Ohio (WKRC) - Local residents can get a taste of France over the weekend The City of Montgomery has a sister city relationship with Neuilly-Plaisance the city puts on a Bastille Day celebration every year to help fund that relationship Saturday in Montgomery's central business district Guests can enjoy all kinds of activities celebrating French culture Le Bar A Boeuf in East Walnut Hills also has a special French menu to celebrate Bastille Day Call or visit the restaurant's website to make reservations The Lehman College Athletics Department welcomed two new coaches to continue the Lightning’s tradition of athletic success Ana Belzunce was appointed in February of last year as men’s and women’s tennis coach She brings a wealth of experience to the Lightning having coached at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in Randall’s Island as well as with the Tennis Federation of Madrid and Premier Tennis in Oxford in the United Kingdom 1 singles for several clubs in Europe including RCP Barcelona (Spain) Neuilly Plaisance Sports and TC de Saint Gaudens (France) and HTC Bad Neuenahr (Germany) “I am looking forward to successful days ahead for both of our tennis teams,” said Dr. Martin L. Zwiren the women’s tennis team reached the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) championship for the first time in the school’s history Although they did not win the conference In January, Dr. Zwiren also announced that Sovanny Kon Ebbesen would be joining the College community as the Lightning’s new head men’s and women’s volleyball coach Ebbesen was a standout performer in high school before moving on to play volleyball at the University of Alaska Fairbanks “I am extremely excited to become a part of the Lehman College family and immersing myself in the Bronx community,” said Ebbenson who previously was the assistant volleyball Coach at Williston State College in Williston Zwiren for the opportunity to represent the men's and women’s volleyball programs and will strive to make a positive contribution to the lives of the student-athletes.” This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Montgomery has launched a fundraising campaign to erect a statue of longtime city council member Gerri Harbison, who died unexpectedly in January. business leaders and residents hope to retain Blue Ash artist Tom Tsuchiya to make a bronze sculpture of Harbison to be placed on a bench overlooking the baseball field in Montgomery Park That’s the site of the annual Independence Day Festival that she supervised for 25 years Tsuchiya sculpted the bronze statues of Cincinnati Reds players at Great American Ball Park He recently completed a statue of former Cincinnati City Councilwoman and activist Marian Spencer in Smale Riverfront Park served on Montgomery City Council beginning in 1999 and was mayor from 2005 to 2011 She was a charter member of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce and led cultural exchanges with the city’s Sister City Harbison was a real estate agent for Huff Realty and a hospice volunteer 'The epitome of a public servant'“Gerri was the epitome of a public servant and a champion for Montgomery.  She left her imprint on our organization and throughout our community and her legacy will forever live on,” City Manager Brian Riblet said Mayor Chris Dobrozsi said he wouldn’t be mayor if not for Harbison’s guidance and encouragement over the years.  and I am a better person.  She was a colleague mentor and most importantly a dear friend,” he said You can donate to the Gerri Harbison Memorial Fund online at its website or send a check made out to the “Montgomery Living Memorial Fund” to Montgomery City Hall carried away by the songs and guitar typical of this melancholy musical genre During this 1h30 cruise who over the years have become the reference for Portuguese guitar in France After learning the instrument with Carlos Gonçalves who accompanied the singer Amália Rodrigues Philippe de Sousa perpetuates this traditional song born in Lisbon almost two centuries ago All that remains is to embark for Neuilly-Plaisance she took her first steps on the fado scene in her native city before making her mark in Paris Following in the footsteps of Amalia Rodrigues she interprets fado with a sensitivity all her own Very attached to the power of words and the poetry of Fado she carefully chooses the texts she interprets She will be accompanied by Philippe De Sousa on Portuguese guitar Portuguese guitar: Philippe De Sousa - Classical guitar: Helder Jardim Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here Personal photograph while shooting a Yamaha motorcycle ad campaign Officially launching today is the latest Square Print Sale from Magnum (in partnership with Aperture) a celebration of international photography rooted in the belief of art for all You’re probably familiar with the annual premise: over 100 museum-quality 6×6 photographs (sometimes