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Sports in the WWII Military

Pacific Paratrooper

1926 Army/Navy game ticket, Nimitz Museum

The relationship between sports and the American armed forces reached a climax during WWII The military broadened its athletic regimen, established during  WWI, and thereby reproduced a patriotic sporting culture that soldiers had known as civilians. The armed services provided equipment, training, and personnel rather than rely on private agencies, as had been done in WWI.  The entry of numerous prominent athletes into military service represented a public relations boon for the Department of War and cemented a bond between professional sports, athletes, and patriotism.

American football was glorified as everything masculine and befitting the U.S. military experience. As organized sports became even more closely linked with fitness, morale, and patriotism, both within the ranks and on the home front, football became a fixture on military bases at home and abroad. Football was the favored sport among the military brass, as Generals George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur…

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Vielseitige Chrysanthemen in Asien

Google translation of first sentence: “While the chrysanthemum in our latitudes is mainly considered an autumn flower in cemeteries for All Saints’ Day, it has a completely different meaning in Asia, where it is originally located, it is primarily an ornamental plant.”

Senioren um die Welt

Während die Chrysantheme in unseren Breitengraden vor allem als Herbstblume auf Friedhöfen für Allerheiligen gilt, hat sie in Asien, wo sie ursprünglich beheimatet ist, eine völlig andere Bedeutung, sie ist in erster Linie eine Schmuckpflanze. In Japan trägt sie sogar den Status einer Nationalblume; aufgrund ihrer späten Blüte sieht man in der Chrysantheme sowohl ein Symbol der Unsterblichkeit als auch der Vollkommenheit. Der kaiserliche Thron wird oft auch als “Chrysanthementhron” bezeichnet, und das kaiserliche Wappen, das auch als nationales Wappen verwendet wird, zeigt eine stilisierte, 16-strahlige Chrysantheme. Selbst die höchste staatliche Auszeichnung ist nach der Blume benannt, es ist der “Chrysanthemen-Orden”. Diese Verehrung ist durchaus verständlich, denn die Chrysantheme gilt wegen ihrer sehr langen Blütezeit als Sinnbild für Glück und Wohlstand. Am 9. Tag des 9. Monats wird in Japan traditionell das Chrysanthemenfest „Kiku no Sekku“ gefeiert. 

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Brazil: no forest destruction for leather — World Animals Voice

Barbara Crane Navarro

Our demands on the automotive and fashion industry: Deforestation in the Amazon reached a 12-year high last year: over 1 million hectares were destroyed! Livestock breeding causes by far the most deforestation in Brazil. The use of Brazilian leather in the automotive and fashion industries is also contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.[…]

Brazil: no forest destruction for leather — World Animals Voice

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Em carta a Biden, Bolsonaro promete fim do desmatamento ilegal — CenárioMT

Barbara Crane Navarro

O presidente Jair Bolsonaro se comprometeu a acabar com o desmatamento ilegal até 2030. Em carta enviada ontem (14) ao presidente dos Estados Unidos Joe Biden, Bolsonaro reconheceu o aumento das taxas de desmatamento a partir de 2012 e afirmou que o Estado e a sociedade precisam aperfeiçoar o combate a este crime ambiental.“Queremos…

Em carta a Biden, Bolsonaro promete fim do desmatamento ilegal — CenárioMT

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Assista a “Epidemia de fake news ameaça vacinação em terras indígenas” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and Call vs. Response

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Musical calls to action form part of our society’s way of remembering, and of teaching.  

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, and to respond to the call for justice?

I believe that attention to shared musical forms may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

“… Prayer and a traditional call and response section of prayer, all the way to the frolicking “Cherie Bim Baum Bim Baum Bim Baum”, Jewish music adapts this
mode of song. Likewise, the familiar spiritual turned freedom song  “Woke up this Morning”   springs instantly to mind as a key example of Call and Response in African-American spiritual music, sung in a variety of settings. That same back and forth structure can also be felt in the slowly…

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Money or Wealth?|پول یا ثروت؟

A Voice from Iran

“190th stories”

A very rich man sold all his possess and bought Gold bullion Bars.

He hid all the Gold bullion Bars in a very deep hole in the ground somewhere in his back yard.

For years he checked the Gold bullion Bars, and counted them over and over again.

One of his neighbours got suspicious and one day when the rich man wasn’t home, the neighbour dug the same spot, and found the Gold bullion Bars. The neighbour took them all without leaving a trace.

The next day when the rich guy went to count his Gold bullion Bars, as his everyday habit; saw the hole empty.

He started crying and screaming. The same neighbour showed up looking surprised and asked for the reason. The rich man told the neighbour how he put all his life savings in this hole, and now it’s all gone.

The neighbour said: “Put…

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Seychelles most vaccinated nation on Earth but Covid-19 has surged

The majority of vaccinated people have received China’s Sinopharm vaccine (approved for emergency use by the WHO last Friday) as well as the AstraZeneca shot (known as Covishield locally, a version produced in India). In total, the Seychelles with a population of over 97,000 has recorded just under 8,200 cases and 28 deaths during the pandemic.

On Monday, the Seychelles’ health ministry reported a steep rise in the number of cases. From 120 new cases reported on April 30, a week later over 300 cases per day were recorded on May 7 and May 8, respectively.

Source: Seychelles most vaccinated nation on Earth but Covid-19 has surged

Ohio offers million-dollar prizes and scholarships for people who have COVID-19 vaccine – ABC News

Ohio’s governor is offering big lottery incentives — including a $US1 million ($1.29 million) prize and college scholarships — in a last-ditch effort to get people vaccinated before the state’s mask mandate and most other coronavirus-related state orders end on June 2.

All Ohio’s COVID-19 orders, except those applying to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, will end, Mike DeWine said during a primetime address.

However, the Republican noted that stores and businesses still may require customers to be masked.

With three weeks to go before restrictions were to lift, Mr DeWine rolled out big-ticket motivators.

Beginning May 26, adults who have received at least one vaccine dose may enter a lottery that will provide a $US1 million prize each Wednesday for five weeks.

In random drawings, the state will also provide five full four-year scholarships to an Ohio public university — including tuition, room-and-board, and books — to vaccinated Ohioans under 18.

Source: Ohio offers million-dollar prizes and scholarships for people who have COVID-19 vaccine – ABC News

Say it ain’t so…

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News from Ibonoco

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” Dis que ce n’est pas vrai, Joe, s’il te plaît, dis-moi que ce n’est pas le cas, aujourd’hui, nous n’avons encore quelque espoir mais tout peut s’effondrer, du jour au lendemain, d’un instant à l’autre, tout est devenu si fragile : la vie, les saisons, la gaîté, les belles soirées entre amis… Dis que ce n’est pas vrai, Joe, s’il te plaît, dis-moi que ce n’est pas le cas : le bon vieux temps est révolu ? “

John Ibonoco

DIS-MOI QUE CE N’EST PAS VRAI

Murray Head – Say It Ain’t So Joe

Dis que ce n’est pas vrai, Joe, s’il te plaît
Dites que ce n’est pas le cas
Je suis sûr qu’ils nous mentent Joe, s’il te plaît, dis-nous que ce n’est pas vrai.

Ils nous ont dit que notre héros a joué sa carte maîtresse
Il ne sait pas comment continuer
On s’accroche à…

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