Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInCHAUMONT New York (WWNY) - Did someone steal half a million dollars from the Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department and Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad Two north country volunteer agencies that come to peoples' rescue are taking two unnamed people to court Paperwork filed by the Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department and Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad alleges potential financial misconduct It allegedly occurred for the last six years and was only recently discovered Named in the complaint are John and Jane Doe unnamed because it isn’t clear who the culprit may be It’s alleged the defendants were employed by or served in a managerial capacity for the fire department or rescue squad The agencies are seeking upwards of $500,000 They are also requesting John and Jane Doe’s passwords and account information so they can gain access to financial records and other data A Syracuse lawyer representing the fire department and ambulance squad says there are no facts yet The complaint needed to be filed to gain access to the bank records Chaumont Fire Chief and Director of Operations at Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad Will Lipczynski says this situation is not affecting operations He says both agencies are running 24/7 to support the community and provide the services expected of them Chaumont Volunteer Fir v Chaumont Volunteer Fir Complaint 2 by 7 News on Scribd Chaumont Volunteer Fir v Chaumont Volunteer Fir Complaint 2 by 7 News on Scribd Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More There are more than 5,000 solar farms across the nation and responders struggled to figure out a plan of action One of those farms is up in the North Country volunteer department has been helping others learn as New York state prepares major changes to policy “It was absolutely a lot of confusion,” Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department Chief Will Lipczynski said It was in July of last year that a terrifying sight left no one sure what to do “We were not sure if we were supposed to put water on it We were supposed to get foam,” Lipczynski added that roughly 30 fire departments responded to the lithium battery fire on a solar farm in Chaumont “Just trying to get a hold of company to get all the proper data sheets and trying to get them in a timely manner was very hard at the time,” Lipczynski recalled Departments that arrived were so worried about chemical reactions toxins getting in the air or in the ground We don't we don't want to jeopardize the firefighters that are up there close to it working we don't want to jeopardize anyone in the public,” Lipczynski said cleaning up and removing the damaged batteries to replace them with new ones The holdup we’re told was regarding insurance issues and getting permits to take those damaged batteries across state lines “It’s nice to see everything come full circle and just see the end in sight,” Lipczynski said Chaumont has become the expert — the go-to — for departments across the country to learn more about solar and battery that's nice to be able to answer a question,” Lipczynski added “Now we know we can run a very low volume of water [to keep it cool] It's knowledge that ensures a Hazmat team on-site to collect and test groundwater and air samples New York state agrees. It's why a working group was established to advance some recommendations in case of future fires including removing a fire code exception for electric utilities that own or operate a solar farm those recommendations include proper response signage on-site independent peer reviews of installation and having qualified and knowledgeable personnel nearby they don't go too quickly and forget some of the small issues that we can arise,” Lipczynski said Issues he says like ensuring departments have the proper technology and equipment to fight these types of fires Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy your city without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Paris Buttes-Chaumont is forever climbing the ranks of what’s good and beautiful in Paris With cascading parks – from Buttes-Chaumont to Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge – a string of canals and sprawling cultural hubs like Le 104 and Parc de la Villette the city’s northeast is a surprising but brilliant mix of laid-back vibes and artistic energy Here, you’re not in the midst of buzzy, tourist Paris. Instead you’re interspersed with locals doing their day-to-day, seeking a little bit of peace (and greenery) in Paris. And that means you won’t find great hotels here either – you’re better off booking an Airbnb or staying nearby. But add in standout restaurants plus some of the city’s best new bars and clubs and you’ve got a neighbourhood that’s well worth basing yourself in for the weekend Here are our top picks in the Buttes-Chaumont neighbourhood. leafy bar tucked inside a little house at the top of Parc des Buttes-Chaumont where you sip your apéro beneath towering trees soaking up the last rays of sun and taking in a truly stunning view it’s the go-to gay (and totally hetero-friendly) hangout No surprise there – owner Michelle Cassaro used to run the legendary lesbian club Pulp The only catch? Rosa Bonheur gets absolutely packed every summer Security barriers are set up to manage the overflowing terrace crowd bouncers keep an eye out for queue-jumpers But people aren’t just here for the setting – Rosa is where it’s at Address: 2 Allée de la Cascade Launched in summer 2023 by a well-oiled trio of mates, Buttes hit the ground running Pierre Forest and Benoît Baud have built a hefty natural-leaning wine list with some real gems – like the juicy 2021 Nouvelle Lune red from Alsace (€37) or a zesty 2019 Müller-Thurgau from Czech winemaker Milan Nestarec (€45) sharply executed small plates from a central open setup Expect retro-style Limoges plates bearing things like herring with pickles and spicy sauerkraut – punchy herbaceous and perfect with a glass of bright 2022 Chenin from La Grange de Nouméa (€6.50) Long story short: Buttes is a total knockout Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a hidden gem Parisians would rather keep to themselves Tucked away in this increasingly trendy neighbourhood this lush patch of green has winding paths jagged rocks and faux grottos circling a lake – as well as make your way to the brilliant Rosa Bonheur tucked into a little house at the top of the park Francesca also whips up some knockout focaccias topped with confit tomatoes and ribbons of ham or indulgent mushroom and truffle lasagnes it’s pricey – but with this kind of quality Buttes-Chaumont isn’t really a hotel spot – you’d be better off booking an Airbnb in this neighbourhood Babel is the kind of hotel that feels a bit like staying at your cool friend’s flat than a hotel There’s a ground-floor restaurant serving Levantine-inspired small plates Once you’ve had a day out in Buttes-Chaumont saunter five minutes down the road for a wine and a recoup back at your hotel room. 🏨 Discover more of the best hotels in Paris Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! twitter pinterest instagram About us Contact us Bring the Adventure Home | 1871 Club Print Membership Now Only $35 - Delivered Right to Your Door, Subscribe Today 2024An angler poses with a trophy walleye caught through the ice in Upstate New York (Photo/Louis Pagnotti)The 10 Best Ice Fishing Lakes in AmericaThe start of winter shouldn't dampen the amount of time you spend outside catching big fish there's a hardy subset of anglers who are just getting started when the snow starts to fly and lake surfaces freeze over consider putting one of these top-notch ice fishing destinations on your must-fish list TIP: The perch fishing in Chaumont Bay can be world-class as well and there's no limit on size or quantity Local anglers are known to catch boatloads of jumbo perch using hand-tied "perch bugs" on size 8 hooks tipped with either a maggot or a perch eye Devil’s Lake is the largest naturally occurring water body in North Dakota and it’s famous for healthy populations of walleye Ice fishing typically kicks off on Devil’s in early to mid-December when anglers can jig rattling spoons for fat football-shaped walleyes that feed heavily above man-made structure Fish 2 to 3 feet off the bottom in water as deep as 30 feet when targeting perch One common perch lure on Devil’s is a slender 1/16th spoon tipped with 2 or 3 maggots (A.K.A Tip-ups are a good strategy when fishing for pike and every flag that goes up has trophy potential Fish dead herring or cisco right off the bottom for your best chance at netting a trophy northern overcast days are best for the all-day walleye bite on Devils TIP: The Strawberry Bay Marina offers shuttles out onto the ice all week long during the winter months Green Bay is an arm of Lake Michigan that butts up to the east coast of Wisconsin and the southwest coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula It's approximately 120 miles long and ranges between 10 to 20 miles in width The bay is a legendary destination for big walleye walleye push into the shallows and feed heavily near structure in preparation for the upcoming spawn Try fishing an 8-ounce jighead tipped with a dead shiner over shallow-water zebra muscle beds The Flaming Gorge Reservoir is formed by the Green River which is impounded by the Flaming Gorge dam in southwest Wyoming Much of the 42,000-acre lake sits in Wyoming but a good-sized section extends into northern Utah as well—and the ice fishing is great in both the Cowboy State and the Beehive State portions Ice anglers from all over the country travel to the Gorge to target kokanee salmon TIP: Fish big tube jigs an inch or two off the bottom to catch trophy lakers on Flaming Gorge Lake Gogebic is a natural lake spanning 13,800-acres in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and it's well known for jumbo perch through the ice Anglers hone in on the north end of the lake for walleye and submerged structure on the south end for trophy walleyes and northerns The jumbo perch that make the lake famous tend to feed around submerged vegetation and along drop offs TIP: Use small vertical jigs tipped with minnows or worms when targeting jumbo perch on Lake Gogebic Read Next: The 50 Best Fishing Lures of All Time © 2024 Field & Stream All rights reserved Following its arrival in France on Bastille Day (14 July), the flame will remain in the capital for a second day, travelling through the central districts before heading to those on the periphery of Paris. The torch will begin its route at the Arena Porte de La Chapelle before heading to the Boulevard des Batignolles. It will then visit the Louis Vuitton Foundation and the Jardin d'Acclimatation before resuming its journey by travelling from Batignolles to the Trocadéro. Later on, the torch will visit another iconic sporting site: the Stade de Roland Garros, before visiting the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. From there, it will head to the Place d'Italie before scooting off to the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It will carry on with its journey before arriving at the Passerelle Mornay. To continue the celebrations, the torch will visit INSEP, a training ground for champions that has been forming athletes since 1975. It will then resume its route, passing from the Passerelle Mornay to the Boulevard des Maréchaux. The final stop of the day will be the Place de la République. now nestled in a new location at the heart of Buttes-Chaumont an elegant venue beautifully decorated by Cordelia de Castellane bringing back unforgettable moments from La Caserne in the 10th district Ora Farmhouse keeps the essence but evolves from 100% plant-based to flexitarian and harvesting from its own garden adjacent to the restaurant originally a bartender who creates dishes like art pieces adding a sexy touch to vegetables with spectacular presentations and a sense of sharing and celebration are the pillars of his cuisine: “I plate my vegetables like painting a canvas.” In collaboration with Entourage Paris known for their unique dining concepts (like Marta at Fouquet’s and Gala in the 8th) Chef Saayaan embodies the spirit of Ora Farmhouse A few steps down the path of this chic pavilion ensure an escape and a drop in cortisol levels blending with the surrounding nature through its vast windows with charming wooden tables lined up and flowers—dried in frames or hand-painted on walls—dominating the rustic decor Ora Farmhouse excels at offering experiences at any time of the day Lunch features inviting small plates: marinated Pink burrata in beet juice with pistachio pesto (€12) smooth labneh styled like soft serve (€9) grilled octopus with caper butter (€12) especially during the second service with a DJ and Chef Saayaan performing his culinary choreography plating and seasoning dishes on parchment paper The set vegetarian menu is reasonably priced (€39) with optional shareable dishes like fish and chips Don't miss the desserts (the caramel cream with soft serve is amazing €17) or the well-crafted cocktails to elevate the evening (from €12 to €17) Join us for Sunday brunch from 12 PM to 4 PM featuring a delightful selection of savory treats (vegetable karaage Extras include a kid's brunch menu (€10) and a shareable chicken dish for four (€48) Head to the Guinguette at the pavilion entrance for 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your print subscription using the options below Start your digital-only membership today and not only receive full access to our premier news website NNY360.com but