Our Choice is a 2009 book written by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and published by Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

Originally titled The Path to Survival, it follows An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, a companion book to the 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth. All profits of the book (printed on 100% recycled paper) go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which Gore founded in 2006.

Reception
In September 2009, Nature Reports Climate Change called the book one of its "Must-reads for Copenhagen".  Reviewing the book for Nature Reports Climate Change, Joseph Romm described its content:

Whereas An Inconvenient Truth framed the crisis that climate negotiations are tackling, this followup spells out what needs to be done.  Based on 30 of Gore's 'Solutions Summits' as well as one-on-one discussions with leading experts across multiple disciplines, the book aims, in Gore's words, "to gather in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now".  Gore naturally focuses on energy, the source of most anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and discusses many underappreciated strategies such as concentrated solar thermal power and cogeneration.  He also devotes a full chapter to soil, a major carbon sink that is gradually degrading. Farming strategies for restoring soil carbon are described, including biochar, a porous charcoal that can potentially enhance the soil sink while providing a source of low-carbon power. ...  Our Choice is replete with lush photos and simple but powerful charts.  This a must-read book for those who want a primer on all the key solutions countries will be considering at Copenhagen.

Newsweek magazine published a feature on Gore and the new book on October 31, 2009, calling it "authoritative, exhaustive, reasoned, erudite, and logical, a textbooklike march through solar and wind power, geothermal energy, biofuels, carbon sequestration, nuclear energy, the potential of forests to soak up carbon dioxide, energy efficiency, and the regulatory tangle that impedes the development of a super-efficient, continent-wide system of transmission lines.

Nuclear power
Our Choice has a chapter entitled "The Nuclear Option". Gore explains that nuclear power was once "expected to provide virtually unlimited supplies of low-cost electricity", but the reality is that it has been "an energy source in crisis for the last 30 years". Worldwide growth in nuclear power has slowed in recent years, with no new reactors and an "actual decline in global capacity and output in 2008". In the United States, "no nuclear power plants ordered after 1972 have been built to completion".

Carbon capture and storage
Gore explains that the idea of "carbon capture and sequestration" (CCS) seems compelling, but the reality is that "decades after CCS was first proposed, no government or company in the world has built a single commercial-scale demonstration project capturing and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from a power plant".

See also
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Renewable energy commercialization
Efficient energy use
Reinventing Fire

References

External links
Our Choice website
Our Choice app website
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate
Elizabeth Kolbert: Al Gore and Our Choice

2009 non-fiction books
2009 in the environment
Books by Al Gore
Books about politics of the United States
American non-fiction books
Climate change books
Rodale, Inc. books


Beynes (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse forms all of the commune's northern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Blieux (; ) is a rural commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 57.

History
The commune of Blieux first appeared on maps in 1100.

Much later, during the French Revolution, records show that the residents of Blieux had created a political club (patriotic society), which was very common at the time. (See Jacobin Club).

Name of the commune
According to Ernest Nègre, the first recorded name for the commune, Bleus, was derived from the Occitan word bleusse, meaning 'dry'. This was likely a reference to the local soil. By contrast, Charles Rostaing argues that the name derives from the pre-Indo-European root word, *BL, meaning 'mountain in the form of a spur'.

La Melle, the name of a nearby hamlet, comes from the Celtic word, mello, meaning an elevated location.

Economy
Historically, Blieux was a pastoral community, with a yearly alpine grazing cycle known as transhumance. As with much of Provence, tourism the primary source of economic activity today.

Geography
The village is located at an altitude of 950m, in the valley formed by a tributary of the river Asse, known as the 'Asse de Blieux'.

Hamlets
 le Bas-Chadoul
 la Melle
 la Tuilière
 Thon
 La Castelle

Summits and passes
 Mont Chiran (1905 m)
 le Grand Mourre (1898 m)
 Crête de Montmuye (Montmuye ridge) (Highest point: 1621 m)
 Le Mourre de Chanier ( 1930 m)

Demographics

With the exception of those that have been totally abandoned, Blieux is one of the communities in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department that has experienced the greatest population decline from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Inhabitants are known as Blieuxois (masculine) and Blieuxoises (feminine).

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence


Bras-d'Asse is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Demonym
The inhabitants are named Bras d'assiens

Geography
The village is at an elevation of 475 meters (1558 ft). The bordering municipalities are Saint-Jeannet, Estoublon, Saint-Julien-d'Asse, Saint-Jurs and Puimoisson. The municipality of Bras d'Asse is composed of three different hamlets : les Orésonnis, la Bégude Blanche and les Courtiers.

Hydrology
The Asse river flows through the commune.

Environment
Woods occupies 51% of the municipal area.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Braux (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village is located at 950m of altitude, at the end of a road, in the valley of Coulomp. The road leading to it continues along a semi-tarred trail to the hamlet of Chabrières.

The adjoining communities of Braux are Le Fugeret, Castellet-lès-Sausses, Saint-Benoît and Annot.

Bois du Fa to the north of the village.

Geology
The village is set on a local resurgence of sandstone dating from the Oligocene (the same as Ann
ot) in the middle of marl and limestone of the Jurassic and the Eocene.

Relief
 Crest of Clos Martin (1,522 m and 1,607 m);
 Rock of Pelloussis (1,340 m)

Environment
The commune counts 639 ha of woods and forests.

Natural and technological hazards
None of the 200 municipalities in the department is in a zero seismic risk zone. Braux is in zone 1b (low risk) according to the deterministic classification of 1991, based on historical earthquakes, and zone 4 (medium risk) according to the probabilistic classification EC8 of 2011. The municipality of Braux is also exposed to three other natural hazards:
 Forest fire,
 flood,
 Land movement: the municipality is almost entirely concerned by an average to high risk.
The commune of Braux is not exposed to any of the risks of technological origin identified by the prefecture.

No plan for risk prevention foreseeable natural (PPR) exists for the municipality and DICRIM are not.

The most sensitive earthquake in the commune is that of February 23, 1887, with a macro-seismic intensity of VII on the scale MSK and Imperia-Bussana for epicenter. Among the recent landslides and landslides, the most important ones are those of 1978 and 5 November 1994. One of 1994 concerns an area of 13 hectares on a thickness of 6 m, below the Rocher des Meules (Ravine de la Lauriere ), which had won several farms.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


La Bréole (; Vivaro-Alpine: La Breula) is a former commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Ubaye-Serre-Ponçon.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Former communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Populated places disestablished in 2017


Brunet () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village lies on the left bank of the Asse, which forms most of the commune's northern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Le Brusquet (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The Bléone flows southwest through the middle of the commune and forms part of its southwestern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Le Caire (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France, about 30 km north of Sisteron. The town's principal economic activity is aboriculture.

Population
Its inhabitants are called Cairois.

Tourism
The town's via ferrata, named Via ferrata de la grande fistoire, was created in 1996. In 2006, the via had been climbed by 40,000 people. It is also the nearest via ferrata to Marseille.

The town's old lime plaster mill was declared an historic monument in 1996.

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Le Castellard-Mélan (before 2010: Le Castellard-Melan) is a commune situated in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


The Wharncliffe Charity Cup was an invitational cup competition organised by the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association from 1878 to 1984.

The competition took its name from the Earl of Wharncliffe, who sponsored the event, and was held with the aim of raising money for local good causes.

Finals

Winners

See also
 Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup
 Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League
 Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup

References

Sport in Sheffield
Football cup competitions in England
Defunct football competitions in South Yorkshire


Castellet-lès-Sausses () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Céreste (; Occitan: Ceirèsta) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It is known for its rich fossil beds in fine layers of "Calcaire de Campagne Calavon" limestone, which are now protected by the Parc naturel régional du Luberon and the Réserve naturelle géologique du Luberon.

Geography
The river Calavon forms the commune's northern and northwestern borders.

History
A Gallo-Roman period settlement was established in the quarter of today's Saint-Sauveur priory, possibly as a crossing control point for the river.   Surviving relics of the Roman period include a potters' oven, an ancient tomb and Sarcophagi at Saint-Sauveur.

