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__label__wiki	0.515074	0.515074	Home » Stuff We Like » Volunteers Improve Sgt. York Historic Trail Volunteers Improve Sgt. York Historic Trail By Doug Mastriano and Josiah Mastriano 002-sgtyorktrail-002 Volunteers gather for the first day of work. During the weekend of May 20, 2011, some thirty volunteers gathered on the actual battlefield near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, where World War I U. S. Army Sergeant Alvin C. York knocked out a German machine gun and captured 132 German soldiers October 8, 1918. The purpose of the gathering was to complete a project to preserve this important piece of America’s military history. The endeavor was led by Josiah Mastriano, whose Eagle Scout Service Project brought us together in France’s Argonne Forest to make considerable improvements to the Sergeant York Historic Trail ("Circuit du Sergeant York" in French). Josiah’s project was a significant undertaking and included an ambitious endeavor designed to make substantial improvements to the Sergeant York Historic Trail/Circuit du Sergeant York. His work was extensive and included fixing a drainage problem at an artesian well that was making the trail muddy, replacing old trail logs, cleaning up, weeding and treating erosion at the SGT York Memorial Park, and replacing old town signs related to Sergeant York. However, the most challenging aspect of Josiah’s project was moving some 37 tons of gravel to significantly improve over one-kilometer of the trail. Josiah was able to purchase the gravel thanks to several generous financial donations. This enabled him to go beyond what he had originally planned and to lay gravel on more than one kilometer of the trail. This became the single most difficult aspect of the work – loading shovelfuls of gravel into a wheel barrow and then moving it across bumpy ground to the furthest point from the gravel pile – one kilometer away! Several in Josiah’s work group expressed doubts that it would even be possible to complete such a Herculean task, concluding that there were just not enough people and time to do it. Yet, with the help of several local French farmers who pitched in – staying until 9 pm to move the remaining 7-10 tons of gravel to the trail’s monument park and then spreading it for us – the work was completed. A total of 300 hours of back-breaking work went into the trail during this one weekend and the result was superb – one local French official commented that the improvements have made the trail one of the best of its kind in all of France. Work to construct the Sergeant York Historic Trail began in 2007 after French officials and historians reviewed the results of recent field work in the Argonne Forest that accurately pinpointed the location of where then-Corporal Alvin York performed his incredible feats of heroism in 1918. The Sergeant York Historic Trail was inaugurated in 2008 on the 90th anniversary of York’s exploits. The trail was built under the supervision and approval of local, regional and federal French authorities and is designed to allow visitors to walk where York walked. Nine interpretative trail signs are located along the three kilometer circuit to allow any visitor to the Argonne Forest to understand the battle without a guide. Various portions of the trail have been worked on and expanded by five American Boy Scout Eagle Scout Service Projects over the past four years, and a scout troop in Germany is planning to adopt the trail for annual upkeep. In early 1919, three months after York’s famous October 1918 battle, an investigative team led by the Brigade Commander Brigadier General Julian R. Lindsey and Alvin York returned to the battlefield to determine if York’s actions merited award of the Medal of Honor. General Lindsey was convinced that York did deserve the Medal of Honor, and York received America’s highest valor medal in 1919. However, as years passed, the location of this fantastic feat was forgotten even though a considerable amount of documentation is available in the United States. Of these, most are unit reports, with several eye-witness papers. However, the key to verification turned out to be in the German archives, an essential source not used by previous Sergeant York researchers. These archives provided the missing pieces of the puzzle. In total, over two-hundred primary source German archival documents and books combined with another one-hundred or more diverse United States accounts led the Sergeant York Discovery Expedition to the actual spot. (See “Battlefield Detective: Sergeant York Fought Here!” July 2007 Armchair General magazine.) Visit sgtyorkdiscovery.com to read the detailed report of how the team located the actual site of York’s October 8, 1918 Medal of Honor combat action. The extensive work of Josiah, the other Scouts and the volunteers to create, improve and maintain the Sergeant York Historic Trail/Circuit du Sergeant York is a fitting tribute to the courage and sacrifice of Alvin York and the sixteen other U. S. Soldiers in his unit that won that desperate battle in the Argonne Forest in 1918. Such feats of bravery punctuated the American World War I experience – therefore, it is imperative that these historic sites be maintained to honor these heroes and to provide the American people with evidence of the high price of maintaining our freedom. To make a much-welcomed, tax-deductible donation, visit sgtyorkdiscovery.com. Ken Delfino 9/23/2011 KUDOS on your continued hard work to honor this great American hero. The Kiwanians of the CAL-NEV-HA District of Kiwanis International are PROUD to have supported you in this endeavor! The Navy says…”BRAVO ZULU”!!! Ken Delfino Colfax, CA Rick Dwyer 9/24/2011 A thorough accounting of Sgt. York history is truly amazing. The facts more than substantiate his story. A true hero in our American cultural. Congratulations to the Eagle Scouts who adopted this project to earn their award.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line0
__label__cc	0.73124	0.26876	Posts Tagged ‘The Innocents’ ‘The Innocents’ (‘De uskyldige’) Soundtrack Released Posted: September 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums Tags: De uskyldige, Eskil Vogt, Pessi Levanto, score, Soundtrack, The Innocents MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian supernatural horror thriller The Innocents (De uskyldige). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pessi Levanto (Tears of April, The Midwife, Oma maa, Unexpected Journey). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. The Innocents is written and […] Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 19, 2018) Posted: August 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments Tags: Carly Paradis, Chris Ridenhour, Christopher Cano, Joe Wong, Netflix, Raphael Saadiq, The After Party, The Innocents, The Last Sharknado: It's About Time, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Premiering tonight is the Syfy original movie The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time directed by Anthony C. Ferrante and starring Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Judah Friedlander, Vivica A. Fox and Chris Owen. The film’s original music is composed by Christopher Cano and Chris Ridenhour who scored the previous four movies in the series. The sixth […] Carly Paradis to Score Netflix’s ‘The Innocents’ Posted: April 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments Tags: Carly Paradis, Netflix, The Innocents Carly Paradis is scoring the upcoming Netflix original series The Innocents. The show is created by Hania Elkington & Simon Duri and stars Sorcha Groundsell, Percelle Ascott and Guy Pearce. The supernatural drama follows two teenagers who run away from their repressive family lives to be together and are thrown into a journey of self-discovery that derails their innocent […] Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 1, 2016) Posted: July 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News Tags: Buddymoon, Dylan Stark, Gabriel Feenberg, Gregoire Hetzel, Jean-Claude Vannier, Jim Dooley, John Williams, Life Animated, Marauders, Marcelo Zarvos, Microbe and Gasoline, Nathan Whitehead, Our Kind of Traitor, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Ryan Dobson, Satanic, T. Griffin, The BFG, The Innocents, The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year, Todd Haberman Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the action adventure The Legend of Tarzan directed by David Yates and starring Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Christoph Waltz. The film’s original music is composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Hotel Rwanda, Click). WaterTower Music has released […] ‘The Innocents’ (‘Agnus Dei’) Soundtrack Released Posted: February 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums Tags: Agnus Dei, Anne Fontaine, Gregoire Hetzel, score, Soundtrack, The Innocents Bayard Musique has released a soundtrack album for the French/Polish drama The Innocents (Agnus Dei). The album features the film’s original music composed by Grégoire Hetzel (Incendies, The Blue Room, The Tree). Also included is other music featured in the movie, such as Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight & more. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, […]	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line11
__label__wiki	0.604235	0.604235	Smog Harms Women's Brains, But One Food May Help Buffer the Damage WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Dirty air is the curse of urban living, and studies have shown that breathing it in harms the brains of men and women alike. But a new study suggests that diet can help reverse the damage: Older women who regularly ate fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids seemed to better withstand the neurological effects of smog. "Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to fight inflammation and maintain brain structure in aging brains," explained study author Dr. Ka He, of Columbia University in New York City. "They have also been found to reduce brain damage caused by neurotoxins like lead and mercury. So we explored if omega-3 fatty acids have a protective effect against another neurotoxin, the fine particulate matter found in air pollution." To do so, He's team had more than 1,300 women, averaging 70 years of age, complete questionnaires about their diet, physical activity and medical history. None of the women had dementia at the beginning of the study. Then, based on blood tests, the women were divided into four groups based on the amount of omega-3 fatty acids in their blood. The women also underwent brain scans to assess the health of various areas of their brains, including white matter -- which is composed of nerve fibers that send signals throughout the brain -- and the hippocampus, which is associated with memory. The women's home addresses were used to determine their three-year average exposure to air pollution. Among women who lived in areas with high levels of air pollution, those with the lowest levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their blood had more brain shrinkage than women who had the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids, the researchers reported July 15 in Neurology. The findings suggest that eating more than one to two servings a week of baked or broiled fish or shellfish may provide enough omega-3 fatty acids to counteract the effects of air pollution on the brain, the researchers said. "Fish are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids and easy to add to the diet," He said in a journal news release. "Our findings suggest that higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood from fish consumption may preserve brain volume as women age and possibly protect against the potential toxic effects of air pollution." The study was wasn't designed to prove cause and effect, He stressed. "It's important to note that our study only found an association between brain volume and eating fish," He said. "It does not prove that eating fish preserves brain volume. And since separate studies have found some species of fish may contain environmental toxins, it's important to talk to a doctor about what types of fish to eat before adding more fish to your diet." Katrina Hartog is a registered dietitian who manages clinical nutrition at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Reading over the study, she said that while "the American Heart Association recommends eating fish twice per week to give you a heart-healthy amount of omega-3 fatty acids," the new study did have flaws. Hartog said that there was some question as to the quality of the blood samples used in the study, data on foods containing omega-3s was incomplete, and "data on supplemental use of fish oil was collected, but frequency of use and dosage was not available." The latter omission "is a major limitation, as many studies showcase this as a very effective way to increase omega-3 fatty acid intake," Hartog said. She also noted that air pollution levels have declined in recent years, so it's tough to untangle whether improvements in brain health for some women was due to that trend or their fish consumption. Nevertheless, eating more fish and omega-3s isn't a bad idea, Hartog said. People "should consider including more omega-3 fatty acid foods into their diets and, better yet, substituting these foods for red and processed meats," Hartog said. The best sources of omega-3s are herring fish, mackerel, salmon, flaxseeds and chia seeds, she added. The U.S. National Institutes of Health has more on omega-3 fatty acids. SOURCES: Katrina Hartog, RD, clinical nutrition manager, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Neurology, news release, July 15, 2020 Alcohol and Your Heart Food Quiz Food Safety Quiz Blood Thinners: Using Warfarin Back-to-Back Heart Attacks: What NOT to Expect When You're Expecting Boost Your Immune System: The Importance of Vitamin D	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line16
__label__cc	0.739574	0.260426	BryanBarrish Official Website of Bryan Barrish Bryan Barrish is President of SIR Management, Inc., dedicated husband and father of 4, entrepreneur, sports enthusiast. "If nothing changes, nothing changes." - Bryan G. Barrish SIR Management’s Bryan Barrish and Michael Giannini Help Bring Christmas to the Children of Bear Necessities (Chicago, Illinois – January 16, 2012) – For the second year, the staff of both SIR Management and many of their client facilities assisted Bear Necessities in hosting their annual Christmas party for pediatric cancer patients at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. Last year’s event which was an overwhelming success captured the attention of the Honorable Peter N. Silvestri, Cook County Commissioner, and he joined the festivities this year. On behalf of the entire Cook County Board, Commissioner Silvestri expressed his most sincere good wishes and appreciation to both Bear Necessities and the staff of SIR Management for their generosity and compassion for the patients in the hospital’s cancer wing. Bryan Barrish, SIR Management’s President commented “I am so pleased and proud that once again our staff took on this project with Bear Necessities. Our staff donated money, purchased & wrapped gifts, and volunteered their time to ensure that over 50 children suffering with a variety of cancers and their families would have a special Christmas.” Barrish added, “our nursing facilities continue to support the communities in which they reside, from working with Bear Necessities, sponsoring school supply drives, participating in Memory Walks with the Alzheimer’s Association and hosting caregiver support groups. Our staff has also done great work with larger projects including the Red Cross on Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami in Japan, and the Earthquake in Haiti early this year.” Michael Giannini, a partner at SIR Management stated “Mr. Barrish and I were so moved by our staff’s response to Bear Necessities that we matched dollar for dollar every donation our staff made to buy gifts and support this event.” About Bear Necessities Bear Necessities (www.bearnecessities.org) Pediatric Cancer Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in late 1992 by Kathleen A. Casey, CEO/President. The foundation is named in memory of Casey’s eight-year-old son, Barrett "Bear" Krupa, who died after a courageous five and a half year battle with Wilms Tumor, a pediatric cancer. Prior to his death on January 9, 1993, Bear and his mother discussed and planned the formation of Bear Necessities. During his long stay in the hospital, Bear expressed more concern for other pediatric cancer patients than he did for himself. He and his mother learned of the many hidden needs of both patient and family members. Simple things like having games to play with would go a long way to lighten the heavy burden the children faced. Likewise, support with basic family needs such as transportation and parking on the many visits to the hospital remove undue stress on an already overwhelming situation. About SIR Management SIR Management, www.sirmanagement.com, provides expert consultation in Long Term Care, through a network of thirteen nursing facilities throughout the Chicago Metro area including Byron, Decatur, Rockford and Rock Island. SIR Management services include Rehabilitation, Advanced Acute Care, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Alzheimer's/Dementia Care Services, On-Site Dialysis, Hospice Care, Bariatric Care, Respite Care and Adult Day Care. All Rights Reserved - (C) 2011 Bio \|	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line19
__label__wiki	0.771305	0.771305	Home > Canada At War > Holding The Salient, 1916 – The Fighting At St. Eloi Holding The Salient, 1916 – The Fighting At St. Eloi TYpres, in those gruelling April days of 1915, Canada’s soldiers gained their golden spurs and won fame throughout the Allied armies. After Ypres came Festubert and Givenchy, with hard fighting, but no major operations, in which the men from the Dominion found out the value of machine guns and considerably increased this part of their organization, although the scheme was frowned upon by the Imperial command. The partly successful British attack at Loos was followed by the gradual shifting northward of the straining point on the west-ern line. At Christmas, 1915, authority was received for the formation of the 3rd Canadian Division. The first two divisions were then fully up to strength and there were good reserves at Shorncliffe. The new division was, as we have seen,’ put under the command of Major-General Mercer and was composed of the 7th, 8th, and 9th Infantry Brigades. The 7th Brigade, under Brigadier-General A. C. MacDonell, who commanded Strathcona’s Horse, included the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry,’ the Royal Canadian Regiment, the 42nd Battalion of Montreal (Royal Highlanders of Canada), and the 49th Battalion of Alberta. The Royal Canadian Regiment was first raised in 1883 as a battalion of the permanent force. A detachment took part in the expedition in North-West Canada in 1884-85. In 1889 the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, was raised for service in the South African War.’ An Imperial crown on the badge was granted by Queen Victoria in 1894. At the outbreak of the Great World War the regiment was brought to full strength at Halifax, and in September, 1914, sailed for Bermuda, where it relieved the Imperial garrison, the Lincolnshires. After about eleven months’ service it was relieved by the 38th Battalion from Eastern Ontario and reached France in November, 1915. For a considerable time the regiment was in training with the 2nd Brigade; but when the division was formed it was the first regiment to be attached. The 42nd Battalion had seen three months’ instructional duty in the trenches before the 3rd Division was formed; and the 49th, which was composed of miners, farmers, and railwaymen from the North-West, had had the same experience. The 8th Brigade consisted of Canadian Mounted Rifles from various parts of the Dominion, which had been under the command of Brigadier-General Seely, Secretary-of-State for War in the pre-war Asquith Cabinet, the decision having been finally arrived at that cavalry would be of little use in the European end of the war. The 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles were raised in Saskatchewan, and the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles and 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles in Central Ontario. The 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles came from Quebec and included the sons of many French-Canadian farmers. All these battalions had been trained in cavalry style up to the time of their arrival in France. The 9th Brigade was made up of regiments from the Middle West and Central Ontario and had had training with the 1st Division previous to joining the 3rd Division. The battalions were the 43rd from Manitoba, the 52nd from Manitoba and Northern Ontario, and the 58th and another composite battalion-from Central Ontario. There were various Imperial artillery and engineer units attached to the division until after the Somme, when it was brought to full strength with Canadian reinforcements. In the early part of February the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions, refitted and reinforced, were sent back into the ” bloody salient ” at Ypres, in support of the Fifth British Corps, this time to guard the southern end of the circle that barred the way to Calais and the English Channel. The Germans, at this date, again had considerable numbers of troops massed in this sector, and it was thought that they might make one more desperate drive for the northern British bases. By making the attempt and gaining partial success they at least would draw Allied troops away from the Somme front, where there were all the signs of concentration for a combined Anglo-French offensive. Up to the time of the return of the Canadians to the Ypres salient, British divisions in as great strength as could be spared had struggled bravely to better their positions at St. Eloi and Hooge, two shattered villages on rising ground that had a considerable ad-vantage over the flat plains of Flanders. Hooge was a hamlet of about twenty houses grouped at cross-roads on the main highway from Ypres to Menin. North of the main road, situated in a wood, was a strongly built château with large breeding stables, the property of a wealthy French follower of the turf. South of Hooge was Sanctuary Wood, where the great fighting of June was to take place; and further south still were Zouave Wood and Maple Copse all names made famous by Canadian soldiers. The trees of these woods were blasted by shell-fire into shapeless, splintered spikes ; but the undergrowth of brush grew amazingly and was quite heavy during May and June, affording much shelter for infantry. The knoll on which was St. Eloi, on the Ypres-Wytschaete road, sloped gently down towards the German trenches, and every movement in the enemy’s second line could be seen. But St. Eloi in turn was dominated by several German observation posts, of which Eikhof Farm, about one thousand yards behind the enemy’s line, was one ; and another was the northern end of Messines Ridge. These mounds had changed hands a dozen times ; but the swaying lines were swung back by counter-attacks; and for the best part of six months preceding the advent of the Canadians they had been in British possession. The trenches in this sector had, for the most part, been obliterated by the deluge of shells which the German heavy guns poured into the British defence works. The little rivers, mere creeks, turned from their natural courses, had taken the line of least resistance, and with few exceptions flowed through what were supposed to be the Canadian trenches, undoing the re-pairs the British had made against the ravages of German shells. Some of the British divisions which had held grimly on during the winter of 1915-16 suffered appalling losses. British engineers for several months had been tunnelling under the higher parts of the German position in the hope that some day our turn would come for an offensive and the mines would be used. Throughout February the two Canadian divisions acted in close co-operation with the Imperials. On February 13th the Canadian artillery helped materially to check the enemy from breaking through at what was known as the Bluff, a spoil bank on the Ypres-Comines canal. Later the Canadian 6th Brigade took over part of the northern end of the line to relieve the Northumberland Fusiliers and other Imperial units. The 28th (Regina) and the 29th (Vancouver) had a short, sharp encounter in the dark with the enemy, whom they found filing into the front-line trench from No Man’s Land. The bad luck of the Canadians commenced right at the start; for it was in the fighting of February that both Brigadier-General A. C. MacDonell and Brigadier-General R. G. E. Leckie were wounded by stray bullets while they were making an inspection of the forward posts. On March 2nd the Imperials decided to make an at-tempt to regain the ground lost at the Bluff, and the Canadian artillery was again called in to help. It was the heaviest bombardment the Canadians had ever put over, and the lesson was not lost on them. The Imperial troops, following the barrage, regained and consolidated the lost ground with fairly light casualties. During this attack the Dominion troops to the north put up an effective fake assault that drew away the German reserves. Hundreds of smoke bombs were thrown from the Canadian trenches; bayonets were flashed over the parapets in the glare made by thou-sands of flares ; and machine guns blazed away at the trenches opposite. The guns the Canadians had retained in position concentrated on the German support lines and prisoners taken later told of tremendous slaughter. The Germans did not attempt to retaliate, and the Imperials regarded themselves as ” top-dog.” Later in the week the Canadian divisions relieved the 3rd (Imperial) Division, which had put up one of the most determined fights against odds recorded to that time. The Germans were furious at the delay the taking of this sector was causing them. They were more furious when they got identification from one of our patrols and discovered that what they termed ” Colonial troops ” were then opposed to them. According to a document that subsequently found its way to the British Intelligence Department, special orders were issued that the Canadians were to be taught a lesson and their spirit was to be broken. The German High Command had smarted under the failure of the attack on Ypres in April, 1915, which one German correspondent attributed to the ” foolishness of the farmer and citizen soldiers from Canada who did not know when they were defeated.” Fresh German troops were continually being brought to the relief of those which kept up the pressure on the Hooge-St. Eloi line, and the German regiments were relieved on the aver-age every ten days. British and Canadians were generally in the trenches for a ” tour ” of a month. In all, fourteen German divisions were identified at various times against the three which held the southern end of the salient. By March 7th the Canadian Corps the 3rd (Imperial) Division had then been withdrawn began taking over the whole sector. Major-General Alder-son was still in command. The 1st Division was under Major-General A. W. Currie, later to become corps commander; and the 2nd was commanded by Major-General R. E. W. Turner, V. C., later chief of the Canadian Staff in England. The 3rd was commanded by Major-General M. S. Mercer, who was subsequently killed. The line stretched from Hooge, with sharp, uncomfortable angles, down south as far as St. Eloi. It had been a terrific battle-ground since the autumn of 1914, when the British Guards held off the enemy at the First Battle of Ypres. April, June, and July, 1915, had seen sanguinary divisional combats with resulting fluctuations of the line. To change corps under such conditions and always in the dark, with trenches partly wiped out, was a delicate operation; and it was not until April 8th that the Canadian corps was actually responsible for the line. The 3rd Division had useful experience by brigades acting with the Imperials. Before the St. Eloi section was taken over the Imperial troops decided to make one more attempt to better the line. The Canadian 2nd Division was placed in reserve in case things went wrong. Six huge mines under the German front line, on which the Imperial engineers prided themselves, were blown. The shock was so terrific that it shook towns several miles behind the lines. When the British infantry rushed the position they found huge yawning holes where once had been enemy strong points, and they were packed with German dead. A fairly strong line was established on the far side of the craters the shell-battered craters of St. Eloi. For a proper understanding of the story of the fighting about St. Eloi a description of the location of these giant craters is necessary. They were numbered later by the Canadians. Looking south from the original line No. 1 was a small hole about twenty yards across, to the right of the Wytschaete road. No. 2 was the largest of all, about forty yards in diameter, almost on the road. No. 3 was only slightly smaller and fringed the rubble that had been the Ypres-Warneton road. Nos. 4 and 5 were smaller again, and still further to the left; while Nos. 6 and 7 were only ten yards in diameter and just in front of the original British line at Shelley Farm, near where the Princess Patricia’s had fought in March, 1915. Into this shell-shattered region, a welter of mud and slime, the ground strewn with the debris of war, the 2nd Canadian Division was sent to hold the gains made by the 3rd (Imperial) Division. The 6th Brigade, under Brigadier-General H. D. B. Ketchen, took over the front lines, while the 5th and 4th Brigades remained in support. On the right was the 27th Battalion, with the 29th in support; on the left the 31st, with the 28th in support. The two leading companies were on either side of the Ypres-Comines canal. Their advance was made in the dark, through slime knee-deep, and among shell holes that threatened death by drowning or suffocation to the unwary. In the confusion they went further than intended, adding a strong German point to the line and making an enemy patrol prisoners. The task of the 6th Brigade was to relieve the 76th (Imperial) Brigade, which claimed to have consolidated the line on the far side of the craters on April 2nd. The position was not clear, as the aeroplane scouts were helpless, owing to the bad weather which persisted. The concentration of shell-fire and the mine explosions had made the ground worse than a quagmire, and a trench with not more than two feet of water in it was considered good. There was no proper wire protection, although here and there a strand showed through the glue of the earth. Only the continual shriek of shells and the hiss of machine-gun bullets told the Canadians of the proximity of the ever-watchful enemy. The shell holes and the drier spots of the trench lines were still full of British wounded, and the early dawn of April 4th was devoted to getting these suffering men out no easy task with all communication trenches obliterated and a nerve-racking trip overland through continuous shell-fire. All day during April 5th the enemy concentrated a terrific bombardment on the little Western garrison of the craters and bits of trenches, practically annihilating them. But the remnant held on, crouching in shell holes half filled with water and with British and German dead as grim companions. It became imperative to take drastic and immediate measures to improve the defences. Major-General Turner made a personal inspection of the isolated posts and encouraged the men, promising help if possible before the dawn. The Canadians energetically went at the task of bettering their trenches and, with the aid of two Canadian pioneer battalions, recent arrivals in France, much work was done on the night of the 5th. It was difficult to keep the defensive works, once they were repaired, from silting into the awful morass. It was a Titan’s task to bring up material. In many places that night, and the following nights, huge working parties, sometimes numbering as many as three thou-sand, were deepening the mockery of communication trenches and revetting them with brush mats, brought from miles behind the lines. Thousands of filled sand-bags were brought from gravel pits in back areas in a desperate attempt to build parapets that would not ooze away. Engineering parties managed to turn many of the wandering streams which had played havoc in our lines so that they ran into the German trenches. Dug-outs were provided with pumps which cleared out at least some of the water. The rain it was in a way a blessing, for it concealed this work from the prying eyes of the enemy continued. Quite a length of wire was quietly placed in No Man’s Land. It looked as if we had won against time and weather. In bald official language Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig tells of the swaying battle of the craters as follows : ” On March 27th our troops made an attack with the object of straightening out the line at St. Eloi, and cutting away the small German salient which encroached on the semicircle of our line in the Ypres salient to a depth of about one hundred yards. The operation was begun by the firing of six very large mines ; . . . and large numbers of the enemy were killed. Half a minute after the explosion our infantry attack was launched, aiming at the German second line. The right attack met with little opposition, and captured its assigned objective; but the left at-tack was not so successful, and a gap was left in possession of the Germans, through which they entered one of the craters. The following days were spent by both sides in heavy bombardment and in unsuccessful at-tacks, intended on our part to capture the remaining trenches, and on the part of the Germans to drive us from the positions we had occupied. In the very early morning of April 3rd we succeeded in recapturing the crater and the trenches still held by the enemy, thereby securing the whole of our original objective. . . . The work of consolidating our new position, however, proved extremely difficult, owing to the wet soil, heavy shelling, and mine explosions ; though pumps were brought up and efforts at draining were instituted, the result achieved was comparatively small. By dint of much heavy work the brigade holding these trenches succeeded in reducing the water in the trenches by two feet by the morning of the 5th. This state of affairs could not, even so, be regarded as satisfactory; and during the 5th the enemy’s bombardment increased in intensity, and the new trenches practically ceased to exist. On the morning of the 6th the enemy attacked with one battalion supported by another; he penetrated our new line, and gained the two westernmost craters. It is difficult to follow in detail the fighting of the next three weeks, which consisted in repeated attacks by both sides on more or less isolated mine craters, the trench lines having been destroyed by shell-fire. Great efforts were made to maintain communication with the garrisons of these advanced posts, and with considerable success. But there were periods of uncertainty, and some misconception as to the state of affairs arose. On the 11th it was reported to me that we had recaptured all that remained of the position won by us on March 27th and April 3rd. This report, probably due to old craters having been mistaken for new ones, was subsequently found to be incorrect. The new craters, being exposed to the enemy’s view and to the full weight of his artillery fire, have proved untenable, and at the present time our troops are occupying trenches roughly in the general line which was held by them before the 27th.” Of the German attack on June 2nd (to be dealt with later), the Commander-in-Chief says in his official report : ” The second enemy attack was delivered on June 2nd on a front of one and a half miles from Mount Sorrel to Hooge and succeeded in penetrating to a depth of seven hundred yards. As the southern end of the lost position commanded our trenches, I judged it necessary to recover it, and by an attack launched on June 13th, carefully prepared and well executed, this was successfully accomplished by troops on the spot. Neither of the enemy attacks succeeded in delaying the preparations for the major operations which I had in view further south.” It will be noted that no mention is made of Canadian troops taking part in these encounters. It was the policy of the British authorities not to mention even Overseas units at this time. It is best to divide the adventures of the Canadians during this ” tour ” of the Ypres sector into three parts: the partial success of the German attack; the failure of our counter-attacks owing to weather and mud; and the consolidation of our ground behind the famous craters with a line that finally held against frenzied German onslaughts. On the morning of April 6th the real crash came. At first in the dim light the enemy were mistaken for one of our working parties. There had been so many of these out in No Man’s Land that orders were never to fire on unknown patrols, but always to rely on close grips and the bayonet. It was the 6th Brigade, under Brigadier-General Ketchen, that got the full force of the attack. The 27th and 31st Battalions were in the front line. An intense bombardment launched by the Germans on the left of our position was followed by a massed assault, the enemy coming in droves along the Ypres-Wytschaete road, resulting in the loss of the original German front-line trench, recently captured by the Imperials, now partially obliterated by shell-fire, and in places choked with dead piled high on the top of each other. ” Our front line was no line at all,” said an officer of the brigade, describing events afterwards. Rapidly following up this turn of events, the German infantry carried on through and made a desperate attempt to wrest two of the most important craters from the Canadian garrisons, an attempt which was doomed to failure, the men of the 31st putting up a stout resistance with bombs and machine-gun fire and beating the enemy back. Nothing daunted, the Boches came over again and attacked another of the craters, held by a garrison of ten with a Lewis machine gun. Obviously under-rating the rugged determination of these surviving Canadians, the Germans advanced to within two hundred yards of the lips of the crater. The effort was completely smashed and over forty of the enemy dead were afterwards counted. Before noon the foe swarmed over the ” porridgy ” surface time and time again and by sheer weight of numbers overpowered the garrisons of the craters and wiped out our posts in inundated shell holes. Two of the craters, Nos. 2 and 3, were strongly occupied and later fortified by the assailing Boches; but counter-attacks by parties of the Canadian battalions were organized and advanced towards their objectives from two directions. An attack from the right was engineered by men from the 28th and 31st and from the left by the 27th and 29th. Both were doomed to dismal but not inglorious failure. The raid of the right party broke down completely. Its