Fleurieux-sur-l’Arbresle – France – November 6 6.00 p.m. Safe SA and its subsidiaries announce that they have emerged from the court-ordered receivership proceedings by virtue of a ruling handed down by the Pontoise Commercial Court on Wednesday November 6 in accordance with the ruling of November 5 The latter validated the recovery plans as well as the new strategy instilled and implemented by the new management team since December 15 The turnaround plans presented at the hearing on October 18 Major actions include:– relocation of Safe Orthopaedics to Fleurieux-sur-l’Arbresle,– commercial restructuring of Safe Orthopaedics in favor of a sales agent strategy to improve territorial coverage,– the implementation of new industrial configurations to increase the Group’s machining capacity and reduce production lead times to enhance operational and geographic synergies between SpineUp on the one hand and Safe Medical and Safe Orthopaedics on the other it is planned to bring them together under a single holding company to be known as the “Up Group”.The strong complementarity between the activities of the two groups did not wait for the merger which should be completed by the end of the year SpineUp has already directed all its production orders for new projects to Safe Group companies Chairman: “We are delighted that the Commercial Court has placed its trust in us. Less than a year after we took over the management of Safe we are honored by this decision. It is the culmination of a year’s hard work to turn the Group around. I congratulate the internal and external teams which is still in its early stages.”Philippe Laurito Chief Executive Officer: “Our emergence from receivership marks a new starting point for the Group and its activities. From now on we will be able to focus on our hybrid offering combining implant ranges based on single-use and conventional ancillary equipment This will enable us to pursue our roadmap even more actively and and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" COLUMBUS – The Columbus Crew have acquired defender Rudy Camacho via trade with CF Montréal in exchange for $200,000 in 2023 General Allocation Money and $200,000 in 2024 General Allocation Money The veteran French centerback will be added to the Crew roster through the 2023 season and will occupy an International Roster Slot “Rudy’s skillset and leadership provide a solid veteran presence to our backline especially given his familiarity with Coach Nancy and our team’s desired style of play,” said President and General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko “A high-caliber player and consistent starter for CF Montréal in recent years he is another strong addition to our Club as we continue to improve the roster during the summer window.” Camacho appeared in 128 career regular season games for CF Montréal (126 starts) from 2018-2023 CF Montréal’s 2021 Defensive Player of the Year Camacho also tied a club record for goals scored by a defender in a single season with three in 2021 Camacho made his professional debut with AS Nancy’s reserve team featuring in 51 regular season matches and one Coupe de France game from 2012-2014 Camacho joined CS Sedan Ardennes and helped the club earn promotion to the French third division following the 2014-2015 season he served as the team captain while making 29 appearances Camacho made the move to Belgian club Waasland-Beveren where he started a total of 56 games in two seasons in the Jupiler Pro League from 2016-2018 He contributed in eight playoff matches and five Belgian Cup games TRANSACTION: Columbus Crew acquire defender Rudy Camacho from CF Montreal on July 31 in exchange for $200,000 of 2023 General Allocation Money and $200,000 of 2024 General Allocation Money Acquired: Via trade with CF Montreal on July 31 Previous Experience: CF Montreal (2018-23) Secure your seat to cheer on your Columbus Crew at Lower.com Field this season All Lyon's "intramural" qualities make us forget that once you step outside The most beautiful villages just a stone's throw from Lyon to visit Take a day trip just a few kilometers from Lyon! Come and discover our beautiful Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and get away from it all Lyon Secret presents a selection of the most charming villages around Lyon in the heart of the Pilat Regional Nature Park is the only one in France to have been built in a former Carthusian monastery (founded in 1280) and can even be visited at night in July and August several hiking trails leave from or pass through the village allowing you to discover the magnificent Pilat region 👀 Worth seeing: The Chartreuse’s facade and gardens as well as the stone tunnel that leads you to the stream 🗺️ Getting there: 50 minutes by car from Lyon ❤️ Our favorites: local products like cheese or the famous Chartreuse Its history and architecture have earned it a place among the “Most Beautiful Villages in France” The village is particularly famous for its medieval quarter considered to be one of the most beautiful in France cobbled streets and dream of bygone days as you stroll past the 24 buildings listed as Monuments Historiques 🗺️ Getting there: by car via the A42 (35 min) by TER Meximieux-Pérouges station ❤️ Our favorite: the galette au sucre de Pérouges an ancestral local dessert dating back to 1912 Just 30 kilometers from Lyon in the southern Beaujolais Val d’Oingt is also considered one of the “Most Beautiful Villages in France” so typical of the Pays des Pierrres Dorées are already attracting our attention and interest the village cultivates a first-rate wine-growing tradition A number of artists and craftsmen have set up shop in the village’s alleyways to help visitors enjoy their visit from A to Z the village church and the Mechanical Music Museum 🗺️ Getting there: by car via the A6 (35 min) by TER Bois d’Oingt-Légny station (+ 25 min walk) ❤️ Our favorites: some fifteen artists and art galleries dot the village streets Located in the epicenter of the Beaujolais region this beautiful little town boasts a unique history It’s the historic capital of Beaujolais Beaujeu combines the winning triptych of heritage when Beaujolais Nouveau and its Sarmentelles festival are in full swing A village to come and consume without moderation 👀 Must-sees: St-Nicolas church (Monument Historique) remains of the château comtal 🗺️ Getting there: by car via the A6 (50 min) ❤️ Our favorites: taste the region’s wines and discover the Maison du Terroir the sublime medieval town of Crémieu seems to have emerged from another era – yet we’re only 12 km from Saint-Exupéry airport The panorama from the hilltop château (listed as a historic monument) is simply sublime Don’t miss the 15th-century medieval market hall whose