In this video, 1st Lieutenant Clement from the 27th Brigade Chasseurs Alpins unit explains the various uses of la tarte, from keeping your feet warm to protecting your eyes from the sun. Clement and his fellow mountain infantry soldiers deployed to Rena, Norway for Exercise Brilliant Jump 22, which tested the ability of the very high-readiness component of the NATO Response Force.
Following Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of French troops – including the Chasseurs Alpins – have been deployed to Romania to reinforce the Alliance’s east.
Serhiy Baturyn (1960) is a Ukrainian writer, author of
novels and short stories, poems and the journalistic chronicle "Ukrainian
Slaves of the Third Reich ", laureate of a number of literary prizes.
Baturyn graduated from the philological faculty of the Kyiv
State Pedagogical Institute named after O. M. Gorky, in 1981. He worked as a teacher in Kyiv and served in
the ranks of the Armed Forces.
From 2007 to 2012, he was the secretary of the Kyiv
organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. Baturin's main interest
is history, possibly the reason to predict real events in his novels.
Ma Zhongxin was born in Lanzhou, China, and grew up in
Taiwan.
After meeting a traveller in his thirties, he started travelling
in his imagination. From being a backpacker for the first time at the age of 39
and traveling around the world, simple travel has become his life and career, and always wearing his trademark beret.
Since then, in the simplest way, relying on his own feet, he
has walked on steep mountains, deep jungles, and deserts of gravel. He even
served as an expedition team member to explore Antarctica.
After seeing the most desolate and magnificent, and
experiencing the most dangerous and solitary, Ma Zhongxin not only broadened
his vision and mind, but also had a different understanding of life. He began
to speak, write, and take pictures, recording ordinary people.
Ma Zhongxin, now 81, frequently gives lectures on his
travels and photography at universities.
Paul Brunton
was a yogi, mystic, world traveler, and best-selling author. It is reported
that two million copies of his books have been purchased, an incredible number
for spiritual literature. It was his book A Search in Secret India that made
Ramana Maharshi famous; before Brunton wrote about Ramana in 1934, few people
knew of him even in India.
Brunton was
a superb writer and a dapper dresser.
It’s quite
possible that Brunton did more than anyone else — even more than Schelling or
Müller or Blavatsky or Vivekananda or Paramahansa Yogananda or the Dalai Lama —
to make Westerners interested in Yoga and enlightenment. It is odd that Brunton
cast such a large shadow and yet his name is practically unknown.
Originally from the Southwest of France, the owners of Les Deux Berets wanted to wink at the berets worn by their grandfathers. To them, they represented the French tradition and good food.
The story began with pizzas, in a small truck in Saint Jean de Védas, where everything was homemade. The story now continues in a “small” restaurant, where their passion continues.
In addition to pizzas, Les Deux Berets offer traditional daily specials, meal salads, vegetarian dishes, gourmet desserts and craft beers, to satisfy everyone.
The Baret is a fresh, fruity triple (8%) brewed by the Bastion Brewery in Diest (Belgium).
Central to the concept of the brewery is the citadel as an iconic building of Diest. The logo of the brewery is the pattern of the citadel complex and on the label a para-commando with a red beret is pictured against the background of a window in the casemates of the citadel.
The red beret is the trademark for the 1st battalion of paratroopers that was stationed at the citadel of Diest from 1953-2010.
The Mutlanger Heide is an area in the municipality of
Mutlangen in eastern Baden-Württemberg (the West Germany). Due to the NATO
double-track decision, medium-range missiles of the United States Army type
MGM-31 Pershing were stationed on the site from 1983 to 1990. The nuclear
weapons carriers belonged to the 56th Field Artillery Brigade.
When NATO's stationing intentions became known, this
triggered violent protests from the peace movement. The opponents of
retrofitting protested throughout Germany and formed so-called "peace
chains". In Mutlangen, demonstrators repeatedly blocked the access to the
US camp.
From September 1 to 3, 1983, as part of the peace movement
's peace camp, sit-ins (also known as rocket blockades) took place in front
of the US military base in Mutlanger Heide. Since around 150 well-known
personalities took part in the campaign, it is also known as the Celebrity
Blockade.
Around 1,000 people protested against the planned stationing
of nuclear Pershing II missiles at the sit-down; writers (Nobel Prize winners Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass), artists, women and men of
the Church, politicians, doctors, judges and prosecutors, university teachers, and others.
