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Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."
Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."
poorly executed attempt to colorize bench decoration....
inspired by the selective colorized masterpieces of coulportste
Steven Shapiro has designed and executed successful business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing and communications strategies for nearly 20 years, with extensive background in the learning and development and financial services sectors. Steven now applies his experience and his creatively strategic, metrics-based thinking to the clients of Communications Strategy Group (CSG), a company he founded in May 2004.
Steven’s career was primarily steeped in the financial services and learning and development industries. He served as the Vice President of Corporate Communications for Scudder Kemper Investments and Founders Funds after serving as the Assistant Director of Public Relations for the American Stock Exchange. Shapiro started his career as an outside communications consultant for Ernst & Young, Lehman Brothers, Prudential, and Wellington Asset Management.
Just prior to founding CSG, Steven served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Jones Knowledge, a holding company for a series of online education companies. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for establishing Jones International University as a recognized pioneer in the online post secondary education; launch Jones e-global library, a comprehensive suite of online library research tools; and position Jones e-education, a learning course management and delivery platform, for dominance in the K-12 market.
Steven received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Emory University.
Marines execute a High Intensity Tactical Training session during the unit’s physical training aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort June 10. Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 in coordination with Marine Corps Community Services South Carolina organized the PT event to familiarize the Marines and provide basic instruction about the HITT program. (Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez/Released)
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis of 44, Rue Letellier, Paris.
Although the card was not posted, someone has written on the divided back:
"From today's Daily
Telegraph.
With much love,
Auntie Florrie.
13. 1. 56."
On the left side of the divided back of the card, an 8 cm long news item had been glued to the card, but almost all of it has been scraped off.
Chartres
Chartres is a city and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in France. At the 2019 census, there were 38,534 individuals living in the city.
Chartres is famous worldwide for its Gothic cathedral which is in an exceptional state of preservation. The majority of the original stained glass windows survive intact, while the architecture has seen only minor changes since the early 13th. century.
Part the old town, including most of the library associated with the School of Chartres, was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944.
The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, is one of the finest and best preserved Gothic cathedrals in France and in Europe. Its historical and cultural importance has been recognized by its inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Chartres is built on a hill on the left bank of the river Eure. The medieval cathedral is at the top of the hill, and its two spires are visible from miles away across the flat surrounding lands. To the southeast stretches the fertile plain of Beauce, the "Granary of France", of which the town is the commercial centre.
Chartres cathedral was built on the site of the former Chartres cathedral of Romanesque architecture, which was destroyed by fire (that former cathedral had been built on the ruins of an ancient Celtic temple, later replaced by a Roman temple).
Begun in 1205, the construction of Notre-Dame de Chartres was completed 66 years later.
The stained glass windows of the cathedral were financed by guilds of merchants and craftsmen, and by wealthy noblemen, whose names appear at the bottom. It is not known how the famous and unique blue, bleu de Chartres, of the glass was created, and it has been impossible to replicate it.
Chartres in WWII
In World War II, the city suffered heavy damage, both by bombing and during the battle of Chartres in August 1944, but the cathedral was spared by an American Army officer who challenged the order to destroy it.
On the 16th. August 1944, Colonel Welborn Barton Griffith Jr. questioned the necessity of destroying the cathedral, and volunteered to go behind enemy lines to find out whether the Germans were using it as an observation post.
With his driver, Griffith proceeded to the cathedral and, after searching it all the way up its bell tower, confirmed to Headquarters that it was empty of Germans. The order to destroy the cathedral was withdrawn.
Colonel Griffith was killed in action later on that day in the town of Lèves, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) north of Chartres. For his heroic action both at Chartres and Lèves, Colonel Griffith received, posthumously, decorations awarded by the President of the United States and the U.S. Military, and also from the French government.
Following deep reconnaissance missions and after heavy fighting in and around the city, Chartres was liberated on the 18th. August 1944, by the U.S. 5th. Infantry and 7th. Armored Divisions commanded by General George S. Patton.
Churches of Chartres
The Église Saint-Pierre de Chartres was the church of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée, founded in the 7th. century by Queen Balthild. At the time of its construction, the abbey was outside the walls of the city. It contains fine stained glass and, formerly, twelve representations of the apostles in enamel, created circa 1547 by Léonard Limosin, which now can be seen in the fine arts museum.
Other noteworthy churches of Chartres are Saint-Aignan (13th., 16th. and 17th. centuries), and Saint-Martin-au-Val (12th. century), inside the Saint-Brice hospital.
Museums of Chartres
Chartres' Museums include:
-- Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, a fine arts museum, housed in the former episcopal palace adjacent to the cathedral.
-- Le Centre International du Vitrail, a workshop-museum and cultural center devoted to stained glass art, located 50 metres (160 feet) from the cathedral.
