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"The riots: A mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar" (Discuss)
Any Politics student from the 70s or 80s should recognise one of Jeff Stanyer's favourite exam quotes. Events in London on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights were just that. Familiar: the usual refusal of government to accept any link between policy and violent reaction. The unfamiliar: the tactics and mode of organisation used.
Back in 1980 and 1981, the same old excuses and explanations emerged. Firstly, when in doubt, blame the police. They got the Scarman inquiry, which was predicated on the fact that they had done something wrong and something had to be done to put it right. Even then, there was no attempt to distinguish between what caused the riots and what occasioned them. The occasion for the riots to kick off was a misunderstanding over what the police were doing to a person injured. They were actually trying to help him, but the rapidly gathering crowd assumed that they had injured him. Rumour ruled.
What caused the riots was increasing disgruntlement with the position of what we now call the underclass, but then called the lumpenproletariat [a dangerous Marxist word not to be used after 1985]. A large proportion of this group happened to be Afro-Caribbean, so questions of racism were also involved. The police are the representatives of the state with which people come into contact on the street, and so are most likely to have confrontational contact (although people at the benefits offices also have a tale to tell).
Explanations of rioting were examined in John Benyon's book, Scarman and After (Pergamon 1984), in particular by Stan Wilson. He argued that there were a number of ideological explanations. Revolutionaries weren't interested in responding to riots, seeing them as proof that their dream of the final collapse of capitalism was taking place. Imagine if they had, as today, been able to watch riots plus a collapsing stock market. Unconfined joy!
Liberals (Taylor included social democrats in this category) see riots as an indicator of malfunctioning institutions, so the solution is always to be found in tinkering with the system. Sound familiar? Tuesday night the brighter politicians were saying how disgraceful it was, how brave the police were, but the riots were definitely an indication that Scarman hadn't solved everything, that there was still racism and that Tory (sorry; ConDem) cuts were falling hardest on the rioting communities and youth who had had hope rudely snatched away from them, in the form of the EMA, SureStart, tuition fees etc etc.
Conservatives are living in the best of all possible worlds, so rioting has to be explained in a different way: it's a conspiracy! They're doing it for gain. They're irrational. They're doing it for fun. Or they're copycats.
Conspiracy theorists have always argued that rioting will go away once the "leaders" are identified and locked up. Today we have a new version of this: it's the technology. Lock up Blackberry! Suspicion of the new media, social networking sites, Twitter, Facebook etc can be indulged by Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and turned into the argument that the internet needs policing. Look: it's causing riots now!
The neo-liberals who have replaced the old conservatives understand the idea of doing things for gain, but it's not a strategy for the lower classes, old boy. Both agree, though, that deterrence is the only possible answer… but the neo-liberals think that what you have to do is make the price of being caught higher than the gain to be obtained from looting. So fines, confiscation of assets. But unfortunately the perpetrators here don't appear to have any money… Very well… take away their benefits! The old conservatives believe in locking them up. Problem is that the prisons are full, so where are they going to be put? The police, as personified by their blogs, believe that the problem is that the rioters know there is nothing that they can be punished with and that here lies the nub of the problem.
The big difference from the riots of the 1980s lies in the copycat riots in other cities. Whereas the riots in Liverpool took a familiar path, mostly confined to Liverpool 8, those in Birmingham and Manchester moved out of the ghettoes of Handsworth and Moss Side and attacked the major shopping centres. This is a clear escalation, and has led some commentators to write of the "shopping riots". Very much a case of rioting for gain and a step in a dangerous direction.
Irrational? Well that can only be dealt with by superior tactics. Prevent crowds gathering, Contain crowds, or kettle them, rely on intelligence and tension indicators and go for water cannon and CCTV to put them in jail afterwards. Same problems as above. Monitor Twitter, Blackberry Messenger and even send warning messages using the same technology as the youth.
Doing it for fun??!! This is a version of irrationality, but somehow involves drug-taking and returns to the war on drugs, but without any resources for rehabilitation. Sir Herbert Gusset would teach them that fun it certainly isn't.
Copycats? Simple. We just need to control the Media. It's this 24 hour news business. They're just doing it so they can watch themselves…and there were people on Tuesday night waving at the cameras… "Hello, Mum!"
We have been here before. The answer will ultimately emerge as a mixture of technology, tactics and institutional reform. The big difference this time is going to be: no money. Maybe some for the police, but times are hard. It will be difficult to blame police leadership because most of them ended up resigning over hacking. There really isn't anyone left to fall on their sword. Enter an American Police Chief, stage left?
Posted by Bill Tupman (Honorary Research Fellow, Politics)
Photo courtesy of Chris JL.
This entry was posted in news on 10th Aug, 2011 by Site Admin.
Milgram's obedience experiment 50 years on: the banality of evil, or working towards the Führer?
Stanley Milgram and his 'shock generator' machine
Almost exactly 50 years ago, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a programme of research that was to change our understanding of the human propensity for evil forever. Participants in the research came into his laboratory at Yale for what they thought was a study looking at the effects of punishment on memory. Does a person learn better if they are punished every time they make a mistake?
To help the experimenter investigate this question, participants were placed in the role of teacher and asked to administer an electric shock to a learner every time he recalled the wrong word from a previously learned list of work pairings. The shocks started at 15 volts but increased every time an error was made, going right up to 450 volts — well beyond a point that would be lethal.
