Paola Cuffolo from our Personal Injury team explains why Purple Tuesday – the day dedicated to improving retail experiences for disabled customers – is an initiative which could improve shopping for everyone, as well as those with a disability.
Tuesday 13 November 2018 marked the first ever Purple Tuesday, a day set aside to raise awareness of the needs of disabled shoppers. It was set up by disability charity Purple, and encourages retailers to not only endorse and promote the day itself, but also stipulates that every participating retailer must make at least one long-term commitment aimed at improving the experience for their disabled customers.
Participants this year included Asda, Argos, Barclays and Marks and Spencer, and commitments could include regular 'quiet hours', or introducing more inclusive marketing. Not only is this good for disabled people, but evidence suggests that shops are losing out on £11.4bn of sales by not considering accessibility. Purple Tuesday is quite clearly a win-win.
As a regular manual wheelchair user myself, I can confirm that changes like these are extremely welcome. I cannot tell you the number of times I have had to find convoluted ways around shops, or become stuck in queueing systems because there simply wasn't enough space to turn. This is assuming I'm able to enter the shop at all (according to statistics, 20% of high street shops do not provide a ramp). I sometimes try to imagine what it would be like to try to navigate my way around in a powered wheelchair, or if I were blind; sensory issues are another story altogether, in which every trip into a fluorescent-lit, noisy, colourful shop must feel like an assault.
The difficulty is that catering for 'the disabled' is almost as impossible as catering for, say, 'men': there are far too many variables in that group for one change to be meaningful. A shop may institute a 'quiet hour', but this does nothing to address the issues of their wheelchair-bound customers, or put in ramps, which in no way helps their customers with autism.
Despite these concerns, Purple Tuesday is an excellent step forward for the shopping experience of disabled customers. It is supremely important to highlight the difficulties faced by disabled people in this environment, both from a financial point of view and an emotional one. If anything, I think Purple Tuesday is understated. It may not seem immediately obvious, but the needs of 'the disabled' are actually shared by most people.
One article I read suggested simple ways in which the experience of disabled shoppers could be improved. These included training staff to speak clearly, adjusting noise and light levels, adding more seating, ensuring all shops have ramps, and offering assistance where needed. Is it just me, or do these seem like things everyone would want? Surely these are improvements to the experience of all shoppers.
What all this effectively means is that the current system benefits no-one. Shops may consider that it is better to ram in as many products as they can, light everything to its maximum and set the tone with whatever music they see fit, but the truth is this is not more profitable; in so doing they risk losing out on a large chunk of the £249bn a year that British disabled people spend on retail and leisure.
The fundamental point is that, while it is vital to raise awareness of the needs of disabled shoppers, when it comes down to it retailers are persuaded by their bottom line. These changes will only be implemented if it can be shown that they will increase their profit margins. Purple Tuesday is a great way to show retailers that some of these changes can be made with little to no cost, and will encourage not only disabled shoppers, but others as well.
No-one is expecting retailers to action changes that they cannot afford. But, hopefully, initiatives like this will demonstrate that a common-sense approach to accessibility actually starts a process whereby the whole retail experience can be changed for the better for both retailers and consumers.
If you want to speak to our Personal Injury team about Purple Tuesday, or any other topics related to disability, please get in touch today.
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I am a people movement consultant, with over 10 years of experience with a track record of delivering advice to designers and operators in the Cultural and Visitor Attractions sectors. My key skills encompass the assessment of visitor experience/comfort standards, space planning, entry/ticketing process, wayfinding and modelling.
I have led the visitor movement studies for a number of venues including Experimentarium City in Copenhagen, the UK Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015, and I manage Movement Strategies' on-going support to the Tower of London.


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2016 Annual Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry
STS/ACC TVT Registry
Background The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT) Registry captures all procedures with Food and Drug Administration–approved transcatheter valve devices performed in the United States, and is mandated as a condition of reimbursement by the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. Objectives This annual report focuses on patient characteristics, trends, and outcomes of transcatheter aortic and mitral valve catheter-based valve procedures in the United States. Methods We reviewed data for all patients receiving commercially approved devices from 2012 through December 31, 2015, that are entered in the TVT Registry. Results The 54,782 patients with transcatheter aortic valve replacement demonstrated decreases in expected risk of 30-day operative mortality (STS Predicted Risk of Mortality [PROM]) of 7% to 6% and transcatheter aortic valve replacement PROM (TVT PROM) of 4% to 3% (both p < 0.0001) from 2012 to 2015. Observed in-hospital mortality decreased from 5.7% to 2.9%, and 1-year mortality decreased from 25.8% to 21.6%. However, 30-day post-procedure pacemaker insertion increased from 8.8% in 2013 to 12.0% in 2015. The 2,556 patients who underwent transcatheter mitral leaflet clip in 2015 were similar to patients from 2013 to 2014, with hospital mortality of 2% and with mitral regurgitation reduced to grade ≤2 in 87% of patients (p < 0.0001). The 349 patients who underwent mitral valve-in-valve and mitral valve-in-ring procedures were high risk, with an STS PROM for mitral valve replacement of 11%. The observed hospital mortality was 7.2%, and 30-day post-procedure mortality was 8.5%. Conclusions The TVT Registry is an innovative registry that that monitors quality, patient safety and trends for these rapidly evolving new technologies.
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Bob Pastor (January 26, 1914 – January 26, 1996) born Robert E. Pasternak, was a prominent American boxer. He was a top-ranked heavyweight of the 1940s who once challenged for the world title, losing to Joe Louis in 1939.

Professional boxing career
Pastor began his professional boxing career on January 26, 1935, his 21st birthday.  In his professional debut he fought Julius Veight, a veteran who had a considerable experience advantage over the rookie boxer, with a record of 10 wins and 20 losses. The fight was held at Ridgewood Grove, Brooklyn, New York, and ended with Pastor outscoring Veight to win a six round points decision.

The fight with Veight was the beginning of an eight fight winning streak that saw Pastor score his first stoppage, a fourth round knockout of another veteran, the 11-29-10 Frank LoBianco, at the Dyckman Oval, in New York City on June 12, 1935. Pastor fought at Yankee Stadium on September 24 of that year, outpointing the 21-20-2 Terry Mitchell over four rounds. On November 1, in a fight featuring two undefeated prospects, Pastor, by then 7-0 with 1 knockout win, faced Max Marek, who had a record of 5-0 with 2 knockouts. This bout marked Pastor's first fight as a professional boxer at the Madison Square Garden. Pastor improved to 8-0 by outpointing Marek over 6 rounds. 28 days later, Pastor received the first blemish on his record, a six round draw against Eddie Sims, who had a record of 23-15-1 coming into their bout.

The fight with Sims was followed by an encounter with ranked contender Steve Dudas, who had a record of 36-7.  The fight occurred  on January 17, 1936, at the Madison Square Garden. Dudas won the fight by an eight round decision, handing Pastor his first professional defeat. A draw against the 31-5-2 Al Delaney came after that, and then a rematch with Dudas in which Pastor avenged his earlier defeat by outpointing Dudas over 6 rounds on March 13 at the Madison Square Garden.

Pastor's next fight was highly unusual in that his opponent, the 11-12-1 Art Sykes, suffered a nervous breakdown before their bout. Sykes returned to his hotel and had to  be persuaded to return to the arena for the fight. Sykes became disinterested in fighting and leapt out of the ring in round six, quitting and officially giving Pastor his second knockout win.