appearance and function have remained unchanged for 500 years It’s one of the most beautiful in France Crémieu is also great for cycling (on the voie verte) and for a gourmet stopover one of the most beautiful villages in the region the stone houses 🗺️ How to get there: by car via the A43 (40 min) ❤️ Our favorites: a weekly market is held in Crémieu’s magnificent covered market every Wednesday morning At the gateway to the Vercors mountains and a stopover on the Chemin de Compostelle Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye is also classified as one of the “Most Beautiful Villages in France” obviously attracts attention for its imposing size and excellent state of preservation The medieval village also retains a wealth of treasures from its glorious past the medieval market hall and the old stilts Notre-Dame de la Jayère Church 🗺️ Getting there: by car via the A43 (1h30) ❤️ Our favorites its majestic Gothic-style abbey is a jewel in the Dauphiné Also classified as one of France’s most beautiful villages Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez benefits from a great deal of conservation work thanks to the Association de Sauvegarde de la Chartreuse et du Parc It is a remarkable village in the Parc Naturel Régional du Pilat a former 17th-century monastery with kitchen 🗺️ How to get there: by car via the A7 (50 min) ❤️ The Jurieu chapel This village is intimately linked to the history of Lyon and its rich weaving past Located just a stone’s throw from Lyon L’Arbresle has long been considered a stronghold of the fabric trade Its location between the Monts du Lyonnais and the southern Beaujolais region makes it of prime interest it’s the perfect place to get away from it all old weavers’ houses 🗺️ Getting there: by car via the A6 (35 min) ❤️ Our favorites you’re on the border of Beaujolais and Coteaux Lyonnais If you’re passionate about the medieval period Its history is as rich as its name is hard to pronounce Taluyers is ideally located just a few kilometers from Lyon and a stone’s throw from the Monts du Lyonnais Ideal for extending your visit with a hike in the surrounding area) The village was built around a priory founded in the 10th century at the instigation of the Abbot of Cluny the Roman aqueduct of Gier is also worth a visit as is the Romanesque church dating from the 22nd century the Nativity church 🗺️S How to get there: by car via the A7 and A450 (37 min) ❤️ Our favorites are the hiking trails and their spectacular views over the vineyards It packs so much color and charm into so little The commune is located in the Vercors Natural Park It offers a series of hanging houses to be photographed from the river banks or from the Pont Picard The village is truly peaceful and conducive to relaxation There are picnic tables and even a waterfall for swimming 👀 Must-sees: remains of the fortified castle hanging houses 🗺️ How to get there: by car via the A43 (1h30 min) ❤️ Our favorites: the Halle Gattégno art center the surrounding hiking trails offer endless combinations of walks A historic village with all the local shops and restaurants 👀 What to see: breathtaking views of the Aravis massif and Mont-Blanc 🗺️ Getting there: by train to Sallanches or Saint-Gervais les Bains le Fayet station ❤️ Our favorite things to do: admire the sunset over Mont-Blanc the Aiguille de Bionnassay and the Dôme du Goûter (you’ll never see anything more beautiful in your life) The following headline recently appeared on the BBC’s website: “French safari hunt outcry forces supermarket bosses to resign.”  A husband and wife in eastern France were forced to resign their employment as managers of a grocery store when pictures from their 2015 African hunt went viral on social media The sacking of low-level food managers in rural France is hardly of interest to anyone outside of the people directly involved What made this story newsworthy in Europe and even here in the United States was the public outcry against the store managers that were involved in a hunt that occurred four years ago the frequency of these “social justice” reprisals are occurring with alarming frequency and for diminishingly-egregious “offenses.” yet it bears repeating: Social media is a game-changer especially for organizations seeking change this fact can be positive or negative depending on one’s situation While hunters and pro-hunting organizations have done much to promote the sport through various social media outlets their results pale in comparison to the voluminous and effective propaganda spread by the anti-hunting/animal-rights crowd Why else would firing a French grocery store manager be news in America What we hunters have been too long in realizing is that two can play at that game “Severe economic and social regimentation with forcible suppression of opposition” seems on point with a social media lynch mob (forcible suppression of opposition) ginning up an emotional boycott (severe economic and social regimentation) of a grocery store because a pair of employees went on safari FOUR YEARS AGO Here is the store owner’s hasty mea culpa to the mob: "In the face of condemnation provoked by these actions at the heart of the co-operative and the legitimate public feeling the store managers have decided to quit immediately the brand and their l'Arbresle store." You cannot blame the store ownership for its lack of courage They are in the business of business and forced resignations were their only way to keep the doors open The grocery store transferred the social media mob’s “forcible suppression” from the business to the hunters/employees Affirming the “legitimate public feeling” of the activist horde was simply gratuitous kowtowing But the point of this essay is to examine fighting emotional fire with fire the word itself does not seem to have the emotional impact it once did the names Mussolini and Hitler do not evoke the social repugnance they did a generation ago a more contemporary word would better serve our purpose it hits like an emotional sledgehammer as a trending topic on social media In my experience I have found the anti-hunting crowd to often be cruel, almost always insulting, and, on too many occasions to count, threatening. This website, for example, has repeatedly reported on the death threats hunters receive online. Demographics tell us that as a group So as the “bully” shoe seems to fit the animal-rights extremists so well why are we not using it to kick some anti butt it is my intention to call out bullies and bullying whenever and wherever I see it and I see a lot of it on my social media feeds But the great thing about social media is it is an effective tool with which to change people’s minds While it is easy for those undecided about the question