isle, rivière navigable, d'après les archives communales de Périgueux », dans Mémoire de la Dordogne'', 1998, ,  (lire en ligne)

Articles connexes

 Liste des cours d'eau de la Dordogne
 Liste des cours d'eau de la Haute-Vienne
 Liste de rivières de France
 Débits des cours d'eau du bassin de la Dordogne
 Bassin versant de la Dordogne
 Liste des sites Natura 2000 de la Dordogne

Liens externes

 « Vallée de l'Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne », INPN, Natura 2000, .
 Dictionnaire des rivières et canaux dans le Projet babel : l'Isle et la Dronne.
 Esprit de Pays : La navigation sur l'Isle au temps des bateliers
 Patrimoine d'Aquitaine : Voie navigable sur l'Isle

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A debut novel that asks: Where did Santa Claus come from?
In the distant past, in what appears to be a mystical version of our own world—elves and gnomes exist, but so does Beethoven—an infant named Nicholas is orphaned when his parents die in an accident. He's found by Tom, a kindly old carpenter and toymaker, and Tom and his wife end up raising him. It soon becomes apparent that Nicholas is special; he can guess a person's favorite things and dearest wish. He soon expresses his own wish to be able to fly, so that he can see into the hearts of all the people in the world, and, presumably, reward the good ones. Every hero needs a villainous counterpart, and, in this case, it's the king's jealous brother, Zili, who steals from the villagers, murders magical creatures who live in the kingdom, and—in what Nicholas considers the worst crime of all—melts down children's toys to make weaponry. The novel hits all the beats of a good hero story, but in the end, it simply isn't engaging enough to sustain a tale of this length—especially when it telegraphs the ending in its title. The book doesn't appear to be aimed at children, who are the most likely to be interested in the storyline, but there's little about the novel that's decidedly adult, either. The authors don't lack creativity, dreaming up legions of supporting characters and fresh takes on magical creatures that are standbys in fantasy. On the other hand, the novel doesn't give a clear sense of its world's geography, struggles with punctuation and capitalization errors, and distractingly and consistently misspells Claus as "Clause" throughout the story.
An unevenly executed origin story of Jolly Old Saint Nick.
Sandra Jo Troupe and Darrell R Troupe, Sr.
Did you ever wonder who Santa Claus really was, where he came from, and how he came to possess magic, immortality, and that big, all-knowing heart? Sandra Jo Troupe and Darrell R Troupe Sr., coauthors of How Nicholas Became Santa Clause, offer an answer in this novel that imagines a fantastical realm.
In this book, readers enter a world where humans, wizards, dragons and "Oddlings"— human-like creatures such as trolls, elves and fairies — exist in a cosmic web of life, called the "Linking." Good and evil exist, yet until the dawning of young Nicholas's life, good has been in the forefront. But signs appear in the Kingdom of the Auroras that King Richard Dobromil's jealous second son is tipping the balance toward evil and will stop at nothing to obtain absolute power.
At the heart of the growing threat is a prophecy about a young man whose destiny it is to restore the balance. Nicholas, a simple farm boy, is forever marked by this prophecy and must grow into the hero who can restore balance to the Linking or lose it all. A risk-all love story interwoven with his fate adds to this tense, satisfying journey.
Two issues weigh down the storytelling here. The authors seem enamored with certain words—especially "glimpsed" and "simpered — which distract readers from the story. And descriptive scene-setting vignettes are often longwinded when fewer words and crisper detail would better propel the story forward.
Still, the Troupes have created an original, deeply appealing fantasy world that explains how Nicholas, a boy from two worlds—the ordinary and the magical—came into being as a deeper character in our psyches. It's such a magical tale that one wonders if a more riveting, magical title would serve the book better, such as The Linking, or Nicholas and the Kingdom of the Auroras.
BlueInk Heads Up: The depth of the mythic and magical realm that the Troupes have created here echoes the themes of non-fiction classics such as Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces and Tony van Renterghem's When Santa Was A Shaman.
How Nicholas Became Santa Clause has precious little to do with Santa and the holiday with which he is normally associated. This is not a Christmas story, and the Clause (with an "e" at the end of "Claus") of the title, magical toymaker that he turns out to be, is nothing like the big- bellied man in the red velvet suit.
Sandra Jo Troupe and Darrell R. Troupe have instead concocted a rather traditional fantasy adventure in which the person who is to someday become Santa is an orphan raised by Thomas Clause, a carpenter and master toymaker, in a pseudo-eighteenth-century northern European kingdom where fairies, talking polar bears, wizards, and dragons abound. Nicholas is especially attuned to "the linkage, the magic created by the energy connecting all things living." Like another young lad in a galaxy far, far away, he will eventually draw upon that force to battle the bad guy and save the princess.
The evil that drives the plot emanates from one "overly intense" and surly prince named Zili, who seeks to steal his older brother's throne. He and his plot take over the novel to the point that the authors seemingly forget Nicholas and make no mention of him for about 150-plus pages.
The Troupes write to a younger audience quite charmingly, although with numerous ifminor typographical errors. "Coup" for "coop," "patient's" for "patience," "Princess Anglican" for "Princess Angelica," and varying combinations of upper and lower case for "Royal Equestrian Guard" are but some of the book's trifling yet frequent mistakes.
This was an excellent book from beginning to end. The story is filled with adventure, mythical creatures and magic! I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a page turner. This is a must read!!


