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Ganssle
Philosopher, Rivendell Institute, Yale
Greg Ganssle is a Senior Fellow at the Rivendell Institute and lectures in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. His work explores the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary scholarship.
Ganssle earned a Masters of Arts in philosophy from the University of Rhode Island. He then went full time and earned his PhD from Syracuse University where his dissertation on God's relation to time won a Syracuse University Dissertation Award.
In addition to publishing many articles, chapters and reviews, Greg has edited two books, and is the author of Thinking about God: First Steps in Philosophy (Inter Varsity Press, 2004) and A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Baylor University Press, fall of 2009).
https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/gregory-ganssle/profile
Gregory Ganssle's Content
Can the Divine be a Person or Persons?
Is God Temporal or Timeless?
Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?
Does Evil Abolish God?
Metaphysics vs. Materialism? (Part 1)
Is the Future Open?
What does it Feel Like to be God?
What is God's Eternity?
How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 1)
Pluralistic Hypothesis of Religion
Classical Arguments for God?
How Does Faith Work?
What Would it Feel Like to be God?
How Belief Systems Work
Gregory Ganssle's Books
God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature
A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism
Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy
God and Time: Four Views (Spectrum Multiview Book)


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THE EMIGRATION OF LOVE
Rico Moore
Prologue:
We slowly walk along the canyon trail. Below us, the creek roars — seems a swift-coursing vein, flowing to Ocean, where waves become waves, travel and pulse onto shores. I've been walking these wilds for some time, ever since having discovered them as a child. I've been collecting fragments — potsherds — stories of origin. I've stored them in a reliquary, shaped like a page that always returns to blankness. Each of the fragments appears as the syllable of a name. I've been arranging them for years, listening for a voice to speak — though I've never been able to see, as in the reflection of a stream, a face that resembles the feeling I feel as I look on the world. In what follows, I've re-arranged the remnants in the form of an essay, in hopes that they'll sing together in chorus, linking things linked where links are unseen.
At the age of eighteen, for the first time I saw the woman in whose womb I grew — whose flesh and blood birthed my own. I saw myself in my birth-mother's eyes.
Her dark, wavy hair, with strands of brunette and Irish red, flowed down her back. Shorter than I, her eyes shone towards me. My heart's thump, learned from her, in part, to pulse. As her heart, mine learned a song from within a womb. This heart song pulses from past. Looking back, I imagine the pulse crossing oceans as light rays through time. And as love, the song pulses blindly through borders as if they were naught — through deserts and famine, religious and institutionalized oppression, conquest, inquisition, racism and other tyrannies — through times of war and peace. There was never a moment when the heartbeat's rhythm didn't animate life's tribulations or joys. My life is an imbrication of these. Our hearts stir from the ardency of ancient hearts. We all share a heartbeat. Or, so I think as I write of the moment I hugged my birth-mother, Mary, for the first time — her heartbeat and mine again coalesced. My heart felt as if filled with stars.
I met her with the doctor who cared for her through her pregnancy, and me, through my childhood. He was the same doctor who orchestrated my adoption. Somewhat awkwardly, we all sat down at a central table. The lighting was low and origin stories were spun with the candlelight. I remember an impression of good intentions, woven by two voices — that of my birthmother and that of my doctor whom I'll call Dr. W. Along with my perception, a braid was made and a tale of my life's beginning, as if woven, appeared.
As we cleaned our plates and the waiter came and cleared them away, there was a feeling that the right thing had been done. There wasn't a hint of injustice. I was told that Mary had been but eighteen at the time and couldn't handle a baby. Furthermore, I was much wanted, and so, was adopted by lovely parents at eight hours old. Raised with unconditional love and books, I wanted for nothing. At the table, we laughed, as Mary talked of insisting on running in her high school track meet when seven months pregnant with me.
As the conversation evolved through story and question, there was little trace of my birth-father's part in the story. I had always known, or had always been told, that he was a "Mexican National" — that he'd emigrated from Mexico to America, crossing desert, mountain and forest, or so I imagined, never having spoken to him at the time. I had yet to peer deeper into — his eyes. I had yet to learn that half of my physical body — as if I could be split — was of Mexican, Indigenous North American and Spanish descent.
Of course, I had lived a life with the outward cultural experience of a Latino, as my eyes were as dark as my hair and brown skin. Raised by Caucasian par ents, however, I knew little of the cultural experience of Latino Americans. I was thus a part of, and apart from, both Caucasian and Latino American cultures at once. I was as the third strand of a braid that binds.
My name, not legal but nick, is Rico, which means, rich in Spanish. Specifically, it refers to qualities of wealth, deliciousness or abundance. My last name, Moore, is Old English, and first referred to a place — a moor, or, "an area of uncultivated land." The name given me specifically descends, in part, from a name given to a landscape. Syllables, sonorously arranged into locatives, were as offerings to the surrounding land, which gives of its life to our lives. As such, my name, Rico Moore, represents at first, the joining of cultures with language — the Spanish, Indigenous Mexican, and the English, European-based American. And perhaps, my name might be translated as, an abundantly rich and uncultivated land. There is in it a sense of wilderness.
That night at the steakhouse, I also learned that my birth-mother's family hailed from Ireland. I learned that at birth, I was named another name than I'd been known my entire life — a different name than I'd known myself by. That name, "Chris David," instantly represented all the possible lives I might have lived — all the identities that might have become but didn't. What lives would I have known had things happened differently? Who would I be, or more aptly, what world would I see? How differently would I feel, if at all? The possibilities crushed me for some time. Then, I heard the following tale, which is one of dream interpretation. A man has a dream and takes his dream to an interpreter. The interpreter gives a favorable interpretation, if certain steps are taken. The interpreter offers certain rites and ritual songs to alter the dream's course — to bring to fruition the interpreter's vision — the potential of the dreamer's dream. The man performs these rites, utters faithfully the prescribed prayers. And afterwards, he conveys the experience to a group of wise people. From the center of their circle, he asks, 'How could the interpreter have been right, absolutely, when if I had gone to another interpreter, another interpretation might have been offered?' To which they replied, 'You had your dream and went to that interpreter and though it is true that you could have gone to any number of interpreters, you went to that one, and therefore, the interpretation offered is the only one.' I found solace in this.
That night, with Mary and Dr. W., I would learn that my birth-father was an undocumented Mexican emigrant at the time of my conception and birth. He walked from Mexico with his name, etching the land with his steps, at the age of sixteen. I had no idea of his story or the simultaneously mythical and immanently real importance it represents for contemporary American life. He had no idea of the implications of this at the time. It must be said that he is a person, as well as a Mexican emigrant, since some discourse and legislation being bandied about refuses the ineluctable connection between "Human" and "American" with "Mexican" or "Latino." Words such as "alien" and "entity" are used in legislative acts such as Arizona State Bill 1070 for the purpose of dehumanizing humans. For, if the law names a person, 'entity' or 'alien,' they are subtly less human and, certainly in public discourse, are perceived as "un-American," and so lack human rights. My birth father's name is Antonio. Under such aforementioned legislation, rights provided to "un-naturalized alien entities" can be easily forgotten or ignored, especially during times of economic distress, when a scapegoat is sought. Before the law, the naturalized citizen, who is far from the food that is farmed by the un-naturalized emigrant, is recognized by the state as "human." Ironically, the word citizen derives from the Latin, civitas 'city,' meaning one who inhabits a city. This term comes from the Ancient Greek, kosmopolites from kosmos 'world' and polites 'citizen.' As such, at our linguistic foundations, we are all citizens of the world. The very origin of the words that are used in the attempts to legalize discrimination and reify power structures is one of fundamental inclusion. One wonders how a word such as citizen, has been engineered to signify something which excludes from 'the world' its children?
As we talked over after-dinner coffee, I heard the first stirrings of the story of Antonio. In short, he came from Mexico to work and found work on my birth-mother's family's farm. Though, at that point, the story was skeletal at best, or was offered as such, and I didn't think to ask the difficult questions that would later lead me to a fuller understanding of what had happened. There was a storied air to the tale — that everything happened exactly as it should have. It was strangely without complication. Later, I learned that Mary and Antonio had a love affair spanning years. Ultimately, she became pregnant. The minutiae of the tale remained unknown to me. I later learned that she'd sneak into his trailer, fleeing whenever someone else was around. In the rainy night, he would sing country songs to her in his broken English. She loved him and he loved her. They'd dance and laugh.