The Priory of Carluc was founded in the eleventh century.  Another priory, that of Saint-Sauveur-Au-Pont, belonged during the twelfth and thirteenth century to the Abbey of Saint Andrew at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The fiefdom was held initially by the Forcalquiers, and later by the Brancas family.

By the start of the eighteenth century, the Estieu brothers were running a pottery oven.

During the revolution the commune had its own Patriotic Society, a variation on the Jacobin Club theme, created in this case soon after 1792.

Population

See also
 Luberon
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Bryn Jones (born 26 May 1939, in Bagillt, Flintshire) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a full back. He played in The Football League for Watford and Chester.

Playing career
Jones (aka bb) played for non-league side Holywell Town until joining Division Three side Watford in January 1963. However, he made just two league appearances before he returned north by joining Chester in August 1964. He made his Chester debut during the same month in a 3–1 win at Bradford City but added just one more appearance during the season. The following campaign saw him emerging as a regular at left back, with namesake Ray Jones playing in the right back slot. Chester went into their home game against Aldershot on 1 January 1966 in second place in Division Four, but both Bryn and Ray suffered broken legs in the 3–2 victory.  The pair missed the remainder of the season as Chester finished in seventh place.

Jones recovered to play 11 games the following season before dropping out of The Football League and joining New Brighton.

References

1939 births
Living people
Footballers from Flintshire
Welsh men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
English Football League players
Watford F.C. players
Chester City F.C. players
New Brighton A.F.C. players
Holywell Town F.C. players


Le Chaffaut-St-Jurson (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village is located at an altitude of 584 meters, in the valley of the Bléone.

The differents commune adjacent to Le Chauffaut-Saint-Jurson are Aiglun, Digne-les-Bains, Châteauredon, Mézel, Saint-Jeannet, Malijai, Mirabeau, Mallemoisson.

Toponymy

The locality of Chaffaut appeared for the first time in the textes between 1064 and 1079 (in Kadalfucho ). The term comes from the north-occitan translating cadalfac, naming a house with an outside staircase and a balcony according to Ernest Nègre, from catafalicum, meaning scaffold or siege tower according to Bénédicte and Jean-Jacques Fénié.

Saint-Jurson is a deformation of the name of the holy patron saint of the church, saint Georges, apostle of the Velay.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Champtercier () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Châteauneuf-Miravail (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The Jabron and Druigne rivers run through Châteauneuf-Miravail.

History
An altar to the Roman god Mars dates back to the Gallo-Roman era.

Charters for the locality first appeared in the 12th century, when Châteauneuf-Miravail acted as a stronghold for the town of Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron.

In 1792, during the revolution, a patriotic society was formed in the town.  Following the decree of the National Convention of October 16, 1793 for towns holding names reminiscent of royalty or feudalism to create new names, the community became known as Auche-la-Garde.

Population

Inhabitants are known as Castelnovins.

Sights
The Jabron valley is dominated by the ruins of the 17th century Chateau Graves. On the Aouche la Garde ridge stand a tower and curtain wall, now in ruins, which survey the Jabron and Chateauneuf valleys.

In Lange, the principal section of the commune, one home is inscribed with the date 1620 on its lintel.

The church of Saint Mari (also Saint Mary) in Lange is considered exceptional by French historian Raymond Collier, who gives the building considerable attention in his book La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique.  The nave and apse of the church are barrel vaulted.  The apse is rectangular in shape with a flat chevet.  The posterior walls of each aisle are of original 17th century construction, a rarity for the region.  The current facade has been modified from the original. The wall and bell tower are on the same axis, but a different axis from that of the nave.  The choir and the nave are of typical construction for the late 13th and early 14th century period in which they were built.

The church holds a statue of Saint Mary.  The image of the crucifixion contained within the church shows Christ on the cross, with the Virgin and two unidentified people to his left.  The image is unusual in that it is surrounded by two penitent figures.  A painting of Saint Roch, as a pilgrim with his dog, with the patron saint of the church can also be seen.  This painting is rare in that Saint Roch is typically depicted in sculpture rather than pictorial image.

Another painting dating to 1687, although painted in a post-primitive style, represents Saint Joseph holding a scepter and book.  On each of his sides stand Saint Patrick and Saint Eloi.  The painting is considered to be an historic monument.

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Châteauneuf-Val-Saint-Donat (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Châteauredon (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse forms all of the commune's southeastern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Chaudon-Norante (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse flows northwest through the commune.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Charles Kelly may refer to:

 Charles Kelly (American football), American football coach
 Chip Kelly (Charles Edward Kelly, born 1963), American football coach
 Charles Kelly (footballer) (1894–1969), footballer who played in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers and Stoke
 Charles Kelly (historian) (1889–1971), American historian and superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
 Charles A. Kelly (died 1962), American murderer; last person executed by Iowa
 Charles E. Kelly (cartoonist) (1902–1981), Irish cartoonist and founder of the magazine Dublin Opinion
 Charles E. Kelly (soldier) (1920–1985), United States Army soldier and recipient of the United States Medal of Honor
 Charles H. Kelly (1833–1911), president of the Methodist Conference in 1889 and 1905
 Charles L. Kelly (died 1964), United States Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War

See also
Charlie Kelly (disambiguation)
Charles Kelley, lead singer and founding member of country music band Lady A


Clamensane (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village is located 700 m above sea level, at the confluence of Sasse and Vermeil rivers.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Michel de La Torre, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence : le guide complet des 200 communes, Paris, Deslogis-Lacoste, coll. « Villes et villages de France », 1989, Relié, 72 p. (non-paginé) ()

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Kongsvoll Station () is a railway station located at Kongsvoll in the municipality of Oppdal in Trøndelag county, Norway.  It's located in the Drivdalen valley, along the Driva river and the European route E06 highway.

The station is located along the Dovre Line and is served by four daily express trains to Oslo and Trondheim. The unmanned station is located in the mountains, outside of civilization, with no permanent population close by.  The station is used to access the mountain hiking and skiing areas around, as well as the Kongsvoll hotel.

History
The station was designed by Erik Glosimodt and opened in 1921 as part of the Dovre Line when it was extended from Dombås to Trondheim. The wooden station was preserved as a cultural heritage in 1997.

References

Railway stations in Trøndelag
Railway stations on the Dovre Line
Railway stations opened in 1921
1921 establishments in Norway
Oppdal
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1920s


Altamirano is a village in Valle Hermoso Municipality in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located at latitude 25.88333 and longitude -97.81667. It is adjacent to the village of Empalme.

References

Populated places in Tamaulipas


Claret () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Clumanc () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse de Clumanc flows south through the commune.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


La Condamine-Châtelard (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
 Ubaye Valley
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Every Boy’s Book of Outer Space Stories is a 1960 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by T. E. Dikty and published by Fredrick Fell.  Most of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Astounding, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Galaxy Science Fiction.

Contents

 "And a Star to Steer Her By", by Lee Correy
 "Sitting Duck", by Oliver E. Saari
 "Blind Man’s Buff", by Malcolm Jameson
 "Gypsy", by Poul Anderson
 "The Canal Builders", by Robert Abernathy
 "Star of Wonder", by Julian May
 "The Reluctant Heroes", by Frank M. Robinson
 "That Share of Glory", by C. M. Kornbluth
 "Men Against the Stars", by Manly Wade Wellman
 "Man in the Sky", by Algis Budrys
 "A Rover I Will Be", by Robert Courtney & Frank M. Robinson

References

1960 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies


The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Hurricane Index (CMEHI) is an index which describes the potential for damage from an Atlantic hurricane in the United States. The CMEHI is used as the basis for trading hurricane futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). It is very similar to the Hurricane Severity Index, which also factors both size and intensity of a hurricane.