-- Le Conservatoire du Machinisme et des Pratiques Agricoles, an agricultural museum.
-- Le Musée le Grenier de l'Histoire, a history museum specializing in military uniforms and accoutrements, in Lèves, a suburb of Chartres.
-- Le Musée des Sciences Naturelles et de la Préhistoire, a Natural science and Prehistory Museum (closed since 2015).
Other Features of Chartres
The river Eure, which at this point divides into three branches, is crossed by several bridges, some of them ancient, and is fringed in places by remains of the old fortifications, of which the Porte Guillaume (14th. century), a gateway flanked by towers, was the most complete specimen, until destroyed by the retreating German army on the night of the 15th./16th. August 1944.
The steep, narrow streets of the old town contrast with the wide, shady boulevards which encircle it and separate it from the suburbs. The Parc André-Gagnon lies to the north-west, and squares and open spaces are numerous.
Part of the Hôtel de Ville dates from the 17th. century, and is called l'Hôtel de Montescot. There is also La Maison Canoniale dating back to the 13th. century, and several medieval and Renaissance houses.
La Maison Picassiette, a house decorated inside and out with mosaics of shards of broken china and pottery, is also worth a visit.
There is also a statue of General Marceau (1769–1796), a native of Chartres and a general during the French Revolution.
The Economy of Chartres
Historically, game pies and other delicacies of Chartres are well known, and the city's industries have also included flour-milling, brewing, distilling, iron-founding, leather manufacture, perfumes, dyeing, stained glass, billiard requisites and hosiery.
More recently, businesses include the manufacture of electronic equipment and car accessories. Since 1976 the fashion and perfumes company Puig has had a production plant in the commune.
Pilgrimages
Chartres has been a site of Catholic pilgrimages since the Middle Ages. The poet Charles Péguy, who was born in 1873, revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the Great War.
At the outbreak of the war, Péguy became a lieutenant in the French 276th. Infantry Regiment. He died at the age of 41 in battle, shot in the forehead, near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne on the 5th. September 1914, the day before the beginning of the Battle of the Marne. There is a memorial to Charles near the field where he was killed.
After the war, a number of students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since 1982, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, with offices in Versailles, organizes the annual 100 km (62 mi) pilgrimage on foot from Notre-Dame de Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, from France and countries outside France, participate every year.
The Bataclan Theatre Massacre
Chartres was the home of Omar Ismael Mostefaï aged 29, one of the three gunmen who attacked the audience at the Bataclan concert venue on the 13th. November 2015, starting at 21.40.
It was part of a carefully co-ordinated attack on Paris; over a 20 minute period, Islamist militants also killed and injured people at the Stade de France, and at six restaurants and cafes in the 10th. and 11th. arrondissements.
One of the restaurants was a popular Cambodian eatery in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area, where at least 12 people died. Another 19 people were killed at a busy restaurant on nearby Rue de Charonne.
Shootings and bomb blasts on that night left a total of 130 people dead and hundreds wounded, with more than 100 in a critical condition.
The Start of the Bataclan Massacre
On the evening of the 13th. November 2015, the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was playing to an audience of about 1,500 people at the Bataclan on the Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th. arrondissement of Paris.
Three dark-clad gunmen had been waiting in a black rental car near the venue for more than an hour, and were armed with Zastava M70 assault rifles. The M70 is a derivative of the Soviet AK-47, and can fire at a rate of 620 rounds per minute. Over 4 million of the ghastly things have unfortunately been manufactured.
The terrorists were three French natives of Algerian descent. As the band was playing their song "Kiss the Devil", the three men got out of the car and opened fire on people outside the venue, killing three.
They then burst into the concert hall and sprayed the crowd with automatic gunfire. Witnesses heard shouts of "Allahu Akbar" as the terrorists opened fire. Initially, the audience mistook the gunfire for pyrotechnics. The band ran offstage and escaped with many of the crew, although their tour manager was killed.
Rows of people were mown down by gunfire or were forced to drop to the ground to avoid being shot. Survivors described hundreds of people lying beside and on top of each other in pools of blood, screaming in terror and pain.
The gunmen also fired up into the balconies, and dead bodies fell down onto the stalls below. For a few minutes, the hall was plunged into darkness, with only the flashes from the assault rifles as the gunmen kept shooting.
The terrorists shouted that they were there because of French airstrikes against Islamic State. A witness who was inside the Bataclan heard a gunman say:
"This is because of all the harm
done by Hollande to Muslims all
over the world."
A radio reporter attending the concert reported that:
"The terrorists were calm and determined, and they
reloaded three or four times. Two gunmen attacked
the concert hall; one gunman covered fire while
another reloaded to ensure maximum efficiency."