But in the last analysis, it was a love that occurred in a cultural context that forbade it — between a Mexican emigrant — of the subaltern — and a Caucasian daughter of America — of the hegemonic. It was a love that occurred in a time when all efforts to suppress it were active and fully in force. Their love and its actuality — my life, body, mind and words — demonstrates that, despite all attempts of suppression, life begets numinously, itself.
After dinner, Dr. W. made his exit and my birth-mother and I left the restaurant together. She had more to say, so we sat in her car, which was parked behind the restaurant under a streetlamp. Rain started pouring on the roof. She told me of the difficulties she had faced, being pregnant at such a young age. In a letter she wrote to me, soon after I was born, she wrote, "At first I blamed you for everything, and then I realized it wasn't your fault, absolutely none of it. You were just what nature is all about." She said she'd spent years wondering if she'd made the right choice. Looking into my eyes, through her tears she said, "You have your father's eyes — I feel like I'm seventeen again."
She was, and is, incredibly brave. She said that she met me to know, after all, if she had done the right thing. The alternatives — keeping me, or abortion, weren't after all, options for her. A Christian, she noted God, saying, "He told me what to do." She told me that when she was carrying me in her womb she'd walk near the Poudre River of Fort Collins, or the "River of Bright Water," as it is also known. She was listening to her heart by the flowing vein of the river I'd later live to flyfish and what she heard in the rushing water, she interpreted to be the truth of God's words. The poet and essayist Gustaf Sobin writes that the multitude of interpretations of one historical event do not require others to be proven false or silenced to be true but can, and in fact do, co-exist. In fact, multiple interpretations of the same event come together in chorus. They sing a song called, humanity. Perhaps she heard my heartbeat sing. In that car, I felt more than ever that I had no idea who I was. I felt the solidity of my identity dissolve as starlight unbraids over light-years.
Indeed, being raised as an adopted child had its difficulties, particularly when you exist in a racially stigmatized culture, look the subaltern but are a child of the hegemonic, there can feel a disconnect. When you don't feel fully within your parents' cultural group because of the color of your skin, or your name is markedly different, and when, the cultural group that matches those criteria has no basis in your home-life, then you feel lost, near cultureless — liminal — an incohate citizen. And so I adopted the uncultivated tracts of land as my city—the uncultivated wilderness. I found in the wilds a feeling of home — of citizenship. I found neither discrimination nor prejudice, but the unceasing flow of life. In fact, I found this also with my father when he taught me to flyfish at a young age. I recall the first time, in the upper reaches of the Poudre River, that I first felt the release of a flyline unfurling above and onto the surface of a stream, wending in its shape a deceptive imitation of a fly. I remember the joy in my father's eyes. I remember yelling to him, over the din of the August breeze, that I had it, 'I've got it!' He offered the boundless promise of peace near the mountainous ridges, rivers and woods. And my mother, who brought me from the age of eight months to the beaches of Nantucket Sound, whose light breezes are magic, offered and offers me Ocean's touch. We spend some time each summer in the house her grandfather built at the outset of the twentieth century. In the upper floor bedrooms at night, breezes from the sea pulse the white cotton blinds. Lying in bed, looking at the interlocked slats of wood, one can still see the handprints of those who constructed the house. After nearly a century, the house has seen no major structural issues, built even as it was, in sand. And so that night, spent with my birth-mother, hearing my vita nuova unfold, ended with the solace of the wilds anchoring me. They would be my place of reckoning. Mary had nothing left to say, or was spent in the saying, as I was spent in the hearing. So, she drove into the north darkness to be with her family and I drove to the west to be with my own. (to be continued in a following issue…)
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New technology enables shuttle tankers to capture VOC emissions and use them as fuel. Teekay will put the tankers into operation in 2020.
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Ground-breaking system for using VOC emissions as fuel
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The first vessel is due for delivery in 2019, with the remaining three scheduled for delivery in 2020. This could mark a watershed for the offshore industry.
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Finally, Canon EOS M3 mirrorless camera unleashed in the US
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Canon's first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera launched in 2013 didn't receive a warm welcome in the US market due to which the company chose not to launch its successor in the American markets. Finally, Canon EOS M3 mirrorless camera unleashed in the US after the company's launch event earlier this year in February.
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Specs of the Canon EOS M3 mirrorless camera:
EOS M3 comes with a 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, Hybrid AF III focusing system and Canon's proprietary DIGIC6 image processor. All these features are also found in Canon's Rebel T6s and T6i DSLRs. The ISO settings of the M3 are adjustable from 100-12800 and 1080p video recording can be done at the frame rates of 24p, 25p and 30p. The M3 uses company's new EOS M lens system, which is compatible with older lenses using an adapter.
On the back of the Canon EOS M3 mirrorless camera is a 3-inch touchscreen, which can be tilted down 45 degrees and all the way up to 180 degrees for selfies and vlogging. It has got the same battery as that of T6i and T6s. According to the CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association), the battery of M3 is good enough to take 250 shots. The mirrorless camera has also got built-in NFC and Wi-Fi for pairing to tabs and smartphones.
The M3 has a special mode for beginner photographers:
If you are a beginner photographer and want to buy this camera, you don't need to worry regarding the use of camera's myriad buttons and dials. The EOS M3 has a Creative Assist mode designed especially for beginners to get the knowledge regarding terms with depth of field, settings using the touchscreen and filters.
Canon EOS M3 mirrorless camera will be available in October for about USD$670 and if you want to buy it with an 18-55mm kit package, it will cost USD$800.
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Winter is in full here so outside DIY projects are not possible. So I decided to build another machine for woodworking -- a lathe, with a copier attachment.
I made the whole structure from scraps of beech, ash and plywood. I kept expenses to a minimum and made it from parts that I already had.
The 450 watt 2800 RPM electric motor, 230 volts, comes from a tile saw that I have not used for several years. I bought it during the construction of my house eight years ago. Since then it lay idle on the shelf.
The bolts, nuts, washers, bearings, switch, socket, and pieces of wire are from inventories from earlier purchases. The only new purchase was the drive pulley.
Due to the limited space in my workshop, which is also a garage, the lathe is modular, easy to disassemble and store. I timed dismantling the lathe and putting it on the shelf -- it took about 10 minutes.
The base for the lathe bed is made of pine strips glued to make a block 95x30x3 cm. The lathe bed is made from ash, forming two asymmetrical T shapes, 5 cm wide, and glued into grooves cut into the base, as seen in the picture.
The flange-mounted motor is bolted to the box cover. The pulley on the motor is mounted where the tile saw blade was originally. The motor box is suspended and hinged from the base. This allows gravity belt tensioning and makes it very easy to disconnect the drive from the base unit. I may use the motor module to drive my next machine -- a drum sander, which I plan to build soon.
The power module is a small box containing a key switch, and dual power socket. I may add electronic speed control. The module is fed with 230 V. One socket is for the motor, the other for powering a lamp or router for my copy attachment.
The drive prongs are cut into a barrel nut attached to the spindle.
The face plate is 135 mm diameter.
The tailstock is 180 x 215 x 160 mm. The frame is glued together from beech and ash planks. The spindle is 170 mm above the bed (220 mm above the base).
A block of wood in the shape of an inverted T is used to lock the tailstock to the bed.
The tailstock spindle is made from a 350 mm long M20 threaded rod. Turning the crank at the end moves it side to side.
Once in position against the workpiece, the position is locked by tightening the green knob to the left arm of the tailstock.
A M20 coupler nut forms part of the center for the spindle.
The tool rest is an articulated wooden arm. It attaches to the bed like the tailstock. The joints have locking knobs on the screws. The top of the tool rest is covered with a steel plate.
This attachment allows repetitive items such furniture feet, stair balusters, chisel handles to be made from a template.
It consists of a base, and a slider with two arms that rides on the 3/4" pipe. The copier attachment is attached to the base of the lathe.
The lower arm of the slider has a 5 mm diameter follower pin, which follows the template, and the upper arm mounts the router.
Both arms of the slider are the same length and at a 90 degree angle to each other. A piece of pipe, where the arms join, acts as a sleeve to allow it to slide on the 3/4" pipe.
The router has a 43 mm diameter mount near the collet, which is mounted in a handle that is meant for use on a drill. The handle is mounted in a slot in the slider arm.
You have to be careful. I used a face mask on the router.
The copier is used as follows: Raise the cutter above the material, run the lathe, then slowly lower the router. It can only remove 2-3 mm at a time.
Instead of a router, a plain cutting tool could be used. This is my first attempt at a copy lathe. I am still experimenting. I will probably try mounting a fixed cutter on it also.
Ryszard later sent me some pictures of the copy lathe using a fixed chisel (see below).
The knife blade angle is very important!
Please write in Polish, or in short simple sentences, as Ryszard does not know english and relies on Google Translator.