Index calculation
The CMEHI takes as input two variables: the maximum sustained wind speed of a hurricane in miles per hour and the radius to hurricane-force winds of a hurricane in miles (i.e. how far from the center of the hurricane winds of 74 mph or greater are experienced). If the maximum sustained wind speed is denoted by V and the radius to hurricane-force winds is denoted by R then the CMEHI is calculated as follows:

where the subscript 0 denotes reference values. For use on the CME, the reference values of 74 mph and 60 miles are used for the maximum sustained wind speed and radius of hurricane-force winds respectively.

Index history and data
The development of the CMEHI was based on work published by Lakshmi Kantha at the Department of Aerospace Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Kantha's paper in Eos developed a number of indices based on various characteristics of hurricanes. The ReAdvisory team at the reinsurance broker RK Carvill used the basics of the Kantha paper to develop an index which became the Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI). In 2009, the scale was renamed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Hurricane Index (CMEHI).

The data for the CMEHI comes from the public advisories issued for named storms by the National Hurricane Center. Specifically, to determine the maximum sustained wind speed, the following verbiage is looked for:

To determine the radius to hurricane-force winds, the following phrase is looked for:

For example, Advisory 23A for Hurricane Katrina at 1pm Central daylight time on Sunday, August 28, 2005, gave the maximum sustained wind speed of 175 mph and the radius of hurricane-force winds of 105 miles resulting in a CMEHI value of 27.9.

Data
Public advisories from the National Hurricane Center are archived back to 1998. The table below lists the CMEHI values for all the landfalling hurricanes since 1998 based on the NHC Public Advisories, and uses alternate sources for hurricanes between 1989 and 1998.

Prior to 1998, the data becomes sparse. However, using data from the HURSAT database at NOAA it is possible to construct a set of CMEHI values for storms back to 1983.

Modeled data is available from a number of sources:
 Seasonal data, suitable for use in the insurance and reinsurance community, is provided by AIR Worldwide
 Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. provide CMEHI values for live storms through their hCast-SR product
 MDA Federal provide a real-time CMEHI forecasting product

Notes

Wind
Atlantic hurricanes
Tropical cyclone meteorology
Hazard scales


Corbières-en-Provence (, literally Corbières in Provence; ), simply known as Corbières until 2018, is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. In 2018, it had a population of 1,196. Its inhabitants are called Corbiérains (masculine) and Corbiéraines (feminine).

Corbières-en-Provence is located at the heart of the Provence historical province, on the departmental border with Vaucluse and Var, not far north from Bouches-du-Rhône, where the Verdon flows into the Durance. The commune itself is situated on the Durance, the banks of which are served by the A51 autoroute, nicknamed the "Autoroute du Val de Durance".

Demographics

See also
 Coteaux de Pierrevert AOC
 Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence


Altamirano is a village in Guanajuato, Mexico.

References

Populated places in Guanajuato


The rosita patch (Chlosyne rosita) is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae, similar in appearance to the more common crimson patch. It is a striking butterfly with orange-red patches on the wings. It can be found throughout Central America and Mexico, and is occasional in the southwestern United States.

External links
Butterflies & Moths of North America

rosita
Butterflies of North America
Butterflies described in 1924


Cruis is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Curbans () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
Curbans Solar Park

References

External links
Official site

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Curel (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Demandolx is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Draix (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Enchastrayes (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

The Enciastraia mountain is located in the communal territory, on the boundary with Piedmont, part of northern Italy.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Entrages (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse forms most of the commune's southern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Erik Waldemar Glosimodt (19 December 1881 – 18 September 1921) was a Norwegian architect. He is best known for drawing many railway stations, among others the preserved Kongsvoll Station.

Glosimodt was born in Oslo, Norway. He studied under Herman Major Schirmer at The Royal School in Christiania (now Oslo). He further his architectural education at the Art Academy in Copenhagen under professor Martin Nyrop. As a trained architect, Glosimodt worked with Ole Sverre (1865-1952) from 1904 to 1907. In 1911, he established his own practice in Christiania. Glosimodt died in the Nidareid train disaster (Nidareid-ulykken) at the age of 39.

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Entrepierres (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

External links
 a wiki (mostly French) about Entrepierres

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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Entrevennes (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.
In French, its inhabitants are referred to with the demonym "Entrevennois".

Population

Personalities
The troubadour Isnart d'Entrevenas was lord of Entrevennes in the early thirteenth century.

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Altamirano (formerly, San Carlos, Villa Enríquez, and Enríquez) is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The municipality covers an area of 1120 km2. , the municipality had a total population of 29,865, up from  21,948 .

History
In 1806, the population of San Antonio and San Vicente applied to the parish of Ocosingo, for the funds to build a new town and elected a place near Nacashlan, some 30 km south of Comitán, near the Tzaconejá River. In 1814, a visitor Manuel Gómez, founded a new settlement called Ashlumal into which many indigenous families moved into and the area became known as San Carlos.

In 1848 by national decree, Comitán established a centre of commercialization in San Carlos and reclaimed land from salt marsh along the river for exploitation. Many families were displaced to cultivate land in ranches which were built in the area to farm the land. One notable ranch was called "La Laguna".

In 1881 the town of New Nacaxlán, appeared on the old property San Carlos. On November 6, 1911, the town came to belong to the Department of Chilón. On January 16, 1933, by disposition of governor Victorico R. Grajales, the town of San Carlos was promoted to the category of a town with the name of Villa Enríquez, in honor of the governor Raymundo Enríquez. However, soon after on January 25, 1935, the same Governor changed the name again to that which it is today; Villa Altamirano in tribute to poet Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. On July 20, 1942, by disposition of the governor Rafael Pascacio Gamboa, the town and surrounding area became an official second class municipality of Chiapas. In 1994, Altamirano was one of the towns occupied by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Geography
The municipality is located in central-east Chiapas  and covers an area of 1120 square kilometres. It lies at an average altitude of 1,254 metres above sea level. The coordinates of the municipality are 16° 44' 08 N and 92° 02' 18 E. The municipality is located within the economic region of II Altos, represtnating 29.7% of the land area. Altamirano borders Ocosingo to the north, Las Margaritas to the south, and Chanal and Oxchuc to the west. Rivers in the municipality include the Tzaconejá River, Mendoza River, Soledad River and the streams Las Canoitas, Poza del Padre, Disciplina and finally the El Triunfo Lake.

The climate is semi-humid with rain all year round, with an average annual temperate of 20 °C and average precipitation at 1,100 millimetres.

Demographics
, the town of Altamirano had a population of 9,200. Other than the town of Altamirano, the municipality had 189 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: La Laguna (1,222) and Morelia (Victórico Rodolfo Grajales) (1,156), classified as rural.

Religion
48.03% of the population is Roman Catholic, 21.27% Protestant, 24.02% Evangelical and 4.58% atheist.

References

External links
Altamirano municipal government site

Municipalities of Chiapas


L'Escale (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It is located on the eastern bank of the Durance opposite Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.

Geography

The Bléone forms the commune's southern border, then flows into the Durance, which forms the commune's western border.

L'Escale Dam
Work began on the dam in 1959, which was completed in 1963. With a height of 30ms it retains 15.70 hm³ of water. It is 126 metres long with a road carriageway along which runs the Route Napoleon. There is attached to the dam a power station whose three units produce a total of 170,000 KWs of electricity.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Ova Arthur Kelley (March 27, 1914 – December 10, 1944) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

Biography
Kelley joined the Army from San Francisco 15 October 1943, and by December 8, 1944, was serving as a private in Company A, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. On that day, in Leyte, the Philippines, he single-handedly attacked an entrenched Japanese position and then led a charge which destroyed the remainder of the Japanese force. He was shot by a sniper soon after, and died of his wounds two days later. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on October 19, 1945.

Kelley, aged 30 at his death, was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery north of his hometown of Norwood, Missouri.