of hunting to be influenced to the negative by a photo of a dead cat or a bloody deer it is almost as easy to influence those same people toward our side when the animal rightist bullies and their bullying tactics are called out Europe has often been a harbinger of things to come to the United States From such varied events as World Wars to fashion trends from the turning away from religion to soccer often what is trending in Europe makes its way across the Atlantic While NGOs like the European Commissions International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation work to preserve the long-standing heritage of hunting on the continent radical animal rights lobby has been effective in turning much of the public’s opinion against hunting Though we have not yet seen this level of opposition to our sport in the United States we only need look across the Atlantic to see the future of hunting in America About the author: Steve Scott is a self-proclaimed reformed attorney and producer and host of the Safari Hunter’s Journal and Outdoor Guide television series E-mail your comments/questions about this site to: [email protected] Get the NRA Hunters' Leadership Forum newsletter for at-a-glance access to all the latest news about the legislative challenges hunters face—delivered directly to your Inbox. Privacy Policy   •   Contact Us   •   Warnings   •   FAQs   •  © 2023 National Rifle Association of America The Montreal Impact announced on Thursday the acquisition of French center back Rudy Camacho following a permanent transfer from Belgian club Waasland-Beveren Camacho signed a four-year contract with the club using Targeted Allocation Money He will join the club upon receiving his international transfer certificate and passing his medical “Rudy’s arrival is very important for the team’s central defense even more so with the long-term injuries suffered by Zakaria Diallo and Kyle Fisher,” said Impact head coach Rémi Garde He was quickly seduced by the challenge of MLS despite numerous solicitations he received from other European clubs after two very good seasons in Belgium’s first division.” “Rudy is a center back who is at a very good age for a player and comes here with a good amount of experience” added technical director Adam Braz “With the unfortunate injuries to two of our central defenders it was a priority to find reinforcements at the position We are happy to welcome him into the group and look forward to his contributions on the field.” joins the Impact after playing 2,700 minutes in all competitions in his 2017-18 season starting 27 games in the Jupiler Pro League He scored two goals and acted as team captain in his last eight games with the club He quickly established himself after arriving at Waasland-Beveren in July 2016 starting a total of 56 games in two seasons in the Jupiler Pro League He also appeared in eight playoff games and five Belgian Cup games which is also the hometown of head coach Rémi Garde he made his debut with AS Nancy’s reserve team taking part in 52 games between 2010 and 2012 He then played 51 regular season games and one Coupe de France game with AS Lyon-Duchère in the Championnat national 2 He finally joined CS Sedan Ardennes in 2014 helping the club earn its promotion to the French third division in 2014-15 after appearing in 27 games in the Championnat National 2 as well as one Coupe de France game He then played 29 games in National and one Coupe de France game in 2015-16 Transaction: The Montreal Impact acquires defender Rudy Camacho COLUMBUS – The Columbus Crew have re-signed defender Rudy Camacho through the 2025 Major League Soccer season Camacho joined the Crew this summer prior to the close of the MLS Secondary Transfer Window and played every match of the Club’s postseason run en route to capturing the 2023 MLS Cup “Rudy has been incredibly strong and consistent since joining the Crew as his veteran leadership and steady presence commanding our backline played a key role in our championship campaign,” said Crew President and General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko “He was instrumental in helping us win MLS Cup and we look forward to seeing his contributions extend even further during his first full season with the original Black & Gold.” Camacho joined the Crew on July 31 via trade with CF Montréal and started eight of the 11 regular season matches in which he appeared this season The 32-year-old anchored the backline for the entirety of the Crew’s postseason run recording 570 total minutes over the course of six matches He then moved to AS Lyon-Duchère where he featured in 51 regular season matches and one Coupe de France game from 2012-2014 TRANSACTION: Columbus Crew re-sign defender Rudy Camacho through the 2025 Major League Soccer season announced on Dec the French vermouth that had Queen Elizabeth II’s favour was initially invented to cure malaria for French soldiers stationed in North Africa before being marketed as an aperitif drink Its popularity rose in the 1930s thanks to a catchy advertising slogan that helped it become popular in French homes which sold out in Tesco stores during the weeks following the Queen’s death is sold by French beverage mogul Pernod Ricard which bought it in 1976 and has been producing it in Thuir (Pyrénées-Orientales) since 2006 Read more: Seven facts about the Queen’s relationship with France The demolition of the last building in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) where the company advertised the drink on the walls had almost put the final nail in its coffin Dubonnet took its name from French wine seller and chemist Joseph Dubonnet who won a competition hosted by the French government to find health solutions for the large numbers of soldiers that contracted malaria The drink Picon was invented by Gaëtan Picon using quinine around the same time again to cure the same ailments by using grandmothers’ remedies that contained the alkaloid Quinquina Dubonnet was then a popular apéro drink made from black or white grenache It is aged for one year in oak barrels before being infused with wine It also contains blackcurrant and essence of tea Read more: Map: our tour of France by local apéritif But Dubonnet became one of the trendiest of drinks after popular French painter Cassandre designed an advertising campaign centred around the motto: “Dubo on postcards and in the Paris métro until the 1970s Dubonnet was served in many cocktails including the ‘Dandy’ The Dubonnet cocktail – the Queen’s favourite – consisted of one part of Gordon’s London Dry gin for two of Dubonnet with a half lemon wheel sunk in a wine glass with two rocks of ice Pernod Ricard told The Connexion that over one million litres were drunk between 2000 