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Rodolphe Burger & Sonnenblume Musiciens Musician and founder of the group Kat Onoma Rodolphe Burger has been developing a highly original catalog for over 30 years and has released more than 20 albums under his own name or in collaboration The group SONNENBLUME was formed at the Institut médico-social Les Tournesols in Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines Rodolphe Burger and Sonnenblume have performed together on several occasions including at the Futur Composé festival in Pantin and the C’est dans la Vallée festival in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Their shared repertoire is based as much on revisiting pre-existing compositions as on new ones created together A new album is planned for the near future Cartier’s newest Panthère pendant has a deceptively gentle expression. “We want to portray a sense of realism in our work,” says Emilie Marques, head of Cartier’s glyptics workshop from the maison’s atelier in the heart of Paris who facets gemstones to maximize their sparkle a glyptician sculpts and engraves hard stones into intricate designs It’s an ancient technique that has played a starring role in Cartier’s aesthetic notably through its iconic Panthère designs “There are few glypticians in the world today and it’s hard to find a new generation who want to learn the craft,” says Alexa Abitbol Cartier established a glyptics department in 2010 Marques began as Nicolas’s apprentice at age 17 while still a student at the École Boulle Now she is responsible for passing down the savoir faire he shared with her to the all-female team of four glypticians It takes four to five years to learn the skills The magic of glyptics begins with the stone which inspires not just the design but also the spirit of the piece Marques and her team search for interesting rough specimens—such as petrified pine cones and sky-blue chalcedony—at gem shows in Tucson “They study the stones and see which one speaks to them,” explains Abitbol submits it to the design team for approval and sculpts it in clay before carving and engraving the final piece stone carving allows for more freedom of expression It imbues elaborate high-jewelry pieces with volume and character that couldn’t be achieved with gemstones and gold alone That unbridled creativity also captivates collectors who appreciate the artistry and individualism of the designs waiting approximately a year for a commission a client wanted a panther bangle with an attitude Marques presented him with various stones and sketches she carved the feline from a block of black jasper and imparted it with a distinctly sly expression For a pendant featuring an emerald-eyed panther with a warm demeanor I envisioned a panther with his markings,” she says But the maison’s longtime mascot isn’t the only beneficiary of these talents including a recent blooming brooch with velvety petals shaped from purple agate Marques looked to the house’s copious archives for inspiration “Philippe always insisted that we have the actual flowers in front of us so we can re-create the lightness and movement.” It’s work that is as much about passion and precision as it is poetry A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2023 Collectors Issue under the headline “Face Value.” Subscribe to the magazine © 2023 Hudson One Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Magnum photographers showcase creativity amidst the pandemic in special editions of Vogue Jerôme Sessini depicts one day of lockdown in France plus the latest installment of Magnum’s collaboration with National Geographic Magnum photographer Alex Majoli’s work depicting Sicily in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic have been featured in De Standaard’s weekend magazine. See the images in the magazine’s April 18 print edition, or online here soldiers were killed during the months-long manhunt for Bergdahl The facts of his captivity come under some dispute as did his release as part of an unprecedented prisoner swap The issue was a resonant drumbeat on Trump’s campaign stops pounded out mercilessly as an example of bad deal-making Bergdahl’s defense team filed a motion arguing that the commander-in-chief’s fiery rhetoric coupled with his new role created “unlawful command influence” that precluded any possibility that Bergdahl would get a fair trial and Bergdahl pleaded guilty in court today Over the years, the media has also made much of the dramatic old days when desertion was deadly We revisit and reenact the events on January 31 where Private Eddie Slovik was executed by a firing squad formed from a dozen of his fellow soldiers or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death Billy Pilgrim finds William Bradford Huie’s The Execution of Private Slovik under a waiting-room seat cushion Vonnegut’s protagonist reads an excerpt of an actual appellate report written by a judge advocate general: “If the death penalty is ever to be imposed for desertion not as a punitive measure nor as retribution but to maintain that discipline upon which alone an army can succeed against the enemy.” Pilgrim reacts with glib fatalism—“So it goes.” In the made-for-TV version of The Execution of Private Slovik Willard in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) a character tasked with the extrajudicial assassination of another deserter that has Bergdahl facing the possibility of life in prison The discreet Pentagon policy on