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October 20, 1874: Tommy Bond comes close to major leagues' first no-hitter
Just as there was no word for the Internet until it existed, there was no phrase in 1874 to describe a game in which a pitcher did not allow a hit. Even in the 1880s, after a few pitchers had held teams hitless, or even retired 27 men consecutively, the phrases "no-hitter" and "perfect game" were not part of baseball's lexicon. In 1875, the Philadelphia Whites' Joe Borden became the first man to pitch a complete game without allowing a hit, but a year earlier, on October 20, 1874, 18-year-old Tommy Bond of the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn came within a single out of throwing the first major-league no-hitter.
The Atlantics were one of the very best teams in baseball during the 1860s, but they had been one of the worst since joining the National Association in 1872. Bond, a native of Ireland, made the team a little better when he joined them in 1874. Although pitching rules limited deliveries to below the hip, all of the top pitchers tested the limits and threw much harder than their predecessors of a decade earlier. Bond was one of the hard throwers, and against the Mutuals of New York on October 20, he was overpowering.
While there was no phrase to describe a no-hit game, there had been a sufficient number of shutouts to brand them a "Chicago," and that is how the New York Clipper headlined its account of the 5-0 Atlantic win: "The Mutuals Chicagoed." With better fielding, the Atlantics, whose runs were all unearned, would have been Chicagoed as well, for they had managed just four hits.
With two outs and no one on base in the bottom of the ninth, Mutual first baseman Joe Start stepped to the plate. He was the 30th member of his team to bat; three had reached on Atlantic errors and Bond had retired the other 26. The left-handed Start was one of the best Mutual batters, and he hit a solid double to left-center field for the first New York hit. Tom Carey followed with a single and Start moved up to third. John Hatfield then hit a long fly to right field, but John Chapman made a fine catch and the game was over.
A shutout was called a Chicago because the Mutuals had blanked a boastful Chicago team in 1870. Had Bond retired Start, perhaps a no-hitter would have been referred to as being "Bonded." Borden was the first, but his surname didn't have the proper alliteration. Bond won 234 major-league games, but he never threw a no-hitter, although on October 20, 1874, he came close.
New York Clipper, October 31, 1874.
New York Times, October 31, 1874.
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Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister R Doraikkannu, who had tested positive for coronavirus, died final night at a private hospital in Chennai. He was 72.
The minister had tested positive on October 13 for the highly infectious illness, which has affected over 81 lakh folks within the nation and greater than 7.2 lakh folks in Tamil Nadu. He was a three-time MLA from Papanasam in Thanjavur district.
The 72-year-old AIADMK chief breathed his final late final night time, Kauvery Hospital Government Director Dr Aravdindan Selvaraj mentioned in a medical bulletin. "With deep grief, we announce the unhappy demise of Honourable Minister for Agriculture R Doraikkannu," on Saturday at 11.15 pm, he mentioned.
"Our ideas and prayers are with the grieving family throughout this tough interval," the assertion added.
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, who had additionally examined constructive for coronavirus in August, paid tributes to the minister. R Doraikkannu "was identified for his simplicity, humbleness, straightforwardness, governance expertise, and dedication in the direction of the welfare of the farming neighborhood. He dealt with the Ministry of Agriculture with full dedication and engraved his robust mark. His premature demise is an irreparable loss to the folks of Tamil Nadu and notably to the AIADMK get together," the Governor was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
Final night, Chief Minister Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami had visited him within the hospital.
His CT scan had confirmed 90 percent lung involvement vis-a-vis the infection and he was placed on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) and ventilator.
A number of high politicians have contracted the virus since India reported its first case on January 31.
In August, former president Pranab Mukherjee died, weeks after testing constructive. Junior Railways Minister Suresh Angadi, Covid positive, had died in September. Vinod Kumar Singh, a Bihar minister, died at a hospital in Delhi in October.
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#3 in-progress bug
PCI bus_manager does no memory resource assignment
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The PCI bus_manager does no memory resource assignment
Change History (13)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
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comment:2 by , 17 years ago
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
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comment:4 by , 9 years ago
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Still an issue?
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
A more detailed explanation of why the PCI bus manager needs resource assignment and what it is might help inspire or motivate someone to take up the task.
comment:6 by , 8 years ago
I may be mistaken, but I believe it's mainly for the case of systems where the BIOS only takes care of assigning resources for the bare minimum devices needed to boot, and leaves the rest to the OS (I.e. the "PnP OS" setting one sometimes sees). In such a case, the bus manager needs to take care of resource configuration for the remaining devices in order for them to be usable.
comment:7 by , 8 years ago
Sounds familiar. Is it still valid? was this for non acpi compliant systems?
comment:8 by , 3 years ago
comment:9 by , 18 months ago
Memory assignment is implemented for riscv64 PCI ECAM: https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/bus_managers/pci/arch/riscv64/arch_pci_controller.cpp#n205. This should be moved or reimplemented in generic PCI bus manager code.
comment:10 by , 18 months ago
Sounds familiar. Is it still valid? was this for non acpi compliant systems?
Yes, it's still valid.
During boot, the BIOS may or may not assign addresses to each device. You can expect that basic devices (graphics, network, etc) will be initialized because the BIOS needs them. Maybe they will assign addresses to everything, but maybe not.
In the case where the BIOS didn't do it, we see that the BAR registers for the affected device will still be 0 (this is visible in syslog when we dump the PCI information). In this case it is up to us to figure out an address for the device. The basic process is:
- Write FFFFFFFF to the BAR register
- Read back the register to know how much space the device needs, and if it has constraints (memory or IO space, 32 or 64bit addressing, prefetchable or not).
- Restore the initial value of the BAR register
We already do these steps in PCI::_GetBarInfo in the PCI bus manager.
After this step we are left with two types of devices:
- Those which are already mapped by the BIOS, will have an address in their BAR registers already. Now we also know their size.
- Those which are not already mapped, will have an address of 0. We need to allocate them an address and write it to the BAR register.
Now we need to figure out how to allocate that address. It must be in the memory window of the PCI host controller. In the case of devices that are accessed theough a pci-to-pci bridge, we get that info from the bridge, which specifies which memory space it makes visible. However, in the case of devices attached to the root of the PCI bus, it's not clear how we get the info. Apparently it is platform specific and we know it from how we located the PCI bus in the first place. On x86 we use ACPI for that. I don't see where the info is in the ACPI table we use. If you look at the RISC-V ECAM code you will see that it gets the info from the FDT there.
comment:11 by , 18 months ago
So, after some research, it seems we need to rework our PCI bus detection and initialization quite a bit.
Currently, we find the PCI configuration space by looking at the MCFG ACPI table. This only gives us the address of the configuration space, where we can access the BAR for the PCI devices on the bus.
But the info we need is in the DSDT table, in ACPI nodes with PNP0A03/PNP0A08 cid/hid. Conveniently, ACPICA already detects these and sets the ACPI_PCI_ROOT_BRIDGE flag for us.
We are supposed to find that first, and get the segment and bus numbers from there (_BBN and _SEG methods). From these, we can lookup the corresponding base address in the MCFG. But in addition, we also get the _CRS method, which gives us information about the address range allocated to this PCI bus. Once we know that, we can see which parts of this space are already allocated to devices, and finally use the remaining space to assign addresses to the devices that don't yet have one.
