*Ø* Blogmanac October 23 | Some today stuff

Iga Ueno Tenjin Matsuri, Japan (Oct 23-25)
At Sugawara Shrine, Ueno, Mie Prefecture
On Oct 23 and 24 there are lantern parades, a dashi parade in daytime, strolling priests (yamabushi), a costume parade and mikoshi carried on young men’s shoulders. On the 25th, there is a procession of people disguised as demons to dispel illness and bad luck.

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Nothing is more motivating than giving staff, employees, and associates the opportunity to express their own individual influences.
Anita Roddick (October 23, 1942 - ), English businesswoman, social reformer. She founded The Body Shop shampoos, lotions, and creams from natural ingredients; uses business as a vehicle for social and environmental concerns.

I wake up every morning thinking ... this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
Anita Roddick

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick

I've never been cajoled into being someone I'm not. I've always spoken up. If I wanted to be quiet, I would've opened up a library.
Anita Roddick

1942 Anita Roddick , English businesswoman, social reformer, founder of The Body Shop which uses business as a vehicle for social and environmental concerns

Anita Roddick, interviewed by Ethical Matters Magazine

The price of dignity

Business is imposing virtual slavery in the developing world - and only we, the consumers, can stop it

By Anita Roddick
Monday September 22, 2003
The Guardian

In the past two years, 500 export assembly factories have shut down in Mexico, throwing 218,000 workers on to the street. Their crime was the $1.26-an-hour base wage they were paid by companies such as Alcoa Fujikura to produce auto parts for export to the US. Those wages are now "too high" in the global economy.

Never mind that the Alcoa workers in Acuna live in makeshift cardboard huts that lack potable water. Never mind that many of the workers in nearby Piedras Negras were selling their blood plasma twice a week to Baxter International for $30 in order to survive. Those same auto parts are now being made in Honduras by workers earning 59 cents an hour, in Nicaragua for 40 cents an hour and in China for 27 cents an hour ... Source

Straits Times article

Anita Roddick: Body and Soul; Profits with Principles (book available from Wilson's Almanac)

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4,004 BCE, 9am According to the 19th century Bishop Usher’s computations, God created the earth.

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1642 The Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell, and King Charles I's Cavaliers, fought the Battle of Edgehill in the Cotswolds, England.

Published Jan 23 1643: A great Wonder in Heaven, shewing, &c.
This brochure described how on a Saturday in the previous Christmas season (1642), there had occurred at Keniton, Northamptonshire, “the apparition and noise of a battle in the air, a ghostly repetition of the conflict which two months before had taken place on the adjacent fields at Edgehill between the forces of the King and the Parliament”. The alleged phenomena took place on four successive weekends; the King sent emissaries to report on it, and they were positive witnesses to the ghostly battle.

1642 A strange case of suspended animation after the Battle of Edgehill
Among the casualties on the king's side that bloody Sunday morning was Sir Gervase Scroop. Left for dead on the battle field, Scroop lay until Tuesday evening, when his son came to retrieve the knight's corpse. In the meantime, his body had been robbed of its clothes by camp-plunderers, and left lying two days and nights in particularly cold and frosty weather.

When his son took Sir Gervase's corpse back to camp and into a warm room, the body stirred. Despite the sixteen serious wounds he had sustained, Sir Gervase Scroop “came back to life” and lived ten years further in good health.