participants were faced by a withering fire from machine guns and concentrated shelling by the enemy’s heavy guns. and the shocking state of the intervening bog was not the least of the obstacles that could not he overcome. They did all human beings could do. Many of the Canadian bombers died in the miry sloughs of despond which linked up the quagmires of pulp from which the strongest men laboured in vain to extricate themselves. The bombers of the left attacking party fought their way through a pitiless shell-fire to what were generally sup-posed to be craters Nos. 4 and 5, but which were in reality 6 and 7. Such confusion could be reasonably expected in the face of such dire circumstances. One crater was held until late in the afternoon by a party of the 31st; then it, too, was overwhelmed. Throughout the days that followed the position was beyond description, so fraught with uncertainty and indecision had been the fighting up to this point. The enemy made repeated attacks, chiefly upon isolated detachments of the various battalions. The periodical assaults upon the surviving Canadians, who held on grimly to the crumbling ruins of two of the craters, were usually made only when the brave defenders had been demoralized by most intense shell-fire. All through April 6th and 7th the guns of the enemy kept up a terrific bombardment of our back areas. The 18th (London) and the 21st (Kingston) Battalions, which were brought up to Dickebusch, also got unwelcome attention, losing many men on the march through back areas. The 28th Battalion, in reserve during the morning at Voormezeele, was so badly shelled that it moved forward ” for safety.” Attempts were made by officers of this battalion to reconnoitre the area of the craters ; and bombing parties were sent forward in the vain hope of reaching parties of the 31st Battalion who were fighting a game holding battle against vastly superior forces. On the morning of the 7th it was found that the Germans had effected their relief and we had fresh troops facing us. From information given later by prisoners it was evident that the attacking forces had suffered heavier casualties than they had expected. On the same day the Canadian 4th Brigade, under Brigadier-General R. Rennie, won their way through to take over from the exhausted 6th. This brigade’s losses had been over a thousand, but they had by sheer pluck minimized what the Germans declared in their communiqué was a great victory. The fighting to the right of the 6th Brigade had been severe also, and in this the 4th had been helping. General Rennie had put out strong machine-gun posts and many were the grim encounters in the dark, drizzly night. Fredericton Fort, a strong cement and sand-bag redoubt which the Germans had built just to the right of the Wytschaete road, was the last place holding, even after craters Nos. 2 and 3 had fallen. The final message that came over the wire from the fort was: ” We are retiring.” Then the line broke. A gun crew of the 24th (Montreal) fought through straggling Germans and found there two captains and two men. The rest of the garrison were killed or seriously wounded. They held out for about an hour longer and then managed to win their way back to the original Canadian trenches while there was a lucky diversion caused by the concentration of shelling on crater No. 2. In other places, some of them mere in-undated shell holes, small parties of the 25th (Nova Scotia) Battalion were hanging on and stayed until late on the night of April 7th, when all that could be reached were ordered to withdraw. The German raid, which had developed into an onslaught, had succeeded ; but it was not the success the enemy had anticipated; nor was it worth the price they paid, thanks to the tenacity of the men of the 2nd Division. The Canadian counter-attacks to regain some of the lost ground really began on the night of April 8th-9th. Parties of the 21st Battalion made a desperate attempt to bomb out the German garrisons in crater No. 2, but found the enemy in greater strength than reported. They came back and got fifty more men despite the heavy fire. But the Germans had given the alarm, and the tornado of shells and machine-gun bullets which swept the new No Man’s Land drove the Canadians back, three-quarters of their number being casualties. At the same time a party of the 18th attempted to reach crater No. 3, but were also driven back, having to content themselves with establishing a post about two hundred feet from the German position. The 19th (London), on the right of the edges of craters Nos. 6 and 7, could give little assistance, owing to the terrific fire which the Huns kept centred on the craters. The men of these battalions put forth superhuman efforts and scores of deeds that were recorded at this time won signal honours. One forward garrison had to be sent rations in broad daylight, so bad was the ground, and the operation was carried out success-fully in spite of the unwelcome attention of the German machine guns. One of the things the German High Command could never understand was the initiative shown by the isolated posts which held on so grimly. The German soldiers and junior officers when surrounded and out of touch with their commanders at headquarters generally surrendered, regarding their work in the battle as useless after they had been cut off from the directing hands of the military machine. The opposite was the case with the Canadians. Groups which were surrounded would fight miniature battles of their own until they were wiped out or happier conditions brought them again into touch with their comrades. It was a question of both courage and philosophy. Urgent messages from Canadian headquarters at this time read, ” You must get on at all costs.” The little bands renewed their attacks again and again. One machine-gun party of the 20th (Toronto) held crater No. 6 for a whole week against repeated attacks by German bombers. Partial success attended the efforts of the 21st, and Fredericton Fort was regained and held. This force almost drove the German garrison from crater No. 2, killing many of the enemy in a surprise rush. Then came more efforts towards consolidating the uncertain line we held. Desperate give-and-take fighting, in which the Germans were as uncomfortable as the Canadians, took place day and night until the 12th, when the 5th Brigade, under Brigadier-General D. Watson, relieved. The reconstruction of the position was begun in earnest. Craters Nos. 6 and 7 belonged to us, but the enemy could observe al-most every movement in them from his higher ground. Sackville Centre, an old German strong point to the right, and craters Nos. 1 and 2 were wired and made into posts although the situation of the garrisons in them was precarious and the supply of ammunition, food, and water haphazard. For some reason the violence of the German attacks waned and immediate advantage was taken of this by General Watson, who every night had out large working parties, sometimes numbering two or nearly three thousand men, linking up these various posts through the spongy soil. On April 15th two desperate attempts were made by the Germans to bomb out the garrisons in craters Nos. 6 and 7, but they failed miserably, with heavy losses to the attackers. Fortunately at this time some semblance of communication trenches had been constructed and the plucky men in these craters were frequently relieved. Men could never have existed, let alone beat off sanguinary attacks, under the conditions that prevailed, and a day and a night in these craters was more than the strongest man could stand. Gradually on the night of April 18th the 6th Brigade filtered back into the line for another ” tour.” They had had a short rest and refit at Voormezeele. Life in reserve had not been dolce far niente; for the German heavies made existence above ground impossible, and the losses of reinforcements coming up to the line were not light. April 19th witnessed another strong German attack in the evening, following a brief but intense bombardment. The craters that had been won back into Canadian possession were again carried by the enemy, and the garrisons suffered bitter casualties. On the morning of the 20th an organized attempt was made by two parties to recapture the lost positions, and a valiant fight against tremendous odds resulted. The battle fluctuated and was desperately waged throughout the day, but the pounding of the German guns and the undoubtedly great strength of the opposing machine guns proved too much for the attackers. When night came only one thing was certain beyond argument the Canadian front line was still valorously held, though the main craters were in the hands of the Germans. Two parties on the 29th, under Lieutenants C. R. Myers and H. St. J. Biggs, held on to their positions in craters Nos. 6 and 7, those nearest the Canadian line, but after enduring an intense bombardment for over three hours they were practically out of the fight. Few had escaped death or wounding and the rifles of those who were still able to put up a show of resistance were for the most part clogged with mud. At length came the final counter-attack of the Germans, delivered mercilessly on those who had survived the short, fiendish bombardment. But the gallant remnant of this heroic little band stood firm against overwhelming odds, clinging to the mire of the craters, struggling to work the few rifles still fit for use and the machine guns that had not been smashed or buried by the terrific shell-fire. Lieutenant Myers, though severely wounded, rallied his little band time and again, holding the enemy in open range of the machine guns, which inflicted terrible punishment. Biggs’ party, with smashed rifles as clubs, fought tooth and nail with Germans twice their number. The enemy at length succeeded in bringing two machine guns to the edge of the crater. The officer in charge of the attacking party called out in English that brave men should not recklessly throw away their lives. It would have been suicidal to resist longer and with Biggs’ consent his battered, exhausted men threw down their arms. Their surrender signalized the end of one of the bravest fights against odds that took place on the Western front. Meanwhile Lieutenant Myers and five of his heroic band had made a dash for safety to the Canadian lines, having to endure a terrific barrage on their journey, but all six, though wounded, winning their way through. These were the only survivors of the defenders of craters 6 and 7. Another chapter in the fighting for the craters was over and had ended disastrously for the Canadians. But the officers and men, from the Divisional Commander downwards, had done all that was humanly possible. The conditions had been of the vilest description, and for three weeks the situation had been precarious. So mauled and misshapen now was the ground around the craters which the Germans had won from us, the enemy himself found it useless; and for several weeks, up to the time the remaining Canadians left that section for Sanctuary Wood and Hooge, he contented himself with sending out strong patrols, and even some of these met short shrift from our men, still full of fight. In these actions the losses of the 2nd Division alone were well over four thousand. St. Eloi was an infantryman’s struggle; nevertheless the artillery played their part, although completely outgunned by the Germans. The enemy, for practically the first time, used gas shells in their counter-battery fire. For our guns it was delicate shooting, especially when opposite lips of the crater would be held by op-posing forces; but the gunners shifted their weapons unceasingly, and their fire was wonderfully accurate considering that for the most part of the time they were, owing to the bad weather, without aeroplane observation. The Canadian howitzers played havoc with the German support lines, and prisoners gave unwilling tribute to the appalling effect of our large shells in the villages which sheltered their reserve troops. They told of one 15-inch shell that had landed in a crowd attending a cinema show at Gheluvelt, killing and wounding over one hundred of the Würtembergers. The men of the field ambulances and clearing stations were magnificent. The writer had the privilege of visiting one station in the brewery at Voormezeele when it was at its busiest, fighting to rescue from imminent death men that were brought in on continuous lines of stretchers. The top part of the building was a rubble of broken bricks, the best kind of shelter from the frequent shelling of the Red Cross flag. Down below, reached by sloping passages wide enough to take the stretchers, were clean, cool chambers where the surgeons worked night and day. During the heavy fighting over a thousand cases received attention in twenty-four hours. Another miracle, too, was the way the ambulance men managed to get their charges through the wide hinterland, always under observation, and always shelled. In the little wood near-by, at this time with a carpet of flaming poppies, the cemetery grew apace. At one corner was the grave of Lieut.-Colonel Farquhar, the gallant commander of the Princess Patricia’s, one of the first Canadians to fall in this section.’ I’m a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn’t as insidious as American nationalism, though. It’s good natured. It’s all about maple syrup, not war. Feist The name Canada comes from the word ‘kanata’ which means ‘settlement’ or ‘village’ in the language of the indigenous St Lawrence Iroquoians.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line20
__label__wiki	0.756719	0.756719	Lost Voice Guy brings debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival TOPICS:artscomedyedinburgh fringe festivalentertainmentlee ridleylost voice guy Posted By: Press Release 13 June, 2013 Courtesy of Caroline Briggs Lost Voice Guy, the first stand up comedian to deliver his jokes using a communication device, will be bringing his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. The show, named A Voice Of Choice, will be on at The Stand Comedy Club at 8.10pm from 2 August until 25 August (except Mondays). Lost Voice Guy (real name Lee Ridley) lost his speech as a baby when he developed Cerebral Palsy. He uses an iPad to communicate when he is on stage. The show, which was nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival earlier in the year, will see 32-year-old Ridley embrace his disability and have a laugh along the way. He uses his iPad to great comic effect to take us on a journey as he tries to make himself heard. Since making his first stand up performance in February 2012, Ridley has already gained quite a reputation for being both very funny and very unique. He has been described as a wonderful comedian by Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and has warmed up for the likes of Ross Noble and Jason Cook. He has gigged all over the UK at places like The Stand, Jongleurs, The Frog and Bucket, The Glee Club and The Comedy Story as well as being featured on the BBC, CNN, The Sun and The Mail on Sunday. A recent article about him in The Guardian said that finding humour in strange places was one of his strengths. Talking about his upcoming debut solo show, Ridley said: “I’m really looking forward to it. People tend to stare and laugh at me anyway, at least this way there’s a scheduled time and place for it. I’m providing a public service, which is more than the government is doing at the moment. “I’ve always loved making people laugh so I’ve enjoyed my last 18 months as a comedian, its a dream come true really. One that I never thought would happen. Hopefully I can make lots of people laugh in Edinburgh too…. Or at least leave them as speechless as I am. “I’m delighted that I’m performing my first show at The Stand too. It is, without doubt, the best comedy club in the country. They’ve supported my venture into comedy almost from day one and I’m extremely grateful for the chances they have given me and other up and coming comedians. I look forward to working with them throughout the festival.” Previews of the show will take place across the North East of England in June and July. For more information, head to www.lostvoiceguy.com Dance resource launched by Studio Wayne McGregor and the national disability charity Sense Having a laugh with Britain’s Got Talent winner Lost Voice Guy Pleasance Edinburgh provides a platform for disabled artists Wayne McGregor \| Random Dance partner with deafblind charity Sense	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line22
__label__cc	0.570287	0.429713	Executives energicitycorp 2021-04-24T13:32:11+00:00 Nicole Poindexter, CEO Energicity Corp and Founder Nicole’s 20 year career spans leadership roles in finance, government, and operations. From starting her career as investment banker, Nicole has had a variety of finance roles including Portfolio Manager for the $100 mm New York City Investment Fund (sponsored by Henry Kravis) and Director of Investments for the New York City Empowerment Zone a $300 mm fund. Additionally, Nicole has both been a policy maker and policy shaper as Senior Advisor to the Mayor Bloomberg Administration and in her roles at Opower where she worked with utility regulators to enable adoption of innovative products. Lastly, her leadership of Energicity Corp’s operations builds on her experience being the VP of Operations and Product Management running the operations and software development of a $500mm book publisher and subsequently developing new products at Opower- a smart grid software company that IPO’ed in 2014. Joe Philip, VP Engineering and Co-Founder Joe is a solar industry veteran with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Prior to Energicity, he served as a Director of Advanced Solutions at SunEdison a global leader in solar development. In his role, he worked on the design development and analysis of solar projects, including for new technologies and hybrid systems. He founded the Development Engineering group responsible for leading design engineering of over 200 MW of solar projects at SunEdison – including several award winning projects, for clients including California State University (10 distinct projects ranging from 100kw – 500kw), SPS New Mexico (510 MW projects), and an award winning projects for the US retailer Walgreens. Prior to SunEdison, at Spire Solar, Joe served as a project engineer where he was responsible for maintaining a fleet of 500kw of project and led construction on 200 kw projects. He has worked in every aspect of the solar industry from module manufacturing to design, installation, performance analytics, and maintenance of PV systems. Patrick Ayemeli, Director Customer Operations Prior to joining Energicity, Mr. Ayemeli worked in Accenture’s utilities practice in Paris France as a consultant. In his work, he developed operational strategies – including revenue and collections strategies and plans for smart grid rollouts for some of the world’s largest utilities. Mr. Ayemeli, a Cameroonian native has both an Masters in Business Administration Ecole de Management de Lyon (EM Lyon) and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences des Appliques de Lyon (INSA Lyon). Malika N’Diaye, Director of Finance Results-driven and hands-on professional, Malika has over 10 years of experience in Finance roles in Europe and in America in international companies; Prior to joining Energicity, Malika was a Finance Manager with Amazon, supporting and driving decision making for an annual scope of 580MM$, but also implementing processes to help drive growth and increase efficiency in the internal logistics and transportation activity launched in 2019; She worked before in the automotive industry at different levels of the organization, and developed a wide range of skills from accounting, inventory control to plant controlling. Malika holds a Masters in International Business from ESCP Paris (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris), and a Engineering degree in Mechanics from INSA Lyon ( Institut National des Sciences des Appliques de Lyon).	