also to the NNY360 mobile app no promotional deals were found matching that code Showers and thundershowers this evening will give way to steady rain overnight A Chaumont Fire Department engine at the station on State Route 12E CHAUMONT — A lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court is under way to find out if $500,000 was misappropriated for personal use from the Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department and Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad lists the plaintiffs as both the Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department Inc. against “John Doe and Jane Doe” as the defendants “Defendants are listed as unknown persons at the moment until it can be determined who is the actual culprit of the allegations below,” the lawsuit reads It is alleged in the lawsuit that the defendants “intentionally and without authority diverted the funds from Plaintiffs for Defendants’ [sic] own improper use and/or benefits.” It is also alleged in the lawsuit that the unnamed persons were employed by the plaintiffs separately who is representing the fire department and rescue squad said on Tuesday that the actual amount of allegedly misappropriated money may be more or less than $500,000 He also said there could be more than one John Doe and more than one Jane Doe “We are clearly looking at the actions of a limited number of people,” he said “We’re looking at the specific actions of a specific number of people.” Pinsky said that of those people being looked at it does not include Chaumont Fire Chief Will Lipczynski or his wife Heather who also serves in the department as the second assistant chief and secretary The lawsuit alleges that the defendants diverted the funds from the fire department and ambulance service for “defendants’ own improper use and/or benefit.” The lawsuit requests an amount of up to $500,000 plus other fees login credentials and other information in order to access financial records Pinsky said that the fire department and the ambulance squad have “suspicion that there might have been some financial wrongdoing” while adding “we haven’t proven anything.” Pinsky said when they contacted the bank for records He said the reasoning for listing the defendants as John and Jane Doe was so there wasn’t an accusation against somebody before researching He believes that there will be state and federal criminal charges as a result of the probe and they should know we’re coming for them Pinsky also said they are in the “investigation process” of the suit Pinsky would not comment on if there is also a criminal investigation coinciding with the civil suit An attempt to reach Chaumont Fire Chief Will Lipczynski was unsuccessful Tuesday Email notifications are only sent once a day Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: As in previous years, children will have to buy a hunting permit for €8 online and €10 on site this year (inflation obliges) to set off in search of the eggs Then the search begins: the little ones will have to scour the local groves for the famous eggs We recommend reserving your hunting passport in advance to avoid queuing on the day This little precaution facilitates access and allows you to take full advantage of the many activities on offer children of all ages are invited to take part in an egg hunt organized by age group - 2 to 4 These specially-designed routes allow everyone to participate at their own pace each little hunter receives a chocolate snack to round off the mission on a sweet note a Secours Populaire village is set up in the heart of the park offering a range of activities for the whole family: Some activities are offered in exchange for a fee but they all have one thing in common: they support a just cause: solidarity To get to the Buttes-Chaumont park there are several options for public transport: metro line 5 takes you to Laumière station while line 7 bis takes you south to Botzaris station 60 or 75 to the Armand Carrel - Mairie du 19e stop or lines 26 and 71 to the Buttes-Chaumont stop Rendezvous this Sunday, April 20, 2025 at the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. To save time, get your hunting tickets with a time slot Refer your establishment, click here Promote your event, click here You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Jan 31 Two Jefferson County volunteer agencies are taking unnamed culprits to court for stealing funds The Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad and Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department alleges that two people who have worked or volunteered in those organizations have stolen around $500,000 the agencies say financial misconduct has been going on for six years and was recently discovered WWNYTV reports that the agencies’ lawyer says they filed the complaint to gain access to financial records and other data That's because it’s unknown who has been stealing CHAUMONT-PHOTO-SUR-LOIRE 202416th November 2025Chaumont-sur-Loire estate41150 Chaumont-sur-Loire A different view of nature, through the eye of the photographer, is on offer at Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire. This 7th edition showcases five artists who Their work ranges from exploring the world to reveal the wounds inflicted by human activity erasing the colors of life to create pictorial representations or transforming landscapes into mysterious and captivating horizons Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire draws attention to the precious yet fragile quality of nature This year’s edition highlights the urgent need for a global awakening to the terrifying dangers facing our planet it presents images that invite joyful contemplation reflecting a firm conviction that the world needs peace and beauty Striking a balance between these two objectives is essential Edward Burtynsky presents a major series of photos taken in Africa While many perceive the continent as unspoiled Burtynsky’s work reveals how endangered it truly is With spectacular views marked by faultless aesthetic quality the Canadian photographer confronts us with perilous ecological realities capturing the consequences of human overreach with stunning precision Laurent Millet shares his immersive experience of the Indonesian rainforest and verticality—and struck by the simultaneous embrace and rejection of the environment—Millet presents lush intricate visions inspired by Eastern brocades and fabrics Letizia Le Fur takes us on a different journey presenting images of Tahiti that are unparalleled She strips landscapes of their vibrant colors—the turquoise of the lagoon and the red of hibiscus flowers—to create a surreal world that floats between dreams and fiction Nicolas Bruant brings the subtleties of light and shadow to the forefront he goes beyond what is ordinarily visible to craft a new visual reality Known for photographing strangers encountered by chance Bruant here unveils a surprising side of nature Jens Liebchen presents spellbinding snowy landscapes that appear devoid of human activity delicate details emerge—trees illuminated like actors on a stage These images evoke Japanese pictorial traditions while offering insights into the society that shaped them At the intersection of these five perspectives lie two shared elements: time and silence The time spent traveling and working in the studio and the silence of observation and creation combine to produce singular insights into a natural world that is precious yet all too often ignored and to respect the infinite beauty that surrounds us Learn more Art Plugged is a contemporary platform inspired by a relationship with the broader arts communities We provide our audience with curated insight into the world of art from exhibitions to artist interviews and more We strive to showcase all mediums of art from all corners of the globe so we have you covered whether you’re a casual art lover or a serious collector it's a brunch as beautiful as it is good that awaits gourmands Whether inside the pavilion, with its country-house decor, or on the two terraces (one in the shade, the other sunnier),Ora Farmhouse 's brunch is among the best we've tasted in recent times brunch is available for the whole table at €36 per adult this hearty brunch consists of seasonal vegetables in tempura (currently cauliflower zucchini and carrot tops marinated in soy sauce) to be dipped in a homemade tartar sauce; a generous ladle of labneh and its virgin sauce; a ramekin ofscrambled farm eggs; a plump butter croissant per person; small extremely moist pistachio-raspberry financiers; a homemade granola with red berries and fromage blanc whipped to a creamy consistency; and airy topped with a beautiful quenelle of maple syrup butter What can I say? We loved it- the quantity, the quality, the affordable price and thebucolic atmosphere Brunch arrives on the table like a colorful washed down with a cold beer or a glass of homemade lemonade flavored with Provencal herbs - the latter included in the price of brunch Ora Farmhouse continues to emphasize responsible cooking, with an emphasis on seasonal fruit and vegetables, sourced through short supply chains to ensure the most carbon-neutral footprint possible everything is transformed: peelings become potato chips overripe fruit becomes homemade jam and organic waste becomes fertilizer for the vegetable garden An absolutely delicious brunch that we recommend you try without delay This test was conducted as part of a professional invitation Volume 15 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.735920 This article is part of the Research TopicAcoustic Communication Analysis for Understanding Animal BehaviorView all 12 articles Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are used as a phenotypic marker in mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, current methodologies still require time-consuming manual input or sound recordings clean of any background noise. We developed a method to overcome these two restraints to boost knowledge on mouse USVs. The methods are freely available and the USV analysis runs online at https://usv.pasteur.cloud As little is currently known about usage and structure of ultrasonic vocalizations during social interactions over the long-term and in unconstrained context we investigated mouse spontaneous communication by coupling the analysis of USVs with automatic labeling of behaviors We continuously recorded during 3 days undisturbed interactions of same-sex pairs of C57BL/6J sexually naive males and females at 5 weeks and 3 and 7 months of age we observed robust differences between males and females in the amount of USVs produced in the acoustic structure and in the contexts of emission The context-specific acoustic variations emerged with increasing age The emission of USVs also reflected a high level of excitement during social interactions We finally highlighted the importance of studying long-term spontaneous communication by investigating female mice lacking Shank3 While the previous short-time constrained investigations could not detect USV emission abnormalities our analysis revealed robust differences in the usage and structure of the USVs emitted by mutant mice compared to wild-type female pairs due to their broad use as models for neuropsychiatric disorders Examining USVs in these specific contexts allowed to suggest some of their functions linking USVs emission to behavioral contexts is required linking USVs with behavioral contexts remains focused on constrained interactions and does not shed light on the usage of spontaneous USVs as well as to detect and interpret social communication phenotypes in mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders Spectrogram and automatically extracted USVs in which each color labels a different USV The segmentation follows the shape of the frequency of maximum amplitude “Download all results” button providing figures and data for each acoustic feature extracted for each voc We tested eight male and eight female C57BL/6J mice (hereafter B6 mice; Charles River Laboratories, Ecully, France). Mice arrived at 3 weeks of age as a group and were directly housed in same-sex pairs in the experimental facility. ProSAP2/Shank3 mutant mice (deletion of exon 11; Schmeisser et al., 2012) were generated onsite from heterozygous parents on a C57BL/6J background (>10 backcrosses) Twelve Shank3−/− females arrived at 1–1.5 month of age in the experimental facility these mice were housed within mixed-genotype groups Shank3+/+ females were not available in sufficient number to conduct a similar study with these control mice and therefore B6 females aged 3 months were used as control group given their similar genetic background Shank3−/− females were directly housed in age-matched pairs upon arrival at least 3 weeks before the recording session to let them stabilize social relationships we focused on a single age class (3 months of age) since it is the classical age for behavioral characterization We focused only on females given the low amount of USVs spontaneously emitted by B6 males which is the genetic background used to generate the Shank3 mutant mice tested here mice were housed in classical laboratory cages with food and water ad libitum and 11 h/13 h dark/light rhythm (lights off at 08:00 p.m.) We inserted RFID chips (12 × 2.12 mm; Biolog-Id France) subcutaneously behind the left ear and pushed it down to the flank at 4 weeks of age in B6 mice and between 5 and 7 weeks in Shank3−/− mice After this operation conducted under gas (isoflurane) anesthesia and local analgesia (<0.05 ml lidocaïne at 20 mg/ml) We did not control for the sexual status of females in our experiments. Nevertheless, as the experiments lasted 3 days, we cover a large