Paul Penhoët third in Fleurus bunch finish Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) won the opening stage of the 2024 Tour de Wallonie powering away from the rest of the sprint field in the final 250 metres into Fleurus Third place Paul Penhoët (Groupama-FDJ) was led out best round the final corner after some riders went the wrong direction with 1.5km to go and crashed he was quickly overhauled by Madis Mihkels (Intermarché-Wanty) and Meeus who stormed up the left-hand side to take victory It's the 11th win in the career of Meeus and the second since his famous win on the Champs Élysées at last year's Tour de France It's also the second for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe since their new title sponsor came on board in June also pretty hectic with 1.5km to go when some guys crashed but I managed to stay in a good position and launch my sprint at the perfect time," said Meeus after the stage "For sure this victory wouldn't have been possible without them Not so many sprinters in this race so a lot of riders wanted to ride away with a small break but my team did a perfect job with keeping everything together and I'm super happy to finish it off." 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Accueil Contenu pédagogique Ressources supplémentaires Le Petit Prince Magazine 2025 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry La fondation hello@lepetitprince.com Le Petit Prince Licensing13 Boulevard Edgar Quinet75014 Paris, France Le Petit Prince® © Succession Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 2025 – Mentions légales – Site imaginé par Guillaume Delalande Home Additional content The Little Prince Magazine 2025 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The foundation Le Petit Prince Licensing :13 Boulevard Edgar Quinet75014 Paris Le Petit Prince® © Succession Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 2025 – Legal notices – Site designed by Guillaume Delalande from “The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,” 2019 You can’t just knock on the door of 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris and expect to get in when writer and art collector Gertrude Stein lived there with her lover who is your introducer,” Stein wrote in her bestselling memoir “Everybody was supposed to be able to mention the name of somebody who had told them about it.” Gertrude Stein sitting on a sofa in her Paris studio and other modern art paintings hanging on the wall behind her She went to Fouquet (the patisserie where Stein contemplated buying a Cézanne over honey cake and nut candies), the couple’s summer home in Bilignin, and their Parisian apartment— where modernism spent Saturday nights, hosting artists like Juan Gris and creative frenemies Henri Matisse and Picasso But the place hasn’t changed,” Kalman recalls And so it was just fantastic to sit there and think Kalman—who saves visual bric-a-brac on her iPhone as inspiration for her vibrant paintings of sinks, abandoned chairs, and girls standing on lawns—now has a photo collection of the legendary apartment that was once lined to the ceilings with one of the finest modern art collections. But unlike other artists who managed to get past the foyer (maybe hoping to convince Stein to buy a painting, or hobnob with Cubists) Kalman isn’t after Stein for her art world connections “I’ve always loved Gertrude and Alice,” she said of her long-lasting crush on the two from “ The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,” 2019 from “ The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,” 2019 “It’s not that Gertrude was the creative one and Alice was the cook “There’s a tremendous amount of love of creativity between two people filling the proscenium with her words written in her own signature handwriting and when an opportunity arose to illustrate the Autobiography (her publisher is the original publisher of Stein’s memoir) “It didn’t take more than five seconds to think this is a wonderful project,’” she recalled The illustration project planted Kalman unapologetically in Stein and Toklas’s world giving her an excuse to paint moments of their lives with the Matissean colors that graced the couple’s walls—and tint Kalman’s work She pored over photographs of the pair and the people in their circle picking her favorites to punctuate the book He’s not that interesting.’ And just keep going through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of images until you find the ones that you love,” Kalman said Kalman said she could absolutely do a whole other book with the photographs she wanted to paint she didn’t want her illustrations to consume Stein’s paragraph-length sentences and descriptions that are as complex as they are seductively simple so that you go through it and you’re not overwhelmed with imagery,” she said “And the captions from the text are very short phrases they’re not full sentences most of the time When Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B she purposefully set out to write a bestseller—and she did with the addition of Maira Kalman’s illustrations it could be a bestseller again (much in the way that her illustrated edition of William Strunk and E.B became the best-selling edition of that title after it appeared in 2005) But what would Mademoiselle Stein think? The discerning aesthete was notoriously unsure, at first, about the portrait Picasso painted of her soon after they met. The young artist made her face look mask-like but brushed off any criticism by saying that “everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference she will,” Stein recorded in the Autobiography thinks Stein would have liked the portraits she painted of her for this book “But I’m convinced that she would like the whole thing Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The converted piano factory at 13 rue Ravignan was an unlikely site for the birth of modern art and literature Picasso’s studio lay within a labyrinthine wooden building perched on the top of Montmartre hill in a notorious neighborhood popular with students and anarchists—a horse-drawn omnibus ride and a steep walk from Gertrude Stein’s home at 27 rue de Fleurus and impresarios singing bled through the thin walls while tenants jostled for use of a solitary ground-floor bathroom both light