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So, in that context, Boswell's book:
Boswell devotes his “Introduction” to a discussion of the difficulties facing the historian in research, first in comprehending the context of the period, and then in making it clear to an audience. This is extraordinarily difficult in the area of social customs, because so much has changed, and so much is not recorded and must be reasoned from vague and often cryptic sources. Boswell stresses, quite rightly, that the historian must understand the vocabulary of the question, in this case marriage, in contemporaneous terms to bring any sort of understanding to the discussion. In Chapter 1, Boswell does a more than creditable job of clarifying the many forms that marriage took in the Mediterranean societies of the Classical, Hellenistic, and early Imperial ages, with particular appreciation for St. Augustine’s dictum that procreation was not a requirement for marriage (notwithstanding contemporary Church teaching to the contrary). What is interesting is the development of heterosexual marriage from an institution devoted entirely to economic, political, and dynastic concerns, in which the wife was essentially property bestowed on her husband by her father to cement an alliance between two families, to a contractual arrangement by independent adults (at least in theory – the arrangement was by no mean equal, except in social class). In light of this, it is no surprise that marriage in pre-Christian Europe was practiced by – and quite often permitted to – only the upper classes: those who had significant property. It is not until the later Empire that affection and attraction become acceptable considerations in arranging marriages. (It is also worth noting that, for the most part, priestly participation was an add-on – for the vast majority, once the financial agreements had been worked out, a simple declaration before witnesses constituted the ceremony: marriages were usually blessed by priests, but the crux was signing the agreements.)
Boswell goes on to discuss same-sex unions in pre-Christian Europe. Even for those familiar with some of the customs and expectations surrounding same-sex relationships in this period, he provides an enlightening commentary, pointing out that such relationships were expected to be long-term, ideally permanent, that the much touted age difference between erastes and eromenos in Greek custom (when it existed at all) paralleled exactly the ideal age difference in heterosexual marriage, and, no surprise to some, that same-sex relationships were expected to call forth the best characeristics of the lovers. (The U. S. military establishment comes in for a few pointed comments, as Boswell brings the history of the Sacred Band of Thebes – never defeated until they were wiped out to the last man at Chaeronaea – to bear on arguments about “unit cohesion” and “morale.”)
The chapter on marriage in the early Christian period is more than enlightening. Stunning is Boswell’s observation that “For the enthusiastic and devout, the most dramatic change in attitudes toward marriage was its profound devaluation.” The early Christian Church did not like the idea of sex under any circumstances, and far from promoting procreation as a divine mandate, held that the ideal marriage was never consummated. (Fortunately for the development of Christianity, the Church Fathers did finally, albeit grudgingly, admit that sex within marriage was acceptable – a somewhat lukewarm endorsement. One wonders if they were just bowing to the inevitable, since the vast majority of Christians paid as much attention to Church teaching in this area then as they do now.) Marriage did not become a sacrament within the Church for over a thousand years. Boswell also discusses several instances of “paired saints,” particularly SS Serge and Bacchus, who were without doubt a couple and were perceived as such at the time.
Perhaps the most revelatory chapters in the book are those treating the development of nuptial offices in the early Church, both heterosexual and homosexual, and their characteristics and history into the early Medieval period. Boswell cites an impressive wealth of sources that point to the almost exact parallels in treatment of the two (given that a same-sex union was less likely to involve the transfer of property or to reflect an unequal relationship in terms of relative authority). There is an extensive discussion of Roman law in this regard, since canon law was basically grafted onto that existing foundation, and Boswell goes into exhaustive detail on such ancillary issues as the adoption of brothers. What is remarkable is that the early Church’s de-emphasis of sex not only did not preclude same-sex unions, but actually made them more acceptable than they are today. Particularly instructive is the career of the Emperor Basil I, a nobody from Macedonia who “married” a wealthy Greek youth, John, at the behest of the youth’s mother and then, after assassinating the Emperor Michael (to whom he had been advisor and bedmate) summoned John to Constaninople to live with him. Boswell cites evidence from sources as diverse as the Eastern Empire, the Principality of Kiev, Spain, the Kingdom of the Franks, and Ireland as illustration of the widespread existence of same-sex unions entered under the auspices of the Church. He also notes anecdotal evidence of such unions entered into less formally.
The fourteenth century witnessed an abrupt shift in the Church’s position on same-sex unions, somewhat equivalent to the rise of the Church in the fourth century (at the beginning of which, Christianity was illegal, and by the end of which, it was the state religion). As Boswell points out, the reasons for this shift are obscure, save that the Church responded to growing public antipathy toward homosexuality (which had always been more marked in the West than in the East). This shift was hardly universal: Montaigne described witnessing a same-sex union performed by a priest in Rome in 1578, and there is documentation of a similar ceremony between two women which took place in a church in Dalmatia in the eighteenth century.
In his final chapter, Boswell examines some of the difficulties of the “history of history” in this area. It is no secret that Western society, particularly in England, Germany, and the United States, has a pathogical fear of homosexuality. It is therefore no surprise that this cultural context has colored the work of historians and anthropologists in describing the realities of other cultures, both contemporary and historical. Indeed, I remember my own dismay at the discovery that Jowett’s translations of Plato, long the standard, were heavily bowdlerized for just this reason. Boswell makes a good case for a clear-eyed view of history in this regard, one that I think can only be helpful in its honesty.
A highly respected historian, Boswell was careful in his research and very well aware of the dangers of transposing modern attitudes to historical events. As a writer, he is articulate, witty, sometimes acerbic, and very clear. He draws heavily on original documents as well as secondary sources (which makes the footnotes somewhat of a chore, unless you read French, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Old Church Slavonic), and refers as well to hagiography, Christian iconography, Hellenistic romance novels, medieval folktales, and legal codes and decisions in clarifying his examination. There is no doubt that Boswell had an agenda; what is impressive is that the agenda does not infringe on the balance in his discussion. (In spite of the impression readers may have gained from my own summary discussion above, let me note that Boswell is very careful to point out ambiguities in usage and in the texts – this is not a work of polemic.) There are sections that are heavy sledding, particularly for those not familiar with the forms and methods of historiography. The footnotes, which are legion, are a distraction: although Boswell points out that one can read through without reference to the notes, someone conditioned by a lifetime of checking citations will find it almost impossible to ignore them. Boswell also includes as appendices translations of texts discussed, the texts in their original language, a discussion of the Jewish perspective, the text of a same-sex union, and the Passion of SS Serge and Bacchus.
I found “Same-Sex Unions” fascinating, but then, I have more than a passing fondness for history. For those who routinely tout the 3,000-year-old “tradition” of marriage, it would be instructive to find out just exactly what that tradition encompasses. For those who blithely point to antiquity as the touchstone of social approval for same-sex relationships, it would be equally instructive to learn just how tenuous that approval sometimes was. Boswell’s book brings a badly needed perspective to the furious debate raging on the subject of “gay marriage” in this country and others. I don’t think anyone can dispute that same-sex unions had their ups and downs in European history – but then, so did marriage.


Wawa is celebrating its 25th birthday.
The chain, which had been the nation’s largest lottery retailer until the end of the year, announced plans Friday to merge with a new company that will acquire the entire company and merge it with the larger lottery retailer, Wanda Corp. The move marks a major shift in the lottery industry, which was once dominated by a handful of companies that were the largest in the U.S. and Canada.
The merger will create a combined company with the largest revenue of any lottery company, and will be the largest single-day spend in Wawa’s history.
“We’re really pleased to announce that we’re moving forward,” said Chris Wiggett, chairman of Wawa.
“Our new company will be even bigger and better than the Wawa we have today.
It will bring Wawa to a whole new level of profitability, with the potential to deliver even more value and better value for our customers.”
The announcement comes as Wawa and other companies are battling with Amazon, which has a massive share of the U,S.
Amazon is also looking to expand its online business, which will become even bigger as the company’s online presence expands.
Wawa said it would not disclose the new company’s financial results.
The company’s shares closed down about 7% to $1.39, while Amazon shares rose almost 4%.