Whenever a gunman stopped to reload, members of the crowd, some with bullets in them, ran for the emergency exits, scrambling over each other to escape. Some were shot from behind as they fled, and the terrorists laughed as they shot them. Those who reached an emergency exit were shot by the third gunman, who had positioned himself there.
Other groups of people barricaded themselves in backstage rooms. Some smashed open the ceiling in an upstairs toilet, and hid among the rafters under the roof. Those who could not run lay still on the floor or under bodies pretending to be dead. One women was seen hanging from a third floor window.
According to survivors, the terrorists walked among those who were lying down, kicked them, and shot them in the head if there were any sign of life.
An eyewitness reported hearing the gunmen ask amongst themselves where the members of the Eagles of Death Metal were once the gunfire stopped. Mostefaï and another of the gunmen then went upstairs to the balconies, while the third attacker stayed downstairs and fired at people who tried to flee.
Initial Armed Response to the Terrorists
The Brigade of Research and Intervention (BRI) arrived on the scene at 22:15, soon followed by the elite tactical unit, RAID. At 22:15, the first two responding officers entered the building armed with handguns and encountered one of the terrorists who was standing on the stage.
The Jihadist died after being shot by the officers and detonating his explosive vest. Mostefaï and the other remaining gunman (Mohamed-Aggad) then fired upon the officers, forcing them to withdraw and wait for backup.
The Stand-Off
From this point, Mostefaï and the other attacker took about twenty hostages and herded them into a room at the end of a corridor located further within the building. They also seized the hostages' mobile phones and attempted to use them to access the Internet, but they were unable to find a signal.
Some of the hostages were forced to look down into the hall and out the windows and report what they saw. During this time, the two terrorists fired on police and first responders as they arrived at the scene.
At 23:30, an elite police squad entered the building. One unit evacuated survivors from downstairs, while another unit went upstairs. They found Mohamed-Aggad and Mostefaï, who had begun using hostages as human shields. They shouted out to police the number of a hostage's phone.
Over the next 50 minutes, they had four phone exchanges with a police negotiator, during which time they threatened to execute hostages unless they received a signed paper promising France's departure from Muslim lands.
The Police Assault
The police assault began at 00:20 and lasted three minutes. Police launched the assault because of reports that Mohamed-Aggad and Mostefaï had started killing hostages. Police using shields burst open the door to the room and exchanged fire with Mohamed-Aggad and Mostefaï while managing to pull the hostages one-by-one behind their shields. One terrorist detonated his explosive vest, and the other tried to do the same but was shot.
Ninety people were killed at the Bataclan on that night, and hundreds of others were wounded. Almost all of the deceased victims were killed within the first 20 minutes of the attack. All of the hostages were rescued without injury.
Police dog teams from the Brigade Cynophile assisted with body removal because of concerns that there could still be live explosives in the theatre. Identification and removal of the bodies took 10 hours, a process made difficult because some audience members had left their identity papers in the theatre's cloakroom.
Omar Ismael Mostefaï
The homegrown suicide bomber Omar Ismael Mostefaï was identified after his finger was found among the Bataclan concert hall carnage.
Mostefaï was born in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes and had eight past convictions for petty crimes. He is said to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher at a mosque in France.
The Jihadist was buried in the Cimetière Parisien de Thiais
located in Val-de-Marne.
A Prolonged Ice Storm
So what else happened on the day that the card was written?
Well, on Friday the 13th. January 1956, a six-day ice storm that had lashed Mount Washington in the United States since the 8th. January came to an end.
Arno Dübel
The day also marked the birth of Arno Dübel.
Arno Dübel was a German male who gained notoriety for his decades-long unemployment. Born in Bornumam Elm, Lower Saxony, West Germany, Dübel began an apprenticeship as a painter, but dropped out in 1976, and lived on unemployment benefits ever since.
Dübel actively advertised his unwillingness to find work, and went to great lengths to avoid sanctions for not working, taking part in talk shows promoting his lifestyle.
He even unsuccessfully tried to start a career as a schlager music singer with a song about his lack of employment.
Dübel's demonstrable abuse of the social security system in Germany made him a target for yellow journalism, with German tabloid Bild calling him "Germany's most insolent unemployed." Bild used him as an example of alleged widespread fraud of the welfare system.
Dübel died in Hamburg on the 23rd. May 2023, at the age of 67.
nicely executed portrait of Jimmy Hendrix -
Smoking A very Large Joint ..
( ' on the Top Box ' )
on 'Purple Haze ' Harley Davidson TriGlide ..
Newlands Corner ..
Executed in 1930 by Aristide Maillol this work entitled Nymph was originally the central figure for The Three Graces.