This is how it's done in freeBSD: https://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/dox/dev_pci/html/d2/d72/pci__host__generic__acpi_8c_source.html#l00117
comment:12 by , 18 months ago
If rework is planned, it will be nice to implement dynamic install and uninstall of PCI host controllers instead of assuming that all controllers are discovered at initialization.
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A new project funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation uses goal setting, feedback and self-management strategies to help people with Parkinson's overcome challenges to physical activity.
Physical activity can improve Parkinson's symptoms — balance, mood and memory changes, to name a few — and some studies show it may slow disease progression. But, for varied complex reasons, many people with Parkinson's do not follow a regular exercise routine.
Occupational therapist Dr. Katrina Long, EdD, MS, is addressing some of those reasons with a client-centered program funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF). Long's project was selected through a funding program announced by the partners in 2020. We talked with Dr. Long, assistant professor of occupational therapy at San Jose State University, about her study and its goals.
MJFF/AOTF: Congratulations on your award and thank you for this important work. Please tell us about your study.
Long: Thank you! Studies show how exercise benefits the body and the brain. But we also see that people with Parkinson's decline in their physical activity compared to other adults their age, even before changes in gait and stability. This could be due to, among other factors, issues of motivation and lack of knowledge and support.
This program creates a paradigm shift from exercise being a matter of compliance — "this is what you have to do" — to adherence, where a person is exercising because they see the value in it.
MJFF/AOTF: So, changing the way we look at exercise to encourage physical activity.
Long: That's right. The participants meet with an occupational therapist to set goals for their fitness across the domains of exercise: aerobic, strength, balance training and stretching. We discuss needs and motivation with the client: Where do they feel they'd like to improve? Do they respond to more extrinsic motivation like getting an award or to intrinsic motivation such as feeling good about helping their wellness. These conversations help participants pick the types of exercise and set personal goals. In addition, we focus on identifying barriers and supports to their exercise engagement and working collaboratively to create a plan that enables success in their goals. This client-centered approach makes them more likely to follow through.
Often after diagnosis some people with Parkinson's can have a negative outlook on their future selves and abilities, which may affect their current behavior and engagement. An important part of the intervention is providing role models or examples of people living with PD. Each participant also receives the Engage-PD Workbook that provides disease-specific information alongside encouraging quotes and images from people living with PD.
In addition, the participants wear a Fitbit that gives them real-time data on their activity. They can report back to the therapist and can see their progress. This feedback, in addition to the positive role-modeling, helps to support their exercise self-efficacy, which is their belief in their ability to accomplish their goals.
This program is based on my dissertation pilot study, called Pre-Active-PD, that I completed at Columbia University under Dr. Lori Quinn in the Neurorehabilitation Research Lab.
MJFF/AOTF: How are you measuring progress toward the goals the clients set?
Long: At the start of the study, participants will wear an ActiGraph, a wearable device that measures physical activity. They will wear it for one week to capture their physical activity levels. Then at the end of the four-month study they will wear it for another week to look for changes in activity.
They also will complete questionnaires on their physical activity behaviors to complement the wearables output. In an earlier pilot we saw that there was an increase in planned physical activity.
MJFF/AOTF: Is there a control group to assess how effective these strategies may be?
Long: We are recruiting 50 people for the study. Half will receive the intervention. The other 25 will still have visits with an occupational therapist but will receive exercise education without goal setting or feedback through the Fitbit. We will compare the activity of each group to evaluate the impact of our intervention.
MJFF/AOTF: Part of your funding application was around engaging underrepresented populations. Can you share more on those plans?
Long: There is a gap in service provisions to underrepresented populations and in research with volunteers from these communities. For these reasons, we are prioritizing outreach toward an inclusive study cohort.
We are recruiting around San Jose, California and in New York City, at Columbia University's Neurorehabilitation Research Lab. In New York, we have been working with our multidisciplinary team on community engagement in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods, and hope to recruit individuals from the Latinx and Black and African American communities.
A therapist on our team speaks Spanish, and we have translated the workbook that we share with participants into Spanish as well.
MJFF/AOTF: You are recruiting at those locations, but the visits are virtual.
Long: Correct. Our therapists will be using telehealth visits to meet with the participants. We understand that means that participants will need to have access to the Internet, but we hope not having to come into the clinic will help with recruitment and compliance. I am planning to have tablets and hot spots available for participants who do not have the technology supports to participate.
We are only recruiting close to the sites, though, due to licensing and share of data with local neurologists. We hope to open the program more broadly in the future.
MJFF/AOTF: When people think of occupational therapy, a project like this may not be the type of work that comes to mind. Can you tell us more about the different roles those in your field can play for people with Parkinson's disease?
Long: Typically, referrals for occupational therapy come late in Parkinson's disease stage to address issues with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as dressing, personal hygiene and functional mobility. Occupational therapists also address activities to support daily life within the home and community, which we call Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). IADLs include communication management and home management, for example.
This program has a particular focus on health management, which includes activities related to developing, managing, and maintaining health and wellness routines. This includes symptom and condition management, emotional health, communication with the health care system, medication management, nutrition management, and physical activity.
It's important that people with Parkinson's are able to express their needs and have access to resources and supports within the health care system. The best approach to treating Parkinson's is a collaborative interdisciplinary team. I believe interventions that target health management early in the disease can help people with Parkinson's establish health promoting habits routines that last a lifetime.
MJFF/AOTF: Thanks for your time and again for this important work, Katrina. We'll be following along closely!
Reference MJFF article
AOTF collaborates with partners to award emerging research grants as part of its mission to advance the science of occupational therapy.
AOTF Announces Opening of 2016-2017 Scholarship Competition
AOTF 2016 Intervention Research Grants Announced
AOTF Announces Research Priorities to Support Effective, Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy
Foundation Announces Opening of 2015-2016 Scholarship Competition
AOTF Announces the Charles Christiansen and Beth Jones Endowed Scholarship
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Selenium increases blood flow
There is a thin, single layer of cells that lines the blood vessels, called the endothelium, which allows fluids and cellular material to pass from the bloodstream to the tissues. e endothelium also controls the ability of blood vessels to expand and contract, and is very sensitive to oxidative stress. Age, weight, lipids, high blood pressure and other factors can impair endothelial function.
In this study, doctors measured endothelial function, total antioxidant status, and selenium levels in 141 participants with high blood pressure. Those with lower selenium levels had stiffer blood vessels—impaired endothelial function—compared to those with higher selenium levels. e same was true for those with lower, rather than higher, total antioxidant status.
Selenium levels independently predicted antioxidant status, and doctors said the selenium level was a more accurate predictor of endothelial function than total antioxidant status.
Vitamin E improved diabetic neuropathy
In diabetes, chronic high blood sugar levels can damage blood vessels and nerves, impairing movement and feeling, often in the legs and feet. In this study, 80 participants with this type of diabetic peripheral neuropathy took a placebo or 200 mg of tocotrienol-rich vitamin E twice per day.
After eight weeks, those taking vitamin E had significantly increased nerve-signaling speed in the leg calf muscles and in the adjacent tibial bone motor nerves. There was also an increase in levels of a protein—nerve growth factor (NGF)—which maintains, regulates production, and protects the survival of certain neurons.
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Thank you for your interest in hosting a watch group! We are living in a time in history of unprecedented challenged yet we have the opportunity to create opportunities for the Church to continue to grow and to be on mission together to bring the heart of God to EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE and help them experience the FULLNESS of life! To that end, we are excited about your interest in gathering with a small group of people for Sunday sermon, worship and ministry together.
