2014) – LA Galaxy II announced today that the club has signed forward Kainoa Bailey from German club Bayer 04 Leverkusen and French defender Jason Bli on a free transfer Bailey joins Los Dos after signing his first professional contract with the German club last year joins the Galaxy II on a free transfer after spending the last season with L'Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien in France’s fourth tier of competition LA Galaxy II also announced on Tuesday that the club has released defender Eder Arreola “The addition of Kainoa Bailey to our roster brings a different dimension to our attack,” said LA Galaxy II head coach Curt Onalfo talented player who is very fast in the attack and we are excited to strengthen our roster by bringing him to LA.” “Jason is another great addition to our roster and we are excited to see him join the team,” said Onalfo “Bli is a skillful player and we are sure he will add great depth to our backline.” we want to thank Eder for his time with the club,” added Onalfo “Eder was a hard worker and a good pro during his time with the Galaxy II and we want to thank him for all of his efforts on and off the field We wish him the best moving forward in his career.” joined Bayer Leverkusen’s Under-23 team after signing a professional contract with the club last summer Bailey played for the Academy teams of two MLS clubs – D.C Bailey has represented the United States at the Under-20 level U-20 Men’s National Team training camp at North Carolina State University last May A product of the Paris Saint Germain and Atletico Madrid academies French defender Bli spent the last season with L'Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien in France’s fourth division before joining Los Dos on a free transfer Before the start of the USL PRO season earlier this year playing at left back in the team’s inaugural match against the Fresno Fuego last February.  Before his stint with L'Entente SSG the French defender spent a season with Paris FC making 11 appearances for the third division French club made 11 appearances for the LA Galaxy II this season Arreola signed with the Galaxy II before the start of the 2014 USL PRO campaign Arreola spent the previous year with Mexican Liga de Ascenso side Delfines del Carmen.  Drafted by the Houston Dynamo after starring for UCLA during four years Arreola helped United States Adult Soccer Association club Cal FC reach the fourth round of the U.S LA Galaxy II Season Ticket Memberships begin at just $6 per game. For more information on LA Galaxy, LA Galaxy II memberships, or group and single tickets, visit www.lagalaxy.com or call 877-3GALAXY (342-5299) The complete LA Galaxy II’s 2014 USL PRO schedule can be found here ‘les coccinelles nursery school’ by SOA image © clément guillaume drawing from the french for ‘ladybug’, ‘les coccinelles nursery school’ by parisian firm SOA is a materially sophisticated high functioning building sited in a quaint green space situated in a residential northern parisian suburb the volume of the nursery school appropriates the locally prevalent pitched roof and star-shaped plan the program called for an environmentally conscious space that could accommodate 45 young children separated by three stages of development the gestalt of the building lies in the double-height entrance hall which fractures out into the three functional areas of the school; the ground floor is for the eldest and mid-level children while the youngest are relegated to the first floor although the entrance hall affords uninhibited views the glazed southern facade opens into a double height sun room energetic spaces are counterbalanced by sleeping rooms in the northern section of the school the building systems are composed sensitively with linear wooden slats that filter direct sun during the summer months double wooden skin also gives way to rhythmic apertures that also puncture through the prefabricated metal walls with chestnut cladding serving to express stainless steel exterior walls this inversion architecturally unifies the roof and facade while keeping with the child-like lightness that the program demands.  the double height entrance hall organizes the rest of the program chestnut grates encase a stainless steel building envelope the ‘ladybug’ nursery school is materially compelling verticality remains a constant aesthetic theme across materials a double height corridor along the southern facade creates an all-weather covered play area location: rue d’argenteuil, saint-gratienclient: city of saint-gratien team: SOA (architect), gruet (engineering), orféa (acoustics), 
atelier jours (landscape design)built area: 691 m² 
environmental performances: BBC AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style BackFirst winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans who was René Léonard (André Lagache's teammate)?The first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans took place 26-27 May 1923 - under the name 24 Hour Endurance Grand Prix - and was won by the #9 Chenard & Walcker shared by André Lagache and René Léonard It is impossible to find a trace of him in any newspaper article or otherwise We set out to find out more about this legendary first winner Thanks to the determination and research done by two great motorsport enthusiasts André Reine and Henri Gué we now know a bit more about René Auguste Maxime Léonard.  The son of a coachman,  René Auguste Maxime Léonard was born in Pau He first lived in Blois and was later hired as a mechanic by Chenard & Walcker in Gennevilliers He made his debut in competition in 1921 at the Consumption Contest organized by the ACO he won the first running of the 24 Hours after completing 128 laps of the 17-kilometer circuit (a little more than 2,200 kilometers) but two weeks later won the 24 Hours of Spa with André Lagache he won the San Sebastián Grand Prix for touring cars in Spain and was the runner-up in the Georges Boillot Cup Chenard & Walcker officially withdrew from further competiton Yet René Léonard was seen again in 1932 participating in the Lisieux hill climb and the kilometer race kicked off in Strasbourg he moved to Saint-Gratien near the company's factory in Gennevilliers he worked as a developer and also helped Robert Sénéchal try to set a 24-hour record in Montlhéry he returned to Le Mans as the manager of Benoit Falchetto's team Falchetto had bought two old Chenard & Walckers tanks not new by any means but still capable of high performance Famous weightlifter Charles Rigoulot won the Bol d’Or (Montlhéry) but at Le Mans the two cars fielded by Yves Giraud-Cabantous were forced to retire.  