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Friday, September 11, 2009
Kate made this cake!
For her boyfriend's birthday. He requested strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream, walnut brownies and fresh strawberries. She baked a pan of brownies, cut them out with heart and star-shaped cookie cutters, then crumbled the leftovers into some buttercream and used that for the filling in the cake. She punched up the strawberry flavor in the cake and icing by adding a half package of strawberry jello to each. The brownie hearts and stars are marching around the sides of the cake and the sliced strawberries on top are doing their best imitation of the June Taylor Dancers. He loved it.

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Some 69.48% fall victims of sexual harassment through spreading exclusive private pictures and videos in the internet are being perpetrated by their close ones.
Of them, 33.77% cases have affairs between the victims and offenders while in 35.71% cases the offenders are familiar with the victims.
This was revealed on Sunday in a research paper of Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation.
Dhaka University chapter of the Foundation prepared the research paper titled ‘sexual harassment through misuse of technology in Bangladesh’. The report was prepared analysing some 154 crimes collected from national and regional newspapers during the period of January-December of the last year.
The Foundation organised a webinar on the occasion of releasing the report.
President of the Foundation presided over the webinar where chairman of psychology department of Jagannath University Noor Mohammad, chairman of Criminology Department of Dhaka University Khandaker Farzana Rahman, computer network engineer Syed Zahid Hossain, senior assistant commissioner of cyber security and crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Sayeed Nasirullah and lawyer of Supreme Court Tanzim Al Islam took part.
Research cell convenor and East-West University senior lecturer Monira Nazmi Jahan presented various parts of the research.
The research finds that 92.20% of the victims are women, of them 56.49% are the age range of 18-30 years while 32.47% are under 18 years.
The number of female victims in the age range of 18 to 30 years and below 30 years are much higher than the male victims, but the number is higher for male victims over 30 years range than the females.
It said that most sexual harassment news found in Dhaka division which is 33.12%, followed by Chattogram 16.88%. As per the district-wise sexual harassment incidents, the divisional headquarters are the front-liners.
The report mentioned that the rate of sexual harassment is 62.99% where it is 15.58% for rape, 13.64% for sexuality, 3.25% for suicide, 1.95% for attempt of suicide and 1.95% others.
The rate of spreading videos and pictures is 51.91% and 35.52% respectively.
Among the sexual harassment contents, 35.71% has been spread openly in the cyberspace, especially in the social media. In 40.91% the sexual offenders tried to materialise his/her objective by showing those to the victims personally.
It finds that in 35.71% cases the victims were familiar with the oppressor, while 33.77% cases both had relation of affair whereas in 14.29 cases victims were unknown to the harasser.
For sexual harassment, establishment of sexual relation was found in 63.07% incidents while in 6.25% cases was found as revenge, 23.86% was attempt to snatch away money and property.
The Foundation in its research paper recommended formulating a policy regarding usage of internet for women and children like developed countries to contain the misuse of technology.
It also recommended for extensive publicity, ensuring secured workplace, providing sex education in proper way, ensuring religious discipline and religious education, increase of trained personnel in law enforcing agencies, ensuring proper coordination between victims and law enforcing agencies, removing unemployment and make the youths as skilled workforce through defining age limit of crime prone, nursing and flourishing domestic healthy culture for resisting aggression of pornography and subculture and supervision of parents on their children’s cyber activities.
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DAMAGES — the disturbances of an anatomic integrity of fabrics or bodies which caused disorder of their function.
More often the term is used for designation patol, by impacts on an organism of various environmental factors. In this sense mean an injury by P., napr, mechanical, thermal, chemical, acoustic, mental p other P. consider also as one of manifestations diseases (see) when tell about morfol, changes in fabrics or bodies at any disease, e.g. P. muscles of heart at a giperkatekholaminemiya. The term «damage» designate, at last, changes in structure of a cell at various patol, states, e.g. P. of a lamellar complex of a cell at an infection.
Distinguish exogenous and endogenous Items. Exogenous P. (the most frequent and diverse) arise at influence of various environmental factors. From them the biggest group — the mechanical P. resulting from influence, as a rule, of significant mechanical force (blow, compression, stretching etc.). Mechanical P.'s option is the vibrotrauma of fabrics and bodies caused by long action of vibration (see. Vibration disease , Vibrotrauma ). Among P. the physical factors caused by influence, allocate the thermal P. arising at action of low high temperatures of a pla (see. Burns , Freezing injury ). At influence of high or low atmospheric pressure it is possible barotrauma (see), at influence excessive on force or duration of sound waves — acoustic injury (see), impacts of ionizing radiation result beam damages (see), radial illness (see). At defeat by light radiation the specific injury of organs of sight develops (see. Ophthalmia ). Electric current causes characteristic local and general changes in an organism — electric trauma (see). Considerable acceleration (see), napr, at ejection (see), can be followed by the peculiar P. connected with redistribution of blood in an organism. Chemical P. are connected with action on an organism of acids, alkalis (see. Acids and bases ). poisons (see), toxic agents (see).
A specific place among exogenous P. is held by so-called mental injuries (see. Reactive psychoses ), arising, e.g., at heavy nervous shocks.
P. of wartime (fighting P.) differ in special specifics. Are characteristic of them, depending on influence of various striking factors of the used weapon, weight of defeat, the multiple or combined nature of wounds (damages), contemporaneity of their emergence, especially at use of means of mass defeat, involvement in patol, process of many bodies and systems. Such P., a proximate cause carry to endogenous to-rykh is in the organism — internal injuries toxic products, naira, at traumatic toxicosis (see), inf. diseases, intoxications (see), alterativny processes at an inflammation, as a result of the immune or autoimmune conflict.
Patol, the state which arose at combined action of two and more etiologically various disturbing factors name the combined P., napr, a change together with beam damages (see).
Distinguish production, home, sports, road and transport and other accidents (see. Traumatism ). Road and transport injuries divide into autoinjuries, railway injuries, etc. In connection with specifics of genesis and frequent uniformity of localization of P. allocate injuries during the falling from height — a katatravma. Allocate P. which are one of types professional vrednost (see). A specific place is held so-called. Iatrogenic P., napr, operative measures, punctures and others to lay down. the actions connected with damage of fabrics.
Depending on duration and force of influence of a disturbing factor arise acute and chronic P. Posledniye develop at long repeated action of irritants, weak on force, and are, as a rule, one of types microtraumas (see). Considering a kliniko-morphological condition of fabrics at the time of an injury, allocate P. patholologically of the changed fabrics, naira, the pathological changes arising under the influence of an insignificant injury in the changed bone.
Distinguish also reversible and irreversible effects of P. E.g., P. of skin and mucous membranes are more often reversible, and P. of tissue of a head or siinny brain usually are irreversible that is connected with unequal ability of various fabrics to regeneration. At heavy and massive P. of vitals — a brain, especially brain trunk, heart, and also at extensive P. of other internals sometimes speak about an injury, incompatible with life.
Bruises depending on that, it is damaged or not skin, divide on closed and opened. Carry to the closed P. bruises (see), hypodermic gaps (see) or stretchings of fabrics (see. Distortion ), concussion (see), the prelum of fabrics and bodies closed changes (see) and dislocations (see). To open P., for to-rykh outside bleeding and, as a rule, infection is characteristic, carry grazes And scratches (i.e. injuries of epidermis of skin), wounds (see. Wounds, wounds ), open changes and dislocations, as well as the most severe injuries of a musculoskeletal system — separations (so-called traumatic amputations) and crushes of extremities.
Depending on a point of application of the injuring force distinguish direct and indirect Items. At direct injuries patol. changes in fabrics appear in a place of application of force, e.g. a wound on site of blow by a sharp object. At indirect P. patol, changes of fabrics arise not in a place of application of force, and in the neighboring or more remote areas, napr, dislocation of a hip at blow in the field of a knee joint.
In a wedge, the practician P. divide on their localization, naira. The item of bodies of a stomach, P. of a brain, and also depending on defeat of separate systems, e.g. P. of bodies of urinogenital system, a musculoskeletal system.
All mechanical P. divide on isolated, multiple and combined. Isolated call P. of one internal body or a segment of a musculoskeletal system. The isolated P. can be mo-nofokalny (e.g., a single wound of a liver or a small bowel, a fracture of a femur at one level) and polyfocal (e.g., several wounds of a nechena, several wounds of a small bowel, a fracture of a femur at several levels). Call multiple P. of two and more internals in one anatomic cavity either fascial space or P. of two and more segments of a musculoskeletal system (P. of a large and small bowel, a rupture of a liver and spleen, a fracture of femoral and humeral bones). The combined P. name joint injuries of internals in various anatomic cavities or fascial spaces; damage of internal body (or bodies) in combination with an injury of elements of a musculoskeletal system (e.g., P. of a lung and a liver, an injury of a kidney and spleen, a bruise of a brain and a fracture of a femur). For of both multiple, and combined P.' designation use the term polyinjury (see). From the tactical point of view at a polyinjury it is important to allocate dominating P. Eto most often life-threatening injuries of internals, and at multiple injuries of a musculoskeletal system — open changes.
From all variety of mechanical P. allocate some types differing in the specific mechanism and uniformity of damages of fabrics and bodies. P. at childbirth are that — birth trauma (see). Allocate so-called endogenous mechanical P.: e.g., the forced in-coordinate reduction of muscles during an attack of tetanus or in labor can cause avulsion fractures, compression spinal fractures. Injuries of internals or other fabrics can be ranked by acute fragments of bones as this group P. conditionally.
After action of a disturbing factor in an organism local and general changes in fabrics and bodies develop. Specifics of these changes, their intensity, duration and an outcome depend on many factors. The basic among them is character of the damaging agent — his look, speed at blow, the weight, height of falling and character of a surface of collision (at a katatravma); P.'s localization and extensiveness (volume) of anatomic damages of fabrics; a condition of the victim at the time of getting injured (age, a somatic background, a mental state, etc.).
According to intensity of manifestation of the general disturbances after P. it is accepted to estimate the general condition of the victim as satisfactory, moderately severe, heavy and extremely (extremely) heavy. Extremely serious, agonal condition and clinical death are carried to to terminal states (see).
Expression «heavy damage» can testify both to extensiveness of the center of P., and to specifics of reaction to an injury; e.g., the fracture of a neck of a femur for the person at senile age is much more severe injury, than at mature age.
Each P. is estimated (predict) from the point of view of its danger to life or dysfunction of this or that body. The preliminary forecast — P.'s assessment in the course of treatment (so-called dynamic forecasting). It is especially urgent for the multiple, combined and combined P., at to-rykh during various periods of a disease P., various on localization, and therefore the forecast in the course of treatment can change can dominate.
The final forecast is formulated at the end of treatment. At the same time judge anatomic, functional and labor outcomes P. Posledny (i.e. extent of recovery of the general and the prof. of working capacity) depends both on functional result, and on specifics of a profession. The forecast includes also duration of stay of the patient in a hospital, duration temporary and probability of resistant disability, threat of a lethal outcome.
Terms of healing at P. and terms of disability are extremely variable that is connected with localization and P.'s character, age and a sex of the victim, his somatic condition, existence or lack of complications, time of the beginning and adequacy of the carried-out treatment P.
Iskhod P. can be various: an absolute recovery, recovery with the residual phenomena or irreversible changes, vedush; them to disability, a lethal outcome.
The reasons of a lethality at mechanical P. are diverse: The item of vitals, early and a pozd-npa heavy complications of P. (shock which at mechanical P. is quite often combined with blood loss, a fatty embolism, a thromboembolism of a pulmonary trunk, pneumonia, sepsis, an acute renal failure, wound istoshch; eniye, peritonitis, abscess of a lung and empyema of a pleura, other purulent processes of internals, etc.).
Measures of prevention Items consist in actions organizational, technical and a dignity. - a gleam, character. Methods of protection against P. happen collective (use of the accident prevention on production, observance of safety rules on transport, in sport, etc.) and individual (use of various defensors).
DAMAGES to the medicolegal relation
Damages are an object court. - the medical examination which is carried out according to offers of law enforcement bodies. According to the purposes and problems of this examinations (see) it is accepted to define P. as the disturbance of an anatomic integrity or physiological function of bodies and fabrics which resulted from influence of environmental factors: motive energy
of any body (P. blunt and sharp objects, firearms), thermal and volumetric factors, radiant energy, atmospheric and tekhnich. electricity, change barometrich. pressure.
The nature of disturbances of an anatomic integrity or physiological function of bodies and fabrics happens various that depends on properties povrezhdayush; its factor. In court. - medical practice examination of a mechanical injury is most often carried out, to a cut carry: grazes and bruises (hemorrhages), wounds, dislocations and changes, contusions, concussions, gaps and separations of internals, razmya-ty, crush and division (partition, department) of parts of a body.
Each type of these P. is connected with the specific tool of traumatization possessing a certain mechanism of action. E.g., grazes are always caused by blunt firm objects, their localization corresponds to a place of application of force. They can be the only outside sign of violence in this connection it is necessary to investigate in details subject fabrics where hematomas, fractures of bones and ruptures of internals are possible. In a form of grazes sometimes it is possible to judge properties of the damaging subject and the direction of the operating force. E.g., longitudinal striate grazes on skin arise during the drawing of a body of the person, extensive grazes in the form of wide strips are formed during the moving by wheels of the train etc. However it must be kept in mind that at action of the same damaging subject there can be grazes of a different form and size. Therefore, the conclusion about an origin of a graze as a result of influence of a certain subject can be made only when the sizes and a form of a graze reflect features of the damaging subject. In this respect detection on a surface of grazes of particles of a subject is of great importance, the Crimea the graze was caused (e.g., particles of asphalt during the drawing of a body of the victim, etc.).
Unlike grazes localization of bruises not always corresponds to a place of application of force, sometimes they appear out of P.'s place in the form of so-called leak-ins of blood. E.g., at fractures of base of the skull blood accumulates in cellulose of eye-sockets, appearing through through skin a century. Velichrsha and a form of bruises usually do not correspond to features of a blunt firm object, the Crimea bruise is caused.
The form and localization of grazes and bruises can indicate a way of their drawing and the nature of incident; e.g., semi-lunar grazes on skin of a neck testify to a prelum her hands, multiple grazes and bruises in the field of generative organs and on an inner surface of hips at women can indicate attempt of rape (violent commission with it sexual intercourse), grazes on hands — quite often result of fight and self-defense. At influences, more considerable on force, disturbance of an integrity of fabrics in the form of wounds, fractures, ruptures of internals, razmyatiya and department of parts of a body happens blunt objects. Ruptures of internals result from direct stroke or a prelum of a body or at its concussion that most often happens during the falling from height when P. of internals considerably prevail over P. нарул^ных covers. Parenchymatous bodies are broken off more often than band. Ruptures of internals owing to a direct injury can not be followed by outside P. in the place of blow. Such gaps should be differentiated with the spontaneous gaps developing owing to patol, changes of internals. During the falling backwards from a standing position characteristic shock-proof bruises of frontal and temporal lobes of cerebral hemispheres which along with P. in occipital area allow to install this mechanism of an injury are noted.