desertion could be renamed “So It Goes.” The powers-that-be seem to believe that if every soldier knew the Pentagon’s unofficial policy on desertion Indeed Eddie Slovik’s legend is a powerful cautionary tale but its moral is deceptive: during World War II All but one of those sentences was commuted soldier actually executed for desertion since the Civil War was the infamous Private Eddie Slovik There is general agreement in the military that AWOL and desertion rates are an indicator of the stress on military personnel After a decade-and-a-half in what feels like a forever war—if this were ancient Greece Troy would be seven years sacked and Odysseus halfway home by now—most of us are spent Comprehensive contemporary desertion rates are impossible to come by without classified security clearance, and the public numbers are woefully underreported. Mother Jones put the count for the first decade of the War on Terror Army Research Institute concluded their last unclassified comprehensive study on the issue called “What We Know About AWOL and Desertion: A Review of the Professional Literature for Policy Makers and Commanders.” In 2012 a lesser AWOL and desertion assessment was included as part of “Army 2020: Generating Health and Discipline in the Force Ahead of the Strategic Reset.” It lays out a policy under consideration that would allow the Army to separate deserters in absentia without returning them to military control This would set apart soldiers “absent for more than two years and who are not facing additional charges or who are not considered high risk,” from more threatening absentees like those “wanted for crimes including homicide illegal drug use or possess a top secret security clearance.” This first group of soldiers would “receive a characterization of service of Other Than Honorable,” and “discharging these soldiers in absentia would save Army time and resources.” No doubt our preternaturally uninformed president would be shocked by this leniency, but he should have more sympathy for the volunteers who change their minds and want to walk. These American minds—not exactly starving hysterical naked, nor seeing Mohammedan angels—aren’t yet fully formed when they’re first made up the vast majority of fellow Americans choosing to fight our wars for us have a right to know what happens to them if they experience changes of heart or mind Your commanding officer notifies your next of kin An inquiry is undertaken to ascertain your location and your possible reasons for disappearing you’re classified as “Dropped from Rolls.” More forms are compiled in a deserter packet forwarded to the Army Deserter Information Point at Ft This is the normal progression from absence without leave to desertion Of the 18,010 soldiers who “deserted from FY2006–11 only 13,443 were reported to law enforcement.” Army commanding officers failed to report deserters in one-quarter of cases Threatening deserters with the firing squad has become a tough-guy pantomime for hacks and hams these upgrades are now supposedly more likely than ever given the flightiness of the current commander-in-chief Some seventy-two years removed from the last American execution for desertion the firing squad is no longer an effective deterrent The hollow threat of a death sentence should no longer stand as an official punishment for desertion during wartime we are facing a further extension of conventional ground forces in Afghanistan after a full generation of American war-waging and deficit increases It’s time we strike the death penalty from Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice The battlefield offers death threat enough If our civilian and military leaders can’t count on friendly fear to maintain the commitment of our fighting force maybe future administrations will be less inclined to indefinitely commit our troops to questionable wars In a media environment that tolerates tail-chasing The Baffler is a rare publication willing to shake the pundit class free of their own worst impulses But running a charitable organization of this magnitude requires serious dough and subscriptions only cover a fraction of our costs we rely on the good will of generous readers like you So if you like the article you just read—or hate it so you can ridicule us online for years to come—please consider making a one-time donation to The Baffler told from the perspective of a woman soldier suffering from PTSD is writing a natural and personal history of panic Bucket Hat / $30 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 Antique Trader NewsPublished Oct 30 2014 6:47 PM PDTShare this storyBy Bryan Swoboda The fine mineral collecting world is full of passionate collectors and others who just took their interest in “rocks” to a whole new level Despite these collectors living in every country in the world one family that welcomes new collectors with open arms We’d like to share some considerations which can help you decide if fine mineral collecting is for you I thank those industry icons and professionals (listed below) who provided valuable thoughts beyond my own They are earth’s one-of-a-kind natural sculptures and treasures formed in the rough over thousands or millions of years in a combination of fluid shape or form; balance on the matrix or base; “gemminess” or transparency; and provenance 2. Evaluate your interest. Like many of today’s collectors, maybe you have a passion for the hunt. Or maybe you fell in love with a beautiful red rhodochrosite or