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Sati was (is) a social funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice was banned several times, with the current ban dating to 1829 by the British.
CURRENT INCIDENCE
Sati still occurs in the rural areas of India, reports extending into the 21st century. Some 30 cases of sati from 1943-1987 in the Rajput/Shekavati region are documented according to a referred statistics, the official number being 28. A well documented case from 1987 was that of 18-year old Roop Kanwar. In response to this incident, additional recent legislation against the practice was passed, first within the state of Rajasthan, then generally, the central government of India.
In 2002, a 65-year-old woman by the name of Kuttu died after sitting on her husband's funeral pyre in the Indian Panna district. On 18 May 2006, Vidyawati, a 35-year old woman allegedly committed sati by jumping into the blazing funeral pyre of her husband in Rari-Bujurg Village, Fatehpur district in the State of Uttar Pradesh. On 21 August 2006, Janakrani, a 40-year-old woman, burned to death on the funeral pyre of her husband Prem Narayan in Sagar district. On 11 October 2008 a 75-year-old woman, Lalmati Verma, committed sati by jumping into her 80-year-old husband's funeral pyre at Checher in the Kasdol block of Chhattisgarh's Raipur district.
ETYMOLOGY
The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati, also known as Dakshayani, who self-immolated because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her husband Shiva. The term may also be used to refer to the widow. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as "chaste woman". Sati appears in both Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with "good wife"; the term suttee was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers.
ORIGN
Few reliable records exist of the practice before the time of the Gupta empire, approximately 400 CE. After about this time, instances of sati began to be marked by inscribed memorial stones. The earliest of these are found in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, though the largest collections date from several centuries later, and are found in Rajasthan. These stones, called devli, or sati-stones, became shrines to the dead woman, who was treated as an object of reverence and worship. They are most common in western India. A description of suttee appears in a Greek account of the Punjab written in the first century BCE by historian Diodorus Siculus. Brahmins were forbidden from the practice by the Padma Purana. A chapter dated to around the 10th century indicates that, while considered a noble act when committed by a Kshatriya woman, anyone caught assisting an upper-caste Brahmin in self-immolation as a "sati" was guilty of Brahminicide.
The ritual has prehistoric roots, and many parallels from other cultures are known. Compare for example the ship burial of the Rus' described by Ibn Fadlan, where a female slave is burned with her master.
Aristobulus of Cassandreia, a Greek historian who traveled to India with the expedition of Alexander the Great, recorded the practice of sati at the city of Taxila. A later instance of voluntary co-cremation appears in an account of an Indian soldier in the army of Eumenes of Cardia, whose two wives jumped on his funeral pyre, in 316 BC. The Greeks believed that the practice had been instituted to discourage wives from poisoning their old husbands.
Voluntary death at funerals has been described in northern India before the Gupta empire. The original practices were called anumarana, and were uncommon. Anumarana was not comparable to later understandings of sati, since the practices were not restricted to widows – rather, anyone, male or female, with personal loyalty to the deceased could commit suicide at a loved one's funeral. These included the deceased's relatives, servants, followers, or friends. Sometimes these deaths stemmed from vows of loyalty, and bear a slight resemblance to the later tradition of junshi in Japan.
It is theorized that sati, enforced widowhood, and girl marriage were customs that were primarily intended to solve the problem of surplus women and surplus men in a caste and to maintain its endogamy.
Apart from the Indian subcontinent, origins of this practice have been found in many parts of the world; it was followed by the ancient Egyptians, Thracians, Scythians, Scandinavians, Chinese, as well as people of Oceania and Africa.
Sati remained legal in some princely states for a time after it had been abolished in lands under British control. Jaipur banned the practice in 1846. Nepal continued to practice Sati well into the 20th century.
On the Indonesian island of Bali, sati (known as masatya) was practised by the aristocracy as late as 1905, until Dutch colonial rule pushed for its termination.
Following outcries after each instance, the government has passed new measures against the practice, which now effectively make it illegal to be a bystander at an event of sati. The law now makes no distinction between passive observers to the act and active promoters of the event; all are supposed to be held equally guilty. Other measures include efforts to stop the 'glorification' of the dead women. Glorification includes the erection of shrines to the dead, the encouragement of pilgrimages to the site of the pyre, and the derivation of any income from such sites and pilgrims.
Another instance of systematic Sati happened in 1973, when Savitri Soni sacrificed her life with her husband in Kotadi village of Sikar District in Rajasthan. Thousands of people witnessed this incident.