Our goal is to make being a watch group leader as simply as pressing play! Utilize the this webpage (victory.org/watchgroup) to obtain the resources you need. We will have discussion questions for post sermon discussion, kids resources available and links to giving + connecting to VC central. Here are some HOSTing tips to help you:
HOSPITALITY: Create a safe and welcoming environment for your watch group! People remember how they feel in a space—make it fun, welcoming and safe.
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Pray: Pray for your group throughout the week and prior to people arriving. Invite God into the space for him to show up in your corporate fellowship and time together. Invite others to pray together before and after service. Utilize the Messaging function in the church center app to stay connected throughout the week.
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Priyanka Chopra literally had one job to do – promote peace – and she failed
Bollywood celebrities are loved by Pakistanis and treated as their own, which is why it was particularly disheartening to see many of them quickly join the nationalist bandwagon in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack and encourage military attacks against Pakistan. In no way was this more disappointing than it was in the case of Priyanka Chopra.
Chopra is now a global celebrity, having won the Miss World competition, worked as a Bollywood and Hollywood actress as well as her brief stint as a musician. Being an international celebrity gives one the power to influence and inspire people all across the globe, but Chopra set this aside to offer her support to the Indian army and cheer for war in the subcontinent.
Jai Hind #IndianArmedForces 🇮🇳 🙏🏽— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) February 26, 2019
However, what made Chopra's warmongering worthy of international outrage was her official role as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador. To see an individual literally appointed as the global ambassador for peace blatantly take sides and cheer for war is shameful and disturbing to say the least. As someone who used to be a fan of Chopra and enjoyed some of her work, my anger was followed by disappointment as I lost respect for yet another Bollywood celebrity.
But Chopra has perhaps always been a controversial figure. Her admiration of Narendra Modi, after all, extends to the extent of him attending one of her many wedding receptions. I believe Chopra's support for the Indian Air Force (IAF) was yet another form of pandering to the growing nationalism and anti-Pakistan camps in India. She was clearly trying to play to the gallery but didn't realise she was actually playing with fire. After all, how could she have known the situation would ultimately end up de-escalating and not result in World War III?
You know something is wrong with @UN when their goodwill ambassador applauds a blatant line of control violation by @IAF_MCC that can potentially lead to a war between two nuclear powers— Kanza Azeemi (@kanza_azeemi) February 27, 2019
I understand that Chopra may prescribe to the same school of thought as Modi and enjoys a good rapport with him, but should her role for UNICEF not take precedence during a conflict? Even if she did not wish to call for peace, isn't maintaining neutrality or silence the very least Chopra could have done?
Another major factor that reveals Chopra does not deserve to be the Goodwill Ambassador is that after Prime Minister Imran Khan made the announcement for the Indian pilot's release, Chopra did not praise this peace gesture. Even after the pilot returned to India safely, Chopra did not acknowledge it or the need to maintain peace in the region. Why is it that this 'Goodwill Ambassador' is so reluctant to call for peace, but is keen to laud war?
Are or were you really Unicef goodwill ambassador? I really don't know how an artist can praise military actions and especially while being an ambassador of UN. I don't think this world could ever see peace when peacemakers love wars. #NoWar #PakistanIndia— Atif Tauqeer (@atifthepoet) February 26, 2019
It should be noted that UNICEF was created by the UN General Assembly in 1946 to provide food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated during World War II. UNICEF is also actively working to help Syrian refugees and children who have been displaced due to the Syrian Civil War. Strangely, Chopra visited a refugee camp in Jordan last year which was apparently a very "emotional" experience for her. Let's look at some of Chopra's statements after she visited some refugee camps to further shed light on the hypocrisy that is at display here. She visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in May 2018 and gave the following statements:
"There is still so much more support needed. The kids I met were smiling but I could still see sadness in their eyes that reflected the carnage and horror they witnessed."
"No matter where a child is from or what his or her circumstances are, every child is the future of this world."
"Be compassionate for the sake of the humanity."
In 2017, when she visited a Syrian refugee camp, she gave the following statements:
"The world has seen the pain war has left in Syria but the resilience and joy and hope in spite of it is so inspiring to me."
"The anger and agony I felt seeing these beautiful hopeful children ravaged by war was so raw."
How could she get emotional while seeing children displaced by war and not realise the impact an Indo-Pak war would have on the children in the subcontinent? Even after witnessing the consequences of war first-hand, how can Chopra not feel for the children of Pakistan and India who would suffer the same fate? More importantly, how can she maintain any credibility in her title? The next time she visits a refugee camp or talks about the ills of war, are we expected to take her seriously? She literally had one job – to promote peace – and she failed. How can she remain a Goodwill Ambassador when she has lost all goodwill?
In light of this, a petition has been addressed to UNICEF to remove Chopra from this role, and while this should happen, it is unlikely. There have been certain problematic ambassadors in the past that have faced action after a scandal in order to maintain the United Nations' (UN) credibility, such as Maria Sharapova's suspension after she failed a drug test in 2016. In 2011, Aisha Qaddafi was fired from her role as the National Goodwill Ambassador amid the revolt against her father, Muammar Qaddafi. The same happened in 2017 to Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe, after public outrage at his appointment.
But there have been cases where the UN has also turned a blind eye to controversies, such as when Angelina Jolie came under fire after the casting for one of her films exploited impoverished children and played "psychological games" with them. The UN did not take action and Jolie continues her role as a Special Envoy to this day.
Submitted resolution in PA requesting @UN to revoke @priyankachopra of her @UNICEF goodwill ambassadorship. She praised India's military on crossing of LOC & celebrated an attempt of war against Pakistan. We need to Stop war supporting celebrities from representing the UN!!— Hina Parvez Butt (@hinaparvezbutt) March 2, 2019
So while Chopra should definitely be fired after her remarks, as the uproar is mainly coming from Pakistan, any action on their part is doubtful. After all, the UN has an ongoing trend of turning a deaf ear to what Pakistanis have to say, proven by the lack of action when it comes to the insurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
As an Indian, Chopra can do whatever she wants, just as other Bollywood celebrities have done, no matter how it makes Pakistanis feel. However, as she continues to remain UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador, her choice to become a warmonger and her silence on the subject of peace will not be forgotten.


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The Segway scooter looks like a Dyson hoover with oversize wheels. It made it on to today's BBC Newsround but was first shown on yesterday's Good Morning America.
The Segway has been hyped since January, with Silicon Valley abuzz with rumours of how an invention by wunderkind Dean Kamen (he's a rich wunderkind, having invented lots of medical equipment) would revolutionise 'personal transportation'.
However, the cynics over at The Register, the internet newspaper, have long held that the hype over 'Project Ginger' was just that: the Segway, once revealed, would be just a souped-up scooter.
And so it turned out to be.
It's a clever scooter, mind. It uses microprocessors and gyroscopes to know where you want to go, when you want to go and when you want to stop. How does it do this? Er, you lean, just like on a bicycle. (God forbid you should sneeze on a Segway, though, you'd be under a truck!)
No doubt a future use will be found for the technology on this most unJetsonian of devices but, for today at least, it is being derided by media outlets around the world.
For a start, the device only has a top speed of 17 mph – slower than most cyclists – and it's unclear where you'd ride them. Illegal on the pavement; suicidal on the road.