a multi-colored tourmaline and decided to find out more about it Or maybe you discovered a beautiful little quartz when you were a child and you’ve rediscovered that sense of wonderment it’s good to analyze what prompts your interest in starting a collection The basis of your interest will play a role in what drives your focus 3. Develop that focus. Regardless of what you collect, you are limited in time, storage space and funds. Therefore, it’s wise to think through, early on, why you are collecting fine minerals and what your collection should include. Maybe you want to collect specimens by type, color, localit, or even by size. Dr. Rob Lavinsky, owner of The Arkenstone suggests you “decide whether your goal is to be an investor of pieces that are of value or a collector of pieces you love; sometimes you can do both 4. Plan a budget. As you start collecting, you’ll realize that some of the best quality specimens can quickly eat up your annual budget. While legendary collector Dave Wilber will readily tell you it’s “OK to start small,” and it is but do you want a variety of lower-quality specimens to “fill-out” a sample collection or do you want a few higher-quality show pieces the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Denver Museum of Science & Nature Dealers make a point of attending many of the national and international trade shows Let a dealer you respect know what you’re looking for Their websites are also wonderful resources for photo galleries which sold for $125,000; a bright yellow legrandite mineral that commanded $93,750; and a bold blue spray of Tourmaline Hopefully all the minerals you buy will come with labels specifying This is part of the provenance and helps to value your piece your piece may have been owned by Andrew Carnegie Washington Roebling (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge) or even famous pianist Roger Williams or composer James Horner all of whom were avid Fine Mineral collectors keep that label but also note when you purchased it and at what price Once you’ve collected a handful of specimens number them and start your own catalog with all the label information you’ll be able to search this database by type your catalog becomes part of the provenance © 2025 Active Interest Media All rights reserved (TSXV: ARU) (OTCQB: AUIAF) (FSE: 20Q) ("Aurania" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has applied for an exploration license in the Brittany Peninsula of northwestern France through a wholly-owned French subsidiary which includes Hennebont in the Morbihan Department has historically been the site of significant high-grade gold finds Placer gold in streams is present in the vicinity of the area a very large and high-grade gold specimen was displayed at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Natural History Museum) in Paris Museum staff estimates this sample of 3.31 kilograms weight to contain one kilo of gold; it is considered the highest-grade gold sample currently known in France (Figure 1) It consists of vuggy coarse white quartz and native gold Gold within the vugs is crystalline in nature (Figure 2) The sample is displayed next to a dendritic crystalline gold sample from the same locality (Figures 3 and 4) Figure 1: High-grade gold specimen in the Natural History Museum containing drusy quartz and crystalline native gold Figure 3: Gold sample displayed next to a dendritic crystalline gold sample from the same locality Figure 4: Description of gold sample at the Natural History Museum in Paris piece of vein containing more than 1 kilogram of gold Aurania's team became aware of the sample last year and approached the museum staff as to its origins and provenance We were told the samples were purchased by the Banque de France and were on loan to the Museum and that they supposedly came from an old collection Museum staff supplied us with an article from the Journal du Morbihan 1875 and entitled "Le quartz aurifere dans le Morbihan" and an extract from a book published by L'Abbe Henry Breuil described in Wikipedia as a "French Catholic priest ethnologist and geologist" and one of the principal early investigators of the cave paintings at Lascaux Breuil examined a sample weighing 1,400 grams "with a little adhering quartz" that was found in 1875 and acquired by a jeweller The son of the jeweller said his father had also purchased a nugget of 800 grams at the same time The newspaper article said that two pieces of auriferous quartz were discovered by road builders 400 metres apart and that one was broken into a piece weighing 117 grams and a piece weighing about 900 grams A third piece of 1,470 grams was found separately and purchased by the jeweller Keith Barron met with a collector who wishes to remain anonymous at the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines mineral show in Alsace in June 2023 who allowed him to examine a one-kilogram specimen of quartz vein material with abundant gold that he claims comes from the same locality in France The sample (see Figure 5) closely resembles the museum sample and given the estimated grade of 46% gold (460,000 g/t or 13,416 oz/ton Au) it is almost certainly from the same locality Figure 5: Photo of a new gold-bearing quartz sample shown to Keith Barron by a collector and presumably coming from the same area A visit to the locality in December 2022 showed abundant quartz vein material on surface and evidence of past mining activity Part of the site contains deep water