The nude female bronze figure was acquired as a gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn in 1966, purchased from the Curt Valentin Gallery in 1955.
Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire. Many of the prisoners who were executed in Lincoln Prison were buried inside the Lucy Tower in Lincoln Castle.
Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."
Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."
OMFGCO recently concepted and executed an experimental Gap store in Glendale, California. One part of the design was a custom Scout Book.
Soldiers assigned to Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, stand for a photo behind their section's assigned M777 howitzer at Fort Carson, Colorado, July 16, 2020. The Soldiers spent the day executing training tasks necessary to the successful completion of 1st SBCT's Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise, which began the day prior. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Daniel Parker)
'Originally conceived and executed in 1969, this sculpture was re-created for permanent installation at SFMOMA over three consecutive nights in May 1995 by Serra and several assistants. After heating shards of lead, the artist repeatedly threw the molten liquid into what he called the "gutter" between the wall and the floor - the point where the vertical space of painting intersects with the horizontal space of sculpture. Once each cast solidified, Serra and his assistants placed it on the gallery floor. Direct, powerful and beautiful, the work displays traces of the labor involved in its creation and highlights lead's unique physical properties.'
Façade du château d'Anet
Parmi les édifices érigés par De l'Orme, le château d’Anet doit être considéré comme son œuvre majeure. Construit à partir de 1552 sur ordre de Henri II pour Diane de Poitiers, ce fut une création d'un seul jet, exécutée en toute liberté et sans restriction de moyens, comme l'avoue De l'Orme lui-même, et constitue de ce fait la meilleure pierre de touche pour juger de l'esprit artistique de son bâtisseur. En partie détruit lors de la Révolution, en partie dépouillé de ses ornements artistiques, il ne nous est plus reconnaissable dans sa forme originelle qu’à travers les dessins de Du Cerceau¹.
Anet est situé près de Dreux, dans une plaine traversée par l'Eure. C'était au Moyen Âge un domaine royal que Charles VII concéda à Pierre de Brézé. Le petit-fils de ce dernier épousa en secondes noces, en 1514, Diane de Poitiers, qui acquit par la suite une influence si considérable sur Henri II, de près de vingt ans son cadet. Le roi fit démolir la majeure partie de l'ancien château pour en faire ériger un nouveau, magnifique, par De l'Orme ; toutefois, l'architecte dut conserver certaines parties de l'ancien édifice, comme il ressort de ses écrits² et comme le prouvent les plans.
Le plan au sol (Fig. 63) démontre qu'il s'est acquitté de cette tâche avec une grande habileté, sans nuire à la clarté ni à la symétrie de la nouvelle construction. Le vaste ensemble est entouré de douves et de murs flanqués de bastions saillants aux angles. On accédait à l'entrée principale par un pont-levis ; celle-ci est conçue comme un imposant pavillon de portail, presque de type forteresse. Présentant un mur concave saillant, elle montre, entre quatre colonnes doriques largement espacées, deux petites portes latérales et un grand portail central, ce dernier étant couronné par une large niche cintrée dans laquelle était placée la célèbre figure en bronze de la Nymphe de Fontainebleau de Benvenuto Cellini¹. De part et d'autre, en revanche, les colonnes doriques sont reliées par l'entablement et les corniches, et couronnées par un parapet plein.
À la même hauteur se terminent les parties attenantes traitées de façon fortifiée, qui s'achèvent cependant par des balustrades à jour. La forme de ces dernières, composées de cordages entrelacés, est caractéristique du caractère de cette époque : le motif paraît sobre et en même temps arbitraire. Franchement laides sont les grandes cheminées s'élevant aux angles avec leurs couronnements massifs en forme de sarcophages galbés, dont les surfaces sont couvertes de cannelures sèches et de feuillages lourds entre des profilés excessivement grossiers. Leur couronnement par des frontons interrompus et enroulés en volutes est également assez baroque. Les sarcophages, que l'on retrouve sur toutes les cheminées du château et même sur la magnifique fontaine, sont sans doute une expression architecturale du deuil de la veuve, avec lequel cette « chaste Diane » a coqueté toute sa vie durant.
À l'étage supérieur, le corps central prend la forme d'une terrasse plate arrondie des deux côtés, de laquelle s'élève une partie centrale plus haute en guise d'attique. Celle-ci est habillée de longues volutes cannelées au lieu de pilastres, présente au centre le cadran d'une horloge, des niches dans les panneaux latéraux, et porte sur le sommet de ses volutes les figures de deux chiens de chasse regardant vers un cerf situé au milieu. Les chiens, comme le raconte De l'Orme lui-même¹, annonçaient les heures par des aboiements, et le cerf en frappant du pied. Aussi lourds et sobres, voire déjà baroques dans les détails, que soient ici les éléments, il faut reconnaître que l'architecte a réussi, par une composition originale et efficace, à rendre l'expression de clôture castrale qui sied à une telle porte extérieure. En outre, tout en se refusant une décoration plastique trop fine pour cette façade extérieure, il confère à son œuvre un caractère de splendeur authentique par l'usage d'une polychromie efficace, grâce à des plaques de porphyre, de serpentine et de marbre judicieusement placées, ainsi que du bronze au-dessus des portails, sur les frises, les attiques et les socles de la structure supérieure².