and heat were drawn from a rusty cast-iron stove in one corner opposite a single bed; the stench of paint mingled with the distinctive scent of Picasso’s energetic dog while the floor was scattered with pinched tubes of paint and jerricans oozing petrol.In her autobiography Stein remembered posing for hours in a broken armchair while Picasso sat opposite her on a small kitchen chair mixed brown and gray together on his palette She described Picasso’s growing frustration over the months as he painted and scrubbed out her features and presented the portrait to Stein as a gift In the interval between first and second drafts Picasso’s style had undergone a seismic evolution: the original and the face now resembled a sculptured mask When Stein protested that it didn’t look like her Gertrude Stein in her Paris studio with Picasso's portrait above her When Stein was later asked how her portrait came to be painted by the relatively unknown twenty-four-year-old Picasso she simply claimed that neither she nor the artist could remember But—as was clear to visitors to the rue de Fleurus where she held court over the subsequent decades from a chair placed directly underneath her likeness—it was central to her sense of identity and it is the only reproduction of me which is always I for me.” The aura of mystery around the sittings—which Stein numbered at eighty or ninety over the course of the winter of 1905–06—has turned the portrait into a myth it provided an origin story that would come to define her image linking writer and artist indelibly as the two geniuses of the twentieth century: “Picasso in painting and I in literature.” and in the series of lectures she delivered in America in 1934 when that book became a bestseller Stein placed herself—and her own literary “revolution” —at the heart of Picasso’s shift from the “charming early Italian period” of his pre-portrait work to “the intensive struggle which was to end in cubism.” “The rose period,” she wrote “ended with my portrait.” From this point on this was how she wanted to be recognized: not only as the instigator of the crucial swerve toward Cubism in Picasso’s art as The Metropolitan Museum of Art put it some forty years later “came to represent in literature what he stood for in painting—a constant search for new forms and a willingness to sweep out all that had gone before.” Stein recalled that she “meditated and made sentences” in her mind; she continued to ruminate walking home in the dark The sittings coincided with the writing of her story “Three Lives,” a trio of novellas about working-class women in Baltimore Rather than convey character through events and encounters her characters’ immediate experience: her writing unfolds in rhythmic cascades of simple heightening the reader’s alertness to variation in words and phrases She considered the book “the first definite step away from the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in literature.” In her narrative the sittings represented a radical departure for them both setting each on a path toward the work that would Picasso’s work was in high demand across the world while hers languished in relative obscurity consistently rejected by publishers and internationally mocked by readers and facing down the fear that the work she considered her best was doomed to eternal repose in a filing cabinet By representing their beginnings as intertwined In the will she prepared shortly before her death Stein left two instructions for her executors: she wanted all her unpublished work to be printed with funds to be raised from the sale of her art collection if necessary while the Picasso portrait—the only artwork named in her will—was to be left to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to ensure that her image would be kept in the public eye as long as Picasso’s work was admired © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS) The painting had moved with Stein and Toklas from the rue de Fleurus to the rue Christine in 1937; in September 1939 Stein and Toklas had grabbed it along with a jumble of clothes and passports as they fled the city and brought it back six years later on a hair-raising taxi ride through the mountains (When the car was stopped by armed officials Toklas sternly reprimanded an officer who showed interest in examining their bundles informing him that the Picasso painting was not to be touched.) It had not left their sight since its creation Therefore it was perhaps unsurprising that when the president of the Paris Guaranty Trust arrived to collect the portrait from Toklas on behalf of The Met she begged to keep the portrait another week as he explained in a cable to colleagues back in New York to allow time for friends to say goodbye.The short reprieve was granted where his portrait still hung over the fireplace such that Toklas used to imagine the two Steins talked to each other when no one else was there “He stood alone in front of it quite a few minutes,” Toklas reported to her close friend “drinking it in as only his eyes can and then he saluted it quite seriously—quite simply—and he kissed my hand and said au revoir cherie After all the portrait is their youth—its intensity and theirs are all one—and I mind its going so very very much.” As he left “Neither you nor I will ever see it again.”Across the Atlantic anticipation of the portrait’s arrival was fevered “The rue de Fleurus will seem to live again,” wrote Van Vechten to Toklas the portrait was unveiled in The Met’s grand Fifth Avenue atrium the only artwork displayed in the lofty hall with a discreet plaque nearby telling the story of Stein and Picasso’s friendship To the visitors who passed through the lobby or saw the portrait’s grainy reproduction in the evening newspapers the display was a curiosity—an historical encounter between two familiar figures the rupture felt “like another parting” from the woman to whom she had devoted her life Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Gertrude Stein © 2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS) Toklas grappled with her new role as steward of Stein’s legacy granting (and refusing) permissions requests battling to ensure the portrait remained on display at The Met in the wake of an agreement between New York institutions that would have transferred it