proportion of the sexual cycle (see also von Merten et al., 2014) we wanted to avoid manipulating animals throughout the recording session and following the estrus cycle would have necessitated daily handling For the recordings, each pair was placed in the LMT setup (de Chaumont et al., 2019) a Plexiglas cage of 50 × 50 cm with transparent walls furnished with fresh bedding food dispersed on the ground in the center a water bottle at the down right side of the cage height: 40 mm) in red Plexiglas in the down left corner and nesting material (six dental cottons) spread on the bedding in the center of the cage Each LMT setup was isolated in an experimental room Recordings were launched between 03:00 and 04:00 p.m we did not disturb the mice anymore for 3 days (11 h/13 h dark/light rhythm Recordings were stopped after 71 h and setups were cleaned with soap water and re-furnished before launching another recording session the first recordings occurred at 5 weeks of age We next recorded in identical conditions the same mice at 3 and 7 months of age The six pairs of Shank3−/− mice were recorded only once the age class classically recorded in behavioral phenotyping of mouse models Launching recordings consisted in monitoring both behavior and USV emission. Behavioral monitoring occurred through the LMT system (Kinect camera on the top, plugins 465, 524, 600, or 705; de Chaumont et al., 2019) in which mice were automatically identified and tracked throughout the recording session All spontaneous ultrasonic vocalization sequences were recorded using an Avisoft-Bioacoustics CM16/CMPA microphone (located 50 cm above the bottom right corner of the LMT cage oriented toward the center of the cage) and the Avisoft UltraSoundGate Recorder system (Avisoft Bioacoustics 16-bit format) using the trigger function (trigger: level of this channel; pre-trigger: 1 s; hold time: 1 s; duration >0.005 s; trigger event: 2% energy in 25–125 kHz with entropy <50%) Both systems were synchronized within LMT (see hereafter) Behaviors were attributed to individuals while USVs were measured at the scale of the pair of mice since we cannot identify the emitter The spontaneous behavior of the mice was automatically labeled using the LMT system. Both social and non-social behaviors were used, as in (de Chaumont et al., 2019; recapitulated in Table 1) Definitions of behavioral events extracted by Live Mouse Tracker We process wav files recorded at a sampling rate of 300 kHz with a resolution of 16 bits per sample We first apply an FFT (overlap of 0.75% and FFT-size = 1,024 points) to the original audio signal to get its spectrum The acoustic traits were computed for each USV (Supplementary Table II) and each USV burst (Supplementary Table III) The system is designed to work for an unlimited duration We instead use the automatic record trigger functionality of Avisoft-RECORDER The automatic trigger of Avisoft-RECORDER monitors the sound level and starts recording a sound if the current sound level within a given frequency range is over a given threshold The sound is recorded as long as the sound level is over the threshold This function takes a hold time parameter: if Avisoft-RECORDER detects another signal during the hold period The hold period also adds a record period around the first and the last signal over the threshold To synchronize USV recording with the tracking, we use the “Trigger control” of Avisoft-RECORDER. This function allows launching of an external program at each start and end of records. We use the free software PacketSender 2 to perform communication between Avisoft-RECORDER and Live Mouse Tracker (LMT) we send a UDP string packet containing the file number currently recorded by Avisoft-RECORDER This information is recorded by LMT within the database as an “USV event.” The goal of the synchronization is to match the USV record with the current data frame number recorded by LMT The currently available methods to detect and analyze mouse USVs need specific installations and software To facilitate the testing of our own algorithm we provide a website to test the method or to process data online1 The user simply drags and drops his/her wave file waits a few seconds (depending on the length of the sample file) and finally evaluates the quality of the USV segmentation and the data extracted from the sound file The goal of this website is to provide immediate access to the method without installing any software The first panel of the website is dedicated to evaluating USV detection The first spectrogram represents the original data and the second one provides the annotated data The player under this spectrogram allows to listen to the sound file slowed down by twenty times - the length of the wave file given as input - the number of USVs detected within the wave file - a timeline displaying the USVs detected over the whole file and their temporal organization in USV bursts in which the intervals between USVs are shorter than 750 ms - the frequency characteristics of each USV within the sound file (in kHz) Each vertical black bar displays the min/max peak frequency of the USV (and therefore also the frequency range) while the black dot displays the mean peak frequency and the red dot displays the peak frequency with the maximum amplitude in each USV - the proportion of USVs with frequency modulations - the proportion of USVs containing one or more frequency jump(s) - a table gathering all the acoustic variables extracted on each USV of the sound file The user can download all these results for his/her own sound file. These results are deleted after 1 h. Data downloaded from this web page can be directly used with the scripts that we provide in the present study. To perform the analysis on thousands of files, we also provide the desktop version of the analysis program, working in batch mode (download through the Live Mouse Tracker website: http://livemousetracker.org) For Live Mouse Tracker, we provided a full API in Python to process event classification and to process queries. As for Live Mouse Tracker, we provide an API in Python for the biologists to process USVs 3 This package allows one to re-create all data representations used in this study with its own data and figure generation were conducted using Python 3.8 P-values are presented as uncorrected for multiple testing with a distinctive sign (°) if they survived after Bonferroni correction indicated hereafter for each analysis We built a behavioral profile for each mouse considering the following behavioral event types: single move We also examined the total distance traveled we compared the total time spent in this behavioral event type Each of these variables was tested for the effect of age within each sex separately We used a non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis test followed by paired Wilcoxon tests to compare age classes within each sex When applying a correction for multiple testing we corrected it by the number of tests conducted (2) The effect of sex was tested within each age class separately using Mann–Whitney U-tests we corrected it by the number of age classes (3) Variables for Shank3−/− mice were compared to variables for B6 mice aged of 3 months using Mann–Whitney U-tests (no correction applied) we used nonparametric paired Wilcoxon tests to compare the amount of USVs between age classes within each sex We compared the amount of USVs between Shank3−/− and B6 mice using nonparametric Mann–Whitney U-tests (no correction applied) we used a linear mixed model (fixed factor: age or sex random factor: pair) to compare the number of USVs per USV burst between sexes within each age class (5 weeks To detect an effect of the Shank3 mutation on the number of USVs per USV burst we used a linear mixed model (fixed factor: genotype random factor: pair) to compare the number of USVs per USV burst between Shank3−/− pairs and B6 pairs The same analyses were conducted within each behavioral context (single idle we corrected it by the number of behavioral contexts examined (9) Acoustic features of USVs were compared between sexes within age classes and also between sexes within age classes and within each behavioral context using Linear Mixed Models using the pairs as a random factor we corrected it by the number of age classes (3) multiplied by the number of acoustic variables tested (16) when testing sex effect by two tests multiplied by the number of acoustic traits (16) when testing age effect When comparing acoustic traits across contexts corrections included the number of acoustic traits (16) and the number of contexts combinations We also compared the acoustic features between B6 and Shank3−/− mice using Linear Mixed Models with genotype as a fixed factor and genotype as a random factor we corrected it by the number of acoustic variables (16) We first selected representative acoustic variables (Supplementary Methods—Selection of representative acoustic variables) for the main text but nevertheless depicted all of them in the Supplementary Figures We tested whether acoustic features of USVs (duration slope) varied according to the contexts in which USVs were emitted after computing the acoustic features of all USVs we compared acoustic features of USVs between the different behavioral contexts (single idle train2) using linear mixed models (fixed factor: context random factor: pair) with a Bonferroni correction (combination of two within nine behavioral events × 16 acoustic features) Acoustic variations between contexts in Shank3−/− mice were tested similarly (Figure M1c-d) Heatmaps represented significance levels after Bonferroni correction (size of the points) as well as the effect size and direction of variations (cold/warm colors) We focused on the following sample of behavioral events: break contact we tested whether animals displaying these behaviors accompanied by USVs had a higher speed than when they displayed the same behaviors without USVs we computed the mean speed of the mouse displaying this behavior over the whole event We performed a paired Wilcoxon test (alternative = “greater”) to compare the mean speed of the animal with and without USVs at the group level to better understand inter-individual variations within each individual and for each behavioral event type the speeds during events overlapping with USVs to the speeds during events not overlapping with USVs using Mann–Whitney U-tests (unpaired we tested whether one type of behavioral event was longer when emitted concomitantly with USVs than when it was not concomitant with USVs we gathered the durations of events overlapping with USVs as well as the duration of events not overlapping with USVs We compared these two lists of durations using Mann–Whitney U-tests (unpaired We also performed a paired Wilcoxon test (alternative = “greater”) to compare at the group level the mean duration of the event with USVs and the mean duration of the same event without USVs To control for the fact that longer behavioral events were more likely to include USVs we used a random process in which USVs would occur at a random time the longer USVs would have more chances to overlap with a USV We simulated 1,000 different random distributions of the USVs and we kept the same proportions of USVs overlapping with behavioral events as in the original data We performed this test for each behavioral event in each experiment separately (data not shown) we performed the same statistical test (Mann–Whitney U-test) as in the original data The ratio of the number of p-values below the original one provided the probability to obtain the same effect randomly suggesting that the effects of the presence of USVs on the duration of behavioral events could be found randomly with only a weak probability longer events were not more likely to occur with USVs than shorter ones Compute_Duration_Events_With_USV_Simulation.py We conducted these tests for both animals of each WT female pair at 5 weeks and 7 months of age as well as for both animals of Shank3−/− pairs aged of 3 months for all behavioral events above cited we adjusted our statistical analyses for multiple testing accordingly (Bonferroni correction) The intonation graph displays a representation of the burst where the duration of each burst is stretched from 0 to 100 0 for the start of the burst and 100 for its end Corresponding frames are computed and if a USV is present at this frame we report the value for the given acoustic parameter and display −/+ its STD The same method is performed for the number of USVs We provide a library in Python to access and query these data We developed an online application that allows the segmentation and analysis of wave files without software installation1 Annotated spectrograms are generated online to allow visual inspection of the results The desktop version of this resource is also available and open source Spontaneous behaviors in B6 male and female pairs as well as in Shank3−/− female pairs over three nights (A) Total distance traveled over the three nights of recording in B6 male (M) and female (F) pairs at the three age classes tested Age- and sex-related variations in the (B) total time spent in nose-anogenital contact contacts in a broad sense without any specific body part involved) (D) mean duration of nose-nose contact events (E) mean duration of nose-anogenital contact events (F) mean duration of social approach events and (G) mean duration of get away events over the three nights of recording Each black dot corresponds to an individual in (A,B,E–G) with a similar shape for the two individuals of the pair while in (C,D) each dot corresponds to a pair since the behaviors are symmetrical (Mann–Whitney U-tests used to test for differences between sexes within each age class; Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Wilcoxon paired test if significant to test for differences between 5 weeks and 3 months and between 3 months and 7 months within each sex) Comparisons between B6 female pairs aged 3 months and age-matched Shank3−/− female pairs of the (H) total time spent in contact (I) mean duration of nose-nose contact events and (J) mean duration of side-side contact events over the three nights Each black dot corresponds to a pair since the behaviors are symmetrical (Mann–Whitney U-tests used to test for differences between genotypes) P-values followed by ° survived a correction for multiple testing over age classes Shank3−/− mice emitted significantly fewer USVs than B6 mice only during the second night (U = 2.0 Spontaneous emission of USVs in B6 male and female pairs as well as in Shank3−/− female pairs over three nights (A) The proportion of USVs emitted during the night periods of the 3 days of recording in B6 pairs (B) Total number of USVs recorded in male-male and female-female B6 pairs at 5 weeks and 7 months of age over the 71 h of recording (Mann–Whitney U-tests; uncorrected p-values: *p < 0.05; none of the p-values survived a correction for multiple testing (C) Total number of USVs recorded in female-female B6 pairs and in female-female Shank3−/− pairs aged 3 months (Mann–Whitney U-tests; ns: not significant) (D) The proportion of USVs occurring simultaneously with single idle and contact events in male-male and female-female B6 pairs at 5 weeks and 7 months of age (age classes represented by colors) as well as in female-female Shank3−/− pairs aged 3 months (E) The proportion of nose-anogenital contacts follow and train2 behaviors occurring simultaneously with USVs in female-female B6 pairs at 5 weeks despite their perturbed social behavior (see behavioral profiles above) USVs emitted by males appeared to be shorter and flatter compared to females’ USVs Acoustic characteristics over age and sex classes in B6 male and female pairs of mice and in Shank3−/− female pairs Spectrograms of six examples of USVs in (A) B6 males and (C) Shank3−/− females aged 3 months (1,024 FFT points Comparisons of the duration of the USVs (D) number of frequency modulations per USV (E) and harsh index of the USVs (F) between males and females at 5 weeks (males: 630 USVs females: 26,357 USVs) and 7 months (males: 241 USVs females: 33,954 USVs) of age in B6 mice (Linear Mixed Model with sex as fixed factor and pair as random factor) the number of frequency modulations per USV (H) the frequency at the beginning of the USV (J) and the mean power of USVs (K) between B6 females (26,357 USVs purple) and Shank3−/− females (33,162 USVs green) aged 3 months (Linear Mixed Model with genotype as fixed factor and pair as random factor) not significant; uncorrected p-values: *p < 0.05 None of the tests survived a correction for multiple testing We investigated further these variations related to age and genotype across the different contexts of emission We aimed at testing whether the differences described above depend on the behavioral contexts Acoustic variations of USVs between contexts of emission in B6 and Shank3−/− mice Sex-related variations in (A) the duration and (C) the mean frequency of USVs emitted during single idle by 3 months old male (486 USVs) and female (3,322 USVs) B6 mice (Linear Mixed Model with sex as fixed factor and pair as random factor; ns: not significant uncorrected p-values: **p < 0.01: p-values followed by ° survived the correction for multiple testing for acoustic variables and events) number of frequency modulations (E) and mean frequency (F) of USVs emitted by 3 months old B6 females between the different contexts of emission (Linear Mixed Models with context as fixed effect and pair as random effect) Blue colors indicate that the acoustic feature of USVs given during y-event is lower than the acoustic feature of USVs given in x-event; red colors indicate that the acoustic feature of USVs given during y-event is higher than the acoustic feature of USVs given in x-event; the effect size is represented by the color scale while the significance levels are represented by the size of the circles number of frequency modulations (H) and mean frequency (I) of USVs emitted by 3 months old Shank3−/− females between the different contexts of emission (Linear Mixed Models with context as fixed effect and pair as random effect; the effect size is represented by the color scale while the significance levels corrected for multiple testing across acoustic variables and contexts combinations are represented by the size of the circles) This suggests that the high level of arousal in the Train2 context masks the power deficit displayed by Shank3−/− mice USVs emitted during the different types of close contacts were again not significantly different USVs emitted during the approach preceding a contact emerged as acoustically different from the USVs emitted during close contacts follow and train2 behaviors as if the aging animals refined their approach behavior This observation confirmed the specific impairment of Shank3−/− mice to make nose-nose contacts (see above) We next hypothesized that behaviors accompanied by USVs were more intense (i.e. longer and with higher mean speed) than behaviors not accompanied by USVs We thus quantified the mean speed of the animals during behaviors accompanied or not by USVs as well as the duration of these behaviors Variations in mean speed and duration of each behavioral event according to the presence or absence of USVs in B6 females Variations of the mean speed of the animal performing the behavior (left panel) and of the event duration (right panel) for (A) Train2 Paired comparisons between behaviors with and without USVs were conducted at the group level using the paired Wilcoxon test for each age class (*p < 0.05 **p < 0.01; p-values remaining significant after correction for multiple testing over age classes were followed by °) Significant differences at the individual level using Mann–Whitney U-tests after Bonferroni correction are depicted by the color of the segments linking the mean value We observed that USVs were spontaneously emitted in sequences that we call “USV bursts.” The inter-USV interval threshold to classify two successive USVs in two different USV bursts was determined by examining the optimal correlation between USV bursts and behavioral events (see Supplementary Methods—Determining intervals between USVs to define USV burst) We defined that USVs separated by intervals longer than 750 ms belong to two different bursts This 750 ms threshold was valid in pairs of B6 males as well as in Shank3−/− pairs Bursts characteristics in male and female pairs of B6 mice and in Shank3−/− female mice (A) Comparison of the number of USVs per burst between B6 males and females at 5 weeks 3 months and 7 months of age (Linear Mixed Model with sex as fixed factor and pair as random factor) (B) Comparison of the number of USVs per burst between B6 females and Shank3−/− females aged 3 months (Linear Mixed Model with genotype as fixed factor and pair as random factor) (C) Comparison of the number of USVs per burst between B6 females and Shank3−/− females aged 3 months across the different contexts of emission (Linear Mixed Model with sex as fixed factor and pair as random factor) ***p < 0.001; p-values followed by ° survived a correction for multiple testing (A: age classes (D) Comparison of the number of USVs per burst emitted by 3 months old B6 females between the different contexts of emission (Linear Mixed Models with context as fixed factor and pair as random factor) Blue colors indicate that the number of USVs per burst given during y-event is lower than the number of USVs per burst given in x-event; red colors indicate that the number of USVs per burst given during y-event is higher than the number of USVs per burst given in x-event; the effect size is represented by the color scale while the significance levels are represented by the size of the circles (E) Evolution of acoustic characteristics of USVs (duration mean power) according to their position within a burst in B6 females aged 5 weeks and 7 months as well as in Shank3−/− female mice aged 3 months USV bursts emitted during the different types of close contacts were not different from one another This approach has the limit of inducing a large number of statistical tests over the different acoustic traits the reduced number of pairs here recorded allowed to highlight only large effects between age or sex classes despite the large amount of USVs recorded from each pair We kept this limit in mind in our exploratory study and we remain as cautious as possible throughout the study in the interpretation of the results Future studies will elaborate on these results which work as working paths may be sufficient for males to regulate their social interactions It is thus possible that some USVs are emitted only when a certain level of excitement is reached for example after a specific time spent in contact Whether certain USVs serve to maintain social contacts is currently unknown and would need to be tested using playback experiments synchronized with behavioral monitoring Such variability may be the consequence of differences in the type of mutation One strength of our study is that it was designed to directly relate communication deficits with behavioral deficits the lower call rate of Shank3−/− mice on the second night may be related to a significantly reduced total duration of Train2 and significantly fewer of these Train2 events (data not shown) a behavior that triggers a high rate of USV emission in WT mice Shank3−/− mice were able to emit USVs with similar acoustic structures and used them in similar contexts as B6 mice but perturbed hierarchical relationships may modify the structure of the USV bursts we showed sex- and age-related differences in the spontaneous communication of mice Major quantitative and qualitative differences emerged between males and females from 3 months of age on specifically during intense social investigations with specific differences between USV acoustic structure and behavioral contexts Female Shank3−/− mice emitted USV bursts with fewer but weaker USVs than age-matched WT females Future developments will include the implementation of the identification of the emitter identifying the sound source will refine the contexts in which USVs are emitted allowing also to test the interaction between mice of different sexes or genotypes Our system offers the possibility to characterize spontaneous mouse communication and paves the way for new studies investigating the complex interplay between genetic background and hierarchy in the richness of social communication The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. 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For more information on the management of your personal data and to exercise your rights, please click here A snowmobiler heads toward shore after departing from a group of ice fisherman in Chaumont Bay near Point Salubrious last January congratulates client Ed Green of Northampton in January 2023 after Green caught a 16-pound A Chaumont Masters Facebook post noted the fish was caught on a Rapala Jigging Shadow Rap and it was released back into Chaumont Bay Pagnotti with one of his prized catches on Chaumont Bay Ice fishing shanties at Chaumont Bay near Point Salubrious photographed last January Ice anglers wait patiently in February of 2020 for a catch at the Chaumont boat launch CHAUMONT — The world’s leading outdoor magazine has named Chaumont Bay the No a cold snap is forecast to arrive next week putting the honor on firm foundation for the ice anglers who flock here each winter listed the top 10 ice fishing lakes in North America last month His list ranges from Chaumont Bay in the top spot to Pactola Reservoir in South Dakota at number 10 “Chaumont Bay is an inlet on the north end of Lake Ontario near the village of Chaumont in upstate New York,” Hall wrote anglers begin flocking to Chaumont to chase pickerel but the bay is famous in ice fishing circles for its massive walleye a Pennsylvania ice angler caught a 16-pound walleye in Chaumont that nearly toppled the New York state record.” owned by someone who was lured to the bay from out of state because of the area’s fantastic ice fishing He also purchased a home near his lodge and lives here full time he grew his business by purchasing Aspinwall Motel in Henderson Its 24 rooms are located a quarter mile from the Henderson Harbor boat launch A friend originally introduced Pagnotti to Chaumont and its ice fishing The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation notes that walleye “are challenging to catch and delicious to eat making them one of the most prized sportfish in New York.” They typically weigh between 1 and 3 pounds Brian Hartman of Alexandria Bay broke an eight-year state record for walleye when he caught an 18-pound His catch topped the previous record by a pound and a half ‘I’m going to move up here and do something,’” Pagnotti said I’m like a kid living his dream pretty much.” Pagnotti has extensive experience in ice fishing from Saskatchewan in western Canada to northern Quebec. Fourteen years ago, he founded and administers a private Facebook group, “Walleye Fishing,” that has nearly 250,000 members “Every winter I would fish here in Chaumont but wasn’t living here yet,” he said I would take the show on the road and go to one of those marquee fisheries I’d spend a whole month-and-a-half on the road because we’re early here with our ice out we’re done about the last week of February or early March They typically go into April in those northern places I was always seeking out the best