Werner Schubert-Deister (1921 - 1991) was a German painter
and sculptor.
Between 1937 and 1940 he studied double bass and piano at
the Music Academy in Bad Frankenhausen. He was seriously injured in World War
II and has suffered from a stiff knee ever since. He continued his music studies
in Sondershausen from 1946 to 1949. Between 1950 and 1952 he attended the
Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where he was a student of Professor
Elisabeth Voigt and Käthe Kollwitz.
Self Portrait
Between 1952 and 1986 he lived as a
freelance painter and graphic artist in Friedrichroda . The building of The Wall
in 1961 ended the acquisition of paintings by art museums such as the West
Berlin National Gallery and contact with West German artists. Visits from the
West were not allowed again until 1974. A married couple who were friends
brought part of his work to Germany and enabled exhibitions in Hamburg, Speyer,
Constance and Neuburg an der Donau in 1978 and 1979, which Schubert-Deister
himself was not able to visit.
In 1979, when they visited again, his sponsors were
imprisoned for two months by the GDR authorities, who used this to blackmail
the return of the 190 pictures that had been brought to the FRG. Several exit
applications from the GDR submitted since 1981 have been rejected. It was only
in 1986 - after intervention by the UN Human Rights Commission - that he was
able to move to Borsum near Hildesheim with his wife Christa and his children,
where he spent the last few years ascetic and lived a very busy life. As a
politically disillusioned person who saw in himself and his work the only
political task, he also maintained a great deal of scepticism towards the
western side of the Iron Curtain.
It is not often that I post about a fellow beret seller, but T. Snook of Bridport (UK) is well worth the exception.
The shop was founded in 1896 when Tom Snook began his career as an apprentice tailor. He soon opened his first shop at 18 West Street, running it as a gentlemen’s outfitters – incorporating hats, naturally, as in those days everybody wore one
Tom's son Tom Jr, took over the shop in 1946. During WWII the premises at 18 West St sustained bomb damage, leading to Tom Jr, eventually, deciding to relocate: in 1964 he bought a property just down the road at 30-32 West Street and shifted the shop into No.32.
In 2010 Roger and Monica Snook, with the help of a voluntary committee, launched the first Bridport Hat Festival, which was a huge success. Eight years later they handed the now-annual event fully over to the committee to carry forward, having raised both the profile of hats and many thousands of pounds for head-related charities.
Living in a country with a first openly transgender mayor in
the world (1995) and the world's first openly transgender member of parliament (1999),
I follow the now daily developments in US (and especially Florida) politics
regarding gender and trans- rights with interest and amazement.
Rym Gallardo
Although I fail to understand why someone’s personal orientation
and preferences can be polarizing to the level of national (US) politics, I thought
it interesting to delve into the subject in relation to berets.
Ceval Omar
Not surprising, there are many transgender boineros/as,
whether from a sense of style and fashion, or as part of their (military)
uniform.
By some estimates, the U.S. military is the single-largest
employer of transgender people on the planet, with an estimated 15,500
active-duty trans personnel. Trans people are twice as likely than the general
population to serve their country, but they had to conceal their gender identity
because military policies banned their service. On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an executive
order to reverse the ban, allowing most transgender individuals to serve in the
United States military.
Staff Sergeant Byun Hee-soo was
the first known transgender soldier in South Korea. She was a tank driver
before being discharged from the army in January 2020 after she underwent
gender reassignment surgery.
On October 2021, South Korean court ruled that the military
discharge was unlawful and cancelled the discharge, but by that time Byun
Hee-Soo had died...
Most (Western) militaries have no issues including LGBT individuals. Captain Hannah Graf is an Officer of the British Army. She
is a decorated Officer, having deployed to Afghanistan, Kenya and Canada. Hannah
was awarded an MBE in the 2019 New Years Honours List, receiving the award from
HRH The Duke of Cambridge in June 2019.
The Dutch military became the first to allow LGBT
individuals to serve in 1974 and it was also the first to set up an LGBT
military support organization. The Royal Netherlands Army embraces a "Do
Tell" policy and routinely organizes floats in pride events.
The New Zealand Defence Force has been lauded as a world
leader in diversity and for support of the LGBTQI community, and has been
ranked as number one for integration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
personnel into the nation's military.
And while LGBTQ Russians were Putin's first target in his war on the West, this Canadian soldier can publicly kiss his partner.
A glimpse into the lives of four soldiers who risk dismissal
or demotion to fight for transgender rights in the US armed forces:
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