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line25
__label__wiki	0.511875	0.511875	AOS Yokohama YOKOHAMA-PORT,KAWASAKI-PORT,SHIMIZU-PORT,YAIZU-PORT STELLA MARIS YOKOHAMA TEL:+81 45-308-7200 STELLA MARIS Yokohama seafares Center 1-13 Sueyoshi-cho, Naka ward, Yokohama,Japan Timetable of Holy Mass Visitting Staff Useful shops in Yokohama Japanese Web AOS changed its official name to Mtella Maris On the occasion of centennial anniversary, AOS changed its official name to Stella Maris, traditionally means Virgin Mary. Also, the new logotype of Stella Maris is declared. We, AOS Yokohama, will continue to act as Stella Maris Yokohama for all seafarers, who visit Japan. Message from Stella Maris Japan for the Day of Seafarers 2020 The Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has designated the second Sunday in July each year as Sea Sunday. It calls for prayers for seafarers on July 12 this year. The Catholic Commission of Japan for Migrants, Refugees and People on the Move also invites you to pray for seafarers and their families. Stella Maris: Serving seafarers for 100 years On October 4, 1920, in Glasgow, Scotland, a priest and several laypeople met to discuss ways to assist crews of ships anchored in Glasgow Harbor. It was the beginning of AOS (Apostleship of the Sea), which became an international organization of the Catholic Church. This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of AOS.The AOS World Congress was to take place in Glasgow in October, but it has been postponed to next year due to the new coronavirus pandemic. Even so, this centenary of AOS (also known as Stella Maris, Star of the Sea) is a good opportunity for more people to know about this apostolate. AOS activities currently take place in 322 ports in 56 countries. Shipping has changed greatly over the last 100 years, but the vocation of AOS has not changed since its foundation because pastoral care has always meant to serve people in all aspects of their humanity ̶ the personal, the social, the professional and the spiritual. Several international organizations have played important roles for seafarers. One is the International Labor Organization (ILO: 1919) which is involved in their life and work. Another is the International Maritime Organization (IMO: 1948), which deals with issues such as maritime safety, and a third is the World Health Organization (WHO: 1948), which is concerned with health. The work of these specialized institutions has improved the lives and working conditions for seafarers but guarantees for their welfare and basic needs are still insufficient. At the beginning of the 20th century, seafarers’ lives were unpredictable, harsh, and unprotected. Today, conditions on many ships are better, but crews are away from their families and homes for a long time, and loneliness is a great problem with fewer crew members on board and shorter stays in port. Also, the increased speed of navigation, lading and unlading makes work even more stressful. It is often reported that it is difficult to secure a truly human living and working environment because of disparities depending on one’s nationality, unfair treatment or abandonment by the company, death, bullying and harassment, or even being taken hostage by pirates and armed robbers. The important thing now is to visit and meet the sailors. They look forward to chatting with visitors and spending time with others. Building trust gives them help with problem solving and provide social, legal, and spiritual support. This year the shipping industry faces unprecedented challenges due to the new coronavirus pandemic. Continue to pray for seafarers and their families. May Our Lady, Star of the Sea (Stella Maris), protect them from all danger. From a prayer of Pope Francis at Lampedusa July 8, 2013 (unofficial translation) Mary, Star of the Sea, Once again, we turn to you to find refuge and peace and implore your protection and help. Mother of God, our mother, Look kindly on all who each day face the dangers of the sea, May each family be guaranteed the food they need to live, May God’s creatures be respected, And may we serve the peace of people. Amen. Mario Michiaki Yamanouchi Bishop in Charge Catholic Commission of Japan for Migrants, Refugees and People on the Move AOS Mass of the Blessed Versin Mary, Stella Maris 20190525AOS_Mass of the Blessed Vergin Mary, Stella Maris 2019年5月25日 \| コメントをどうぞ Copyright ©AOS Yokohama, All rights reserved.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line26
__label__wiki	0.774602	0.774602	Rostrenen (Municipality, Côtes-d'Armor, France) Last modified: 2006-01-14 by ivan sache Keywords: cotes-d'armor \| rostrenen \| ermines (black) \| Municipal flag of Rostrenen - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 3 July 2005 Presentation of Rostrenen Municipal flag of Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor (Department, France) The city of Rostrenen (3,616 inhabitants) located 20 km east of Carhaix-Plouguer in Upper Cornouaille (Central western Brittany), is the capital city of Pays Fisel. A fisel, probably cognate with the French word ficelle (string), is a lace holding a hat, part of the specific costume of the region of Rostrenen, therefore named Pays Fisel. By extension, the local gavotte was named Fisel dance (in Breton, dañs Fisel). The genuine dañs Fisel is performed in 16 municipalities (or parts of them) located east of Carhaix; west of Carhaix, it is replaced by the mountains' gavotte, aka Carhaix-Poullaouen gavotte. Like Carhaix, Rostrenen is a main center of Breton traditional culture, music and dance. The name of the city is made of the two Breton words roz, a hill, and draenen, thorns. The city of Rostrenen developed around the castle built on the hill of Miniou (263 m a.s.l.). In the VIIth century, a local lord built a wooden fortress near a pond. A stone donjon, surrounded by walls, was built near the pond in the XIth century by the Barons of Rostrenen. The Barony of Rostrenen, depending on the Seneschalry of Carhaix, existed until the French Revolution. The Barons of Rostrenen were very important Breton lords: Riwalon was appointed Seneschal of Brittany in 1068; Geoffroy took part to the last Crusade with King of France Saint-Louis at the end of the XIIIth century; Pierre VI was a brother in arms of Constable Duguesclin at the end of the XIVth century, and Pierre VIII, Lieutenant of the Armies, helped Joan of Arc to drive the English out of France. At the end of the XVIth century, Toussaint de Beaumanoir, mestre de camp of the Royal armies, built a new fortress near the pond of Rostrenen. Its walls were said to be 18-foot thick. During the revolt of the nobles against the royal power known as the League, Duke de Mercoeur besieged four times the castle in 1592-1594. The castle was eventually seized, trashed and burnt down. In 1601, King Henri IV ordered the complete suppression of the castle and its fortifications, which then belonged to Hélène, Toussaint's daughter. The castle of Rostrenen was rebuilt in the XVIIIth century by Duchess d'Elbeuf, Baroness of Rostrenen. After the Revolution, it was used as a prison and a gendarmerie. During the building of the Canal from Nantes to Brest, the castle was used as an hospital for the convicts (indeed political prisoneers) housed in Glomel. The castle was eventually used as a school. In December 1300, the inhabitants of Rostrenen noticed a rosebush with leaves and flowers. A statue of the Blessed Virgin was found near the bush. The miraculous statue was solemnly transfered to the chapel of the castle, since there was no church in the village. There were other miracles, especially in the beginning of December. The finding of the statue was celebrated by a pardon (traditional Breton religious festival) and the bod (bush) fair. The chapel of the castle was replaced by the Notre-Dame church in the first half of the XIVth century. Its belltower, considered as one of the nicest in Cornouaille, was suppressed in 1649 because he leaned and was about to fall down. In 1483, Baron Pierre IX obtained from Pope Sixt IV the erection of the church to a collegiate church. One of the four original bells was preserved during the Revolution, it is inscribed faite en may, l'an 1604, passée par feu et flambe. Le nom de Dieu, je loue, je chante (made in May 1604 through fire and flames. I shall praise and sing the name of God). The church windows of the choir, made in 1867 by Gilbert, recall the miracles: an inhabitant of Glomel, miller Rivoal caught in the wheel of his mill; an inhabitant of Bonen, left paralyzed after a bad fall on the market of Callac; Louise Logeat and another men fallen dawn into a well, were saved after the invocation of the statue. The pardon of Rostrenen was transfered to mid-August but the bod fair is still celebrated on the first Tuesday of December. At the end of the XVIIIth century, the bod fair was a magnificent celebration: the parishioners dressed as the characters of the Bible and of the ancient medieval mysteries. An ingenious mechanism allowed an angel to fly down from the belltower with a torch and to light a bonfire. In 1696, Loyer, Dean of the collegiate church, built a fountain near the miraculous bush; the water of the fountain was of course also a miracle cure. Another story of a miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin found in a bush is told in the Breton city of Josselin. Rostrenen is the birth city of the painter Olivier Perrin (1761-1832). Perrin studied in Rennes and Paris and came back to Brittany, teaching painting in Quimper. He worked for several Breton churches, his most famous work being the Breton Gallery, a series of drawings depicting the life of a Breton farmer from birth to death. In 1820, he offered his painting "The Blessed Virgin's Assumption" to the church of his birth city. Municipal website Website of the Celtic Circle of Rostrenen Ivan Sache, 3 July 2005 The municipal flag of Rostrenen, as reported by Hervé Prat, is white with a semy of black ermine spots and three horizontal red stripes. It is a banner of the municipal arms, which are: D'hermine aux trois fasces de gueules. Ermine three bars gules. These are the ancient arms of the Barony of Rosporden. The legend says that during a battle against the Norman invaders, the lord of Rosporden was wounded when helping the Duke of Brittany. He put his bloody hand on his chest (or his shield, depending on the versions of the legend). The blood formed three red stripes and the Duke said: "Rostrenen, this shall be your arms." Similar legends "explain" the origin of the arms of Austria, Aragon and Catalonia. The arms of the Barony of Rostrenen can be seen on a stone used today in the facade of the municipal Multimedia Center, most probably reused from the St. Barbe's chapel. Arnaud Leroy & Ivan Sache, 3 July 2005	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line35
__label__cc	0.73436	0.26564	Feature: The Worth of Black Men, From Slavery to Ferguson The following piece is from the New York Times. It was written by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. By: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts The paper, stained in spots, has yellowed, its black ink faded to a dull brown, but the horizontal lines printed on the page are still a fine blue. Some scribe took great care preparing this page, first dragging a piece of graphite along a straight edge to make two pairs of twin columns. Sometimes the pencil marks skip, disconnecting from the line before joining the page again. Once ordered, the table received its data: numbers rendered by hand but with a machinelike uniformity. One column is titled “Ages — Years Old”; the other, “Valuation.” The first begins in infancy at age 1 and continues to 60, the age of infirmity for an enslaved person after a lifetime of work. In the second column, corresponding prices ascend steadily, beginning with the youngest slave, valued at $100, and climbing by increments of $25 or $50. The chart peaks at age 20 and $900. From there it descends, by the same increments, until ending with the 60-year-old slave worth only $50. This is the “Scale of Valuation of Slaves,” from the papers of Tyre Glen — a prosperous North Carolina slave trader and tobacco planter who was, paradoxically, also an abolitionist and antisecessionist. The economist Robert Evans Jr. noted in 1962 that “the slave market performed for the antebellum South some of the functions now performed by the New York Stock Exchange, i.e., it served in the eyes of the public as a sensitive reflector of current and future business prospects.” Calculating the profitability of slaves as compared with other investments circa 1850, Evans estimated that the purchase of 1,000 20-year-old male slaves — held for 20 or 30 years and accounting for standard rates of depreciation and death — was greater than investments such as the “three- to six-month bankable paper money market in Boston,” or stock in the Northern and Southern railroads. The lingo of the slave trade only emphasizes the importance of these black bodies to the market. In 1860, a Virginia trader valued 20-year-old slaves as “extra men” and “extra women,” worth $1,500-$1,600 and $1,325-$1,400, respectively. A second tier of high-value souls were known as “No. 1 men,” worth $1,400-$1,500, and “No. 1 women,” worth $1,275-$1,325. After depreciation by age, abuse and overwork, they were demoted to what Evans termed “once-prime.” The equation by which Evans arrived at a rate of return on slave investments indicates P as the price of slaves, k as the number of years the investor holds the slaves, H as the yearly rent for male slaves age 20 to 50, N as the number of male slaves alive at midyear and r as the internal rate of interest.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line41
__label__wiki	0.807543	0.807543	Who’s That Guy? New Cavs Coach David Blatt! by Danny Chau Who’s That Guy is an ongoing Grantland series and an orientation tool to use in the vast sports landscape. Local and national reports have confirmed that the Cleveland Cavaliers have reached a deal with longtime international coach David Blatt. He will be the Cavs’ new head coach. Here’s a primer. Who Is He? David Blatt! Can You Give Us His Origin? Framingham, Massachusetts, some 20 miles from Boston. Could You Use Him in a Sentence (of 50 Words or Fewer)? In his 21 years of coaching professionally, David Blatt has won 17 championships in various leagues and tournaments, most recently leading Maccabi Tel Aviv to a Euroleague championship in May; he is simply one of the great winners in basketball today. Are There Any Alternate Pronunciations? Just the one. Wait — actually, story time: In 2012, I somehow managed to watch the Olympic men’s basketball quarterfinal matchup between Russia and Lithuania on a Lithuanian feed. The announcers, as proud Lithuanians reflexively tend to do, added an “-as” suffix to his name. David Blattas. It sounded like “DAH-vid BLAH-tuss.” It’s how I’ve said Blatt’s name in my head for the past two years. Can You Put Those Accomplishments in Perspective? Sure. How’s this: Blatt has won a EuroBasket title (2007), a Euroleague title (2014), and an Olympic medal (bronze, 2012). There are only five other head coaches in basketball history who have hit that trifecta. Wow, OK. Is That the Craziest Thing About Him? No, like most basketball lifers, he’s plenty crazy. Here’s something pretty amazing, though: He’s a Jewish Israeli American who led the Russian men’s national basketball team for six years. Think of how much history had to be compressed into a pill and swallowed by those who lived in and through the former Soviet Union. He’s not bashful about his standing in modern Russian sports culture, either. “Now I’m part of the fabric of the basketball society,” Blatt told Sports Illustrated in 2012. “Those good people gave me the highest order for coaching in Russia, and no foreigner has ever received that. That says it all right there.” What Do Players Think of Him? Let’s take the word of Andrei Kirilenko, one of the best Russian basketball players ever, if not the best. Kirilenko has said in the past that he thinks Blatt is a better coach than Phil Jackson. OK, I Think We’re Done Here. No, we most certainly aren’t. Fine. What’s His Pedigree? He’s a Princeton grad who played point guard for the team from 1977 to 1981, thus making him a Pete Carril disciple. Carril’s lauded Princeton offense runs through his veins and informs much of his on-court philosophies. On the Kurt Rambis Scale of Strict Systemic Interpretation, Where Does Blatt Fit? If the range is 1 to 5, with 5 being Kurt Rambis, I’d say a 2. I’ve watched the Russian national team play over the years, and there is a strong emphasis on making smart, decisive cuts based on reading the players around you. As such, backdoor cuts were abundant. You know, the same backdoor plays that made the Princeton offense famous. But Blatt himself says he doesn’t actually run the Princeton specifically. In an article from his alma mater’s school paper, he paid homage to the foundations of his basketball wisdom. “I learned a great deal from my college career at Princeton,” Blatt said. “[Carril] is one of the greatest basketball minds in history. I learned from him many good lessons, and I learned a few bad ones, too. I think he’d appreciate me saying that, actually.” When You Say Princeton “Runs Through His Veins,” How Do You Mean? In 2011, heinnews had an excellent Q&A with Blatt about European basketball, but the most impressive part of the interview was when Blatt was put on the spot with a little game of word association. He was asked the first thing to come to mind when he heard “Georgetown, 1989, NCAA first round.” Off the dome, without any video assistance, Blatt broke down the second field goal of the Princeton-Georgetown first-round game that, as Sports Illustrated would tell you, “Saved March Madness.” Again: This guy broke down one of the very first possessions of a game that happened 25 years ago extemporaneously just by replaying it in his mind. And he was in no way, shape, or form involved in the game. Here’s the play, which starts at 7:18 in the clip and ends at 7:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwAJweBPd10?t=7m18s Here’s what Blatt said in the interview: I still see the play they ran. It was the backdoor layup. I know the Princeton offense well. I lecture on it. It’s something we used to call weak side-spin where we look to play the weak side but spin dribble and draw the strong side center up and suck the defender up on the weak side wing and then back-cut ’em and throw a bounce pass for a layup. I remember seeing the play and getting really excited about seeing it work, which I know it can. He Sounds Like a “Process Over Results” Kind of Coach. He is, and it’s one of the reasons why so many teams this offseason have decided that now, of all the times he’s been rumored to make the NBA leap, is his moment. Blatt is a guy who demands everything from his players, much in the vein of a Gregg Popovich or a Tom Thibodeau. Every single play matters to him. There is no forest. There is only the tree directly in front of you. Pop and Thibs are the good precedents set, but you don’t have to look far to see where it could go wrong. Mike Dunlap, who coached the Bobcats during the 2012-13 season, had a similar obsession to detail. He overloaded on the practices early and burned out players way sooner than necessary. The NBA has a much more rigorous schedule than European leagues, and Blatt will need a strong assistant or associate head coach to help him reconcile his impulses as a coach and the realities of the league. He Doesn’t Seem Like He Has a Lot of Fun. Don’t be so quick to judge. Is He Media Friendly? I mean, the quotes I’ve shared are pretty good, no? Here’s what he’s like during a presser: Lastly, Are There Any Other Videos of Him We Should Know About? Here’s a brilliantly misleading video titled, “David Blatt kicks Shved and Monya on live broadcast”: Spoiler alert: He doesn’t kick either of them. We wouldn’t be having this discussion if he did. Filed Under: NBA, David Blatt, Euroleague, Danny Chau, Who's That Guy Danny Chau is an assistant editor at Grantland. Archive @ dannychau More From Danny Chau More The Triangle NBA Overnight: The Divergent Nights of Stephen Curry and Anthony Davis October 28, 2015 Songs of the Week: The Return of Adele October 23, 2015 We Found Lopez in a Hopeless Place: Your 2015-16 Brooklyn Nets October 16, 2015 Dead or a Hive: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Goes Down, and the Hornets Go With Him October 6, 2015 Songs of the Week: ‘Where Are Ü Now’ Covers, Mac Miller, and the ‘Unbreakable’ Janet Jackson October 2, 2015 See all from Danny Chau No Messi, No Problem: Neymar Becomes a Superstar October 30, 2015 World Series Weekend: Five Questions for Three (or Two) Royals-Mets Games October 30, 2015 NHL Grab Bag: Let’s Get Spooky October 30, 2015 See all The Triangle What About Rodney Hood? How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ronaldo? A Tactical Preview of USA-Portugal	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.567964	0.432036	Mašita, Karel http://courage.btk.mta.hu/courage/individual/n122838?lv Karel Mašita, a musician and journalist, was born on 5 April 1948. During the 1960s, he was the leader of a band called The Flowers Childrens (sic) which was banned in 1968. He was sentenced (imprisonment, forced psychiatric treatment, protective surveillance) several times during the 1970s and 1980s for the social offence of “social parasitism” because he wanted to work as a musician but did not have the necessary licence or a long-term stable job. He was a member of the Jazz Section and became a legal representative of Artfórum, the successor to the Jazz Section, in the 1990s. He was fully vindicated and, thanks to him, many of the materials relating to the activities of JS which were confiscated during house searches were returned to their owners during the 1990s. Mašita died on 3 December 2007 in Příbram. Izveidotājs Dzimšanas datums Nāves datums Audiovisual Section at Libri Prohibiti Īpašnieks Krājējs Novinky.cz. 2007. "V necelých 60 letech zemřel hudebník a publicista Karel Mašita." Last modified December 3. https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/128125-v-necelych-60-letech-zemrel-hudebnik-a-publicista-karel-masita.html.