Although many have tried to prevent the act of sati by banning it and reinforcing laws against it, it is still being practiced (on rare occasions) in India under coercion or by voluntary burning, as in the case of Charan Shah: a 55 year-old widow of Manshah who burnt herself on the pyre of her husband in the village of Satpura in Uttar Pradesh on 11 November 1999. Her death on the funeral pyre has provoked much controversy, as there have been questions as to whether she willingly performed the Sati or was coerced. Charan Shah had not professed strong feelings to become a Sati to any of her family members, and no one saw her close to the burning body of her husband before she jumped into the fire. The villagers, including her sons, say that she became a Sati of her own accord and that she was not forced into it. They continue to pay their respects to the house of Charan Shah. It has become a shrine for the villagers, as they strongly believe that one who has become a sati is a deity; she is worshipped and endowed with gifts.
NUMBERS
There are no reliable figures for the numbers who died by sati across the country. A local indication of the numbers is given in the records kept by the Bengal Presidency of the British East India Company. The total figure of known occurrences for the period 1813 to 1828 is 8,135; another source gives a comparable number of 7,941 from 1815 to 1828, thus giving an average of about 507 to 567 documented incidents per year in that period. Raja Ram Mohan Roy estimated that there were ten times as many cases of Sati in Bengal compared to the rest of the country. Bentinck, in his 1829 report, states that 420 occurrences took place in one (unspecified) year in the 'Lower Provinces' of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and 44 in the 'Upper Provinces' (the upper Gangetic plain).
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Hubert Hamer, Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) inducts Marshall L. Dantzler, Phillip S. Kott, Jack Nealon, Sue Horstkamp and Joseph Reilly into the NASS Hall of Fame at the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 14, 2022. The NASS Hall of Fame honors individuals whose work made lasting contributions to the quality of the information collected and the service NASS provides in producing timely, accurate, and useful agriculture statistics. USDA photo by Tom Witham
Central State Office for Statistics of the GDR and the Departments of the Ministry for State Security, (facade detail)
Berlin, Germany,
built between 1968-70,
abandoned in 2008,
soon to be demolished.
architect: Manfred Hörner, Peter Senf, Joachim Härter.
odin and i ate at a local chinese restaurant and were quite suprised to see we got the same fortune in our fortune cookies. of course, it made we wonder what the odds were of that happening. while i imagine the odds aren't infinitesimally small, they still must be fairly unlikely since i've cracked open a lot of fortunes cookies over the years and never seen duplicates.
i tried to figure it out but i couldn't find any reliable information aside from anecdotes like this, "This particular fortune cookie factory produces 4 million cookies per day, and uses 5,000 different fortunes, which means that each fortune printed is going to be duplicated 800 times per day."
that's a significant number of duplicates produced every day, but i'm guessing that they're boxed in such way to reduce the chance of a duplicate ending up in a single box?
Hubert Hammer NASS Administrator attends National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) livestream of the Secretary of Agriculture’s data report briefing at USDA in Washington D.C. on March 31, 2022. This and future Secretary data briefings will stream on NASS’s YouTube channel five minutes after NASS reports are released to the public. USDA photo by Tom Witham.
Working on a new infographic comparing the white population of a state to whether it's projected as going for Obama or McCain
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From teenage years to adulthood, our kids go through tremendous transitions. It puts a lot of stress on our young people. Sometimes, the stress translates to illicit behaviors like taking drugs and drinking while underage. One look at recent underage drinking statistics gives us a pretty clear idea of exactly what kinds of issues we are facing as a society. The discussion below will delve into 2017 teen drinking statistics and what you can do as a parent.
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Terry O'Neill's Rock 'n' Roll Album
Men And Women In Christ: Andrew Bartlett
The 100 Greatest Cover Versions: Robert Webb
The Art Of Statistics - David Spiegelhalter
The Biblical Cosmos: Robin A. Parry
Whole Life, Whole Bible: Antony Billington
Anaximander: Carlo Rovelli
Resilience: Eric Greitens
A Peculiar Glory: John Piper
Making Sense Of God: Timothy Keller
Reading The Bible Supernaturally: John Piper
17 Equations That Changed The World: Ian Stewart
Gilead: Marilynne Robinson
The Sabbath: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Beyond Good And Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche
Godric: Frederick Buechner
The Four Loves: CS Lewis
Shantung Compound: Langdon Gilkey
God, Greed, And The (Prosperity) Gospel: Costi W. Hinn
The Church And Its Vocation: Michael W. Goheen
Luminaries: Twenty Lives that Illuminate the Christian Way - Rowan Williams
Address Unknown: Kressmann Taylor
Poems - Milton
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Old Testament Is Dying - Brent A. Strawn
Ezekiel: Living In The Light Of God’s Presence - Antony Billington
The Denial Of Death - Ernest Becker
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. - Graduation Speeches
C.S. Lewis - A Life - Alister McGrath
Jesus In Nazareth - Tales from his gap years - Tony Burnham
Paradise Lost by John Milton, graphic novel, Pablo Auladell
Exorcism & Deliverance - Ed. William K. Kay and Robin Parry
Ordinary Church - Joseph S. Beach
Once Upon A Time, God... - Thomas Howard
Home - Marilynne Robinson
Women In A Patriarchal World - Elaine Storkey
Why I Love The Apostle Paul - John Piper
Even The Sparrow - Jill Weber
Thinking Through Creation - Christopher Watkin
Daring Greatly - Brené Brown
The Journey To The Mayflower: God’s Outlaws And The Invention Of Freedom - Stephen Tomkins
Chance Or The Dance - Thomas Howard
Dominion: The Making Of The Western Mind - Tom Holland
The Prophets - Abraham Heschel
1 & 2 Kings - Peter J. Leithart
1 & 2 Chronicles - Peter J. Leithart
Hearing God - Dallas Willard
The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones: Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
All-Star Superman 1 - Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely & Jamie Grant
Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments - Joy Davidman
The Samurai: Shūsaku Endō
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Samin Nosrat
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
What Happened After Mr Jones Died - Paul Wreyford
Kings Cross - Timothy Keller
Maximum Bob - Elmore Leonard
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Shady Characters - Keith Houston
Im Ausstellungsbereich "World Statistics" können Städte zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Lifestyle, Ernährung oder Kriminalität einander gegenübergestellt werden und weiterführende Informationen, zum Beispiel zu Mobilität, Kommunikation oder zur Zukunft einzelner Städte, durch bloße Stiftberührung entdeckt werden.
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At "World Statistics" you can compare different cities with regard to several topics such as lifestyle, food or crime. For further information about one specific city just use the Anoto Pen to touch one of the shown catchwords and then the desired city from the world map.
this tree is in front of the Stat. Building. i wonder if anyone ever wonders about the statistics of falling leaves and colors as they sit inside?
The huge increase in the number of views for 30 and 31 July mystifies me (2,774 on the 30th and 3,446 on the 31st). I do not have enough evidence to say that one of the "Referrers" (see below) is the cause. Monitor screen captures by Edgar.
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this item is gaining an unexpected number of consultations in the last days without any comment.
I am curious to know who is intersted in this topic.
Night has fallen at Scarborough Centre station as Orion VII 7538 picks up passengers on route 190 Scarborough Centre Rocket.
VEHICLE STATISTICS
Operator: Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
Make: Orion Bus Industries
Model: 2004 Orion VII
Engine: Detroit Diesel S50 EGR
Transmission: Allison B400R
Destination sign: Luminator Horizon
RETIRED: December 2017
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ROUTE
to DON MILLS STN
E X P R E S S
(L-R) - Young person employed by Diageo - Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women’s Employment - Laura Peacock, Investors in People Scotland.
Vince il team italiano 'Giottistica'
(Istituto Giotto Ulivi di Borgo San Lorenzo, Firenze)
Cerimonia di premiazione
INE - Madrid, 27 giugno 2022
(L-R) - Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women’s Employment - Ewan Andrew, supply director at Diageo International Supply Centre. - Laura Peacock, Investors in People Scotland.
Wow just went over the 30,000 mark this evening! Thank you to everyone who has contributed and viewed my photos over the last year. I never would have thought I would get this far in such a small amount of time.
Is there a designer type? To what limit are designers individualists and how does the most average designer look like? Design Statistics Annual is trying to figure out the answers. The book looks upon how designers are portrayed in images, where they come from, and what they are doing. All the facts are illustrated in diagrams, reproductions of portraits and text.
During one year statistics was collected from magazines. The work was completed in Eindhoven, and is about designers from all the world. This edition is based on the I.D. Magazine (International Design Magazine). One year’s edition of the magazine has been carefully counted, analyzed and registrated. The book consists of 226 pages, mentions 1523 persons and shows that the most average designer likes to dress in a pale blue shirt, jeans and black sneakers.
Design Statistics Annual is a collaboration between Maria Johansson and Lina Huring. They met at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands where they both were exchange students.
The book can be purchased at bookshop Konst-ig, Åsögatan 124, Stockholm. info@konstig.se