A collection of Rochester's poetry.
An example of a poem from Cooke's collection.
Cooke's reproduction of Rochester's poem "Upon Drinking in a Bowl"
Wilmot, John. "Upon Drinking in a Bowl". The Poetical Works of John Earl of Rochester, collected and edited by Charles Cooke, 1796-1802, pp. 19.
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, ""Upon Drinking in a Bowl" 1/2," UVic Libraries Omeka Classic, accessed April 21, 2019, http://omeka.library.uvic.ca/items/show/261.


Den här är den första kursen i en serie kurser där du lär dig om arkitektur i Azure. Du kan välja att gå den här kursen som en enskild kurs eller kombinera den med de övriga sammanhängande kurserna.
You will learn how to create and deploy highly available virtual machines in Azure, using the Azure portal, PowerShell, and ARM templates. The course includes instruction on deploying custom images and Linux virtual machines. You will see how to configure the networking and storage components of virtual machines.
You will learn the monitoring tools and capabilities provided by Azure, including Azure Alerts and Activity Log. You will also be introduced to Log Analytics as an effective data analytics solution for understanding your system status and health. And perhaps the most exciting thing you will learn is how to use the Azure Resource Manager deployment model to work with resources, resource groups, and ARM templates.
Because this course is the first course in the series for the Azure Solutions Architect exams, there is a sizeable amount of introductory content presented to prepare students for the remaining courses in the curriculum. Students are provided with a lesson that covers tips and tricks for working in the Azure portal, as well as an introduction to key tools used in the Azure environment, such as the Cloud Shell and Resource Explorer.


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Chronologie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Mai 1944 -  -  Juillet 1944

Événements

 1er juin :
Création de l'Armée Secrète belge.

 3 juin :
Création du gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF), qui remplace le CFLN, à Alger, dirigé par Charles de Gaulle.

 4 juin :
 L'opération Overlord remise de 24 heures à cause d'une mer formée.
 Prise de Rome par les Alliés (Français).
 Charles de Gaulle rejoint l'Angleterre par avion

 5 juin :
 Conférence à Londres entre Churchill, Eisenhower et De Gaulle concernant l'administration des futurs territoires libérés. De Gaulle se met en colère et refuse toute idée « d'occupation » américaine.
Les troupes alliées entrent dans Rome.
 Début de l'opération Samwest, parachutages de SAS français en Bretagne, en préparation du débarquement de Normandie
En Normandie, les opérations Albany et Boston (parachutages),  et les opérations Chicago et Detroit (débarquement par planeurs), en prélude à l'opération Neptune, sont exécutées par les 101e et  aéroportées américaines.
 En Normandie, les opérations Tonga, Coup de main et Mallard (débarquements de troupes aéroportées),en prélude à l'opération Neptune, sont exécutées par la  aéroportée britannique ; la veille de l'invasion en Normandie, les sous-officiers lisent une déclaration d'Eisenhower à tous les régiments engagés.