Razmyatiye (crush) of fabrics and bodies meets at a prelum of a body between two massive firm blunt objects, napr, at automobile and railway injuries, blockages the fallen buildings etc. Quite often in such cases department of parts and even a partition of a body is observed.
P.'s prescription is defined taking into account dynamics of their healing. For grazes this process is subdivided into 4 stages: from the moment of its education (the bottom of a graze is lower than the level of the unimpaired skin) before emergence of a crust, usually observable later 12 hours after traumatization; during 12 — 24 hours (sometimes to 48 hours) after an injury the bottom of the dried-up graze begins to grow as if, is compared to level an okra-zhayush; to it skin, and then becomes higher; with 4 — the 5th day the stage of epithelization of a graze which is coming to an end to 7 — begins to the 12th day falling away of a crust; on 7 — the 15th day after an injury all signs on site of the former graze completely disappear.
The prescription of bruises is determined by change of their coloring eventually. Initial blue-crimson color of fresh bruise in several hours is more often or 1 — 2 day passes in blue, on 3 — the 6th day is replaced greenish and at the beginning of the 2nd week becomes ocherous then coloring disappears. Bruises under conjunctivas of eyes, mucous membranes of lips do not change initial color and gradually turn pale.
Intensity of healing of grazes, bruises and other P. depends as on reactivity of an organism, and many other reasons (the size, depth, P.'s localization, etc.). Therefore P.'s prescription can be established only within certain terms. Accuracy of determination of prescription of P. first of all depends on time of survey. What earlier it is made by, especially
P. V prescription process court can be precisely defined. - medical researches of a corpse need to be specified what P. are available, their character and localization; by what tool they are caused, to define the mechanism of an injury and its prescription, to establish whether there is a causal relationship between put to P. and approach of death, to concretize a cause of death. Make a macroscopic research taking into account P.'s localization, a form, the sizes, character of edges for the solution of these questions, a surface, a condition of surrounding fabrics. Apply such methods of a research as direct stereomicroscopy (to finding of foreign particulates and features of P. which are not revealed visually), a X-ray analysis (to definition of features of fractures of bones and detection of foreign bodys in the wound channel), a method of chromotypes and staining chemical changes (to identification of marks of the metals left by the damaging subject), the issue spectrographic analysis (to definition of chemical composition of foreign particulates in the area P.), trasological researches (to identification of the tool of an injury according to P. of a body and clothes), researches of imposings (blood and tissues of the person, hair, fibers of fabrics of clothes, etc.) on the tool of an injury (to its identification), experimental and mathematical modeling, histologic and histochemical researches (to identification of a prizhiz-nennost and P.'s prescription) etc.
One of the most difficult questions court. - medical examinations of P. at a research of a corpse establishment of their intravital or posthumous origin is.
Posthumous P. happen accidental and intentional. Accidental P. can arise at unqualified performing resuscitation, the wrong transportation of corpses, defects of opening, to be caused by animals (e.g., rodents) etc. Intentional posthumous P. are sometimes put for an instsenirovaniye of accident, simulation of suicide, etc. Under nek-ry circumstances (the fire with a collapse of a ceiling, movement of a corpse by a rapid current of the river, etc.) posthumous P. are connected with features of incident.
It is difficult to establish P.'s prizhiznennost in cases of approach of death immediately after an injury when signs of an inflammation do not manage to develop. The main difference of intravital P. from posthumous is existence of hemorrhages in P.'s circle, plentiful bleeding with formation of splashes at wounds of large arteries. Traumatic hypostasis which is especially expressed in a circle of considerable hemorrhages, and also reduction of muscles in cases of traumatic amputation of an extremity is intravital P.'s sign.
Considerable sites of hemorrhages, big polymorphism of erythrocytes and their more intensive coloring by eosine, the increased content in the damaged fabrics of leukocytes, fibrinferments of vessels can be microscopic signs of intravital P. Refer aspiration and swallowing blood, a fatty and air vascular embolism of lungs and heart, detection of erythrocytes in regional limf, nodes to accessory signs of intravital P.
Causes of death at mechanical P. can be subdivided into primary and secondary (complications). Primary causes of death are directly connected with an injury and lead to the termination of vital; functions of an organism. These reasons conditionally divide into the following groups. 1. Gross anatomic violations of vitals, napr, razmyaty heads, partition of a trunk, cardiorrhesis, etc. 2. Blood losses: acute — due to sharp falling of intracardiac pressure and an anemia of a brain at damage of large vessels (striate hemorrhages under an endocardium of a left ventricle — Minakov's spots) and plentiful — are characteristic at loss of 50 — 70%, i.e. 2,5 — 3,5 l, blood (it is characterized by pallor and a xeroderma, weak expressiveness of livors mortis, a sharp muscular okocheneniye, an anemia of internals). 3. A prelum of vitals (a brain, heart, lungs) the streamed blood, as a result of pheumothorax, etc. Death comes at intracraneal hemorrhage of 100 — 150 L1L, at a cardiac tamponade of 500 — 700 ml of the blood which streamed in a pericardiac cavity. At a prelum of heart the blood which streamed in a pericardiac cavity matters not only its mechanical prelum, but also irritation of receptors of a pericardium at stretching its blood. These can explain cases of death when in a pericardiac cavity find rather small amount of blood (200 — 300 ml). 4. Bruises of a brain of heavy degree often are followed by fractures of bones of a skull, hematencephalons and under its covers. Especially big hazard to life is posed by the isolated bruises of a myelencephalon involving bystry death from paralysis of breath. They can arise at blows by a nape owing to falling backwards. For court. - medical diagnoses in such cases the detailed research of soft tissues of occipital area and cervical department of a rachis where hemorrhages are observed matters. Bruises of heart meet at blows of a thorax and falling that can be followed by a rupture of a cardiac muscle of a pla a reflex cardiac standstill. 5. At mechanical P. primary or secondary traumatic shock is possible. At primary shock death is caused by a reflex cardiac standstill owing to irritation of peripheral nerve terminations of the certain zones (a throat, testicles, distal phalanxes of fingers, etc.) which are richly supplied with sensitive nerve terminations. Secondary traumatic shock develops gradually, within several hours after an injury. At court. - medical diagnosis of secondary traumatic shock should consider rough P.' presence, pictures of the general blood loss, deposition of blood in abdominal organs, a vein thrombosis of extremities and gistol, signs of increase in permeability of walls of arterioles and capillaries. 6. Embolism (see) quite often is one of primary causes of death at Item 7. Asphyxia arises when bleeding is followed by aspiration of blood in respiratory tracts (cut wounds of a neck, fractures of bones of a base of skull, etc.).
At court. - medical survey of the victims, suspects and other persons concerning corporal P. it is necessary to diagnose P. (a graze, bruise, a wound) and to specify their localization and properties; to establish a type of the tool or means, to-rymi they could be caused, origins and prescription (term) of causing, severity of corporal Items.
Definition of severity of corporal P. is carried out according to the criminal and criminal procedure legislation of federal republics and according to «Rules of medicolegal definition of severity of injuries» (see. Survey ).
Corporal P. are subdivided on heavy, less heavy and easy corporal severity of corporal P. makes P. Otsenka proceeding from P.'s character, i.e. danger to life, and effects or an outcome of the Item. P. which threaten life of the victim at the time of their drawing are life-threatening or at their usual current come to an end with death. At the same time do not consider influence on P.'s outcome of medical aid. To P., life-threatening, carry: 1) the getting wounds of a skull, a backbone, a stomach, a thorax, including and without damage of internals; 2) the opened and closed fractures of bones of the arch and base of skull, except for fractures of face bones and the isolated crack only of an outside plate of bones of a calvaria; 3) a bruise of a brain of heavy degree both with a prelum, and without prelum of a brain, and also a bruise of a moderately severe brain in the presence of symptoms of defeat of a brain trunk; 4) epidural, subdural or subarachnoidal intracraneal hemorrhage in the presence of the life-threatening phenomena; 5) The item of cervical department of a backbone, in particular dislocation-fractures and dislocations of cervical vertebrae, fractures of bodies or both legs of arches of cervical vertebrae or even unilateral changes of arches of I and II cervical vertebrae, including and without dysfunction of a spinal cord; 6) the closed damage of cervical department of a spinal cord; 7) a change or a dislocation-fracture of one or several chest or lumbar vertebrae with disturbance of functions of a spinal cord or with existence of clinically established shock of heavy degree; 8) the closed P. of chest, lumbar and sacral departments of a spinal cord which were followed by heavy spinal shock or dysfunction of pelvic bodies; 9) the getting wounds of a throat, a throat, a trachea, a gullet, and also the closed fractures of cartilages of a throat and trachea with ruptures of a mucous membrane which were followed by heavy shock, disorders of breath or other life-threatening phenomena; 10) open wounds of bodies of retroperitoneal space (kidneys, adrenal glands, a pancreas, etc.), the getting wounds of a bladder, upper and average departments of a rectum; I) the closed P. of bodies of a chest or abdominal cavity, a pelvic cavity, and also bodies of retroperitoneal space in the presence of the life-threatening phenomena; 12) open fractures of long tubular bones — humeral, femoral and tibial, and also the changes of pelvic bones which were followed by shock of heavy degree or massive blood loss or a rupture of a webby part of an urethra; 13) The items which caused shock of heavy degree or massive blood loss with the subsequent collapse, clinically expressed fatty or gas embolism, traumatic toxicosis with the phenomena of an acute renal failure; 14) Items of a large blood vessel (an aorta, a carotid artery, subclavial, axillary, humeral, ileal, femoral, subnodal arteries or veins accompanying them), of other vessels are qualified by P. individually depending on their specific danger to life, napr, massive blood loss, objectively established shock of heavy degree; 15) thermal burns of the III—IV degree of St. 15% of a body surface, burns of the III degree more than 20% of a body surface, burns of the II degree of St. 30% of a body surface, and also the burns of the smaller area which were followed by shock of heavy degree, burns of respiratory tracts with the phenomena of hypostasis and narrowing of a glottis; 16) burns the chemical connections (concentrated to-tami, alkalis, various cauterizing substances) if they are followed by life-threatening all-toxic action; 17) the prelum of bodies of a neck and other types of mechanical asphyxia which were followed by a complex of the expressed life-threatening phenomena (frustration of cerebral circulation, a loss of consciousness, amnesia, etc.) if it is established by objective data.
Carry all life-threatening P., and also P. which led to heavy outcomes and effects to heavy corporal P.: to loss of sight, hearing or any body or loss of its functions by body, a mental disease, the disorder of health connected to permanent disability not less than on one third to abortion or led to indelible to an obezobrazheniye (see). Understand a total persistent blindness on both eyes or such decrease in sight when the person cannot count the number of fingers at distance of 2 m and less as loss of sight. Loss of sight on one eye also belongs to heavy corporal P. since the unilateral blindness leads to permanent disability more than on one third. The hearing loss means full persistent deafness or heavy degree of relative deafness when the victim does not hear informal conversation at distance of 3 — 5 cm from an auricle. The hearing loss on one ear should be considered as less heavy corporal P. as unilateral deafness is followed by permanent disability less than on one third. Understand loss of ability to express the thoughts the articulate sounds clear to people around as an alalia; mean department by loss of a hand, leg them from a trunk or loss of functions by them (persistent paralysis, etc.). If the extremity is lost not completely, then loss of a hand consider its amputation at the level not below an elbow joint, loss of a leg — its amputation at the level not below a knee joint. All other cases consider as loss of a part of an extremity and estimate on the basis of permanent disability. Loss of productive ability consists in loss of ability to copulation or in loss of ability to fertilization, conception and a child-bearing. To heavy corporal P, development of a mental disease owing to an injury belongs. Diagnosis of a mental disease and establishment of its causal relationship with traumatized is competence of the judicial psychiatrist (see. Examination, forensic-psychiatric ). Assessment of severity of P. in such cases is made with participation court. - the medical expert.
At children define possible disability, the edge is resulted by P. in the future. At in-valpd of the II patients disability in connection with damage is defined as at almost healthy people not manager[[ simo from group of disability and the available disease.
Abortion irrespective of its term is heavy injury if it is caused by P. and is not connected with individual to features and an organism of the pregnant woman. Court. - medical examination in these cases is made together with and a jackpot rum gynecologist.
P., harmless for life, which caused long disorder of health lasting St. 3 weeks (more than 21 day) or considerable permanent disability less than on one third under a cut belong to less heavy corporal P. understand loss of the general working capacity from 10 to 33%.
Easy corporal P. subdivide on caused short-term disorder of health (duration more than 6 days, but not over 3 weeks) or insignificant permanent disability (to 10%) and not caused short-term disorder of health or insignificant permanent disability, to the Crimea the items which caused insignificant effects, lasting no more than six days belong.
Establishment of the fact of a beating, i.e. drawings multiple blows, is within the competence of investigation authorities and vessels. If a beating was resulted by P., the expert establishes a raznovremennost of their causing and severity according to the signs described above. At the beating which did not leave visually distinguishable P., the expert notes complaints of testified and specifies that objective signs of P. are not revealed. Establishment of the fact tortures (see), i.e. intentional causing the sufferings to the person which are followed by disturbance fiziol, functions of an organism and involving disorder of health or even danger to life of the victim, it is also made by law enforcement bodies.
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Thursday marked the first time in weeks that Russian missiles attacked the southern Odesa area and the city of Dnipro.
Across the nation, air raid sirens rang as officials feared another large-scale missile attack from Moscow.
Through a Telegram message, Odesa's governor Maksym Marchenko announced that an infrastructure goal had been met.
He also warned of the possibility of a "massive missile barrage on the all of Ukraine's land."
Multiple explosions were reported in Dnipro, where two infrastructure objects were damaged and at least one person was injured, according to Kyrylia Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
According to Oleksiy Kuleba, the governor of Kyiv, air defense systems were operational throughout the central region of Ukraine.
Officials in the areas of Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Rivne also recommended citizens remain in bomb shelters due to the persistent threat of missile attacks.
The attacks on the Odesa region are a continuation of the massive barrage of Russian assaults on Tuesday, representing the largest attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure yet.
A missile that fell within Poland's borders also resulted in the deaths of two individuals.
Initially, Russia was accused of launching the missile, but Poland has since stated that it was likely found by air defenses in Ukraine's neighboring territory.
As winter approaches and its fighting losses grow, Russia has increasingly turned to attack Ukraine's power grid.
The most recent onslaught followed days of elation in Ukraine, which was fueled by one of the country's most significant military victories: the recapture of the city of Kherson in the south.
In a Thursday Telegram message, the chief of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, referred to the attacks on energy targets as "the stupid strategy of cowardly losers."
Mr. Yermak wrote, "Ukraine has already endured incredibly severe enemy attacks that did not provide the desired effects for the Russian cowards."