signed sometimes stamped) shot by professionals and amateurs alike and available for a mere $100 This year brings a typically strong roster of names from all over the world delivering urgent stories through photographs that linger long in the mind Check out Stephen Tayo’s dynamic portraits of the Leap of Dance ballet company performing in Lagos or Elliot Erwins’ exploration of Hitchcockian setting Also up up for grabs is Malin Fezehai’s remarkable photo of an Eritrean wedding (the first iPhone photo to ever receive a World Press Photo Award) alongside more established names like Elliot Landy we collate a selection of quotes from participating photographers on what their nominated photograph means to them and how they took it There were four cinemas in my town when I was growing up in Morocco I remember the movie posters they’d put in their windows They had these powerful single images your mind could latch onto allowing anyone who couldn’t afford a ticket to imagine the whole film That’s what I wanted to create here—a still from a movie you haven’t seen.” I explore the complexities of the photographic enterprise grappling with the relationship between photographer and subject By diving deep into a collaborative working dynamic we create a small alternate universe that raises more questions than it offers answers: Who made these images This project is both the story of a young woman searching for identity and the story of myself experimenting with the fragility of photographic authorship In this photograph you see Agata as Germaine Germaine is the owner of the house in Paris Agata squatted and lived in for a while clothes and long lists of films she still wanted to watch we dress up as the old lady and hope to go to Corsica soon something we are sure Germaine would have loved to do.” a fashion series created for a magazine and an exhibition at the Maison Rouge in Paris but I accepted the commission to challenge myself to make the clothes disappear for the benefit of the ‘character.’ I made this series with the idea of a sequence in the life of each of the girls I photographed which mixed exterior and interior in the idea of the ‘everyday.’ Each girl I chose had an off-beat presence in the world The accumulation of the series made me think of short novels and the fashion magazine had a literary approach The installation of the exhibition was linear with a lot of small prints (all equal in size) that ran all over the space We had spent nights in our tiny Moscow apartment watching the 1980s American soap opera Santa Barbara Full of sunlit palm trees and wealthy Californians it was the first American show to be broadcast in post-Soviet Russia something far away from what my family’s life had become taking my brother and me to America with her This is where the story begins: the idea of touching something that felt untouchable.” With my own projects I never stage anything Reality provides more powerful images and situations than anything my imagination could come up with Many elements can prevent an image from being satisfying or surprising but usually comes hand-in-hand with predictability I do believe that some stories can only be told when you arrange situations So I don’t condemn colleagues who do it this approach was considered fraudulent in documentary photography and now it feels like the trend is toward staging and artistic images This lowers the respect for photographers who still ‘work’ with reality Nobody believes you didn’t alter reality I don’t care — I still think interacting in an intuitive way with your subject provides more powerful images.” “When I stop a person in the street to take their photograph it’s because I recognize their inner light Focusing on the light in others reinforces it in yourself there’s an inextinguishable spark of divinity in everyone I approach my work from this spiritual perspective because that’s what gives it meaning for me from my soul to the soul of my subjects; we’re co-creators.” A personal photograph taken while shooting a Yamaha advertising campaign “Philosopher Byung-Chul Han says that we live in an era of exhaustion and fatigue caused by an incessant compulsion to perform and now experience the neuronal era—characterized by neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression My work centers this premise at the core of fragmented which exist in multilayered narrative installations My female characters exist almost anonymously constantly looking for any possibility of escape “A story must grow organically out of the subject matter the information goes through you and is processed by whatever kind of person you are: how you see the world The story that comes out is your interpretation of the world you see but it should be true to what you really believe the truth is to be We cannot kid ourselves about it being ‘objective’ because it isn’t “The Leap of Ballet Dance Academy was founded in 2017 by Daniel