It isn't even propelled by fuel-cell technology: it's battery-driven. It's also heavy and looks stupid (but no doubt that's what cynics said about the first bicycle).
Yet £65m has been lavished on its development (Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com put up some of the funding), and the Harvard Business School Press reportedly paid $250 000 for a Dean Kamen book on Segway's birth before it even knew what 'Project Ginger' was all about.
The US Postal Service is said to be a likely customer for Segway fleets, and after seeing TV pictures of Washington DC postal workers during the coverage of the Anthrax scares, there's probably a good market there: US postal workers don't tend to be the same shape as Lance Armstrong. Most seem to have more in common with Mr Blobby.
And this is what is such a crying shame about Project Ginger: cities really ought to be reshaped around a revolutionary form of personal transportation. Sod Segway, bicycles are quick, door-to-door, light, powered by cornflakes and keep you fit.
It's this last bit that needs to be kept in mind: escalators, lifts, TV remote controls and now the Segway Human Transporter. These are all devices that are designed to make muscles atrophy.
Fatties need to walk more, not less! In fact, fatties really ought to ride bikes not walk or jog because pavement-pounding is too stressful on their lard-arse joints.
In today's Washington Post, a doctor bemoaned America's descent into obesity through lack of exercise:
"Sixty percent of the country is obese with the prevalence of obesity increasing rapidly," said Dr. Philip Ades, director of preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
"From 1900 to 2000 the average number of calories ingested for the average American has not increased, implying that the major reason for the obesity epidemic in the US is the decrease in physical activity over this time period."
The answer? Bikes. Bikes. Bikes.
Yet Kamen feels bicycles are distinctly passe, dangerous even.
It's only his machine that could reshape our cities, he told Time magazine.
"Cities need cars like fish need bicycles," said Kamen. Segways, he told Time, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, he told Time, with not a shred of irony, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly.
"A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk," he argued.
"Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it's like being hit by another pedestrian."
Er, remember this heavy device has a top speed of 17mph so, clearly, Kamen has yet to be hit by Segway!
Yet maybe one positive thing to come out of the Segway story is the fact that there's now a debate about reshaping cities away from dependence on cars.
"I love cars too," Kamen told Time. "Just not when I'm downtown."
The Time reporter went on to write:
"And [Kamen] is well aware that uprooting the vast urban infrastructure that supports cars, from parking garages to bridges and tunnels, won't happen soon. Which is why he has pinned his greatest hopes not on the U.S. but abroad, especially in the developing world. At a meeting with [Steve] Jobs a year ago, the Apple co-founder proclaimed, in typically hyperbolic fashion, "If enough people see this machine, you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it; it'll just happen."
Shouldn't that apply to bikes first, the original and still the best urban transporation device, that's cheaper to run than a Segway, quicker and cleaner too…
To see pix of the Segway, and its dorky riders, go to bbc.co.uk or any newspaper website, the story made most of the UK nationals today. And any search on google.com – start with Project Ginger – will give lots of results. Prepare to be amazed! Not.
Here's how Segway's developers described their invention to the US Patents Office:
"The invention provides, in a preferred embodiment, a vehicle for transporting a human subject over ground having a surface that may be irregular. This embodiment has a support for supporting the subject. A ground-contacting module, movably attached to the support, serves to suspend the subject in the support over the surface. The orientation of the ground-contacting module defines fore-aft and lateral planes intersecting one another at a vertical.
"The support and the ground-contacting module are components of an assembly. A motorized drive, mounted to the assembly and coupled to the ground-contacting module, causes locomotion of the assembly and the subject therewith over the surface. Finally, the embodiment has a control loop, in which the motorized drive is included, for dynamically enhancing stability in the fore-aft plane by operation of the motorized drive in connection with the ground-contacting module."


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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas paramedic is making it her mission to train first responders on what to do during an overdose.
Her name is Callie Crow, and she has helped around 5,000 people and about 60 police departments across Texas with her training.
She said two seconds can make all the difference.
"ZIMHI [Naloxone] is an injectable. We have a more accurate dosage," said Crow, the founder of a nonprofit called Drew's 27 Chains.
Crow is a paramedic in Texas who wants these officers to be trained on life-saving medications like Naloxone. She's seen many medical tragedies, including one involving her son.
"Drew had been addicted to opioids for about 10 years, and so it had been a very long struggle for him and for all of us that loved him," Crow said.
In 2020, Crow's 27-year-old son, Drew, took a pill that, unknowingly to him, was laced with a fatal dose of fentanyl. After 36 hours in the ICU, he died.
"I told my other two children, 'He will not walk out of here,'" Crow said.
Crow said officers didn't deploy Naloxone to her son – something that could have saved his life. Now, she has made it her mission, through her nonprofit, to get every law enforcement department in Texas trained.
"The disconnect is huge there. They may have the product in front of them. They may have the product on their belt, but the training is not there," Crow said.
She took some time off from work, knowing she was going to face situations that reminded her of Drew. However, she didn't think her first day back would hit so close to home.
"My very first day back after my bereavement leave, my very first call was a 27-year-old overdose," Crow said.
Texas State University Chief of Police Matthew Carmichael said that even as campus police, they're met with situations involving overdoses and need this training.
"The first person that arrives on scene for a medical call is going to be campus police. It's not because EMS is slow, it's just because we're there," Carmichael said.
Naloxone is an injectable or spray under the brand names Narcan or ZIMHI that can be injected through someone's clothing. By taking it and holding it in place for two seconds, it can bring that person back to consciousness and control the overdose.
"This tool is something that, quite frankly, I can't imagine campus police without it," Carmichael said.
Carmichael previously served at the University of Oregon, where he said the department saw multiple overdose cases.
"We had about six saves a year, it seemed to average each year. So, I know the benefit," Carmichael said.
Over the last 18 months of Crow's training, 36 lives have been saved by first responders she's taught. She said it's important for her to see continued help for these patients.
"Once they leave the hospital, I would like to see them leaving with resources and a continued chain of custody if you will," Crow said.
She added that everyone should be prepared.
"I assumed that, of course, this situation wouldn't happen to me or my children. But I'm here to tell you that it can," she said.


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Bundesliga 2020/21: Eintracht Frankfurt vs. RB Leipzig – tactical analysis
RB Leipzig were not been able to use the slip-up by FC Bayern in order to catch up to them. On Saturday evening, the Saxons came out only to a 1-1 (1-0) in Frankfurt and missed out on points that could have been used to catch up with the record champions, who had previously drawn against Bremen. The Frankfurt goal by Aymen Barkok (43rd minute) was later equalised by Yussuf Poulsen (57th). This means that Leipzig remain without a sense of achievement in Frankfurt. Eintracht achieved respectable success against the Champions League participants in this match, but they still remain without a win for the fifth game in a row.
This analysis will show how Adi Hütter changed his tactics in order to draw against the Champions League participants. This tactical analysis will also examine how RB Leipzig struggled to play their usual game.
Eintracht coach Hütter had caused a surprise before kick-off when he mixed up the starting line-up. As the Austrian had hardly ever rotated in the season so far, he brought in five new players from the start against RB Leipzig and helped Erik Durm, Djibril Sow, Evan N'Dicka, and Aymen Barkok make their starting eleven debuts this season. Julian Nagelsmann made four changes ahead of the Bundesliga clash.
High pressing intensity
Straight from the beginning, it was a very balanced match between the two teams that wanted possession. If they were without possession, they pressed high up the pitch in order to force the opponent to make mistakes.