In fact, the learner was an actor who was an accomplice of Milgram and the shocks were not real. But the teachers did not know this. Indeed, the question that Milgram was really investigating was how willing the participants would be to go along with the experimenter's instructions. Would they stop administering shocks at 75 volts (when the learner let out a cry of "Ugh!") or 150 volts (where he demanded to be let out, because his heart was starting to bother him), or at 300 volts (where he let out an agonized scream and refused to answer any more)? Thinking about it, how far would you go?
As every student who has just completed their psychology A-level knows, around 10% of participants in Milgram's baseline study stopped at the 300-volt mark. (90% continued beyond this point. Indeed, a full 65% continued administering shocks right up to the 450-volt point. In other words, they displayed total obedience.)
Milgram's research is phenomenally important because it shows that normal decent people can engage in acts of extreme cruelty when they are instructed to do so by others. When psychiatrists and members of the public were asked what proportion of people would go to the 450-volt mark they tend to say something like 1% — assuming that only a sadist or a psychopath would go this far. In this, Milgram saw his studies as supporting Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" — a concept developed upon observing the trial of the architect of the Nazi's "final solution", Adolf Eichmann. This suggests that terrible events like the Holocaust might occur because people were concerned more to do their bureaucratic duty than to question the ends towards which that bureaucracy was working.
Milgram's empirical contribution is as important today as it ever was. Recently, though, historians and psychologists have started to question whether his work has been correctly interpreted. In this regard, in my research with Steve Reicher at the University of St Andrews we have argued that participants' identification with the experimenter and with Milgram's scientific project was central to their willingness to administer shocks to the learner.
Rather than simply obeying orders, participants were thus "working towards the experimenter" — working creatively to do what they thought was right with reference to an identity that centred on their belief in the value of science. This process mirrors that of "working towards the Führer" which the historian Ian Kershaw argues explains the dynamism of the Nazi state and the brutality displayed by its functionaries.
All in all, this new understanding suggests that decent people participate in horrific acts not because they are mindless functionaries who do not know what they are doing, but rather because they come to believe — typically under the influence of those in authority — that what they are doing is right. In these terms, the Milgram studies are not about obedience but about leadership. The key question they throw up is not why participants show blind obedience (they don't) but why they identify with the authority (the experimenter) rather than with the victim, and hence are willing to follow him down the destructive path he sketches out.
Of course, this same question is sadly pertinent to an array of atrocities we see in the world today: the abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib, genocide in Darfur, phone hacking in News International. In all these case, followers proved willing to work towards their leaders not because they were thoughtlessly obeying their orders but because they were responding creatively to the goals of a leadership with which they identified. In all these cases the search for precise orders proves futile, and rather misses the point that brutalising regimes are advanced by engaged followers, not passive zombies. The source of evil is not in the banal workings of passionless bureaucracy, but in the delineated content of a shared identity (a sense of 'us' that has no place for 'them'), which empowers leaders and mobilises followers.
Posted by Professor Alex Haslam (Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology)
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FL2: Morecambe v Torquay 15 Jan 2011 Jan 13, 2011 18:40:39 GMT
Post by rjdgull on Jan 13, 2011 18:40:39 GMT
With this being the fifth game in a fortnight, maybe the enforced mid season break wasn't such a bad thing although we will have to make up for it later this season particularly with further postponements due to our cup run!
So on to Morecambe, an away game sandwiched in the middle of four home matches. A familiar face will be that of Kieran Charnock who has slotted well into the middle of their defence and is no doubt happy to be now playing regularly. Morecambe have done pretty well since Christmas winning away at both Stockport (2-0) and Shrewsbury (3-1) but ironically losing at home to Accrington Stanley (1-2) although the previous home game back in mid December they won 1-0 against Port Vale with Charnock scoring the only goal.
Morecambe don't seem to have a red hot goal scorer on form with their goals more evenly distributed with Jevons on 6 and Fleming on 4 at the top of their goal scoring chart. Morecambe are currently in sixteenth place on 27 points but a tightly packed table means that if the Crewe match had been played later in the season, they could have overtaken us with a win!
Looking back to the previous match against our opponents at Plainmoor, it was a welcome 3-1 win although Parrish was sent off after 9 minutes and when Shuker was sent off after 82 minutes, it was a relatively relaxing end to one of our matches for once. Morecambe can certainly pass the ball well and this is bound to be a more testing match although I think that we are now on a better run of form!
With the recent success of playing Zebs up front with Benyon, I suspect that Bucks will go for this as opposed to putting O'Kane in the hole. I think that every player in the starting XI on Tuesday deserve to start again although the substitutes may need to come on earlier this time if it is another heavy pitch.
The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him.
I hate playing against teams that have our ex-players in them, Kieran`s gunna deffo have filled them in about our weaknesses and strengths! Can`t blame him, he is one of their players now, not just on lone.
Post by Dave on Jan 13, 2011 21:00:06 GMT
Jan 13, 2011 18:40:39 GMT rjdgull said:
So on to Morecambe, an away game sandwiched in the middle of four home matches. A familiar face will be that of Kieran Charnock who has slotted well into the middle of their defence and is no doubt happy to be now playing regularly.
I was looking through some old posts today Rob and found a good match report made by adamprowse, below is a part I have quoted on his views of Kieran Charnock debut for us.
Aug 11, 2009 21:51:37 GMT adamprowse said:
Charnock
A superb debut, and my MOTM. On tonight's evidence, it is hard to imagine the club being able to sign a more capable defender. His positioning, timing of tackles, heading and distribution were all top draw, particularly impressive given the standard of the players he was defending against. I hope he become a first team regular.
As you say I'm sure he will want to have a good game against us and his knowledge of our players and the way they play with be invaluable not only for his new manager, but what he will need to do out on the pitch himself.