Chenard & Walcker was bought out by the Chausson company but René Léonard would stay throughout his career until his retirement He passed away at the age of 76 on 15 August 1965 and is enterred in the Saint Gratien cemetery his estate was auctioned off after the death of his wife in 1993 At least now we know more about the elusive René Léonard first winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with André Lagache And for this we would like to express our deep gratitude to André Reine Henri Gué and Marc Ceulemans (Palmarès) Related News24h Le Mans02/05/2025 The trailer for the documentary ‘American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans’ unveiledIn 2023 during the Centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans ‘American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans’ retraces this adventure in a full-length documentary broadcast exclusively on Prime Video on 12 June The second round of the 2025 European Le Mans Series (ELMS) takes place this Sunday 4 May at the Circuit Paul Ricard An impressive 44 cars are expected on the grid with a large French contingent on home soil in terms of both drivers and teams For the 93rd edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours (11-15 June 2025) the #59 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo entered by United Autosports in the LMGT3 class will feature a unique livery: the Meningitis Flag The aim of this livery is to raise awareness of a disease that is all too often overlooked: meningitis The Automobile Club de l’Ouest is proud to announce that Roger Federer the revered champion and global sporting icon will don the mantle of official starter at the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans the fourth round of the FIA WEC World Endurance Championship During the confinement period, you can access PSG TV Premium for free and enjoy all this season's match videos. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Paris Saint-Germain will play Red Star Belgrade for the first time in a competitive match But the two sides have met four times in friendly matches at the Parc des PrincesIt was a new-look Paris side that took on Red Star in the semi-finals of the capital club's summer friendly tournament Goalkeeper Dominique Baratelli was missing replaced by France international André Rey for the occasion Les Rouge et Bleu featured three other guest players in the form of Nice defender Henri Zambelli Saint-Étienne's Argentine star old-school defender Oswaldo Piazza Paris put on a stirring attacking performance but failed to score and conceded two late goals to Savic and Kovacevic in front of 20,000 spectators at the Parc des Princes (0-2) in Saint-GratienParis Saint-Germain coach Tomislav Ivic invited his compatriot Velibor Vasovic former Partizan star and now coach of Red Star to a friendly match Paris fans also new Vasovic well after his two spells on the bench of Les Rouge et Bleu in 1976-77 and 1978-79 with PSG goals to Daniel Xuereb and Vahid Halilhodzic in BercyParis Saint-Germain organised an indoor tournament at Bercy and went down 6-4 to Red Star despite an exceptional Safet Susic who netted twice against his compatriots He finished tournament high scorer with 11 goals in ChicagoParis Saint-Germain and Red Star met in the final of the Chicago Cup despite the sending off of Paris defender (and current assistant coach) Zoumana Camara for two yellow cards Antoine Kombouaré's team equalised through Marcos Ceara before losing the penalty shootout Subscribe!function(m,a,i,l,s,t,e,r){m[s]=m[s]||(function(){t=a.createElement(i);r=a.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];t.async=1;t.src=l;r.parentNode.insertBefore(t,r);return !0}())}(window,document,'script','https://tibet.net/wp-content/plugins/mailster/assets/js/button.min.js','MailsterSubscribe'); Tibetan flag raised at the town hall of Nantes In the unique tradition of many European municipalities March 10 is the day when they officially hoist the Tibetan flag There were other municipalities who raised the Tibetan flag at the Town Hall throughout the year On the 60th Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day many municipalities raised the Tibetan flag Brussels received reports from Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve and Ciney from Belgium Betzdorf in Luxembourg and Villeneuve Loubet Tibetan flag raised at the town hall of Sisteron This year the Office of Tibet made special efforts to focus on the flag raising in Europe the Office sent 1709 letters and Tibetan National flags to municipalities hoisting flags/sponsoring Tibetan towns in France France & Benelux based Tibet Support Groups (TSGs) To the Members of European Parliament and Permanent Representations the Office sent cards with Tibetan flag including small flags and a description of the history of the Tibetan flag The Office received notes of thanks from the aforementioned municipalities Tibetan flag raised at the town hall in Ciney In recognition of the flag raising campaign led by the municipalities for the last 30 years and in acknowledgement of the sincere efforts of common European citizens who supported the campaign Brussels published a pictorial book entitled “Thank You Europe – For Hoisting the Tibetan Flag” as part of Thank You Year celebrations in 2018 The pictorial book entitled “Thank You Europe – For Hoisting the Tibetan Flag” Brussels as part of Thank You Year celebrations in 2018 Letter of thanks received by the Office of Tibet His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offers Congratulations to Anthony Albanese on His Re-election as Prime Minister of Australia Sikyong Meets Current and Former Chairs of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee to Discuss Appointment of Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issue His Holiness the Dalai Lama Congratulates Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on His Party’s General Election Victory Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel offers condolence over the demise of His Holiness Pope Francis Tibet at a Glance Tibetan National Flag Global Tibet Movement Constitution Leadership Judiciary Legislature Executive Election Commission Public Service Commission Auditor General Religion and Culture Home Finance Education Security Information & International Relations Health Issues Facing Tibet Sino Tibetan Dialogue Middle Way Approach Dolgyal-Shugden © Central Tibetan Administration • Privacy Policy • Terms of Service I referred to Ben-Yedder as the ‘Elneny of strikers’ a couple of weeks ago and I still see him as such. There is no reason why a striker with his track record, and still 25 years of age, should only be fetching an £8m fee, but if that’s all it will take Related Story: Arsenal's Predicted Opening Day XI Upon building up this potential transfer on social media I was slapped with naysayers saying he would never cut it So before those naysayers can find their way to the comments section I’ll just answer all their naysaying via this article Only Zlatan and Alexandre Lacazette have scored more Ligue 1 goals than Ben-Yedder in the past four years The only reason why Zlatan and Lacazette get the attention is because they play on the two best teams in France They are constantly in the international spectrum and they have a  supporting cast that promotes excessive goal tallies Wissam Ben-Yedder has been dealing with a Toulouse side that is frequently fighting to avoid relegation I always say that ‘you can only make the most of what you’re given’ and Ben-Yedder is doing that He may have never scored over 17 goals in a season but it’s not like his team mates are helping out much Aside from accounting for 40% of Toulouse’s goals (tops in Ligue 1) None of his team mates have provided for more than four assists and only two team mates create more than a chance per game (1.6 and 1.2) Meanwhile, compare that to PSG and Lyon. At Lyon and five guys have more assists than Lacazette Fekir would have too if he didn’t get hurt At PSG, five guys create over a chance a game with Di Maria accounting for 3.4 all by himself yet he still manages to score enough goals to be in the same conversation as the PSG and Lyon strikers despite the fact that he is struggling to keep Toulouse in Ligue 1 The best measure of a guy that plays on a lower-tier team is consistency. Does he continually score goals even in a poor set-up? For Ben-Yedder, it’s a resounding yes. 15, 16, 14, 17 – that’s the goal tallies from the past four years for the French striker Arsenal need a striker that can play at Giroud’s level and all signs point to Ben-Yedder being that guy Just because he doesn’t cost a lot of money or capture headlines doesn’t mean that he won’t be the perfect fit He has stayed loyal to Toulouse despite never seeing the team progress and it’s gotten him just about nowhere This first move will be the last time he is affordable Give him a bigger stage and he will adjust accordingly and prove that he can perform no matter the company If he can score 15 goals on average for Toulouse imagine what that would translate too when surrounded by Arsenal’s cast of Ozil Even if he only averages 15 goals for Arsenal Next: 5 Step Plan To Win The EPL There is no greater bargain out there than Ben-Yedder © 2025 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Minute Media or its affiliates and related brands All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER Related Story: Arsenal's Predicted Opening Day XI Meanwhile, compare that to PSG and Lyon. At Lyon At PSG, five guys create over a chance a game The best measure of a guy that plays on a lower-tier team is consistency. Does he continually score goals even in a poor set-up? For Ben-Yedder, it’s a resounding yes. 15, 16, 14, 17 – that’s the goal tallies from the past four years for the French striker Next: 5 Step Plan To Win The EPL French authorities confirmed that footballer Emiliano Sala was on board an aircraft that went missing over the English Channel late Monday The Argentine striker was one of two people on board a small Piper Malibu aircraft which was last spotted over Guernsey in the Channel Islands before vanishing from air traffic radar, Sky Sports News reports Cardiff City’s £15 million record signing was on his way to south Wales from Nantes in western France ahead of his first training session with the Premier League club Guernsey police launched a search and rescue operation which is yet to find a trace of the missing aircraft “We are awaiting confirmation before we can say anything further We are very concerned for the safety of Emiliano Sala,” said Cardiff City Chairman Mehmet Dalman in a statement Wednesday’s Coupe de France match between Nantes and Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien has been postponed until January 27 The fight to end unequal treatment of people of color moves at a glacial pace in the EU Maltese politician failed to provide evidence of unlawful conduct by the Commission or the EU’s anti-fraud office Brexit Party MEP says that ruling out a scientific method to change sexuality is ‘denying’ help to be people who are ‘confused’ or ‘discontented.’ Translated from French by Jim Muir Is it possible to maintain an authoritarian discourse on the “values of the Republic,” demanding absolute respect for them by one and all while paying little heed to those values oneself That was the dilemma facing Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio senator (the Republicans) and former mayor of Saint-Gratien in the Val-d’Oise she refused permission for the Franco-Muslim Association of Saint-Gratien to use a meeting room for a few hours on several days during Ramadhan Eustache-Brinio was deemed to have committed “a serious and clearly illegal violation of the right to freedom of assembly and worship,” according to ruling no 352106 by the Council of State on 26 August 2011 Administrative jurisprudence in fact considers the freedoms of assembly and worship as fundamental freedoms Freedom of worship is enshrined in the first article of the 1905 law on the separation of Church and State when a municipal worthy breaches the freedom of worship he is violating the 1905 law and thus the famous “values of the Republic.” It is coming from an elected official who defends “secularism” tooth and nail Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio was the rapporteur of a Senate commission of enquiry into “the response of the public authorities to the development of Islamist radicalisation and ways of combatting it.” The commission was set up in November 2019 after the knife attack at the Paris police headquarters on 3 October 2019 by one of its own personnel she tracked the slightest manifestations of the Muslim religious presence in all spheres of society—school The final report issued on 7 July 2020 may have taken care to state that Islam and the Muslims but the subtext of the report gave the impression that any visible manifestation of Islam displeased the senators They wrote: “This religious renewal [of Islam] is for some people accompanied by a desire for affirmation of their faith in the public space and for recognition by institutions and public services which conflicts with the laws of the Republic and with secularism.” The law does not in fact prohibit affirmations of faith in public as long as they do not disturb public order The suggestion that laws of the Republic were being flouted is equally troubling: no specific legal regulation can be shown to have been flouted by these visible manifestations of Islam The report—and indeed a number of stands evinced in public—is replete with empty references to “laws rules or values of the Republic,” with the oft-repeated claim that Muslims would be in contravention if they rejected equality of the sexes demanded halal dishes in the canteen or put themselves forward on electoral lists (the report denounces “intrusion on electoral lists,” although contesting elections is a democratic act as well as a demonstration of integration) Such references are devoid of any substance because no legal text is ever cited as being actually violated by one kind of behaviour or another The Senate commission of enquiry initially referred only to “Islamist radicalisation,” but ended up adopting the term “separatism,” probably under the influence of the President of the Republic In his speech at Mulhouse on 18 February 2020 Emmanuel Macron in fact expressed his feeling that “there are some parts of the Republic which want to separate from the rest,” denouncing “the desire to stop respecting the law … in the name of a religion.” So it was in light of this “Islamist separatism” that the Senate Commission was to continue its hearings and its work arriving at the conclusion that “the development of an ‘Islamist separatism’ in the territories of the Republic has gathered pace in the last 20 years.” The senators thus believed they were updating the “Salafi revolution of the 1990s” alongside an “Islamisation of French society.” They even seemed to lament the fact that the “Islamists” have not been repressed in France as they were in the Arab countries “While the Arab countries engaged in a campaign of repression against the Islamists be it the regime of Ben Ali in Tunisia or the army in Algeria chose to welcome the Islamists onto their soil.” It is astounding that these sticklers for the “values of the Republic” should be envious of the repression of the Islamists in Algeria or Tunisia: the violation of human rights—values of the Republic if ever there were—committed during this repression has been widely documented Next the report tries to make a typology of a “militant Islam” prospering in an “Islamist ecosystem” whose emergence has been facilitated by Islam’s wealth in France: “Capable of raising the necessary capital for these [mosque] constructions with profitable ‘commercial activities’ such as the hajj reading the report leaves the impression that there is a necessary but implicit link between apparently unexceptional Islamic activities—the halal system etc.—and radical movements from the tabligh through the Salafists the Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish Millî Görüs to the jihadists So the analysis of Islam advanced by the senators ends up as an amalgam of received ideas on the Muslims sprinkled with academic political reflections on supposedly militant movements leaving the bizarre feeling that there is a unity between these diverse elements The conclusion thus comes naturally: for the senators it is a question of combatting in every nook and cranny of society any manifestation of Islam which might lead to what is considered a form of radicalisation The senators present 44 proposals which might turn up in the draft law against Islamist separatism promised by the government for the coming months It is not worth going through them in detail here but it should be noted that some of these proposals tend to reinforce the powers of the intelligence services and an extension of the logic of suspicion while putting a blind faith in the intelligence police breaches of public security and acts of terrorism on public transport It created an unprecedented system for vetting people applying for certain specific jobs in the transport sector Anyone seeking such a post would now be the subject of an administrative investigation led by the Interior Ministry’s National Administrative Security Investigation Service (SNEAS) The senatorial report of 2020 proposes to broaden the scope of these administrative “security” investigations to include recruitment for jobs deemed sensitive, relating to minors, such as teachers, organisers and educators (proposal No. 17) but also to extend the authority of the SNEAS to cover people organising reception centres for minors (proposal No. 30). So the senators are dreaming of giving arbitrary powers, a carte blanche, to the intelligence police, allowing them to say who is too Muslim, or nearly radicalised, or who spends too much time in such-and-such a mosque, or whose clothes are not “republican” enough, so that the people targeted by this moral police—this religious police—should be excluded from their profession and