RB Leipzig´s forwards pressed high up the pitch and even within Frankfurt´s penalty box. Centre-forward Sorloth even pressed Frankfurt´s goalkeeper Kevin Trapp. Most of the time, Leipzig´s midfield line dropped too deep instead of pushing high to support their first pressing line.
Frankfurt also pressed high but they did a better job. Not only was their first pressing line very active, but even the midfield and defensive lines pressed extremely high as well in order to form a compact shape.
As we can see in the image below, Leipzig were only able to have a numerical superiority because of the goalkeeper Gulasci who had no direct opponent. This is why Leipzig struggled to build up their usual combination play from the back.
Compact shape
When Leipzig were able to overplay the first pressing line, Frankfurt tightened up the space in the central areas of the pitch so Leipzig could not play their vertical passes. The Hessians granted Leipzig very little room and managed to keep the dangerous offence from rolling.
In the image below, we see how Frankfurt´s midfield dropped back and even the wingers supported in the central areas.
Leipzig tried to break that compact space by playing vertical balls out on the left wing. With Angelino, Leipzig have one of the most offensive full-backs who always tries to support the attack. Nagelsmann tried to adapt their playing style in order to create goal-scoring opportunities through the left wing.
In the following image, Frankfurt´s midfield again tightened up space in the centre. At the same time, this procedure opened up space on the left wing. Upamecano plays a long-range diagonal ball to Angelino to iniciate a goal-scoring opportunity.
As already mentioned, Hütter surprised most fans with his line-up. The use of Durm in the right-back position was especially unexpected. In the end, Hütter´s match plan turned out well. With Frankfurt´s midfield tightened up space in the centre, Leipzig had no other choice other than playing on the wings. By lining up Durm and Kostic, Hütter anticipated this procedure already ahead of the match and was able to implement a very flexible team. In the defence, which varied between a back-four and back-five depending on the situation, Eintracht were much more compact compared to their shape in the previous weeks.
In defensive transitions, Frankfurt built a back-five using Durm and Kostic as wing-backs to protect not only the central areas, but also the wings. Their formation in these defensive moments was a 5-2-2-1.
In the build-up, Frankfurt played with a back-four with full-backs that stayed remarkably high. This stretched Leipzig´s pressing lines and opened up space on the wings as well as in the central areas for Frankfurt´s central midfielders. Frankfurt played in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Durm as right-back and Kostic as a left midfielder.
In the offensive transitions, Durm and Kostic moved high up the pitch. Frankfurt´s 4-2-3-1 formation changed into a 3-2-4-1 system with Kostic on the left wing and Durm on the right wing. Aymen Barkok, who played as a right midfielder in the 4-2-3-1 formation, cut inside and played as a central offensive midfielder next to Kamada.
With Kamada and Barkok in the half-space, Frankfurt were also able to play the ball into these half-spaces using long-range passes from the back. In this way, Frankfurt scored their goal as well.
In the image below, we can see Hinteregger in possession. He plays a long-range pass into the half-space where Kamada and Barkok were able to turn and progress the ball into dangerous areas.
Frankfurt played in a very disciplined manner and used their flexibility to switch between offensive and defensive transitions wisely. Hütter earned the benefits of his courage. RB Leipzig did not struggle to find ideas, but they did not use their opportunities. In the end, Leipzig did not bring out their best performance while Frankfurt had a particularly good match. The 1-1 draw was of outstanding merit and emphasised how tight the match was, ass had been expected.


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Even after proper installation, a roof may quickly lose durability due to lack of proper attic ventilation. Attic ventilation is an important part of your roofing system, as the right vents can prevent moisture and heat buildup from damaging your roof even during hot days. A professional roofer may offer you options to add or resize attic vents to prevent them from cracking up during the hot season.
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The Village of Hazel Crest is looking for seven volunteers to join our new Cable Commission. Cable Commissioners will assist with content creation for the cable channel, work with the cable television program equipment, and other related areas of media that may be needed. Interested residents must attend and successfully complete a training course given by a VOHC representative. All Cable Commissioners must be a Hazel Crest resident, business owner or employee of a VOHC business. If interested, please email firstname.lastname@example.com to complete an application. All commissioners are appointed by the Village President.


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November 23, 2021 (Toronto, ON) – Varicent, the leading provider of next generation Sales Performance Management (SPM) software, is thrilled to announce that it has won a LinkedIn Talent Award in the category of Employee Engagement Champion. The award recognizes companies who create a culture of continuous feedback and growth to improve employee engagement and wellbeing.
"It is an honor to be recognized in this category from LinkedIn, but we're even more proud that our employees are comfortable providing feedback that has shaped our corporate culture," said Karoline Chan, Chief Human Resources Officer, Varicent. "Varicent is committed to putting our people first to best serve the communities in which we live, serve and sell. Incorporating our team's ongoing feedback has, and will always be, critical to our success. Thank you, LinkedIn, for the award, and thank you team Varicent for getting us to where we are today, and where you'll get us in the future."
The LinkedIn Talent Awards were held virtually on November 16, 2021, and are data-driven awards, that celebrate organizations worldwide that have shown adaptability, innovation, and creativity in talent.
Varicent prides itself on being a supportive, diverse, and inclusive environment, where every voice is heard. Over the last 18 months, Varicent has actively engaged employees through surveys, focus groups and more to drive change, shape corporate culture and implement programs that benefit each team member.
Using employee feedback, Varicent has developed many internal initiatives that improve employee engagement and wellbeing. Varicent employees emphasized the importance of strengthening community ties, creating more opportunities for diversity within the technology sector, and personal and professional growth.
Initiatives that were created from employees wants include ending the workday at 2 p.m. on Fridays, having no internal meetings on Wednesdays, and access to virtual health care and mental health resources. Varicent launched the EDGE Scholarship program, Women's Growth Circles, and hosts quarterly giving campaigns to better serve the communities we live, work and sell in. Employees of Varicent can access online learning programs to support their growth goals.
Individuals looking to join an inclusive work environment where they can be heard and recognized can apply to Varicent. There are multiple open positions worldwide in different departments. Learn more: [https://www.varicent.com/company/careers]
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Business Administration (SBA) - The U.S. Small Business Administration,
established in 1953, provides financial, technical and management assistance to help
Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.
Venture Capital (Yahoo) - List of venture capital firms and the types
of industries and equity investments they are seeking.
CapNet -
is a network for finding capital for growing businesses. The service offers the user
access to a databank of hidden funding sources from members."
Business Startup (SBA) - Excellent resources for starting a new
Investment Banks (Yahoo)
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country offering a wide range of business financings.
Commercial Credit (Yahoo) - Listing of banks across the country
specializing in (generally secured) business financing.
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Sounds like something very technological. The words 'cross-border services' (servicios transfronterizos in Spanish) in the coming weeks will begin to impact the pockets of consumers in Costa Rica.
'Servicios transfronterizos' is the category by tax authorities that includes services such as Uber, Spotify, YouTube Premium, Airbnb, Netflix and many others, together with other virtual systems widely used across the planet, subject to the Value Added Tax (VAT) – Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) in Spanish – that goes into effect on July 1.
The 13% sales tax on these services is called for in the plan fiscal (tax plan) – Law 9635 – which stipulates that digital, telecommunications, radio and television services that are provided in the country regardless of the medium or technological platform from which such service is provided, will be subject to the tax.