and 2005 with Dubonnet still sold in Colombia – a third of the market share – and Commonwealth countries such as the UK France is Pernod Ricard’s 5th market.It is also sold in the United States by another company under the Dubonnet Grand Rouge Apéritif de France appellation bottled in Kentucky and marketed under a different – but somehow slightly similar – slogan: “Do you Dubonnet?” ‘Tchin tchin’, ‘santé’, eye contact: The rituals of French apéros Why can I no longer find Campari in French supermarkets? French still love to apero but with no- or low-alcohol wine and beer Cow’s milk cheeses dominate as winter comes to an end Every month we outline good film and TV series to improve your language France's current cold spell is set to continue for the next few days - we remind you of French expressions to use to describe the drop in temperature The video demonstrates Le Corbusier’s approach to light and material, showing the play of light against the exposed concrete as the sun moves through the sky with heavy drums and bells building in volume as the video progresses Dramatizing the building’s arrangement of space and choreography of the lives of its inhabitants the video makes clear the monumentality intended in Le Corbusier’s design AD Classics: Convent of La Tourette / Le Corbuiser You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email The latest exhibition at the Modernist gallery in Manchester started with a dad joke. Designer and producer Andy Votel was DJing when someone requested some house music to which he retorted: “We’ve got some records with houses on the front.” The Modernist’s Eddy Rhead asked him to curate a selection of album sleeves featuring architecture from his extensive vinyl collection “I get as much from a record sleeve as I do from the music,” says Votel “I didn’t do this exhibition to showcase very rare records with inappropriate price tags – this can exist in any of our collections.” The latest exhibition at the Modernist gallery in Manchester started with a dad joke. Designer and producer Andy Votel was DJing when someone requested some house music The Modernist’s Eddy Rhead asked him to curate a selection of album sleeves featuring architecture from his extensive vinyl collection Le Corbusier’s influence continues to be felt today Such is the quality of the architect Le Corbusier's work that this summer Unesco made the radical decision to list 17 of his buildings in seven countries as a collective World Heritage Site If you get to see any of these compelling buildings, from purist white villas of the 1920s and ‘30s like the Villa Savoye at Poissy to the post-war Unité d’Habitation apartment block in Marseilles, the lyrical pilgrimage chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp, the Chandigarh Capitol Complex or Tokyo’s mid-1950s National Museum of Western Art you may well come away with a sense that you have experienced both a lucid creative talent at work and something – a great deal in fact – of the poetry of architecture the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret began his professional life as a watch engraver although by 20 he was already designing and building a number of successful Arts & Crafts-style houses At the time he was much influenced by the English critic Needing to expand his intellectual and artistic horizons he took himself off on sketching tours of the ancient and vernacular buildings of both sides of the Mediterranean was thrilled by the Parthenon in Athens and he had a revelatory architectural experience of what modern architecture might be when he came across the Charterhouse of Galluzo a serene Carthusian monastery near Florence He found work with the most progressive architectural practices of the time in France and Germany and in 1917 established himself in Paris as an artist polemicist and architect under the nom-de-plume His designs were influenced as much by the structures of the latest aircraft and racing cars as classical templesThe white Cubist villas he built in Parisian suburbs in the 1920s and ‘30s sealed his reputation as surely as his iconoclastic architectural manifesto Vers une Architecture (Toward an Architecture which spoke breathlessly of a new architecture - of the house as a "machine for living" - of design influenced as much by the structures of the latest aircraft and racing cars as by those of Gothic cathedrals and classical temples Hugely influential from the words ‘Villa Savoye’ - the most challenging and impeccable of his white Parisian villas - Le Corbusier raced ahead of those who followed him By the time British and American architects had begun to build in earnest in imitation of their hero and sometimes weather-boarded concrete as if sculpting buildings This method also allowed him to design imaginative buildings for clients with little money like the monks of the spiritually charged monastery he created at Evreux-sur-l'Arbresle in the late 1950s he was proposing buildings in steel and he had already experimented with tented structures making use of the very latest lightweight materials Far from being a purveyor of concrete boxes, he was first and foremost an artistWhatever the materials he worked in a dramatic facelift for Algiers or a hospital in Venice - and whether built or not Le Corbusier's designs were always original Far from being a purveyor of concrete boxes he was first and foremost an artist whose best known and most expressive medium was architecture Imbued with a creative spirit and a guiding intelligence very much their own these have always been more than demanding buildings to emulate or copy and more than half a century after his death Le Corbusier remains a controversial figure he was single-handedly responsible for the rise of thousands of fourth-rate concrete high-rise housing schemes around the world and for the apparently gratuitous destruction of all too many city centres in the 1950s and ‘60s as national and local governments sought modernity at all costs and whether or not their cities had been damaged by bombing during World War Two As pretty much anyone will understand who has ever visited such architectural gems as the Millowners’ Association Building in Ahmedabad (1954) not listed by Unesco – where architecture and nature work hand-in-hand – or the Dominican priory of Saint-Marie-de-la-Tourette (1958) at Eveux-sur-l’Arbresle with its numinous play of ethereal and shadowy spaces Le Corbusier was a great artist incapable of designing a mean thing been accused of crimes and misdemeanours beyond urban planning and architecture Last year - the 50th anniversary of his death - witnessed the publication of a trio of French books each attempting to undermine his creative legacy by claiming that Le Corbusier was