L'intérieur du pavillon d'entrée s'organise en un imposant vestibule à trois nefs, avec une haute allée centrale ouverte en arcades et des nefs latérales basses séparées de l'allée centrale par des arcades sur piliers. Dans les espaces latéraux se trouvaient d'un côté le logement du portier, de l'autre un local de service. La disposition et la division, ainsi que la construction intérieure de ces propylées, trahissent la main sûre d'un maître.
En progressant dans l'axe principal, on accède alors à la grande cour d'honneur, à peu près carrée, qui était entourée sur trois côtés par les bâtiments d'habitation. À droite et au fond, sur le côté faisant face à l'entrée, s'étirait au rez-de-chaussée une galerie d'arcades reposant sur des piliers couplés avec un entablement droit. L'escalier principal se situait à droite, à l'angle des deux ailes jointives ; un autre escalier était relié à l'entrée située au milieu. L'architecture de ces parties était simple et d'un bel effet. L'étage supérieur recevait sa lumière alternativement par des fenêtres larges et étroites, toutes divisées par deux traverses, les premières étant en plus dotées d'un meneau central montant et d'un fronton antique. Les lucarnes, peu nombreuses, sont couronnées de frontons cintrés reposant de manière baroque sur des entablements en saillie.
Avec un véritable sens artistique, l'architecte a su donner à son édifice un centre dominant tout l'ensemble. Face à l'entrée principale, dans l'axe du bâtiment, il a élevé un portail en forme d'arc de triomphe dont les deux niveaux inférieurs correspondent aux deux étages de la cour, mais qui s'élève ensuite, avec un troisième étage, bien au-dessus du toit. C'est le fragment aujourd'hui exposé à Paris, à l'École des Beaux-Arts (Fig. 64). Orné en bas de colonnes doriques, puis ioniques, et au-dessus de colonnes corinthiennes accouplées portant un entablement correspondant en saillie, il reçoit un riche décor de niches avec statues et de reliefs. La grande niche principale de l'étage supérieur renfermait, au lieu de l'Amour tendant son arc représenté sur notre illustration, une statue de Louis de Brézé, l'époux défunt de Diane, avec cette inscription caractéristique de la fidélité de la veuve...Il s'agit du fragment aujourd'hui exposé à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Fig. 64). Orné en bas de colonnes doriques, puis ioniques, et au-dessus de colonnes corinthiennes accouplées portant un entablement correspondant en saillie, il reçoit un riche décor de niches avec statues et de reliefs. La grande niche principale de l'étage supérieur renfermait, au lieu de l'Amour tendant son arc représenté sur notre illustration, une statue de Louis de Brézé, l'époux défunt de Diane, avec cette inscription caractéristique de la fidélité de la veuve :
« Braese haec statuit pergata Diana marito, Ut diuturno sui sint monumenta viri. »
Sur l'attique central qui couronne l'ensemble, on voyait de grandes armoiries portées par des lions passants. La finesse d'exécution des formes architecturales, l'élégance des chapiteaux, la noblesse des moulures des corniches, les délicates branches de laurier qui entourent la partie inférieure des fûts des colonnes corinthiennes, prouvent que De l'Orme savait déployer, là où il convenait, une architecture classique plus raffinée.
Nous ne devons pas oublier qu'à cette époque, chez les maîtres de la Renaissance donnant le ton, une certaine rudesse sèche des formes — particulièrement le bossage rustique et le style dorique romain sobre — était considérée comme l'expression caractéristique du caractère rural ; c'est ainsi que Giulio Romano a caractérisé l'extérieur du Palais du Té avec une telle austérité. Il reste toutefois à déterminer si nous pouvons considérer De l'Orme comme l'inventeur de cet arc de triomphe au rendu magnifique. Nous verrons que Jean Bullant avait peut-être déjà appliqué cette composition quelques années auparavant au château d'Écouen.