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As research has shown, there are a number of mental and emotional health disorders that occur with high frequency alongside addiction to alcohol and drugs. Among those many disorders, depression tends to occur with addiction more frequently than most other disorders, sparking debate as to whether there’s some level of causality between the two. So does depression cause addiction, or vice versa? What is the relationship between these two disorders? How are depression and comorbid addiction treated?
What Is Depression?
The spectrum of human emotion is broad and diverse. Over the course of any given day, a person can feel many distinct and even conflicting emotions: Happiness and elation, sadness, anger and aggression, confusion, fear, jealousy. Each of these emotions — not to mention the countless others — are natural, healthy, and unavoidable at turns. Generally, a person’s emotional state is an involuntary, reflexive psychological response to a situation, thought, or some other type of stimulus. However, at a certain point, emotions can become overwhelming and potentially dangerous. When exaggerated, a person’s emotional state could even be part of a certain pathology.
Depression is one of many human emotions that we experience regularly. While the implication is clinical, many people experience depression somewhat frequently as it’s a natural response to certain situations. By definition, depression is characterized as a low mood and an aversion to most activities. When a person is feeling depressed, the emotion affects his or her thoughts, behavior, energy level, interests, and sense of well-being. But it’s important to realize that depression isn’t necessarily a clinical diagnosis. In fact, there’s a difference between standard, “normal” depression and clinical depression.
Clinical Depression vs. “Normal” Depression
As mentioned above, “normal” depression is the low state that people experience regularly. It’s natural, healthy, and it’s not usually cause for concern or clinical intervention. However, clinical depression refers to an emotional disorder that’s known by the more official name of major depression.
Major depression — also commonly called major depressive disorder — is an emotional disorder that’s characterized by at least two weeks of a low emotional state, which is present across most situations and scenarios. Besides the length of time the bouts of depression last, major depression differs from standard day-to-day depression in that people who are experiencing major depression tend to also have low self-esteem, experience a loss of self-interest, and might even experience physical pain without any obvious or apparent cause. In the most extreme cases of major depression, the individual might even begin to see or hear things that others cannot see or hear.
The experience of severe depressions as part of a diagnosis of major depression has been connected with a number of specific signs and symptoms. Beyond feeling a generally low mood and pronounced sadness, individuals who suffer from clinical depression often have difficulty thinking and concentrating. Oftentimes, their thoughts don’t reach fully-formed status and can be interrupted by feelings of foreboding sadness. Additionally, major depression often comes with feelings of intense fatigue and low energy, making it difficult for individuals to have the energy to do even basic daily activities or self-care.
To others, an individual who suffers from depression can seem to be quite distant and detached, often even seeming uninterested by things they previously found enjoyable like hobbies and pastimes. In some cases, severe depression can manifest symptoms of irritability and possibly even aggression, which compounds the antisocial nature that coincides with depression.
Depression & Addiction
There are a wide variety of different causes of addiction. For example, one of the most common sources of addiction has been when substance abuse occurs in the family unit; youths who are exposed to substance abuse have statistically been found to be more likely to develop addictions when they reach adulthood than those who don’t come from families in which there’s substance abuse. Similarly, there can be mental and emotional catalysts for addiction. As research has shown, there are high numbers of individuals who suffer from both addiction and a secondary, co-occurring mental or emotional disorder, including depression. But is there a correlation or relationship?
In recent years, a growing body of research has highlighted the fact that addiction shares a number of symptoms and effects with certain other mental and emotional disorders. A prime example is depression: Depending on the substance, people who suffer from addiction can exhibit extended periods of low mood and energy level that appears to be quite similar to a bout of depression.
As it turns out, depression and addiction similarly affect a number of the same regions of the brain. In particular, people who suffer from depression tend to have low levels of neurochemicals and hormones that are associated with feelings of happiness and pleasure; meanwhile, many mind-altering addictive substances alter these same neurochemicals and hormones, which serves to either provoke synthetic happiness or hinders naturally-occurring happiness. In either case, both depression and addiction are disorders that have some level of affect on neurochemical balance.
Does One Cause The Other?
Perhaps the more pressing question is whether depression causes addiction, or vice versa. As it happens, neither can be considered a definitive, direct cause of the other; however, it’s quite possible that when a person who suffers from depression develops an addiction, his or her depression was certainly a catalyst.
When a person suffers from untreated depression, he or she might reach the point of becoming so desperate for relief from the mental and emotional symptoms of the disorder that the individual turns to “self-medicating” with alcohol and drugs. In other words, the presence of depression inadvertently leads the individual to use substance abuse as a means of alleviating the effects of the depression. As such, while it’s inaccurate to say that depression causes addiction, it’s true that a person’s untreated depression and the specific symptoms of depression could potentially result in the individual turning to substance abuse for relief, eventually developing an addiction.
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Taiwanese tech giant, Asus, has slowly become one of the biggest names in the Indian smartphone market. The phone maker recently launched its flagship for the year in the country in the ROG Phone 2. The phone was announced at a starting price of Rs 37,999 going up to Rs 59,999.
While the phone isn't exactly affordable for the majority of buyers, the company has tried to ensure that its other phones are. Case in point, its decision to continue discounted prices from the Big Billion Days sale on many of its popular smartphones. The company has announced that these discounts and offers will come into effect starting today and will remain in effect till October 9.
As part of the offer, buyers can bag the following deals:
Talking about the most interesting of the devices on offer, the Asus 6z gets a glass sandwich design with a metallic frame. The Asus will be available in two RAM configurations -- 6GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM. Internal storage is pegged at 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. However, the 256GB variant is only available with 8GB of RAM. The internal storage is expandable with the dual SIM-microSD hybrid tray.
The device packs a massive 5000mAh battery which has been claimed to provide up to two days of battery life, and delivers up to 26 days of 4G standby, up to 21 hours of Wi-Fi web browsing and up to 33.3 hours of talk time. The smartphone is equipped with a USB type C charging slot and supports Quick Charge 4.0 fast charging. An 18-Watts Quick Charge 4.0 Charger is provided in the box.