an anti-Semitic fascist and a sort of cross between Albert Speer and a messianic 1950s local authority planner hell-bent on demolishing magnificent old cities for ideological reasons While his relentless desire to build led him to work for the Nazi puppet Vichy regime during WWII and although he said several dumb things about politics it was his views on urban planning that were perhaps far more unsettling In his book La Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City Le Corbusier describes the classical harmony of central Stockholm as “frightening chaos and saddening monotony” Undamaged by WWII – Sweden was a neutral country – swathes of Stockholm were wrecked in ensuing decades by politicians While it is hard to overstate the immense and largely negative influence Le Corbusier and his pugnacious writings had on a generation of neophiliac city councils and awestruck architects his work – his buildings – improve with age and acquaintance designed originally for working class Marseillaise families who knew it as ‘La Maison du Fada’ (House of the Crazy) is now cherished by the professional and creative people living here who understand that its design owes as much to Le Corbusier’s radical modern ideas as it does to his obsession with what he saw as the perfection of the Charterhouse of Galluzo aloof and humble Le Corbusier saw in this beautifully planned monastery a way of living that ought to suit 20th-Century men and women as it had religious celibates of 500 years earlier perhaps the most creative and certainly the most contrary architect of the 20th Century inspire and confuse in more or less equal measures If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter And if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “If You Only Read 6 Things This Week”. 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DJ and record sleeve designer Andy Votel has united his loves of music and modern architecture in House Music a Manchester exhibition of record covers featuring modernist buildings When Manchester’s The Modernist Gallery wanted to stage an exhibition about modernist architecture on record sleeves record label owner (Finders Keepers Records) and collector of some 7,000 records he’s also a fan of modern architecture and the designer of some 300 record sleeves including The Architect by singer/songwriter Jane Weaver (who also happens to be his wife) The resulting exhibition is House Music – Architecture on Record Sleeves featuring 100 architectural sleeves from Votel’s own collection So what sort of modern architecture ends up on record sleeves Trellick Tower) to far more banal and bonkers choices Votel was keen not to present the obvious covers – citing Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot which feature’s Chicago’s famous Marina City ‘corn cob’ high-rises as among those he sought to avoid ‘I’ve tried to show stuff people haven’t seen before and I think I’ve succeeded,’ he says adding that his only rule was that he didn’t buy any more records but just chose from what he had already And while most of the covers stick to the gallery’s modernist brief his interpretation is flexible enough to take in Egyptian pyramids ‘Some of the record sleeves are genius It’s amazing how often the architect doesn’t get a credit,’ he says he’s sometimes bought records for their cover art these records weren’t sat together in my collection Doing the exhibition’s destroyed my house,’ he says although you get the impression he doesn't mind too much – this was obviously a labour of love the sleeves are loosely grouped into sub-themes such as a trio featuring the Post Office Tower including Rubber Ruff the first design that came to Votel’s mind for the show Created for a record of ‘library’ background music by Music De Wolfe Nick Bantock memorably depicts the tower being bent by a giant insect Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower pops up a few times as does Frederick Gibberd’s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral The pick of these images is the sleeve for Pierre Henry’s Messe De Liverpool composed for the alternative inauguration of the building with the form of the building created in words A stark image of London’s Centre Point is the unlikely cover star of Newcastle folk-rockers Lindisfarne’s All Fall Down album The Stranglers’ JJ Burnel stands in front of the Pompidou Centre for his Euroman Cometh album Votel comments that the musician probably had no idea it would become such a hugely popular tourist destination when he chose it quite soon after it opened The dynamic forms of Brazilian modernism pop up on several sleeves in the show although Votel says that these were more popular with non-Brazilians than Brazilian musicians for whom the buildings were rather less exotic He’s included many examples of Eastern European records – Communist regimes were it seems very keen on modern buildings on record covers There are clusters of covers with reflective facade images Joni Mitchell’s self-designed The Hissing of Summer Lawns scatters a bit of stardust the olive green sleeve is one of Votel’s favourite hues It seems completely appropriate that he should include some of his own work in the exhibition including the aforementioned The Architect which makes striking use of building forms to create the album title ‘First and foremost I’m a typographer Identifying letters from within architecture is a beautiful thing for me,’ he says The exhibition runs only until September 10 ‘The idea of remixing these sleeves visually is really interesting What if they start infecting each other?’ he wonders He’s also keen on making a collage of all the music ‘to see if there are any sonic relationships in there’ be expanding his collection even further: ‘I’m dying to buy more architectural records – it’s just given me a reason.’ House Music - Architecture on Record Sleeves: compiled by Andy Votel, until September 10, 2022, The Modernist Gallery, 58 Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ  Sign up to receive regular briefings, updates and our weekly newsletter – all designed to bring you the best stories from RIBAJ.com updates and our weekly newsletter – all designed to bring you the best stories from RIBAJ.com Safe announces the reverse stock split of 1 new share for 3,700 existing shares ► Consolidation by way of exchange of 3,700 existing shares for 1 new share manufacture and marketing of ready-to-use technologies for orthopedic surgery particularly for back surgery (the “Company”) announces today that its Board of Directors has decided to implement a reverse stock split of the Company’s share capital in the ratio of 1 new share with a par value of 37 euro for 3 as authorized by the General Shareholders’ Meeting of December 16 2022 in its first resolution (following an amendment made during the meeting of the General Shareholders’ Meeting) This consolidation is intended to reduce the volatility of the Safe share price and to promote its stabilization Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) The reverse split is a share exchange transaction without any impact on the amount of the share capital: only the par value of the shares and The reverse stock split will begin on Thursday and the new consolidated shares will be listed as from Monday this transaction will have no impact on the overall value of the Safe shares held by the shareholders with the exception of fractional shares (see section Fractional shares) The main characteristics of this consolidation are Number of shares to be issued as a result of the reverse split: three hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and ninety-six (382,496) shares with a par value of € 37 each.  It is indicated that a shareholder of the Company has expressly waived the consolidation of one thousand seven hundred and eighteen (1,718) old shares in order to allow the application of the exchange ratio to a whole number of shares Its one thousand seven hundred and eighteen (1,718) old shares will therefore be cancelled the shareholders who would not have been able to obtain a multiple of three thousand seven hundred (3,700) shares will be compensated within thirty (30) days as from February 27 at the end of a period of thirty (30) days as from January 26 the new shares which could not be allotted individually and corresponding to fractional shares will be sold on the stock exchange by the account holders and the sums resulting from the sale will be distributed in proportion to the fractional rights of the holders of these shares The ungrouped shares will be delisted at the end of the regrouping period The shares subject to the reverse split will be admitted to trading on the Euronext Growth Paris market until February 24 The shares resulting from the consolidation will be admitted to trading on the Euronext Growth Paris market as from February 27 the first day of trading.  Suspension of the rights of holders of securities giving access to the Company’s capital: in order to facilitate the consolidation operations as permitted by the provisions of Article L 225-149-1 of the French Commercial Code and in accordance with the delegation of powers granted by the General Meeting of December 16 the Board of Directors decided unanimously at its meetings of December 21 2023 to suspend the right to exercise the rights attached to all (i) the bonds convertible into new shares of the Company (the “OCEANE”) issued under the financing agreement entered into with European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Funds on December 10 2021 (ii) warrants to subscribe for shares (“BSA”) issued by the Company between 2012 and 2018 (iii) warrants to subscribe for business creators’ shares (“BSPCE”) issued between 2010 and 2018 by the Company and (iv) free share allocation plans in force and to give full powers to the Chairman to publish a notice of suspension in the BALO that the suspension of the Securities will take effect as from January 10 2023 (inclusive) and will end on February 24 The notice relating to the reverse stock split was published in the Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires on January 11 2023 and is available on the website https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/balo/ and on the Company’s website (section Investors > Press Release) About Safe GroupSafe Group is a French medical technology group that brings together Safe Orthopaedics a pioneer in ready-to-use technologies for spine pathologies a medical device subcontractor for orthopaedic surgery The group employs approximately 150 people Safe Orthopaedics develops and manufactures kits combining sterile implants and single-use instruments These technologies are part of a minimally invasive approach aimed at reducing the risks of contamination and infection in the interest of the patient and with a positive impact on hospitalization times and costs.  Protected by 18 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Site powered by Webvision Cloud The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers When you purchase through links on our site Le Corbusier's creations are as exciting as ever Christopher Beanland visits two of the best in Marseille and Beaujolais I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Mottled white high- rises sprout from muddy brown mountainsides like smashed-in teeth The mistral tries to knock me off balance as I take photographs of Marseille's seething skyline The first time I saw Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation – flouting its primary-coloured balconies as if it were a 3D Mondrian painting – was through a greasy coach window in 1994 on a school exchange trip to France In one ear I can still hear Madame Hamilton warning us about the many ways that British children can get into sticky situations in France's louche second city The new middle-class residents moved their crates of Le Creuset into Unité (aka Cité Radieuse and that first sunset glass of Bandol on a balcony slathered in red yellow or blue must have seemed exhilarating There weren't any buildings in the wrecked post-war world that looked like this – least of all in the sleepy south of France or its capital – jump-started to life by the people and goods (both legitimate and less so) imported from French North Africa into Marseille's port Le Corbusier had previously whipped up pads for the wealthy such as the suave Villa Savoye in Poissy; but Unité offered utopia for the people This apartment block was his attempt to connect with a new post-war world of state socialism and technological progress The 20th century's most celebrated Modernist architect – who is being fêted around France this summer with exhibitions such as The Measures of The Man at Paris' Centre Pompidou – created many of them Le Corbusier switched sides to become fully French in 1930 He worked for Petain's collaborator Vichy government during the Second World War (a disquieting new book Le Corbusier: Un Fascisme Francais – claims he was even more of a fascist than previously feared) but he also tried to build an elephantine Palace of The Soviets in Moscow and must have amused himself with its image of cunning and flight "all the usual qualities of a big-time architect: paranoia Meades evidently wasn't too rattled by Corb though – he moved into the Unité after pulling an about-turn of his own ditching a more stereotypical "Brits abroad" farmhouse in Bordeaux illuminated only by skinny uplights above green or