Deux cours latérales encore plus vastes s'étendaient à gauche et à droite du corps de logis principal : celle de gauche, disposée en un rectangle régulier avec une magnifique fontaine baroque au centre, sur laquelle s'élevait le groupe en bronze de Diane avec un cerf et deux chiens de chasse de Jean Goujon¹ ; celle de droite, dotée d'une fontaine plus petite, irrégulière et délimitée par les vestiges de l'édifice plus ancien. Dans ce dernier, on accédait par le côté via un portail indépendant, également imposant, mais traité de manière plus castrale, des meurtrières duquel Du Cerceau laisse apparaître des canons.
De l'aile adjacente du logis seigneurial ressort une chapelle en forme de croix grecque...
Parmi les édifices érigés par De l'Orme, le château d’Anet doit être considéré comme son œuvre majeure. Construit à partir de 1552 sur ordre de Henri II pour Diane de Poitiers, ce fut une création d'un seul jet, exécutée en toute liberté et sans restriction de moyens, comme l'avoue De l'Orme lui-même, et constitue de ce fait la meilleure pierre de touche pour juger de l'esprit artistique de son bâtisseur. En partie détruit lors de la Révolution, en partie dépouillé de ses ornements artistiques, il ne nous est plus reconnaissable dans sa forme originelle qu’à travers les dessins de Du Cerceau¹.
Anet est situé près de Dreux, dans une plaine traversée par l'Eure. C'était au Moyen Âge un domaine royal que Charles VII concéda à Pierre de Brézé. Le petit-fils de ce dernier épousa en secondes noces, en 1514, Diane de Poitiers, qui acquit par la suite une influence si considérable sur Henri II, de près de vingt ans son cadet. Le roi fit démolir la majeure partie de l'ancien château pour en faire ériger un nouveau, magnifique, par De l'Orme ; toutefois, l'architecte dut conserver certaines parties de l'ancien édifice, comme il ressort de ses écrits² et comme le prouvent les plans.
Le plan au sol (Fig. 63) démontre qu'il s'est acquitté de cette tâche avec une grande habileté, sans nuire à la clarté ni à la symétrie de la nouvelle construction. Le vaste ensemble est entouré de douves et de murs flanqués de bastions saillants aux angles. On accédait à l'entrée principale par un pont-levis ; celle-ci est conçue comme un imposant pavillon de portail, presque de type forteresse. Présentant un mur concave saillant, elle montre, entre quatre colonnes doriques largement espacées, deux petites portes latérales et un grand portail central, ce dernier étant couronné par une large niche cintrée dans laquelle était placée la célèbre figure en bronze de la Nymphe de Fontainebleau de Benvenuto Cellini¹. De part et d'autre, en revanche, les colonnes doriques sont reliées par l'entablement et les corniches, et couronnées par un parapet plein.
À la même hauteur se terminent les parties attenantes traitées de façon fortifiée, qui s'achèvent cependant par des balustrades à jour. La forme de ces dernières, composées de cordages entrelacés, est caractéristique du caractère de cette époque : le motif paraît sobre et en même temps arbitraire. Franchement laides sont les grandes cheminées s'élevant aux angles avec leurs couronnements massifs en forme de sarcophages galbés, dont les surfaces sont couvertes de cannelures sèches et de feuillages lourds entre des profilés excessivement grossiers. Leur couronnement par des frontons interrompus et enroulés en volutes est également assez baroque. Les sarcophages, que l'on retrouve sur toutes les cheminées du château et même sur la magnifique fontaine, sont sans doute une expression architecturale du deuil de la veuve, avec lequel cette « chaste Diane » a coqueté toute sa vie durant.
À l'étage supérieur, le corps central prend la forme d'une terrasse plate arrondie des deux côtés, de laquelle s'élève une partie centrale plus haute en guise d'attique. Celle-ci est habillée de longues volutes cannelées au lieu de pilastres, présente au centre le cadran d'une horloge, des niches dans les panneaux latéraux, et porte sur le sommet de ses volutes les figures de deux chiens de chasse regardant vers un cerf situé au milieu. Les chiens, comme le raconte De l'Orme lui-même¹, annonçaient les heures par des aboiements, et le cerf en frappant du pied. Aussi lourds et sobres, voire déjà baroques dans les détails, que soient ici les éléments, il faut reconnaître que l'architecte a réussi, par une composition originale et efficace, à rendre l'expression de clôture castrale qui sied à une telle porte extérieure. En outre, tout en se refusant une décoration plastique trop fine pour cette façade extérieure, il confère à son œuvre un caractère de splendeur authentique par l'usage d'une polychromie efficace, grâce à des plaques de porphyre, de serpentine et de marbre judicieusement placées, ainsi que du bronze au-dessus des portails, sur les frises, les attiques et les socles de la structure supérieure².