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Scott Disick was apparently not kissing a mysterious blonde woman in photos that circulated from his 1OAK appearance in Las Vegas last Friday. In a photo taken that evening, it appeared that he was kissing an unidentified woman. New reports are now saying that the photo is misleading, and that he was merely asking her for a bottle of water inside the noisy nightclub.
According to Us Weekly, the woman in the photo is a waitress at 1OAK. She regularly serves Disick whenever he does one of his hosting gigs in the popular Las Vegas joint. In the photo that has been shared by numerous tabloids and showbiz websites like Perez Hilton, Disick has his face held up close to the woman. The angle by which the photo was taken led to speculations that the two were kissing.
A source told Us Weekly that Disick had to get close to the waitress because it was so loud inside the venue, and he spoke close to her ear to ask for water. All eyes were on Disick that evening as it was his first public appearance since he broke up with longtime girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian. When the media confronted him on the red carpet at the event, he just said, “Taking it one day at a time.”
The following day, Disick was once again spotted in the company of blondes, sandwiched between two blonde cowgirls on Saturday night in Calgary, Canada. After the 1OAK event, he jetted up north to entertain guests at Cowboys Dance Hall.
The club’s Instagram page shared several photos of the reality star from that evening. In one photo, Disick is seen posing between two busty blonde women, and the caption says, “Scott Disick partying with our cowbabes! #cowboyscalgary #thathappened." In another photo, Disick can be seen with a microphone in hand as he speaks from an elevated area. A large crowd appears to be assembled in the main dance floor below.
After hosting back-to-back parties, Disick reportedly returned to Los Angeles alone. He is currently staying in a Beverly Hills home after moving out of the Calabasas mansion he used to share with Kardashian and their kids. The former couple are parents to Mason,5, Penelope, 3, and Reign, 7 months.