therefore, often, from society. In the name of republican values and the fight against separatism, the senators have pulled out all the stops to propose measures which frontally contradict the fundamentals of the Republic, and which would have the effect of helping to divide society. Text description provided by the architects. The geometry of the project is the direct result of its implantation into the middle of a residential area: the volume of the nursery imitates the typology of a contextual house with a sloped roof and fractures into a star-like form. Ground Floor PlanThe section for the eldest children is directly accessible from the entrance hall, it is situated in the south part of the building and has a direct dialogue and relationship with the area for the midlevel children which is organized in a similar way and situated in the south/east part of the building. Towards the garden, the glazed façade opens onto a double height sunroom, which allows the children to play protected from weather. © Clément GuillaumeThe buildings facade is made up of uniform linear wooden slats that are interrupted by pierced openings introducing a playful rhythm in elevation. The wooden double skin also allows filtering of the sun in summer, guaranteeing the children’s comfort. The sleeping accommodation is placed in the Northern ensuring a calm and quiet aspect. The section for infants is situated in the southern part on the first floor and the staff’s offices in the South/East part, both sections have access to a covered terrace that is part of the sunroom. © Clément GuillaumeAll the service rooms are situated in the North/East part of the building, facing onto rue d’Argenteuil and facilitating access for the deliveries. The material choice favours and respects not only functional requirements (ergonomics, acoustics, thermic requirements and usage) but also environmental ones like the cost of the employed resources, clean manufacturing, the material’s durability and ease of maintenance. Whilst the chosen materials contribute to a “green site” they also express the best architectural intention. © Clément GuillaumeThe building’s structure is a light metal construction made of prefab materials clothed with an open-work design of chestnut-wood, expressing the stainless steel cladding. The cladding covers the façades and the roof giving a uniformity to the volume. The whole appears as a light and playful construction perfectly attuned to a nursery school. Our priority is an energy-saving approach (low-energy building standards) 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 It looked tidily enough done; suitable perhaps for a summer rock festival But this was just outside the Saint-Gratien RER station north of the rundown riverine port of Gennevilliers on the outer whorl of the Parisian fingerprint; and the tent – which had the limp-wristed bough of an evergreen touching its flysheet in benediction – was quite clearly being lived in The mental picture the non-Parisian has of the city's banlieues is framed by the fictive: gangster movies such as La Haine, or TV cop shows such as Spiral that do battle with similar Danish in a race to see which can sandblast its respective society with the greatest quantity of grit content and dimensionality are provided by recent history and in particular by the widespread rioting of 2005 that thrust these under-imagined locales on to TV screens worldwide Not since the événements of 1968 had Parisian street fighting commanded such attention but whereas the soixante-huitards could be characterised as the vanguard of a stillborn revolution third- and probably fourth-generation immigrants who chucked molotov cocktails at the flics and the CRS during the émeutes neither donned the violent eruption of the Parisian banlieues was anatomised by reference to a body politic sickening with pathological metaphors having been almost accidentally ingurgitated as part of the colonialist couscous was now playing havoc with Gallic digestion The French state had found itself – willingly or not – as a fellow-traveller on the neocons' coach trip to the rapturous intersection of medieval chiliasm and Fukuyama's neoliberal end-point Walking from the RER station towards the Seine, I passed not through what the fictive might lead you to expect, but rather low and hummocky hills, the swoop of a B-class road, outcroppings of commerce, small apartment blocks, car parks, duff public sculpture, off-cuts of quasi-open space – over it all an ambiguous miasma of street furniture and signage: this was France but a France at once decoupled from any sense of pays and divorced from the least suggestion of the urbane In a comparable district of London – picture Abbey Wood or Enfield – there would be myriad subliminally registered cues all of which would combine to force on the spectator the unavoidability of her metropolitan condition the interwar spread of municipal socialism through the arteries of the tube system was accompanied by the soft-modernism of the suburban stations and Harry Beck's matching diagram The vexed relationship between the map and the territory suffuses The Society of the Spectacle which argues that not only authentic social relations but even the bricks and mortar that frame them and the tarmac that connects one to another have all been replaced with their representation; a 1:1 scale model as a sequel to the paralysis of "historical development" the contrast between town and country has become submerged in a sclerotic suburbia He is at pains to point out that this annulling is no cod-utopian "supersession" but rather an "erosion … visible in the eclectic mélange of … decayed elements" From the beige depths of a heavily shuttered house beside a hillock from which I could spy the Eiffel Tower dark voice spoke: "Qu'est-ce que vous cherchez?" I suppose had I been the ghost of Jane Jacobs I would have experienced this as reassurance: the eyes I muttered pacifications: "Nothing … just having a look … about" then walked on down and around the hill through a scree of crushed fag packets centrifugally impelled aluminium trim and the petrified tears shed by long dead cars Dragon's teeth were sewn across the scabrous roadway – I queased