L'intérieur du pavillon d'entrée s'organise en un imposant vestibule à trois nefs, avec une haute allée centrale ouverte en arcades et des nefs latérales basses séparées de l'allée centrale par des arcades sur piliers. Dans les espaces latéraux se trouvaient d'un côté le logement du portier, de l'autre un local de service. La disposition et la division, ainsi que la construction intérieure de ces propylées, trahissent la main sûre d'un maître.
En progressant dans l'axe principal, on accède alors à la grande cour d'honneur, à peu près carrée, qui était entourée sur trois côtés par les bâtiments d'habitation. À droite et au fond, sur le côté faisant face à l'entrée, s'étirait au rez-de-chaussée une galerie d'arcades reposant sur des piliers couplés avec un entablement droit. L'escalier principal se situait à droite, à l'angle des deux ailes jointives ; un autre escalier était relié à l'entrée située au milieu. L'architecture de ces parties était simple et d'un bel effet. L'étage supérieur recevait sa lumière alternativement par des fenêtres larges et étroites, toutes divisées par deux traverses, les premières étant en plus dotées d'un meneau central montant et d'un fronton antique. Les lucarnes, peu nombreuses, sont couronnées de frontons cintrés reposant de manière baroque sur des entablements en saillie.
Avec un véritable sens artistique, l'architecte a su donner à son édifice un centre dominant tout l'ensemble. Face à l'entrée principale, dans l'axe du bâtiment, il a élevé un portail en forme d'arc de triomphe dont les deux niveaux inférieurs correspondent aux deux étages de la cour, mais qui s'élève ensuite, avec un troisième étage, bien au-dessus du toit. C'est le fragment aujourd'hui exposé à Paris, à l'École des Beaux-Arts (Fig. 64). Orné en bas de colonnes doriques, puis ioniques, et au-dessus de colonnes corinthiennes accouplées portant un entablement correspondant en saillie, il reçoit un riche décor de niches avec statues et de reliefs. La grande niche principale de l'étage supérieur renfermait, au lieu de l'Amour tendant son arc représenté sur notre illustration, une statue de Louis de Brézé, l'époux défunt de Diane, avec cette inscription caractéristique de la fidélité de la veuve...
Title: Hamburg, steps in Botanic Garden. "A beautifully designed, executed and planted flight of steps." (Negus neg., 69) n.d.
Date: undated
Description: Hamburg, steps in Botanic Garden. "A beautifully designed, executed and planted flight of steps." (Negus neg., 69) n.d. (Manning Lantern Slide: 1255)
Image ID: 218.LS.1255
Related Information: Warren H. Manning Papers at the Iowa State University Library
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Demonstration, vigil at the gates of San Quentin Prison, California awaiting the death by lethal injection of Stanley Williams AKA "Tookie". Mr. Williams was pronounced dead at 12:35 AM 12/13/2005
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Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."
Jan. 24, 2023: Washington DC: A Georgetown Hoyas cheerleader executes a backflip in a BIG EAST basketball game at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC. (Michael R. Smith/The Sports Pulse).
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The USS Scorpion NX-74207 Starship was commissioned in secret under Section 31 by Starfleet for the primary purpose of wartime activities. The USS Scorpion is intentionally designed to appear as a Constitution Class starship in reverse while having all of the battle capabilities of a Defiant-class. Far from Starfleet’s primary objective, the USS NX-74207 Scorpion was deemed necessary to protect the Federation from foes “known and unknown.” The SHIP has garnered a handful of names throughout the galaxy, including, Just to Kill, Federation Bird of Prey or F-BoP, Five Fingers of Death, Death's Hand, and Kirk's Revenge among others. Eventually, as threats of war emerged around Borg incursions, the USS Scorpion was a welcome addition to the Fleet. It was hailed as a game changer for the power of the Federation throughout the Galaxy.
The starship is designed to overpower any enemy in ship to ship battle. Equipped with four forward facing proton torpedo bays, a primary phaser cannon and multiple close combat laser turrets on the forward hull. The nacelles are under slung with additional cannons and close combat turrets. The ship serves as a combat ready sub fleet meaning the ship can come apart with the bridge deck serving as a battle cruiser, the main hull as a battle platform with a hangar bay and marine barracks, the rear of the ship holds “pin ships” that detach as light bombers and hull pokers. These pointy ships are designed to penetrate enemy ship hulls causing catastrophic damage. In a well executed arena, the USS Scorpion can provide a planetary barricade with no other support.
The TX-74207 Scorpion was designed by the DreamDynamic Shipwerks as part of SHIPtember 2024. The model totals 3900 parts notably a SHIP load of 1x1 plates to make up the windows and color blocking.
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Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
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Days after Rights Commission report of massive crackdown on civilians, security forces in Oromia execute a young man in public view ; Zonal, City admin officials justify the act.