Being an away game there is a danger Bucks might want to go back to his tried and trusted 4-4-1-1 formation that has worked so many times in the past.
But the way we have played in our last two home games, I really feel he should just stick to the 4-4-2 as he can always change it any time he feels its not working.
Another three points would be very welcome and keep the winning habit going that would help us so much I feel in our up and coming 4th round FA Cup tie.
If you are going to the match please consider putting up a match report as they really help those of us not at the game, get a real fans view of the game. We also use as many as we can in our programme pages " Views from the forum"
I know it`s a new stadium at Morecombe but what are the stats against them away, not that a new stadium should alter any sort of luck or form?
bartondowns
Post by bartondowns on Jan 13, 2011 21:32:14 GMT
Jan 13, 2011 21:00:06 GMT Dave said:
I'll be there but it's a complicated expedition and you might not get to hear about it for another week. Apologies for my absence.
chrish
I'll certainly have a go at a report on saturday. Hopefully I'll remember to take the camera battery out of the charger this time as well.
Jan 13, 2011 21:32:14 GMT @bartondowns said:
Need stats! Please!
Jan 13, 2011 21:32:53 GMT @chrish said:
Yes I remember that tale well and the frustration you felt, mind you the shots taken with your phone weren't to bad Chris. We will look forward to your report and pictures as always.
Theres an old saying nick better late than never, I guess we will just have to wait and wait and wait and then it will suddenly appear
Jan 13, 2011 21:07:16 GMT @aussie said:
It's a long history between the two sides with them getting promoted the year we got relegated but basically we have always lost there! ;D
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27/03/10, 16:00 Morecambe - Torquay FT 2 : 0 (1 : 0) (1 : 0)
Our players rightly have had the last two days off as they all put so much hard work and effort into winning the last two games. I think those of us who were at the Crewe game could clearly see many of the players were getting very leggy near the end of the match and I'm sure the two days off will see them fully recovered and ready to take on Morecambe.
They travelled up this morning and were stopping at Blackburn on the way for a pre match training session. I was surprised to read that Morecambe's new stadium only holds 6.476; maybe the name Globe Arena just makes you feel the stadium is some large bowl with a much larger capacity.
After doing a bit of research on the ground it did not look like I expected it too.Here is some imformation about the ground and some pictures.
The Globe Arena is named after Globe Construction, the company that built the stadium The stadium holds up to 6,476 supporters, with 2,173 seats available in the Main Stand, which runs the length of one side of the pitch. Opposite the Main Stand is an uncovered terrace with a capacity of 606, giving a similar feel to the ground as that at Christie Park. At either ends of the pitch are the home and away stands, with the home end holding a maximum of 2,234 supporters and the away end having a capacity of 1,389 In the north east corner of the stadium is the community block, which is split between two floors. The building also houses a gym and a ticket office for visiting fans. The stadium replaced the old Morecambe F.C. stadium, Christie Park, which was Morecambe's home since 1921.
Work officially started on clearing the site of trees on 9 May 2009, and work above ground started in early September 2009. By the middle of September the first main structure of the Main Stand was visible, and in early 2010 the other three stands were being developed. In late May the pitch was seeded.
It was originally planned that the stadium would be ready for the 2009-10 season, but delays meant that it would not be ready until the 2010-11 season.
Globe Arena's opening game ought to have been a friendly against Bolton Wanderers on 28 July 2010, with the official opening of the stadium due to be marked by a local derby against rivals Preston North End on 31 July. However all three planned home pre-season friendly fixtures were cancelled because of site delays. The stadium's opening game was instead against Coventry City for Morecambe's League Cup first round tie on 10 August, in which Morecambe marked the occasion with beating their Championship opponents 2–0, with Andy Fleming scoring the first two goals at the stadium.The first league game at the Globe Arena was a 0-0 draw with Rotherham United. Their first league win came against Shrewsbury Town, with a 1-0 victory. The Shrimps biggest victory on the ground was a 5-0 demolition of Stockport County, with striker Phil Jevons becoming the first player to score a hat-trick on the ground.
If you are going to the game by car, maybe best to stay away from the beach ;D
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Post by petef on Jan 14, 2011 14:44:45 GMT
Nice tidy little modern ground with bags of room for expansion should the need ever arise.
Heavy rain forecast again for tomorrow especially in the Morcombe area so take your armbands even your not going to the beach!
My education started when I left Highweek School for boys..
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Post by loyalgull on Jan 14, 2011 20:25:14 GMT
i think it will be a draw,both sides hitting a bit of form,2-2 but would like 2-1 to us of course,ground looks pretty smart as well
what a person is told is not half as important as what they think they have been told
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jan 14, 2011 20:53:13 GMT
Given that they've only won three games at home and we've only lost two away I am optimistic that we can take something from the game *if* we can produce anything like the standard of the first half performance we did in the first half against Crewe or the last 20 minues that we did against Morecambe a couple of months back. Easier said than done!
Charnock will naturally be looking to show Bucks that he was wrong to leave him on the sidelines for much of his time here - but then Ellis and Branston will be doing their best to demonstrate why they are our best pair at the back.
I hope that Jevons won't be able to return from his hamstring injury. On injury front everyone seems to be OK - although surely after the efforts of the last couple of matches they will be a bit leggy and that is something to consider with regards to formation - do we go with two up front or move O'Kane from the wing? I would be happy to see things stay as they were against Crewe, but would it suit us to have such an open game?
hullgull
FL2: Morecambe v Torquay 15 Jan 2011 Jan 15, 2011 8:53:55 GMT
Post by hullgull on Jan 15, 2011 8:53:55 GMT
good morning to you all,just read all the posts regarding this game,on charnock i feel he dosent offer a threat to us at all,i cannot see anything but 3 points 4 us here,hope bucks does play 4 4 2 offers us so much more,anything like the 1st half performance will be enough, god help them if we play like 4 90 minutes ha ha.....simon