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Cybathlon 2020 postponed to November
Cybathlon, the renowned championship of assistive technologies, has been postponed from 2-3 May to 13-14 November 2020. The decision has been made one day before the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is characterized as pandemic by WHO.
It would be the second Cybathlon to be held since its debut in 2016. Run by ETH Zurich, it is an international event with the goal to promote research, development and implementation of assistive technology for people with disabilities. This year, over 80 teams from all over the world are invited to compete in the two-day championship on six disciplines including powered exoskeleton and powered wheelchair race.
Let's hope the impact of the virus can be controlled and minimized by the government measures implemented and everyone's continuous effort to protect themselves and others. Our best wishes to Cybathlon to be held successfully in November 2020!


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DMX Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion
Rapper DMX pleaded guilty Thursday to tax fraud, admitting he hid millions of dollars in earnings in an effort to avoid paying $1.7 million U.S. in taxes.
The 46-year-old star, whose real name is Earl Simmons, now faces up to five years in prison. He is due to be sentenced on March 29.
DMX, currently in rehab to deal with drug and alcohol issues, was arrested last summer after a decade-long investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. It alleged that DMX insisted on being paid in cash as often as possible and had royalty payments diverted to the accounts of others.

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Today marks the launch of the new Association of Business Schools Journal Ranking (2015) edition. Everywhere, business journal publishers have been awaiting this with bated breath- it’s like their Oscars, but without the nice dresses. Following my own Oscar-worthy performance at the DeFims Research Away Day (see what I did there?!), I felt it would be interesting to blog about this event, and perhaps compare some titles against the previous
Today, the BBC have highlighted the newly published 6th edition of the Democracy Index, from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), focusing on France. The report reflects the situation, as perceived by the EIU at the end of 2013. You can download this report for free from the Economist Intelligence Unit, although you do have to register for access. The report highlights a broader stagnation in the progress of the spread
The South Asia Institute has started a blog to share information, analysis and expertise of SOAS academics on the world’s biggest ever election. Follow what is going on here.
To mark the 10th anniversary of Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE), Cambridge University Press are making an online anniversary collection of papers freely available. This online only collection of papers features prominent articles from across the 10 volumes of the journal, including: What is an institution? John R. Searle Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis Elinor Ostrom Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history Ha-Joon Chang
The UN Report containing the findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was published yesterday. The report documents in great detail the wide-ranging array of crimes against humanity allegedly being committed in the country. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” it states. The Commission will formally
To mark yesterday’s International Day of Older Persons, Help Age International has launched their Global AgeWatch Index. The Global AgeWatch Index aims to provide the first-ever overview of the wellbeing of older people around the world, showing what countries are doing to support their ageing populations. Whilst only 91 countries are included this year, it is claimed that this covers 89% of the global population of those over 60 years
To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available
Following several high-profile elections in the SOAS regions, the blog Elections in the News contains links to opinion and debate and is curated by an Academic Support Librarian at LSE. Photo from Flickr: “In the news” Some rights reserved by RambergMediaImages.
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Country Indicators (MSME-CI) provides both the latest global snapshot and historic data back 20 years on the number of MSMEs in 132 world economies. Finding answers to questions such as: How many MSMEs are there in a given country? What share of employment do MSMEs provide? What is the firm size-breakdown within the MSME sector? How did the number of MSMEs change over the past
Reproduced with permission from LSE’s Heather Dawson’s excellent “social science sites of the week” email- a round up of new and interesting news for Social Scientists. Thanks Heather! Amnesty international annual review of the Death Penalty. The Amnesty international annual review of the Death Penalty was released this week. See which country executed the most people. The site also has images and video content. Also useful is the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty which