Medal of Honor citation
Private Kelley's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Before dawn, near the edge of the enemy-held Buri airstrip, the company was immobilized by heavy, accurate rifle and machinegun fire from hostile troops entrenched in bomb craters and a ditch less than 100 yards distant. The company commander ordered a mortar concentration which destroyed 1 machinegun but failed to dislodge the main body of the enemy. At this critical moment Pvt. Kelley, on his own initiative, left his shallow foxhole with an armload of hand grenades and began a 1-man assault on the foe. Throwing his missiles with great accuracy, he moved forward, killed or wounded 5 men, and forced the remainder to flee in a disorganized route. He picked up a M-1 rifle and emptied its clip at the running Japanese, killing 3. Discarding this weapon, he took a carbine and killed 3 more of the enemy. Inspired by his example, his comrades followed him in a charge which destroyed the entire enemy force of 34 enlisted men and 2 officers and captured 2 heavy and 1 light machineguns. Pvt. Kelley continued to press the attack on to an airstrip, where sniper fire wounded him so grievously that he died 2 days later. His outstanding courage, aggressiveness, and initiative in the face of grave danger was an inspiration to his entire company and led to the success of the attack.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II

References

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Esparron-de-Verdon (,  "Esparron of Verdon"; Occitan: Esparron de Verdon) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is on the departmental border with Var, to the west of the Lake of Sainte-Croix. As of 2019, Esparron-de-Verdon had a population of 392.

Demographics

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Estoublon (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse flows southwest through the western part of the commune.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Faucon-de-Barcelonnette (, literally Faucon of Barcelonnette; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
 Ubaye Valley
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Faucon-du-Caire (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Fontienne (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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The 1909–10 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Drake University in the 1909–10 college basketball season. The team was led by first year head coach John L. Griffith. This was also Drake's third season as a member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. They finished with a 3–8 (3–5 MVIAA) record the previous season. That had them finishing 3rd of 3 teams in the MVIAA North Division.

Schedule

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This is a list of United States Air Force fighter squadrons.  It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons.  Units in this list are assigned to nearly every Major Command in the United States Air Force.

Fighter Squadrons

Squadrons 1 to 100

Squadrons 101 to 300

Squadrons 301 to 400

Squadrons 401 to 500

Squadrons 501 to 600

Squadrons 601 to 999

References

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Le Fugeret (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Ganagobie (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

It is the site of a Benedictine monastery, the Abbey of Our Lady of Ganagobie.

History

Prehistory and antiquity

The commune has been inhabited since prehistory: the north end of the plateau was home to a prehistoric village. It was fortified by a rampart 120 meters high, and therefore an oppidum. This oppidum, called "de Villevieille" (old city) from the name of the village that succeeded it, belonged to the Sogiontii. In antiquity,  Ganagobie was inhabited by Sogiontii, whose territory stretched from the south of the Baronnies to the Durance. They were allied with the Vocontii, and after the Roman conquest, were included with them in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. In the second century, they separated from the Vocontii and formed a distinct civitas with a capital they called Segustero, now called Sisteron.

Middle Ages

Southeast Gaul belonged to Burgundy, but in 510 the king of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great, conquered the region between the Durance, the Rhône   and the Isère. The commune was briefly again part of Italy, until 526. To reconcile with Godomar the king of Burgundy, the Ostrogoth regent Amalasuntha returned this territory to him. At this time two farms were installed on the plateau, one on the north and the other on the site of the priory.

The priory was founded at the end of the 10th century. The domain belonged to the bishops of Sisteron, who gave it to Cluny Abbey. This monastery remained important into the 15th century and for a time housed the relics of Saint Honoratus, moved there from Lérins Abbey.

In 1471, the community was completely depopulated by the plague and the Hundred Years War.

Modern era

In 1491, the Abbey of Cluny laid siege to the priory to take back control of it. Fighting over it continued until the French Revolution.

Contemporary era

Like many communes in the département, Ganagobie had a school well before the Jules Ferry laws: in 1863, it already had one that provided primary education to boys. No instruction was provided to girls despite the Falloux Laws of 1851, which mandated schools for girls in municipalities of more 800 inhabitants. Neither it nor the first  of 1867, which lowered the threshold to 500, applied to Ganagobie. Not until the  Ferry laws did the girls of the town receive formal educations.

Ahead of the Allied landing in Provence, two Operation Jedburgh teams parachuted in on August 8 and 9 to attack the German rear, notably its communication channels. Some 3000 FFI fighters took control of route nationale 96 (RN 96), which runs through the valley of the Durance from Manosque to Veynes. Following debarcation, Allied forces quickly broke through  German defenses, and moved to cut off the Wehrmacht retreat. One column, which left Vidauban on 17 August, crossed the Durance on 20 August south of Mirabeau. The US 143rd infantry regiment went up the valley of the Durance all day on 20 August, liberating the towns and villages along the way, among them Ganagobie.

Until the middle of the 20th century, wine was grown in Ganagobie. Of mediocre quality, it was intended for local consumption, but these vineyards are abandoned today.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Bibliography

External links

Web site of the Abbey of Our Lady of Ganagobie

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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Gigors () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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References

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Gréoux-les-Bains (; Provençal Occitan: Greù) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Best known for its Château des Templiers, the town is on the right bank of the river Verdon. The commune, on the departmental border with Var, had a population of 2,639 in 2019.

Demographics

See also
 Coteaux de Pierrevert AOC
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Hautes-Duyes (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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References

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L'Hospitalet (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Jausiers (; Vivaro-Alpine: Jausièr) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Politics and administration

Population

See also
 Ubaye Valley
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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La Javie (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village lies on the right bank of the Bléone, which flows west through the southeastern part of the commune.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Lambruisse (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Larche (; Vivaro-Alpine: L'Archa) is a former commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Oronaye.

Geography
It lies on the northwestern foot of the Maddalena Pass, called Col de Larche in French.

Population

See also
 Ubaye Valley
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Lardiers is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Le Lauzet-Ubaye is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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 Ubaye Valley
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References

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Limans is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

History

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Majastres () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. With 4 inhabitants (as of 2019), it is the least populated commune in the department.

Population

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References

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Malijai () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village lies on the right bank of the Bléone, which forms part of the commune's western border, then flows west through the northern part of the commune.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Mallefougasse-Augès (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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References

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Mallemoisson (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The Bléone forms the commune's southern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Méailles (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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References

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Les Mées ( or ; Occitan: Lei Mès) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The Bléone forms the commune's northern border, then flows into the Durance, which forms the commune's western border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Melve (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Méolans-Revel (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

Incidents
On the 24 March 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 travelling from Barcelona to Düsseldorf crashed near Méolans-Revel.

See also
 Ubaye Valley
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Meyronnes (; Vivaro-Alpine: Maironas) is a former commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Oronaye.

Population

See also
 Ouvrage Saint Ours Haut
 Ubaye Valley
 Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Mézel (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The village lies on the right bank of the Asse, which forms all of the communes eastern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Mison () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

At the top of the hill in the village are the remains of a 13th-century castle built by the Mérvouillon family. The building is organised around a central courtyard and the four main buildings are flanked by square towers. There are two gates. The castle was abandoned by the end of the 18th century. Restorations have been undertaken since 2005.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Montagnac-Montpezat (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Montclar () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Montfuron () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
 Luberon
 Coteaux de Pierrevert AOC
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References

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Montjustin () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

Personalities
 Henri Cartier-Bresson was buried in the cemetery of Montjustin.

See also
 Luberon
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Montlaux (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

It is a village peacefully situated on the edge of the Lauzon river, far from the main highways.

The village is unusual because it is very spread-out, contrary to most settlements in the area where the houses are clustered together with vast empty spaces on the outskirts.

Only in the small hamlet of Jacons will you find houses grouped together, along with the townhall and church.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References
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Montsalier () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Moriez is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) is an American organization that provides third-party credentialing and verification for several rating systems relating to the built environment.  It was established as the Green Building Certification Institute in January 2008 with the support of the U.S. Green Building Council  to provide independent oversight of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) project certification and professional credentialing processes. The organization's current name was adopted on 16 April 2015 after the organization starts to provide third-party certification for the International WELL Building Institute's evidence-based building standard WELL Building Standard on 4 April 2014, the Perfect Power Institute's PEER standard, and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark.