walleye fishing and spent the majority of winters here until the ice went out and then seeking greener pastures at the best walleye fisheries in the ice belt.” He has found that “nothing holds a candle” to Chaumont Bay “You might go to a place like Lake Winnipeg and catch maybe 10 fish But the average quality and size per fish here is unmatched There’s no other body of water that affords that type of trophy caliber.” Pagnotti explained that an influx of walleye into Chaumont Bay begins in October “They’ll hit their peak here in the bay right around now Around March is when they start leaving the bay.” The state’s walleye season runs from May 1 to March 15 and each must be at least 15 inches in length Pagnotti thinks there is a reason Chaumont Bay is home to trophy-caliber walleye fat pregnant females and this is a protected bay And we have three shoals here in the bay — Johnson Middle and Herrick — which hold a lot of perch Chaumont Bay supports one of the last remaining spawning populations of cisco and lake whitefish in the New York waters of Lake Ontario an Associated Press story about the declining fishing industry of the Great Lakes and published in the Watertown Daily Times reported ciscoes and lake whitefish filled at least 10,000 barrels a year here the region had reverted to sleepy backwater its vigor tied to summer cottages and tourism.” “They had canneries on shore and unfortunately they fished them to near extinction,” Pagnotti said “The population was ground down and they were making a comeback until the invasive zebra mussel inundated their spawning grounds.” In 2022, the DEC announced the completion of an aquatic habitat improvement project at Chaumont Bay and on the Black River below the town of Dexter The projects were implemented in partnership with the U.S The spawning habitats were constructed with material appropriately sized to benefit walleye The Chaumont Bay spawning reefs were designed as four separate reefs located across a range of depths This design was to provide increased spawning habitat for lake whitefish and cisco Walleye may be the trophy fish of Chaumont Bay but perch are also an attraction for its ice anglers The DEC requires no minimum length for perch but there is a daily limit of 50 “That’s how robust the population is,” Pagnotti said You catch a pail of perch in a day and it’s worth 80 or 90 dollars and a good group of fishermen could fill a few pails.” Pagnotti said that Chaumont Masters tries to encourage catch-and-release in regard to walleye “The perch are there to fill the freezers,” he said We try to incentivize fishermen to put them back and keep the abundant perch The catch-and-release aspect is promoted through a walleye tournament hosted by Chaumont Masters measure it on a certified bump board and then you have to clearly display release of the fish,” he said “We added that in to curtail anyone wanting to keep them it has its own rewards through the conservation aspect take a nice picture and that lends to the advertising of it People know they can come here and have a chance at a state record or maybe wind up in In-Fisherman or Field & Stream magazines.” it doesn’t take a contest to attract walleye-seeking angers to Chaumont Bay “They’re a much more rewarding fish,” Pagnotti who also operates his charter business in warmer months they’re curious and come to seek things out so it makes them extremely rewarding to catch.” While most freshwater fish can be caught through the ice the DEC notes that only certain species are in season through the winter Some popular species to target through the ice in New York: perch Pagnotti has noticed that the ice fishing season is arriving later because of warmer winters we haven’t gotten on the ice until like the third week of January,” he said we’d have an eight-to-10-week season and we’ve been cut in half The lows have been higher and it hasn’t gotten as cold.” Ice fishing with Chaumont Masters involves more than just drilling a hole in the ice and waiting around. “This is ice fishing meets the 21st century,” Pagnotti said. “All of our trips include a snowmobile and a Garmin Livescope allowing anglers to see below the water with real-time imagery” — which Garmin says allows viewing up to 200 feet in any direction “You drop your lure down and watch it in real time,” Pagnotti said “It’s government-quality sonar in real time It’s not that 2-D of what you’ve just gone over You watch your lure slither down in real time The fish will come onto the screen and they interact with the bait You can make out which species of fish it is The Livescope situations can resemble a “trophy hunt,” Pagnotti said “You get these small fish on the screen like our abundant perch and they’re pecking away and all of a sudden here comes this monster It’s not like jigging (a technique that involves using a weighted lure to attract fish) and then boom There he is!’ It’s just like you are in the hide and you are waiting for that big one it’s a lot more engaging and you are tuned in the entire time.” Anglers can also adjust the depth of their bait with the Livescope “Let’s say that big one is coming off the side of the screen and it’s at 20 feet You are in 30 feet of water and that big one is coming up 10 feet off the bottom It gives our anglers a chance to reel that bait up to the 20-feet level and start working it.” Pagnotti said that Chaumont Masters has cadences — the rhythmic pattern of twitches and pauses used to work a bait — that are proprietary “We teach our clients how to catch them in the cadence The inclination of human nature wants you to just stop the lure They see a big one coming and they just want to park the lure and have them come and bite it you do have to do the application that we teach in order to get the bite The coup de grâce is knowing the cadence.” Chaumont Masters has helped to spread the word of the ice fishing at Chaumont Bay and the Field & Stream recognition should only add to that “It should do well for the area,” Pagnotti said there will be people who are not impressed with it and don’t want the recognition And I’m sure there are people who don’t like what I do because I bring attention to the place but for the most part it will be well-received But you’ll have people who will kind of pooh-pooh it just because they want to keep it to themselves we’re here trying to make a living and to follow what makes us happy.” Recent north country winters have proven that happiness on the ice for anglers requires more patience “I have some trepidations about people venturing out there too soon,” Pagnotti said “Chaumont is a dangerous place because conditions change quickly and there are a lot of inconveniences in the ice pack We’re typically at the mercy of the big lake as well.” To contact Chaumont Masters, go to its website at ChaumontMasters.com or call Pagnotti at 570-510-0911 The Chaumont Volunteer Department fire truck that David Pietroski bought at an auction at the department in 1986 is readied for its trip to Wayne County about a decade ago after he sold it In this television image from the 2013 “American Pickers” episode filmed at the Jericho Road home of David and Frances Pietroski David and his wife look over a list of items the “Pickers” — Mike Wolfe “They would call me every spring asking about any good leads,” he said with a laugh Pietroski said he purchased the 1946 truck in 1987 after seeing this advertisement in the Watertown Daily Times The truck is readied for its trip to Wayne County about a decade ago after David A In this photograph that David Pietroski said he took at a 1987 sealed-bid auction at the Chaumont Fire Department an unidentified man checks out the two trucks that were put up for bid On the right is the storied 1946 Dodge pumper The antique fire truck has been partially refurbished The fire truck is loaded up for its trip back to Chaumont from Wayne County earlier this week The fire truck is towed out of its resting place The fire truck sat in a Wayne County barn for about a decade CHAUMONT — Another chapter has been uncovered in the 1946 Dodge pumper that the Chaumont Fire Department recently purchased adding to the gritty vehicle’s history involving an anonymous millionaire an estranged mother and a restaurant in St Add a “flabbergasted” former owner of the truck to the mix some department members traveled to Wayne County to pick up a fire truck from the 1940s that once belonged to the department It’s now raising funds to go toward the purchase The department posted on Facebook that the truck is from 1947 Keith Casillo is an antique authenticator and hobbyist there’s an old barn owned by a friend of his The fire truck has been in the building for about a decade which had been stored in the barn for about a decade Casillo said he was estranged from his mother but he finally met her when he was 14 when Marianne “So I’ve always had a soft spot for Chaumont,” he said Casillo said that shortly after he posted the truck for sale on an online marketplace a handful of Chaumont Fire Department members contacted him Roger purchased the truck after he saw a glimpse of it in 2013 on the History Channel program featured Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz as they traveled the country searching for relics that they sell for a profit They had described the property of David A Pietroski on Jericho Road in Watertown as a “honeyhole.” Casillo said his millionaire friend, Roger, watched the episode, saw the fire truck and purchased it for $3,500. On Monday, David Pietroski returned a phone message from the Times left on Friday, a day before the Times published a story on the truck’s sale and history “I don’t think they showed too much of it on ‘American Pickers,’” Pietroski said He said that he also listed the truck on Craigslist Pietroski said that he purchased the truck years ago at a Chaumont Fire Department auction They told me they paid $1,000 for the paint job on the truck.” he couldn’t recall the year of the sealed-bid auction but was pretty certain he had paperwork somewhere detailing the purchase the fire chief of the Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department returned a call to the Times on Tuesday and said that he was told by a veteran member of the department that the truck was sent out for refurbishing years ago to a place in Dexter and the department never got it back after that firm went out of business Pietroski informed the Times that he finally found the advertisement that he saved which ran in the WDT in May of 1987 The ad notes that the Chaumont Fire Department sought sealed bids for two trucks the 1946 Dodge pumper that wasn’t working and a 1952 Ford pumper that was and sure as shoot it was!” he said of the paperwork The advertisement noted that the bids would be opened on May 11 Pietroski said his winning bid for the 1946 pumper at that time was between $800 and $900 $800 in 1987 is about $2,260 in today's dollars it was driven onto a trailer for its trip to Wayne County “I used to bring it out of the barn at least once a year and drive it around the yard but then it go so that I didn’t do that,” he said “She started sitting and the wheels were getting bad on it and I said ‘I’d better get rid of it before it gets too bad.’” Pietroski was unaware and “flabbergasted” when informed Monday about the fire truck’s return to its home in Chaumont The truck goes away and comes back to its roots where it started from.” who travels back and forth between the U.S had plans of displaying it at a restaurant he owns on the island to act as sort of a mascot “It almost went there this year,” Casillo said is “high class” and features “repurposed stuff Roger had shipped from Florida and the states the fire truck was an attraction at the Chaumont Fire Department during the village’s sesquicentennial celebration “I gotta go over there and see it,” Pietroski said Lipczynski said the department paid $6,000 for the truck we were very careful with purchasing it so that we didn’t use any taxpayer money that we received for our funding for the regular fire service,” the chief said He added that the department discovered some funds in old bingo accounts The department no longer hosts bingo games “We’re only using fundraising dollars to purchase the truck,” Lipczynski said The department is celebrating its 110th anniversary “That was kind of why we wanted it when we saw it and decided to jump at it and get it,” he said Sunday’s celebration included a sold-out benefit chicken barbecue hosted by the department that we use to be able to do stuff like this besides obviously from putting extra equipment on our trucks to be able to help the community,” the chief said Lipczynski said the truck is not in running condition “Our first assistant chief, Fred Jackson, who used to own Fred’s Quick Lube, is willing to help us get some time into it as we get funding available to hopefully get her running again,” he said they sent the transmission out for a rebuild,” he said we’re hoping that the transmission is in good shape The vehicle’s brakes also aren’t operational “The gentleman did send all new brake pads and everything like that with the truck,” the chief added Donations for the purchase of the truck can be mailed to Chaumont Volunteer Fire Department Rarely visited by tourists passing through the capital, Paris' 19th arrondissement is the ideal place to relax, with its large green parks, headed by the Parc de La Villette, the Parc des Buttes Chaumont and the Parc de la Butte du Chapeau-Rouge It's also a district of the capital that reveals to the most discerning walker little hidden villages of incomparable charm like the Mouzaïa district and the Campagne district in Paris (it's all in the name!) How about a tour of Paris's 19th arrondissement The secret villages of the 19th arrondissementLooking for some fresh air? Then climb up to 100 meters above sea level on the discreet Butte Bergeyre! [Read more] A stroll through the Mouzaïa districtIn the Mouzaïa district, everything is luxury, calm and pleasure. Shall we show you around? [Read more] Boats without a license for an original trip in ParisDid you know that? In Paris, it is possible to rent boats without a license by the hour, to sail on the bassin de la Villette. Here is an original idea to enjoy the capital! [Read more] Vandal, a great pocket sandwich shop in Buttes-ChaumontOverlooking Buttes-Chaumont, Vandal stands out for its raw design and very, very short menu: 3 sandwiches, period, but particularly naughty ones. 