indefinitely to the Museum of Modern Art (“You can be a museum or you can be modern,” she wrote to its director Alfred Barr “but you can’t be both.”) In her battle to cement Stein’s reputation as a great literary figure both Stein’s enduring vitality and her ineffable absence Yet its home at The Met placed her image in a dynamic new context and dancers—from John Cage to the Judson Dance Theater Frank O’Hara and the New York School to the anarchist ensemble of the Living Theatre—were beginning to read finding in it possibilities for their own boundary-defying art If Paris was the artistic home of the first half of the twentieth century and New York that of 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easily complement your baggy nylon shorts raw denim—if you're getting down with that again $184.99 by New Balance Three times a week you'll get insider intel on what to buy along with the best deals worth your time and money About Valet. | Advertising on Valet. it was Faÿ who protected not only Stein and her partner during the war but also the art work that Stein collected arguably the greatest intrigue in the history of the paintings is that they were nearly confiscated from the home of this Jewish-American lesbian couple—but finally saved granting happy reprieve to the Picassos and Matisses three and a half weeks after the Met announced its decision to amend the wall text—and not long before the show’s close—I was surprised to perceive no change in the section addressing Stein’s life during the war I twice walked through the rooms of the show still lacking mention of Stein’s Pétainist activity when their landlord reclaimed the atelier at 27 Gertrude and Alice moved to an apartment closer to the Seine Germany invaded France and seized control of Paris Ignoring the American Embassy’s repeated warnings to evacuate the country Gertrude and Alice retreated to their rented house at Bilignin Gertrude did not purchase any art during the war The German military was on the verge of confiscating her collection when Allied troops arrived in Paris in August 1944 Literature about Gertrude’s life in Occupied France is available in the Museum shop I asked a woman at the information desk if she knew anything about an adjustment to the text and she offered a story before I even finished my question They’d looked into the question of Stein’s controversial activity and they’d found no basis for the charge of anti-Semitism (though this was not exactly the question under consideration) She mentioned an interview the New York Times conducted with Stein in 1934 that is cited by Stein antagonists and apologists alike to defend their respective stances on her wartime years the woman told me that Stein had said that the Nazis could get the Democrats and the left and the Jews out of Germany and then Hitler should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for it “You didn’t change any of the Stein exhibit text?” “I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize,” she says “because he is removing all elements of contest and of struggle from Germany By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left elements he is driving out everything that conduces to activity and enabled the French “to make France again.” She admired Franco and in 1937 told a journalist that Hitler “is not the dangerous one But this is not the whole story on Stein’s pro-Nazi expression I called the Met the following day to speak with Harold Holzer Clearly frustrated with the controversy surrounding the exhibition and stressed to me how unusual it was for the museum to alter a label unless it was factually incorrect I told him how similar the revised texts seemed to me and Holzer sent me the before and after versions In 1938 their landlord reclaimed the atelier at 27 rue de Fleurus Gertrude and Alice moved to a sunny apartment closer to the Seine France and Britain declared war on Germany Ignoring the American Embassy’s repeated warnings to evacuate France Gertrude and Alice retreated to the countryside Remarkably the two women survived the war with their possessions intact it was revealed that she had bequeathed her portrait by Picasso to The Metropolitan Museum of Art the museum no longer told us that Gertrude’s apartment is “sunny.” Instead of “One year later [in 1939] France and Britain declared war on Germany,” we have “In the summer of 1940 Germany invaded France and seized control of Paris.” We have added specificity about their life in the countryside: a “rented house at Bilignin.” Faÿ is now a “Nazi collaborator” instead of an “influential Vichy collaborator” (strictly and it is certain that he protected them (no more he “is thought to have” done so) instead of “Remarkably the two women survived the war with their possessions intact,” there is “Gertrude did not purchase any art during the war.” And finally—and most tellingly—the ending has changed forever linking their legacies.” Instead: “The German military was on the verge of confiscating her collection when Allied troops arrived in Paris in August 1944 Literature about Gertrude’s life in Occupied France is available in the Museum shop.” The fact that Gertrude did not purchase art has been removed as has the linkage between Stein and the Met and replaced with a liberation-day anecdote and a direction to further reading I asked Janet Malcolm what she thought about the ordeal. She, too, expressed puzzlement over the Met’s insistence on skirting the issue. “The museum’s revised text is very inadequate,” she told me. Barbara Will, whose book the Met directs patrons to only by selling it in the gift shop, was startled that the changes were “so minimal.” “There is a huge will to believe in Stein’s heroism and progressivism,” she elaborated in an e-mail. “Of course the complexity of Stein’s situation in Vichy needs to be acknowledged, but what remains baffling is why so many people refuse to call her out on her collaborative activities, as well as her real commitment to the Vichy regime.” Carl Mydans/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. Frank Ledwidge is affiliated with the Transatlantic Dialogue Center in Kyiv University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK View all partners One of the more surreal sights of the recent Afghan war was tethered balloons (also known as “aerostats”) looming over the bases of international forces These “persistent threat detection systems” carried a suite of 360-degree cameras providing a constant view - out to 100 miles - of surrounding areas to the US “force-protection” teams within the heavily guarded installations The recent four-day saga of a Chinese spy balloon prying into US nuclear secrets serves as a reminder that the oldest technologies are still being developed to achieve military effects today Balloons have been in use for military service longer than air forces have existed It was the brilliant French engineer Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutell (founder of the French Aerostatic Corps) who first demonstrated the potential of using a balloon to observe an enemy’s positions In June 1794, he ascended above the battle of Fleurus and reported on Austrian positions dropping messages describing their movements and positions from his tethered balloon while being unsuccessfully shot at by somewhat surprised artillerymen the corps was disbanded in 1799 – after deployment to Egypt with Napoleon who failed to see the potential of this new weapon There was limited use in the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian war. But in the first world war, aerostats came into their own. Dirigibles, the famous Zeppelin airships – which by definition were powered and steerable – had a short-lived role as bombers However, the role of balloons on the battlefield was of far more immediate consequence They offered relatively stable platforms high above the battlefield from which to observe enemy positions and direct artillery fire on to them was that they were easily visible from those same enemy positions making membership of balloon crews a notably dangerous endeavour The cables tethering them to the ground were lethal for low-flying aircraft Barrage balloons became an iconic feature of the Blitz The next major military use of balloons came during the Cold War, when the US project “Moby Dick” led to hundreds of balloons being sent to spy over the Soviet Union Balloons may seem unlikely candidates for long-range reconnaissance such as that attempted by China recently They are steerable only by altering altitude using varying air currents to change direction Last week, a skilfully planned use of airstreams and currents directed a surveillance balloon over the single most sensitive element of the US military – the intercontinental ballistic missile silo bases in Montana The US Department of Defense said that: “Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years.” China is reportedly denying the balloon was engaged in surveillance activities maintaining it was a “civilian airship” that was collecting weather data and had been blown off course Despite their size and vulnerability, aerostats like this offer advantages over satellites and manned aircraft They are slow and can persist over a target for far longer than a satellite that passes over at orbital speed Flying at just 60,000 feet (12 miles or 20km) their cameras can achieve higher resolution than those based in orbit at 100 miles (160km) They are also cheaper than satellites, drones or manned aircraft, can deploy large payloads, and present a less overtly aggressive face. Indeed, they offer the possibility of a degree of plausible deniability – who would be threatened by a mere hot air weather balloon? But it may well have been the medium itself that was the message China is saying: “Here is this very public dilemma for you The balloon was eventually shot down over the Atlantic ocean on February 4, pulled out of the sea off the coast of South Carolina and taken to the FBI lab at Quantico Virginia to be scrutinised by military experts Ironically, it may well be that the US learns rather more than China did from this particular spying mission AGC Glass Europe announced intentions to close two automotive glass plants in Europe; its Wegberg Plant located in Germany The closure will affect 84 employees within the next two years The decision to close the plant is based on the amount of continued pressure the automotive market has been under compounded by factors like uncertainty about engine technology The company is considering a gradual shutdown over the next year AGC Glass cites similar reasons for closing the plant “In an unstable and deeply evolving automotive market the profitability of the windscreen business has been affected for several years now by a strong and worldwide competition between glass manufacturers and by the products’ technological evolutions the Group's difficulties in saturating its laminated glass production lines were exacerbated by the Covid crisis and the ongoing semiconductor crisis there has been a dramatic increase in energy and raw material costs.” © National Glass Association. 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Privacy Policy What led it to take such excessive and violent measures against its own people which suspended the right to a public trial and legal assistance Juries were given two choices: acquittal or death some 1,300 people were executed in June 1794 alone Adored elephant survived 1963 Yarmouth circus ship fireJuly 6 party planned for 70-year-old elephant at Yarmouth County Museum – A birthday party celebrating a much beloved survivor of the 1963 circus ship fire in Yarmouth Harbour will be held at the Yarmouth County Museum & Archives on July 6 was one of many exotic animals aboard the Fleurus a ship that arrived in Yarmouth in rough shape the vessel caught fire and a large crane was used to remove caged animals Shirley sustained severe burns to her back and legs and to this day is missing a large part of her right ear as a result of the fire She continued to be used as a circus performer after the fire Subscribe now to access this story and more: Subscribe or sign in to your account to continue your reading experience Create an account or sign in to continue your reading experience Years later her right hind leg was broken in an altercation with another elephant while traveling with the Lewis Brothers Circus She performed for two more years at the time and was sold to the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe She was the sole elephant at the zoo for 22 years Shirley became the fourth resident