 6 juin :
Jour-J : L'opération Neptune dans le cadre de l'opération Overlord est lancée par les Alliés, pour débarquer en Normandie (début de la bataille de Normandie).

 7 juin :
Bayeux est libérée par des troupes britanniques.
 Crimes nazis à Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac
 Début de l'opération Perch pour encercler et prendre Caen, qui se termine le 15 juin.
 Échec de l'opération Rob Roy, ravitaillement par les airs de la  aéroportée britannique.
 Première libération de Guéret par les maquisards creusois commandés par le commandant François (Albert Fossey-François).
 Les FTP Corréziens libèrent provisoirement Tulle.

 9 juin :
 Massacre de Tulle
 Les troupes allemandes réinvestissent Guéret
 Massacre de Combeauvert à Janaillat dans la Creuse

 10 juin :
Massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane
Massacre d'Ussel
Massacre de la Varenne à La Motte-Saint-Jean
Massacre de 41 lycéens du corps franc Liberté à La Ferté-Saint-Aubin
Bataille de la Forêt de Châtillon-sur-Seine
Les Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI) sont intégrées à l'armée française.

 12 juin :
A Murat, la Résistance Cantaloue abat l'Hauptsturmführer Hugo Geissler, l'un des 21 chefs régionaux de la Gestapo (SS et SD) en France.

 13 juin :
Dans la nuit du 13 au , les premiers V1 tombent sur Londres.

 14 juin :
Le débarquement en Provence est fixé au mois d'août.
Débarquement américain sur les îles Mariannes (Pacifique).
Le général De Gaulle débarque sur le continent et entre à Bayeux.
Destruction de Vimoutiers en Normandie par 36 bombardiers alliés.

 15 juin :
Échec de l'opération Perch commencée le .
16 juin :
L'historien et résistant Marc Bloch, arrêté le 8 mars 1944, est fusillé aux côtés de 27 autres résistants, à Saint-Didier-de-Formas (Ain)

16 au 21 juin :
Opérations de répression dans le Cantal à la suite de l'exécution de Geissler.

 17 juin :
L'Armée française de la Libération débarque sur l'île d'Elbe au large de la Toscane.
Conférence entre Hitler, Rommel et Rundstedt dans le Wolfsschlucht II, quartier-général allemand dans l'Aisne, sur la situation du front en Normandie.
Proclamation de l'indépendance de l'Islande.
Débarquement américain sur l'île de Saipan.

 18 juin :
Combats du maquis de Saint-Marcel dans le Morbihan.

 19 juin :
Début de la bataille de la mer des Philippines

 20 juin :
Les Alliés libèrent Valognes en Normandie.
Les Russes reprennent Vyborg.

 22 juin :
Grande offensive soviétique déclenchée dans les Pays baltes.
1er bombardement du dépôt de V1 de Nucourt par 70 B17 (opération Crossbow)

 23 juin :
Début de l'opération Lost (largage de SAS) en Bretagne

 23 et 24 juin :
Offensive générale russe sur plus de 300 km de front : rupture du front allemand en Biélorussie.

24 juin :
 À la suite de l'exécution de Geissler, le 12 juin, les Tatars de la Volga de la Brigade Jesser encerclent Murat dans le Cantal, et déportent 117 habitants.

 25 juin :
Début de l'opération Epsom, pour prendre Caen, qui se termine le  juillet
 Opération Zebra, premier parachutage massif d'armes en plein jour, à destination de la Résistance intérieure française

 26 juin :
Cherbourg est libérée par des troupes américaines.
 Début de l'opération Epsom par les Britanniques à l'ouest de Caen
 Début de l'opération Aphrodite

27 juin :
1er bombardement du dépôt de V1 de Saint Leu d'Esserent par 91 B24 (opération Crossbow)

 29 juin :
Succès soviétiques en Carélie.

 30 juin :
Rupture entre les États-Unis et la Finlande qui refuse toujours de se plier aux conditions de paix dictées par les Soviétiques malgré les pressions américaines dans ce sens.
Entrevue entre le pape Pie XII et De Gaulle.
Départ du  de déportation des Juifs de France, du camp de Drancy vers Auschwitz : 1 100 déportés, 167 survivants en 1945.

Notes et références

1944-06
Juin 1944

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Young El Pasoans reflect over Capitol Hill protest, want to set better example
Dale Earnhardt Jr. plans to drive Xfinity race at Darlington
Posted: Aug 22, 2019 / 06:26 AM MDT / Updated: Aug 22, 2019 / 09:02 AM MDT
A member of the National Transportation Safety Board looks at the wreckage of a plane that Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife and daughter and two pilots and a dog were on when it crash landed Thursday at the Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tenn., Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Earnhardt Jr. will take the weekend off from broadcasting to be with his wife and daughter after the crash near Bristol Motor Speedway. (David Crigger/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. still plans to compete in the Xfinity event at Darlington Raceway on Aug. 31, despite a recent plane crash.
Earnhardt Jr. posted his update on Twitter late Wednesday night, saying his lower back is sore and swollen. He's receiving daily treatment "solely to get well to race."
Earnhardt, his family and two pilots escaped a burning plane that veered off the runway at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee last week.
Earnhardt won NASCAR's most popular driver 15 straight times from 2003 through 2017. He retired two years ago and is an NBC racing analyst.
Darlington is Earnhardt's one race this season.
More National Sports Stories
by TOM WITHERS, Associated Press / Jan 15, 2021
CLEVELAND (AP) — Joel Bitonio's long playoff wait with the Browns is over.
The Pro Bowl left guard was activated from the COVID-19 list Friday after missing last week's wild-card win over Pittsburgh.