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Lemon Verbena Leaf Extract Benefits Guide: Muscle Strength & Recovery?
Health Guides & Advice Lemon Verbena Leaf Extract Benefits: Muscle Strength & Recovery?
Lemon Verbena Leaf Extract Benefits: Muscle Strength & Recovery?
What Is Lemon Verbena Leaf Extract?
This globally available plant is native to South America and possesses a plethora of benefits to your health. Scientifically it is known as Aloysia Cotrodora and more recently known as Lemon Beebrush. As the name would suggest, it holds a strong lemon scent which gets stronger when it is touched or bruised. This perennial plant grows in excess of two to three meters high and blooms small purple and white flowers.
Traditionally, it has been used in flavoring dishes while cooking and more recently this plant has been recognized on a medicinal level – despite it being used for hundreds of years is seeing a new trend. Likely, given new studies and attention to say the very least.
You can imagine why each of these benefits even individually, are reasons that this plant has become more common in its mainstream uses.
Herbal teas not only aid in proper hydration, but they help in areas of appetite suppressants, boosting metabolism and helping our bodies digest foods and convert them to energy instead of storing them. More commonly green tea has been the recommended tea for these areas, however, the lemon verbena benefits are moving in.
When used as a tea, it contains only two (2) calories per serving and is a great addition between meals to suppress those hard to resist cravings, etc. When it comes to digestion, it has been known to help prevent and eliminate cramping or upset stomach, alleviate stomach difficulties due to gastrointestinal difficulties and acts as a calming herb to both relax the stomach and optimize the metabolic processes.
Because of the antioxidant properties of the lemon verbena plant, it has been proven effective in supporting and strengthening the muscles. Described as the perfect pre-workout partner due to its proven abilities to reduce additional stress on the muscles that can be experienced during a workout. As a result, the muscle recovery aspect is also expected to be elevated.
This helps not only restore the muscles but protect the joints as well. Much of this, can be attributed to the anti-inflammatory properties of this herb as well. Because our muscles and joints are in constant use, providing the right support can not only help with recovery but prevent injury too. As we know, most pain in our bodies is caused by inflammation, so consider adding the lemon verbena plant to your daily regimen.
Free radical damage and oxidative stress is real. When it is overly present in the body including the organs, this weakens the immune system and can add to chronic ailments and diseases. The lemon verbena plant has been linked to studies that show its ability to lower oxidative stress in the body and in turn, boost immunity.
Although there is limited research and proven studies documented to support this benefit, there has been enough attention on the hormonal role this plant plays in the world of anxiety. It has been described to calm those who suffer from extreme nervousness of anxiety and ease the mind and/or negative thoughts that are experienced. This is proven to be effective when consumed as a warm tea versus an oral supplement.
Presently, this plant has been proven more versatile than originally anticipated. In addition to being steeped in a hot cup of water, it can also be used directly in salads or mixed with vegetables, essential oils, and more recently is available via capsules from a health food store.
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The Judgment of Paris
By Ross King
The "judgment" referred to in the title of this new book by Canadian art historian Ross King has a clever double meaning. In the first place, The Judgment of Paris is the name of a drawing by Raphael illustrating the famous story of Paris's judgment of a beauty contest between three goddesses. It was his choice of Aphrodite that set in motion the events leading to the Trojan War, making "the judgment of Paris" the great archetype for every invidious arts award since. Raphael's drawing enters King's story as the inspiration for one of the figures in Edouard Manet's painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe.
The judgment of Paris also refers to the judgment of Paris, France in the "revolutionary decade" of 1863-1873. "Paris" here begins as a shorthand for the well-connected group of elderly, Old School tastemakers who selected paintings for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon, an immensely popular government-sponsored exhibition for living artists that could literally make or break careers. It was the Salon's powerful Selection Committee that rejected Manet's painting, along with a couple of thousand others stamped on the back with the scarlet letter "R" for "refusé."
As everyone knows, that wasn't the end of the story. 1863 was the year of the Salon des Refusés, where Dejeuner sur l'herbe (or, as it was named at the time, Le Bain) did show. And the rest is history, as recounted in countless coffee-table companions to Impressionism.
The Judgment of Paris covers a lot of this familiar ground, but only as part of a consideration of something more important. The revolutionary decade provides a case study for an examination of something that preoccupies anyone interested in the arts: the matter of taste.
Today, paintings by the Impressionists are among the most highly-regarded works of art in the world among critics, collectors, and the general public. At the time it was a different story. Nor was this just a matter of a cabal of reactionary snobs cocking a snoot at the New Wave of painting. The people of Paris didn't much care for it either. They preferred the work of someone like the obsessive Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the day and King's foil throughout this book for Manet (though the two were never personal antagonists).
And yet, "more than a century after their deaths, Manet 'endures in glory, flooded with light and fame' while Meissonier gathers dust in museum storerooms."
Why? What happened to change the judgment of Paris, of the marketplace, of the critical establishment, of history? And, if that judgment was so wrong in the 1860s, can we really be sure that we have it right now? Or are we just as much the slaves of dominant conventions as they were?
The viewing public was clearly not ready to appreciate what Manet was doing. They wanted to stand up "close to paintings, studying them minutely and marveling over the delicacy of the handiwork." Subjected to this kind of scrutiny, Manet seemed crude and lackadaisical. But were contemporary audiences entirely wrong in thinking the new art was just lazy? It's not an attitude widely at variance with Claude Monet's. "It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect," he wrote to a friend, "and I think most people are content with mere approximations." And yet Meissonier's strength – his painstaking and precise technique employed in an effort to be "complete in every respect" – was eventually to become a weapon used against him by his critics, while what made a painter like Manet seem absurd – his abstraction, lack of clarity, and break with convention – would come to be seen as an essential part of his triumph.
So what do we mean when we say tastes change? When it comes to the visual arts we all have a bias, a psychological prejudice, toward wanting to see expressions of what we think is "real". We have a comfort zone when it comes to appreciating art. But even though both Meissonier and Manet could claim to be realistic painters, the way people perceive reality doesn't remain constant. This changes expectations, and art is asked to fulfill different needs. And so reputations rise and fall even though the song remains the same.
This book offers a smoothly-written introduction to the artistic scene of the time, with surprisingly little analysis or original commentary on any of the painting. King seems content to provide a general overview of the major historical events and personalities as a background to his study of the revolution between "the two opposite poles of art" exemplified by Meissonier and Manet. But those historical events – the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune – and personalities – Napoleon III, Emile Zola – were very much a part of the scene and had their own role to play in changing how people saw their world. And given how good a storyteller King is, no one can complain if he lets the narrative wander where it will.
Review first published April 8, 2006.
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Samsung exploits Bendgate controversy with own Galaxy Note 4 stress-test video
Christian Zibreg on October 2, 2014
Samsung may have won a contract to build Apple's next-generation mobile processor for 2015 iPhones and iPads, but that's not stopping the firm from milking the Bendgate meme for all it's worth.
Having poked fun of Apple in a series of tweets after the controversial YouTube video suggested malleability of the iPhone 6 Plus, the South Korean firm on Thursday posted a two-minute video on its blog showing off the three-point bend test process behind its latest Galaxy Note 4 phablet.
The rigorous testing procedures have been designed "to give you, and your back pocket, peace of mind" because "leaving things in your back pocket can lead to, well, bent things," remarked Samsung alluding to Bendgate.
"Our hips are strong – stronger than we give it credit for," continues the post as it outlines some of the rigorous tests the Galaxy maker runs both during and after development and production of its devices.
"This video shows some of the tests that Samsung runs to give you, and your back pocket, peace of mind," says the firm.
Here, check out Samsung's clip.
Like Apple, Samsung is employing a three-point bend test which measures the length of a fatigue crack created at the tip of the notch by cyclic loading. The device withstood a force of over 250N (about kgf).
In a human weight test that simulates the device being repeatedly sat on, the Note 4 was able to endure a 100kg man sitting on it "several hundred times".
The secret behind the durability of the Galaxy Note 4? The metal frame, the magnesium bracket and the mutually reinforcing structure between parts, according to the firm.
The iPhone 6 Plus's chassis milled from a solid piece of aluminum has been criticized for bending near the volume buttons and the SIM card slot. However, Consumer Reports, the influential U.S. magazine, has put a number of smartphones through its barrage of stress tests, finding that the iPhone 6 Plus is not as bendy as initially believed.
Using a three-point flexural test, Consumer Reports found that the iPhone 6 can withstand 70 pounds of pressure before deforming, and the 6 Plus can take up to 90, beating HTC's One and finishing behind the LG G3 and Samsung's Note 3.
Consumer Reports expects "that any of these phones should stand up to typical use." Responding to the controversy, Apple in an official statement said it had only received nine actual complaints.
Samsung's bend-stress video appears to have been published in response to Apple's PR assault which involved giving journalists a sneak peek inside its iPhone testing facility, where it attempts to "break its handsets before consumers do."
The iPhone maker performed more than 30,000 durability tests on the iPhone 6 6 and iPhone 6 Plus combined before deciding to start mass producing them.
For what it's worth, only one-third of respondents in our non-scientific poll were having second thoughts about buying the iPhone 6 Plus in the aftermath of the Bendgate controversy.
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Over 550 persons enjoyed the 5th Annual Family Centre Beach Bash, under the stars at the Fairmont Southampton Ocean Club, entertained by Working Title, Ronnie Lopes and the Secrets with visiting performers, AKNU. The event successfully raised $150,000 for Family Centre programming. The Family Centre 25th anniversary Beach Bash will be held on Friday, September 25, 2015.