of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee The birthday party at the Yarmouth County Museum Shirley’s 70th birthday party (a free event) at the Yarmouth County Museum will start at 2 p.m on July 6 with a webinar with Elephant Sanctuary caregivers answering questions The museum will also be showing a video of Shirley’s reunion with another elephant and has survived all these years so it’s only fitting we have a party in her honour,” says curator Nadine Gates and some of Shirley’s favourite treats (watermelon Birthday celebrations at The Elephant Sanctuary the volunteer and outreach manager at The Elephant Sanctuary says Shirley’s birthday will be celebrated there as well an elephant turning 70 is sort of a big deal We’re going to give her some special treatment,” he says The birthday of sanctuary elephants is celebrated on the anniversary of their arrival dates at the sanctuary “Shirley was born in the wild so we don’t know the day that she was born but her record indicates that she was born in 1948 July 6 is the date she retired here back in 1999 That’s been her unofficial birthdate ever since,” he says caretakers will probably be doing other web-based events that day for other groups around the country Shirley will also be the topic of the day on July 14 the date of the monthly program at the sanctuary’s Discovery Centre There will be games and activities for families and a chat with Shirley’s caregivers “Her birthday gives us an opportunity to look back at her life and all the milestones that she’s been through – to just really marvel at what an amazing individual she is and everything that we’ve been able to learn from her,” said Montgomery He believes the oldest elephant in North America is 72 Shirley is certainly a senior elephant citizen at this point She’s sort of at the top range of an elephant She’s far older than the median life expectancy for Asian elephants in captivity,” he says Montgomery adds that Shirley’s health is good Shirley is slower now than she was five or 10 years ago and caretakers are seeing her show her age a bit Throughout the course of her time at the Sanctuary and even now she’s a very tough and resilient elephant.” As Shirley grows older she’s being provided with treatment for arthritis and other issues common with aging elephants in captivity “But Shirley is dealing with those and moving right along,” says Montgomery all with individualized care and treatment plans Shirley has a “really healthy appetite” for an elephant of her age This time of year she enjoys grazing on different types of grass She eats anywhere from 150 to 180 pounds of vegetation each day an amount that is “pretty good” for an elephant of her size and age Some of the bigger elephants eat upwards of 200 pounds each day The sanctuary recently had students from a local library reading program visit When Shirley retired at the sanctuary in 1999 Their behaviour towards each other was something caretakers had never seen before after researching their transfer and ownership records they learned that the two elephants’ time together had overlapped in a circus They began to interact not as elephants getting to know each other but as old companions We referred to them as best friends,” says Montgomery Shirley’s behaviour was a little bit different for a few days She seemed to spend a little more time alone then began socializing with some of the other elephants after a while “It sounds sad but it’s also admirable at the same time,” says Montgomery “One of the downsides of being a long-lived elephant is you say good-bye to lots of other elephants I think she was a really great companion to Jenny and vice versa When the time came to say good-bye to Jenny I think that was something that Shirley was able to do and then move on with her life I wonder how they handle this.’ but that’s looking at it wrong I think that Shirley and Jenny and all the other elephants probably know a lot more about one another than we could ever comprehend Sometimes it’s best to just observe and do the best that we can.” Montgomery says Shirley will always be intricately connected to Yarmouth because of the occurrences of 1963 “As someone who works with the sanctuary it’s really affirming and incredible for us to hear from so many people in your region who were affected by that event and still have this love for Shirley “I think it speaks a lot to the majesty of these animals and the character of Shirley who is absolutely fantastic and amazing in every way We’re thrilled to continue that relationship,” he says “She is 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Menu.page-197082995{--colorD:#ebfeff;--colorJ:#ebfeff;--gradientTransparentJ:#ebfeff00;--colorDC:#ebfeff;--colorDA:#ebfeff;--colorDF:#ebfeff;--colorJD:#ebfeff;--colorDJ:#ebfeff;--colorJF:#ebfeff;--colorJG:#ebfeff;--colorDDC:#ebfeff;--colorDTransparent:#ebfeff;--colorJTransparent:#ebfeff}ScienceSpy Balloons: Why the 18th-Century Tech Still FliesThe old-fashioned surveillance technique isn’t common these days the French used a hot air balloon to track Austrian and Dutch troops Chinese officials acknowledged that the balloon was theirs but denied it was intended for spying or meant to enter U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the balloon’s incursion led him to cancel his trip to Beijing He had been scheduled to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on February 5 and 6 A spy balloon is literally a gas-filled balloon that is flying quite high in the sky more or less where we fly commercial airplanes It has some sophisticated cameras and imaging technology on it and it’s pointing all of those instruments down at the ground It’s collecting information through photography and other imaging of whatever is going on down on the ground below it Satellites are the preferred method of spying from overhead. Spy satellites are above us today, typically in one of two different types of orbit The first is called low-Earth orbit those satellites are relatively close to the ground But they’re still several hundred miles above us The satellites that are in low-Earth orbit have the advantage that they’re closer to the Earth so they’re able to see things more clearly than satellites that are farther away The disadvantage these low-Earth orbit satellites have is that they are continually