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The Giant Rat balloon installed in front of the building denounces a corporation that underpays workers and collects food for the families of the exploited people around the Thanksgiving period.
Exploitant : Transdev Boucle des Lys
Réseau : IDF Mobilités – Saint Germain Boucles de Seine
Ligne : 10
Lieu : Les Lampes (Marly-le-Roi, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/26907
Participants of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites User Forum in Africa conduct a field visit to Maranyundo Weather Radar Site in Nyamata in Rwanda's south.
Our investigations into non-recent child sexual exploitation are ramping up with five suspects arrested in relation to reports of abuse in Oldham between 2011 and 2014.
Detectives in our dedicated CSE Major Incident Team have been working closely with the survivors at the centre of these cases, gathering evidence and intelligence, with unwavering determination to bring child abusers to justice.
This action involved the execution of five warrants simultaneously at addresses in Oldham, Tameside, and Manchester.
These offences follow a disclosure from an Oldham survivor that forms part of a complex and wide-ranging investigation codenamed ‘Operation Sherwood’ which draws on our effective partnership with Oldham Council.
We have previously arrested six suspects as part of this investigation. They were placed on police bail with significant child protection conditions to adhere to, whilst our investigation continues.
The five men arrested this morning remain in custody for questioning.
The suspects are not necessarily all linked, but they collectively relate to four survivors we are supporting.
Assistant Chief Constable Steph Parker, lead for Protecting Vulnerable People, said: “The survivors at the centre of these cases have placed their trust in the GMP of today, and have the confidence to support prosecutions, which we hold to the highest regard.
“We are working closely with them, while they receive tailored support from partnership agencies, moving forward at a pace and in a manner that is right for them.
“Our investigative teams are piecing together all the evidence and taking robust action as soon as we can. Bringing child abusers to justice is why our detectives work so tirelessly day-in day-out. It’s essential we get this right and build strong case files to present the best possible case in court.
“We are now making significant strides in our pursuit and activity is only going to continue ramping up. We will not allow time to be a barrier to justice and any abusers in Oldham or beyond should be warned that we are coming for them.”
If you or someone you know has been raped or sexually assaulted, we encourage you not to suffer in silence and report it to the police, or a support agency so you can get the help and support available.
- Saint Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Manchester provides a comprehensive and co-ordinated response to men,
women and children who live or have been sexually assaulted within Greater Manchester.
They offer forensic medical examinations, practical and emotional support as well as a counselling service for all ages. Services are available on a 24-hour basis and can be accessed by calling 0161 276 6515.
Greater Manchester Rape Crisis is a confidential information, support and counselling service run by women for women over 18 who have been raped or sexually abused at any time in their lives. Call on 0161 273 4500 or email help@manchesterrapecrisis.co.uk
Survivors Manchester provides specialist trauma informed support to male victims in Greater Manchester who have experienced sexual abuse, rape, or sexual exploitation. Call 0161 236 2182.
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
Battle Scene - c. 1645/1646
Philips Wouwerman
Dutch, 1619 - 1668
Philips Wouwerman, an important Haarlem painter from the mid-seventeenth century, is best known for his elegant hunting scenes. In his early career, however, he specialized in boldly expressive depictions of military encounters. Wouwerman’s dynamic vision of men and horses in the midst of battle seems to have been inspired by non-Dutch pictorial sources, which he would have known primarily through prints. Chief among these was Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), whose etchings of battle scenes featuring rearing horses and close combat were widely circulated and enormously influential during the early
seventeenth century.
The dramatic poses of men and horses recall the oeuvre of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), but one can also recognize the influence of the Italianate painter Pieter van Laer (1599–1642), whose sketchbook Wouwerman owned. Images of warfare had a long tradition in Netherlandish painting, from sixteenth-century representations of peasant revolts to the various combat scenes that were popular during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). For Wouwerman, this long-drawn-out and devastating war may have become a particularly topical subject following his short period of study in northern Germany in 1638–1639, where he may have witnessed or heard firsthand accounts of the armed conflicts in that country.
In this powerful work from about 1645/1646, the viewer is presented with a violent skirmish between Dutch and Spanish soldiers. As the fierce confrontation rages on, dead bodies lie strewn on the ground and a maimed drummer tries to flee from the mayhem. Instead of extolling the heroism of military exploits, Wouwerman bears witness to a brutal display of human violence and the suffering that results. For all of the cold realism of the subject matter, Wouwerman painted this scene with a remarkably subtle palette and close attention to detail. Every element is carefully integrated into a dynamic composition that displays his considerable artistic skill at perspective and lifelike representation of bodies in motion.
Philips Wouwerman, a prolific painter of equestrian scenes, hailed from Haarlem, where he was baptized on May 24, 1619. The eldest of three sons born to the painter Pouwels Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert, Pouwels’ fourth wife, Wouwerman probably first learned to paint from his father. According to his earliest biographer, Cornelis de Bie, he was then apprenticed to Hals, Frans.[1] Wouwerman also may have received some training in the representation of horses from the Haarlem artist Pieter Verbeeck (1610/1615–1652/1654).
In 1638 Wouwerman briefly left the Netherlands for Hamburg. According to Matthias Scheits (c. 1625/1630–c. 1700), a student of the artist, Wouwerman fled the Netherlands in order to marry a Catholic girl, Annetje Pietersz van Broeckhof, against the wishes of his Protestant family. Although no records of the wedding exist in the marriage register of Hamburg’s Catholic community, the fact that Scheits knew Wouwerman personally argues for the validity of his account. Wouwerman’s journey to Hamburg, however, involved more than just a wedding; he also spent some time working in the studio of the obscure German history painter Evert Decker (d. 1647).