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All US House of Representative lawmakers and staffers have been issued a directive to remove TikTok from their government-issued mobile devices in the newest move prohibiting using the Chinese video-sharing platform within the country.
Catherine L Szpindor, the chief administrative officer of the House, reportedly issued the directive, deeming TikTok a "security risk".
"House staff are NOT allowed to download the TikTok app on any House mobile devices. If you've the TikTok app in your House mobile device, you might be contacted to remove it," the memo said, in keeping with NBC News.
The most recent memo from the House chief administrative officer reportedly also said future downloads of the app are prohibited.
With this move, the US House joins an inventory of presidency bodies within the country to ban using the Chinese platform.
In December, members of the US Senate called for prohibiting all federal employees from downloading or using the ByteDance-owned platform.
The US Congress also proposed a ban on TikTok from most government devices amid spying and censorship concerns surrounding the app in a $1.7 trillion bill unveiled last week.
There was growing bipartisan concern that Beijing may use a few of its regulatory power over Chinese corporations, including ByteDance, to regulate American user data.
Several states within the US, including Maryland, Texas, Georgia and Utah have banned state agencies from downloading and using TikTok following reports alleging that China's state-backed hackers stole thousands and thousands of Covid relief funds within the US.
"TikTok harvests vast amounts of information from its users' devices – including when, where, and the way they conduct web activity – and offers this trove of doubtless sensitive information to the Chinese government," Texas governor Greg Abbott said in a letter to Lt Gov Dan Patrick, Texas Speaker Dade Phelan and state agency leaders.
The app has also been banned by some US universities and colleges, including The University of Oklahoma and Auburn University in Alabama, following the federal government crackdowns against the app.
"With the passage of the Omnibus that banned TikTok on executive branch devices, the CAO worked with the Committee on House Administration to implement the same policy for the House," a spokesperson for the Chief Administrative Officer told Reuters.
A TikTok spokesperson recently said in a press release that the corporate would proceed to temporary members of the US Congress on its plans "well underway" to "further secure our platform within the US".
"It's troubling that relatively than encouraging the administration to conclude its national security review of TikTok, some members of Congress have decided to push for a politically-motivated ban that can do nothing to advance the national security of the US," the spokesperson said.


Lieutenant Jonathan Rycroft is intoxicating. His hands know just where to touch her, his lips know just how to trip her pulse, and his body knows just how to bring about every forbidden desire Lindsay Dunsfield has ever felt. He's the one man that's owned her heart... and he shattered it two years ago.
Returned to London on assignment with the War Office, Jonathan's mission is hindered by a love he cannot forget. One scorching kiss reignites the flames of their passion, but he inadvertently drags Lindsay into a mire of murder and deception that hits closer to home than she ever would have dreamed.
In a world where Lindsay can trust no one, will she find renewed faith in the last place she expected to look?
Confessions of Love is the story of Lindsay Dunsfield, the eldest of the Dunsfield daughters, who must marry to save her family from impending financial ruin. With the security of her entire family resting on her marriage to a man she wants nothing to do with, what is she to do when her past flame, Jonathan Rycroft, returns to London to make Lindsay question everything she knows? Nothing is as it seems, however, and Lindsay becomes drawn into a plot of spies, intrigue, and passion.
I really liked both Jonathan and Lindsay as characters. Lindsay is used to doing what she is told, but she also has a fiery determination that results in her taking control of situations to protect herself, Jonathan and her family. She even goes so far as becoming a spy for the War Office and discovers that there might be more to being a woman than simply marrying a man. Of course, with her family in dire straits, marriage is never far from her mind.
Because of her past knowledge of Jonathan, she has trouble trusting him, despite the passion she feels. But even though Lindsay fails to trust Jonathan, his love never falters and he is dedicated to protecting her and her family. As he discovers how she has changed in their time apart, his love grows even further, and I loved that, despite his reservations, he supported her work with the War Office.
In terms of their relationship, it is apparent that Lindsay and Jonathan feel very passionately about each other, but I struggled a little to fall in love with them as a couple. I liked them as individuals, and I liked the way they expressed their love for each other, but I did not feel swept up in their passion. I kept wishing I could have known more about their previous relationship and almost felt like I was reading a sequel, expanding on their love affair rather than introducing it. I wanted to fall in love with them, but instead felt like they had fallen in love long ago and I was only privy to a small extract of their passion.
This is a historical suspense romance, mixing romance with intrigue. I enjoyed the development of Lindsay's character as she found her way in becoming a spy. However, I felt a little lost by the rest of the suspense aspect of this narrative. That said, while I felt occasionally confused through the intrigue of the plot, the action sequences were well paced and provided an interesting, if somewhat convoluted, subplot to the romance. I only wish that there had been more of a development of Lindsay and Jonathan's emotional relationship, without it being so buried amongst the lies and intrigue storyline.
Confessions of Love by Melissa Blue was published by Entangled Scandalous in 2013 and is available from Amazon.


The film kicks off with a brief recap of Batman's origin story and then jumps forward to the events near the end of Man of Steel, where Superman (Henry Cavill) is fighting to save the world from the World Engine and Zod. We revisit the destruction and see Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) scrambling to help the innocent. The film then jumps forward another 18 months, where the respective superheroes are both trying to make their cities safer places. Enter Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), an eccentric rich person whose origins we aren't really given a lot of information about. He is wealthy, but he isn't powerful, and power is what he craves above all else. He has a plan though – one that involves Kryptonian rocks, pitting Batman and Superman against each other, and where Lex is the only winner.
Batman v. Superman is a profoundly silly film. It cares only about setting up the epic battle of the two superheroes and setting up the DC universe for further films. The screenplay is a mess, concerned not with coherency, dialogue, or pacing – its aim is to give Batman and Superman a reason to fight each other, and it doesn't even do that very well. By the time the showdown comes around, I was yet to be convinced that the heroes (who are supposed to care about keeping the peace/saving people above all else) had any real reason to face off. For all its set up, it's rather disappointing that the filmmakers couldn't come up with a better reason for the rivalry – it's exceedingly thin. The screenplay is also very serious, with the only laugh coming from a piece of dialogue so bad, it was funny. Blame for all of this lies as much with the writers as it does with Snyder's plodding direction.
I have to give it to Eisenberg, the character he's playing is rather two-dimensional, but he does give it his all – it's a very energetic performance. Comparisons will be made to Ledger's Joker, but Eisenberg has a long way to go until he is as captivating as Ledger was. I find it almost impossible to judge Affleck's Batman as we didn't really get enough time with him –I don't really feel that he got a chance to flex his acting muscles. It's an interesting look – this broodier batman, with the thicker suit, and glowing eyes. I'd think I'd like to see him again, but with a different director calling the shots. Lois Lane (Amy Adams) was a ridiculous character here, whose only purpose was the advance the film's plot.
Unlike Man of Steel, this film isn't boring – with so many characters to cover, there's a lot going on, although it's of little substance most of the time. The film also introduces Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and boy, what an introduction. When we finally see her in all her costumed glory, it is magnificent. Hans Zimmer's score hits its high point here, with a jaunty and energetic number accompanying her appearance on-screen. This was by far and away the best moment in the film. I am very much looking forward to Wonder Woman's stand-alone film in 2017.
I cannot recommend seeing this in 3D, as the 3D was very poor, at least in the cinema that I saw this in. There were times when characters appeared to be followed by shadows of themselves, and when large sections of the background were out of focus. It's also a dark film, and this is only amplified by wearing 3D glasses.
If you're a fan of the comic books I believe you'll get more out of this film than the average cinema goer/person who is only familiar with the films, as there are things introduced in this film that comic book fans will no doubt enjoy seeing on-screen, however Batman v Superman is impossible for me to recommend. I enjoyed it ever so slightly more than Man of Steel, but for the most part I found it to be a confounding mess.
Was WW's introduction spoiled by the 2nd trailer? Or is it not what we think?
I hadn't seen the trailer, so I watched it just now and I don't think it spoils her intro. She gets this amazingly cool moment with this fantastic score pounding in the background – you don't see this in the trailer, although you do get glimpses of her.