A win over Terry Mitchell in a rematch came after the fight with Sykes, followed by wins against Frankie Sims and a victory over Ralph Barbara in a bout fought at St. Nicholas Arena in New York. These wins were followed by a rubber-match victory by six round decision over Dudas, on June 19, 1936, at Yankee Stadium.

Pastor then took on the 31-15-14 John Andersson, on July 7, 1936. This fight was significant in that it marked the first time Pastor boxed outside New York state as a professional. The bout was held at the Braddock Bowl, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Pastor came out on top with a fourth round technical knockout.

On August 1, 1936, Pastor fought a boxer named Unknown Winston, at the Walnut Beach Stadium in Milford, Connecticut. The October, 1936 issue of Ring Magazine stated that Winston had fought Lou Poster on the day of the fight, not Bob Pastor, and that the fight had been held on August 12 instead first. The magazine later corrected that information in its next issue, clarifying that it was Pastor, not Poster, who faced Winston and that the fight had been held on August 1. Pastor won the fight by a ten round decision.

Pastor followed the victory over Winston with a win over Billy Ketchell, and three wins over mediocre opposition, whose combined records totaled 20 wins, 36 losses and 6 draws, before facing Ray Impelletiere. Impelletiere had an unimpressive record of 10-6, but held the USA New York State's Heavyweight title. Pastor won the regional belt when he dropped Impelletiere twice before stopping him in round seven, on December 18, 1936 at the Madison Square Garden. With that, Pastor was set to face upcoming star Joe Louis, who had a record of 29-1 at the time.

First fight with Joe Louis
Joe Louis was rapidly becoming known as a serious contender with a powerful punch when he and Pastor faced each other January 29, 1937. He had scored 25 knockout wins in 30 fights, his lone defeat so far coming in his first fight with former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling.

The first encounter between Pastor and Louis was held at the Madison Square Garden with Arthur Donovan Sr. as referee. Despite taking a beating, Pastor was not floored by the young contender and he lasted the ten round distance, losing by unanimous decision.

After that fight, Pastor made his West Coast debut on May 28 when he met the undefeated 12-0 Bob Nestell at the Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, California. Nestell dropped Pastor in round one, and Pastor dropped him in rounds one and three en route to a 10 round points win for Pastor. In his next fight, Pastor lost to the 28-4-3 Nathan Mann by unanimous 10 round decision at the Madison Square Garden, on November 26, 1937.

After a relatively restful 1937, Pastor began 1938 with four fights in less than thirty days, beating Hans Havlicek by technical knockout in 8 on January 17, Buck Tracy by technical knockout in 2 on the 24th, Buck Everett on points in 10 on January 31, and then ranked contender Al Ettore by 10 round unanimous decision on February 7.

Pastor then faced Lou Nova on April 22, in San Francisco, California. Nova entered the fight with an undefeated record of 16-0-3, and emerged with his undefeated streak still intact after the two men fought to a ten round draw. On May 10, back in Los Angeles, Pastor made his Olympic Auditorium debut, defeating contender Lee Ramage by a ninth round technical knockout when Ramage's manager Pop Foster threw in the towel, signifying their surrender.

Pastor knocked out the 24-6-1 Chuck Crowell in the first round and then faced Al McCoy, a hard-punching fighter who had once been recognized as world Light-Heavyweight champion by the Montreal Athletic Commission. Pastor outpointed McCoy over ten rounds on June 20, 1938 and ten days later, he outpointed Freddie Fiducia. On August 5, Pastor fought former world Light-Heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom, whose career was drawing to a close. Rosenbloom and Pastor fought to a ten round draw at Los Angeles' Gilmore Stadium, in Rosenbloom's second to last fight. After wins over Big Bob Brackey and Mickey Duggan, Pastor fought with the 36-4 contender Gus Dorazio, at the Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 12, losing by a split decision. One judge scored the fight 5-4-1 in rounds for Dorazio, another scored it for Pastor by the same margin, and the third and deciding judge scored it 4-4-2, but had Dorazio ahead on points using a supplemental scoring system.

Rematch with Louis for world Heavyweight title
Pastor built a six fight winning streak after losing to Dorazio. Every victory during that streak was on points over ten rounds, including a rematch with McCoy, a fight against Maurice Strickland in which Pastor's trunks fell to the floor at least twice during round six, and a rematch with Freddie Fiducia.

Louis had already established himself as a dominant world heavyweight champion by the time he faced Pastor for the second time, having won the title from James J. Braddock and successfully defended it with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Tommy Farr, and knockouts of Nathan Mann in the third, Harry Thomas in the fifth, Max Schmeling (in a rematch), John Henry Lewis and Jack Roper (the latter three in the first round) and Tony Galento in the fourth.

32,199 paying ticket holders and a further 1,669 non-paying spectators got to see the fight live, at Detroit's Briggs Stadium on September 20, 1939. Once again, Pastor gave Louis a hard fight, but he was dropped four times in round one and once in the second round before succumbing to the champion via a knockout 38 seconds into the eleventh round.

Pastor returned to the boxing ring on December 15 of that year to face the 42-5-2 Buddy Scott at Dallas, Texas, winning the fight by a ten round decision. He then took six months off before returning on June 28, 1940 to fight the 20-12-5 Charlie Eagle at the Broadway Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, outpointing him, over ten rounds.

Match with Billy Conn
Billy Conn was the National Boxing Association and New York State Athletic Commission's world light heavyweight champion when Pastor faced him on September 6, 1940, in a highly anticipated bout fought at the Madison Square Garden. Pastor was knocked down by Conn, who was making an attempt at obtaining a shot at Louis for the world heavyweight title, as the bell ended round nine, once again in round twelve and was finally counted out by referee Bill Cavanaugh after receiving a left hook to the body in the thirteenth round.

A sixth round technical knockout over mediocre 8-15-2 Mike Alfano was followed by a points victory in ten rounds over the 25-2 Turkey Thompson. On June 16, 1941, Pastor fought a rematch against Buddy Scott, where an audience of only 2,500 paying customers witnessed Pastor once again outpoint Scott over ten rounds at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. Pastor then returned to Los Angeles for a rematch with Turkey Thompson, again prevailing on points with referee and sole judge Abe Roth scoring the bout 7-2-1 in rounds for Pastor.

October 28, 1941, marked the first time Pastor boxed abroad as a professional, facing old rival Al Delaney, whom Pastor had tied with in his eleventh fight as a professional boxer, at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This time, he dropped Delaney five times before scoring a sixth round technical knockout.

On November 7 of that year, he met the 16-0 undefeated prospect Booker Beckwith. Pastor almost scored a knockout victory when he dropped Beckwith for a nine-second count in round six, but Beckwith got up and finished the bout on his feet. Pastor nevertheless scored a ten round unanimous decision win. Pastor's next bout was on December 12, against the 31-13-1 Jim Robinson, at the Mechanics Building in Boston. In this fight, Pastor dropped his opponent four times to score a first round knockout. Robinson was a late substitute for Jack Marshall, whose military obligations did not let him face Pastor that night.