between them and found myself within 100 metres of the riverbank The A15 soared overhead: two pilotis planted this side of the river its two carriageways separated by curved air Sprays of cherry blossom mimicked by tangles of wire and a shaggy pelt of weedy grass Two small brown kids sat beside an oblong concrete depression filled with dank water right on the river's edge was their Paris: a bidonville of shacks built from bits of scavenged packing cases Many of its most sympathetic readers experience The Society of the Spectacle as a concerted howl of disgust I cannot agree – for me it is the Spectacle that far from being the creation of some malevolent or false god inasmuch as any hero can be conceived of as the unconscious product of insensate historical processes "is the heart of the unrealism of the real society" We are all jammed up against the plate glass of the Spectacle our faces crushed as we "lèche-vitrine" in search of the same old commodified poison But it is most of all in its analysis of the ideology of the Spectacle that Debord's text repays close reading It is the Spectacle's genius to have "turned need against life" and thus effected "the separation and estrangement between man and man" Hence the Spectacle's embrace of economics as the only form of instrumental – indeed "scientific" – knowledge worth possessing; hence ritual obeisance made before the gods who will confer growth and hence the fact that more or less any contemporary western politician – from Hollande could find their own Caliban image raging back at them from the pages of The Society of the Spectacle structures that might have been designed expressly to conform to the Debordian paradigm I was quite suddenly – if at an indefinable point – in Paris a city to this day that defines itself by the micro-associations of its smaller parts: the awning of an alimentation the white apron around a smoking waiter – quite as much as the high extravaganza of its grand boulevards and gold-leafed public buildings I was struck yet again not only by Debord's astonishing prescience – for what other text from the late 1960s so accurately describes the shit we're still in – but also wondered how it was that his dérives across the Paris of the time could have so attuned him to the way in which the urban environment of the near future would become quite so decoupled from any element of the felt or experienced life Paris was by no means the most Spectacular city of the late 1950s and early 60s; indeed it's still not on an equal footing to London which has just arrived at its square miles of parametrically designed junk space its CCTV-overseen gated business cantonments and Chinese party cadre-owned luxury encampments its logo skyscrapers and purpose-built "iconic" tourist destinations It occurs to me that Haussmann's attempt to impose civic order and authority on the medieval jumble of mid-19th century Paris had not only paved the way for the Spectacle but it had also afforded its – and his – enemies with the material to rip up for their barricades There seems a nice congruence between the go-rounds of the Grands Boulevards and centrifugal/centripetal current of French theorising whereby notions given form in the cafes of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the classrooms of the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure swirl out in widening circles from the metropolis before eventually disappearing up the arses of their originators The Society of the Spectacle is at once the bastard progeny of the French Enlightenment – out of Diderot by means of the Napoleonic Code – and a salutary reminder of how the pursuit of some millenarian ideological purity only ever results – if successful – in the rumbling of tumbrels; or in its wholesale co-option by its stated enemies That we no longer hear quite so much about "the spectacle" as shorthand for any of the following: the ludic element of consumer society the post-ideological character of western "democracy" may be because Debord's concept has now been so thoroughly appropriated – one might fairly say détourned – that there's nothing left of it but its coldly numerical bones and setting up Factory Records – or McLaren rather more famous for his role as the Sex Pistols' svengali can have subjected The Society of the Spectacle to a sustained critical reading they would've realised that their antics were anathema to Debord; that the playful elements of situationist practice – the bowdlerising of cartoons the exaltation of drunkenness – were only ever to be sanctioned if constitutive of a genuine insurrection and as precursors of that revolution of everyday life (to adapt the title of the competing situationist theoretical work which was to follow the final and complete dissolution of the Spectacle The relative success of the Situationist International during les évènements also sowed the seeds for the détournement of The Society of the Spectacle itself I say relative success because it can be doubted – and will always be disputed – the extent to which Debord and his loose confraternity of freelance bully-boys and wannabe revolutionists actually succeeded in either manning the barricades themselves or screwing the courage of the mob to CRS's sticking post But the important thing was that the situationists were perceived as having been in the thick of things – as instigators and ideological choreographers of the distinctively ludic elements of this particular civil disorder de haut en bas reception of The Society of the Spectacle on its publication the year before in French was followed the year after by its rhapsodic one when it appeared in translation the game was effectively up – something Debord a man obsessed by war games and strategising The Society of the Spectacle so far as being an animator of events had in a matter of months become simply another text to be subjected to scores The best that could be said for the thing – from its author's point of view – was that the royalties paid his wine bills and helped to supplement a lifetime of unabashed – and indeed Of course, The Society of the Spectacle still animates serious protest to this day – or, rather, since to admit to having been one of the