red doors I hope I'll bump into Meades lugging baguettes and sardines home from the épicerie The building is in good condition and flats sell for hundreds of thousands of euros Meades was quick to dissuade me from lunching in the Unité's own restaurant but it's there for completists; as is the Hotel Le Corbusier which uses a handful of the apartments as bedrooms but there's a book-shop and some offices (especially architects') All these "services" are found on a floor halfway up which gives Unité the feel of being a vertical village J G Ballard deliciously destroyed that communalistic vision in his 1975 novel High Rise which must have been partly inspired by this building the sweeping porte-cochère and concierge desk feel more mid-range hotel But you should venture under Unité's skirt – and look up the underside of the building looks wonderfully flabby Which makes it all the more remarkable that it balances on these stocky (in archi-parlance) piloti There used to be a running track around the edge The communal terrace has since been bashed about a bit and has lost something of that everyman social spirit in its recent transformation into the Mamo Gallery by the local art lord Ito Morabito The plus side is that snoopers are now allowed up here for a paltry €5 (£3.70) to see art The works revolve: I saw distance-distorting mirrors by the Parisian Minimalist Daniel Buren but a giant bust of Corb – sporting trademark round glasses – has also featured The roof is crowned by huge chimneys which underline how the building acts like a graceful living sculpture Corbusier connoisseurs could move on next to the other Unités that he built in Nantes or Lyon's outskirts or to Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel in Ronchamp Franche-Comté (so good the Chinese built a life-size copy in Zhengzhou) Or to the Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine bricky houses shaped like a railway caboose But having started at the first real super-sized classic I take a TGV from Marseille's hot-blooded Gare St Charles to Lyon's more rarefied Gare Part-Dieu I pick up a chuntering tram-train which plods west towards the vineyards of Beaujolais and lowing brown cows unashamedly stare at lone Britons on eccentric concrete conquests through the Rhône-Alps countryside The hike from the station in the valley up to the Couvent de la Tourette is bracing – past bucolic homes boulangeries and fields; but the reward is seeing a Brutalist classic in its unnatural environment Iannis Xenakis (another Francophile who moved here from Greece) The juxtaposition between the building and the emerald grassed slope it manages not to slip off is exciting You can only explore the inside of Corbusier's last big beast on a tour and I make it by the skin of my teeth to join one led by Armelle Le Mouëllic a friendly architecture student from Grenoble who delivers each bit in French and English She and I talk about our love for modern architecture and she explains that she's staying in one of the monks' rooms (and that "there's no wi-fi") Le Corbusier and Xenakis built this place for trainee Dominican monks It must have been peculiar for them to be living through the maelstrom of the Sixties in this ultra-modern building yet practising as their brethren had for centuries but there are three spaces that blow you away with their simple intensity The undercroft of the whole building is one – because it's jacked up on piloti there's a massive wedge of strange space down there with its windows designed by Xenakis as a kind of repeated run of musical notes (he was also a composer) sober box – dark except for the sun that pokes in through the slashes Corb created The thrilling result reminds me of a Mark Rothko painting Le Corbusier's life was almost at an end when La Tourette was finished and was buried overlooking the Mediterranean I stop on the way back down to L'Arbresle and turn back to look again at the muscular monastery from a distance and to remember that Le Corbusier exerted a powerful global influence upon architects who sought to recreate cities from Boston to Birmingham Brutalist buildings dreamt up by copycats have found love rather than loathing – as people appreciate the unusual poetry of concrete But France never lost faith with its delinquent adopted son Christopher Beanland was a guest of British Airways (0344 493 0787; ba.com) which flies daily from Heathrow to both Marseille and Lyon SNCF (sncf.fr) trains link Marseille and L’Arbresle Couvent de la Tourette (couventdelatourette.fr) tours €7 (£5.20) Until 30 June on Sundays at 2.30pm and 3.30pm; 1 July to 31 August on weekdays at 10.30am fondationlecorbusier.fr marseille-citeradieuse.org Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Jay Merrick finds obsession and epic potency in a new exhibition of images of Le Corbusier’s buildings by photographer Richard Pare The frieze of cacti and succulents, the narrow path, the roughly laid stone wall, the tiny, apparently incidental cabin on the hillside above Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Richard Pare’s image – one of 26 on show at the PM Gallery and House in Ealing along with others concerning Konstantin Melnikov – is surely too beautifully composed to suggest anything profound And yet it is hard to resist the idea of the cabanon as Le Corbusier’s equivalent of Queequeg’s coffin in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick – a coffin so beautifully crafted that Queequeg the chief harpooner aboard the whaler Pequod decided that it should be used instead as a life-raft View of Le Corbusier’s Cabanon overlooking the Bay of Roquebrune There is no obvious sense of death-in-life about Pare’s image of the Cabanon on its arid altar above the amniotic rebirthing waters of the bay; and in terms of atmosphere or graphic quality it is almost postcard trivia compared to his views of the hypostyle room in the Assembly Building or the interior of the Sainte-Marie de La Tourette monastery at Eveux-sur-l’Arbresle There is something of the search for Moby Dick something of Captain Ahab’s furious search for both faith and death The obligatory shock of the Modernist new coexists with a sense of decay Consider the flayed concrete sinews of Pare’s shot of the main hall of the High Court in Chandigarh Every work by a self-consciously great architect is automatically a memorial of greatness – a link in a chain of legacies that must What is the last thing the architect will do The early works announce a fusion of possibilities and a sense of eternal verity; the latter must feel the strengthening swirl of an undertow of conclusion Rooftop pool of L’Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles there was a crossing-point between these two conditions He completed the Unité d’Habitation in 1952 and the chapel at Ronchamp in 1954; the former is regarded as the most brilliant statement of his original ideas the latter a numinous mystery of formal and emotional meanings and effects It is tempting to see the Unité as the Pequod navigating towards its communion with the mystical white whale cleaving upwards out of that swelling hillside in the Jura Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut completed in 1954 describes how he and Queequeg wove a rough mat: ‘So strange a dreaminess did there reign over all the ship and over all the sea only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword that it seemed as if this were The Loom of Time and I myself were a shuttle weaving away of my own Free Will into these unalterable threads The fixed threads of the warp seemed Necessity – and here thought I then another – this savage’s sword must be Chance and Necessity – all interweavingly working together.’ Richard Pare’s photographs recall another of Ishmael’s musings: ‘Such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.’ The postcard-like image of the Cabanon has a lingering potency Jay Merrick is architecture critic at the Independent Living Laboratory: Richard Pare on Le Corbusier & Konstantin Melnikov.PM Gallery and House, Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5Until 11 May BDP’s College of Arts & Society at Coventry University has been named… Lewisham Council has given Turner Works planning permission for a mixed-use regeneration… Wandsworth Council has given Gehry Partners planning permission for two more residential… Southwark Council has approved tp bennett’s plans for a 25-storey student tower… Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience Don't have an account? Create Account Photos have surfaced showing a French couple posing with the corpses of several animals they hunted in Tanzania in 2014 The Albouds are seen in the images posing with the dead animals which include what appears to be a leopard A Super U spokesperson said they oppose the couple’s activities and that their behaviour is “in total opposition with the values defended by us.” The spokesperson also told the Daily Mail: “We condemn them even if they are private activities,” adding the couple “will leave (the company) with immediate effect.” According to the Daily Mail, the testimonial gives “Thanks to Clinton for his passion and his patience which allowed me to have such a successful, beautiful and fun safari, with top leopard and top crocodile,” and also “We will be back with Pierré and Clinton van Tonder!” Hunting packages offered by Pierre van Tonder Big Game Safaris range from $17,000 per person up to $43,000. Prices for individual trophies are staggering as well. Killing a leopard will cost the hunter $7,000, $3,400 for a hippo, and $3,800 for a crocodile. transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account A French couple has sparked outrage after pictures of them hunting big game in Africa emerged online, with the strong backlash forcing them to sell their supermarket franchise. Jacques Alboud and wife Martine were pictured in Tanzania years ago after hunting lions, leopards, buffalo and hippos and standing atop their corpses, Daily Mail reports Critics subsequently called for a boycott of their store -- a Super U franchise in L’Arbresle -- and the couple received several death threats the Super U parent company also condemned their activities saying their actions were "in total opposition with the values defended by us." "We condemn them even if they are private activities."  the Super U group has committed to working towards "a better respect for aquatic and terrestrial resources" around the world the company announced Jacques and Martine would leave the business immediately "Totally opposed to private hunting safari activities by associates Super U announces that they will leave with immediate effect," a spokesman said "Measures to support their employees and take over their stores are put in place." The couple is yet to respond to a request for comment Martine Alboud posted a testimonial on the Safari organizer's website "Thanks to Pierré van Tonder for his welcome and the perfect flawless organization of our safari in the wild bush of the Selous," he wrote "Thanks to Clinton for his passion and his patience which allowed me to have such a successful We will be back with Pierré and Clinton van Tonder!" Pierre van Tonder Big Game Safaris offers a variety of hunting packages ranging from $17,000 up to $43,000 while crocodiles go for $3,800 and hippos for $3,400 Animal activists are highly opposed to big game hunting in Africa arguing it is a cruel sport that is devastating to wildlife pro-hunting groups claim the safaris bring in a lot of funds to help conserve threatened African species Dispatches • Design The outstanding architectural legacy left by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier is undoubtedly one of the 20th century’s most significant inadvertently triggering the Brutalist movement conceiving monumental works like the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh; India’s first planned city The Swiss-French pioneer was very much more than simply an architect The creative polymath would incessantly paint and write — devoting half of each day to the arts as a source of inspiration for his architectural practice; something he called his ‘atelier de la recherche patiente’ (or ‘workshop of patient research’) Ever in search of bettering the lives of the people who inhabited his works, Le Corbusier has been honoured in a major new project by UNESCO, 17 of his most revered works having just been World Heritage-listed together in a transnational series: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement Iconic buildings across several continents the 17 properties simultaneously added to the UNESCO World Heritage list include the hallowed city masterplan for Chandigarh much-lauded Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut with its dramatic curves Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art often considered the birth of Brutalism; each a remarkable testament to the designer who shaped modern architecture in the 1900s @UNESCO , , , Converting the rooftop of Le Corbusier’s incredible La Cité Radieuse (locally nicknamed La Maison du Fada or 'The House of Madness') to an art institution in 2013 Ora Ito has welcomed esteemed names Xavier Veilhan The Cité radieuse in Marseille is perhaps the most famous example of Le Corbusier's innovative post-war urban housing design known as the Unite d'habitation protected by the French government for its architectural.. 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