On January 30, 1942, Pastor faced world Light-Heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich, who like Conn, was recognized as light heavyweight champion by the National Boxing Association and the New York State Athletic Commission, and who was also trying his luck as a heavyweight. Pastor defeated Lesnevich over ten rounds by unanimous decision, at the Madison Square Garden. Lesnevich would later gain universal recognition as world Light-heavyweight champion by knocking out British boxer Freddie Mills. A knockout in eight rounds against the 29-5-1 Lem Franklin at the Arena, in Cleveland, Ohio, set Pastor up for a fight with Jimmy Bivins on April 17, also at the Arena in Cleveland. Despite being dropped twice in round one, Pastor recovered and won the fight by a ten round split decision. Then, on May 22, Pastor faced Tami Mauriello, drawing with Mauriello over ten rounds in front of a crowd of 12,000 at the Madison Square Garden. On September 25 he defeated Buddy Scott for a third time, by points after ten rounds, at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit.

Last fight
Pastor's next fight turned out to be his last. On October 20, he faced Jimmy Bivins at the Arena in Cleveland for a second time. This time Pastor lost by split decision, retiring shortly afterwards.

Pastor compiled a record of 53 wins, 7 losses and 5 draws, with 17 wins coming by way of knockouts. He achieved this record in only 7 years of fighting as a professional boxer, a relatively short amount of time in which to accumulate 65 professional bouts.

Wrong Pastor
During a visit to Arizona in 1992 as part of the 1992 United States Presidential campaign, Henry Cisneros, a confessed boxing fan, mistakenly introduced Ed Pastor as "Bob" to a donation-dinner crowd. This was a highly publicized mistake on Cisneros' part.

References

1914 births
1996 deaths
Boxers from New York City
American male boxers

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Okinawa Prefecture officials announced a plan to lease a large capacity high-speed data line owned by a private company. The line connects Okinawa and Tokyo, and the prefecture will provide IT related companies with an access to the line for free of charge starting next fiscal year.
Funds totaling ¥400 million earmarked for this project was already in this year's budget request, and the plan will become concrete next year. Currently, the prefecture subsidizes 80 percent of telecommunication fees to IT companies operating in Okinawa, and this option will be replaced with the new project.


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MS Józef Conrad – polski drobnicowiec należący do Polskich Linii Oceanicznych. W służbie w latach 1961–1973; złomowany w 1974 roku. Nazwany na cześć Josepha Conrada.

Statek zbudowano w jugosłowiańskiej stoczni Brodogradilište w Rijece jako jeden z trzech statków przeznaczonych na linię południowoamerykańską. Został zwodowany 4 marca 1961 roku, a służbę rozpoczął 10 listopada.

W styczniu 1966 r. na jego pokładzie wyruszył w wielomiesięczną podróż do Indonezji śladami Josepha Conrada polski pisarz i dziennikarz Andrzej Braun. Przywiezione przez Brauna materiały wykorzystane zostały do napisania dwóch książek: reportażu pt. Śladami Conrada i albumu Conrad dotknięcie Wschodu.

Swój ostatni rejs zakończył wejściem do Hajfongu w Wietnamie Północnym 31 maja 1972 roku, był to 25. rejs tego statku. Razem ze statkami "Kiliński" i "Moniuszko", statek został uwięziony w porcie, który zaminowało amerykańskie wojsko. Z dokumentów amerykańskich wynika jednak, że MS "Józef Conrad" wszedł do portu już po zaminowaniu wejścia do niego. W czerwcu część załóg polskich statków zwolniono ze służby i odesłano do kraju, pozostawiając załogi szkieletowe. W czasie postoju w porcie, 20 grudnia 1972 roku około godziny 4.30, statek został uszkodzony w czasie bombardowania Hajfongu przez amerykańskie lotnictwo, które realizowało operację Linebacker II. Działania te trwały łącznie od 18 do 29 grudnia, prowadzone siłami 7. Armii Powietrznej i lotnictwa pokładowego Zespołu 77 Marynarki Wojennej. W ramach akcji Amerykanie prowadzili codzienne naloty na Hanoi i Hajfong oraz na inne cele w pobliżu tych miast.

W chwili nalotu na pokładzie znajdowało się 28 osób, z których zginęły trzy, a jedna zmarła później w wyniku obrażeń. Rannych zostało kolejnych trzech marynarzy.

Po zakończeniu bombardowań władze portu zwróciły się do armatora (PLO) o usunięcie statku z portu, w związku z czym do Wietnamu Północnego udała się delegacja Polskiego Ratownictwa Okrętowego (PRO). Statek został poddany oględzinom. Według opisu z dokumentacji został trafiony dwiema bombami, a pożar wywołany bombardowaniem spowodował wypalenie nadbudówki i śródokręcia. Ponadto w maszynowni i dwóch ładowniach znajdowała się woda, która dostała się przez uszkodzone poniżej linii wodnej poszycie. Po oględzinach zdecydowano o przygotowaniu statku do holowania do stoczni w celu podjęcia decyzji o jego dalszym losie.

Następnie podpisano między PLO i PRO umowę o wydobycie statku, a jako wynagrodzenie statek miał stać się własnością PRO. 27 sierpnia 1973 roku wrak został przekazany PRO. Uszczelniono dziury w kadłubie, wypompowano wodę z maszynowni i 2 października 1973 roku MS "Józef Conrad" zdołał dotrzeć na holu do stoczni złomowej Yau Wing Metal Co. Ltd. w Hongkongu. Na początku 1974 roku statek sprzedano stoczni złomowej w Kaohsiung na Tajwanie, dokąd doprowadzono go w połowie marca i pocięto na złom.

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With that as the backdropped, we have BIG movement in this week's Top 25 beneath Bishop Gorman (Nevada), which has taken the suspense out of the "mythical" national championship chase in 2016 by finishing a perfect 15-0 against one of the toughest non-Nevada schedules in the nation. Quite honestly, there's not much that will change Gorman's place atop the national rankings over the next two weeks. If anything, the Gaels' spot at #1 will be strengthened, if St. John Bosco (California), St. Thomas Aquinas (Florida) and Cocoa (Florida) wins their respective state championships.
Speaking of St. John Bosco, the Braves jump-up five spots to #2 this week thanks to their 42-28 win over former #3 Mater Dei in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship Saturday night. In addition to their big win, their ascension to #2 was fueled by Bishop Gorman and St. Xavier (Ohio) winning state titles and St. Mary's of Stockton, California winning a CIF sectional championship this weekend.
Bosco's climb to #2 drops IMG Academy (Florida), which is not eligible to participate in the Florida playoffs, one spot to #3.
Allen, which is one win away from going for its fourth state title in Texas' biggest classification in five years, moves-up to #4 this week, thanks in-part to Hoover winning Alabama's 7A championship on Wednesday and Evangel Christian capturing Louisiana's Division I state title.
Grayson moves from #5 to #6 this week. The Rams, who will play #10 Roswell for Georgia's Class AAAAAAA championship Saturday, get a bump in our algorithm thanks to beating former #12 Mill Creek (Georgia), and Hoover and Ramsay capturing Alabama state titles.
DeMatha (Maryland) drops two spots this week to #6, but could get some help in next week's poll, if its Week 1 opponent Oscar Smith wins Virginia's 6A championship next weekend and #34 Pittsburgh Central Catholic knocks-off #12 St. Joseph's Prep in the Pennsylvania 6A title game. The reason that would help the Stags is because PCC's only loss this season was to #33 St. John's (Washington, D.C.), a team that DeMatha beat twice this year.
Rounding-out the Top 10 — St. Thomas Aquinas (Florida) at #7, Kentucky 6A champ Trinity at #8, Corona Centennial (California) at #9 and the aforementioned Roswell at #10. Trinity jumps five places this week, while Corona Centennial's two losses were by a combined three points to #2 St. John Bosco and #3 IMG.
There are three new teams in the Top 25 this week — Hoover at #20, three-time Ohio Division II champ La Salle at #21, and St. Xavier, fresh of its Ohio Division I title, at #22.
Looking ahead to the coming weekend, there are four games matching-up teams in the Top 50. We mentioned that #12 St. Joseph's Prep will play #34 Pittsburgh Central Catholic in the Pennsylvania 6A title game and #5 Grayson will play #10 Roswell in the Georgia AAAAAAA championship. In Texas, #4 Allen will square-off with #29 The Woodlands in the Class 6A Division I semifinals. In Louisiana, #26 Edna Karr faces #47 Neville for the 4A title.
Finally, all five Texas teams in our Top 25 could be playing for state titles in two weeks, if they win this weekend. That means, #4 Allen could face #11 Lake Travis, which jumps five places this week, in the Class 6A Division I title game and #15 DeSoto could play #17 Cibolo Steele in the Class 6A Division II championship.