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Apple and Walnut Breakfast Muffins: Gluten-Free and Vegan
Muffins. They truly are such a genius idea. They can be sweet or savoury, for breakfast or for afternoon tea, filled with fruit or crammed with chocolate, they can be mini or the size of Texas, given as house-warming gifts or eaten straight from the oven at home (my preference!). But essentially they are small, individual cakes that somehow we can totally get away with eating for breakfast. No complaints here! But if I’m going to start my day with breakfast muffins, I’m at least going to try and keep them somewhat healthy, and after lots of testing and recipe tweaking, I think this recipe finds the balance between nutritious and tasty but is still incredibly easy to make (no mixers or blenders here – just a bowl and a whisk).
This recipe makes 6 medium-sized breakfast muffins and can be stored in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. I just pop one in the microwave for 30 seconds each morning because a warmed-up muffin always tastes better.
A note on variations, you could add absolutely anything to this recipe; some frozen berries, shredded coconut, even chocolate chips. And you can absolutely double the recipe and make large/Texas-sized muffins, just remember to adjust the cooking time too.
- Canola oil spray (to spray muffin tin)
- 1 ripe banana
- 1/3 cup of applesauce / about 3 heaped tablespoons of apple sauce
- 1 tablespoon of canola/sunflower oil
- 1 teaspoon of coconut sugar*
- 1½ cup almond meal
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 small apple chopped small (I tend to use a Royal Gala / Pink Lady looking variety)
- A handful of chopped nuts (walnuts are my favourite)
- Raw sugar to top**
* You can use white sugar or brown sugar as an alternative here, I just like coconut sugar.
** Raw sugar works best here because it holds its shape and doesn’t ‘melt’ like a small sugar crystal.
- Preheat a regular oven to 200°C.
- Spray a 6-hole, large, muffin tray thoroughly with canola oil spray. Alternatively, you can use paper or reusable muffin cases.
- Combine all ingredients (except the chopped apple, nuts and the raw sugar in a mixing bowl).
- Stir with a whisk until just combined and the banana is ‘mushed up’.
- Stir in the nuts and most of the chopped apple (keep about 1/3 reserved) with a spoon.
- Divide the mix evenly into the prepared muffin tray.
- Top the muffins with the remaining chopped apple and sprinkle the raw sugar on top.
- Place in the oven and cook for 20 – 25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven when cooked (when you can insert a skewer and remove cleanly) and leave to cool in the tray for 10 minutes.
- Remove muffins from the tray and let them cool completely on a cooling rack.
Let me know if you give these breakfast muffins a go, and what your favourite add-ins are. If you’re after a different type of gluten-free breakfast option, then definitely check out my Granola recipe here.


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Precision agriculture also known as site specific crop management (SSCM) and satellite farming is an advanced farming technique that utilizes several technologies such as GPS, GIS and remote sensing to collect crucial field related information, which is further analyzed to support grower’s decisions with regard to crop fertilizing, planting, and harvesting. In addition, sensors are placed throughout the field that measure temperature, nutrition level and humidity of the soil. Therefore, the technology eliminates manual human efforts by automating crucial processes including real-time farm monitoring and information sharing.
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Precision agriculture is swiftly gaining popularity among farmers due to the increasing need of optimum production with the given resources. Further, the changing weather patterns due to increasing global warming, have necessitated the adoption of advanced technologies to enhance the productivity and crop yield. By offering technologies such as real-time farm monitoring, weather forecasting, optimal field requirements and similar others, precision agriculture enables the farmers to increase the yield with minimum human efforts and wastage. Moreover, the technology enables the farmers to manage their resources as well as access real time information through their smartphones, thereby offering greater mobility and ease of operation. However, major restraints of the market are affordability of the technology and lack of awareness about the benefits of precision agriculture among farmers, particularly in the developing countries.
The report also presents a complete analysis of the world precision agriculture market based on technology, component, and geography. GIS, telematics, VRT, GPS, and remote sensing are some of the key technologies covered in the technology segment. Among these, GPS is the most popular technology. The world precision agriculture market is further bifurcated into two key components: hardware and software. Hardware includes sensors, drones, ASS, radar, GPS, and others (display, satellite, and mobiles). Software includes GIS, crop management software, weather tracking and forecasting software, inventory management software, people management software, and financial management software. The market is further analyzed across four different geographies: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA. North America includes the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, whereas Europe covers U.K., Russia, Germany, Italy, France, and rest of Europe. The countries covered under Asia-Pacific are Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and rest of Asia-Pacific. LAMEA is bifurcated into Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
Based on various technologies used in precision agriculture, GPS is the highest revenue-generating segment owing to its wide application in agriculture equipment to track location and crops when required. However, GIS is expected to exhibit the highest CAGR to attain significant market value by 2022, owing to the increasing adoption of GIS in agriculture to collect, store, and analyze data for farming.
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TOP FACTORS IMPACTING WORLD PRECISION AGRICULTURE MARKET
The top impacting factors of the world precision agriculture market are the growing adoption of smartphones, aggrandized use of cloud technology, booming population, technological advancement, lack of awareness, and high initial investment. Some of the factors such as lack of awareness about precision agriculture products and huge investment act as restraints for the market growth.
Growing Adoption of Smartphones
Smartphone adoption has been one of the most prominent factors in the proliferation of the precision agriculture technology. A smartphone acts as a bridge between the end user and advanced agriculture technology equipment. Integration of smartphones with agriculture equipment and field devices delivers easy access to agriculture mobile applications, which allows farmers to monitor their fields remotely. Therefore, it helps the farmers in keeping pace with the rapidly changing demands of the consumers.
Aggrandized use of cloud technology
Cloud is a centralized, virtualized, automated, and shared infrastructure. Cloud allows storage of crop-related information, which can be further accessed by growers using smartphones. Currently, integrated GPS is available in most of the new agriculture equipment; thus, weather conditions can also be sourced from various cloud-based applications and service providers. Therefore, inclusion of cloud technology in precision agriculture is one of the major drivers for the growth of the world precision agriculture market.
The high population growth ratio is the major driving factor of the precision agriculture market, which encourages farmers to implement efficient and advanced agriculture techniques to improve crop yield. In addition, as per the recent survey report, around 80% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050, thereby fostering the demand for housing and food. Hence, farmers are increasingly adopting precision agriculture technique owing to its superior benefits, such as prime output in limited resources and improved crop quality.
Top investment pockets
The graph below represents the potential of various precision agriculture technologies that are used for monitoring crops. Currently, GPS leads the world precision agriculture market growth, followed by VRT and GIS. GPS market is primarily driven by factors, such as accurate location tracking, minimal fuel consumption, increased productivity, and lower operational costs.
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Compensate Torture Victims with 3Billion – Activists
Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) together with other civil society organizations under the umbrella of the coalition against torture (CAT) have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga on the Compensation of Torture Victims in a reasonable time of over 3 billion shillings.
This petition comes ahead of tomorrow’s commemoration of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims that is held every 26th of June in the world.
The organizations demanded that the over 242 torture victims that were identified from the UHRC tribunal process are compensated by the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and urged the Speakers office to follow up the road map for the implementation of the Prevention and Prohibition of Torture Act 2012 through the creation of a task force.
The demanded unpaid compensations date from 2004 to 2012 and revealed from the UHRC Awards for Violations of Rights.
UHRC Commissioner Katebalirwe Amooti said that torture in Uganda continues to be widespread and has become a pervasive problem which has consequently led to a large and varied group of torture survivors with in the country.
He added that the commission is concerned that torture survivors in the country still face a lot of obstacles when seeking justice and reparation saying that they believe the only way to eliminate the vice of torture is through the implementation of the new law which criminalizes torture and ensures individual liability and compensation of the torture victims.
The organizations therefore stressed that government pays the outstanding compensation awards and the importance of individual liability of the perpetrators as indicated in the new Prevention and Prohibition of Torture Act 2012 so that compensation awards have a deterrent effect.
They also called for the establishment of a Victims Compensation Fund to compensate victims where perpetrators are State Agents and are unable to pay the compensation and that a strict policy against torture in places of detention and elsewhere is put in place in order to ensure elimination of torture.
Patrick Tumwine the Advocacy, Research and Information Officer at Human Rights Net Work (HURINET) said that there is need for government to compensate the torture victims and that the Torture Act enacted by Parliament is put into practice.
He noted that parliament is fundamental and important in the creation of a victim’s fund because some of the victims are compensated after dying and that it follows up to see that these victims are compensated in the shortest time possible.
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca noted that advocacy after laws needs to be improved upon saying that with the enacted law on torture, the society is not yet aware that the law was passed and are actually ignorant of their rights.
She pledged to put in place an action plan to see that the torture victims are compensated and also to forward the petitioned matters the Parliamentary Committee of Legal affairs to see how to further the compensation process.
However she advised that petitioning organizations to get in touch with the minister of Justice to ensure that the funds and budgeted for.
Today’s UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims will be commemorated by the country under adopted theme of “Implement the Anti-Torture Law Now: Compensate Torture Survivors”


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December 31st is a time for New Year’s Resolutions. The end of January is the time a lot of people abandon them. Many factors may be involved: the goal was too broad, too unrealistic, or the time wasn’t right to make the change. Sometimes, resolutions are abandoned because we didn’t stick with them, and starting over again feels like a failure. Starting over forces us to admit that we didn’t follow through, for whatever reason, and now we are back at square one. Bummer.
We can view having to start over again as evidence of our personal failings, but there are plenty of negative thoughts to go along with that mindset. For example: “I couldn’t keep up;” or “I just wasn’t motivated enough;” or “I wasn’t any good anyway.” Negative thoughts lead to negative moods. But what if we change our perspective? We could think of starting over as a new opportunity, or a new beginning. A chance to try again, using the knowledge we have gained. This definition opens us to hope, and a willingness to move forward. See the difference?
Meditation gives us a daily opportunity to practice starting over. We actually expect the mind to wander and get distracted. Then we get to let go of the thoughts, without judgment or negativity, and start over. As many times as it takes. You can see that meditation also allows us to view starting over with acceptance and neutrality. Translated into real life, meditation helps us to view ourselves and others with those same qualities. As Sharon Salzberg, one of my favorite meditation teachers, said: “Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to overcome.” Luckily, life is full of new beginnings. If your resolutions aren’t going the way you intended, view it as a great opportunity to start again. As many times as it takes.
In young children, we recognize developmental milestones, noticing each stage of their growth. But we certainly don’t stop changing once we become adults. I first learned about Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development in psych 101, I think, and have revisited it at other times in training. He describes development through an entire life, not just through childhood. You may want to look up the stages, they are really interesting if you haven’t read them in a while, but I’ll remind you that the last stage is Ego Integrity vs. Despair. This is given an age range of 65 and up. This represents the looking back phase. The theory is, we will either recognize that we have lived a full and rich life and be content, or regret mistakes or things not accomplished and feel despair.
I have met seniors in both categories, but I have met younger people struggling with these same issues. As we age, we know our time is growing shorter, but when we’re younger it feels as if there will always be tomorrow to change. Change careers, become a better person, spend time with our loved ones or doing things we enjoy, there will always be more time. But that may not be true. We can never be sure how long we will have, since we are not marked with an expiration date. If I were told I had only x amount of days left, I believe I would make some changes in the way I’m living. But why am I not making those changes now? Why aren’t you?
How can we live so we grow more contented, to face our final years with integrity, knowing we have fulfilled our purpose? One way is to live with intention. This can be as simple as acknowledging each morning that you intend to live with purpose. Another way is to spend time in reflection, or writing in a journal. Review the choices that have been made in the past few days or weeks, and find a sense of whether they are enhancing or detracting from your purpose. Perhaps you’ll notice places you are stagnant, and recognize that not choosing may later be cause for regret. The new year brings a clean slate. Choose to live with integrity, and there will never be cause for despair.
This post is in honor of my husband’s grandfather, who passed away on Saturday. He truly exemplified living with purpose, and will be greatly missed.

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The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office will conduct a Child Safety Seat clinic on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at Washington Square Mall. Child Passenger Safety Technicians from the Sheriff's Office will be on hand to inspect your car seat for proper installation.
Washington Square Mall (at the corner of S. Green River Road and Washington Ave)
Wednesday, Septmber 16, 2015 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Pictured above: Location of Safety Seat Clinic (image courtesty of Google Maps)


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Loopmasters proudly present Indie Dance Electronica, a stylish adventure in sonics sure to keep any alternative crowd moving and shaking. You'll be making professional quality Indie Dance music in no time with this 100% royalty free extension to your sound palette.
Packed out with 1.35 GB of content, this upbeat and melodic selection of sounds comes in a variety of formats, from Wav loops and One Shots to Synth Presets and Soft Sampler Patches! Within these, you are sure to find sophisticated synth loops, crystal clear drum hits, percussive disco grooves, stunning key shots, chords, atmospheres and more, all primed for crafting stunning soundscapes and performing catchy riffs.
These Indie loops roll out effortlessly in a range of keys and playing styles. With tempos between 98 and 116 bpm, this collection will be perfectly suited to its named genre, and also EDM, Post Punk, SynthPop and all other Alternative Dance genres.
In detail, expect to find 1.35 GB of content, with all loops and one shots recorded as 24Bit, 44.1KHZ Wavs. 206 Loops are broken down as 133 Synth Loops, 26 Bass Loops, 17 Instrument Loops, 10 Full Drum Loops, 10 Percussion Loops and 10 Top Loops. 138 One Shots are broken up as 60 Drum Hits, 42 Synth Hits, 18 Bass Hits and 18 Chord Hits. Also included are 222 Rex2 Files, 90 Soft Sampler Patches (for Kontakt, EXS24, NNXT, Sfz and Halion), 64 Midi Files and 13 Bonus Serum Presets.
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What do you think about the future? What will it look, feel, sound and smell like?
5 designers/illustrators/visualisers are ready to sketch out your ideas. Need inspiration? Listen to ideas collected by Studio INTO & their Cultural Guides. 11-3pm at the Guide Hall
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Studio INTO is a research, design and innovation consultancy. By understanding people and their cultures, they help businesses find new opportunities and turn them into innovative designs, services and strategies. Headquartered in London, they curate a global network of cross-industry experts who they call Cultural Guides.
The Cultural Guides are located in both established and emerging markets spanning over 50 countries in 6 continents. With in-depth local cultural knowledge of trends, behaviours and attitudes they deliver culturally relevant innovation opportunities.
Studio INTO want Design Carousel's Futures Wall to be a place which inspires and excites visitors young and old with a source of videos about the creative minds of children and their thoughts on the future of technology, communication, food and sustainability that affects generations ahead. To create this video Cultural Guides interviewed children in various parts of the world. Come & see it at the Guide Hall.

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It is a lung disease that underground coal miners develop. The coal dust gets in the lungs and hardens with the mucus, it is a sad, slow death.
Some of you know that I also deal with lung "gunk" and it seems that for the past several weeks, no matter what I could not get rid of it. At times I have written about craving the feel of the salty air, as it fills my lungs. My body knows best. I have spent a great part of the day outside, letting that salty breeze do its job. It has rained all day, but we have walked on the beach and sat on the veranda and I have taken deep healing breaths. I cannot tell you how much better I feel.......how much easier it is to breathe tonight.
I dreamed of my mom and dad last night and the little cottage on Laguna Beach, Fl where we spent summer vacations. My dad was happy and smiling and I woke up happy and smiling.
I want a cottage by the sea, on the Atlantic coast or northern Pacific coast. I want rocky cliffs and cold grey water and a wind that howls. A place where I can take the cure anytime I need and friends and family can visit . A roaring fire in the fireplace, a pot of soup on the stove and a hot cup of tea, ya'll come, we'll take the cure together.

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P-CAR Talk Podcast
A very special thanks to Mike & Aaron of the P-CAR Talk Podcast. They toured our facility, drove and reviewed our 718 Cayman S Track car, and taped a podcast at our dealership. We had a great time with them, they share our passion for Porsche. If you haven't heard of their podcast yet, check it out. A great podcast for Porsche fans.
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I have Asus Z170 pro gaming motherboard running Intel Core i7. Currently having Seagate SSHD 1 TB SATA. I am thinking of adding Intel 660p Series SSDPEKNW512G8X1 512GB M.2 80mm PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive (QLC) as primary. Is it supported? As per Asus site, PCIe x4 mode (Gen 3.0) is supported. So I am guessing it will work.