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[Read more] Discover all these great addresses on the map below Enjoy the Buttes Chaumont and La Villette areas REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2021) 2020 season was canceled after 26 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic There are no statistics available for this player MU is an equal opportunity employer © 2025 — The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. DMCA and other copyright information. 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Written permission is required to hunt on Conservancy lands. To learn more about our hunting program or to obtain permission to hunt, please visit our New York hunting information page Explore all that Chaumont Barrens has to offer on a self-guided Use sturdy footwear and please watch your step Chaumont Barrens is located in Jefferson, New York, within the Alvar Barrens and Grasslands Priority Conservation Landscape. We encourage visitors to leave no trace and carry out what you carry in. See our full preserve visitation guidelines for more information Please note, collection or removal of plants, insects, wildlife, fossils, etc. is not allowed. Visitation and access are limited to the primary trail system; other parts of the preserve may be traversed for research purposes if pre-approved by The Nature Conservancy. Please contact our Pulaski or Rochester offices for research and/or collection permit applications prairie-like landscapes that rest atop a foundation of limestone bedrock Scientists disagree on the reason there is so little soil on alvars—they may have been swept away during a cataclysmic drainage of glacial waters or swallowed up by abundant fissures in the limestone what remains is a flat rocky terrain of grasslands pavement barrens and globally rare plant communities Alvar communities are adapted to survive extreme conditions: shallow soils This particular landscape developed after the last glacier retreated from this area some 10,000 years ago linear pattern of vegetation – including many prairie-type plants that are rare in New York – grew on this shallow soil The resulting vegetation mosaic includes fossilized bedrock The bedrock found throughout Chaumont Barrens is about 450 million years old Chaumont was at the bottom of a shallow tropical sea near the equator you can find the remains of primitive marine animals These creatures were the top predator of the marine food chain and are related to the modern-day squid and octopus The Nature Conservancy owns nearly 1,500 preserves covering more than 2.5 million acres across all 50 states These lands protect wildlife and natural systems serve as living laboratories for innovative science and connect people to the natural world It's one of those places you love to come back to when the sun comes out. Rosa Bonheur des Buttes-Chaumont is located in one of the capital's most beautiful green spaces, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont you're greeted by the scent of pissaladière and the notes of a playlist ranging fromAnnie Cordy to Daft Punk people come as much to sip a chilled rosé as to dance the night away looking for a shady terrace to enjoy a pizza and a beer This café-bistro is designed to be festive and convivial and you'll be carried away by the music of the 80s and 90s The guinguette spirit so dear to the Rosa Bonheur house inspired by the festive traditions of the Camargue is here to celebrateopenness to all generations Sunday joggers and regulars of the bals populaires meet here without fuss around large tables or on the improvised dance floor of the bandstand all accompanied by a selection of southern wines But Rosa Bonheur is also a musical program that punctuates the seasons the "Jeudis des Buttes-Chaumont" (Thursdays at the Buttes-Chaumont ) set the mood for electro in the heart of nature while the "Dimanches aux Buttes" (Sundays at the Buttes)bring the weekend to a close with festive sounds and free dancing with views of the park's waterfalls and cliffs Accessible via the Botzaris or Jourdain stations, the venue is open Thursday to Sunday from 12pm to midnight. We recommend arriving early for the best seats, especially on the terrace overlooking the park You can continue your stroll by strolling up to the suspension bridge or down to the banks of the lake Rosa Bonheur remains aParisian summer staple a festive yet relaxed rendezvous that combines the pleasure of the senses with the freedom of being in this corner of the 19th arrondissement where the city becomes the countryside Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health Flowdesk CEO Guilhem Chaumont What to know: Flowdesk has raised $102 million in a funding round backed by HV Capital and BlackRock-managed funds to expand its digital asset trading and liquidity business.The company plans to use the funding to scale its over-the-counter derivatives business Flowdesk has secured $102 million in fresh funding to expand its digital asset trading and liquidity business backed by HV Capital and a debt facility from BlackRock-managed funds “This funding round marks a pivotal moment for Flowdesk as we accelerate our expansion into key global markets,” said CEO Guilhem Chaumont in an email to CoinDesk “Institutional demand for market-making infrastructure is growing rapidly and we are committed to scaling our technology and services to meet that need.” STORY CONTINUES BELOWDon't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto for Advisors Newsletter today. See all newslettersSign me upBy signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.In a release Flowdesk said it will use the proceeds of the round to scale its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives business and launch a dedicated crypto credit desk while also doubling headcount at the trading firm "Flowdesk has built one of the most robust global infrastructures for digital asset trading and a broad range of liquidity solutions," Chaumont continued It also plans to expand into the Middle East, with the UAE being the next potential hub. Flowdesk is known for making bold bets when opening new offices; it expanded to the U.S. during the height of the Biden White House's war on crypto, a move that seemed risky at the time but ended up paying off handsomely for the company. Tokenization is also a major focus for Flowdesk as institutional interest in on-chain assets grows. The company has worked with token issuers to facilitate liquidity for tokenized assets and plans to expand its services to include stablecoins, tokenized securities, and money market funds. "From day one, Flowdesk has been built on the vision that tokenization would redefine financial markets. Over the past years, our work with token issuers has positioned us at the forefront of this transformation," Chaumont said in an email. Flowdesk's existing investors, Eurazeo, Cathay Innovation, and ISAI, also participated in the round. Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC. Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application he was passionate about spending time with those he loved. John had many hobbies and interests that brought him joy He had a natural talent for playing guitar he enjoyed spending time with friends and family and whenever the opportunity arose John loved nothing more than talking about Big Foot Richard Chaumont and Russell Chaumont; grandchildren Ian Courville and Aiden Courville; devoted friend of 51 years Kathy Chaumont. Pellerin Funeral Home (337-332-2111) is in charge of arrangements. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors trans and friendly running club in the Paris region The primary aim of the race is to create a festive sporting event around two themes: running and Valentine's Day The race also serves to raise public awareness of discrimination particularly that linked to sexual orientation and gender identity with a view to promoting tolerance and open-mindedness the Valentine's Day Run is the perfect opportunity to come running with your other half It's a great way to test your love and endurance at the same time Couples and singles alike will take part in a 5km run over two loops in the park the Valentine's Day Run offers 10km courses for sports enthusiasts All you have to do during the registration process is indicate whether you'd like to run with a man or a woman The race is also open to non-binary and transgender people Registration is already open You can also take part in a charity tombola with all proceeds going to a partner association supporting LGBTQ+ causes or people in difficulty And this one's confident in what it offers, since there are only 3 sandwiches on the menu. There's no room for error, then, with these 3 great classics of the genre: a rewriting of the mythical Vietnamese banh mi as a spicy sardine version herb salad and sriracha mayonnaise on the side; an egg sandwich and a dumpling sandwich But Paul Landre is right to be confident in his tastes and recipes: they are executed to perfection. Both naughty and generous, his sandwiches are made with carefully sourced products, in particular the bread from Union Boulangerie which varies according to the sandwich chosen - sometimes a brioche loaf I'm particularly fond of the poultry meatball sandwich topped with a thick tomato sauce and a good layer of Parmesan but the egg sandwich also comes into its own Open every lunchtime, Monday to Friday, Vandal' s prices are low: €13 for a sandwich/drink menu (including the delicious Voyou ginger beer) €14 for a sandwich/dessert menu (currently an apple The kind of address that's been missing from the Buttes-Chaumont area Vous utilisez un ancien navigateur. Ce site risque de ne pas s'afficher correctement. Mettez à jour votre navigateur pour améliorer votre expérience East face of the island (Parc des Buttes Chaumont The Parc des Buttes Chaumont was used as a gypsum quarry from the 16th to the 19th centuries before being converted into a landscaped park by the architect Adolphe Alphand between 1863 and 1867 The site was laid out in keeping with the Romantic spirit of the time and visitors can today stroll around the Park's various features and enjoy a view of the city of Paris from a mound made from a large pile of gypsum that was left on site following the occurrence of various problems (falling rocks the City of Paris' Park and Green-Space Department asked BRGM to conduct an initial assessment of the state of the park BRGM was then commissioned to carry out a series of specific missions: site survey definition of an instrumentation programme geophysical data acquisitions and support services as part of the project aimed at restoring the park and ensuring its safety documentary research was carried out concerning the history of the Park This involved three phases: information gathering and finally an overall analysis and summary of the information The most important information was entered in a GIS database then summary sheets were drawn up for each zone The second phase involved analysing the likelihood of rock falls which resulted in the roll-out of an instrumentation (sensor) programme for the most high-risk sectors and the demarcation of various zones that needed to be closed to the public. regular monitoring of the instrumentation systems installed on site and quarterly visits to the Park have been carried out by BRGM following the draining and cleaning of the Park's lake in late 2023/early 2024 a geophysical data-acquisition campaign (micro-gravimetry and radar) was carried out from the bed of the lake with the aim of identifying subsurface anomalies linked to former open-pit and underground mining operations. Our partnership with BRGM is important because it gives us an expert insight into the underlying problems of this iconic Parisian park The study enabled us to assess the risks present in certain areas which we then used to back up our request to close the park to the public while we carried out the necessary work BRGM's support was also invaluable during the work phase since they helped us choose a service provider capable of meeting our safety requirements and the constraints linked to a listed park while safeguarding the picturesque nature of the site and its biodiversity Monitoring of the gypsum rock faces (Parc des Buttes Chaumont The work carried out enabled us to retrace the geological and geotechnical history of the Park which was exploited to monitor the most sensitive areas and ensure public safety BRGM's mission will continue until all the restoration and safety work in the Park has been carried out Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our news every month the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) When the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (Buttes-Chaumont Park) opened in conjunction with the Exposition Universelle on April 1 the city of Paris was in the midst of a legendary makeover undertaken in 1853 by Napoleon III leader of the French Second Empire (1851–1870) and