LEED Professional Credentials
The suite of LEED professional credentials was designed to denote leadership in green building and to distinguish building professionals with the knowledge and skills to successfully steward the LEED certification process. Credentialing exams and designations administered by GBCI include the LEED Green Associate, LEED AP with specialty, and LEED Fellow, as well as the LEED for Homes Green Rater and Green Classroom Professional certificates. The LEED professional credential exams are ANSI 17024 accredited.

LEED Project Certification
GBCI administers the LEED certification program, performing third-party technical reviews and verification of LEED-registered projects to determine if they have met the standards set forth by the LEED rating system. As of April 2013, the total footprint of LEED-certified projects is nearly 3 billion square feet, and nearly eight billion additional square feet are registered with GBCI for LEED certification.

See also
LEED
U.S. Green Building Council
LEED Accredited Professional Exam
sustainable architecture
Energy conservation
Environmental design
Renewable energy
Zero energy building
Permaculture
Ecological footprint

References
Notes

External links
Green Certification Bayaweaver
GBCI official website
USGBC official website
FTC Green Guides

Sustainable building in the United States
Organizations established in 2008


La Motte-du-Caire (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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La Mure-Argens is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Nibles () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Niozelles (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

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Oppdal Station () is a railway station located in downtown Oppdal in the municipality of Oppdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It sits close to the European route E06 highway, just northwest of the mountain Allmannberget. The village of Oppdal is dominated by mountain tourism and skiing in winter.

The station is located along the Dovre Line, and it is served by four daily express trains going in each direction to Oslo and Trondheim. It is also served by a few daily Trøndelag Commuter Rail to Trondheim. The station was opened in 1921 as part of the Dovre Line when it was extended from Dombås to Trondheim.

Hotel

When building the Dovre Line, Norsk Spisevognselskap planned to build a tourist hotel at one of the stations. When the station opened on 20 September 1921, Norsk Spisevognselskap started operations of a station restaurant in the station building. The facilities were too small, but it would be too costly to expand the station building to make a larger restaurant. It was therefore decided to establish a combined restaurant and tourist hotel next to the station. Plans were made by architect Gudmund Hoel and district manager von Krogh and approved on 27 October 1922. The company purchased a  lot next to the station. The restaurant was taken into use on 22 June 1923 and the hotel opened on 28 June 1924. It originally was  and 60 beds. In the immediate vicinity, croquet and tennis fields were built as well as a bobsled and curling course. The hotel cost , of which the building itself cost .

The arrival both of the railway and the hotel was instrumental in the tourism boom which would follow in Oppdal. Opdal turisthotell was a key, as it had an external and professional owner which operated both restaurants and hotels elsewhere. In 1923, a longer dispute between the hotel and the municipality started regarding the liquor license. Initially the request was dismissed because of defamatory statement made by the police commissioner. Spisevognselskapet took the issue to the courts, who judicially declared the statement is null and void. An application was denied by the municipal council ahead of the opening of the hotel in 1924, and again the following year. Eventually in 1925, a license was granted by the municipal council. This was repeated until 1929, when the license was again dismissed. To avoid additional losses, Spisevognselskapet agreed with NSB to have a dining car put onto the train between Oppdal and Trondheim, and to close the hotel after Easter, from 5 April 1929, and remain closed during the low season. However, the Parliament of Norway intervened and instructed the state-owned company to keep the hotel open. It was therefore re-opened from 25 June 1929. Locals were not allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages at the hotels in Oppdal. Therefore, some locals would bicycle to the nearest station, get on the train and get off at Oppdal. There they would get into the same queues as the tourists and purchase the alcoholic beverages.

After the war, the hotel was renovated, including all-new interior and furniture for the restaurant and saloons. In 1952, a ski lift, largely owned by Spisevognselskapet, opened. In 1957, Architect Hugi Kohmann presented a model for three additions, two large two-story buildings and one eight-story. Although supported by the hotel management, the board of Spisevognselskapet were split, and in the end only one of the two-story extensions were built and completed in 1962. In 1973, Norsk Spisevognselskap sold the hotel. Another extension was launched in 1979, and completed in 1989. Ownership later passed to Johan Fr. Schønheyder.

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Noyers-sur-Jabron (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Les Omergues (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Lewis & Clarke is the pen name of American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Lou Rogai. The name references the fellowship and correspondence between C. S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke (not the 19th-century explorers). He has released three studio albums, Bare Bones and Branches, Blasts of Holy Birth, and Triumvirate, as well as several singles and EPs. The moniker is also a metaphor for journey on many levels and the music has been described as art-pop or avant-folk. Rogai is the founder of La Société Expéditionnaire, a record label dedicated to creating "beautiful sounding records and tangible musical artifacts".

History

2003–2005 Bright Light and Bare Bones and Branches
The 7" single and CD/EP Bright Light was released in 2003 on Sun.Sea.Sky(US) and Delboy Records(EU). MAGNET Magazine's review of the EP introduced Rogai as "a gifted newcomer".

Lewis & Clarke's debut full length, Bare Bones and Branches, was released in 2003 by Delboy Records (Belgium). This was supported by a DIY tour of the US and a press tour of the Benelux which included 10 live shows. A live track surfaced on a compilation issued by PIAS entitled Duyster (a compilation from Belgian National Radio's program of the same name).

The US version of Bare Bones and Branches was released in 2005 on the Summersteps imprint, containing alternate takes, mixes, tracks and artwork. The LP was called "The perfect Autumnal album" by the Associated Press, while No Depression cited "A whisper of an album, lovely without being precious, moody without being beleaguering." Lewis & Clarke appeared on the Summersteps compilation Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek, with a cover of "Nancy Sings". Jandek expressed his approval of the track in a handwritten letter to the label.

2006–2008 Live on WPRB and Blasts of Holy Birth
In 2006 Live on WPRB was released on the fledgling La Société Expéditionnaire as a vinyl-only 12" EP.  The recording bridged the gap from past material with the forthcoming Blasts of Holy Birth and incorporated chimes, vocals, eastern drones, harp, guitar, banjo, piano, percussion, and the voice of Rogai's infant son.

Released in May 2007, Blasts of Holy Birth dovetails the symbolic nature of spring and birth, and represents themes found in a Taoist text called Secret of the Golden Flower (also the title of the opening track). Pitchfork called the record "Eight tracks of delicate Beauty" described as "an idealized environment that's unplugged, untouched, and unspoiled." and The Onion's A/V Club noted: "Rogai finally puts the lame-ass freak-folk label to rest by making an album that's as grounded in real life as it is sublimated in ether....Rogai has a gift for speaking plainly while tonguing poetry, and his meditations on life cycles and pastoral philosophy blossom and collapse with organic grace." Later in 2007, Lewis & Clarke toured as a duo with cellist Eve Miller, supporting Bat For Lashes (UK), and closed out the year with a performance at MoMA NYC.

Lewis & Clarke toured as a 5 piece band in the Spring of 2008. Later in the year Rogai covered "Disintegration" by The Cure for the Manimal Vinyl tribute compilation Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure.

2009–2010 Light Time EP
In 2009 Rogai released a second EP, Light Time, and supported Bat For Lashes on select tour dates once again. A second tour in 2009 was with Caroline Weeks. PopMatters said of Light Time: "Lewis & Clarke doesn't play songs as much as unfurl them, slowly letting ribbons of sound billow and cascade. The power, though, is palpable, made even stronger through delicateness, a paradox that is at play not only in the music on Light Time but also in its metaphors for life, loss and renewal."

In 2010 Lewis & Clarke recorded a cover version of "Changes" for the charity compilation We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie. Live appearances included the Truck America Festival in Big Indian, NY.

2014–2015 Triumvirate
After almost a four-year hiatus, Rogai released a seventy-five minute album called Triumvirate in October 2014. The album announcement was accompanied by the 12 minute short film A Map of a Maze, "detailing the environments, abstractions, and meditations of Triumvirate".  The double-vinyl LP pressing was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign that re-connected Rogai with his earliest supporters and new fans alike. The Line Of Best Fit (UK) called the album "Gorgeously crafted and composed, full of wonder...seventy-five minutes of sheer beauty and trauma."