filled pits and trenches that were presumably dug in the 19th century Growth of moss on the quartz rocks is considered "luxuriant" and there is no evidence of modern prospecting or mining activity in the area There has been no glaciation at the site and so the quartz vein material at surface is more or less "in situ" On July 31st, Dr. Barron will meet with Mines Minister of Ecuador, Sr. Fernando Santos to discuss the potential "work around" mentioned in the Company's press release dated June 19, 2023 to recover part or all of the former "Reserved Areas" that were initially applied for in 2016 and contain a large number of discrete magnetic and in tandem with its exploration project and activities in Ecuador the Company is excited to actively pursue this extraordinary new gold exploration opportunity in Brittany The geological information contained in this news release has been verified and approved by Jean-Paul Pallier Pallier is a designated EurGeol by the European Federation of Geologists and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators Aurania is a mineral exploration company engaged in the identification and exploration of mineral property interests with a focus on precious metals and copper in South America is located in the Jurassic Metallogenic Belt in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range of southeastern Ecuador Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release This news release contains forward-looking information as such term is defined in applicable securities laws which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions The forward-looking information includes Aurania's objectives management team and enhanced capital markets profile the Company's teams being on track ahead of any drill program the commencement of any drill program and estimates of market conditions Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to Aurania there will be no material adverse change in metal prices including various local government licenses and the market Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected Risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking information include the ability to anticipate and counteract the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the business of the Company including without limitation the effects of COVID-19 on the capital markets restrictions on labour and workplace attendance and local and international travel; a failure to obtain or delays in obtaining the required regulatory licenses approvals and consents; an inability to access financing as needed; a general economic downturn changes in the mining regulatory regime governing Aurania; a failure to comply with environmental regulations; a weakening of market and industry reliance on precious metals and copper; and those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR Aurania cautions the reader that the above list of risk factors is not exhaustive Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable undue reliance should not be placed on such information which only applies as of the date of this news release and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information Newcore Gold is advancing the Enchi Gold Project in Ghana. The project’s 216 sq. km land package covers 40 kms of Ghana’s Bibiani Shear Zone, a gold belt which hosts several large, multi-million-ounce, gold deposits... LEARN MORE The seventh in a weekly series of curations of images made by Magnum photographers around the world working and living under varying degrees of social restriction The COVID-19 outbreak has seen most Magnum photographers restricted in their movements As part of an ongoing photographer-led initiative Magnum photographers are sharing information and new work made in these strange and difficult times Each week, we are featuring edits of these images. The images in the first six editions of the diary series were selected by project leader Peter van Agtmael, with Cristina de Middel making these edits from today’s selection onward Here we share these images alongside personal notes and reflections from Magnum photographers on how they are experiencing the unfolding situation New work on the crisis will be shared daily through Magnum Photos’ Instagram feed and Instagram Stories takeovers “People with masks grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.” “Installation of ‘The Penumbral Age Art in the Time of Planetary Change’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw which has been altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic The show was supposed to collect new forms of solidarity empathy and togetherness in the face of the climate crisis.” so we only notice that the world around us has slowed down when we leave to go grocery shopping especially at night with our daughter Catalina Now there’s no more flurry of activity in the evening to get ready for the next day and we can only make plans for the next day.” “Since life is suspended in Istanbul; streets are empty; schools There are only a few signs of life in the street and this banner hangs near my home “A shadow of a tulip in my garden during the coronavirus pandemic.” “Gregory Halpern documents his children during the coronavirus pandemic.” “I’ve been sorting through a box of my late parents’ effects each day and one discovery was these… love letters from Dad to Mum just a year after they were married.” “A normally very busy Route 50 is quiet during the coronavirus (COVID-19) Stay at Home order in Maryland.” You still hear the noisy metro running though Moscow’s underground and the trains are still working The voices of people talking to each other and salesmen walking through the wagons have disappeared Even if there are almost no people on the train everyone sits covered with a mask by him or herself.” The townships are always buzzing and hardly quiet I managed to get the quietness of the township when we had rain over the weekend or when we had cops and soldiers who were patrolling What was also interesting was to see the places that are mostly occupied by humans it was only animals that were visible in these spaces I also visited a graveyard where my father was laid to rest; it was quiet and peaceful there.” Home during the Austria lockdown due to the global pandemic COVID-19.” “The tunnel between the Haut-Rhin and the Vosges.” “I have been thinking about how this pandemic is going to affect our already old routines How the distances will grow again physically between us and how we will have to rely on the digital to explore study and understand the new world we have to live in now These are big ideas and it is also quite ambitious to try and translate them into images without leaving your home.” “Sharing whisky with our Polish neighbours through the garden fence in the first few days after lockdown.” GeodermaCitation Excerpt :Representative examples of this problem are related to misuses of the classifications by Bouché’s (1977) and Gisin’s (1943) on earthworms and springtails The classes defined by Bouché (1977) are alternatively referred to as ecological categories/groups/types (Bottinelli et al. morpho-ecological or eco-morphological groups (Mariet et al. ecophysiological groups (Richardson et al. feeding guilds/strategies (Depkat-Jakob et al. the life forms (Lebensformen) defined by Gisin (1943) are alternatively called eco-morphological life-forms (Rusek (2011) showed that wild brown trout living in past mining areas located in the Cevennes (France) were contaminated by Pb originating from historical activities (15th and 20th centuries) (2016 and 2020) highlighted that metals originating from mining operations (Pb and Ag) during the end of the Middle Ages in the Vosges Mountains (France) remain bioavailable to soil invertebrates Journal of Hazardous MaterialsCitation Excerpt :Redundancy analysis (RDA) was chosen and used according to the results of detrended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA) The angles and projection positions between the arrows of environmental variables and earthworm variables reveal their correlation coefficients (Ernst et al. The soil properties and metal concentrations are shown in Table 1 World War II veteran Nick Gozik says that the bravest soldier he encountered during two years of combat was the one he saw executed for desertion That soldier proved to be the only one of more than 20,000 convicted deserters during that war to suffer the death penalty The last deserter to be executed had been during the Civil War nobody imagines that he might face the death penalty But from the last execution comes a lesson in the importance of considering the totality of a person and not allowing a charge of desertion to eclipse everything else about the accused With Bergdahl now poised to come home after being exchanged for five top Taliban commanders it is worth going back to a winter day in France nearly seven decades ago but he has a crystalline memory of being summoned to headquarters as a new officer with a battlefield commission and then loaded with his men onto trucks and driven through wet heavy snow to the town of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines They were directed into a schoolroom for a time and then they were marched across a small wooden bridge over a stream that ringed a walled estate They were called to attention and stood with no idea why they were there “The Army never tells you anything,” he said two military policemen escorted a young man from a caretaker’s shed His uniform had been stripped of all insignia “He had an Army blanket over his shoulders,” Gozik recalled The man and the MPs started toward a wooden post and Gozik understood that his unit was there to witness an execution Gozik would have expected the MPs to have been required to drag the condemned man and for him to be struggling unhesitating as he took what he knew to be his final strides walking as straight as a soldier ever walked,” Gozik recalled “I thought he was the bravest soldier I ever saw.” Gozik considered how he might have comported himself in those circumstances Gozik watched as the MPs used garrison belts to tie the condemned man to the pole A Catholic chaplain approached the man and Gozik saw it was the same priest who had sometimes said Mass for his unit in the forested battlefield close enough to make out much of what the priest and the man were saying “It sounded like they were praying the Hail Mary,” Gozik recalled The condemned man’s head was covered with a satiny black hood that the Army had asked a local woman to make “They didn’t tell her what it was for,” Gozik noted A general read aloud the order that Pvt. Eddie Slovik was to be executed for the crime of desertion A young officer loaded the rifles of the 12-man firing squad each with a single bullet The squad took position and the officer called out Gozik had been around considerable gunfire and he had not expected it to be as loud as it was jolting him