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When Were You First Allowed to Go to the Park Alone? Slate Wants to Know.
By Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin
Kids play outside without their parents.
Photo by nata-lunata/Shutterstock
Earlier this month, South Carolina mother Debra Harrell was arrested and had her 9-year-old daughter removed by social services. Her crime: Allowing the girl, who had a cellphone for emergencies, to spend her days at the park without an adult guardian. Many were outraged by Harrell's arrest. New York's Jonathan Chait called it a "convergence of helicopter parenting with America's primitive family policy." Bloomberg's Megan McArdle wondered, "What the heck are we doing arresting parents for things that were perfectly normal 30 years ago?"
In the comments to Jessica's Slate story about Harrell, many readers shared their stories about how much more permissive their upbringing was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. "When I was a kid I ran miles around my home all day. My parents had no idea where I was or what I was doing," was a typical sentiment. When Hanna wrote an article for the Atlantic about how American children are overprotected, there was a similar response: "as a 70s kid with my three sisters we ran around, out on bicycles and all the rest—we had to be back for supper—that was it."
Since the Harrell story seemed to hit a nerve, we want to hear from you in a more orderly fashion. We've set up a survey so that you can tell us when you were allowed to do things alone, such as walk to school, go to a playground, or use sharp tools. We also included questions for parents, about when they allow, or plan to allow their children to do those same things. We want to try to pinpoint when things changed, and who they changed for: Did kids who grew up less privileged or in rural spaces have more freedom than their wealthier and more urban counterparts? Does that difference persist today?
We'd love to have your input. Please take the survey by 8 p.m. ET Friday, and we'll publish the results in an upcoming story on Slate.