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line46
__label__cc	0.554355	0.445645	White House Unbutton Formal Dress Code ( Yahoo Company) Pres. Barack Obama has brought significant changes in the formal work environment that is apparent in the White House. Members of the Oval Office have been accustomed to the suit and tie attire that is required by Pres. George W. Bush during his administration. Described by presidential adviser David Gergen as ‘Aloha Zen,’ Pres. Obama certainly has brought a new flare to the way things are run in Washington (Stolberg, 2009, p.258). The distinctions made in the article between Bush and Obama illustrates the strict formal working environment during the former administration compared to the loose and casual observance in the new presidency. The contrast between the two is very apparent as Bush was a Republican president who is accustomed to living in the White House during his father’s presidency. While Obama does not come from a political family and grew up in a typical single household family in the tropical island of Hawaii no less. Obama’s penchant for warm weather also comes apparent in the casual way he dresses which he extended to his staff through ‘business casual’ weekends (ibid). Ultimately, the attitude of the head of the organization defines the policies and concurrent work environment implemented. The members assimilate to what is expected of them and on how they conduct themselves The atmosphere of casualness in the current White House can be compared to the general notion of the working environment of Yahoo! Corporation. Initially, Yahoo! Has received a lot of press exposure through their founders, Jerry and David, who became the main selling point of the company’s image because of their laidback attitude and clothing. They have been described as two guys who wear cut-offs and go barefoot (Carpenter, 2000, p.259). The human interest over the duo became the main focus that the press has immersed itself with. They have become the epitome of Yahoo! as a company and how business is done in the company. To veer away from what has seemed to be a too casual representation of the company their branding also inserted elements of establishing it as an effective enterprise. They have continued to work with the press in informing what they have been up to in order to reach the specific target markets that they are pushing for (ibid, p.160). Interestingly enough, the employees are referred to as Yahoos in the company’s Code of Ethics. This Code provides perhaps one of the most interesting ethical guides for any company. Under ‘Our Values’ of the Yahoo! Code of Ethics (2011, p.4) they included ‘Fun’ elaborated in the following principles: • We believe humor is essential to success. • We applaud irreverence and don’t take ourselves too seriously. • We celebrate achievement. • We yodel. Yahoo! maintains a fun working environment by encouraging its employees to adopt a casual attitude in their work while maintaining a creative atmosphere. In recent development through its new high profile CEO Marissa Mayer, the company has opted to forego of its work-from-home policy and revert to encouraging the value of the workplace. The advent of remote work had been promoted as an alternative to the traditional office seen as a productive counterpart to water-cooler talks and cubicle banter (Silverman and Fottrell, 2013). This shift to home-based work by Yahoo! employees is now brought to an end by Mayer with their Chief for Human Resources Jackie Reses promoting the necessity of physical togetherness. He states through a memo, Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings (as cited by Keller, 2013, para.3). This may be seen differently by people who either favor it or sees it as an uncalled reversion to traditional management. However, the importance of human connection and personal interaction cannot be dismissed in a field that requires productivity and constant teamwork. Compared to the watered down formal dress code in the White House, Yahoo! has continued to maintain a non-restrictive work environment for its employees. Nonetheless, considering the nature and the inherently stern job description that entails being employed in the seat of power of the United States government, Pres. Obama’s ‘unbuttoning’ of the formal dress code and strict as scheduled policy, allows for the cultivation of a new dynamic working environment. Yahoo! is significantly informal when it comes to employee policies as it had always been from the time it was founded. The substantial difference fundamentally lies on its efforts to maintain a perception that it is a well-organized corporation run by competent people. Evidently, the work environment in these two organizations is greatly shaped by the leaders that enforce the standing code of conduct, written or unwritten. Bibliography Carpenter, P. (2000). Ebrands: Building an internet business at breakneck speed. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Dz36eDndrIsCamp.pg=PA161amp.dq=yahoowork+environmentamp.hl=enamp.sa=Xamp.ei=oa59UeylBu6YiAe94oGgCQamp.redir_esc=y#v=onepageamp.q=yahoowork%20environmentamp.f=false Keller, E. (2013). Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s work-from-home memo is from bygone era. The Guardian. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-memo-telecomute Silverman, R. and Fottrell, Q. (2013). The home office in the spotlight . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323384604578328681101539330.html Stolberg, S.G. (2009).White House unbuttons formal dress code. In F. Moshiri, Management communications: An anthology (pp. 257-259). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. Yahoo!. (2011). Winning with integrity: Yahoo!’s code of ethics. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from zttp://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/660619262x0x239565/4f32ddd0-82e5-47c2-ac71-75403ebbb404/ « Global Communications Problem Solution Bodies in society Biopower » Cultural differences in nonverbal communication Marks and Spencers Corporate Identity	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line54
__label__cc	0.579019	0.420981	Central Leeds Gildersome Otley Roundhay History of Adel Quaker Meeting Adel Meeting House and Burial Ground, 19th century The land on which Adel Quaker Meeting House now stands was given by Hannah Baker in 1868 for Quaker burials. The first burial took place in the same year. All gravestones in the burial ground conform to the same simple style. The Meeting House was built soon afterwards and used for funerals. Hannah Baker died in 1871 and is buried in the far corner (top left as you walk along the drive from the Meeting House), just outside the main burial ground. Old gravestones were brought from Camp Lane Court, and laid face down at the far end of the site. As these became mossy and slippery, they were covered with tarmac in the area which is now a car park (at the far end and to the right of the drive). You might also see the grave of Godfrey Wicksteed, who learned his marine skills on sailing ships as a conscientious objector in the first world war. He became a master mariner, and was first mate on the replica voyage of the Mayflower in 1970, which commemorated the voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. In 1930, meeting for worship was held at the Meeting House once a month. By 1938 permission was given to a small group of Quakers to start a weekly meeting on Sunday mornings. By 1940 there was an independent preparative meeting at Adel (a meeting which can hold its own business meetings, and is more or less self‑regulating). The first Sunday school was also established in 1940. After the second world war, the Friends Extension Committee gave £738 towards the building of the Community Centre, which was officially opened in December 1947. In 1964 a rose bed (in the lawn behind the meeting house) was created as a memorial bed for the scattering of ashes. The roses have now been replaced by small shrubs. In 1983 two seats were placed near the memorial bed in loving memory of three Adel friends. A resident warden, Marian Wilbye, with help from her family, created a wonderful cottage garden during her 22 years' service to the meeting. Among the gravestones you may notice the names of Jean Philippe and Lucile lnebnit, originally from Switzerland. Jean lnebnit, inspired by the constructive peacemaking of Pierre Ceresole and the Service Civil International, developed a British branch of the movement called the International Voluntary Service for Peace (IVSP), which organised work camps to promote peace and reconciliation, and after the second world war undertook relief work in Germany. The organisation is still active today as the International Voluntary Service (IVS). There are two war graves in the Burial Ground. Allan Cox died on 13th of the 6th month 1915 aged 17 years (grave no. 312, row VII) and Haydn Derek Ryder died on 11th of the 11th month 1943 aged 21 years (grave no. 475, row X). These graves are liable to inspection by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission every four or five years. The stones are to be kept in good order and to remain in situ for all time and the grass around them to be neatly cut. The names of all those buried were recorded in a large book (now in the Brotherton Library Archives), as well as on the gravestones, and a plan of the site was drawn up. The book is still in use. The plan became too frail for handling and is now also held in the Archives in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. All names have been recorded by Trevor Briggs on the genuki genealogy website Adel Friends Burial Ground Leeds Area Quaker Meetings Facebook Twitter	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.741062	0.741062	Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Technometria will receive your email address. Web3 and Digital Embodiment; Technometria - Issue #36 Web3 will make a difference for all of us if it enables people to become digitally embodied, able to By Phil Windley • Issue #36 • View online Web3 will make a difference for all of us if it enables people to become digitally embodied, able to recognize, remember, and react to other people and organizations online–without the need to be in someone else’s database. The ghost of Taira Tomomori Tim O’Reilly recently published Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3, an excellent discussion on industrial transformation and the role that bubbles play. He used this historical lens to look at Web3 and where we might be with all of it. One of Tim’s points is that we fluctuate between decentralized and centralized models, using Clayton Christensen’s law of conservation of attractive profits to show why this happens. He says: I love the idealism of the Web3 vision, but we’ve been there before. During my career, we have gone through several cycles of decentralization and recentralization. The personal computer decentralized computing by providing a commodity PC architecture that anyone could build and that no one controlled. But Microsoft figured out how to recentralize the industry around a proprietary operating system. Open source software, the internet, and the World Wide Web broke the stranglehold of proprietary software with free software and open protocols, but within a few decades, Google, Amazon, and others had built huge new monopolies founded on big data. Tim’s broader point is that while there’s a lot of promise, the applications that deliver a decentralized experience for most people just aren’t there yet. Enthusiasts like to focus on decentralized finance or “DeFi” but I (and I think Tim) don’t think that’s enough. While centralized payments are a big part of the problem, I don’t think it’s the most fundamental. The most fundamental problem is that people have no place to stand in the modern web. They are not digitally embodied. In Why Web3?, Fred Wilson, who has as deep an understanding of how the underlying technology works as anyone, explains it like this: It all comes down to the database that sits behind an application. If that database is controlled by a single entity (think company, think big tech), then enormous market power accrues to the owner/administrator of that database. This is why I think identity is the most fundamental building block for Web3 and one that’s not being talked about enough yet. Identity is the ability to recognize, remember, and react to people, organizations, systems, and things. In the current web, companies employ many ponderous technological systems to perform those functions. I don’t just mean their authentication and authorization systems, the things we normally associate with identity, but everything they use to create a relationship with their customers, partners, and employees—think of the CRM system, as just one example. In these systems, we are like ghosts in the machines. We have “accounts” in company’s systems, but no good way to recognize, remember, and react to them or anyone else. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) gives people the software and systems to do that. Once we can recognize, remember, and react to others online (with software we control, not just through the fragmented interfaces of our mobile devices) we become digitally embodied, able to take action on our own. With SSI, Fred’s application databases are decentralized. That’s not to say that companies won’t continue to have systems for keeping track of who they interact with. But we’ll finally have systems to keep track of them as well. More importantly, we get ways to interact with each other without having to be in their systems. That’s the most important thing of all. I’ve no doubt that there will be adjacent areas with attractive profits that lead to other forms of centralization, as Tim suggests. But, SSI, DeFi, and other Web3 technologies change the structure of online interaction in ways that will be difficult to undo. SSI, more specifically DIDComm, creates a secure, identity-enabled, privacy-respecting messaging overlay on top of the internet. This changes the game in important ways that level the playing field and creates a new layer where applications cab be built that naturally respect human dignity and autonomy. That doesn’t mean that non-interoperable and non-substitutable applications won’t emerge. After all, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and others became dominant through network effects and there’s nothing about Web3 that reduces those. The only thing that does is continued work on standards and interoperability along with our insistence on digital rights for people. We’re all a part of that effort. As I tell my students: Build the world you want to live in. Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 – O’Reilly There’s been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I’m often asked to comment. I’ve generally avoided doing so because most prognostications about the future turn out to be wrong. What we can do, though, is to ask ourselves questions that help us see more deeply into the present, the soil in which the future is rooted. As William Gibson famously said, “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” We can also look at economic and social patterns and cycles, using as a lens the observation ascribed to Mark Twain that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” www.oreilly.com • Share Why Web3? - AVC Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many leading voices raising doubts about web3. Debate and doubt are healthy. And web3 enthusiasts, particularly on Twitter, remind me of missionaries trying to recruit the unwashed to their belief system. Frankly, it is all too much […] avc.com • Share Relationships and Identity We build digital identity systems to create and manage relationships—not identities. We need our digital relationships to have integrity and to be useful over a specified lifetime. Identity systems should provide relationship integrity and utility to participants for the appropriate length of time. Participants should be able to create relationships with whatever party will provide utility. SSI provides improved support for creating, managing, and using digital relationships. www.windley.com • Share DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet DIDComm is the messaging protocol that provides utility for DID-based relationships. DIDComm is more than just a way to exchange credentials, it’s a protocol layer capable of supporting specialized application protocols for specific workflows. Because of its general nature and inherent support for self-sovereign relationships, DIDComm provides a basis for a self-sovereign internet much more private, enabling, and flexible than the one we’ve built using Web 2.0 technologies. That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading. Please follow me on Twitter. If you enjoyed this, please consider sharing it with a friend or twenty. Just forward this email, or point them at my news page. 