and reverberating beyond the walls An Army doctor stepped over with a stethoscope and chastened the firing squad when he determined that the heart was still beating can’t you shoot straight?’” Gozik remembered The doctor checked again as the firing squad began to reload ‘I pronounce this man dead,’” Gozik recalled Slovik had died 18 days before reaching his own 25th birthday Gozik and his men were ordered to turn about face and march back out through the gate and over the little bridge to the trucks He rode away with the memory of what had seen and heard “It didn’t feel right for me,” he recalled He went back to the war and was among the lucky ones to survive returning to his wife and the child who had been born just 10 days before he left and now was 2 years old He had five other wonderful children and went into sales He was in a drugstore on a lunch break when he chanced to see a book titled The Execution of Pvt He found the book to be generally accurate and noted that he was listed among those who had been present “The serial number was right,” he later said The book reported that Slovik had been arrested for petty theft several times as a youngster and he initially thought his criminal record would exempt him from military service He had been drafted anyway soon after he got married and he wrote his wife at least once a day after he was shipped off to war Slovik declared himself constitutionally unsuited for warfare He reported that he was too terrified of weapons even to carry one He refused to go back to the front and went up to a rear area cook confess to the desertion of the United States Army…” it began who gave Slovik an opportunity to tear up the letter and pretend it had never been written Slovik declined and a second officer repeated the offer Slovik declared that he would simply run away if he were sent back into harm’s way Slovik apparently figured that the worst he faced was being sentenced to 20 years hard labor He clearly felt that this was preferable to any more combat Slovik wrote in one of his last letters to his wife that he had always been unlucky save for when he married her and he should have known that turn for the better would not last He reportedly told the MPs who led him from the caretaker’s shed that he had been chosen as an example because of his criminal record “They’re shooting me for the bread and chewing gum I stole when I was 12 years old,” he supposedly said He was buried in a remote corner of a cemetery in France along with 95 other American soldiers who had been executed Frank Sinatra bought the movie rights and announced plans to produce and direct it himself The press then got word that Sinatra had hired a blacklisted screenwriter named Albert Maltz Sinatra vowed not to back down in the face of the ensuing uproar reportedly called Sinatra and voiced concern that his son’s friendship with the singer might make voters think John Kennedy was soft on communism and cost him the presidential election continued to petition for his remains to be returned to his native Detroit She had yet to succeed when she died in 1979 and a Michigan politician took up the cause arguing that if we could forgive our foes in World War II we should also be able to forgive Eddie Slovik The exhumation and transfer was finally approved in 1987 Slovik’s bad luck briefly reasserted itself when his remains were put on the wrong plane and ended up in San Francisco He finally arrived in Detroit two days later and was laid to rest beside his wife Nick Gozik made a kind of pilgrimage to the cemetery on the day after Veterans Day He placed an American flag on the grave of the man he still said was the bravest solider he ever saw “I told him I was sorry it took me so long to get there,” Gozik recalled He continues to feel to this very day that he had witnessed something fundamentally unfair in that courtyard in 1945 “They picked this young kid Eddie Slovik because they had to show the rest of the soldiers in that area you don’t desert and you have to pay the price,” Gozik said on Thursday “Why did they pick him out of all those thousands who deserted?” however strongly he continues to feel that Slovik was treated unfairly Gozik has little immediate sympathy for Bergdahl who had apparently just walked away from his buddies and obligated them to search for him at considerable peril “I read about it and I think the man wasn’t deserving to be traded for five terrorists,” Gozik said I think that after he’s interrogated he should be tried for desertion.” But as much as he disapproves of Bergdahl based on everything he has heard Gozik remains someone who can say that the bravest solider he ever saw was one being marched up to a wood post to be executed for desertion Gozik seemed to recall not just the details of the execution but one of its lessons Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here a private soldier in the United States army a minor ex-con with a juvenile record for theft called Eddie Slovik was put to death ‘by musketry’ for desertion at the village of Sainte Marie-aux-Mines in France There had been no execution of an American soldier for desertion since the Civil War in 1865 but what made Slovik’s death so peculiar was that in a war that had seen 50,000 American servicemen and 100,000 British desert his was the only sentence that was carried out Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3 Already a subscriber? Log in The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden French motorways are generally managed by private companies who hold lease agreements with the government the proceeds of which are partly used for maintenance costs increase every year in-line with inflation autoroutes across the country will introduce higher toll-fees but the degree to which drivers will experience increased costs depends what kind of vehicle they use Vehicles are broadly classified as follows: The next determining factor for how significant the price rise will be depends on which company is operating the road you use The management of roads is broken down as follows: Cofiroute (mostly Centre-Val de Loire and Pays de la Loire)  Cofiroute operates the following roads: the A10 (Paris to Poitiers) and the A86 (Rueil-Malmaison to Vélizy-Villacoublay) Class 1 vehicles using these roads will see a toll price increase of 1.896 percent Class 2 vehicles will see a 1.560 percent increase Class 3 vehicles will see a 2.5 percent increase Class 4 vehicles will see a 3.159 percent increase Class 5 vehicles will see a 0.620 percent increase The actual amount you are charged depends on how far drive on the road ASF runs more than 2,700 km of motorways including: the A10 READ MORE How hard is it to swap your driving licence for a French one? All classes of vehicles using these roads will see toll-prices rise by 2.191 percent The exception to this is the A66 running through the Puymorens tunnel where vehicles will have to pay the following price regardless of how far they have driven: €7.2 (class 1) SANEF stands for the Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France (The motorway company of the North and East of France) It comprises of the following motorways extending through the greater Paris Île-de-France region Class 1 vehicles will see tolls increase on these motorways by 1.911 percent 4 and 5 vehicles will see tolls increase by 1.5 percent 3.010 percent and 0.6 percent respectively SAPN is part of the SANEF group and operates the following roads in Ile-de-France and Normandy: the A14 Class 1 vehicles on these roads will be charged an extra 2.119 percent 4 and 5 vehicles will see tolls increase by 1.511 percent 3.060 percent and 0.594 percent respectively The exception to this rule is at the Gare de Montesson and Gare de Chambourcy booths on the A14 where the following tarifs apply regardless of distance travelled APRR is the second largest motorway operator in France running a network of roads that connect Paris with Champagne-Ardenne l'Alsace and the Rhône-Alpes region among others It operates the following motorways: the A5 Class 1 vehicles operating on these roads will see a price increase of between 2.050 to 2.051 percent 4 and 5 vehicles will see price rises of 1.539 percent 3,357 percent and 0.601 percent respectively READ MORE French polls support compulsory tests for drivers aged over 65 at Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines in the Vosges mountains will need to pay a fixed tarif of: €6.3 (class 1) Its nexus is found in the southeast of the country around Grenoble and Chambéry Class 1 vehicles using these roads will be subject to a up to a 2.061 percent increase in toll fees 4 and 5 vehicles will have increased fees of 1.558 percent 3.079 percent and 0.498 percent respectively Escota operates the following motorways in the southeast of France: the A8 It is increasing fees for all vehicle types by 2.051 percent These operators will all introduce hikes to toll prices READ MORE UK introduces car sticker requirement for driving in France The heftiest fees will be class 4 vehicle drivers Those crossing the viaduct of Millau for example will have to pay €40.30 and those driving across the A28 may have to pay up to €86.70 A full list of prices is available in the annexes of this official notice Vinci Autoroutes owns the following operators: ASF The group has said that journeys of less than 50km along its roads will not be subject to the aforementioned price increases While France is set to introduce a frictionless motorway toll system by 2024 most drivers currently pay in cash or by card at motorway toll booths READ MORE France to introduce barrier-free motorway tolls by 2024 Vinci Autoroutes has introduced an e-badge that drivers can use to debit the cost of journey's directly to their accounts rather than paying for journeys directly at toll booths. You can read more about the product here Please log in here to leave a comment Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Lille has very few earthquakes and most of them are very small (below magnitude 3) Larger quakes with magnitudes above 3 might occur from time to time Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 3.4 quakes on average per year in or near Lille Lille has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 4 since 1970 which suggests that larger earthquakes of this size occur infrequently probably on average approximately every 25 to 30 years The depth of the quake is unknown.The quake was not felt (or at least not reported so) Lille has had 5 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 10 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 There have been also 5 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel there are about 3.1 quakes on average per year in or near Creteil Creteil has had at least 3 quakes above magnitude 4 since 2000 probably on average approximately every 5 to 10 years 2024 at 7.00 pm local time (Europe/Paris GMT +2) The quake had a very shallow depth