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Welcome to the Axminster Woodturners Club
The purpose of this website is to provide you with some basic information about the club - when and where we meet, what meetings are like, details about membership and other club activities. It's not meant to be a gallery of resources about woodturning, simply an introduction to the club.
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The Club is affiliated to the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain (AWGB). and has its origins in Axminster at the original premises of what is now known as Axminster Tools & Machinery.
We meet at the Woodbury Community Hall, just south of Axminster, usually on the first Saturday of the month. Most meetings are from 10 am to 1 pm, with the occasional session extended to about 4 pm. The meetings consist of a mixture of visiting and club woodturners demonstrating particular projects; we also hold hands-on practical sessions where several demonstrations are run simultaneously and members are able to have a go themselves. We try to provide a varied programme across the year to cater for various needs and interests, and some training as well. The club is now developing a mentoring system and some members also offer training on a commercial basis.
A typical meeting starts at 10 am, with a break for refreshments at about 11.15. This provides a chance to see what others have been up to at the "Show and Tell" table and an opportunity to get advice about new ideas and techniques. As a club we're conscious that what's routine for some is quite new to others. Amidst the general socialising lots of advice is given along with tales of what nearly went very well.. and not so well. A great feature of the club is a high degree of mutual support along with an appreciation that the amount of time, energy and resources vary greatly across the membership.
Our numbers vary but typically there are between 40 and 50 members. On average we have over 30 people at each meeting. The demonstrations are supported by AV equipment so everyone can get the most out of what's being shown and said.
If you are thinking about joining our Woodturning Club please contact us or simply come along and see what goes on. Details of the costs involved are shown here. All new members are required to complete a Club application form as well as an AWGB form. If you are thinking about becoming a member, please have a look at the Membership page as well as Organisation & Documents where you will find the Club Constitution, policies on Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Information for New Members.
We usually hold separate training sessions in the early months of the year to support less experienced members as well as to help experienced turners to develop new areas of expertise. The programme for this varies, subject to demand.
We meet at the Woodbury Community Hall, near Axminster, Devon. EX13 5TL.
Please note that there is another Woodbury in Devon, much closer to Exeter.
Use the postcode above or click here for directions and a map.
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I am finding it to be a challenge to put 2 ½ months in South Africa into words much less the exciting changes happening at The Light Center. I want to express my deepest gratitude to so many people who stepped in to operate and tend TLC in my absence. I decided I was having a sabbatical which is something I have wanted to do for such a long time. It is very good to have the perspective of what we are doing in Kansas from clear across the planet, in what feels like a very different world in some ways. In other ways it feels like HOME! While I continue to be acutely aware that I have no idea what it was like to live under apartheid, I find myself being welcomed and embraced by my South African families, across all color lines. As the world churns and the challenges mount, I believe there is a great value in connecting deeply with one another and learning how we can support each other to succeed. We did many things in South Africa this trip, it can't fit into one letter but suffice it to say that I will be forever grateful for the transformative power of this work. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!
Bukeka shared the magic of her music and presence inspiring so many youth!
What an amazing trip this was. All of us had tears in our eyes almost daily…tears of heartache yes, but also tears of awe and wonder. Spirit brought us to the right people and places in the most amazing ways and we were so blessed by that gracious guidance. But perhaps more often those tears arose from the deep heart connection we felt with the beautiful African people. They exhibit generosity even from a space of limited resources. It is a way of life that teaches us so much that I believe is important for us as Americans to learn. A friend recently said," I see that you have turned your focus to Africa now…" and I can understand how if seems that way since I have been writing from South Africa for several months. However, I see my work to be the same here in Kansas as in South Africa. Africa presents such a foreshadowing of many conditions we may see more in the U.S. now. We complain when gas prices rise but they have always paid much more than we do. We complain if temperatures fall indoors when it is cold outside, but in S.A. the houses don't have furnaces. Electric prices have gone up dramatically there and people are so much more careful and conscious of energy use. All across that massive continent there is an awareness that Africa is burning and fresh water is at a premium. And so I continue to go there to stay awake and aware of a drastically changing world.
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What's in a name?…London Wall…
by exploringlondon March 8, 2021
The name of this street is self-explanatory – it follows the line of part of the wall that once surrounded the City of London, of which only fragments now remain.
The wall dates from as far back as Roman times and this street – which runs from the intersection with Aldersgate Street to the west to Old Broad Street in the east – broadly follows the course of its northern edge.
View from the west end of London Wall. PICTURE: Romazur (licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
The road was re-laid out – it features dual carriageways at the east and west ends – after the area was devastated by bombing during World War II.
A roundabout at the western end of London Wall – named the Rotunda – provides a link with Aldersgate Street, which runs perpendicular, and in the centre was built the Museum of London (which is now being relocated to West Smithfield).
Looking toward the eastern end of London Wall with All Hallows on the Wall to the left. PICTURE: Keith Murray (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The western end of the street, part of which is straddled by the hulking early 1990s building known as Alban Gate, has until recent years also featured a series of raised walkways which were part of the post war redevelopment of the area (and partly integrated with office buildings).
Known as 'pedways', some of them are now in the process of being replaced with a more modern take on the idea (such as can be seen at London Wall Place).
Part of the Roman gate, known as Bastion 14, near the western end of London Wall. PICTURE: Ethan Doyle White (licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)
The street features a number of remnants of the actual wall along its length including the remains of a Roman gate close to the western end (on the street's north side, it's known as Bastion 14) and in St Alphage Gardens (St Alphage, London Wall is one of several now lost churches along the street – St Olave, Silver Street is another).
Close to the eastern end of the street is the church of All Hallows-on-the-Wall which dates from 1767 (replacing an earlier church that had survived the Great Fire of London).
Other prominent buildings on London Wall include the Brewer's Hall, the Carpenter's Hall and the Plaisterer's Hall.
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10 sites commemorating the Great Fire of London – 7. The ancient plaque commemorating St Olave Silver Street…
by exploringlondon September 21, 2016 September 17, 2016
Many of the monuments commemorating the Great Fire of London, date from succeeding centuries (the Monument being a notable exception), one of the earliest can apparently commemorating the site of the Church of St Olave Silver Street.
The church dated from at least the 12th century and is one of a number in London which were apparently named after King Olaf, the first Christian King of Norway who fought alongside the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred II against the Danes in England in the 11th century.
The church served as the parish church of the silversmiths and apparently in recognition of that boasted a figure of Christ on the cross which had silver shoes.
The church had been rebuilt in the early 1600s but was completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London and never rebuilt, the parish united with that of St Alban Wood Street.
The site of the church, now on the corner of London Wall and Noble Street, is now a garden and boasts an almost illegible plaque featuring a skull and crossbones, which is believed to date from the late 17th century, and which commemorates the destruction of the church in the Great Fire.
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10 sites from Shakespearean London – 3. Shakespeare's houses…
by exploringlondon June 18, 2014
The playwright is believed to have lived in several different locations in London and is also known to have invested in a property. Here we take a look at a couple of different locations associated with him…