Invisible Committee that authored the highly Debordian The Coming Insurrection (2007) is to court arrest on those grounds alone the very style of the earlier work remains inflammatory The Coming Insurrection has nothing much to add – how can it never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now in the permanent present that he so accurately foretold pour yourself a glass of supermarket wine – as he would wish – and then forget all about it The Society of the Spectacle published by Notting Hill Editions with an introduction by Will Self The top three towns in France ranked based on residents’ reviews according to quality of life have been revealed by an online poll We look at the top three and why they are considered the best places to live by locals The ville-ideale website draws on 84,610 reviews of over 8,110 towns to determine which towns are the most desirable to live in Residents award their towns marks out of ten in nine categories: Environment The towns that scored the highest overall on average for these nine rankings are: Comments by residents praised Antony’s high quality of life and its proximity to good transport links including an airport Users commented that it is a beautiful town with all the amenities of a large city Residents say its proximity to Geneva is a major advantage as are its beautiful lakes and mountains and employment opportunities Yet it was criticised for the lack of dynamism outside the peak tourist seasons This town was praised for restricting new buildings to the main roads and keeping the banks of the river Marne in good condition and enjoyed its selection of shops and markets as well as its high-quality education options Yet others criticised its high cost of living The rest of the top 10 towns are Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) Tenth placed Angers has fared well in several rankings in the past few years, including a new list released by le Journal du Dimanche on January 27 The 500-strong list of the best towns with more than 2,000 residents put the Maine-et-Loire town on the top spot The same ranking put Angers on the top spot in 2022 for towns with fewer than 200,000 inhabitants it put Guéthary (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on top In contrast, another ranking published recently by the website VilledeReve.fr (‘dream town’) - which has a vast database of more than 34,900 towns across France based on a wide range of official statistics on everything from health to leisure facilities to safety - put Villard-de-Lans (Isère) and Guérande (Loire-Atlantique) on the top three spots That ranking particularly rewarded the factors of dynamism The top three in ville-ideale’s rankings for each category are: The five best places to live in France, according to new ranking A regulated tariff exists for electricity but not for gas Find out the current and projected value pension Bob Hope explains his decision to leave a job in the chemicals industry to breathe new life into everyday objects Tibetan national flag raised in Watermael-Boitsfort Brussels: Led by mayors of respective municipalities many across Europe have hoisted the Tibetan National Flag in observance of the 61st anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March The municipalities of Schaerbeek and Watermael-Boitsfort of Brussels Wels of Austria and many other municipalities have been raising the Tibetan flag for over 30 years the flag hoisting campaign has been hugely successful in Europe with over 2000 Town halls hoisting the Tibetan flag on 10 March In order to reinvigorate the campaign and communications Brussels published and distributed special cards with images of Tibetan flag; it’s description and the Tibetan national anthem to commemorate 10 March Brussels presents around 2000 cards to the EU institutions The objective is to document the 30-year-old Tibet flag campaign to thank and reconnect with those who participated in the campaign and regenerate interest on Tibet Many have responded to the communications enthusiastically while many mayors wrote back to thank and reassure to raise the Tibetan flag on March 10 in between his heroes – image © jacques de loustal today an exhibition of recent work by the french artist jacques de loustal opens at the centre culturel du forum place françois truffaut in ville de saint gratien the making of – image © jacques de loustal the making of ‘coronado’ album september 2009 – image © jacques de loustal september 2009 – image © jacques de loustal the ‘coronado’ album is published by casterman rivage it is an adaption of dennis lehane (author of ‘mystic river’ and ‘shutter island’) poster for the ‘salon du livre’ in colmar november 2009 – image © jacques de loustal recent work – image © jacques de loustal the design-aerobics course ‘graphic design in 2010’ is now open for enrollment designboom is pleased to announce that our upcoming online education course on the topic of graphic design is now available for purchase the course will provide practical information and useful advice to help beginners communicate themselves more effectively and inform them of current and emerging developments within graphic design see how to enroll gilbert garcin – retrospective at: espace jacques villeglé from: now – until june 20 france) is currently holding a retrospective of gilbert garcin’s work the french artist creates surreal collages / sculptures from paper pieces of a meccano and other discarded objects which he then photographs he almost always features a cut-out of himself in his black and white images – ‘confronting the meanings and absurdities of the human condition in stark dream-like landscapes and situations’ the melancholy of garcin’s poetic ‘enactments’ never overwhelms.  