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__label__cc	0.507214	0.492786	Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (PAT) / Traditional Farming Product. It is in the area of Cuneo that the native Piedmontese cattle breed has developed and evolved, once used for the production of milk, work and labour, and now bred above all for the production of top quality meat, suitable for the preparation of exquisite typical dishes. A great deal of research has shown that the meat of the native Piedmontese bovine breed has a particularly low fat content: 0.5-1% versus 3% of other bovine breeds. Thanks to this low cholesterol-content, it is leaner than many white meats and with an even lower fat-content than many qualities of fish, thus is acknowledged as one of the best meats at an international level for its diet-nutritional values. Furthermore, it stands out for its low level of connective tissue between the muscular fibres, reason for which it is tender to chew. This characteristic is due not only to a genetic element, but also to controlled growth. In fact, growth that does not respect natural rhythms leads to excessive increase of the connective tissues with consequent meat hardening The redness of the meat, typical of bovine breeds intended for the production of meat, is mainly due to its iron content and a significant quantity of antioxidant compounds, mostly associated with Vitamin E. Nevertheless, as far as the colour of the meat is concerned, various factors are involved such as: age of the animal, what it feeds on and slaughtering conditions. Bovine meat labelled by the “Consorzio di Tutela della Razza Piemontese”, is produced by cattle of Piemontese Breed registered in the “Libro Genealogico Nazionale” (National Genealogical Book) and/or ascribable to the above mentioned genetic type, as results on the passport, slaughtered at over 11 months of age. Electronic labelling carried out by the Consortium makes it possible to trace the product from the shed to the slaughterhouse, to the sales counter. Area of production The area of production is all Piedmont, but in particular, the provinces of Cuneo , Asti and some areas in the province of Turin. Ancient history aside, which dates the origin of today’s Piedmontese Breed back to the fusion of the Aurochs type cattle with the Zebuine populations arriving from Pakistan, a first historical mention of the Piedmontese breed dates back to 1800, as portrayed by the work of Prof. Domenico Vallada. The “double leg” or “horse back” or “Facon” nature of this breed which characterises today’s meat structure of the Piedmontese Breed, dates back to 1886, as attested in the Commune of Guarene d’Alba. In virtue of the place of origin, i.e. the Alba area, of the “double back” phenomenon, both breeders and researchers of that time alike, defined cattle of such structure Albese under breed. The establishment of a first genealogical book, and, thus a first group from which to give way to the “rescue of the Piedmontese cattle breed”, can be dated around 1887 (on occasion of the first special competition of that year, the winner being Augusto – no other name was more appropriate for the progenitor of a noble descendant – and it belonged to Count Ripa di Meano of Savigliano), even though such a praiseworthy initiative failed miserably, since its foundations were not sufficiently solid to teach and prepare the breeders for such an important institution. However, selection work continued and, in compliance with the regulations established by the Ministry of Agriculture and of the Forests, a standard to improve the Piedmontese cattle breed was defined by the ” Ispettorato Agrario per il Piemonte e la Liguria “, to defend the area of breeding, the morphological characteristics such as height, weight, coat and pigmentation, the structure, minimum quantity of milk produced and the quality of the milk; in the meantime, a “selection nucleus” was established. Disputes between the promoters of the “normal” Piedmontese breed and the Piedmontese “leg” or “fassone” breed were dropped, and some points of reference relative to selection were established. In the 50s and 60s of the last century, 84 researchers studying the Piedmontese breed concentrated their studies on the characteristics of the meat and on breeding systems. A decisive turning point regarding a breed intended for the production of meat was reached in 1976, when the breed standard was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture stating: “the action of improving the Piedmontese breed will have to concern precocity, intended as the early attainment of the slaughtering age, growth rate, index of food conversion, yield on butchering, carcass characteristics and quality of the meat, as well as fecundity and longevity of reproduction cattle, without neglecting the production of milk. T he 80s and 90s witnessed more and more breed specialisation concentrated on the production of meat and less and less on the production of milk. Community regulations issued related to the production of milk, which did hardly adapted to the smaller farms typical of the Piedmontese breed, practically led to the disappearance of the smaller farms of the Piedmontese breed raised for the double production of milk and meat. Today, the Piedmontese Breed is top in terms of animals bred among the native meat breeds and third amongst those raised in Italy after the Razza Frisone and the Razza Bruna, both milk-producing breeds. The Coalvi seal of quality The Coalvi-Razza Piemontese was officially founded on July 23 1984 in Bra, with the fusion of two realities linked with the farming world. The genial idea came from a vet Francesco Delfino, who intended to defend the interests of small breeders against the abuse of power of the dealers who would not give the just value to Razza Piemontese cattle. In the same years, also amongst members of Breeders’ Associations, some did recognise that producing alone was not sufficient, but it was also necessary to improve and bring this native species to light. Therefore, in that period, a first example of meat traceability began: ear marks were applied to all the animals of member firms intending to join the Coalvi circuits (in that period cattle were not yet registered) so they could be recognised by butchers and given an unequivocal code. Further marking was then carried out on beef sides at slaughterhouses by the Official Vet, in order to be recognised at the sales point. Sales points undertook to purchase only animals of Piedmontese Breed deriving from member breeders of the Association. In order that the meat be recognised by the consumer, a logo also needed to be created to identify sales points at which to find member-produced meats. In 1988, the Coalvi mark obtained the “seal of quality” for Razza Piemontese meat. In February of 2000, the Association obtained approval of labelling disciplinary regulations granted by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry according to UC 1760/00 and authorisation number IT007ET. As from that moment, development of the Razza Piemontese has an additional means to guarantee traceability of the meat down to the consumer. The Association immediately decided to activate electronic traceability, starting from the farm down to the sales point This initiative involved great efforts both in terms of personnel and in terms of economic resources, since many butchers and workshops were lacking in computers and personnel had little knowledge of data processing. As for the sales points, adhesion to the disciplinary regulations foresaw the use of weighing scales with special software capable of issuing receipts for each purchase of meat, containing all the details useful to trace its origin. The “new technology” created many problems also for this category. Now, six years from the first receipt issued, computer traceability has become a part of the Association’s procedures and has contributed to giving the Razza Piemontese its utmost value. 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__label__wiki	0.96533	0.96533	CFB: Fairley trying to stay stress free MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Not long ago, Nick Fairley was being projected as a possible No. 1 overall NFL draft pick. The former Auburn defensive tackle's stock seems to have dipped since then among draft analysts amid questions about his work ethic, but Fairley is trying to keep his focus on landing a job and not on what people are saying about him. "If I would really pay attention to it, it would be a very stressful deal for me," he said in a phone interview Thursday. "I really just try not to pay attention to it, to just let things flow out. They had me at the top then they dropped me down." It's not as if the Lombardi Award winner and defensive star for the national champion Tigers has plunged down the draft boards. He's still widely projected to go in the top 10, with many mock drafts predicting the Tennessee Titans will select him at No. 8. Fairley has had private interviews with Denver (No. 2 pick), Buffalo (3), Cincinnati (4), Cleveland (6), Tennessee (8) and Washington (10). Fairley's agent, Brian Overstreet of Houston, said another team picking in the top 10 has also started talks with them. ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay said there are questions about Fairley's work ethic - "he takes more plays off than your average defensive tackle" - and the fierce pass rusher's ability against the run. "And I also think there's a major concern about him translating to the NFL, getting paid, having his paycheck and continuing to work," McShay said. Fairley said those kinds of questions should be answered by the difficult route he took to Auburn, rising from a junior college player to one of the nation's top defensive players in two years. "My work ethic's not a problem," he said. "I think it's more like what you bring to the table when you're out there on Sundays, is what the teams are looking for. I've been working hard since I played football, having to go the JUCO route. My work ethic shouldn't be an issue." He certainly made giant strides in two years at Auburn. Fairley had just 3 1/2 tackles for loss and 1 1/2 sacks as a sophomore while showing flashes as a pass rusher late in the season. It's still a far cry from the 24 stops behind the line and 11 1/2 sacks of last season, when his quickness and explosiveness for a 6-foot-4, 291-pounder made him seem downright unblockable at times. "This past year, he just explodes on the scene," McShay said. "Why is he just a one-year wonder? Is he going to work? You hear a lot of different things but ultimately everything comes back to whether he's consistently working and doing the right things off the field and whether he's going to take care of his body, show up on time, be responsible, be a leader on the defense to be a top overall pick or top 3." McShay also said he has the ability to "come in and make a real impact if he wants to work at it." Overstreet said he offered his client the same advice when he was projected as the No. 1 pick or "just" a top 10 guy. "We tell him to ignore them both," Overstreet said. "The draft is really a chess match. No teams tells the others what they're going to do. We understand the process they're going to go through with a fine-toothed comb. " Fairley, who is returning to Auburn this weekend for the Tigers spring game, said NFL teams haven't dropped any hints that they might take him. He also said the interview and meeting process since the NFL combine and Auburn's pro day has had a fun side even with millions of dollars on the line.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line65
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__label__cc	0.677018	0.322982	Page 70Page 71 he world has changed dramatically since the start of this century, when the Millennium Development Goals were put forward as the overarching framework for development cooperation. World leaders at the Millennium Summit sought to create what they called ‘a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world’. That did not happen as planned. To understand the newer challenges now embodied in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we need to look at the larger sea in which these trends were set afloat.Since 2001, terrorist attacks that deliberately target civilians have become more deadly, daring, and common. Armed conflicts are now the largest and longest experienced since the end of World War II. The refugee crisis in Europe taught the world that wars in faraway places will not stay remote. International humanitarian law is now largely ignored, with the deliberate bombing of healthcare facilities and the use of siege and starvation as weapons of war. Warnings about the consequences of climate change are increasingly shrill. Records for extreme weather events are being broken a record number of times. The past three years have been the hottest ever. The phrase “mega-disaster” entered the humanitarian vocabulary following devastating earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, droughts, and floods.The world population is now bigger, more urban, and a lot older, adding dementia to the list of top health priorities. Everywhere in the world, people are living longer sicker lives, increasing the burden on health services, budgets, and the workforce.Hunger has persisted, but most of the world got fat. The world has 800 million chronically hungry people, but it also has countries where more than 70 per cent of the adult population is obese or overweight. The globalized marketing of unhealthy products opened wide the entry point for the rise of lifestyle-related chronic conditions. Noncommunicable diseases have overtaken infectious diseases as the biggest killers worldwide. This is a unique time in history, where economic progress, improved living conditions, and greater purchasing power are actually increasing diseases instead of reducing them.Social media have become a new voice with considerable force, yet few safeguards governing the accuracy of its content. The proliferation of front groups and lobbies, protecting commodities that harm health, has created arguments that further muddle public thinking and challenge the authority of evidence.What does this mean for public trust in the evidence produced by science, medicine, and public health?The 21st century has been rocked by the emergence of four new human pathogens: SARS, the H5N1 and H7N9 influenza viruses, and the MERS coronavirus. Other older diseases have remerged in ominous ways, including Ebola, yellow fever, and Zika virus disease. As the century progressed, more and more first- and second-line antimicrobials failed. The pipeline of replacement products has nearly run dry, raising the spectre of a post-antibiotic era in which common infections will once again kill.The world is also much richer than at the start of this century. Countries like China and India lifted millions DR MARGARET CHAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)GRAND CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT DECADE IN GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY AND PROGRAMMES“THIS IS A UNIQUE TIME IN HISTORY, WHERE ECONOMIC PROGRESS, IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS, AND GREATER PURCHASING POWER ARE ACTUALLY INCREASING DISEASES INSTEAD OF REDUCINGTHEM”T070 HEALTH	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.684788	0.684788	Syncretism Assimilation of two or more originally discrete traditions For the linguistic term, see Syncretism (linguistics). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Syncretism" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Syncretism /ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm/ is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths. Syncretism also occurs commonly in expressions of arts and culture (known as eclecticism) as well as politics (syncretic politics). 1 Nomenclature 2 Social and political roles 3 Religious syncretism 4 Cultures and societies 4.1 Mogul Empire 4.2 During the Enlightenment Nomenclature[edit] The English word is first attested in the early 17th century,[1] from Modern Latin syncretismus, drawing on Greek συγκρητισμός (synkretismos), supposedly meaning "Cretan federation", but this is a spurious etymology from the naive idea in Plutarch's 1st-century AD essay on "Fraternal Love (Peri Philadelphias)" in his collection Moralia (2.490b). He cites the example of the Cretans, who compromised and reconciled their differences and came together in alliance when faced with external dangers. "And that is their so-called Syncretism [Union of Cretans]". More likely as an etymology is sun- ("with") plus kerannumi ("mix") and its related noun, "krasis," "mixture." Erasmus probably coined the modern usage of the Latin word in his Adagia ("Adages"), published in the winter of 1517–1518, to designate the coherence of dissenters in spite of their differences in theological opinions. In a letter to Melanchthon of April 22, 1519, Erasmus specifically adduced the Cretans of Plutarch as an example of his adage "Concord is a mighty rampart". Social and political roles[edit] The use of elephant-shaped column brackets in buildings of the Lahore Fort reflects Hindu influences on Mughal Architecture during the reign of Akbar. Islam forbids representation of living figures. Overt syncretism in folk belief may show cultural acceptance of an alien or previous tradition, but the "other" cult may survive or infiltrate without authorized syncresis nevertheless. For example, some Conversos developed a sort of cult for martyr-victims of the Spanish Inquisition, thus incorporating elements of Catholicism while resisting it. The Kushite kings who ruled Upper Egypt for approximately one century and the whole of Egypt for approximately 57 years, from 721 to 664 BC, constituting the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in Manetho's Aegyptiaca, developed a syncretic worship identifying their own god Dedun with the Egyptian Osiris. They maintained this worship even after being driven out of Egypt. A temple dedicated to this syncretic god, built by the Kushite ruler Atlanersa, was unearthed at Jebel Barkal.[2][3] Syncretism was common during the Hellenistic period, with rulers regularly identifying local deities in various parts of their domains with the relevant god or goddess of the Greek Pantheon, as a means of increasing the cohesion of the Kingdom. This practice was accepted in most locations, but vehemently rejected by the Jews who considered the identification of Yahwe with the Greek Zeus as the worst of blasphemy. The Roman Empire continued this practice, first by the identification of traditional Roman deities with Greek ones, producing a single Graeco-Roman Pantheon, and then identifying members of that pantheon with the local deities of various Roman provinces. Allegedly, an undeclared form of syncretism was the transfer of many attributes of the goddess Isis - whose worship was widespread in the Later Roman Empire - to the Christian Virgin Mary. Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding Shintō beliefs into Buddhism or the supposed amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christianity during its spread into Gaul, the British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia. In later times, Christian missionaries in North America identified Manitou - the spiritual and fundamental life force in the traditional beliefs of the Algonquian groups - with the God of Christianity. Similar identifications were made by missionaries at other locations in the Americas and Africa, whenever encountering a local belief in a Supreme God or Supreme Spirit of some kind. Indian influences are seen in the practice of Shi'i Islam in Trinidad. Others have strongly rejected it as devaluing and compromising precious and genuine distinctions; examples of this include post-Exile Second Temple Judaism, Islam, and most of Protestant Christianity.