Owoseni Ajala students attend classes after school at Ajala’s apartment on the outskirts of Lagos where Ajala makes space by pushing aside his furniture and placing a vinyl sheet on the ground The Leap of Ballet Dance Academy has given students opportunities to pursue their dreams and has garnered international recognition pictured in this photo are Chinemerem Duru and Olamide Olawale—all students from the Leap of Ballet Dance Academy—who create so much hope through ballet in Lagos.” Work of Imagination’ Magnum’s Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture, runs from Monday, October 19, 9AM EST to Sunday, October 25, 6PM EST. See the full list for yourself and purchase a print here Interior designer Nicolas Payet uses thoughtful pops of colour to enlarge – and liven – this former maid’s quarters For those in the know, it is a fashion no-no to choose your shoes before your dress, but breaking the rules is all part of the creative process for French interior designer Nicolas Payet who bought his vibrant green sofa long before he had a home to put it in Nestled on the top floor of a 1930s Parisian apartment building fondly referred to as the chambre de bonne in Parisian housing circles Payet wanted to create a “contemporary and colourful cabin” based on his childhood love of tree houses Situated on a quiet street in the east of the city is my way of expressing myself,” says Payet the way for me to differentiate myself with my vision Main character energy: the green Hay Quilton sofa that inspired the rest of the space. Photograph: Bénédicte Drummond/Living InsideHis Hay Quilton sofa, a popping emerald green, designed by London studio Doshi Levien was the foundation and inspiration for the rest of the interiors “I found the sofa before I even began this project I was completely obsessed with this vibrant green so I decided to integrate it as much as possible.” Notes of this fresh grassy tone are reflected inside the arches that Payet built into the walls of the open-plan kitchen it glides along the skirting and is picked up around the door frames integrated arched window and even in his choice of the lighting is my way of expressing myself… this is 100% my own universe“Absolutely every feature was dragging the place down – we had to demolish it all And this was the chance to create a sort of laboratory experimenting with new combinations of materials and colours,” explains Payet who pulled up two layers of tiles that had hidden and almost destroyed the original pine floor He also removed a partition between the kitchen and living room added a new wall to separate the two bedrooms Key to working with a small home is to create bespoke storage which is what Payet did under the eaves in order to maximise the space The kitchen island has integrated storage and was designed to fit under the low ceilings and wooden beams internal and south-facing window was fashioned into the wall between the dining and master bedroom to encourage more light in Despite strictly enforced rules around having real fires in the city of lights He got around the problem by installing a bioethanol tank and chimney it provided him with both a cosy hearth to sit by and another opportunity to introduce more joyful tones; he chose glossy amber tiles designed by Sebastian Herkner to clad the chimney Light and dark: the workspace in the bedroom where the walls are divided with olive paint Photograph: Bénédicte Drummond/Living InsideA subdued olive-green paint is used in the master bedroom covering the mango-wood headboard and sweeping around the room to cover its lower half engineering a defined working space for Payet’s desk by breaking the wall into two different colours “I like to attribute a colour to a room or a function to help the eye quickly understand the space configuration,” says Payet his primary passion continues with a crisp cobalt blue Clever built-in niche details beside the beds and in the bathroom offer additional storing space whose colourful work is an inspiration for Payet who studied graphical art and worked as a fashion designer for many years before moving into the world of interiors is his main inspiration: “I wanted a masculine palette in my bedroom with khaki and blue this sky-blue is a little bit of my signature style A terracotta tadelakt effect is used in the bathroom inspired by his travels to Morocco; the walls and the built-in cubby holes are coated with Tuscan-coloured waxed concrete Stripy terracotta and white tiles pull the two sides of the room together and frame the double sinks Comfort zone: Nicolas Payet at home on the sofa that started it all Photograph: Bénédicte Drummond/Living Inside“It might seem strange but compartmentalising enlarges spaces The mistake would be to think that you must have an open space Breaking up a space brings an easy reading of the functions.” Describing his style as “colourful timelessness” Payet is experienced in