By 1640 Wouwerman and his wife had returned to Haarlem, where the artist was admitted into the local Saint Luke’s Guild on August 8 of that year. In early 1642 Koert Witholt, a Swedish artist, served as his apprentice for a few short weeks. Later that same year Nicolaes Ficke and Jacob Warnars, both from Amsterdam, were also recorded as his pupils. Wouwerman was an active member in Haarlem’s artistic and civic communities. In 1646 he was elected one of the six vinders of the Saint Luke’s Guild, and between 1642 and 1655 he served as a member of the militia company of Sint Joris. He and his wife had many children, of which seven survived. Wouwerman died at the age of forty-eight on May 19, 1668. He was buried four days later in Haarlem’s Nieuwe Kerk.
Wouwerman was an extraordinarily productive artist. More than a thousand paintings bear his name, though only a small number are dated, making it difficult to establish a chronology of his work. Attribution issues also exist because a number of studio works and copies were made by his brother Pieter Wouwerman (1623–1682). Wouwerman’s oeuvre consists predominantly of small cabinet paintings of equestrian subjects, such as battle or hunting scenes, army camps, and smithies. He also painted several genre pieces as well as some mythological and religious subjects. Despite the Italianate quality of much of his work, it is extremely unlikely that he ever traveled to Italy. His style was greatly influenced by Laer, Pieter van, a fellow Haarlem artist who spent fourteen years in Italy from 1625 to 1639; according to Houbraken, after Van Laer died, Wouwerman acquired some of his sketches and studies.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
During the University of Delaware’s Elder Abuse and Exploitation Conference on May 12 at Clayton Hall, Secretary Landgraf urged people who investigate such cases to be aware that victims also could be suffering from such childhood traumas as sexual, physical or emotional abuse, mental illness, addiction or domestic abuse in the household, or emotional or physical neglect. Long-held trauma, in fact, overwhelms a person’s coping resources, she said.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Survey of more than 17,000 adults found that such experiences are common, with two-thirds of participants reporting at least one ACE. For seniors with four or more ACEs, the risk for such long-term health complications as alcoholism, depression, stroke, heart disease and obesity greatly increase. That’s why, Secretary Landgraf said, trauma threatens healthy aging, including raising the risk for abuse, exploitation, mental illness, and suicide. She urged professions and advocates to assume trauma exists in their clients, to listen when they speak, and to ask the non-judgmental question: “What happened to you?” as a way to encourage them to disclose.
Joining Secretary Landgraf as speakers at the conference were Karen F. Stein, UD professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, on the lack of greater awareness of elder abuse; Philip C. Marshall on the Brooke Astor Story and its lessons for elder justice; and Elizabeth Loewy, on the invisible epidemic of elder financial abuse. “Elder abuse is coming out of the shadows,” Stein said, pointing to mentions of it on popular TV shows.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15. To report a suspected case of abuse, neglect or exploitation in Delaware, call 1-800-223-9074.
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2025 Hope Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo by Samantha C. Banavong.
NCMEC’s signature fundraiser is more than a night of celebration—Hope Gala is a powerful call to action for children. Every story shared and every dollar raised brings us closer to a world where every child is safe.
For more than 40 years, NCMEC has led the fight to protect children, support families, and bring hope to those impacted by abduction and exploitation. The evening united survivors, advocates, law enforcement, and leaders from across the country around one goal: protecting childhood.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2025 Hope Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo by Samantha C. Banavong.
NCMEC’s signature fundraiser is more than a night of celebration—Hope Gala is a powerful call to action for children. Every story shared and every dollar raised brings us closer to a world where every child is safe.
For more than 40 years, NCMEC has led the fight to protect children, support families, and bring hope to those impacted by abduction and exploitation. The evening united survivors, advocates, law enforcement, and leaders from across the country around one goal: protecting childhood.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2025 Hope Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo by Samantha C. Banavong.
NCMEC’s signature fundraiser is more than a night of celebration—Hope Gala is a powerful call to action for children. Every story shared and every dollar raised brings us closer to a world where every child is safe.
For more than 40 years, NCMEC has led the fight to protect children, support families, and bring hope to those impacted by abduction and exploitation. The evening united survivors, advocates, law enforcement, and leaders from across the country around one goal: protecting childhood.
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
Site of the now-demolished bridge which once linked the two islands. After the community was resettled, the bridge deteriorated and the remaining inhabitants started losing sheep through holes in the walkway, until the Canadian Forces blew it up.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2025 Hope Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo by Samantha C. Banavong.
NCMEC’s signature fundraiser is more than a night of celebration—Hope Gala is a powerful call to action for children. Every story shared and every dollar raised brings us closer to a world where every child is safe.
For more than 40 years, NCMEC has led the fight to protect children, support families, and bring hope to those impacted by abduction and exploitation. The evening united survivors, advocates, law enforcement, and leaders from across the country around one goal: protecting childhood.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2025 Hope Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo by Samantha C. Banavong.
NCMEC’s signature fundraiser is more than a night of celebration—Hope Gala is a powerful call to action for children. Every story shared and every dollar raised brings us closer to a world where every child is safe.
For more than 40 years, NCMEC has led the fight to protect children, support families, and bring hope to those impacted by abduction and exploitation. The evening united survivors, advocates, law enforcement, and leaders from across the country around one goal: protecting childhood.