instead an optimistic humour is communicated throughout his series of allegorical works a sense of playing in a psyche littered with fragments from the past.  garcin himself has explained: ‘in seventy years one has gathered ten thousand souvenirs one has a sort of attic in one’s head.  piled-up things the free exhibition will end on june 20th – more information can be found here La balle de 9 mm a frôlé la fesse et est venue se loger dans le haut de la cuisse de la jambe droite. Il était environ 23h30, mardi dernier dans le quartier Orgemont à Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), quand la victime, un homme de 21 ans qui réside à quelques blocs d'immeubles du lieu du règlement de comptes, est transportée à l'hôpital Delafontaine à Saint-Denis. La blessure n'a pas endommagé d'artère vitale et son état de santé n'inspire pas d'inquiétude. Le jeune homme sortait, en compagnie d'un ami, de l'épicerie Miranda, rue de Marseille, lorsqu'il a été pris pour cible. Son copain a juste eu le temps d'apercevoir une Renault Twingo noire avec des vitres teintées qui s'arrêtait à leur hauteur, puis un homme faire feu à trois ou quatre reprises sur eux. Profitez des avantages de l’offre numérique Siège social : 22 CHEMIN LATERAL NORD 93300 AUBERVILLIERS Capital : 1000 € Objet social : DECORATION Gérance : M JIAN GAO demeurant 18 rue du docteur roux 93120 LA COURNEUVE Durée : 99 ans à compter de son immatriculation au RCS de BOBIGNY SARL au capital de 8000 € Siège social : 4 ALLEE GEORGES BRAQUE 93300 AUBERVILLIERS RCS BOBIGNY 830714945 Par décision de l'Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire du 07/04/2025 il a été décidé de transférer le siège social au 90 BOULEVARD ANATOLE FRANCE 93200 SAINT-DENIS à compter du 07/04/2025 de modifier l’objet social comme suit : Peinture de modifier la dénomination sociale qui devient : DECOPOL de nommer M CHAUDRY Waheed demeurant 18 Rue Emmanuel Rain 95500 GONESSE en qualité de Gérant en remplacement de M UMAR Hayat Siège social : 10 Rue de Touraine 93150 LE BLANC-MESNIL Capital : 11500 € Objet social : Transports de marchandises déménagement ou location de véhicules avec conducteurs destinés au transport de marchandises à l’aide de véhicules n’excédant pas 3,5 tonnes Président : M NADORI Yacin demeurant 10 Rue de Touraine 93150 LE BLANC-MESNIL élu pour une durée de 99 ans Durée : 99 ans à compter de son immatriculation au RCS de BOBIGNY SCI au capital de 100 € Siège social : 7 CHEMIN DE RONDE 93160 NOISY-LE-GRAND RCS BOBIGNY 919780080 Par décision de l'Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire du 30/11/2022 il a été décidé de transférer le siège social au 71 Route de Cerdon 45600 SULLY-SUR-LOIRE à compter du 01/12/2022 Radiation au RCS de BOBIGNY et immatriculation au RCS de ORLÉANS Par ASSP en date du 05/05/2025 il a été constitué une SARL à capital fixe dénommée : Objet social : Prise de participation dans toutes sociétés Durée : 99 ans à compter de l'immatriculation au RCS de Bobigny Siège social : 22 Rue de la Liberation 93700 Drancy KASHMIR KULDEEPAK demeurant 22 Rue de la Liberation 93700 Drancy We look at the top three and see why they are considered the best places to live by residents The Ville-ideale website draws on 84,610 reviews of over 8,110 towns to determine which towns are the most desirable to live in Comments by residents praised Anthony’s high quality of life it was criticised for the lack of dynamism outside the peak tourist seasons In contrast, another ranking published last week by the website VilledeReve.fr (‘dream town’) - which has a vast database of more than 34,900 towns across France based on a wide range of official statistics on everything from health to leisure facilities to safety - put Villard-de-Lans (Isère) Soni commence sa formation au Centre de Formation de Football de Paris (CFFP) avant d’intégrer le club de sa ville natale le milieu de terrain devient professionnel après avoir rejoint l’île de beauté et le SC Bastia Il participera à 22 rencontres de Ligue 2 avec le club Corse puis rejoindra l’US Orléans en National Soni va tenter une nouvelle aventure à l’étranger et évoluera dans divers championnats professionnels : 5 saisons avec le FC Petrolul puis avec Hermannstadt (1ère division roumaine) où il remportera la coupe nationale 4 saisons à Kansas City en MLS où il soulèvera à deux reprises l’US Open Cup le natif d’Aubervilliers retrouve la saison dernière la France Il prendra part à 11 matchs de National 2 avec l’Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien Soni comptabilise 24 capes avec la sélection haïtienne et 4 avec l’Équipe de France des moins de 20 ans Merci à Christophe Puhl et à Athletics Advisors SARL pour la qualité des échanges entretenus « Ce sera notre dernière arrivée pour cette nouvelle saison nous cherchions à étoffer notre milieu de terrain qui a connu différents championnats professionnels et notamment la Ligue 2 française Soni Mustivar (Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien) Départs : Dylan Mamessier (Paray Foot) Lire la suite[#PrepaFCG] – Les résultats du week-end des forgerons Lire la suite[Groupe Espoirs] Les séniors déroulent face à la JO Creusot Lire la suite[eSport] Lancement de la saison 2022/23 du FCG eSport – nouvelle équipe Rocket League Lire la suite[National 3] Les forgerons poursuivent par un nul face à Andrézieux-Boutheon 1:30 PM | Article By: Picture: Charles Kabore has released the list of players selected for the friendly match against Guinea on November 17 Marseille’s Charles Kaboré makes a comeback the Burkina Faso Football Federation (FBF) said The match will be played at the Michel Hidalgo stadium in Saint-Gratien (Paris region) France according to goal.com are warming up for the third round of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations which kicks off in March 2011 The Stallions of Burkina Faso climb to the top of Group F as they enjoyed an emphatic 3-1 win over The Gambia in Ouagadougou in October en route to the African Nations cup finals in 2012 The Scorpions who began the qualifying campaign with a convincing 3-1 win against Namibia in Banjul face a must-win situation when they travel to Namibia for the second leg of the qualifiers in September 2011 Should they collect nine points and Burkina Faso and Namibia fail to take advantage of their remaining matches the Scorpions might earn themselves a place in the African Nations cup finals in Gabon\Equatorial Guinea Namibia will host Burkina Faso before hosting The Gambia for the return-leg in September 2011 Scorpion’s final group F game will be against Burkina Faso in October in Banjul in the weekend of 7 Goalkeeper: Daouda Diakité (Mokawloo Al-Arab