See also Internet Purchases Would Pay Double Tax, If Proposed Tax Reform Approved
The VAT on the import of services is contained in Article 30 of the Law (digital cross-border transactions, when a foreigner makes available to the local consumer access to content through a digital platform).
The Directorate General of Direct Taxation of the Ministry of Finance (Dirección General de Tributación Directa del Ministerio de Hacienda) confirmed, by way of a letter sent on May 17 to a group of taxi drivers, that the 13% VAT will be charged to Uber users in the country and "will be the financial institutions that issue the Costa Rican cards who will act as agents of tax collection". That is, when a transaction of this type is made, the issuing bank must withhold the tax and remit to the tax authorities.
The law makes no distinction of the location of the origin of the service provider.
"They (by order of tax authorities) what they do is charge the card (credit or debit card) that is used to subscribe and make a monthly, quarterly or biannual charge depending on the selected payment conditions. The idea is that whenever the content providers charge our card, the issuer will be instructed to withhold the 13%, which is the VAT rate of the service that is being paid," explained Mario Hidalgo tax and legal manager Grant Thornton Costa Rica consultants.
There are gaps
According to experts in the matter, the mechanics to specify the collection could have gaps that must be resolved by the issuers of the cards (banks or financial institutions).
The banks or financial institutions say they do not have the tools or technologies to differentiate the purchases made by the user with the card.
Then there is the question of how the VAT will be charged, for example, to a Uber user who pays in cash, which the ride app allows.
The law does allow a "transition" where the application of the VAT is suspended until a special resolution is issued to the specific case.
The case of Uber
Gilbert Ureña, representative of the Foro Nacional de Taxistas (taxi union), indicated that VAT regulates services and platforms, but believes that if the Ministry of Finance charges the 13% on Uber's services, it (Finance) would commit an anomaly because it Uber is an illegal service in the country.
"If the Treasury charges VAT to illegal services such as Uber, 48 hours later, the lawsuit will be filed against the Finance Minister (Rocío Aguilar) and the Director of Direct Taxation (Carlos Vargas) before the Prosecutor's Office for allowing the collection of taxes in an illegal service", said the leader of the taxi union.
Last month, during a hearing before the Legislative Assembly – representatives of Uber confirmed that starting in July the VAT would be collected on each trip as stipulated in the Law. However, days later, the Minstry of Finance said it will not collect the tax from Uber.


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The Greenworks Chainsaw 40V/30cm with 2Ah Battery and Charger brings all the cutting power you'll need without the fuss of petrol.
The 30cm cutting blade features a tool-less adjustable knob when you need to change the tension of the chain. The 40V lithium battery system is eco-friendly, quick to charge and won't fade fast.
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Used this chainsaw a couple of times so far and been fine for smaller logs and tree's. Haven't tried on anything large so can't say how well it cuts. But for the price I paid I'm more than happy so far.
For some reason Greenworks supply their saws with a
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If you've ever driven from New York State to South Carolina in the 90's on I-95 then you would have noticed the hunderds of billboards promoting South of the Border. It's a tourist trap on the border of North and South Carolina with some of the funniest billboards I've ever read..Cold Today...Hot Tamale or Smash Hit at Pedros South of the Border.. After my visit to South Dakota which the locals said they classify themselves as the end of the Midwest I took a road trip out on I-90 which runs from Boston to Seattle to see Wall Drug.
Unfortunately at the time due to COVID-19 Wall Drug was closed but a recent reading about how the owner put up his first billboard during the recession of the 1930's offering free water turned the rest stop into an instant success story that will soon be 100 years in the making. Everybody gets thirsty and the price of water being free it's hard to say no to that. What happens is visitors start to shop for other items and the retail space at Wall Drug is huge so there's almost always a purchase that accompanies the free water.
Wall Drugs has been succeesful without being coy or deceptive or manufacturing faux needs and this is a message all businesses should uphold. Wall Drug just focused on something everyone wanted but no one was talking about free water while on the long lonely road. They started the conversation and consumers talked.
Bottom line and I quote "SELL THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE"


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PRIMAPAK™ II Battery Back-Up.
PRIMAPAK™ II Battery Back-Up.
PRIMAPAK™ II consists of rechargeable gel cells and circuitry that switches any PRIMALERT™ Monitor to battery operation if line power is lost. When AC is present, the battery is automatically recharged. Fully charged cells provide about eight hours of operation under alarm conditions or more than 32 hours of quiescent, no-alarm operation.
PRIMAPAK™ II Battery Back-Up Includes
• Specify AC Adapter/Power Converter
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- UK: 230 VAC 12 VDC 580 mA
- Australia: 230 VAC 12 VDC 580 mA
• Interconnect Cable
This unit works with the following instruments
PRIMALERT™ 35 Radiation Monitor
PRIMALARM™ Remote Alarm
PRIMALERT™ 10 Radiation Monitor
Power: Line operated with UL listed converter: 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz to 12VDC, 1 Amp
Size: 4.5" W x 6" H x 2.75" T (11.5 x 15.25 x 7 cm)
Weight: 4.5 lb (2 kg)


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With a century and a half of experience between them, the four principle managers of Crawford Media Group's radio stations across the country want to personally share their insights for how to improve your advertising and marketing efforts so you can survive and thrive in 2021. Just fill out the form and someone will be in touch soon.
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The Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers meet this evening for the final preseason game of the year.
The Packers have already said their first team will play a series and that's about it. That means the Chiefs backups are going to have about three quarters to carve out a roster spot.
Here are five questions about tonight's game.
Who gets the special teams roster spot?
The Chiefs will have a couple of roster spots dedicated to special teamers. That's the way it works in the NFL. However, they'll also have to backup a position.
We're looking at Jeremy Horne, Jackie Battle and David Herron here. Horne stepped it up last week with a couple of nice special teams plays, Battle is a solid special teamer and Herron made the team in 2009 based on special teams. Does anyone crash the party?
How long will the starters play?
Todd Haley never specified that but a guess would be about a quarter, or less. Last year Brodie Croyle played the entire first half because Matt Cassel had gone down the week before.
My guess: Three series for the first team offense.
Can the first team offense score a touchdown?
Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. These Chiefs need a touchdown. They're likely only going to play a few series so they need to get one touchdown out of it.
There really isn't an excuse. This needs to happen.
How many sacks can the Chiefs front seven get?
Normally this question would be, "Can the Chiefs front seven sack the quarterback?" After last week's five-sack performance, I know they can. Now it's a matter of how many.
The Chiefs know who most of their inside and outside linebackers will be -- there are only a couple spots remaining there -- so those guys need to demonstrate they can get to the quarterback two games in a row. Looking at your Studebaker and Williams.
Which bubble player has the most to gain?
I'm going with Jackie Battle here. He's getting close to locking up the third running back spot and a solid game here would solidify there.
But if he tanks....the third running back spot becomes one of the tougher positions to pick for the 53-man roster.