• Bishopsgate: Shakespeare is believed to have lived here in the 1590s – in 1596 tax records show he was living in the parish of St Helen's. The twin-nave church of St Helen's Bishopsgate (pictured), which would have been his parish church, still stands. In fact, there is a window to Shakespeare's memory dating from the late 19th century.
• Bankside: In the late 1590s, Shakespeare apparently moved across the Thames to Bankside where he lived at a property on lands in the Liberty of the Clink which belonged to the Bishop of Winchester. The exact address remains unknown.
• Silver Street, Cripplegate: It's known that in 1604, Shakespeare moved from Bankside back to the City – it's been speculated outbreaks of plaque may have led him to do so. Back in the City, he rented lodgings at the house of Christopher and Mary Mountjoy in on the corner of Monkwell and Silver Streets in Cripplegate, not far from St Paul's Cathedral. Mountjoy was a refugee, a French Huguenot, and a tire-maker (manufacturer of ladies' ornamental headresses). The house, which apparently stood opposite the churchyard of the now removed St Olave Silver Street, was consumed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 (the church was also lost in the Great Fire). The former church site is now located on the south side of London Wall. Silver Street itself was wiped out in the Blitz and is now lost under the Barbican redevelopment but the house lives on in a representation found on a late 16th century map created by Ralph Agas.
• Ireland Yard, Blackfriars: In 1613, Shakespeare purchased the former gatehouse of the Blackfriars Priory located here, close to the where the Blackfriars Theatre was located. It is believed the property was purchased as an investment – there's no evidence he ever lived there but it was passed to his daughter Susanna after his death. Incidentally, there is some speculation that Shakespeare may have lived in Blackfriars when he first came to London – a man believed to have been a boyhood friend from Stratford, Richard Field, who was known to have lived there.
For a more in-depth look at Shakespeare's time in Silver Street, see Charles Nicholl's The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street .
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Lost London: Gates Special – Moorgate
Originally a postern (small or secondary) gate built by the Romans, Moorgate came into its own as a larger gate in the 15th century and survived for more than 300 years before it was demolished in 1761.
The name comes from the area in which it stands – Moorfields, one of the last open pieces of space within the City of London – stood just to the north of the gate. It was originally a sparsely populated marshy expanse – so much so that when the gate was first built, the area around it was often flooded and some local residents used boats as a means of transport – but was later drained. Many people were evacuated here during the Great Fire of London in 1666 and some apparently then settled in the area which later also gained a reputation as a hiding place for highwaymen like Jack Sheppard – we'll take a closer look at Moorfields in a later post.
The gate known as Moorgate, meanwhile, was first rebuilt as a full sized gate with towers in 1415 on the orders of then Mayor Thomas Falconer to provide access to the fields without. It was enlarged several times in medieval years before being damaged in the Great Fire. It was replaced with a ceremonial stone gate in 1672 to provide access to the now well-drained fields before being demolished in 1761 (some of the stone was apparently later used to support the newly widened central arch of London Bridge).
The gate's name now lives on in the street known as Moorgate (originally formally known as Moorgate Street after it was first constructed in 1846) – worth noting is that the Romantic poet John Keats was born in the street. The area around the street also is also known by the name Moorgate and is home to some of the City's key financial institutions.
There's a plaque near where the site of Moorgate once stood at the corner of Moorgate and London Wall.
PICTURE: Moorgate in its final, ornate form. Taken from a London Wall Walk plaque.
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Lost London: Gates Special – Aldersgate
by exploringlondon December 16, 2011 December 16, 2011
Its name now more well known as one of the City of London's 25 wards, Aldersgate was a gate opening to the city's north, located close to where the Museum of London now stands, and was one of the city's four original gates.
A plaque in Aldersgate Street marks where the gate once stood (there's also an explanatory 'London Wall' plaque nearby) – it was finally knocked down in 1761.
The gate's origins go back to late Roman times – it was apparently created to strengthen the city's northern defences against Saxon incursions – and was built with two roadways passing through the wall protected by semi-circular towers. (The name apparently has nothing to do with the age of the gate as many believe but may be a corruption of a Saxon name Ealdred or come from a type of tree which grew nearby.)
An important link to places like the fair at Smithfield, St Bartholomew's Priory and the Charterhouse in the Middle Ages, it was used as a prison and even as late as 1660, diarist Samuel Pepys writes of seeing the limbs of executed traitors displayed upon it. It was also had residential quarters above it – these were said to have been occupied at times by the City Crier and in the mid-1500s were used by printer and stationer John Day (he is said to have printed an early copy of the Bible, dedicated to King Edward VI, there in 1549).
In 1603, it was through Aldersgate that King James I entered London (his arms were later placed over the gate), and just 14 years later, in 1617, the entire gate was rebuilt. Repaired in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London in 1666 (it's final form was said to feature, as well as the arms of King James I, statues of the Biblical figures Jeremiah and Samuel), it was finally demolished in 1761 to improve the flow of traffic.
PICTURE: Site of where Aldersgate once stood. To the right of the picture is the Church of St Botolph-without-Aldersgate.
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Where's London's oldest…public park?
Dating from the early 1600s, London's oldest public park is Finsbury Circus Gardens, located just to the north of London Wall and east of Moorgate.
The now heritage-listed gardens were open as a public park from 1606 (and was originally known as Moor Fields – the moors were drained and gravel walks laid out in 1527 but it wasn't until 1606 that the area was laid out with elm trees and benches).
The park wasn't enclosed until 1815-17 when City of London surveyor William Montague laid the area out according to the designs of prominent London architect George Dance the Younger.
The gardens were acquired by the City of London Corporation in 1900 and in 1909 were replanned. The oval-shaped park, the largest of the City's gardens, is these days home to the City of London Bowling Club, the only bowling club in the City (founded in 1924; the bowling green dates from the following year and the current pavilion from 1968).
During World War II a barrage balloon was anchored here to deter low level air raids. Among it's other claims to fame is the Tudor era bat (apparently a forerunner of the modern cricket bat) found on the site in the 1980s and skulls which have also been found dating from the Roman period.
The gardens are currently partly closed due to the Crossrail development.
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Roman London – 1. The Roman wall
by exploringlondon November 24, 2010 November 24, 2010
This year marks 1,600 years since what many posit was the "end of Roman Britain" based on a letter Emperor Honorius is said to have written in 410 AD telling Britain to look to its own defence. So we thought we'd take a look at Roman London – Londinium – in a short series running until the year's end.
To kick it off, we're taking a look at one of the easier to find Roman remnants, that of the city wall which encircled first Roman and later the medieval City of London.
The wall can be seen in several places, but one of the easiest places to see it is next to Tower Hill tube station, where one of the best preserved sections of the wall can be seen (along with a statue believed to be that of the Emperor Trajan – see right).
Standing to a height of more than 35 feet or 10.6 metres, the Roman section extends as high as 14.5 feet or 4.4 metres with the upper part dating from later periods. The Roman wall would have originally been around 20 feet or 6.3 metres high and would have had a V-shaped ditch running along its outside.
First built around 200 AD, the city wall largely ran along the same course over the ensuing centuries. There were initially five gates with another added in the Roman period and another in medieval times. None of these now survive.
Further substantial remains of the Roman wall can be seen in a courtyard at nearby Cooper's Row (head around the corner from Tower Hill tube station along Cooper's Row and then turn right, past a hotel, into a courtyard) and on what was the north-west corner of the city at Noble Street, not far from the Museum of London, where a Roman base supports a later brick wall.
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I feel like this somewhat describes our days in Mosscliff (minus the plants and pallets). We had Christmas lights, ugly stuff, and plenty of mason jars with all kinds of stuff in them (including a fake butterfly that fluttered around by battery power). And I'm 95% sure I will never grow out this phase.
Also, roughly half of my glasses are mason jars that I recycled from HEB pasta jars.
Girl, sometimes I think our brains are connected.