Also released in October 2014 was Rogai's cover version of "The Seventh Stranger" for the charity compilation Making Patterns Rhyme – A Tribute to Duran Duran.

In November 2014 the music documentary series Shaking Through featured Lewis & Clarke's single "The Silver Sea" and detailed Rogai's hiatus and family life. The episode was curated by Strand of Oaks' Tim Showalter who also contributed vocals to the song.

The Castle Inn Sessions features live footage of Rogai with his band performing selections from Triumvirate. The sessions took place in January 2015 at The Castle Inn, a former grand hotel in Delaware Water Gap, PA .

2017–present
Recording as the duo Cedar Sparks, in 2017 Lou Rogai teamed up with Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone to adapt a passage of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake for the Waywords and Meansigns project. Rogai had previously engineered Carbone's solo recording for the project in 2015.

Cedar Sparks released "Gathering Song" in December 2018 on Lo-Hi Records. The holiday song inspired by It's A Wonderful Life.

In June 2018 Rogai released a movement of instrumental music,Implications in D Major; An Adagio for Chamber Strings.

Lou Rogai composed the main instrumental score for Essere Amato, a film written and directed by Bas-Tzion Beahan. The soundtrack was released on Calabasas Records in March 2019 and features Rogai, John Taylor, David Scott Stone, and Paul Beahan.

Discography
"Bright Light"  7"/EP (2003 Delboy EU)
Bare Bones and Branches LP (2003 Delboy EU /2005 Summersteps US)
Live on WPRB  EP (2006 La Société Expéditionnaire)
Blasts of Holy Birth LP (2007 La Société Expéditionnaire)
Light Time  EP (2009 La Société Expéditionnaire)
 Triumvirate LP (2014 La Société Expéditionnaire)
 "The Silver Sea" Single (2014 Weathervane Music)
 "Aurora 15:34" Single (2022 La Société Expéditionnaire)

Compilation appearances
"Doc Holiday Was a Phony" (live) – Duyster – (PIAS 2005)
"Nancy Sings" – Down in a Mirror, A Tribute to Jandek v.2 (Summersteps 2005)
"Disintegration" – Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to the Cure (Manimal Vinyl, 2009)
 "Changes" – We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie (Manimal Vinyl, 2010)
 "The Seventh Stranger" – Making Patterns Rhyme – A Tribute to Duran Duran (Modern Records / Manimal Vinyl 2014)
 Selected adaptation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake – Cedar Sparks (Lou Rogai and Tim Carbone) – (Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition, 2017)

References

External links

Lou Rogai website

La Société Expéditionnaire
Interview with Stereo Subversion
Huffington Post Article (2014)

Indie pop groups from Pennsylvania
American folk musical groups
Musical groups from Pennsylvania


Ongles (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Oppedette is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Calavon.

Population

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Oraison (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography
The river Asse forms all of the commune's southern border, then flows into the Durance, which forms all of its western border.

Population

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La Palud-sur-Verdon (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Peipin () is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Peyroules (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Pierrerue (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

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Pierrevert (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

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Prads-Haute-Bléone (; Prats Auta Blèuna in Vivaro-Alpine) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department and in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

The people of Prads-Haute-Bléone are called Pradins.

Geography
The neighboring communes of Prads-Haute-Bléone are Méolans-Revel, Allos, Villars-Colmars, Thorame-Basse, Draix, La Javie, Beaujeu and Verdaches.

The village lies on the right bank of the Bléone, which has its source in the northeastern part of the commune and flows southwest through the middle of the commune.

The municipality of Prads-Haute-Bléone extends over . It is composed of nine hamlets ranging in elevation from 800 to 1,450 metres. The main settlement of Prads is at , and the highest peak is the Tête de l'Estrop at  in the Massif des Trois-Évêchés at the border with Méolans-Revel. This is also the highest summit of the Provence Alps and Prealps.

It is common with the type of high valleys of the Southern Alps, enjoying a climate which is very sunny, cold, dry, and with a snow line at approximately .

Geology
During the two last major glaciations, Riss glaciation and Würm glaciation, major glaciers occupied the valleys of the commune. A first glacier, reduced, occupied the top of the Valley of the Galebre (formerly commune of Mariaud). A great glacier flowed into the Bléone Valley; It received tributaries from the glacier valleys of the ravine of Bussing, Riou and the ravine of Jet des Eaux and Riou de l’Aune. The Riss glacier descended to Blegiers; the Würm glaciation was less thick and stopped below Heyre.

The valleys of the southern entrance to the town (Champourcin, Chanolles, Blegiers) are situated in limestone mountains of the Jurassic period. Further upstream and to left bank of the Bléone, the Carton and the Chau ridges are more recent limestone formations of the Upper Cretaceous. In front of these formations at the right bank, the Galabre ridge which separates the Bléone Valley is composed of Bathonian limestone. This has beds of marl, alternating with shallow (less than a meter) limestone and shale marl.

Relief

Tête de l'Estrop,
Tête Noire
Le Caduc
Col de Talon

Hydrography
The commune is crossed by the Bléone and Galabre.

Environment
The commune has  of woods and forests, or 45% of its area.

Hamlets
Commune of Prads:
Prads
Tercier
Les Eaux Chaudes (an ancient camp in ruins)
La Favière
Former commune of Blégiers:
Blégiers
Champourcin
Chanolles
Chavailles
La Colle (uninhabited since 1982)
Les Combes
Heyre
Former commune of Mariaud:
L’Adrech (uninhabited since 1928)
L’Immérée (uninhabited since 1914)
Pré Fourcha (uninhabited since 1934)
Saume Longue
Vière (uninhabited since 1934, under restoration)

Transport

Natural and technological hazards

With respect to seismic activity, the area of Prads-Haute-Bléone is in zone 4 (medium risk) according to the probabilistic classification EC8 of 2011. The municipality of Prads-Haute-Bléone is also exposed to three other natural hazards:

Avalanche (only the Ministry recognises this risk, but not the prefecture)
Forest fire
Landslide: mudflows have occurred in the commune after heavy rainfall in July 2005

The municipality of Prads-Haute-Bléone is exposed to any of the risks of technological origin identified by the prefecture. The predictable natural  (PPR) of the municipality was approved in 1993 for the risk of land movement; the  does not exist. The commune was the subject to an avalanche, in 2009. In July 2005, the municipality also had significant mudslides after heavy rains. The following list includes earthquakes felt strongly in the town. They exceed a macro-seismic intensity level V on the MSK scale (sleepers awake, falling objects). The specified intensities are those felt in the town, the intensity can be stronger at the epicentre:

The earthquake of February 8, 1974, with an intensity level V and with Thorame-Haute and Basse at the epicentre,
The earthquake of October 31, 1997, with an intensity level VI and whose epicentre was located in the municipality of Prads-Haute-Bléone.

On 5 and 6 November 1968, Prads had one of the first landslides of magnitude which was studied in detail by geomorphologists. It was produced in the Ravin de la Frache (an Occitan term that precisely refers to a zone of talus), in l'Adret and located beneath the summit of Belle Valette.

In the autumn of 1967, already marked by heavy rains, the cracks in the ground expanded. During the winter of 1967–1968, the successions of freeze-thaw lubricated the sliding surfaces. The rainy spring only aggravated the instability of the land. During the autumn 1968 rains, more than a year after the start of the sequence, a flow was triggered resulting in a blackish marl-limestone detrital mass and marl-shale colluvium.

Toponymy
The name of the village, as it appears for the first time the 9th century (Colonia in Prato) is derived from the Latin pratum (pré). The plural is recent. The Bléone name means Wolf River.

Mariaud appears in the texts at the beginning of the 13th century, but in the form of Mariano: According to Ernest Nègre, the place name derived from the proper Roman name of Marianus, which has evolved from Mariaudo (1319), by attraction to the Provençal local maridado, meaning wedding. Other hypotheses exist.