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Q: Could gravity be repulsive at short distances? I was wondering if it would be consistent with empirical data if gravity became extremely repulsive at short distances.
For example (please bear with my use of classical formulas, I know little of relativity), we could define the force of gravity as
$$F_g = \dfrac{GMm}{r^2}\left(1-\varepsilon\left(\dfrac{r_0}{r}\right)^n\right)\hat r$$
where $n$ is very large and $\varepsilon$ is very small.
I was thinking that if these values were made extreme, the impact on anything measurable would be basically zero. However, I was thinking that this might have some impact on black holes, etc. that would rule this theory out (apart from Occam's razor, of course).
Note: I have read some of the many questions asking about repulsive gravity; this question is specifically discussing repulsive gravity at very short distances.

A: Note that the value of Newton's constant, $G$, is measured in the lab at distances on order of 1 meter.
This puts strict limits on your $\epsilon$ and $n$, and immediately rules out significant effects on astrophysical black holes ( whose Schwartzchild radii are much larger than that).

A: As a matter of fact, NASA/JPL are using an expression looking a little bit like the one you are suggesting to handle relativistic effects on orbits in the solar system. In the case of one light object moving in a spherically symmetric gravitational field the expression looks like:
$$\frac{d\bar{v}}{dt}=-\frac{GM}{r^2}\left(1-\frac{4GM}{rc^2}+\frac{v^2}{c^2}\right)\hat{r} +\frac{4GM}{r^2}\left(\hat{r}\cdot \hat{v}\right)\frac{v^2}{c^2}\hat{v}$$
If you ignore the velocity-dependent terms you see that this is the same as your expression with $n=1$ and $\epsilon r_0 = 4GM/c^2$. It is easy to see that this expression becomes repulsive (again ignoring the velocity-dependent terms) for $r=4GM/c^2$ which is twice the Schwarzschild radius in Schwarzschild coordinates.
Note that this expression is based on a first order expansion of the Schwarzschild solution expressed in isotropic coordinates. Taken to the third post-Newtonian order the expression become a little bit more complicated as seen in this post.
Notice that JPL is only using the expression above in the weak fields of our solar system, it gives the right value of the so called "anomalous precession of perihelion" but it is not supposed to work in the strong field limit. The expression is provided as number 4-61 on page 4-42 in the official documentation, Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space Network Data Types for Navigation.

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Frederich-Olivier Rosselet, a cellist, performed Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto. Now this piece brought out all kinds of emotions from me and my friends. There was darkness, confusion, terror, and loneliness from this piece. If you closed your eyes and listened to this song, it almost felt like you were hiding from someone who was chasing you or you were trying to run away and somehow ended up getting lost in a pitch black room or a forest at night. You pace back and forth not knowing what to do because all your thoughts are scattered as you're by yourself in the middle of nowhere.
Playing an open string so gently seemed almost harmless but in this piece, it still carried a bold sense of emotion. Whether you open or close your eyes during a live performance of this piece, I am sure that you will be carried away by your emotions. Even the musician, Rosselet, was so lost in the music because the piece had a heavy character to it that required great technical skills to execute almost effortlessly and beautifully.
The final performance was my piano instructor, Fang-Fang Shi Inouye. From the beginning, you were able to hear easily that the music was composed by Beethoven. Inouye gracefully played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with great flow of emotion. I was in awe of how she moved across the keyboard effortlessly and so quickly. Though I saw with my own eyes that she was hitting every note, I still could not believe the intensity of her technical skills. Her performance was a great way to end the show as it had an enlightening experience to it.
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Is it safe for me to watch Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou as an anime-only viewer?
I have only watched (season one of) the Shingeki no Kyojin anime, and have not read any of the manga.
As I watch the Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou anime, which is airing this season, I am starting to get a sense that I am at risk of being spoiled for content which is currently manga-only. Nothing glaring comes to mind yet (though that could just be because e.g. I'm failing to notice gags that are based on manga-only content), though there's a character from episode 8 who I don't think I know, and an altercation between two characters in episode 3 that I was told comes from a flashback that hasn't been animated yet.
Can someone who has read the (main) manga and is watching Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou (and perhaps has read the source manga for that) tell me how much of a risk I'm at of spoiling myself for content that hasn't been animated yet?
(If there's a high risk of spoilage, I figure I may as well put it off until season 2 airs in 2016.)
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Having read the original manga, I think the worse case scenario is you not getting a few gags and not recognising a few characters, there has not been that much spoilers and references that would spoil the 2nd season for you since the characters are depicted in a silly fashion without relation to the main plot of the original manga. – Astral Sea Nov 23 '15 at 5:54
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@senshin Dude, that's exactly what I thought when I first watched that spin-off series XD I didn't expect them to do something like that. – Ryota Nov 9 '18 at 18:19
I recommend watching the anime first as a good overview of the series. Then read the manga, to cover any: plot holes/extras/gags and to get more info. It doesn't really matter because the anime (most of the time) follows the manga (In Soul Eater, the anime and manga are different but the story continues differently so it isn't spoiling anything because it's a different story).
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        public DateTime? TransactionDate;

        public string CreatedFrom;

        public string DocumentNumber;

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        public string Message;

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Rules Place digits from 1 to 4 in some blank cells, so that each row and column contains each digit exactly once. Clue numbers indicate the sum of orthogonally adjacent digits. The number of circles under a clue number indicates the number of digits involved in this sum. Or see the instruction booklet.
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Feinstein's A 'No' Against CIA Nominee
Filed Under:CIA, Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump, Sen. Dianne Feinstein
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a leading Democratic voice against the CIA's now-defunct harsh detention and interrogation program, says she will vote against confirming President Donald Trump's pick to be CIA director.
Feinstein and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who also is against Gina Haspel's confirmation, led efforts to make harsh interrogation techniques against the law.
Haspel's confirmation is controversial because she was once chief of a black site base in Thailand and advocated for the destruction of videotapes of interrogations of terror suspects after 9/11.
Feinstein said Thursday that confirming Haspel would signal that the U.S. approves of what happened after 9/11 and she absolutely does not.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine say they'll support Haspel.