moving around the Earth It takes them about 90 minutes to do one orbit around the Earth That turns out to be pretty fast in terms of taking clear photographs of what’s going on below Nations typically use spy satellites instead of spy balloons you’re essentially overlooking the exact same piece of ground on the Earth’s surface all the time because the satellite moves in exactly the same way the Earth rotates – it rotates at the exact same speed much closer to the ground than any of the satellites spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they are a relatively easy target and are not completely controllable I don’t know what’s on this particular spy balloon but it’s likely to be different kinds of cameras collecting different types of information These days, imaging is conducted across different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum Humans see in a certain range of this spectrum And so if you have a camera and you take a photograph of your dog although they have very good zoom capabilities to be able to magnify what they see quite a lot But you can also gather different kinds of information in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum a camera operating in the visible part of the spectrum is not going to show you anything But an infrared camera can pick up things from the heat in the dark it means that its operator would have much more control over the path of the balloon There is an internationally accepted boundary called the Kármán Line at 62 miles (100 kilometers) altitude The Pentagon has had programs over the last few decades studying what can be done with balloons that couldn’t be done in the past Maybe they’re bigger; maybe they can go higher in the atmosphere so they’re more difficult to shoot down or disable The broad interest in this incident illustrates its unusual nature Few people would expect any country to be actively using spy balloons these days The U.S. flew many balloons over the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s, and those were eventually replaced by the high-altitude spy airplanes, the U-2s and they were subsequently replaced by satellites Project Moby Dick was an early Cold War-era effort by the U.S to monitor the Soviet Union using high-altitude balloons I’m sure several countries around the world have periodically gone back to reevaluate: Are there other things we could do now with balloons that we couldn’t do before Do they close some gaps we have from satellites and airplanes China has complained for many years about the U.S. spying on China through satellites And China is also well known for engaging in somewhat provocative behavior sailing close to other nations’ boundaries The balloon doesn’t pose any real threat to the U.S I think sometimes China is just experimenting to see how far they can push things This isn’t really very advanced technology It’s not serving any real military purpose I think it’s much more likely some kind of political message This article was originally published on The Conversation by Iain Boyd at the University of Colorado Boulder. Read the original article here bpost is increasing its sorting capacity at its at Charleroi X (Fleurus) facility with the installation of a new parcel sorting machine The site will be expanded by 9,000m² to accommodate the new equipment, enabling bpost to handle 170,000 parcels a day upon completion in Q3 2025 the sorting center will have 18,000m² of floor space dedicated to parcel sorting Jos Donvil, CEO of bpost Belgium “bpost continues to invest in Belgium and in parcel handling facilities with the enlargement of the site and the installation of a new machine We are proud to double our sorting capacity at Charleroi X which means we will be able to handle up to 170,000 parcels per day by the end of 2025 at Charleroi X This initiative strengthens our position as a preferred partner in e-commerce and logistics and confirms our commitment to operational efficiency and customer satisfaction with due consideration for the development and working conditions of our staff.” as well as two new telescopic conveyors to unload and feed loose product into the sorting machine the expansion will be completed without any loss of sorting capacity during construction with the installation of the new machine set for March 2025 It’s been said that elephants never forget and many in Yarmouth have also never forgotten Shirley the elephant – remembering her on her birthdays are now mourning her on her death Shirley was a much-beloved survivor of the 1963 circus ship fire that happened in Yarmouth’s harbour where she had been cared for since first arriving in 1999 She was the sanctuary’s oldest elephant and held the record for being the second oldest elephant in North America which also said Shirley had lived well beyond the life expectancy of a captive Asian elephant Her passing also rekindled memories of the fire nearly 58 years ago The Tennessee sanctuary says through the years Shirley’s care had included such things as specialized foot soaks daily arthritis supplements and cold laser therapy to reduce the discomfort associated with a long-ago broken leg She’d have sunscreen and botanica cream applied to her thinning skin to prevent or treat sunburn according to a posting on the sanctuary’s website the staff and veterinary teams had noticed changes “Knowing that Shirley loved all but the liquorice-flavoured beans staff would carefully pick them out from the bunch.” and after laying down in a barn she showed no interest in getting up She was given medications to keep her comfortable and died in the early morning hours of Monday The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Asian elephant Please join us in celebrating Shirley and her long and courageous life. https://t.co/Bp6yfcrxXg — The Elephant Sanctuary (@ElephantsTN) February 23, 2021 It’s a long way from the sanctuary in Tennessee But in this seaside town people have always felt an affection for Shirley that stems from that terrible incident on Yarmouth’s waterfront on June 12 The freighter Fleurus – loaded with circus animals – caught fire while docked on Yarmouth’s waterfront the ship had visited Yarmouth for two circus performances held the day before at the exhibition grounds The Fleurus has been converted to house elephants The