[further explanation needed][citation needed] Syncretism tends to facilitate coexistence and unity between otherwise different cultures and world-views (intercultural competence), a factor that has recommended it to rulers of multi-ethnic realms. Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of "piety" and "orthodoxy", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense of un-compromised cultural unity in a well-defined minority or majority. Religious syncretism[edit] Main article: Religious syncretism Further information: Hellenistic religion, Hellenistic Judaism, Christian influences in Islam, and Iranian religions § Medieval period Further information: New religious movements Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and the latter scenario happens quite commonly in areas where multiple religious traditions exist in proximity and function actively in a culture, or when a culture is conquered, and the conquerors bring their religious beliefs with them, but do not succeed in entirely eradicating the old beliefs or (especially) practices. Religions may have syncretic elements to their beliefs or history, but adherents of so-labeled systems often frown on applying the label, especially adherents who belong to "revealed" religious systems, such as the Abrahamic religions, or any system that exhibits an exclusivist approach. Such adherents sometimes see syncretism as a betrayal of their pure truth. By this reasoning, adding an incompatible belief corrupts the original religion, rendering it no longer true. Indeed, critics of a syncretistic trend may use the word or its variants as a disparaging epithet, as a charge implying that those who seek to incorporate a new view, belief, or practice into a religious system pervert the original faith. Non-exclusivist systems of belief, on the other hand, may feel quite free to incorporate other traditions into their own. Keith Ferdinando notes that the term "syncretism" is an elusive one,[4] and can apply to refer to substitution or modification of the central elements of a religion by beliefs or practices introduced from elsewhere. The consequence under such a definition, according to Ferdinando, can lead to a fatal "compromise" of the original religion's "integrity".[5] In modern secular society, religious innovators sometimes construct new faiths or key tenets syncretically, with the added benefit or aim of reducing inter-religious discord. Such chapters often have a side-effect of arousing jealousy and suspicion among authorities and ardent adherents of the pre-existing religion. Such religions tend to inherently appeal to an inclusive, diverse audience. Sometimes the state itself sponsored such new movements, such as the Living Church founded in Soviet Russia and the German Evangelical Church in Nazi Germany, chiefly to stem all outside influences. The god Hermanubis, an example of syncretism between Ancient Greek religion and Ancient Egyptian religion Cultures and societies[edit] Main article: Moral syncretism According to some authors, "Syncretism is often used to describe the product of the large-scale imposition of one alien culture, religion, or body of practices over another that is already present."[6] Others such as Jerry H. Bentley, however, have argued that syncretism has also helped to create cultural compromise. It provides an opportunity to bring beliefs, values, and customs from one cultural tradition into contact with, and to engage different cultural traditions. Such a migration of ideas is generally successful only when there is a resonance between both traditions. While, as Bentley has argued, there are numerous cases where expansive traditions have won popular support in foreign lands, this is not always so.[7] Mogul Empire[edit] In the 16th century a new religion called the Din-i Ilahi (literally, "Religion of God")[8][9] was propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 CE, intending to merge some of the elements of the religions of his empire, and thereby reconcile the differences that divided his subjects.[10] The elements were primarily drawn from Islam and Hinduism, but some others were also taken from Christianity, Jainism, and Zoroastrianism. Akbar the Great holding a court discussing Theology. More resembling a personality cult than a religion, it had no sacred scriptures, no priestly hierarchy, and fewer than 20 disciples, all hand-picked by Akbar himself. It is also accepted that the policy of sulh-i-kul, which formed the essence of the Dīn-i Ilāhī, was adopted by Akbar as a part of general imperial administrative policy. Sulh-i-kul means "universal peace".[11][12] During the Enlightenment[edit] The modern, rational non-pejorative connotations of syncretism arguably date from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie articles: Eclecticisme and Syncrétistes, Hénotiques, ou Conciliateurs. Diderot portrayed syncretism as the concordance of eclectic sources. Scientific or legalistic approaches of subjecting all claims to critical thinking prompted at this time much literature in Europe and the Americas studying non-European religions such as Edward Moor's The Hindu Pantheon of 1810,[13] much of which was almost evangelistically appreciative, embracing spirituality and creating the space and tolerance in particular disestablishment of religion (or its stronger form, official secularisation as in France) whereby believers of spiritualism, agnosticism, atheists and in many cases more innovative or pre-Abrahimic based religions could promote and spread their belief system, whether in the family or beyond. Religion portal Conflation Cultural assimilation Religious pluralism ^ The Oxford English Dictionary first attests the word syncretism in English in 1618. ^ Kendall & Ahmed Mohamed 2016, pp. 34 & 94. sfn error: no target: CITEREFKendallAhmed_Mohamed2016 (help) ^ Török 2002, p. 158. sfn error: no target: CITEREFTörök2002 (help) ^ Ferdinando, K. (1995). "Sickness and Syncretism in the African Context" (PDF). In Antony Billington; Tony Lane; Max Turner (eds.). Mission and Meaning: Essays Presented to Peter Cotterell. Paternoster Press. ISBN 978-0853646761. ^ Ferdinando, Keith (1995). "Sickness and Syncretism in the African Context". In Billington, Antony; Turner, Max (eds.). Mission and Meaning: Essays Presented to Peter Cotterell (PDF). Paternoster Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0853646761. Retrieved 2018-06-30. The Christian faith is inevitably assimilated in terms of the existing structures of thought of its adherents, whatever their culture. Nevertheless, there are points at which the worldview of any people will be found to be incompatible with central elements of the gospel; if conversion to Christianity is to be more than purely nominal, it will necessarily entail the substantial modification of the traditional worldview at such points. Where this does not occur it is the Christian faith which is modified and thus relativised by the worldview, and the consequence is syncretism. [...] The term 'syncretism' [...] is employed here of the substitution or modification of central elements of Christianity by beliefs of practices introduced from elsewhere. The consequence of such a process is fatally to compromise its integrity. ^ Peter J. Claus and Margaret A. Mills, South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia: (Garland Publishing, Inc., 2003). ^ Jerry Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), viii. ^ Din-i Ilahi - Britannica Online Encyclopedia[verification needed] ^ Roy Choudhury, Makhan Lal (1997) [First published 1941], The Din-i-Ilahi, or, The religion of Akbar (4th ed.), New Delhi: Oriental Reprint, ISBN 978-81-215-0777-6 [verification needed] ^ "Why putting less Mughal history in school textbooks may be a good idea". [verification needed] ^ "Finding Tolerance in Akbar, the Philosopher-King". [verification needed] ^ Blurton, T. Richard. Hindu Art. Harvard University Press. p. 94. "Syncretism" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. Assmann, Jan (1997). Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-58738-0. Assmann, Jan (2008). "Translating Gods: Religion as a Factor of Cultural (Un)Translatability". In de Vries, Hent (ed.). Religion: Beyond a Concept. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0823227242. HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2018) Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2018) "Syncretic Debris: From Shared Bosnian Saints to the ICTY Courtroom". In: A. Wand (ed.) Tradition, Performance and Identity Politics in European Festivals (special issue of Ethnoscripts 20:1). Cotter, John (1990). The New Age and Syncretism, in the World and in the Church. Long Prairie, Minn.: Neumann Press. 38 p. N.B.: The approach to the issue is from a conservative Roman Catholic position. ISBN 0-911845-20-8 Pakkanen, Petra (1996). Interpreting Early Hellenistic Religion: A Study Based on the Mystery Cult of Demeter and the Cult of Isis. Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens. ISBN 978-951-95295-4-7. Smith, Mark S. (2010) [2008]. God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6433-8. Look up syncretism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Media related to Syncretism at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syncretism&oldid=961526278" All pages needing factual verification Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from September 2019 Articles needing additional references from July 2015 Wikipedia articles needing clarification from June 2017 Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference This page was last edited on 9 June 2020, at 00:23 (UTC).	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line84
__label__cc	0.58779	0.41221	Day Two - Dodge City Liberty Garden Enjoy reflection and quiet time at Liberty Garden. Liberty Garden is a tribute to those who lost their lives in the 9-11 tragedies. The memorial includes pieces from the World Trade Centers, limestone from the Pentagon, and sandstone from the hemlock grove near the site of the flight 93 crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Wright Park Zoo The Wright Park Zoo is located in Wright Park. It is open daily except during inclement weather. Admission is free. Summer Hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day): Cattle Feedlot Overlook A view of the cattle industry today, one of the largest operations in Southwest Kansas. The feedlot is located two and a half miles east of Dodge City on Wyatt Earp Boulevard/Highway 283. Old Fort Dodge & Fort Dodge Cemetery Five miles east of Dodge City on Highway 400 is the site of Old Fort Dodge, founded to help protect a long section of the Santa Fe Trail. It served as a supply post and base of operation against the warring Indians from 1865 to 1882. It was removed from service in 1882 and now serves as a Kansas State Soldier’s Home. Several original buildings remain, including the commanding officer’s quarters, enlisted men’s barracks, and the post hospital. All the structures were built of limestone quarried north of Dodge City by civilians and soldiers. Both civilians and soldiers were buried in the military cemetery. The saying was “the rich are buried at the Fort and the cowhands and unknown were buried on Boot Hill or gone to hell.” A self-guided storyboard tour of the grounds is available. There is also a small museum and library. The grounds are closed some holidays. Admission is free and the grounds are handicap accessible. For more information please call (620) 227-2121. Coronado Cross The Coronado Cross marks the spot where Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, a Spanish explorer, is said to have crossed the Arkansas River in search of the fabled “Seven Cities of Gold” in 1541. This location is just one mile east from Fort Dodge on Highway 400. Coronado Cross is a short drive nine miles east of Dodge City. Santa Fe Trail Tracks Tracks of the original wagon trail used by pioneers from 1821 to the 1880s are located nine miles west of town. There is a nice overlook and a trail down to the tracks. You can stand on a bridge over the tracks and get a close view of one of the most visible tracks left from this historic trail. The area is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. Lunch Break: Check out the many dining options available in Dodge City. Spend an afternoon in the outdoors. Optional afternoon activities are described below. Dodge City Parks Enjoy an outing at any of Dodge City's many family parks, bicycle and pedestrian trails, or take in a game at Legends Field or at the soccer complex. Mariah Hills Golf Course Mariah Hills has almost everything a golfer needs from a bright and spacious clubhouse to a professionally manicured course. Rolling bluegrass fairways and bent grass greens set against the native beauty of the high plains provide a fun yet challenging experience. Mariah Hills offers a full service pro-shop, Class A golf professional, driving range and putting green, private lessons, and much more! The course is located at 1800 Matt Down Lane. For more information call (620) 225-8182. Day One - Dodge City Southwest Kansas Day Trips Ranches, Mansions, Millionaires, and Cowboys Wildlife & Wild West Itinerary (PDF)	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line88
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__label__wiki	0.525818	0.525818	Prabhupada in New York City — Enlightenment on Skid Row Posted on December 24, 2017 by vyasasan under A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Biography, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami The Biography of a Pure Devotee by Srila Satsvarupa dasa Goswami excerpted from Back To Godhead Magazine August 1979 …Now that Srila Prabhupada had left Seventy-second Street and had moved downtown, it wasn’t long before new people were coming to see him. ‘After a few minutes … the sound of the cymbals and the incense . . . we weren’t in the Bowery any longer. We started chanting Hare Krsna.. . . I remember it was relaxing and very interesting to be able to chant, and I found Swamiji very fascinating. . . .” One of the first women to take an interest in Srila Prabhupada was twenty-year-old Carol Bekar. She came from an immigrant Catholic background, and she immediately associated Catholicism with the philosophy of bhakti-yoga. She was divorced and was now living with the brother of Carl Yeargens. I had just come out of a marriage that failed [Carol relates], and I was trying to make some kind of a life for myself. Then I met Carl, and the Swami came. I think I was the first woman who approached his movement. The Swami’s attitude toward women was not difficult, but his teachings were difficult for some women. It wasn’t easy, especially in that era when things were so confused and highly political in this country. I think the major problem for the small group that went to see him on the Bowery was how we were going to translate his ideas into the context of New York City, 1966. He didn’t seem to think there needed to be much adjustment. One time there was discussion of Arjuna deciding to go to war. It was difficult for Arjuna to decide, because war meant taking life. But Krsna convinced him that if it is in the service of God it is allowed. People found that idea very difficult to accept, because the controversy in Vietnam was beginning to heat up. People wanted to know the political ramifications of his religious doctrines. But he wasn’t interested in that. Of course, everyone was very reverential to him, but none of us had the background in the scriptures and the philosophy. It was a very interracial, music-oriented scene. There were a few professional musicians, and a lot of people who enjoyed playing or just listening. Some people were painting in some of the lofts, and that’s basically what was going on. We had memorable kirtanas. One time there was a very beautiful ceremony: Some of us went over early to prepare for it. There must have been a hundred people who came that day. Whenever he had the chanting, the people were fairly in awe of the Swami. On the Bowery, a kind of transcendence came out of the ringing of the cymbals. He used the harmonium, and many people played hand cymbals. Sometimes he played the drum. From the very beginning, he stressed the importance of sound and the realization of Godhead through sound. That was, I suppose, the attraction that these musicians found in him—the emphasis on sound as a means for attaining transcendence and the Godhead. But he wanted a serious thing. He was interested in discipleship. Chanting and Cooking Almost all of Prabhupada’s Bowery friends were musicians or friends of musicians. They were into music—music, drugs, women, and spiritual meditation. Because Prabhupada’s presentation of the Hare Krsna mantra was both musical and meditative, they were automatically interested. But they were interested in it more as Indian meditation music than as a way of worshiping God as the Supreme Person by chanting His name. Prabhupada stressed that all the Vedic mantras (or hymns) were sung—in fact, the words Bhagavad-gita meant “the Song of God.” But the Vedic songs had words, and these words were sound incarnations of God in the form of His name. The musical accompaniment of hand cymbals, drum, and harmonium was just that—an accompaniment—and had no spiritual purpose independent of the chanting of the name of God. Prabhupada allowed any instrument to be used, as long as it did not detract from the chanting. For the Bowery musicians, sound was spirit and spirit was sound, in a merging of music and meditation. But for Prabhupada music without the name of God wasn’t meditation at all; it was sense gratification, or at most a kind of stylized impersonal meditation. But he was glad to see the musicians coming to play along in his kirtanas, to hear him, and to chant responsively. Some, having stayed up all night playing somewhere on their instruments. would come by in the morning and sing with the Swami. He did not dissuade them from their focus on sound; rather, he gave them sound. In the Vedas, sound is said to be the first element of material creation; the source of sound is God, and God is eternally a person. Prabhupada’s whole emphasis was on getting people to chant God’s personal, transcendental name. Whether they took it as jazz, folk music, rock, or Indian meditation made no difference, as long as they began to chant Hare Krsna. Sometimes Carol Bekar would go shopping with Srila Prabhupada in nearby Chinatown, where he would purchase ingredients for his cooking. He would cook and at the same time teach and supervise others. He used to cook with us in the kitchen [Carol Bekar continues], and he was always aware of everyone else’s activities in addition to his own cooking. He knew exactly how things should be. He washed everything and made sure everyone did everything correctly. He was a teacher. We used to make capatis by hand, but then one day he asked me to get him a rolling pin. I brought my rolling pin, and he appropriated it. He put some men on rolling capatis and supervised them very carefully I made a chutney for him at home. He always accepted our gifts graciously, although I don’t think he ever ate them. Perhaps he was worried we might put something that wasn’t allowed in his diet. He used to take things from me and put them in the cupboard. I don’t know what he finally did with them, but I am sure he didn’t throw them away. I never saw him eat anything that I had prepared, but he accepted everything. Serious Newcomers Most of the Swami’s visitors would call in the evening. The loft