Cedar Ridge Ranch in the news, in Aspen and Colorado publications.
Savoring peace, solitude and sustainable agriculture Cedar Ridge Ranch in Carbondale, Colorado.
-Grassroots 6/2018 Interview with Merrill Johnson about the agritourisim evolution of Cedar Ridge Ranch opening up to guests to experience and enjoy.
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Email is a major time sink. We're talking multiple hours per day for many busy individuals, and as much as half their workdays can be spent on email for those among us with high rates of communication with clients, contacts, and colleagues.
What's worse, people often feel like they're being way more productive than they actually are as well when they're working out of their inboxes. Sure, you might be wheeling and dealing on your keyboard, but the effective hours of solid work achieved when constantly checking email starts to get diminished quickly.
And even still worse than that is the fact that it's a necessity. Regardless of where you are or what you do, email is a near universally expected communication tool and those you work with will expect you to consistently check and respond to any incoming messages.
1) Because email is not a live messenger (though some people use it like one!), it is OK if responses are generally put off a few hours. For this reason, email productivity experts often recommend that you set 3 times throughout the day to check your email, and then stick to those times, never checking in between.
2) During your designated email check-in times, respond to every message you've received, right when you read it. Often, we read something, think "that's going to take a bit to fully address!", and then mentally note that we'll get back to it later when we have more time. However, this forces you to read such emails twice instead of one time, and the procrastinating generally serves no helpful purpose. When you read an email, decide if it requires a response. If the answer is yes, write it then, on the spot.
3) Use shortcuts. Many email productivity add-ons (Boomerang is a popular one right now, by the way), allow you to setup shortcuts that will automatically fill in words or sentences when you begin typing a certain key sequence. If you have an opening greeting you always use, or other information that doesn't make sense to save as a standard email signature, you can use these shortcuts to save you time. Got a long company name you have to type out constantly? Set a shortcut so that you can trigger it by just hitting two letters in a row that normally wouldn't follow each other. You get the idea.
4) Turn off push notifications. Of course, we receive email on much more than just our PC's these days, and the constant buzzing of a phone or dinging of an iPad can pull you out of what you're working on and cause you to lose focus and time, even if you just check your lock screen to see who or what it was. Instead, put these items in do not disturb mode or at least turn off email client notifications when you're in between your designated email checking times.
Stick to these, and you'll be well on your way to shaving off minutes or even hours from your workday!