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I am working with Photoscan Professional Edition and would like to set the camera accuracy to 0.1m using a python script, in the same way, as I can change the camera accuracy in the reference pane using reference settings. Here I can change the camera accuracy from 10m to 0.1m. Can I do this in my python script as well, for all cameras?
PhotoScan.app.document.chunk.accuracy_cameras = (x, y, z)where x, y, z are values in corresponding direction. Could be the same number for all three, of course.
I am using your suggestion, but I get the error message "TypeError: floating point value expected".
Which version you are using? It seems that you might be using some old version, so please update to the version 1.2.6.
Yes I was using an older version. Now it works indeed. Thanks.
Can someone pleasy verify my code? I am trying to itterate through cameras and set various accuracies for each camera, although I am having a problem to change even one of them. Below code brings no error messages but doesn't update the data in Reference tab.
I just suggest to restart Metashape instance that you are working in, as camera.Reference assignment could break the proper work of Python API in the Console.
Which version of PhotoScan/Metashape you are using? In another thread you have posted a script to read the accuracy and orientation data from the XMP, but doesn't it work automatically on the image load, providing that the corresponding options are enabled in the Advanced preferences tab?


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Japan, Korea Republic earn draws as France 2019 edges closer
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Paderborn: Japan claimed an impressive 2-2 away draw against World Number Two Germany, while Korea Republic were held 1-1 at home by Iceland, as both sides continued their build-up to the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 on Tuesday.
GERMANY 2-2 JAPAN
Japan led twice, but ultimately had to share the spoils with Germany in an entertaining 2-2 draw at Paderborn's Benteler Arena.
Yui Hasegawa and Kumi Yokoyama gave Japan leads in either half, but they gave them both up, as Svenja Huth's equaliser 18 minutes from time denied Asako Takakura's side a confidence-boosting win two months before the World Cup.
China PR conquer Cameroon to win in Wuhan
Korea Republic lose it late in front of record crowd
Australia and Japan defeated, China PR on song
Japan have now played all of the world's top four side's in the last six weeks, earning away draws against World Number One USA and Germany, but suffering defeats to England and France.
In a match between two of the world's elite sides, the first goal came from a decidedly poor piece of play from German goalkeeper Almuth Schult, who totally mishit a pass into the path of Yui Hasegawa who lobbed the ball into an empty net from over 30 yards to give Japan a lead they would take to half time.
German captain Alexandra Popp levelled the tie when she found sufficient space to thump a header in from six yards in the 53rd minute, but another error from Schult allowed Japan to re-take the lead 16 minutes later, with Emi Nakajima keeping a cool head to tee up Yokoyama for a simple tap-in from dead in front.
But despite Japan's effort to regain the advantage, this time the lead lasted only three minutes, with Huth bravely poking home the final goal of the contest after Japanese goalkeeper Chika Hirao spilled a high delivery from the left flank.
Japan, who lifted their second successive AFC Women's Asian Cup in Jordan last year, will meet Argentina, Scotland and England in Group D of the FIFA Women's World Cup in June.
KOREA REPUBLIC 1-1 ICELAND
Korea Republic came from behind to claim a 1-1 draw against Iceland in Chunchoen, with the talismanic Ji So-yun scoring the East Asian side's first-half equaliser.
Yoon Duk-yeo's side had come from two goals down, only to lose 3-2 in injury time in front of a record crowd in Yongin on Saturday, and - despite five changes to their startling line-up - the Koreans fell behind early again.
Korea Republic's stoppage time nemesis on Saturday, Rakel Hönnudóttir made her mark on proceedings a little earlier this time, scoring Iceland's opener after Sigríður Lára Garðarsdóttir's initial effort struck the woodwork in the 22nd minute.
But the hosts recovered quickly, putting together a lovely move in which Ji was supplied by youngster Han Chae-rin, with the more senior Chelsea star finishing unerringly into the bottom corner from just behind the penalty spot in the 28th minute.
As in their earlier meeting with the Scandinavians, Korea Republic created ample openings going forward, particularly late on, but a winning goal didn't materialise for the hosts, leaving the spoils to be shared at one apiece.
Korea Republic's final pre-World Cup friendly will be against Sweden in Gothenburg on June 1, before they meet hosts France as well as Nigeria and Norway at the global showpiece starting the following week.
Photos: AFP
Captain Wu Haiyan hoping to lead by example in France
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CBS Kilkenny is a Catholic school committed to the development of each student's gifts in a Christian community with due emphasis on intellectual, spiritual, social, cultural and sporting activities. These enhance growth in self-esteem and self-confidence, while also empasising care for others, especially the underprivileged in society.
A Christian concern for others is fostered by: liturgical celebrations; fundraising events for charitable causes; involvement of students with local nursing homes and community care centres, and links with the work of the Christian Brothers in Zambia. Being Keenly aware of the ever increasing effect of outside influences on the lives of our students, we emphasise Christian vaules and practices and we encourage all students to become involved in a variety of activities outside the curriculum. The participation of many enthusiastic staff members in the extra-curricular life of the school ensures that a wide range of sporting and cultural activities is promoted.
Life skills are reinforced through participation in activities such as European educational trips, music, debating, sports, quizzes, work experience programmes, enterprise, foreign exchange, drama, concerts, charitable fundraising and Gaisce. While the pursuit of excellence is encouraged, the dominant emphasis is on broad participation and genuine enjoyment.
CBS Kilkenny is an inclusive school where the contribution of every student is encouraged and valued. Difference is recognised and respected. We educate our students to take their places in society as well-balanced individuals. The many generations that have passed through the portals of this school have had to face the challenges of their day, and equipped with the knowledge and skills aquired here, they have learned to meet these challenges and to become positive contributors to society. Having celebrated in 2010-2011, 150 years of secondary education on our campus at James's Street, we look forward with confidence to catering for the needs of all our students, and to supporting each and every student to realise his full potential in the modern world.
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agus a fhorbairt mar go gcreidimid go láidir i mana lognáid de Ris.


The opening of a European competence centre of about 1,000 m2 and a third factory of 25,000 m2 marks that the Danish pump group Grundfos once again expands in Hungary.
After the opening of the factory on 18 September and the Competence centre on 19 September Grundfos has 1,500 employees in Hungary.
The competence centre will be used to strengthen and develop the partnerships with primarily European customers, who use Grundfos pumps and pump systems in for example industrial buildings, schools, hospitals, hotels and blocks of flats. Both customers and leading salespersons from first and foremost Grundfos' European companies will be trained in the locations with the latest high-tech equipment for among other things 3D presentations.
Head of the Competence Centre, Mr Ole Tangsgaard, explains that the new thing about Grundfos City is that customer visits in a professional way can be combined with factory tours and training. A newly established guest service at Grundfos in Hungary will ensure that customers and employees have a both pleasant and profitable stay.
Mr Peter Sloth Karlsen, General Manager of the Hungarian production company, is pleased that the group has once again chosen Hungary as the domicile of one of its central activities.
"We take it as a large recognition, and we are looking forward to inviting key customers and employees to Hungary, so we can show them what we can offer", he says.
Mr Lars Fournais, Group Senior Vice President, Grundfos Building Services, who has been the head of the establishment of the competence centre, explains why Hungary has been chosen as domicile of the competence centre.
"The placing next to the factories in Tatabanya has been chosen because many visitors already come to see the production of the pumps they buy, because Hungary has a central geographical position in Europe, and because Grundfos wants to shows the customers that we have competences in other places than in Denmark", Mr Fournais says.
The new Hungarian Grundfos-factory is placed in the city Székesfehérvár, 60 kilometres from Budapest and 60 kilometres south of Grundfos' other factories in Tatabanya. It will increase the production area in Hungary by more than 50%, and the number of employees by more than 25%.
At first, the factory will primarily house the production that is being moved from the group's factory in Langå. According to Mr Sloth Karlsen there is an excellent cooperation between the employees of the factories in Hungary and Demark to make the transfer and competence development optimal.
1996: The sales company close to Budapest opens.
2000: The production company's first factory opens in Tatabanya, 60 km from Budapest.
2001: The second factory opens in Tatabanya.
2005: The first factory is extended.
March 2007: A research and development department opens in Tatabanya.
Today Grundfos in Hungary employs 1,500 people. The Grundfos group employs more than 15,000 people – of them approx. 5,000 work in Denmark.