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Les Stormers, également dénommés DHL Stormers pour des raisons de sponsoring, sont une franchise de rugby à XV d'Afrique du Sud basée au Cap. Ils participent à l'United Rugby Championship. Le nom Stormers vient du mot anglais storm qui signifie orage en raison des fortes intempéries qui frappent souvent la ville (surnommée , la ville du vent) et la région. Originellement appelée Western Stormers, la franchise devient simplement Stormers à l'orée de la saison 1999.

Histoire

Les Stormers se différencient de l'équipe de la Western Province qui évolue en Currie Cup, qui constitue toutefois son réservoir principal. Ils incorporent également des joueurs des Boland Cavaliers et éventuellement des Eagles. Jusqu'à 2005 les Stormers incluaient également des joueurs des Eagles, ce qui signifiait qu'ils construisaient leur effectif à partir des trois régions de la Western Cape Province. À la suite du redécoupage des aires géographiques des franchises sud-africaines, les Eagles ont été déplacés dans le périmètre des Southern Spears, nouvelle franchise devant initialement intégrer le Super 14 en 2007, mais dont l'avenir est aujourd'hui incertain. En 2007, les Stormers arboreront un maillot bleu marine, afin de renforcer le lien historique avec la Western Province qui évolue en maillot cerclé bleu et blanc. Jusqu'en 1999, l'équipe jouait en bleu, blanc, rouge, vert et jaune, combinaison des couleurs des provinces qu'elle représentait.

Avant 1998, l'Afrique du Sud n'utilisait pas un système de franchises pour le Super 12, mais envoyait simplement les quatre meilleures équipes de sa compétition domestique, la Currie Cup. En 1996, c'est donc la Western Province qui se qualifia et participa au Super 12. En 1997, ils ne furent pas qualifiés, la quatrième place sud-africaine allant à l'Orange Free State (devenu par la suite les Free State Cheetahs).

Finaliste du Super 14 (2010)
Le  au Orlando Stadium, les Stormers s'inclinent face aux Bulls dans une finale 100 % sud-africaine sur le score de 25 à 17.