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-- Country Study & Guide --
One integral aspect of Nepalese society is the
existence of the
Hindu caste system, modeled after the ancient and orthodox
Brahmanic system of the Indian plains. The caste system
did not
exist prior to the arrival of Indo-Aryans. Its
establishment became
the basis of the emergence of the feudalistic economic
structure of
Nepal: the high-caste Hindus began to appropriate lands--
particularly lowlands that were more easily accessible,
cultivatable, and more productive--including those
belonging to the
existing tribal people, and introduced the system of
ownership. Even though the cultural and religious rigidity
of the
caste system slowly has been eroding, its introduction
into Nepal
was one of the most significant influences stemming from
migration of the Indo-Aryan people into the hills. The
from the north later were incorporated into the Hindu
caste system,
as defined by Indo-Aryan migrants, who quickly controlled
positions of power and authority. Tibetan migrants did not
private ownership; their system was based on communal
No single, widely acceptable definition can be advanced
for the
caste system. Bishop and others, however, view caste as a
multifaceted status hierarchy composed of all members of
with each individual ranked within the broad, fourfold
Hindu class
(varna, or color) divisions, or within the fifth
class of
untouchables--outcastes and the socially polluted. The
caste divisions are Brahman (priests and scholars),
Kshatriya or
Chhetri (rulers and warriors), Vaisya (or Vaisaya,
merchants and
traders), and Sudra (farmers, artisans, and laborers).
These Pahari
caste divisions based on the Hindu system are not strictly
by the Newars. They have their own caste hierarchy, which,
claim, is parallel in caste divisions to the Pahari Hindu
In each system, each caste (jati) is ideally an
group in which membership is both hereditary and
permanent. The
only way to change caste status is to undergo
Sanskritization can be achieved by migrating to a new area
and by
changing one's caste status and/or marrying across the
caste line,
which can lead to the upgrading or downgrading of caste,
on the spouse's caste. However, given the rigidity of the
system, intercaste marriage carries a social stigma,
when it takes place between two castes at the extreme ends
of the
social spectrum.
As Bishop further asserts, at the core of the caste
is a rank order of values bound up in concepts of ritual
purity, and pollution. Furthermore, caste determines an
individual's behavior, obligations, and expectations. All
social, economic, religious, legal, and political
activities of a
caste society are prescribed by sanctions that determine
and limit
access to land, position of political power, and command
of human
labor. Within such a constrictive system, wealth,
political power,
high rank, and privilege converge; hereditary occupational
specialization is a common feature. Nevertheless, caste is
functionally significant only when viewed in a regional or
context and at a particular time. The assumed correlation
the caste hierarchy and the socioeconomic class hierarchy
does not
always hold. Because of numerous institutional changes
over the
years and increased dilution (or expansion) of the caste
stemming from intercaste marriages, many poor high-caste
and rich
low-caste households could be found in the society in
Although Paharis, especially those in rural areas, were
generally quite conscious of their caste status, the
question of
caste did not usually arise for Tibeto-Nepalese
communities unless
they were aware of the Hindu caste status arbitrarily
assigned to
them. Insofar as they accepted caste-based notions of
social rank,
the Tibeto-Nepalese tended not only to see themselves at a
level than did the Hindu Pahari and Newar, but also
differed as to
ranking among themselves. Thus, it was doubtful that the
Rai caste's assumption of rank superiority over the Magar
Gurung castes was accepted by the two latter groups.
Moreover, the
status of a particular group was apt to vary from place to
depending on its relative demographic size, wealth, and
Data as of September 1991
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A Palestinian Breakfast in Israel
A Palestinian Breakfast in Israel
Falafel and Labne in Jaljuliya
Food tends to taste better in times of trouble. Maybe you appreciate it more. Perhaps scarcity is a factor, though that certainly was not the case in Israel last summer. As a fan of Mediterranean cuisine, I could not have been in a better place. Despite haphazard rocket attacks, not 60 miles to the south in Gaza it was a whole different story, so I considered myself lucky.
Marrying a Palestinian means acquiring an intricate network of cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, parents, and close friends, who are also considered family. Since they don't have a country to call their own, you find members of this extended clan scattered around the globe. Very few of my wife's father's family had remained behind in the motherland, but amid the latest melee in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we went to see them in the small town of Jaljuliya, just outside Tel Aviv.
We crossed into Israel from Jordan on the first day of a shaky cease-fire. Despite the tense atmosphere, my wife's oldest cousin, Mustafa, and his wife, who had insisted that we come, greeted us at the border after waiting for hours in the hot sun. Israeli authorities had detained us for no other reason than my wife's maiden name. Mustafa took us back to their immense home, in which all of their sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren lived. While we could have stayed anywhere in that huge building, he insisted that we sleep in his room.
Arab hospitality knows no bounds, and the family went out of their way to make us feel not only comfortable, but also special. We arose the next morning to the smell of fresh pita baking. In fact, every morning, the women in the family would get up early and make falafel and hummus from scratch as well.
They supplemented the meal with other foods a Westerner would not expect to eat first thing in the morning: local olives, pickled vegetables, and a cucumber-tomato salad. I liked the tart taste of the labne, a type of creamy yogurt, though several types of farmer's cheese proved too salty and pungent for my palate. Everyone dipped their pita in olive oil before covering it in zaatar, a blend of dried thyme, sesame seeds, and sumac, a powdered, tangy berry. The most familiar item on the table was the hard-boiled eggs, sprinkled with a little hot paprika. To wash it down we had tea spiked with fresh mint leaves, though this family also loved their shots of Nespresso. I would never have imagined that such humble food could provide the basis for such a feast.
To enjoy a full spread on the table with the whole family gathered round in the middle of a raging conflict was an obvious blessing. Though displaced from their ancestral lands, and suffering under a lifetime of uncertainty, my wife's people here had mastered the art of living in the moment and appreciating what they had. They ate as if this was their last meal, elevating a daily ritual into something more like worship.


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The Bible – Old Testament
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.
38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
Chapter 17
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said: "I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.
Between you and me I will establish my covenant, and I will multiply you exceedingly."
When Abram prostrated himself, God continued to speak to him:
"My covenant with you is this: you are to become the father of a host of nations.
2 No longer shall you be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a host of nations.
I will render you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings shall stem from you.
I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now staying, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God."
God also said to Abraham: "On your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages.
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you that you must keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.
Circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the mark of the covenant between you and me.
Throughout the ages, every male among you, when he is eight days old, shall be circumcised, including houseborn slaves and those acquired with money from any foreigner who is not of your blood.
Yes, both the houseborn slaves and those acquired with money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting pact.
If a male is uncircumcised, that is, if the flesh of his foreskin has not been cut away, such a one shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
3 God further said to Abraham: "As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai; her name shall be Sarah.
I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. Him also will I bless; he shall give rise to nations, and rulers of peoples shall issue from him."
4 Abraham prostrated himself and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Or can Sarah give birth at ninety?"
Then Abraham said to God, "Let but Ishmael live on by your favor!"
God replied: "Nevertheless, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son, and you shall call him Isaac. I will maintain my covenant with him as an everlasting pact, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him.
As for Ishmael, I am heeding you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.
But my covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time next year."
When he had finished speaking with him, God departed from Abraham.
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all his slaves, whether born in his house or acquired with his money – every male among the members of Abraham's household – and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins on that same day, as God had told him to do.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,
and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
Thus, on that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised;
and all the male members of his household, including the slaves born in his house or acquired with his money from foreigners, were circumcised with him.
1 [1] The Almighty: traditional but incorrect rendering of the divine title shaddai, of uncertain meaning.
2 [5] Abram and Abraham are merely two forms of the same name, both meaning, "the father is exalted"; another variant form is Abiram (⇒ Numbers 16:1; ⇒ 1 Kings 16:34). The additional – ha – in the form Abraham is explained by folk etymology as coming from ab-hamon goyim, "father of a host of nations."