Blegiers is mentioned for the first time in charters in the second decade of the 12th century, in the form de Bligerio, derived from the Germanic name Blidegar, possibly Latinized as Blidegarius.

Chanolles, cited in 1122 (Canola), comes from the Pre-Celtic oronym (mountain toponym) *Kan-.

The name of the summit of Chappe at , bordering on Beaujeu, is maintained in the existence of an optical telegraph relay, known as .

The name of the locality of la Favière evokes a planted field of beans (); that of Combes designates a ravine (similar to combe), downstream of the village of Prads.

Economy

In 2017, the active population amounted to 69 people, including 10 unemployed. These workers are in majority employees (68%), and are in majority employed outside the commune (52%).

At the end of 2015, the primary sector (agriculture, forestry, fishing) had 14 active institutions within the meaning of Insee (including non-professional operators and self-employment).

The number of professional farms, according to the Agreste survey of the Ministry of Agriculture, is nine in 2010. It was 11 in 2000, and 18 in 1988. Currently, these operators are divided into sheep and vegetable farmers. From 1988 to 2000, the usable agricultural land (SAU) had significantly increased, from  to . The SAU has dropped during the last decade, to .

At the end of 2015, the secondary sector (industry and construction) had 8 establishments, employing one worker. The hydroelectric power plant of Chanolles used the waters of the Bléone. The turbine had an output of 210kW.

Formerly, hydropower sawmills were installed in Champourcin, Blegiers and Prads. They all ceased operation in the 20th century. In 2013, a new artisanal sawmill was created in the village of Blegiers.

At the end of 2015, the tertiary sector (shops, transport, services) had eight institutions (one salaried employee), in addition to seven institutions in the administrative sector (together with the health and social sector and education), with six people employed.
According to the Observatoire départemental du tourisme, the tourist function is very important for the municipality, with more than five tourists accommodated per capita, despite a low capacity of accommodation for tourist purposes:

Several branded as furnished and a number non-furnished.
The only capacity for any collective accommodation is located in the shelters.

Secondary residences complement the capacity: with a number of 212, they represent 65% of dwellings.

The bistro at the Trois Évêchés, which carries the  brand, adheres to a charter which aims to "contribute to the conservation and the animation of the economic and social fabric in rural areas by maintaining a place in village life".

There is also a centre for excursions and hikes.

History
In ancient times, Bodiontiques (Bodiontici) lived in the Valley of the Bléone, and were therefore the Gallic people who lived in the valleys of the current commune of Prads-Haute-Bléone. The Bodiontiques, who were defeated by Augustus at the same time as other peoples present on the Trophy of the Alps (before 14 BC) are attached to the Roman province of Alpes Maritimae at its inception.

The communities of Blegiers, Champourcin, Chanolles, Chavailles, Mariaud and Prads were all of the Bailli of Digne.

Prads

The locality of Prads appears for the first time in charters in the High Middle Ages, as Prato, dependent upon the Abbey of Saint Victor in Marseille. It stood at the junction of the dioceses of Digne, Senez, and Embrun.

The Abbey of Cistercian monks of Notre-Dame de Faillefeu (or meadows: the Abbot was called "the Abbot of the meadows") was founded in 1144 by the monks of . They founded the  on February 3, 1199 (the date of the Charter of Foundation). In 1298, it belongs to the Cluny Abbey, and then passes under the authority of the college Saint-Martial in Avignon. The abbey was eventually looted, ransacked and abandoned during the French Wars of Religion.

The tithes were levied by the Chapter of Digne.

In 1843, the priest of the parish, Paul Charpenel, writes the annals of the parish of Prads, not published to date. One of the municipal measures from this period is the construction of a public fountain in the village, under the Second Republic, in 1850.

The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte against the Second Republic caused an armed uprising in the Basses-Alpes, in defense of the constitution. After the failure of the uprising, severe repression descended on those who stood up to defend the Republic, which included an inhabitant of Prads.

As with many municipalities of the department, Prads acquired schools well before the Jules Ferry laws: in 1863, it had three, located in Prads, la Favière and Tercier. These schools provided a primary education to boys. While the Falloux Laws of 1851, required the opening of a girls school in communes with more than 800 inhabitants, Prads maintained a girls school in the 1860s, but that school closed before the end of the Second Empire. It is only since the Ferry Laws that Prads girls have attended school regularly.

Blégiers
In the Middle Ages, during the 12th century, the village of Blégiers (Bligerium) moved to the Roche-de-Blégiers, on a hilltop site. The community had a consulate in the 13th century. Its population increased from 81 feus in 1315, with another 14 in 1471. At this time, it was still part of the Chapter of Digne that owned the domain and the Church of the Roche-de-Blégiers, before selling these in 1476 to the . From that date, it was the Bishop who appointed the responsible chaplain of the souls of this parish, and who collects revenues attached to this church.

Chanolles was reported as early as 814: The Polyptych of Wadalde indicated that the Abbey of Saint Victor in Marseille had a . The two communities of Chanolles and Champourcin which had eight feus each count of 1315, were heavily depopulated by the crises of the 14th century (the Black Death and the Hundred Years' War), and were annexed by Blegiers in the 15th century. Champourcin and Chanolles churches were of the chapter of Digne.

The death of Queen Jeanne I opened a succession crisis in the , the towns of the Union of Aix (1382-1387), supported Charles, Duke of Durazzo against Louis I, Duke of Anjou. The Lord of Chanolles, Louis le Roux, supported the Duke of Anjou as early as April 1382, this support was conditional on the participation of the Duke in the relief expedition to the Queen. The Lord of Blegiers, Louis Aymes, appears in the lists of support to the Angevins in 1385, after the death of Louis I.

In 1765, Blégiers had 257 inhabitants. The lordship of the place had belonged successively to the Grimaldi (14th century), Puget and Eissautier families.

As Prads, Blégiers acquired schools well before the Jules Ferry laws: In 1863, it had four installed in Blégiers and the villages of Heyres, Chanolles and Chavailles. These schools provided a primary education to boys. No instruction was given to girls, nor under the Falloux Laws of 1851, which required the opening of a girls school in the communes with more than 800 inhabitants, nor did the first Duruy Law (1867), which lowered the threshold to 500 inhabitants, concern Blegiers. The commune took advantage of subsidies from the second Duruy Law (1877) to build new schools everywhere. Only the Blegiers school was renovated. It is only with the Ferry Laws that girls became educated regularly.

While the settlement was isolated, polyculture allowed most of the needs to be met. Wine was produced locally, but had a poor reputation. A polyculture, the highest in the Bléone Valley, was abandoned before World War I. The decline of self-sufficient polyculture continued after World War II, and harvesting wheat was stopped in 1958.

Mariaud
The community of Mariaud appears in texts in 1218 (Mariaudum). With a consul from 1237, it had 50 feus in 1315, but only 10 by 1471. The Church of Mariaud reported to the  in Valence, but it was the Prior of Beaujeu, who collected the tithe.

In the conflict between Charles, Duke of Durazzo and Louis I, Duke of Anjou in the succession of Jeanne I, the Lord of Mariaud, Gui de Saint-Marcial, supported Louis as the Duke of Anjou from the spring of 1382.

It had 195 inhabitants in 1765.

As Prads and Blégiers, Mariaud acquired a school well before the Jules Ferry laws, for the hamlet of Vière. Also as with Blégiers and Prads, no instruction was given to girls by the Falloux Laws of 1851, and nor did the first Duruy Laws of 1867 apply to Mariaud. Again, it was with the Ferry Laws that Mariaud girls became educated regularly.

In 1939, after displacement of the village, the main settlement became Vière at Saume Longue.

French Revolution
During the French Revolution, the communes of Blegiers and Prads each had a patriotic society, both created after the end of 1792.

Contemporary period

On 30 July 1944, the hamlet of Eaux-Chaudes was burned by the Wehrmacht. From 1954 to 1959 the Foreign Legion set up a camp at a place called Les Eaux-Chaudes, which hosted 30 legionaries. This camp is now in ruins.