of 5 km (3.1 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) Creteil has had 3 quakes of magnitude 4.0 or above There have been also 6 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel 2013 at 5.06 pm local time (Europe/Paris GMT +2) The quake had a very shallow depth of 11 km (7 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) Based on data from the past 25 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 421 quakes on average per year in or near Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 5 since 2000 probably on average approximately every 10 to 15 years Haut-Rhin has about 43 quakes of magnitude 2 or higher per year The quake was too small to be felt by people Haut-Rhin has had 2 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 7 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 There have been also 47 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel The strongest earthquake in Haut-Rhin in the past 30 days had a magnitude of 3.4 and occurred 13 days ago: Mag. 3.4 earthquake France - Apr 23, 2025 - writeAge(1745402513)A light magnitude 3.4 earthquake hit 15.8 km (10 mi) away from Saint-Die-des-Vosges, Grand Est,  France 2025 at 11.01 am local time (Europe/Paris GMT +1) The quake had a very shallow depth of 5 km (3.1 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter The last earthquake in Delft occurred 12 days ago and had a magnitude of 0.0: Mag. 0.0 earthquake Netherlands: North Sea - Apr 23, 2025 - writeAge(1745435490)A light magnitude 0.0 earthquake hit 86 km (54 mi) away from The Hague, South Holland,  Netherlands There have been also 21 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel The strongest earthquake in Delft since 1970 had a magnitude of 4.0 and occurred 30 years ago: Mag. 4.0 earthquake 23 km W of Petten - Netherlands - Jul 28 1995 - writeAge(806959484)A moderate magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred in the North Sea near Texel island there are about 494 quakes on average per year in or near Besancon Besancon has had at least 20 quakes above magnitude 4 since 1970 probably on average approximately every 1 to 5 years Besancon has had 6 quakes of magnitude 2.0 or above There have been also 32 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel The quake had a very shallow depth of 5.1 km (3.1 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter Mulhouse has a moderate level of seismic activity there are about 862 quakes on average per year in or near Mulhouse Mulhouse has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 5 since 2000 Mulhouse has had 3 quakes of magnitude 2.0 or above There were also 14 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel Belfort has a moderate level of seismic activity there are about 828 quakes on average per year in or near Belfort Belfort has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 5 since 2000 Belfort has had 3 quakes of magnitude 2.0 or above There were also 15 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel Euskirchen has a moderate level of seismic activity there are about 305 quakes on average per year in or near Euskirchen Euskirchen has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 5 since 1970 The last earthquake in Euskirchen occurred 2 days ago and had a magnitude of 0.4: Mag. 0.4 earthquake Germany - writeAge(1746310575)A light magnitude 0.4 earthquake hit 32 km (20 mi) away from Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz,  Germany The quake had a very shallow depth of 11 km (7 mi) and was too small to be felt by people There have been 15 small quakes up to magnitude 1.3 in or near Euskirchen in the past 30 days The strongest earthquake in Euskirchen in the past 30 days had a magnitude of 1.3 and occurred 3 weeks ago: Mag. 1.3 earthquake Germany - Apr 17, 2025 - writeAge(1744890154)A light magnitude 1.3 earthquake hit 26 km (16 mi) away from Wiesbaden, Hesse,  Germany The quake had a very shallow depth of 9 km (5.6 mi) and was too small to be felt by people The quake had a very shallow depth of 6.6 km (4.1 mi) and was too small to be felt by people Gemeente Breda has had 4 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 2 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 There have been also 16 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel 2023 at around 12.01 am local time (Europe/Brussels GMT +2) Details of the quake (if it is one) are so far unkown until confirmed by a seismic agency We will update the status of the event on this page as soon as more information becomes available Folkestone has very few earthquakes and most of them are very small (below magnitude 3) there are about 3 quakes on average per year in or near Folkestone Folkestone has had at least 4 quakes above magnitude 4 since 2000 The last earthquake in Folkestone occurred 45 weeks ago and had a magnitude of 2.3: Mag. 2.3 earthquake North Sea - England, United Kingdom - Jun 27 2024 - writeAge(1719505810)A light magnitude 2.3 earthquake occurred in the North Sea near Mersea Island island 2024 at 5.30 pm local time (Europe/London GMT +1) The quake had a very shallow depth of 13 km (8 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter Folkestone has had 12 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 9 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 2023 at around 11.20 am local time (Europe/London GMT +1) We will update the status of the event on this page as soon as more information becomes available.