plan was for the diesel-motored ship to tour the East Coast of North America visiting port towns a fire broke out in the engine room with the animals on board Firefighters not only had to battle the fire but they and others had to get the animals off of the boat – including Shirley the tide and starboard list of the ship allowed rescuers to lay heavy planks from the boat to the wharf being used in the construction of a new public wharf As a precautionary measure – reads information in a booklet about the fire at the Firefighters Museum of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth – fire chief Ron Poole had several firefighters stand by with armed rifles in case they encountered trouble with some of the wild animals that could have posed a risk to the public The sling the crane was using did break but the lions remained in the cage – much to the relief of those present died trapped onboard the vessel as it sank in the harbour photos are on display along with two life rings from the vessel Photographs in the museum’s collection include photos of the elephants Shirley sustained severe burns to her back and legs and lost part of her right ear Firefighters museum curator Dave Darby says over the decades there has been continued interest in ‘The Circus Ship Fire,’ which is how locals refer to the incident he says the inquiries about it aren’t as frequent compared to decades ago Asked what people found interesting about the fire “Also a lot of people are amazed only one animal passed,” he said “A lot of people comment on the photo of the firefighters holding the guns.” who had first been captured in the wild at a very young age and sold to a circus continued to perform in circuses after the fire in Yarmouth Years later her right hind leg was broken in an altercation with another elephant while travelling with the Lewis Brothers Circus She performed for two more years before being sold to the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo When Shirley arrived at the sanctuary the behaviour and interaction between her and Jenny was unlike anything the sanctuary had seen before after researching transfer and ownership records they learned the two elephants’ had spent time together at a circus Sadly Jenny died a few years after their reunion When Shirley turned 70 years old in the summer of 2018 her birthday was not only celebrated at the sanctuary but a birthday party in her honour was also held at the Yarmouth County Museum and has survived all these years so it’s only fitting we have a party in her honour,” museum curator Nadine Gates had said at the time and some of Shirley’s favourite treats – watermelon and bananas After Shirley’s death at the sanctuary on Feb the sanctuary says other elephants – part of her Asian elephant herd – came to say their goodbyes but another named Tarra quietly spent hours by her side “The sanctuary is deeply honoured to have provided care for Shirley for 21 years who have loved her from afar,” said the sanctuary’s CEO Janice Zeitlin in a posting on the website “Shirley leaves an enduring legacy marked by a truly remarkable life Shirley passed away peacefully in the early hours of Monday morning Sissy visited Shirley briefly and Tarra spent nearly four hours in the early morning — The Elephant Sanctuary (@ElephantsTN) February 23, 2021 This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy no queríamos horrorizar a nuestros lectores con ese dibujo" "Publicamos libros educativos y hacemos ilustraciones realistas o explicativas nuestro objetivo era que el niño comprendiera visualmente que la estructura ósea del caballo y la del ser humano son similares" "Ponerlos en la misma posición hace la comparación más comprensible y concreta" "Si esta imagen puede ser malinterpretada y la vamos a cambiar para la próxima reimpresión del libro prevista para el próximo mes de septiembre" The page you requested does not exist or has moved Copyright © 2022 California Literary Review At the civic reception for 'Twinning' visitors (from left): Jean Luc Borremans Mayour of Fleurus in Belgium; young harpist Mollie Carroll from Gorey; Cllr Jim Moore WITH officials from Wexford's newest twin town of Fleurus the local authority took advantage of the unusual triple visit to host a civic reception for the visitors at the borough district offices on Spawell Road The event was hosted by Wexford Mayor Cllr Jim Moore and included Jean Luc Borremans and follows twinning visits to each of the towns by officials and councillors from Wexford Cllr George Lawlor said a ceremony conducted during the visit was aimed at cementing Wexford's triangular twinning with Fleurus and Coueron and and furthering ties with the opera town of Lugo with which Wexford has been twinned since 2003 it was the Wexford Festival which led to the connections between Wexford and the Italian town when Luigi Ferrari the former Artistic Director of Wexford Festival Opera brought the organisers of Lugo's annual opera festival to Wexford to see how the operation was run here and the ties have been growing every year since Cllr Lawlor said it was very rare for three towns to come together - Wexford Coureon and Fleurus - with a view to securing European funding and even rarer for representatives from opera loving Lugo to be here at the same time He said Brexit loomed large in talks between all the civic representatives with agreement that ties would be further strengthened once the UK leaves the European Union In an early sign of stronger connections with the Italian town he said officials in Lugo hope to send a number of young people to the Slaney Language Centre in Wexford early next year to further their use of English GoreyOffbeat Donuts opens in Wexford creating 10 new jobs locally10 new jobs will be created locally in north Wexford following a new partnership between Offbeat Donuts and Circle K everyone on the internet is a pervert and bullied a French children's book company told BuzzFeed that no one had ever even sent a letter about it “We publish educational books and make realistic or explanatory illustrations our goal was to make the child visually comprehend that the bone structure of the horse and the human being are similar,” they said “Putting them in the same position makes the likening more understandable and concrete.” “If this