was quite out of the way, and it was on the Bowery. A cluster of sleeping derelicts regularly blocked the street-level entrance, and visitors would find as many as half a dozen bums to step over before climbing the four flights of stairs. But it was something new; you could go and sit with a group of hip people and watch the Swami lead kirtana. The room was dimly lit, strange, and impressive; and Prabhupada would burn incense. Many casual visitors came and went. One of them—Gunthar—had vivid impressions. You walked right off the Bowery into a room filled with incense [Gunthar relates]. It was quiet. Everyone was talking in hushed tones, not really talking at all. Swamiji was sitting in front of the room, in meditation. There was a tremendous feeling of peace which I had never had before in this context. I d happened to have studied for two years to become a minister and was into meditation, study, and prayer. But this was my first time to do anything Eastern or Hindu. There were lots of pillows around and mats on the floor for people to sit on. I don’t think there were any pictures or statues. It was just Swamiji, incense, and mats, and obviously the respect of the people in the room for him. Before we went up, Carl was laughing and saying how Swami wanted everyone to use the hand cymbals just correctly. I had never played the cymbals before, but when it began I just tried to follow Swamiji, who was doing it in a certain way. Things were building up, the sound was building up, but then someone was doing it wrong. And Swamiji just very, very calmly shook a finger at someone, and they looked, and then everything stopped. He instructed this person from a distance, and this fellow got the right idea, and they started up again. After a few minutes… the sound of the cymbals and the incense … we weren’t in the Bowery any longer. We started chanting Hare Krsna. That was my first experience in chanting—I’d never chanted before. There’s nothing in Protestant religion that comes even close to that. Maybe Catholics with their Hail Mary’s, but it’s not quite the same thing. I remember that it was relaxing and very interesting to be able to chant, and I found Swamiji very fascinating. The loft in the Bowery was more open than Prabhupada’s previous quarters and Prabhupada had lost some of his privacy. Now some of the visitors were skeptical and even challenging, but everyone found the Swami confident and joyful. Some of them could see that he had a far-reaching plan for spreading Krsna consciousness. He knew what he wanted to do and was singlehandedly carrying it out. “It is not one man’s job,” he would say. But Prabhupada went on doing all he could, depending on Krsna for the results. David was beginning to help, and more people were coming to visit him. One of the most serious newcomers was a boy named Michael Grant. Mike was twenty-four. His father, who was Jewish, owned a record shop in Portland, Oregon, where Mike grew up. After studying music at Portland’s Reed College and at San Francisco State, Mike, who played the piano and many other instruments, moved to New York City, along with his girlfriend, hoping to get into music professionally. But he quickly became disenchanted with the commercial music scene. Playing in nightclubs and pandering to commercial demands seemed particularly unappealing. In New York he joined the musicians’ union and worked as a music arranger and as an agent for several local groups. “He Wasn’t in a Hurry” Mike lived on the Bowery in an A.I.R. loft on Grand Street. It was a large loft where musicians often congregated for jam sessions. But as he turned more and more to serious composing, he found himself retiring from the social side of the music scene. His interests ran more to the spiritual, quasi-spiritual, and mystical books he had been reading. He had encountered several svamis, yogis, and self-styled spiritualists in the city and had taken up the regular practice of hatha-yoga asanas (sitting postures). From his first meeting with the Swami, Mike was interested and quite open, as he was with all religious persons. He thought all genuinely religious people were good, although he did not care to identify with any particular group. There was a little bit of familiarity [Michael Grant relates] because I had seen other svamis. The way he was dressed, the way he looked—older and swarthy—weren’t new to me. But at the same time there was an element of novelty. I was very curious. I didn’t hear him talk when I first came in—he was just chanting—but I mainly was waiting to hear what he was going to say. I had heard people chant before. I thought, why else would he put himself in such a place, without any comforts, unless the message he’s trying to get across is more important than his comfort? I think the thing that struck me most was the poverty that was all around him. This was curious, because the places that I had been before had been just the opposite—very opulent. There was the Vedanta center in upper Manhattan and others. They were filled with staid, older men with their leather chairs and pipe tobacco-that kind of environment. But this was real poverty. The whole thing was curious. Prabhupada looked very refined, which was also curious—that he was in this place. When he talked, I immediately saw that he was a scholar and that he spoke with great conviction. Some statements he made were very daring. He was talking about God, and this was all new—to hear someone talk about God. I always wanted to hear someone I could respect talk about God. I always liked to hear religious speakers, but I measured them very carefully. So when he spoke, I began to think, “Well, here is someone talking about God who may really have some realization of God.” He was the first one I had come across who might be a person of God, who could feel really deeply. I went up to him afterwards. I had the same feeling I’d had on other occasions when I d been to hear famous people in concerts. I was always interested in going by after concerts to see musicians and singers just to meet them and see what they were like. I had a similar feeling after Prabhupada spoke, so I went up and started talking. But the experience was different from the others in that he wasn’t in a hurry. He could talk to me, whereas with others all you could do was get in a few words. They were always more interested in something else. But he was a person who was actually showing some interest in me as a person, and I was so overwhelmed that I ran out of things to say very quickly. I was surprised. Our meeting broke off on the basis of my not having anything further to say. It was just the opposite of so many other experiences, where some performer would be hurrying off to do something else. This time, I was the one who couldn’t continue. Prabhupada liked to take walks. Directly across the street from his doorway at 94 Bowery was the Fulton Hotel, a five-story flophouse. Surrounding him were other lower Manhattan lodging houses, whose tenants wandered the sidewalks from dawn till dark. An occasional flock of pigeons would stir and fly from one rooftop to the next or down to the street. Traffic was heavy. The Bowery was part of a truck route to and from Brooklyn by way of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. The Bowery sloped gently downhill toward the north, and Prabhupada could see the street lights and traffic signals as far up as Fourth Street. He could see Con Edison with its prominent clock tower, and—on a clear day—the top of the Empire State Building on Thirty-fourth. There were signboards and a few scraggly Manhattan trees. Prabhupada would walk alone in the morning through the neighborhood. May 1966 saw more rain than normal, and he carried an umbrella. Sometimes he walked in the rain. He was not always alone; at times he walked with one of his new friends and talked. Sometimes he shopped. Bitter melon, dal, hing, chick-pea flour, and other “specialty foods” common in Indian vegetarian cuisine were available in Chinatown’s nearby markets. On leaving the loft, Srila Prabhupada would walk south a few steps to the corner of Bowery and Hester Street. Turning right on Hester he would immediately be in Chinatown, where the shops, markets, and even the Manhattan Savings Bank were identified by signs lettered in Chinese. Sometimes he would walk one block further south to Canal Street, with its Central Asian Food Market and many other streetside fruit and vegetable markets. In the early morning the sidewalks were almost deserted, but as the shops began to open for business the streets became crowded with local workers. shopkeepers, tourists, and aimless derelicts. Parked cars lined both sides of the street; the crowds of pedestrians and lanes of traffic passed tightly; the winding side streets of Chinatown were lined with hundreds of small stores. A brass Confucius, discolored with age and suffering from neglect, stood on Chatham Square. Srila Prabhupada’s walks on Hester would sometimes take him into Little Italy. which overlaps Chinatown at Mulberry Street. In this neighborhood, places like Chinese Pork Products and the Mee Jung Mee Supermarket stood alongside Umberto’s Clam House and the Puglia Restaurant, advertising capucino a la puglia, coffee from Puglia. His walks west of Bowery, in Chinatown and Little Italy, were mainly for shopping. Yet on occasions he walked in the opposite direction as far as the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a dangerous neighborhood, however, and when a friend warned him about a sniper who had been firing at strollers along the river, Srila Prabhupada stopped going there. Despite the bad neighborhood where Srila Prabhupada lived and walked, he was rarely disturbed. Often he would find several Bowery bums asleep or unconscious at his door, and he would have to step over them. Sometimes a drunk, simply out of inability to maneuver, would bump into him, or a derelict would mutter something unintelligible or laugh at him. The more sober ones would stand and gesture courteously, ushering Prabhupada into or out of his door at 94 Bowery. Prabhupada would pass among them, acknowledging their good manners as they cleared his path. Certainly few of the Bowery men and others who saw him on his walks knew much about the small, elderly Indian sadhu, dressed in saffron and carrying an umbrella and a brown grocery sack. Sometimes Srila Prabhupada would meet one of his new friends on the street. He met Janet, Michael Grant’s wife, on several occasions. I would see him [Janet relates] in the midst of this potpourri of people down there, walking down the street. He always had an umbrella, and he would always have such a serene look on his face. He would just be taking his afternoon jaunts, walking along, sometimes stepping over the drunks. And I would always get sort of nervous when I would meet him on the sidewalk. He would say, “Are you chanting?” And I would say, “Sometimes. And then he would say; “That’s a good girl.” This entry was posted in A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Biography, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami and tagged A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, bhakti yoga, Bowery, Carol Bekar, chanting Hare Krishna, Satsvrupa das Goswami, Srila Prabhupada, Swami. Bookmark the permalink. ← The Happening Album: “Krishna Consciousness” George Harrison Interview: Hare Krishna Mantra–There’s Nothing Higher (1982) →	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line92
__label__wiki	0.979832	0.979832	As he celebrates Verstappen's victory, Bernie Ecclestone dismisses claims of a Hamilton fix. Lewis Hamilton's claims that the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was'manipulated,' according to former Formula One boss Bernie Eccleston, who congratulated Max Verstappen on his first title win. In a controversial move, race director Michael Masi allowed lapped cars to un-lap themselves on the penultimate lap at the Yas Marina circuit, denying Hamilton a record-breaking eighth world championship. Verstappen was given the opportunity to attack Hamilton on the final lap, which he dutifully took to win his first championship at the expense of the British driver and Mercedes. Hamilton could be heard on the team radio after the Dutchman had edged past him, claiming that the race had been "manipulated." However, Ecclestone, who ruled Formula One for 40 years, dismissed claims of a fix and did not appear to sympathize with Hamilton. On Sky News, Ecclestone was asked about the race and said, "About being robbed, it's complete and utter nonsense." "If you think about it, on the first lap of that race, he (Hamilton) went off the circuit and came back on again, while Verstappen stayed on the circuit and did nothing wrong," Hamilton said. "Because Lewis was not punished in any way, he shouldn't be too upset." "These things happen in sports all the time; we shouldn't blame the race director; he did exactly what was required." "I'd like to know who has been manipulating and is clever enough to do that," Ecclestone continued. "This was just a set of circumstances that occurred, and it brought an incredible world championship to a close that I'm sure everyone enjoyed watching." Mercedes is rumored to be considering an appeal of the race result, though rumours on Monday suggested the constructor might think twice about it for the sake of the sport. Regardless, Ecclestone believes it would be the wrong move. "I think an appeal would be the worst thing they could do. It would make them look like bad losers," he continued. Two men competed in a race, and one was faster than the other. There's a lot of nonsense in there. It couldn't have been that clear because it took them four hours to decide whether or not they had a case. "Max won it fairly and squarely, which is a good thing to do; people are just as happy to see a new face win it, and I was glad Lewis didn't win his eighth championship because of Michael Schumacher." That's something I don't want to see go wrong."	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line94
__label__wiki	0.590769	0.590769	Detective Comics #17 – Review by Minhquan Nguyen — Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8, 2013 By: John Layman (story), Jason Fabok (art), Jeromy Cox (colors) The Story: Despite the merrymaking and clowns, this is truly a downer of a party. The Review: Between the movies and writers like Frank Miller who spend a lot of time showing what an unbeatable badass Batman is, you’d think the Dark Knight was little more than a fantastically equipped master martial artist. But among other things, Batman is also known as the “world’s greatest detective,” one of DC’s biggest geniuses.* Unfortunately, Batman stories have grown less inclined to show off the more cerebral aspects of his character. So I really appreciate Layman’s more technical, investigative approach to Batman. Instead of spending all his time whipping out implausible kung-fu moves, Batman spends a large chunk of the issue actually thinking things through. We all know that his prep-time skills are second to none, but now you can see him going through that prep, putting the clues together to figure out exactly what he needs to do at any given moment. Even though Layman crafts a fairly credible crime procedural plot out of the issue, the ultimate focus of Batman’s detective work seems kind of a waste of his brainpower. The way Layman sets up the opening, you can use your own predictive powers of fiction to immediately figure out the Merrymaker’s true identity and most of his motives within a few pages. Batman simply finds the hard evidence to seal your conclusion, and it doesn’t take that much effort for him either. Still, even if these are just baby steps, they still move the series towards greater realism, which is a rare and valuable thing in the superhero genre. In the Scott Snyder era of Batman comics, we’ve started to view Gotham as a kind of living entity all its own (figuratively in Snyder’s view, literally in the eyes of Stormwatch’s Jack Hawksmoor, who sees Gotham as an emaciated, goblin-type creature). The theory goes that Gotham’s very nature poisons its citizens, making it almost a matter of fate that things spiral out of control so often in the city. Layman has a more sensible, equally disturbing view: these folks suffer from common mental illnesses, but they have too many dangerous role models to channel their psychoses. Layman also shines by his own careful attention to detail. He puts several bits of continuity established by other writers to good use, like the photogrammetric scanner installed in the city morgue in Batman #2. He also has some fun playing with classic Batman characters, capturing Commissioner Gordon’s no-nonsense, zero-tolerance principles perfectly and using Harvey Bullock’s cynical view of things for comic relief and some extra liveliness. Fabok is an all-rounder artist who can draw pretty much anything and make it look good, even if he’s not the most ambitious storyteller in the biz. But you don’t have to be an artistic dynamo like J.H. Williams III or Yanick Paquette to deliver a beautiful, functional superhero series. Action sequences have tons of energy and impact, highlighting Batman’s remarkable physical prowess, but Fabok doesn’t shirk on the emotional side of things either. You can see subtle changes in the characters’ emotions from their expression and body language, even within a couple panels, like the League of Smiles’ reactions to the Merrymaker’s true face. See the small, but noticeable widening and narrowing of Annie McCloud and David “Happy” Hill’s eyes, giving them a poignant air that makes you feel they may be some very sad clowns after all. Cox’s colors were made for Fabok’s sleek, attractive lines, giving the title a very high-class look. I don’t know how much we really needed the back-up showing the fate of Merrymaker. His villainy wrapped so quickly that we never got that attached to him, so it’s hard to care where he ends up. Besides, he is incredibly forthright in his lack of scruples: “Rehabilitation? What’s the point? You can’t rehabilitate these people. But you can certainly manipulate them.” There’s not much to respect, there. Layman does throw in a pretty cool twist at the very end of the back-up, though it has nothing to do with Merrymaker himself. Andy Clarke and Blond contribute fine art for a feature involving mostly talking-heads, but nothing to write home about. Conclusion: Layman delivers a good, old-fashioned, thoughtful Batman story. The ambition isn’t amazing, but the execution is very well done. Some Musings: * I’ve always assumed that where Mr. Terrific is the world’s third smartest man, Batman would be the second and Lex Luthor the first, but I don’t have any actual evidence on that point.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line98
__label__wiki	0.83423	0.83423	royal army medical corps - commander british empire 4865 Brigadier Charles CRAWFORD-JONES, CBE, MiD, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps Personal Number: 4865 Rank: Brigadier Name: Charles CRAWFORD-JONES, CBE, MiD, MB Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps London Gazette : 13 August 1912... Thread by: dbf, Dec 19, 2021, 4 replies, in forum: RAMC Robert Fowler WALKER, CBE, OBE, MC, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Robert Fowler Walker, O.B.E., M.C., M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps, was made a Commander of the Order of... Thread by: dbf, May 15, 2009, 0 replies, in forum: RAMC George Frederick ALLISON, CBE, MC, Royal Army Medical Corps Brigadier George Frederick Allison, M.C., late Royal Army Medical Corps, was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire....	cc/2022-05/en_head_0049.json.gz/line101

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