Did Panorama fake an air attack on schoolchildren in Syria?
The BBC Panorama documentary 'Saving Syria's Children' was first shown on 30th September 2013. Travelling with British doctors inside Syria, BBC Panorama's journalists witnessed first-hand the effects of an August 2013 Assad regime incendiary attack on a school in Aleppo province.
Now Emily Thornberry, Shadow Foreign Secretary, has raised a complaint about the programme to the BBC on behalf of a constituent, one Robert Stuart.
At a time of widespread cynicism about the mainstream media (some of it deserved) even the most preposterous conspiracy theory (as this is) can be amplified by dubious but effective sources—especially on social media—into something that becomes accepted as truth, simply because of its frequent repetition.
Syrian activists and humanitarians, especially when attempting to expose the crimes of Assad, have been among the main targets of this vicious war on the facts. Robert Stuart's attack is not just on the BBC—it is also yet another heartless smear on humanitarians, this time on doctors doing an impossibly dangerous job in a conflict zone.
In the course of filming at one of the Hand in Hand field hospitals, a series of casualties arrived from a nearby school playground, hit by an incendiary bomb from Assad's air force, inflicting napalm-like injuries, from which about ten of the schoolchildren died. The last third of the film showed the horrific effects of the bomb, in the hospital and afterwards in visits to the playground and the hospital in Turkey where the children were brought for specialist treatment.
These scenes showed a chaotic and harrowing situation, with ill-equipped doctors in a field clinic trying to minister first aid and analgesics to badly burned teenagers in shock, and arrange for their transfer to specialist burns units. The two visiting doctors provided a running narrative on the scenes being filmed in the treatment room, while treating the patients and coping with extremely distressed family members.
In a lengthy correspondence with the BBC, Robert Stuart accused the reporters and doctors of fabricating the injuries in the hospital scene in order to influence the 2013 Parliamentary debate on intervention in Syria. An early clip from the film was shown on BBC News on the night of the debate, though the complete film was only shown a month later.
To support this, he referred to the ability of some apparently seriously injured patients to walk into the hospital, the calm demeanour of others who would be expected to be screaming in agony, and their apparent ability to speak and breathe. One child patient, he suggested, was wearing prosthetic hands, some showed fresh skin under their apparent burns, and some eyebrows remained un-singed.
Robert Stuart also claimed there was also some duplication of 'actors' shown in different places in and out of the hospital. One scene he described as obviously staged, claiming patients started moaning and writhing on cue. One witness was, according to Mr Stuart, clearly reading from a script when he addressed the United Nations in faltering English.
Vanessa Beeley similarly claimed an Al Jazeera news item (excerpted on Channel 4 News) about the bombing of a children's hospital in Aleppo in 2016 was faked. To understand how Vanessa Beeley misrepresented that report, see Amr Salahi's analysis for Pulse.
This method, repeated during intervals of heightened world attention on Syria, such as in 2013 after the chemical attack in Ghouta, and late 2016 during the bombing and siege of Aleppo, illustrates the desperate lengths to which Assadist propagandists will go to undermine the truth about war crimes. Sadly, it has had an effect in some quarters—if not to convince then to confuse and weaken support for effective action to protect civilians.
When the BBC understood, after some clarification from Stuart, that he was charging the production team not with being duped but with active collaboration in deception, it took the accusation seriously enough to employ an independent investigator and, as consultant, a plastic surgeon from 'a leading London hospital' who had trained under a surgeon treating napalm burns in Vietnam.
The cameramen 'grabbed what they could when they could and removed themselves for first responders to do their work.' The rushes showed that the witness addressing the United Nations did so in response to a question: 'What do you want to say to the world?' The witness was clearly distressed, and rambling at points which was edited out, and was not reading from a script.
If it had been one straight take the film would have come to between four and five hours in length—the time of filming in the hospital—inevitably there was editing, including a montage of some scenes before the title sequence, hence some repetition and lack of chronological sequencing. Also, there was one audio edit in the BBC News clip (though not the documentary) where 'napalm-type weapon' was substituted for 'chemical weapon' in order to avoid misleading the audience. Editing and montage is common in documentaries and is deemed acceptable unless it misleads. In this case, editing did not mislead the audience.
The medical consultant was 'wholly convinced the footage was genuine'. He provides a definitive refutation of Stuart's claims of fabrication.
The child accused of wearing prosthetic hands had 'severe burns where skin detaches from dermis and slides off as it dies'. The seeming enlargement of the hands is caused by the camera angle.
With serious burns such as these 'a doctor could predict that the patient would not survive although the patient might be walking and talking at the time. Victims can die within 24 hours but still function in the early stages.' As indeed the programme showed, many of the victims in the early scenes did die on the way to hospital in Turkey or after arrival.
She also spoke to Human Rights Watch, first contacted by the Panorama reporters to help identify the kind of weapon used. It had been feared at first that it was a chemical attack, similar to Ghouta a few weeks before—hence the doctor's comment on 'a chemical weapon' in the rushes, which was later corrected to 'something like napalm.' Human Rights Watch was able to confirm that it had identified the weapon as an incendiary bomb with napalm like effects—there was a pattern of similar attacks in northern Syria at the time. After the BBC reporters contacted them, HRW decided to document the incident independently and contacted witnesses through their Beirut office to do so.
One would have thought that was the end of the matter, after an exhaustive explanation of the editing process, confirmation of injuries from a highly qualified medical specialist, and independent evidence of the incident from reputable sources. But it was not enough for Mr Stuart—to this day he continues his campaign against the BBC for 'ensconcing' themselves with jihadists, most recently with the help of Emily Thornberry. Mr Stuart continues to attack the doctors with complaints to the GMC about 'fraud', and their organisation Hand in Hand for Syria with a complaint to the Charity Commission for 'assisting terrorism'.
It is hardly surprising that none of his complaints have been upheld. Indeed an RT programme in the Truthseeker series based on his 'research' has been sanctioned by Ofcom and the series has since ended. See Ofcom's report on RT, September 2015.
So the answer to the opening question is no—there is no evidence that Panorama faked footage of an incendiary bomb and its horrific aftermath in 2013. It is a preposterous and baseless charge. What Robert Stuart presents—along with some of his fellow conspiracy theorists—is nothing more than a false counter-narrative, designed to throw a cloak of doubt over the crimes of the Syrian regime.
Clara Connolly is a human rights lawyer and activist.
With thanks to Brian Slocock for his contribution.
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Knife Crime is a group of over 40 MPs and Peers, set up in response to the alarming rise in knife crime across the country. The group aims to develop cross-party consensus from parliamentarians around new approaches to tackling knife crime, with particular focus on prevention and early intervention.
Official purpose of the APPG, as agreed at the November 2017 inaugural meeting:
To evaluate policies and programmes aimed at reducing knife crime, gain better understanding of its root causes and the wider context of youth violence, and develop recommendations for new measures at both acute and preventative stages with a view to reducing levels of knife crime.
Founder and Chair
Sarah Jones MP
Sarah Jones was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Croydon Central in June 2017. After spending her first summer as MP talking to local organisations, campaigners and young people about the surge in youth violence and knife crime, Sarah held a debate in Parliament on the topic, and set up the APPG on Knife Crime shortly after. Prior to becoming an MP Sarah held several senior campaigning roles including within the NHS, London 2012 Olympics and as Head of Campaigns at Shelter.
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Rape: The most overlooked of war crimes
Mohsena Akter Drishty
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Rape in war must be understood as a systematic abuse that targets women for political and strategic reasons, rather than considering only the sexual component
Mohsena Akter Drishty.
For a long time, rape had been met with tacit acceptance in war and therefore was committed with impunity. Political and military leaders would shrug it off as if it were some kind of buffoonery.
Rape, among other forms of violence, has always been a secret weapon of war owing to its gender-specific character and the underlying political objectives of the battle. But this crime has been downplayed in history amnd led those in power to believe that war rape is more of a personal offence than a war crime. Thus, rape has become the most neglected war crime of all time.
Visiting the great galleries of art or leafing through the classics, one will find that rape in war is an old concept. Herodotus, in his first history book on western history, wrote in response to a series of abductions of women by the Phoenicians and the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, "Plainly the women would never have been carried away, had not they wished it."