transforming small Parisian apartments into stylish working homes where are the windows which catch the maximum light “I always consider the practical before the decorative aspect and I think working with constraints only multiplies the imagination.” marn-deco.com This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media 13 -- Shares of Universal Scientific Industrial jumped by the exchange-imposed daily trading limit after the Chinese make of electronic components set out plans to acquire Europe's second-largest electronic manufacturing services provider Asteelflash Group for USD450 million to further its global expansion Universal Scientific's stock price [SHA:601231] surged 10 percent today in Shanghai which is pending approval from Chinese regulators will allow the firm to greatly enlarge its EMS customer base and boost its competitiveness in Europe It will also help to establish its presence in Europe and complete its global positioning of production bases USI will pay 89.6 percent in cash and the rest through the issue of new shares to the founder of Asteelflash's privately owned company ASDI Assistance Direction according to the agreement penned with the Neuilly-Plaisance-based firm's shareholders ASDI will hold a 1.22 percent stake in USI once the deal is closed Asteelflash is a provider of high-end engineering and manufacturing solutions It has 17 production bases in eight countries across four continents and employs over 6,000 people USI designs and makes high-end electronic products in the fields of information Mexico and Poland and around 18,000 employees worldwide the firm had operating revenue of about USD5 billion The famously testy Parisians have one more reason to grumble after the French government announced that half the cars in the city would be banned from the roads will come into effect for cars and motorcycles after Paris pollution reached dangerous levels for five consecutive days Even before the restrictions were announced The smog hanging in a haze over the French capital is the result of a string of warm days and cold nights and has caused the worst pollution levels since 2007 A revolutionary streak runs through French society as anyone who has tried to use a pedestrian crossing in Paris knows particularly in the case of those working in the suburbs their car is essential for travel and they would be prepared to defy the temporary ban and risk incurring a €22 (£18) fine Warehouse worker Jean Sanglier lives in the eastern Paris suburb of Chelles and drives to work in Neuilly-Plaisance "How will I get to work?" he said and one and a half hours on public transport." He added that if he is fined "it's my boss who's going to have to pay." Parked cars lined the roads running through the Bois de Vincennes – the city's largest park – on Sunday as Parisians enjoyed a glimpse of sunshine but a new spike of pollution is expected this morning A market stall holder in Vincennes said he didn't know how he would be able to get to the wholesale market at Rungis on Monday without driving there "Twenty two euros isn't very much," he said A saleswoman from Nogent-sur-Marne also planned to defy the ban: "I can't use mine on Tuesday and I can't get from one suburb to another on public transport." So would she take the car Seven hundred police will be deployed in Paris and 22 surrounding areas to monitor the scheme which will be enforced for the first time in 17 years who is a member of a pressure group campaigning against the measure The Automobile Club Association warned in a statement that the restrictions would cause chaos and added it would "penalise low-income households and suburban families who need a car and cause additional economic costs." The government scrambled to issue a list of exceptions and cars with at least three people on board to encourage car-sharing Minute PM10 particles (less than 10 micrometers in diameter) emitted by diesel exhausts The safe limit is 80 microgrammes of PM10 particulates per cubic metre the level peaked at 180 microgrammes prompting authorities to urge people to stay indoors as much as possible and to leave their cars at home According to the Paris Air Quality Index, Friday's level was as bad as that in Beijing one of the world's most polluted cities where policies of alternate driving are enforced during smog emergencies A French television report pointed out that Rome has also introduced alternating driving Clean Air in London tweeted on Friday morning that London's pollution level was "worse than Shanghai (having a bad day) and over twice Beijing." French weather forecasts were predicting that although high pollution levels would return on Monday they may not reach the records of last week With municipal elections scheduled for next Sunday the emergency smog-tackling measure brought in by the Socialist government and endorsed by their Green coalition partners risks becoming a political football in the polls.