Video briefing accessible on line on Mini-Fastnet web site from Friday 11th June (end of afternoon). Saturday 12th June: Start of towing – 10:00 Start of the race – 12:00 Prologue reserved to skipper and co-skipper. Check of trackers during the prologue. CHECK OF NAVIGATION LIGHTS & AIS TRANSPONDER: WEDNESDAY 9 TH JUNE FROM 22:30 pm « I've known 10 Presidents of the Republic, 19 -29 February- and I am 27029 days old. I often celebrate my birthday in Douarnenez » Joël Gaté, a rugby referee, discovered sailing because his children raced optimists at les Sables d'Olonne. Wanting to watch them during regattas, he found that the committee boat had the best view. This was how he started learning the regulations of sailing races. One thing led to another and he's now been a gauger for Class 8, Mum 30, Class'40 and checker/gauger for the Vendée Globe from 1989 to 2012. A regular on the pontoons of Tréboul (especially in June) Joël has been the gauger on the Mini Class since he retired from primary school teaching in 2002.
Posted: May 28, 2021 / 02:26 PM EDT / Updated: May 28, 2021 / 08:00 PM EDT MOUNT CARMEL, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU-TV) — Multiple fire crews battled a fire in Mount Carmel Friday afternoon. Images Courtesy of Don Scicchitano The call came in around 1:30 p. m. for a report of a fire in the 200 block of South Poplar Street in the borough. Two homes were damaged by the fire. Photo Courtesy of Shawna Marie Beltz Photo Courtesy of Shawna Marie Beltz Photo Courtesy of Shawna Marie Beltz Photo Courtesy of Shawna Marie Beltz Photos Courtesy of Shawna Marie Beltz There is no word at this time if anyone was injured. Eyewitness News has a crew at the scene and will bring you the latest information when it is available.
Dancer and choreographer, Marie-Agnès Gillot is one of six personalities invited by Chanel to speak about the notion of celebrity, on the occasion of the centenary of N°5. A fragrance that has marked its era and traversed the generations, never ceasing to influence and inspire perfumers, women and artists. The star or ' étoile' of the Paris Opera Ballet looks back on her career and shares her views on the role that celebrity can play in culture, performing arts, and more broadly in society. Interview. How would you define the notion of celebrity? For me, the notion of celebrity is only valuable if it is excellence that brings about recognition. Celebrity is generally thought of as ephemeral. When celebrity persists over the course of history, it means that such celebrity has become mythical, right? One becomes mythical, perhaps. But if you make a mark on your own era, that's already a great story in my view. Hasn't the very notion of celebrity changed in 100 years? Celebrity is more accessible now than in the past, but oftentimes it does not depend on the same criteria and does not have the same longevity.
Mother Angelica had a Nativity scene built at the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville that is kept open year-round. (Special) It's a busy, bustling, exciting time of year at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, the home of pioneering TV nun Mother Angelica. The nuns have been in choir practice, working on the Christmas carols they'll start singing on Christmas Eve, 40 minutes before midnight Mass in the chapel that's open to the public. "More hustle and bustle than usual, " said Sister Marie St. John, one of the nuns at Our Lady of the Angels, who was known as Molly Gilbert when she graduated from Mountain Brook High School in 1989. "It's a very special time of year. We're trying to get our hearts ready. " Mother Angelica, 87, who founded the EWTN Global Catholic Network in the garage of her Irondale monastery in 1981, has been in poor health and remains mostly hidden from view. "We have thousands of visitors and the first question they all ask is 'How is Mother Angelica doing? '"
Lee offered to lead a rescue mission to the castle. SS attack A small group of Americans, accompanied by Gangl and some of his men, made their way to Itter, parking their Sherman tank close to the castle entrance. At dawn on 5 May, they were attacked by the Waffen SS, who blew up the US tank, but were unable to storm the castle. media caption Stephen Harding tells the story of the battle for Castle Itter "There was only one casualty, " says Mr Harding. "Josef Gangl was killed by a sniper. " Hans Fuchs, who was 14, watched the battle from his family's farm. "There was machine gun fire for hours, " he said. "We saw clouds of dust and smoke. " That evening, once the fighting stopped, he went down towards the castle. "The tank was still burning, " he said. "I saw how around 100 SS men were taken prisoner… They had to give up everything and were taken away on lorries. " image caption Schloss Itter was damaged in the fighting as this May 1945 photo shows Josef Gangl was buried in the nearby town of Woergl.
"She said, 'We are keeping this thing open year-round because Jesus became flesh for you every day, not just at Christmas, '" Sister Marie St. John said. "Christmas Eve is the anniversary of Mother's cerebral hemorrhage in 2001, " she said. "It's a bittersweet time. We're thankful God has her still here with us. " Mother Angelica built her international network and her own celebrity as a talkative TV nun. Now, she seldom speaks. "She has such a peaceful serenity about her, " Sister Marie St. "Sometimes if I touch her when my hands are cold she lets me know she doesn't like it. She lets you know she's not happy. She doesn't talk, but there's no question in her understanding. Her eyes light up. She communicates through her eyes and her expression. " Currently there are 23 nuns living at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville. Sister Marie St. John's younger sister, Melissa Gilbert, graduated from Mountain Brook High School in 1991 and also joined the monastery. Now known as Sister Esther, she lives with several other nuns trying to establish a new monastery in Phoenix.
Almost all have in common an initial involvement in the struggle against the Vietnam war in the mid-1960s. Opposition to that war, to the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 and Martin Luther King in 1968, radicalised a generation of activists. But, like other western democracies, the US is not prepared to grant them the status of political prisoner or prisoner of war as defined in the Geneva Convention (4). Geronimo Pratt (BPP) and Leonard Peltier (AIM) say they are combatants from minority peoples fighting a colonial regime for their right to self-determination. For the US to recognise that status would be to accept that their struggle is justified. This is unthinkable since all of them have been sentenced for crimes punishable under common law: murder, armed robbery or terrorist attacks. Police, prosecuting attorneys, judges and journalists have always described them as terrorists and criminals, and the authorities have used most means possible against them, from anti-mafia legislation to covert operations that Congress has since condemned as a threat to democracy (5).