If you are unlucky enough to be sentenced to death by execution in Indonesia, the firing squad currently threatening Corby and the Bali Nine won’t be very effective or fast. In fact, the time lapse between being shot and dying can be three to five minutes.
Furthermore, although the marksmen come from an elite paramilitary brigade, they must choose from a range of weapons of which only two are loaded with live ammunition. Not to mention the fact that you will stand with a hood over your head, handcuffed to a pole with an apron tied around your neck bearing a red target over your heart. Alternatively, if you prefer to be bare-chested, with a red target taped to your chest. Shooting the condemned through the head is discouraged, apparently, because although quicker, it makes too much mess.
The current attorney-general, however, would prefer to change the death penalty from firing squad to lethal injection.
Saving the Tigers from extinction It was a hurriedly organized citizen’s meeting at Guwahati Press Club, where serious concerns were expressed at the increasing trend of poaching and killing of wildlife in various parts of Assam.
The EIP factor - what you should learn from it When we grow older, or get older for the sake of the argument, we tend to start seeing the world only from one side. We tend to believe, no, not believe but know, how things are done. If you are smart, you understand that it shouldn't be that way, you understand this is wrong.
Whether we want to admit it or not, even now, in year 2012, there are still big gender biases in some fields of life. While it's generally understandable that men should do more heavy lifting than women and knitting fits a bit better for the women (even though I am aware even here there are many people who want to disagree), art is one of those things where our gender really should not play any significant role at all. And within the past decade things have started to change even on this front and even on the more conservative arenas such as Bukowskis - the top Nordic auction house.