headed by Georges-Eugene Haussmann (1809–1891) deemed unhealthy and unhygienic by nineteenth-century standards were razed and replaced by wide boulevards created a new culture of display in Parisian public life a “spectacularization” that reconfigured the relationship between citizens and the urban landscape helped remake the city at every level beginning with the sewers that allowed wastewater to flow unseen under city streets Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891) used the site to experiment with concrete’s aesthetic possibilities they transformed an old refuse dump into a green space punctuated with picturesque vignettes (fig.1) Concrete allowed them to simultaneously subordinate and reproduce the environment creating an artificial landscape that Ulf Strohmayer has called a “second nature.”1 The park’s overall effect was a simulacrum of nature “made naturally wild,” a controlled experience of pristine nature achieved via a total artificiality.2 we live with the legacy of the resulting shift in our relationship to the landscape: romantic awe at nature’s unfathomable scale gave way to the fantasy of human domination remaking the natural world as a containable and reproducible cultural product Updating the sublime for the twenty-first century Sianne Ngai coined the term stuplimity: the sublime meets tedium and repetition to the point of boredom and stupefaction.3 Nature writer Robert Macfarlane uses the term to describe the daily barrage of information regarding climate change “the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is united with boredom such that we overload on anxiety to the point of outrage-outage.”4 Due in large part to concrete fantasy-scapes in the legacy of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont we are confronted daily with statistics on humanity’s detrimental impact on the environment.5 Calamitous destruction is reduced to a data set The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont was a new kind of spectacularized public works project Breaking from the conventions of previous world’s fairs and exhibitions installations at the 1867 Exposition Universelle were not limited to the Palais de l’Exposition; they bled out into the streets putting renovated Paris on display.6 The concurrent debut of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont demonstrates how sprawling the exhibition truly was Named for the bleak topography that had previously occupied the site the park had an equally bleak history: for nearly 600 years it had housed the gallows where the French king not only hung criminals but left them on display as a warning to any would-be delinquents it was used as a quarry and refuse dump (fig The seedy location was likely chosen for the contrast it provided with Alphand’s romantic vision demonstrating the state’s modernity and power by paving over the site’s undesirable past.7 To any of the fair’s eleven million visitors the awe-inspiring views and romantic features were only enhanced by knowledge of the gory wasteland that had preceded them.8 the romantic natural feeling of the park was created with innovative artifice Alphand envisioned a wild landscape punctuated with moments of the “engineered picturesque.”9 In order to evoke untouched nature engineers employed technologies that eradicated the existing environment: concrete While Alphand’s functional concrete constructions he also deployed the material as a surface treatment for innovative decorative features—cast faux bois (imitation wood) fences and stalactites were all made using concrete.10 Carefully designed vistas were visible from the elliptical paved paths snaking through the park (figs Alphand transformed a pre-existing lacuna in the granite into a grotto complete with faux stalagmites and stalactites and a cascading waterfall (fig A space that had previously been nothing but cut stone now presented itself as a natural marvel Ulf Strohmayer argues that this reconciliation of technology and landscape is “not so much an act of concealment but of acceleration….”11 In the period eye a “landscape full of simulacra…modeled on repetitions,” was a triumph of humankind’s capabilities.12 To be able to reproduce the grandeur of the natural world was to play god This power was put on full display in the park creating a spectacle of technology and labor Concrete is not disguised; “it is resolved… into its products—which can thus celebrate both nature and human ingenuity.”13 A new landscape was formed one that recast nature and culture as oppositional forces while demonstrating that The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont anticipates the end-product of this accelerating cycle of growth and modernization—modern locates a shift from aristocratic favor for carving and masonry to a taste for democratic modes of building—casting and molding—in the late eighteenth century.14 Broadly this reflects the changing values of the time an acceleration towards a mass-consumer society The widespread adoption and use of concrete aligned with a shifting social structure fomented by urban environments; cities industrialized and modernized to meet demand as people flooded in to provide labor These new denizens became consumers of the goods produced under industrial conditions concrete technology was ready to rise to society’s needs supporting the new infrastructure of both mass production and mass consumption we have poured concrete at a monstrous pace Concrete continues to lay the foundations for high-rises It is second only to water in rankings of the world’s most used building materials.15 Due to a carbon-intensive production process concrete is responsible for about eight percent of global carbon emissions.16 China is by far its largest consumer on earth releasing 858.23 million tons of CO2 in 2020.17 This is largely the result of amped-up development projects designed to demonstrate state authority by dominating nature China builds upon the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont’s legacy exemplifies how concrete use has developed globally from the nineteenth century to the present day (fig The concrete hydroelectric gravity dam in Hubei Province was ironically conceived in an effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal It has had an immeasurable impact on the surrounding environment—increasing risk of landslides accelerating extinction of indigenous wildlife displacing over a million Chinese residents and flooding archaeological sites that once sat on the river’s banks It is so massive that its weight is estimated to have increased the length of earth’s day by .06 seconds.18 Archeologist Christopher Witmore uses the Three Gorges Dam as imaged in Edward Burtynsky’s photographs to describe the “Hypanthropos,” his neologism for our current epoch defined by calamity and the often monstrous and unanticipated consequences of human projects.19 Witmore’s term is offered to replace the more commonly used “Anthropocene,” our current geological period defined by human impact on the stratigraphic record anthropologists Tim Ingold and Cristián Simonetti identify concrete as “the most obvious candidate for marking the origin of the Anthropocene.”20 In their argument concrete is the material that afforded humans enough power over the landscape to impact the geological record The term Hypanthropos is playfully constructed to remind us that though the Anthropocene is marked by human activity It is a double-entendre: the prefix hyp- recalls both the Greek prefix hyper- are “suspended above and below”; they both overwhelm their environments and are contained within or overwhelmed by them.21 Hypanthropos’s multiple meanings displace the anthropos The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the Three Gorges Dam are unique to the Anthropocene human-made objects with massive environmental impacts They reinvent nature “as contrast—with culture no such opposition exists.22 Nature is paradoxically both produced by and a container of culture Witmore uses Burtynsky’s images of the colossal concrete dam as a medium for illustrating our suspension If the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont modeled concrete’s usefulness in creating controlled landscapes then contemporary concrete infrastructure projects which have caused immeasurable and unpredictable ecological destruction Witmore reminds us that though the scale and impact of the Three Gorges Dam are astonishing “Over the last two decades more than half of the concrete ever produced was mixed and set—4.3 billion tons were produced in 2014 alone As for ‘water control and utilization’ projects more than one large dam has been built every year for at least the last 60.”23 This is the legacy of Alphand’s experiments in concrete it solidified the illusion that culture could dominate and tame nature Concrete was the critical technology in establishing the park’s “second nature,” an environment of artificiality.24 However our current state of climate catastrophe has proved that illusion No matter how convincingly we cast imitation stalactites they will never be more than cheap reproductions Projects like the Three Gorges Dam remind us that our technological know-how does not elevate us above the natural world No amount of concrete will remove us from the planet’s delicate ecosystem Madeline Porsella is an interdisciplinary historian and artist based in New York She studied studio art at Bard College and is currently pursuing her MA in Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center Her research is focused on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries where her areas of interest include the incorporation of new technologies into art and design the relationship between science and the occult and cultural constructions ranging from memory to the gendered 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innovation and tradition Each galette conceals a hand-crafted bean designed by the talented Angela LY Handmade in her Parisian workshop in the 17th arrondissement personal touch to every tasting experience Since setting up shop on rue des Alouettes in 2022 Sayo and Othman have been making the heart of Buttes-Chaumont beat faster with their creations Ginko is a manifesto for reinventing traditions with respect and audacity Flowdesk CEO Guilhem Chaumont (Flowdesk) A year ago market maker Flowdesk made a contrarian bet by expanding its U.S presence during the chill of crypto winter.That bet paid off and a favorable market environment and improving regulations means Flowdesk is well positioned in the country.Guilhem Chaumont is prepared to follow his convictions even when the general outlook might indicate against them capital markets were a worthwhile trade-off for dealing with its regulatory regime observing that conspiracy theories that the U.S government was trying to kill crypto didn't seem too far off The editorial argued that the government was intentionally suppressing the industry through punitive regulatory enforcement actions and a lack of willingness to build workable rules "The philosophy of the company has always been the same We have a huge conviction about where the market is going," Chaumont said this week in an interview is always about making contrarian bets and seeing what others didn't see We are not very sensitive to short-term macro events That's why we have always been very enthusiastic about the U.S It's a land of innovation and a huge market for everyone." headcount in 2023 when things looked bleak meant Flowdesk had a first-mover advantage when the market picked up "Now we are grabbing significant market share and our company is in better conditions than ever – profitable with a huge increase in volumes and revenues," he said "Fueled by the ETF approval earlier this year our bet is probably going to pay off.'" The situation may have vastly improved, but there's still some work to be done even as the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) – which has been praised by some industry stakeholders as a step in the right direction – goes to the Senate with bipartisan support. For instance, there's an added complexity in the market when dealing with U.S. counterparties because of the layers of licenses, meaning that there are still some operational limitations in the market. Another headache is custody. Chaumont argued that the U.S. needs a simplified and globally harmonized regulatory framework for custody, which, if done right, could unlock massive business potential. Many problems could be solved with harmonization, and Chaumont points to the European Union's MiCA regulations as an instance where that works well. There are lessons to be learned from the EU's approach, he said, which rules out the need for multiple licenses from individual states. That's the situation that persists in the U.S. "In Europe, you do not need to get multiple registrations," he said. "Once you are registered in one country, you can operate across the entire region." A lot has happened in the U.S. in the past year and, who knows, maybe such harmonization will be on the agenda when it's time for Consensus 2025. "If there were not these bottlenecks and uncertainties, we could have grown three times faster, like we did in France," Chaumont said. UPDATE (July 17, 12:12 UTC): Adds layers of complexity in U.S. in ninth paragraph. there are many plant-based versions out there Here’s a list of the 10 best vegan croissants in Los Angeles Chaumont Vegan is your ultimate stop for plant-based French fare you can find a wide variety of vegan croissants and za'atar are some of the flavors to choose from Our current fave is the Vegan Breakfast Croissant The Good Good specializes in vegan dishes and pastries with an Armenian twist Their