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About Libya
Libya is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The three traditional parts of the country are Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The country has an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres making Libya to be the 17th largest country in the world
Tripoli is the capital city of Libya with a population of 1.7 million people. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 17th-highest petroleum production
The first inhabitants of Libya were Berber tribes. In the 7th century B.C., Phoenicians colonized the eastern section of Libya called Cyrenaica and Greeks colonized the western portion known as Tripolitania.
Tripolitania became part of the Roman Empire from 46 B.C. to A.D. 436 after which it was sacked by the Vandals. Cyrenaica belonged to the Roman Empire from the 1st century B.C. until its decline, after which it was invaded by Arab forces in 642. At the beginning in the 16th century, both Tripolitania and Cyrenaica nominally became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Following the outbreak of hostilities between Italy and Turkey in 1911, Italian troops occupied Tripoli. Libyans continued to fight the Italians until 1914 by which time Italy controlled most of the land. Italy formally united Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in 1934 as the colony of Libya.
Libya was the scene of much desert fighting during World War II. After the fall of Tripoli on Jan. 23, 1943, it came under Allied administration. In 1949, the UN voted that Libya should become independent and in 1951 it became the United Kingdom of Libya.
Oil was discovered in the impoverished country in 1958 and eventually transformed its economy.
General information about Libya has been summarized to include the following
Economy of Libya
Population and Health of Libya
Membership of International Organizations
Transport system in Tripoli Libya
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GVT, i.e. individuals with different cultural backgrounds collaborating in dispersed work groups are becoming part of daily business in industry and higher education (Klitmøller & Lauring, 2013). Past studies have contributed to understanding the impact that cultural diversity asserts on the performance of these GVT (Stahl, Maznevski, Voigt, & Jonsen, 2010). Cultural Diversity is assumed to negatively affect communication effectiveness and social integration, and to increase the number of conflicts. Results, however, do not unambiguously support this notion. Hence, we need to unravel the processes through which enablers, such as structures and capabilities can contribute to producing positive outcomes at the individual, group and organizational levels (Stahl et al., 2010; Stahl & Tung, 2015). This will ultimately provide knowledge on how managers, and their organizations can effectively create performing and satisfied teams.
On the side of capabilities, we believe that the concept of cultural intelligence (CQ), popular in psychology and human resource management (e.g., Ang & Van Dyne, 2008; Leung, Ang, & Tan, 2014; Andresen & Bergdolt, 2016), that received first recognition in IB a decade ago (e.g., Johnson, Lenartowicz, & Apud, 2006) is among these potential enablers (e.g., Fang, Schei, & Selart, 2018, in-press). CQ is the ability to succeed in a cross-cultural environment through (meta-)cognition, motivation, and behaviors (Ang & Van Dyne, 2008). Past empirical research shows that these CQ facets predict relevant outcomes (Schlaegel, Richter, & Taras, 2017) such as job performance (e.g., Ang et al., 2007). Yet, we lack an understanding of the processes through which they impact on team performance. Answering the question, whether and how CQ contributes to positive team outcomes in culturally diverse virtual teams will be our first research focus area.
On the side of structures, we believe that the ideas in media richness theory (Daft & Lengel, 1984, 1986; Daft, Lengel, & Trevino, 1987) and task-media fit models (see Mason & Leek, 2012) could be anchor points to develop means for creating positive team outcomes. Hence, the usage of rich media might be another potential enabler of positive team outcomes in GVT. Hence, answering the question, whether and how the usage of rich media will contribute to positive team outcomes in culturally diverse virtual teams will be our second research focus area (see Figure 1). .
Cultural diversity may influence team outcomes in opposing ways: Similarity-attraction theory (Williams & O'Reilly III, 1998) posits that individuals are attracted to teamwork with those who have a similar cultural background. The argument from social identity and categorization theory (Tajfel, 1981) is that individuals tend to categorize themselves into groups that they favor, and categorize others as outsiders. What follows from the two is that cultural diversity in GVT will have a negative impact on their performance, as it aggravates social processes (e.g., due to different priorities and responses to stimuli) (Wiersema & Bantel, 1992). In contrast, according to information-processing theory, cultural diversity broadens the range of perspectives and increases the information processing capacity of GVT. What follows is an improved problem-solving, higher creativity and innovative solutions (Ancona & Caldwell, 1992; Doz, Santos, & Williamson, 2004). Neither of these relationships is fully supported by past research, nor is the further translation into performance. There is some evidence that team conflict decreases performance – yet, task conflict may even have a positive effect on performance (Jehn, Chadwick, & Thatcher, 1997; De Dreu & Weingart, 2003). We argue that CQ and rich media are enablers that mitigate the process losses from group thinking and similarity attraction and that promote process gains from increased problem-solving and creativity. Hence, we contribute to understanding the mechanisms through which cultural diversity can be positively translated into high performance in GVT: While Stahl et al. (2010) conclude that cultural diversity can be both an asset and a liability of teams, we will contribute to understanding when and how to create an asset out of it.
To generate findings on the above research questions, we will make use of the x-culture dataset, more specifically of the 2018 data collection. We have (re-)designed several questions in the survey to be able to appropriately operationalize the constructs depicted in Figure 1. The dependent team performance will comprise measures related to ratings of the reports by reviewers and might comprise either as a part of the construct or as an additional construct the aspect of satisfaction with the team performance on the side of team members. The following items will be used to operationalize the independent constructs: Items on creativity are designed out of the survey data (e.g., building on the novelty rating and creativity rating of ideas by team members and reviewers). The items related to conflicts, more specifically to task, interpersonal and process conflicts in addition to a total are designed building on Jehn et al. (1997). Communication effectiveness was added to the survey building on items proposed by Earley and Mosakowski (2004). Items to measure social integration are compiled of the survey, an example item is "I would like to continue to be a part of this team". Finally, we will build on Clark and Brennan (1991) when it comes to the operationalization of media richness for which we have designed a set of new questions. Cultural intelligence will be operationalized by two different instruments, the BCIQ (Alon, Boulanger, Meyers, & Taras, 2016) and the CQ-Scale (Ang et al., 2007). A full list of variables used can be requested from the corresponding author.
To analyze the data, we will make use of a structural equation modeling approach using SmartPLS (Ringle, Wende, & Becker, 2015). The contingency effects will be analyzed using either multigroup analyses or interaction models.
Currently, we are in the process of data cleaning and preparation to start the analysis. Necessary literature reviews have been conducted and a manuscript draft is in progress.
Alon, I., Boulanger, M., Meyers, J., & Taras, V. (2016). The development and validation of the Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient. Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, 23, 78-100.
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Andresen, M., & Bergdolt, F. (2016). A systematic literature review on the definitions of global mindset and cultural intelligence – merging two different research streams. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28, 170-195.
Ang, S., & Van Dyne, L. (2008). Conceptualization of cultural intelligence: Definition, distinctiveness, and nomological network. In S. Ang & L. Van Dyne (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, and Applications (pp. 3-15). New York: M.S. Sharpe.
Ang, S., Van Dyne, L., Koh, C., Ng, K.-Y., Templer, K. J., Tay, C., & Chandrasekar, N. A. (2007). Cultural intelligence: Its measurement and effects in cultural judgement and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance. Management and Organization Review, 3, 335-371.
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Klitmøller, A., & Lauring, J. (2013). When global virtual teams share knowledge: Media richness, cultural difference and language commonality. Journal of World Business, 48, 398-406.
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Mason, K., & Leek, S. (2012). Communication practices in a business relationship: Creating, relating and adapting communication artifacts through time. Industrial Marketing Management, 41, 319-332.
Ringle, C. M., Wende, S., & Becker, J.-M. (2015). SmartPLS 3.
Schlaegel, C., Richter, N. F., & Taras, V. (2017). Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic review. Academy of management Proceedings, 2017. doi:10.5465/ambpp.2017.229.
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27,000-strong march heads for Delhi from Gwalior
Demands include water, forest and land for Adivasis; Rahul to meet protesters