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Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 11 Episode 7 Recap: Larry Gets Political
Tracey Ullman guest stars in this week's episode, which finds Larry entering the political realm
Larry David learned a hard lesson about politics in this week's installment of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
The seventh episode of Season 11 begins at a political event for Santa Monica mayoral candidate Jimmy Mayhew, who's being introduced by Susie. But in the crowd, Larry and Richard Lewis are bickering. While originally slated to appear in six episodes this season, Lewis had to bow to recover from surgery, but was able to make an appearance for one episode. And boy we're glad he did. ("When are you gonna die?" Larry asks Richard in the episode. "Will you please die?").
The young actor who's been cast in Larry's new show as young Larry is in the crowd, so Larry taps the woman in front of him (played by the very funny Tracey Ullman) on the shoulder to ask her to get the man's attention. But she's annoyed at Larry's tapping, and they get into an altercation. "You mid-level celebrities, you think you're so smart with all your banter," she says. Susie spots the altercation from up front and is none too pleased.
At a reception after the speech, the man playing young Larry – named Asa (and played by Jon Rudnitsky) — gives Larry a pin to wear to stump for Mayhew. Larry, of course, is not a pin-wearing person, and you can probably guess where this is going given the running gag of Larry losing the star of his show in each episode this season thus far.
Larry catches up with Susie at the reception, who informs him the woman he tapped is named Irma Kostroski who's a powerful city councilwoman. Larry is intrigued, and a plan starts formulating in his mind.
At the readthrough for the pilot episode of Larry's show, Maria Sofia stuns with her horrible line readings, turning heads from those who were wowed by her audition tape (you know, the one in which she fought Cheryl and hurt Ted Danson). Keyla Monterroso Mejia continues to be a bright spot this season, and while this scene is her only appearance in Episode 7, here's hoping we get more of Maria Sofia ahead.
After the readthrough, Asa tells Larry he's unhappy with the coffee mug choices on the set, and indicates that he's taking the role of Young Larry perhaps a bit too seriously. "Please, call me Larry," he says to the real Larry David as he tells Larry he intends to go method for the role. Furthermore, he insists that coffee is very important to "his character" despite the fact that Larry says coffee didn't matter to him at all. When the prop master comes up to Larry afterwards to note his displeasure with the young actor, Larry says to cut him some slack because he heard he was sexually abused as a young performer.
At Jeff and Susie's house, Susie tries to convince Larry to canvas for Mayhew, which Larry declines. But when Larry learns the power of the city council, he takes an interest in Kostroski and decides to sit in on a city council meeting. Afterwards, he confronts and apologizes to Kostroski for tapping her and attempts to butter her up, and they leave each other cordially enough – but also abruptly, as she says she has a gas bubble that needs attending.
"It's almost like she was made in a lab by Dr. Frankenstein," Larry tells Leon when describing Kostroski. "He took the worst aspects of 10 different people and put them inside her."
Back on set, the prop master confronts Larry again and gives him the details of Asa's past trauma – as a 17-year-old he had a sexual encounter with "smokeshow" Italian actress Adriana Amante, and received a $400,000 settlement. Larry decides to confront Asa with this information. "Cut the shit. You were 17 years old. If a cactus touched your penis you would've been thrilled." Asa asks Larry how he'd feel if he were in high school and an older famous actress had sex with him. "They would've named the high school after me," Larry replies.
Larry calls up Irma, who invites him to canvas for Jimmy Mayhew with her. He agrees, but Larry gets carried away in the canvassing, making promises that Mayhew never did like "No child under 10 allowed in restrooms" and "He wants to get rid of the penny." On one of their stops, however, they happen upon a book club being attended by Cheryl and Susie. They call BS on his sudden desire to volunteer to canvas. "That's weird because you don't even like people," Cheryl says.
When Larry shows up to vote, he ends up in a really long line. One of the poll workers puts a pin on his shirt, against his wishes. He bumps into Asa, who says they need to get rid of the prop guy. They get into a fight, and Larry once again brings up Asa's sexual encounter. Larry grabs an 18-year-old young man in line, shows him a picture of the actress from Asa's encounter, and asks how he'd feel if she wanted to have sex with him. The young man says he'd love it. Frustrated, Asa walks away.
Back in line, Larry finds out the man in front of him intends to vote for Mayhew's opponent, so he proposes they both get out of line and not vote since they'll cancel each other out. The man agrees, and they both walk away. Larry throws his pin in the trash, but Asa witnesses everything from afar.
At the election results party, it's revealed that Mayhew lost the election by one vote. Everyone at the party is upset, and Asa blows up Larry's spot. "Larry David thought the line was too long." The crowd is outraged, becomes a literal mob and runs Larry out. Roll credits.
This episode was fairly solid if lighter on laughs than other episodes this season. Ullman is swell, but as evidenced by the trailer for next week's episode she'll be back, so there's an incomplete nature to Irma's arc and Larry's long game with her – and thus everything between the two feels like a joke without a punchline. Very good pin jokes, though.
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