3 [15] Sarai and Sarah are variant forms of the same name, both meaning "princess."
4 [17] Laughed: yishaq, which is the Hebrew form of the name "Isaac"; other similar explanations of the name are given in ⇒ Genesis 18:12 and ⇒ 21:6.


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Dive Brief:
- Students with names that can be difficult to pronounce may end up with a nickname — and not of their own choosing, which leaves them feeling not just misidentified but disrespected, District Administration reports.
- Educators trying to pronounce names correctly can take their practice to a private space with the student rather than struggling to figure it out during attendance in front of the class, and some schools are also addressing this by giving students the opportunity to call and record how their names are said correctly.
- Teachers should consider selecting books written by authors from around the globe to help students grow more familiar with names they may not typically hear or read, and math teachers can also work different names into word problems, familiarizing students with a wider variety of first and last names.
Dive Insight:
For some people, their name can be a minefield for mispronunciation — spellings may be unfamiliar to speakers, or spellings that look like they should be said one way are consistently said another. When teachers and peers mispronounce a student or classmate's name, they can be doing more than stumbling — they can show a lack of respect for someone's identity. That can have a negative impact on learning, how students feel about themselves, and potentially their future career.
Five joint studies from New York University, the University of Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Melbourne, Australia, looked at what researchers called the "name-pronunciation effect." They studied people with names that are easier to pronounce, finding they are "judged more positively than [people with] difficult-to-pronounce names," authors wrote in the study. "The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun," published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in 2011.
One result researchers found is people with last names that are simpler to pronounce have higher positions in law firms than those with names that are more complicated. That result is likely not surprising to the Santa Clara County Office of Education, which has challenged districts and educators around North America to sign up for A Declaration of Self. The site asks people to "pledge to pronounce students' names correctly," and it has been adopted by 958 school districts, 2,219 cities and 637 communities.
For other steps educators can take, Indiana University's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning offers ideas on how teachers can learn to say students' names correctly. Suggestions include taking photographs and attaching names to these images as a reference tool, and also using name tags with pronunciations written out, as well.
The effort is crucial — when teachers take the time to learn how to speak a student's name correctly, they model that behavior for the entire class. The respect students show each other when speaking someone's name as they want it to be said builds social and emotional learning skills of compassion, empathy and communication within a group — strengthening a classroom and the way it interacts.
"Knowing one's classmates' names fosters the feeling that there are peers in the class with whom the student can interact," wrote Joan Middendorf and Elizabeth Osborn on Indiana University's online resource page. "A sense of community among the students begins to grow, fostering learning both inside and outside the classroom."


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We're less than a month until the release of Black Suit Spiderman (or also known as the Black Symbiote Spiderman) which is exclusive to the Playstation Vita starter pack of Disney Infinity 2.0.
This week, GameStop has placed the listing online on their website saying that the title is exclusive to them.
Retail price is $59.99 with an official release date of May 9th.
No official word confirming this yet, but this doesn't look like it is a gamestop exclusive version of the bundle. Just looks like a straight out exclusive.
EDITORIAL: In my opinion, this may be more GameStop was one of the only retailers that actually was interested in the title, so Disney Infinity just made it an exclusive. I can't imagine too many retailers were planning on stocking up on this.
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Restrictions on Women Education and Employment is not Acceptable
Compromising women's rights during the peace talks has raised public concerns. Many activists urge the government negotiating team to safeguard women's rights including the right to education and work in their discussion with the Taliban. Speaking to CSHRN, Mr. Rashid mentioned education as the inalienable right of women, which is guaranteed by the country's national law.
CSHRN: Do you think the Afghan negotiating team in the peace talks will stand for this right?
Rashid: The negotiations require extensive discussions and debates, which has raised public concerns over the inability of the Afghan negotiating team members to safeguard this right and the other achievements gained in the last two decades.
CSHRN: What are other concerns with regard to women's rights that should be addressed in the peace talks?
Rashid: women's social and political participation is a critical point, as well as the public execution that is being regularly carried out by the Taliban must be stopped now and forever.
CSHRN: Given the Taliban's nature, do you thing the peace talks will still pay off?
Rashid: I think the Taliban's view of women has changed to some extent. They now understand the important role of women in public life and the right to education. And yet, they may still oppose certain women's rights and impose restrictions on women's access to education.
CSHRN: How will the Taliban's presence in power affect women's activities?
Rashid: The Taliban have changed to some extent. The group now knows the critical role of women in development processes, which has been enshrined in the country's national compacts and international legal documents to which Afghanistan is a state party. Therefore, any opposition by the Taliban will not be acceptable by others.
CSHRN: What should be done to support peace efforts?
Rashid: Civil society activists and other institutions must join their efforts to support women's rights to ensure sustainable peace. I also urge the Taliban negotiating team to include women negotiators in their team to bring in critical points related to women. According to Rashid, the government negotiating team should place the preservation of the gains, including the constitution, women's political rights, access to education, and certain freedoms at the forefront of their agenda with the Taliban. The team should also require the Taliban to provide guarantee that the group remains committed to complying with its obligations.


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German melodic hardcore group For Heads Down are allowing fans to stream a few tracks off their forthcoming album "Resurgence". The release is penned for July 20, 2018 and is being handled by Melodic Punk Style.
"Resurgence" will be the first recordfrom the group since the 2013 effort Storm Warning. According to For Heads Down's bandcamp, their latest material should excite fans of Andrenalized, Much The Same, and A Wilhelm Scream.
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text: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post8420774998298127458..comments2023-10-03T23:16:43.030-07:00Comments on Pleasures from the Page: Slice of Life: Work on RamonaRamonahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post-68008991460987734642017-08-08T18:59:27.632-07:002017-08-08T18:59:27.632-07:00And look at this, school is almost here and you ar...And look at this, school is almost here and you are wearing your lifelong learner hat, Ramona. "The best teachers are perpetual students. I believe that with all my heart." Carol Varsalonahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post-75752225819775646482017-08-08T17:11:10.564-07:002017-08-08T17:11:10.564-07:00Work on Ramona! We all need to see a "sign&qu...Work on Ramona! We all need to see a "sign" sometimes to get ourselves going, don't we? I like the letter challenge. As a military wife, I spent several seasons of life as a daily letter writer.Diane Andersonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post-90070599759492003552017-08-08T12:18:51.460-07:002017-08-08T12:18:51.460-07:00I love the direction you took from that sign, Ramo...I love the direction you took from that sign, Ramona. That letter challenge looks like a good one - I do miss letter writing...and receiving!Tarahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post-2192578236112905832017-08-08T10:57:03.841-07:002017-08-08T10:57:03.841-07:00I adore that you saw that sign, Ramona. How fun (a...I adore that you saw that sign, Ramona. How fun (and inspiring) that you took it as a challenge and moved right into the doing! I guess we are on the same page today with ""I can do something new feeling" always comes with the beginning of the school year." It never stops, does it? Have a happy rest of the week!Linda Bhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-887210982915389572.post-12147302173075176572017-08-08T09:46:12.546-07:002017-08-08T09:46:12.546-07:00What a great moment of inspiration. I don't su...What a great moment of inspiration. I don't suppose I am likely to see a "Work on Adrienne" sign too soon, but your post gets me thinking about the things I want to work on.Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com