It was an early indication of how men would write history. Rapes took place during the ancient Greek, Roman, and Persian wars, the era of Alexander the Great and World War II by both axis and allies – and it set forth that women to be seen as nothing but spoils of war.
Men have always used rape as a tool of exerting fear on women. They have asserted that rape is a conscious process to intimidate women and to keep them in a state of fear, American Author Susan Brownmiller rightly pointed out in her groundbreaking book "Against Our Will" (1975), "Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe".
Hence, one of the triggers that lead men to rape is the fact that they can. When it comes to war, rape is mostly considered 'inevitable' or 'incidental' or even awful, a 'by-product of sending men to war'. Sometimes it is a means for creating a grotesque bond among soldiers. Notwithstanding, rape in war must be understood as a systematic abuse that targets women for political and strategic reasons rather than considering only the sexual component, as was the case of Bangladesh in 1971.
Pakistani soldiers raped around 2,00,000 to 4,00,000 women during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. Some women were hung from the banana trees, sometimes bound and raped, gang-raped, their breasts and other body parts mutilated while countless others were taken to different army camps and kept as sex slaves.
Dr Geoffrey Davis, an Australian expert on late-term abortion from International Planned Parenthood Federation, came to Dhaka after the war. He said he was carrying out abortions "on an industrial rate" by the scale of a hundred abortions a day in Dhaka after the war. Witnessing the alarming scale of rape and other atrocities, Pakistani journalist & Author Anthony Mascarenhas wrote a book titled 'The Rape of Bangladesh' to describe its wanton destruction.
However, the monstrous number of rapes went far beyond a 'by-product of war'. It was nothing but a deliberate policy and a tool of destroying the Bengalees altogether. Pakistani Major General Khadim Hossain Raja said in his memoir 'A Stranger in my own Country' that their commander General A A K Niazi had ordered the officers to "let loose their soldiers on the women of East Pakistan till the ethnicity of the Bengalis had changed".
Despite these brutal human rights abuses, the International Commission of Jurists delivered its 1971 report on the war in East Pakistan. There the commission chose to assume that young girls and women kidnapped by Pakistani troops were held to fulfil the soldiers' sexual gratification. The report entirely failed to link widespread rape with the Pakistani army's intended goal of breaking the spirit of the Bengali people during the civil war.
Prosecution of rape as a war crime
Following the atrocities of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide caused by Turks, a commission of responsibilities was set up in 1919. In a list of 32 war crimes, rape and forced prostitution were nearly at the top.
But that did not stop rape in the Second World War. To prosecute the horrifying war crimes committed during World War II, the first international tribunal was established in Nuremberg and Tokyo. All parties to the conflict were accused of rape, yet astonishingly no one was prosecuted for sexual violence, not even an apology was sought.
Instead, there was deafening silence! On the sexual slavery of "comfort women"; on the rape of German women by Stalin's troops; women raped and their breasts branded by General Franco's Falangists in Spain, silence there too.
In 1998, rape as a war crime was first enshrined in the Rome statute that established the International Criminal Court. It is also the year when the first prosecution of rape as a war crime took place although, the conviction was overturned on appeal.
After 22 years of establishment of ICC, there still has not been a single conviction for war rape. It is quite striking that rape has not been prosecuted like any other abuse despite the gravity of the offence. The differential treatment of rape points to the fact that for the most part, the problem is not the absence of adequate legal prohibitions, but in the global community's willingness to tolerate this pervasive human rights violation.
Such connivance of war rape for a long time has resulted in its widespread mischaracterisation, which has contributed to the failure to denounce and prosecute wartime rape. It is dismissed by persons in a position to stop it - military and political leaders. They have characterised rape as a private crime, a sexual act, claiming it to be the ignominious conduct of one occasional soldier, or, worse, it has been accepted because it is commonplace.
For example, in Peru, Peruvian military officers dismissed numerous reports of rape by soldiers as a "regrettable excess."
Widespread rape inadvertently serves a strategic function in war and acts as a tool for achieving definite military objectives.
In the former Yugoslavia, the Serbian forces committed rape and other human rights abuses to drive the non-Serbian population into flight. In Myanmar, too, rape was a part of a campaign to drive the Rohingya community out of the country.
In many instances, rape can serve a strikingly sex-specific function when predators commit rape with the intent of impregnating their victims. A Bosnian rape victim wrote, "They aimed to make a baby…to humiliate us…."
The abuse, in some cases, not only serves strategic or political functions but also the perverse sexual gratification of the attacker. Somali women refugees in Kenya typically were raped after being successfully robbed. Raping of the thousands of women pressed into service as "comfort women" during World War II, rape of Jewish women by the Nazis although their political agenda was concerned with the victim's "race defilement", further demonstrate that rape's function may not be just to satisfy the sexual proclivities of the attacker.
It is the control and protection of women's purity or honour and mischaracterization of rape as a crime against honour, and not as a crime against the physical integrity of the victim, that makes women the easiest target.
With time sexual violence during war has reached shocking dimensions. While women suffer too much in conflict zones, rarely ever do they see the light of justice. War rape is too big a crime to be overlooked yet men-written history has left half of it untold. Trivialising rape and impunity for war rape must be stopped at once.
The victims must be treated with respect. The world should know that they are the ones with bravery and heroism, and not just bystanders of history.
Mohsena Akter Drishty is a student of law at the University of Chittagong.
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Fresh Produce - Fruits & Veg of the 2016 Mentorship Programme
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For the third year in a row Assemblage ran a successful mentorship and training programme, concluding with the Fresh Produce exhibition at the Turbine Art Fair. The 2016 programme was a partnership between VANSA and Assemblage and was supported by Rand Merchant Bank. The Fresh Produce exhibition was curated by Rolihlahla Mhlanga.
The mentorship programme was a six-month intensive course coordinated by Mandy Johnston and Fleur de Bondt, and it was a great success. The programme covered the creative value chain, from business planning, documenting and writing about your artwork, funding, marketing and how to sustain your career, to project management, pricing and a guide to approaching galleries and the media. Workshops were facilitated by a variety of arts professionals including Stephen Hobbs, Mary Corrigall, Gordon Froud, Molemo Moiloa, Louise Van Der Bijl and Julie Taylor. In addition, the group of 15 artists had six months of peer mentorship and critical review of their work, encouraging them to grow conceptually and technically. They were mentored by Anthea Moys, Frances Goodman, David Koloane and Usha Seejarim.
The artists were Lloyd Maluleke, Sifiso Temba, Tshepiso Mazibuko, Nkosinathi Quwe, Mduduzi Twala, Sakhile Cebekhulu, Kelebogile Masilo, Mandlenkosi Mavengere, Kgomotso Neto, Bukhosi Nyathi, Rendani Nemakhavhani, Zanele Mashinini, Sibusiso Bheka, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Lindo Zwane and Bokang Menkoe. They were enthusiastic for the most part, participated fully in the programme and a huge amount of growth was seen in each of them. They used the opportunity given them to improve their practice. The evidence of this was an extremely well received, beautiful exhibition at the Turbine Art Fair.
The mentees really worked hard and took their work to the next level. Given the response from the feedback forms, the group as a whole gained invaluable information on pricing, utilising social media, and how to sustain a career. Most of the mentees were open-minded (reluctantly at first) and used the input and opportunity to grow. There were plenty of sales at the fresh produce stand, with more than two thirds of the works selling out. Roli was a brilliant, engaged, hard-working curator. It was a success and the mentors feel they too have gained a lot from the experience. We would like to give a warm thank you to Rolihlahla Mhlanga for his curatorial selection of a supremely talented and committed group of artists.
The aim of the programme was to provide a comprehensive programme that encompasses the necessary tools to help build and sustain a career in the industry. The ultimate outcome is to strengthen the visual-arts community as a whole by providing those who participate a guide through the development of their work, but also the tools to put their careers into action. The programme was carried out in collaboration with VANSA and Turbine Art Fair.
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Vladislav Boykov Stoyanov (Pernik, Bulgaria, 8 de junio de 1987), más conocido como Vladislav Stoyanov, es un futbolista búlgaro. Juega de portero y su equipo actual es el PFC Ludogorets Razgrad de la A PFG.