picture can be misinterpreted and thus be shocking we will change it for the next reprint of the book scheduled for next September,” the spokesperson said direction la librairie pour acheter la réédition 2016 de L'Imagerie du Poney et du Cheval This post was translated from French. It's her friend that talks to me.'6EmbedCancelHow to Format Lyrics: To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum Hemingway’s memoir of his early career as an emerging writer in Paris in the 1920s this section refers to the “Lost Generation”; those who grew up with Hemingway in the early part of the twentieth century and through the First World War +1ShareQ&AFind answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning Subscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownFacebook Appears To Think This Picture Of A Horse Is Porn And Won't Let Us Share ItUPDATE: This article has been updated to reflect how absolutely bizarre things have gotten we never wanted to shock our readers with that drawing," a Fleurus spokesperson told BuzzFeed "We publish educational books and make realistic or explanatory illustrations our goal was to make the child visually comprehend that the bone structure of the horse and the human being are similar," they said "Putting them in the same position makes the likening more understandable and concrete." "If this picture can be misinterpreted and thus be shocking scheduled for next September," the spokesperson said if you live in the USA and have looked in the news you’ve probably seen the phrase “spy balloon.” Everywhere when repeated so often and with such alarm by various media and political personalities you—a normal person—are unsure whether to be alarmed or admit that such a panic over the phrase “spy balloon” is kind of funny Because I’d never heard the phrase “spy balloon” before in my life there’s a whole rich history of spy balloons This particular spy balloon was from China China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that the balloon was “civilian airship used for research mainly meteorological purposes” and claimed it had drifted off its intended course government were concerned that the balloon was gathering sensitive information airspace was a violation of international law how cable news is treating the balloon pic.twitter.com/AEXMtIjpPL The spy balloon was shot down over the Carolinas on Saturday afternoon, after the FAA temporarily suspended commercial airline flights in the area. It’s true that there’s a lot of tension between the U.S. and China right now and that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken postponed a trip to China specifically because of this spy balloon it doesn’t seem like the spy balloon will be a major catalyst for further tension but also: the internet has been having fun with the spy balloon the more they seem simultaneously both very impressive and very ridiculous RIP Chinese Spy Balloon pic.twitter.com/WFFfRJSRTF A spy balloon does not look like the image I’ve so cheekily placed as the header of this article. Spy balloons have their roots in hot air balloons and were manned by a crew of people (more on that in a second), so they’re huge. According to NPR similar ones to China’s that are used by NASA can be up to 400 feet wide and carry thousands of pounds The Chinese spy balloon had a camera and was powered by solar panels which meant it could have stayed functioning for a long period of time Modern spy balloons fly well above commercial airspace Commercial planes fly at about 35,000 feet and “surveillance balloons” (to use their more official parlance) cruise at 80,000 to 120,000 feet it’s definitely not high enough for U.S The current hypothesis is that China may have wanted to embarrass the U.S while also showing off its technological prowess As told by The Guardian the first recorded use of spy balloons was during the French Revolutionary Wars specifically at the the Battle of Fleurus in 1794 The French had created a Corp d’Aerostiers that same year and they were ready to show off their stuff This was actually the first time in history that aerial reconnaissance was used during battle the balloon had a name: l’Entreprenant (“The Enterprising One”) first hand sources say that poor l’Entreprenant had no affect on the battle whatsoever had very bitter things to say about l’Entreprenant years after the Battle of Fleurus I will not say anything about the balloon that we put up during the battle over the heads of the combatants and this ridiculous innovation would not even deserve to be mentioned if it hadn’t been made out to be something important l’Entreprenant hovers proudly in many artistic recreations of the battle such as the painting by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse shown above Wikipedia also counts it among the strength allotted the French side of the battle: “70,000 infantry Additionally, I’m glad to inform you that l’Entreprenant is in the Guinness Book of World Records. It’s crowned the First Balloon Used In War (Guinness has a much nicer take on l’Entreprenant’s usefulness than Soult had saying it played a key role in the French victory.) Spy balloons were next used during the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. According to the Guardian would try to gather information about Confederate activity further away They sent signals back via morse code or a ‘piece of paper tied to a stone.’ “ The Confederates used balloons, too, but as told by the American Battlefield Trust “the Union aeronautical program was far more successful and better organized.” The man who designed these Union balloons was named Thaddeus’s balloons could fly at 1,000 feet and were named very American things like Constitution because “Lowe was a born showman.” (Apparently Spy balloons continued during World War I and the Cold War. Bloomberg says that launched hundreds of balloons into the Soviet Union and China I would like to leave you with a tale of a spy balloon sighting during World War II The crew of a warship called the USS New York saw a sphere hovering above their craft and assumed it was a Japanese balloon The captain ordered his crew to shoot it down the navigator realized that they were actually attacking Venus (Featured image: Philipa Willitts, via Flickr) Have a tip we should know? [email protected]