Savory Croissant can be ordered with the vegan filling options of sauteéd spinach & marinated feta smoked provolone & house mushroom meat blend This charming coffee shop serves quite a few croissant-based menu items you can order the pastries solo in traditional and chocolate flavors order the OG Breakfast Sandwich on a croissant (marinated tofu or JUST Egg with vegan cheddar cheese and red onion) or the secret menu Sausage Croissant “Egg” Sandwich Photo credit: @charliethebrownieman on Instagram After receiving several requests from customers for plant-based options Toluca Bakery & Cafe has now transitioned to be 100% vegan The family-owned bakery specializes in Mexican pan dulce but they offer a few European-inspired bites as well Ladurée’s Beverly Hills location stocks numerous plant-based treats and eats and Raspberry Brunette can all be ordered vegan One of the best things to happen this decade is Whole Foods launching vegan croissants at all locations nationwide These crescent-shaped cuties can be purchased solo or in packs of four—and let us just say This nutrition-forward cafe offers a mind-blowing amount of intricate pastries and desserts You can order their buttery vegan croissant as-is or ask for it filled with chocolate and you’ve got a deliciously photogenic breakfast but they offer a few dishes with bee pollen This vegan-friendly market and cafe houses plenty of great eats Warning: You may get stuck here for hours wandering the aisles in awe of all their plant-based products Photo credit: @plantpoweredanna on Instagram The plain and chocolate croissants from this local female-owned bakery are so light and fluffy we’d suggest also loading up on vegan danishes Burgerlords has collaborated with Baker’s Bench on a breakfast croissant sandwich called The Benchmark the limited-edition item will make another appearance at the Chinatown Burgerlords in the coming weeks this company has some ridiculous rolls in almond Each croissant is made fresh daily using traditional French pastry techniques—a quality you can taste @alliemitch When Allie responded to an Instagram post on @vegoutlosangeles a few years ago she had no idea she’d join the coolest vegan team on the planet Allie is on a mission to live her best life and inspire others to do the same She graduated from Hussian College In Studio with a B.F.A in Contemporary Musical Theatre + Film and currently acts Please be aware that we use (vegan) cookies on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again Centered around the park of the same name, one of the capital's largest green spaces, created in 1867 under Napoleon III, the Buttes-Chaumont district is located in the 19th arrondissement of Paris who find it a peaceful place to raise their little ones With its picturesque lake, man-made grottoes and Sibylline temple perched on a cliff, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a veritable treasure trove of greenery in the heart of a village-like neighborhood The many cafés and restaurants with terraces welcome groups of friends for a moment of indulgence and relaxation far from the hustle and bustle of central Paris the La Villette district also stands out for its bucolic appearance Known for its modernist buildings such as the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie and the Philharmonie de Paris the area is a cultural hub in the heart of the Parc de La Villette a vast green space where nature and culture meet right on the banks of the Canal de l'Ourcq The perfect place to stop for a bite to eat here are our top restaurant addresses in the Buttes-Chaumont and La Villette districts Find the location of all these addresses by clicking on the map at the bottom of the article What to do in Buttes Chaumont and La Villette: Our tips and best addressesHow about a trip to Buttes Chaumont and La Villette? Follow the guide! [Read more] This page may contain AI-assisted elements, more information here Among the events and activities to be enjoyed in Paris on International Women's Rights Day, the Course pour l'Égalité (Race for Equality ) is a faithful fixture for the capital's sportsmen and women. Head for the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont again Organized by the Mairie du 19e arrondissement and theassociation Libres Terres des Femmes, which fights violence against women, this free run is based on an appeal for donations You can choose between a 5km or 10km course Registration is now open An opportunity to help go some way towards achieving equality between women and men The woman-owned vegan French bakery is in its soft opening phase in Santa Monica Vegan croissants and eclairs are just a few of the mindblowing vegan French pastries you can find at Chaumont Vegan the plant-based Parisian bakery has become a hot spot for vegan and non-vegan Angelenos alike So it’s only natural that Chaumont Vegan opens a second location in Santa Monica Chaumont Vegan is a spinoff of the original Chaumont Bakery & Café in Beverly Hills It all began by introducing a few vegan pastries at the regular bakery Customers couldn’t get enough of these plant-based bites and began requesting more Chaumont co-owner Laila Abddaim told VegOut “A non-vegan customer came in and requested the turkey and cheese croissant when I suggested he try the vegan ham and cheese ‘I love it.’ The customer decided to try both a vegan and non-vegan option and came back after finishing his meal to purchase all the remaining vegan ham and cheese to take home Witnessing a non-vegan customer embrace plant-based cuisine was truly heartwarming.” As the vegan pastries continued flying off the shelves at Chaumont Bakery & Café Abddaim decided to open Chaumont Vegan next door This marked the first vegan French bakery in Los Angeles Abddaim took great precaution to prepare Chaumont Vegan’s baked goods separately from Chaumont Bakery & Café’s non-vegan pastries the staff prepares everything separately for each location—even though they’re next door to each other The menu at Chaumont Vegan features sweet and savory French vegan pastries and breakfast items like avocado toast and coconut yogurt parfaits. To drink, find a variety of coffee and tea beverages along the lines of lattes Chaumont Vegan’s fanbase has grown exponentially since its opening in the spring of 2021 Abddaim created her own line of European style vegan butter we witness a growing number of people who were once opposed to veganism try our plant-based options and love them,” Abddaim shared Co-owners Laila Abddaim and Frederic Laski set their sights on opening a bakery in Santa Monica before the establishment of Chaumont Vegan the duo planned to model it after Chaumont Bakery & Café But due to the immense success of Chaumont Vegan the Santa Monica bakery is a hybrid of the two Chaumont Santa Monica prepares its vegan and non-vegan items separately Everything is clearly labeled for both customers and staff members down to a separate milk steamer for vegan beverages “By offering Chaumont Vegan alongside Chaumont's non-vegan menu we aimed to introduce non-vegan diners to plant-based cuisine My mission is to encourage people to incorporate more plant-based food into their diet without compromising on taste and quality,” said Abddaim Chaumont Santa Monica is in its soft opening phase with the current operating hours of Monday through Sunday from 7:30am to 3pm Abddaim expressed plans to officially open in early April Chaumont Santa Monica is located at 2930 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404. For more information, visit ChaumontVegan.com We are now accepting applications for the NYS Trooper Entrance Exam! Please visit joinstatepolice.ny.gov to learn more. UPDATE: Brian J. Countryman was arrested on 7/26/24 at SP Watertown for one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 4 (class “A” misdemeanor), and two counts of Menacing a Police Officer (class “D” felony). Countryman was issued an appearance ticket returnable to Jefferson County CAP Court on a later date in August due to his current medical condition. On April 27, 2024, at approximately 3:54 a.m., Jefferson County Sheriff Deputy Brian Hanlin and Deputy Nolan Drake responded to a report of a domestic incident at 12840 State Route 12E in the Town of Lyme. Countryman was transported to Samaritan Medical Center where he is listed in stable but critical condition. Neither Deputy was injured. At the request of Sheriff Peter Barnett, the investigation has been turned over to the New York State Police. The following agencies responded to the scene: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, New York State Police, Jefferson County Office of Fire & Emergency Management, Cape Vincent Ambulance Squad, and Chaumont First Responders. Troop D Commander: Captain Kevin M. Reilly Send help right to the people and causes you care about Your donation is protected by the GoFundMe Giving Guarantee discusses the implications of last week’s fire at the Chaumont solar farm on Route 179 during a press conference held in front of the scene of the fire on Monday Emergency response vehicles parked in front of the Chaumont solar farm where four trailers containing lithium batteries caught fire last week left,deputy director at the Jefferson County Office of Fire & Emergency Management and Chaumont Fire Chief William Lipczynski discuss the implications of last week’s fire at the solar farm in Chaumont CHAUMONT — Fire crews have officially halted water operations at the site of the solar farm fire at 11 a.m Officials say water operations were stopped as the battery storage blaze was contained and they continue to check the area to ensure the air quality remains normal Chaumont Fire Chief William Lipczynski said they will remain on scene as a fire watch The investigation into what caused the blaze will be done by Convergent Energy and Power with the state Department of Environmental Conservation looking at the environmental impact “Our goal is to de-escalate this as reasonably as we are able we stopped flowing water but we kept resources available to flow water if something changed,” said Niel D deputy director for Jefferson County Fire and Emergency Services “We’ll hopefully continue to de-escalate this down to just a couple of guys in a pickup truck with binoculars to continue to watch downrage and make sure nothing changes until all of the heat’s gone.” Rivenburgh said they didn’t know whether or not there was any water contamination Lyme Town Supervisor Terry Countryman said officials will continue to look at air and water quality “All of the agencies that are involved with that are doing that as we speak,” he said Countryman said that it will be determined whether or not there was contamination “as soon as we can.” State officials are part of the investigation and Countryman said “it will be investigated on the highest of levels.” Countryman said there were no immediate health or safety concerns there were zero toxic byproducts in the air and there was no indication of groundwater contamination or runoff contamination posing health risks Countryman said there needs to be education on lithium and how we’re going to bring it into our communities.” No injuries were reported in the firefighting efforts Lipczynski said this is the first time he’s seen something like this Rivenburgh said there is an opportunity from this event for first-responders to learn from the incident as solar farms have begun popping up throughout the county “There’s been an incredible opportunity to learn from this incident,” he said “That’s one of the reasons that we engaged not just to let Chaumont stand down after their first 36 hours but because if we get other chiefs and operators in here we are able to give them the tidbits of information to keep them safe when something happens in their solar projects.” Rivenburgh said that he suspects the cause and origin of the fire will lead to a design and safety review Hochul’s intent creating a new interagency fire safety working group aimed at ensuring the safety and security of energy storage systems across the state following fire incidents in Jefferson “Following multiple fire safety incidents across New York I’ve directed State agencies to immediately form the Inter-Agency Fire Safety Working Group to mobilize the personnel and resources necessary to keep New Yorkers safe,” Hochul said in a statement “The Working Group will collaborate with first responders and local leaders to identify best practices and ensure energy storage sites across New York are safe and effective.” it has definitely turned the attention to the need for some training for our local fire departments because when you roll up here and you have odd circumstances it’s incredibly difficult to make split-second decisions,” Rivenburgh said Lipczynski thanked the community for their help “We would like to thank our community and the residents of Town of Lyme and surrounding communities that have chipped in to help us with whatever it be we greatly appreciate everything and we appreciate you guys working with us and being understanding that we are trying to work as hard as we can to get this mitigated and get everyone’s life back to normal,” he said A news release from the town of Lyme says units will remain on site throughout the cause and origin investigation process and that company representatives have been on site since Thursday to work with local officials to help mitigate and identify any potential risks to health and safety of responders The release goes on to state that they will remain committed through the equipment and environmental post-incident mitigation Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Would you like to receive our daily news? 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