Trayectoria

PFC Naftex Burgas
Stoyanov comenzó su primera temporada 2005-06 en el primer equipo como tercer portero, por detrás Svilen Simeonov e Iván Cvorovic. Él mantuvo su portería a cero en su debut en la liga con una victoria por 1-0 sobre el Cherno More Varna el 15 de octubre de 2005.

Chernomorets Burgas
En junio de 2006 Stoyanov se unió a Chernomorets Burgas en el B PFG Oriente. Hizo su debut el 19 de agosto, en el empate 1-1 en casa ante Nesebar. Después de la promoción del Chernomorets a la A PFG, se convirtió en un portero de primera elección para la temporada 2007-08.

En julio de 2008, el Dinamo Kiev invitó oficialmente a Stoyanov a unirse a las sesiones de entrenamiento durante una semana. Fue el primer portero bien escogido durante la mayor parte de la temporada 2008-09, pero perdió su lugar después de la llegada de Pascal Borel.

Sheriff Tiraspol
En enero de 2010 Stoyanov firmó por el Sheriff Tiraspol. Hizo su debut en División Nacional de Moldavia el 7 de marzo, en la victoria por 2-0 en casa contra Tiraspol. Stoyanov comenzó bien su tiempo con Sheriff, manteniendo su portería a cero en sus primeros nueve partidos. El 4 de agosto de 2010, salvó tres penaltis, en una eventual victoria 6-5 por penales ante el Dinamo Zagreb en la tercera ronda previa de la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA 2010-11. El 18 de diciembre Stoyanov fue nombrado portero del año en Moldavia.

Ludogorets Razgrad
El 11 de enero de 2013, Ludogorets Razgrad completó la transferencia de Stoyanov del Sheriff.

El 13 de diciembre de 2013, Stoyanov fue nombrado en la fase de grupos de la Liga Europea de la UEFA 2013-14. El Ludogorets fue eliminado en los 1/8 de final de la competición.

El 27 de agosto de 2014, Stoyanov mantuvo su portería a cero en el 1:0 a casa la victoria sobre Steaua de Bucarest, pero fue expulsado en el minuto 119 del partido por una falta sobre Fernando Varela. Su equipo ganó la tanda de penaltis después de que el jugador de campo Cosmin Moţi salvara dos penales y el Ludogorets avanzó a la fase de grupos de la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA por primera vez en su historia.

El 1 de octubre de 2014, en el debut en casa del Ludogorets en la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA 2014-15 contra el actual campeón de la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA, Real Madrid, Stoyanov logró salvar uno de los dos penales de Cristiano Ronaldo, pero en una eventual pérdida de 1-2.

Clubes

Selección nacional
Ha sido internacional con la selección de fútbol de Bulgaria, ha jugado 12 partidos.

Palmarés

Campeonatos nacionales

Distinciones individuales
 Mejor guardameta de la A PFG 2012/13
 Mejor guardameta de la fase de grupos de la Liga Europea de la UEFA 2013-14

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Perfil del jugador en uefa.com

Futbolistas de Bulgaria
Futbolistas del PFC Naftex Burgas
Futbolistas del Chernomorets Burgas
Futbolistas del Sheriff Tiraspol
Futbolistas del PFC Ludogorets Razgrad
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol de Bulgaria en los años 2010
Nacidos en Pernik


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La  du Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau a eu lieu le . La course fait partie du calendrier international féminin UCI 2013 en catégorie 1.1. L'épreuve est remportée par l'Américaine Shelley Olds.

Récit de course
La course se conclut au sprint avec une victoire de Shelley Olds.

Classements

Classement final

Points UCI

Notes et références

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Cyclisme au Canada en 2013
Cyclisme sur route en 2013
Cyclisme en mai 2013


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Home » National » Narendra Modi sidesteps apology for riots, says Congress must account for its sins
Narendra Modi sidesteps apology for riots, says Congress must account for its sins
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Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, sidestepped a question on Tuesday on whether he would apologise for the 2002 riots in his Gujarat. On the Congress' demand for an apology, Mr Modi told a news channel "let them account for their own sins first."
Mr Modi has expressed regret for the communal violence 12 years ago in Gujarat, the state he has ruled since 2001, but has never apologised. In the middle of a national election that many believe will go in his favour, the 63-year-old maintained that stand.
"Nobody from the Congress came to meet me or discuss this issue with me," he said in an interview to the TV9 Maharashtra channel, when asked about demands for his apology. "Congress should account for their own sins first before raising a finger at someone else."
Mr Modi did not specify, but his BJP has always countered allegations on the 2002 Gujarat riots with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. The Congress's rivals allege that it has shielded its leaders accused of leading mobs that targeted Sikhs. Recently, Rahul Gandhi said in an interview, "the difference between the 1984 riots and the riots in Gujarat was that in 1984, the government was trying to stop the riots."
Mr Modi's critics accuse him of not doing enough to check the riots that left 1,000 dead, mostly Muslims. A Supreme Court appointed probe panel found no evidence of his complicity as alleged.
In December last year, a day after a Gujarat court upheld that assessment and ruled that there is no evidence that he conspired to fan the violence, Mr Modi wrote in a blog that he was "shaken to the core" by the riots, but his government acted "more swiftly and decisively to the violence than ever before in any previous riot in the country."
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