Nearly 27,000 farmers, labourers and tribals under the banner of Ekta Parishad launched a protest march to Delhi from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Thursday in protest against unfair distribution of land and allotment of their land to corporates. The decision to undertake the approximately 350-km-long march — Jan Andolan 2018 — was taken after talks with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan failed on Wednesday. The Chief Minister went to Gwalior to meet the protesters and assured them that their demands will be discussed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi with urgency. He also agreed to mediate between them and the Union government to chalk out a new land agriculture policy, said sources. The protesters, however, were not convinced with Mr. Chouhan's assurances. "There is a complete lack of concern from the government. Now we will march to Delhi to continue our dialogue on a better land reform policy," said P.V. Rajagopal, chairman of Ekta Parishad, a non-political organisation working for the rights of the vulnerable and marginalised communities.
"We have sent invitations to both the ruling and the Opposition parties for talks but only the Congress has accepted our invite and its chief Rahul Gandhi is coming to meet us at Morena," added Mr. Rajagopal.
Farming households
He said the march has been launched to support their demand for "jal, jungal and zameen (water, forest and land) for Adivasis and farmer status for women from farming households". "We want an Act ensuring people's right to a home. Around 27,000 farmers and labourers of tribal communities from across 15 States are participating in this movement," said Mr. Rajagopal.
According to Ekta Parishad, Mr. Gandhi will listen to the protesters' concerns in Morena on Saturday.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/27000-strong-march-heads-for-delhi-from-gwalior/article25128297.ece
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Fashion Awards 2016 Nominees Announced
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The Fashion Awards 2016 are due to be held on Monday 5th December at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall. The nominees for these prizes were recently announced, making up a veritable who's who in both British and global fashion. Helen Beaumont comments on this year's slate of nominees.
You may remember The Fashion Awards, sponsored by luxury brand Swarovski, as The British Fashion Awards. This year industry body the British Fashion Council (BFC), which organises the ceremony, re-christened the event The Fashion Awards, to turn it into a global showcase. This is reflected in the categories that will feature at the 2016 ceremony, the nominees of which have just been announced.
International Model
The event's most hotly anticipated prize is the International Model of the Year Award. Nominees include supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid, who both recently appeared at London Fashion Week. Other nominees include the UK's own Adwoa Aboah, the Dominican Republic's Lineisy Montero, who serves as the face of Prada and Kendall Jenner, who is arguably the most popular model on Instagram.
International Business Leader
The Fashion Awards' new global focus can also be seen with the International Business Leader prize, which will be presented for the first time at the 2016 ceremony. Heavyweights Christopher Bailey of Burberry and Marco Bizzarri of Gucci are both up for the prize. They will be competing against Adrian Joffe, of Dover Street Market and Comme des Garçons, for the International Business Leader award.
Urban Luxury Brand
The Telegraph explains that The Fashion Awards will also feature the International Urban Luxury Brand gong. Cult UK sportswear brand Palace goes head-to-head with clothing titan Adidas and Vetements in this category. In his role as Balenciaga's Creative Director, Vetements head Demna Gvasalia, who is notoriously provocative, is also nominated for the International Ready-to-Wear Designer prize.
British Brands
The ceremony will also include the Best British Brand Award. Here Alexander McQueen, Erdem, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane and Burberry, whose clothes have all been worn by the Duchess of Cambridge, who was recently crowned the UK's best dressed celebrity, will face off. Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton and Kane are also nominated for British Womenswear Designer of the Year.
Standout awards
Also The Fashion Awards 2016 will feature five extra prizes to herald career milestones, such as the Lifetime Achievement in Fashion award. Commenting, BFC Chairperson Dame Natalie Massenet noted that "this year's ceremony will be thrilling and I look forward to welcoming all our guests to London and to what has become one of the most-anticipated highlights of the global fashion capital."
Memorable night
By taking a global approach, the BFC are hoping to attract A-List names to The Fashion Awards 2016. With industry titans such as the Hadid sisters, Kendall Jenner and Stella McCartney all nominated for prizes, they may well achieve this aim. The Fashion Awards 2016 is sure to be a night to remember!
About Helen Beaumont
Helen Beaumont's career started at Camberwell College of Art, where she studied the History of Art and Design, specialising in costume during her final year. After completing study, Helen became a costume buyer for theatre and opera. She has since become a professional costume designer, with a keen interest in period clothing. Throughout her career, Helen has created authentic costumes for prestigious companies such as the Universal Studios, Disney, BBC, Tiger Aspect and the Young Vic Theatre.
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A militia group called the Oath Keepers that includes cops, soldiers and veterans is spoiling for war – or so an alarmist profile portraying its members as trigger-happy white supremacists claims, raising pre-election fear porn.
Capitalizing on a wave of sensationalist stories about "white supremacists" and militias menacing America, The Atlantic has shone a spotlight on the Oath Keepers – a decade-old group with members in every US state, some two-thirds of whom hail from law enforcement or the military, which vows to defend the country from "all enemies foreign and domestic." Armed and dangerous, the group believes the US is currently in a civil war and is spreading that gospel to active-duty servicemembers and cops, the outlet warned on Wednesday.
The organization neither calls itself a militia nor espouses racist ideology, as The Atlantic somewhat grudgingly admitted. Its president, Stewart Rhodes, reminded the writer "We're not f***ing white nationalists," pointing out that the term has become an all-purpose smear unconnected to its literal meaning. "Everybody on the right is [called] a white nationalist," he said.
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That didn't stop the writer from describing the group as an unhinged, paranoid crew of far-right gun nuts who hate leftists and non-whites and believe the US is under attack by hostile elements, all but plagiarizing from the Southern Poverty Law Center's entry on the Oath Keepers. The group is described as "based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans," a line which hasn't aged well in the era of coronavirus lockdowns. Ironically, it was the SPLC that forwarded a leaked 25,000-strong Oath Keepers membership roster to journalists, affirming the group's paranoia.
The writer sat in on an Oath Keepers meeting in which Rhodes calls Antifa and other rioters "insurrectionists" and declares that "we have to suppress that insurrection," warning the agitators are "eventually… going to be using IEDs."
Us old vets and younger ones are going to end up having to kill these young kids. And they're going to die believing they were fighting Nazis.
The Oath Keepers were banned from Twitter earlier this month for supposedly violating its rules against "violent extremist groups" after Rhodes claimed Black Lives Matter and Antifa were terrorists engaged in an "open communist insurrection" and urged Trump to deploy the National Guard across the country, calling the "street assassination of a Trump supporter in Portland" the "first shot" of a civil war.
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While the group has a black vice president and has denounced both right-wing provocateurs the Proud Boys and the alt-right in general, its aesthetic and general political orientation have gotten it lumped in with more unsavory groups. In an era when many Americans are leery of speaking ill of Black Lives Matter – with good reason, as those who've lostjobs or universitypositions can attest – the group has not hesitated to condemn them as "Marxists," and for those unfamiliar with the many militia groups in the US, most bands of burly gun-toting men look alike. They have not hesitated to threaten violence against rioters and believe November's election will bring massive unrest, a view shared by their further-right counterparts.
While the media continue to hold up right-wing militias as the number-one threat to the nation, Rhodes for his part insisted the real threats were leftist militias like the John Brown Gun Club and the Not F**king Around Coalition – plus, of course, Antifa, which the FBI continues to insist does not actually exist even as President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr denounce its members as domestic terrorists.
For better or worse, the constant harping on the militia threat has taken root in the American psyche – paranoid liberals seeing white supremacists under every rock recently mistook the "P" on Portland police officers' hats for a Proud Boys logo when it actually stood for "police." Trump was invited to condemn the group during Tuesday's presidential debates, and when he ordered them to "stand back and stand by," it was bafflingly interpreted as an endorsement.
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Did you install anything else? Like the fbturbo_drv.so that the admin is talking about?
I just read in the readme you need to run as root for the mouse pointer to work, I guess that is the problem..
(11-09-2017, 02:52 PM)Koenraad Willems Wrote: I just read in the readme you need to run as root for the mouse pointer to work, I guess that is the problem..
Unfortunately, that did not fix it... Was testing on Raspbian though, not RPiTC.
Can you tell me what specific modules you are using? I've been at this for too long and can't seem to get it to work. Only one that shows the mouse pointer is the default ctxh264.so that comes with Citrix Receiver, but it has terrible performance..
I understand, but I can use RPiTC if it solves the problem.
What modules do you use on RPiTC?
Great job! Looking forward for new releases!
Many Citrix pies onsite now. great for remote sites.
Have successfully configured them so they launch a kiosk locked browser to our citrix portal website.
Would work internally but not over the internet. They were scripted to generate a hostname based on mac.
hope to help someone going down the same path.
when appli apt-get update i havent conection on source list ist a problem with source?