The town of Prads merged with that of  in 1973. That of  joined them in 1977, and the commune was renamed Prads-Haute-Bléone.

On 24 March 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, crashed in the mountains within the territory of the commune, killing all 150 passengers and crew.

Heraldry

Politics and administration

The premises of the school of Blegiers contains the municipal library.

Demography

Prads and Prads-Haute-Bléone

In 2012, Prads-Haute-Bléone had 186 inhabitants. From the 21st century, places with less than a population of 10,000 have had a census every five years (2007, 2012, 2017, etc. for Prads-Haute-Bléone). Since 2004, the other figures are estimates.

The municipality had 180 inhabitants in 1990 against 980 for the three communes of Blegiers, Mariaud and Prads in 1881. All of the three communes experienced a population peak in the 1830s with 1294 inhabitants in 1836.

The table and chart that follow relate to the population of the municipality of Prads until 1968, then the new municipality of Prads (with Mariaud) in 1975, and finally Prads-Haute-Bléone (with Blegiers) from 1982.

In the 19th century, after a period of growth, Prads showed a 'slack' period where the population remained relatively stable at a level high. This period lasted from 1811 to 1851. The  then caused a movement of long-term demographic decline. By 1921, the municipality records the loss of more than half of its population over the historic high of 1836. The downward movement stops definitively than in the 1960s. Since then, the population has resumed some growth.

Blégiers demographics
For the enumeration of 1315, Blegiers, Chanolles, and Champourcin populations were added together.

The demographic history of Blegiers is marked by the loss of population during the 14th and 15th centuries due to the Black Death and the Hundred Years' War, crises which completely destroyed the communities of Chanolles and Champourcin and also touched that of Blegiers, strongly.

In the 19th century, after a period of growth, Blegiers had a 'slack' period where the population remained relatively stable at a level high. This period lasted from 1821 to 1851. The  then caused a faster long-term decline than in Prads. By 1906, the settlement had lost more than half of its population, since the historic maximum in 1836. The downward movement continued until the 1970s and the merger with Prads.

Mariaud demographics

Just like Blegiers, Mariaud is marked by a loss of population during the 14th and 15th centuries due to the Black Death and the Hundred Years' War, and lost 80% of its population between 1315 and 1471. However, the depopulation crisis had been over for several decades by 1471.

In the 19th century, after a period of growth, Mariaud shows a period of 'slack' for longer than its neighbours, from 1806 to 1866. Though, if the  began here later, it affected Mariaud, Blegiers and Prads with equal strength. In 1911, the town had lost more than half its population compared to the historical maximum of 1831. The downward movement continued until the 1960s and brought about the merger with Prads.

Sites and monuments

Natural places

The RD107 road offers beautiful panoramic views.

Churches and chapels
The Sainte-Anne Parish Church of Prads, which dates from the 14th century, was entirely rebuilt in 1876–1878, and repaired in 1888. The nave, long with three bays, leads into a chancel of false-style Gothic. It is oriented to the north-west.

The Abbey of Sainte-Marie-de-Villevieille, known as Faillefeu or Prads was built in the middle of the 12th century by the monks of Boscodon, which was then given to the Abbey of Cîteaux. The priory was then dependent on Cluny. The church has collapsed completely and is a pile of earth and stone, between the monastic buildings still standing.

The commune of Prads-Haute-Bléone gathers three old communes and six medieval communities, which explains the large number of religious buildings that are found in its territory:

The Chapel of Our Lady at Tercier, rebuilt by the inhabitants in 1829.
The Church of Our Lady at Blegiers, which was originally a small chapel is much extended around 1830 with the ancient Saint-Barbara's Chapel being converted into a sacristy. The bell tower was rebuilt in 1877.
The Heyres Saint-Roch Chapel, which was a branch of Our Lady at Blegiers, was restored in 1982. It is built at an altitude of .
The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (rebuilt in 1810, restored in 1865) at Chanolles, with a statue of St. John from the 15th century, carved, painted wooden and classified. Its bell tower dates from the end of the 19th century.
The Church of Saint-Laurent at Chavailles (formerly Saint-Sauveur) was rebuilt in 1842 after being originally built in the 13th century. The bell tower dates from the Second Empire. In the church furniture, a silver ciborium dated from the 17th century (classified as a Monument historique object). Its small processional cross, silver, dates from the 18th century and is also classified.
The old Church of Our Lady of Beauvezer in Champourcin (the chalice and the paten of silver, from the 17th century, are classified).
At the village of Champourcin, Saint-Christophe's Church is installed in a basement, with a bell tower in the garden.

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Transfiguration, in the hamlet of la Favière, rebuilt in 1838. The Church was the seat of a parish in the 14th century, the presbytery dates from the beginning of the 1870s, the bell tower of the 1880s.
The ruins of the Church of Saint-Étienne of Vière (Romanesque, built in the 13th century with ongoing restoration since 2011), in the former village of Mariaud. The cobbles of the parvise of the Church of Saint-Étienne draws a Jerusalem cross inscribed in a Reuleaux triangle.

Castle
The Château de Mariaud is in a state of ruin.

Notable people
This is the village of  father, the writer frequently spends his summer vacation here.  was an 18th-century businessman who was born in Blégiers.

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

Books

This book, very well documented, traces the history of the ancient Abbey of Faillefeu and the exploitation of the homonymous forest. The author cites ancient families involved in the logging and transport of logs floated along the Bléone Valley.

This book is the transcription of the book by reason of a family of farmers, over 6 generations, living in the hamlet of Adret, within the former commune of Mariaud. It traces mainly baptisms and the accounts of the household, as well as important transactions received before a notary.

Bibliography

 (BnF no. FRBNF35450017h)

References

External links

Prads-Haute-Bléone on the website of the Institut géographique national
Prads-Haute-Bléone

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence


Puimichel (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


We Lost the Skyline (also known as Transmission 7.1) is a live recording by Porcupine Tree, recorded during an in-store performance at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Florida on 4 October 2007, with 200 fans in attendance. Although it was originally planned that the full band would play, lack of space dictated that only the two guitarists/singers Steven Wilson and John Wesley did. This one-off performance was captured by a remote recording facility and the complete 8 song, 33 minute show is now being released in a mail order only CD, but the band are currently negotiating a low-key release for the CD through a number of independent stores in the USA that have supported Porcupine Tree over the last few years (including Park Avenue CDs itself). However, the CD was released in Poland in small quantity.

The album originally came in a digipack sleeve created by photographer Lasse Hoile and designer Carl Glover.

Dutch vinyl specialists Tonefloat also released a quality 180gm vinyl edition of We Lost the Skyline in a gatefold sleeve, with a limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies on marbled vinyl, and a regular edition on black vinyl. The Porcupine Tree store also stocks the vinyl editions.

On 25 January 2008, "Lazarus" was made available to listen through the band's Myspace.

The track "Normal" was made available, a few weeks prior to the release of the album, exclusively to Porcupine Tree fan club members.

On 18 February 2008 We Lost the Skyline was released on CD. The vinyl versions were released on 18 March 2008.

The CD was also made available to order through Park Ave CDs (the venue where the recording took place). This version of the CD came with an exclusive poster commemorating the in-store event (poster limited to 300). This version was released on 26 February 2008.

Since 14 June 2008, the album was made available for digital download at a very low cost through the band's online store, whether in MP3 or FLAC formats, including printable artwork.

Track listing

Personnel

Steven Wilson – acoustic and electric guitar, vocals
John Wesley (tracks 4–8) – electric guitar, backing vocals
Darren Schneider – engineer
Joe Jachino, Shane Fitzgerald, Tyler Tapp, Michael Escobar, Stephen Spencer – assistant engineers
Matt Gorney – producer

References

Porcupine Tree live albums
2008 live albums
Transmission (record label) live albums


Puimoisson (; Provençal Occitan: Puegmeisson) is a rural commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2020, it had a population of 683.

Demographics

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia