How dangerous is celebratory gunfire?

Bullets fired

always come down - often with fatal results - for journalists in war are wise to wear a helmet, even in a friendly crowd

Undoubtedly, war correspondents are wise to wear helmets and bulletproof vests, while sending mails in the shell-hit the streets with crazy weapons.

But when Sky News reporter Alex Crawford came to Tripoli this week in a rebel truck, which was more concerned about the firing of celebration - because of the danger posed by the landing of the ball on the head

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While some initial studies conjecture that the bullets fired up, just disappeared into space, the threat of explosive devices that falls will not be learned.

To explore the finer details of the rule that what goes up must come down, Benjamin Robins in 1761 indicated that a large caliber bullet fired up, returned to Earth three-quarters of a mile away and half a minute later. More detailed studies followed.

In the fall of 1910, an RL Tippins Maxim gun which led to a tide of mud of the River Stour in Suffolk and fired two volleys of bullets around 30 in the air.

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With stopwatch in hand, waiting time balls falling to Earth, the recording of flight time of about 55 seconds.

The conclusion of these experiments was that the bullets hit 2,750 meters (9,000 feet), taking 19 seconds to install and almost twice as long - 36 seconds -. A fall

Recalling the experience, Tippins said. "We did not have headgear, but confidence that the wind will be enough for us lack"

But what we know today the risk of injury from falling bullets?

• Between 1985 and 1992, a group of doctors at the center of Martin Luther King / Drew Medical in Los Angeles, has studied victims of gunshot wounds and identified 118 were hit by bullets falling. These included people hit by bullets while riding his daily activities away from the shooting known.
• Only six regular bullets were found by police to the shootings that took place a mile away. But some people were affected by high velocity projectiles whose source was never found.
For those who are hit by bullets that fall, the possibility that the fatal injury was much higher than typical of a shooting. The hospital began the shooting death of regular 2% to 6%, while for those affected by the bullets mortality rate was lower by about a third.

The reason is simple - the misfortune of being beaten by lower deposits were more likely to be beaten in the head, and while slowly moving balls after being shot in the sky, were still able to break the skull.

Doctors said a bullet came down to Earth with a speed between 90 and 180 meters per second. A ball moving at less than 60 meters per second can cause serious injury to the head, they said.

The danger posed by celebratory gunfire led the Los Angeles City Council to prohibit the firing of bullets into the air in 1989. Later, sales of balls in the period before New Year's Eve were banned.

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Criminal courts need investment too

launches the new building shows that the government's assessment of the infrastructure of the courts, but what about helping the criminal courts as well?

Owen Bowcott

article last Friday we were told that the government is "trying to make the United Kingdom in the pre-eminent destination quickly solve high-value international legal disputes - and how much money in the process. "This is a laudable ambition to make London a" global legal center ", and seems to face new divisions Rolls headquarters building equity is indeed a great advertisement for our legal system.

Commitment

to invest in the project was completed before the current financial constraints, but it shows that the government understands the importance of investment and cooperation with professionals to ensure good Performance.

However, it is unfortunate that the understanding of the value of investing in the infrastructure of the courts does not extend to criminal courts, where the ax of the Lord Chancellor was in regular and intensive use . In the criminal courts are open, facilities are limited: the witnesses to contact the defendants, their families face, conference rooms dedicated to storage or other use, equipment failures are too frequent, cuts staff exercise increasing pressure on the long suffering and cheerful staff who invariably make the system work, while the legal aid cuts questioned the willingness of central defenders on her.

not forget that the reputation of British justice, that the construction project seeks to exploit Rolls is based on the quality of our judicial system and judicial system from bottom to top.

• ROI in criminal court may not be as immediate or tangible, but just look at the request of our coaches the defense to go abroad and influx of foreign visitors interested to study our jury system to understand the esteem in which he still holds - at that time. Regarding exports, how can you put a price on the contribution of British defenders of international tribunals? Do not forget the legal gains inspired by television - Kavanagh QC, Judge John Deed and silk, among others

Back to the construction of the Rolls - I think this is the news that "no money the department is available for the provision of works of art" that really stands out. It is disturbing to think of these delicate international businessmen and their advocates can not be compelled to consult and advocate in a completely bare of even the most modest of Monet and Matisse. But at least they will have to use the one of 55 suites consultation with their "wide range of facilities." Take advantage of video conferencing and other presentation aids a commitment to quality of coal in the face of the Crown Court can only dream. Personally, I always thought that some of the graffiti in the cells inside the Assize Court of London was worthy of a much wider audience - perhaps we could discover a new Banksy and selling to auction works to help balance the books Lord Chancellor

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National Ballet of China - review

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

ballet companies in the world can seem increasingly interchangeable in the repertoire and style, but the National Ballet of China Peony Pavilion stands out as an original, captivating. Although the choreography is based on Western dance Fei Bo and Guo Wenjing contributions eclectic score big pieces of Debussy and Ravel, the ballet still able to come from nowhere, but Beijing.

His story is based on the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet: the history of 16th century passion pitted against all odds. In contrast in the red blood of the story of Shakespeare, however, Peony Pavilion is told through a rarefied language of colors, symbols and visions. Ballet heroin, Liniang, falls only in a dream, and the effect this has on his tumultuous life is expressed through a sequence of charming vignettes, but highly ritualized. The anguish of desire you feel when you wake up is subcontracted by the presence of his two alter egos: the scarlet flower, and the goddess cold, Kunqu opera singer Liniang slip, whose words call to reason . Waves of anxiety Liniang still, well, Foucault through all that follows a chorus of young girls dressed in white, whose delicate tendrils of the dance seems shaken by gusts of desire. Images of the most beautiful scene Liniang continue as dies for love and turned through the snowflakes that fall into a dark underworld.

• However, while the characters 'emotions are still very restricted and codified, the poetics of holding the event in collaboration with the dancers' exquisitely nuanced style of approaching a strange world traffic. The unique power of Peony Pavilion, and remove exotic ballets of Western history, has been consolidated in the last scene. Liniang finally surrendered to the arms of her lover, but not in a routine fairytale wedding. However, the mortal and spirit worlds come together in a wild dance, the circle rolls - a cosmic union that celebrates the union of all the universe
Judith Mackrell

Rating: 4/5

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Gunmen free 2 Taliban captives in Pakistan (AP)

Football transfer rumours: Javier Pastore to Chelsea?

rumors today have a loyalty card Pickfords

that everything goes to Arsenal, who are about to sign

Juan Mata and Phil Jagielka , but as mentioned in other places, we do not have "no need to cover here. Yes

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changes rumor of feet on the table, being in this kind of mood today.]

Chelsea are looking to pinch Javier Pastore

under the nose of Paris Saint-Germain. They are also after the James McCarthy Wigan, whose contract talks are not going well. This news has alerted Arsenal, you need a new midfielder now Cesc Fabregas

done, and Liverpool, who are not.

Robbie Keane

submission 's to become the first professional footballer to join Club 92 continues. The only player to use a full-time man with the truck driver can move instead of QPR.

Craig Bellamy

submission

's to become the second professional football player to join the Club 92 continues. The only player with

• Pickfords loyalty card
can move to Sunderland.

Manchester United has a few irons in the fire: AIK before

Teteh Bangura

, Inter midfielder

Wesley Sneijder
and Marek Hamsik

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New York DA suffers new setback with Strauss-Kahn (AP)

Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; The Grand Duke - review

Print Room, London, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, Finborough, London

Room offers fine print classics with an immediacy enlarged. Adorable Lucy Bailey

Uncle Vanya

is played in the round with a touch, oats and design Fawn William Dudley family portraits hanging on the back of the room for spectators to sit on the closed set by the players, surrounded by the sound of bells and the thunder of hooves and formidable.

When Iain Glen convincing Vanya becomes angry and starts shooting his weapon, the impact is much more alarming and more personal than usual. In this latest outbreak of Public Danger of explosions in small spaces: a large spike in water The kitchen sink recently almost soak those closest to the stage - which is easily able to make the first row.

as a challenge the title of the book, Bailey does not dwell on the tragedy of Vanya on the expense of others. Misfortune in the veins of everyone here, as in all the best productions of Chekhov, everyone has their moment in the shade. The sadness is stronger, too, for a moment, it seems that Astrov and Yelena can really have a desire to escape to happiness. Their appeal is not limited to feed the despair, but it takes a real sexual charge. William Houston Astrov is sturdy and practical, the woman who embraces and pell-friendly: as always, it is impossible to hear his lament for the decline in its landscape, not impressed by the prescience of Chekhov. Yelena Lucinda Millward, who obviously has trouble keeping the lid on their simmerings (from the beginning tended to appear fully, by absorbing heat) is obviously eager to escape the gallows for valetudinarian her husband - and understandably as David Yelland, although funny, exaggerated cadences sermonical and pompous, and it becomes difficult to imagine ever landed like a desirable woman. Meanwhile, Charlotte Emmerson Sonya deceived grows white, thinner and more focused desperately.

Blakiston Caroline, the mother learned coldly, it is amazing - an amazing headband rigid wand - just as David Shaw-Parker, talkative and full of imitations "waffles". All are required with the new version by Mike Poulton meandering text: modern but unobtrusive, and Poulton capture the monotony. How old servant to measure the fall of the house? By the fact that "we do not have balls for years."

in Bristol, Andrew Hilton is also trying to save the melancholy decorative Chekhov. Three years ago led a furious

Uncle Vanya

Production

now has a grumpy

The Cherry Orchard

which is driven not by nostalgia but by poverty angry again is careful Chekhov's advice, he gave his future wife, Olga Knipper, that by doing

Three Sisters

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