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May 12, 2021
The communication bureau of Kellem Wollega zone of the Oromia regional state yesterday posted on its Facebook page a message announcing that the city’s security forces have “captured and taken measures” on “a member of ‘Abba Torbe’,” a name associated with an armed group that operate under ‘Shene’, an organization recently designated as a “terrorist organization” by Ethiopia’s parliament.
The zonal Facebook post accused the young man, who it didn’t mention by name, of “assassinating civilians” and by measures taken, it meant he was killed by security forces after being “injured and captured.”
According to the administration of Dembi Dollo, the young man was shot and injured in his leg while trying to evade capture after he attacked an individual called Gemechu Mengesha, and mentioned the killing of OBN journalist Sisay Fida whose killing was attributed to ‘Shene’.
Hours after this announcement, a footage of the young man being interrogated by armed members of Oromia Special Forces was posted on the same Facebook page with the title “Measures were taken on a member of ‘Abba Torbe’”. The young man was seen battered, his cloth torn apart, bleeding from multiple injuries and his hands tied behind his back.
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Francisco Goya: Self-portrait at 69 Years
Two original versions of this work have been preserved. One of the paintings, painted on canvas, is housed in the collections of the Prado Museum.
The other, created on wood panel, is located in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid (see below).
Both paintings were created in 1815, in the post-war period, and depict a very similar image of the artist. This is one of the most sincere and direct self-portraits of the painter.
-- Goya's Self-Portraits
Throughout his long life, Goya created many self-portraits – at least fifteen are recognized as authentic, with a total of over thirty.
He used various techniques: painting, engraving, and drawing. He also portrayed himself in various ways, for example, classically before easels with attributes of the painter: Self-portrait at an Easel modeled after Velázquez and his Las Meninas.
Goya also depicted himself with important clients: Charles IV of Spain and Family, The Family of the Infante Don Luis, and José Moñino, 1st. Count of Floridablanca and Francisco de Goya.
He also appears in religious scenes like The Sermon of Saint Bernardino of Siena, genre scenes like La novillada (The Young Bulls' Fight), in a drawing with his muse, the Duchess of Alba, or in Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta painted as a votive offering.
There are also several portraits of Goya executed by other artists, such as by Vicente López (Portrait of Goya at 80 years.
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered to be the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th. and early 19th. centuries.
His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals, and influenced important 19th.- and 20th.-century painters.
Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns.
Goya was born to a middle-class family on the 30th. March 1746 in Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from the age of 14 under José Luzán y Martinez, and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs.
He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786, and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo-style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.
Although Goya's letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 that left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and more pessimistic.
His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing.
He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France.
In 1799, Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara, the highest rank for a Spanish court painter.
In the late 1790's he completed his La Maja Desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time, and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1800–01, he painted Charles IV of Spain and his family, also influenced by Velázquez.
In 1807, Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not speak his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808.
Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health.
His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied to the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation.
Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may have been his lover.
There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other works. Following a stroke that left him paralyzed on his right side, Goya died on the 16th. April 1828 aged 82.
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Marines execute a High Intensity Tactical Training session during the unit’s physical training aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort June 10. Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 in coordination with Marine Corps Community Services South Carolina organized the PT event to familiarize the Marines and provide basic instruction about the HITT program. (Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez/Released)
Today (Friday 10 November), Operation Vulcan executed warrants at premises on Bury New Road, shutting down and seizing half a million of pounds worth of counterfeit items.
Police warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears for some counterfeit operations in the area. Attempts to re-open and profit from the Christmas sales however continue to be detected and swiftly shut down.
Thanks to intelligence from the Cheetham Hill Neighbourhood Team (who remain in the area with the Vulcan team and conduct daily patrols in the community), Operation Vulcan were able to execute these warrants just days after witnessing customers walking down Bury New Road with bags of fake goods.
Detective Sergeant Matt Donnelly, one of Operation Vulcan’s specialist officers, said: “These results today demonstrate just how important it is that Operation Vulcan remain in the area. The criminals operating here are so brazen, the minute they think they spot an opening, they’re back up and running as though it’s business as usual. We’re here to show them that this isn’t the case, and we will not stop until these illegitimate shops are eradicated and those responsible are locked up.
“I hope this is a warning that no matter how many times you try to reopen, we will continue to seize your belongings and profits, making sure none of this money can make its way back into the criminal market.
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council said: "Over the past 12 months we have achieved a great deal through Operation Vulcan. Through our partnership with GMP gangs have been run out of Cheetham Hill and people have been allowed to feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
"But the work will go on. We know these gangs are tenacious and that criminals will always find ways to circumvent the law. The Council's Trading Standards will remain vigilant throughout the Christmas period to make sure that dangerous or harmful goods do not make their way in the hands of the public."