Vainqueur de la United Rugby Championship (2022)
Le , les Stormers remportent leur premier titre en United Rugby Championship en battant les Bulls dans une finale 100% sud-africaine sur le score de 18 à 13.

XV de départ de l'équipe vainqueur de la United Rugby Championship :
1. Steven Kitshoff  2. JJ Kotzé 3. Frans Malherbe
4. Salmaan Moerat 5. Marvin Orie
6. Deon Fourie 8. Evan Roos 7. Hacjivah Dayimani
9. Herschel Jantjies 10. Manie Libbok
11. Seabelo Senatla 12. Damian Willemse 13. Ruhan Nel 14. Sergeal Petersen
15. Warrick Gelant

Palmarès
 United Rugby Championship :
 Champion (1) : 2022
 Super Rugby :
 Vice-champion (1) : 2010

Parcours dans le Super Rugby

Effectif

Effectif 2022-2023
L'effectif pour la saison 2022-2023 du United Rugby Championship et de Champions Cup est le suivant :

Joueurs emblématiques
 De Wet Barry
 Breyton Paulse
 Cobus Visagie
 Faan Rautenbach
 Bobby Skinstad
 Eddie Andrews
 Gaffie du Toit
 Werner Greeff
 Bolla Conradie
 Gerrie Britz
 Neil de Kock
 Marius Joubert
 Joe van Niekerk
 Jean de Villiers
 Schalk Burger
 Bryan Habana
 Gio Aplon
 Deon Fourie
 Eben Etzebeth
 Cheslin Kolbe
 Siya Kolisi

Équipes de Currie Cup
 Western Province au Cap
 Boland Cavaliers à Wellington

Notes et références

Liens externes
 site officiel
 Statistiques itsrugby.fr

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance , by Brealey, Myers and Marcus, provides students with a solid framework of theory and application to use well after they complete the course. This author team is known for their outstanding research, teaching efforts, and world-renowned finance textbooks, so it's no surprise that they provide clear exposition of difficult material without sacrificing up-to-date, technically correct treatments. The seventh edition has been fully updated to reflect recent events and is now available with Connect Finance! Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.


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Student SuccessK12 Families
UTVA Mother Sets Positive Example for her Son
K12 Families, Student Success
This week we here at K12 are celebrating National School Choice Week (January 22-28), which gives us the chance to champion a cause that is near and dear to our hearts, the ability for parents to choose the best schooling option for their children. Throughout this week, at least 21,000 events are expected to take place in celebration of school choice across the country, including more than 35 events from our schools alone.
As we highlight our amazing students on BloggED this week, keep in mind that it's school choice that has allowed them the opportunity to attend a virtual school. Not all parents are able to choose what school their child will attend and may be missing out on an incredible opportunity to see them shine.
We invite you to join us in sharing why you support school choice by using the hashtag #K12supportsNSCW on your social media channels throughout the week.
Jenn Alvey has taught her three sons to never stop believing in their dreams.
The Alvey family has been a part of the K12 community for the past six years, as all three sons are either current Utah Virtual Academy (UTVA) students or alumni. Her youngest son, Travis, has autism and has found the virtual environment very helpful for his learning style. He is now in 12th grade.
"Our experience has been great!" Jenn said. "I feel my son's teachers listen to me about my son's needs. Whenever we run into a problem, they are there to make things right."
Jenn pulled Travis out of a brick-and-mortar school in the middle of sixth grade because he was falling behind academically. The teachers were overwhelmed with the other students and felt they could not give him the attention he needs.
The turning point for Jenn came when Travis came home from school one day and wanted to shave off all of his hair because bullies told him washing his hair wouldn't get rid of germs.
"I had enough," Jenn said. "That is when I decided to enroll him in UTVA. I wanted my son to feel safe, and I wanted him to be able to learn. Now he is finally able to focus better, because it is on his level of understanding. He needed one-on-one help in public school, but they would not give that to him. So being able to school him at home through UTVA has taken away a lot of those stressors so that he is able to learn and grow academically."
Travis has been doing wonderfully in the virtual setting. He feels more comfortable and is already doing better academically.
"It's just nicer to do it at home, because there are no bullies," Travis said.
Jenn appreciates how the class connects are recorded so that Travis can watch them later if they have a therapy session scheduled during that time.
"It makes things a lot easier for us, because we do have a very busy life," Jenn said. "I also love how there are different curriculum options for students with autism. His curriculum is a special needs curriculum that UTVA implemented last year for those who have learning disabilities."
UTVA has been a safe haven for Travis. He doesn't have to worry about being bullied anymore, and he has everything he needs learn right in front of him.
Travis is still learning how to socialize and has made friends through school and therapy sessions.
As Travis' interest for school has re-sparked, so has his interest for science class at UTVA. "He likes science experiments," Jenn said. "They seem to fascinate him, especially anything to do with the weather."
He also has a passion for editing and making movies. "His dream is to make a full-length stuffed animal movie, and show it at a movie theater someday," Jenn said.
Jenn identifies herself as a fighter and survivor because she put everything she has into making sure her sons live a life they love. In addition to Travis, Jenn's oldest son, Jonathan, was also bullied at brick and mortar school and struggled with depression.
"I keep going for my family," she said. "I have to be strong for them and fight for what is right for them because they need me. I have had to fight for things they need and be their voice. Our struggles have made me a stronger person."
The positive example she sets day-to-day has influenced her oldest sons. Jonathon, 22, now lives in Goodsprings, Nevada, and is the town historian and works at a historic saloon. Kyler, 21, works at a TV station in Salt Lake City and goes to school at the University of Utah. They both attended UTVA for their senior years of high school and received high honors. Kyler gave a speech at his graduation about reaching for your dreams.
"My advice to other parents is to never give up," Jenn said. "Do what you feel is best for your child, because you know them best, and you know their needs best. Parents are their child's first teacher, and they understand how their child learns best."
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Critically acclaimed author Erin Bow (Plain Kate) sets her latest novel among the Kazakh nomads, who practice the 4,000-year-old tradition of training eagles to hunt. While only men can train and fly the birds of prey, Aisulu feels it's her duty to do so, considering her older brother is hurt and their nomadic life is threatened.
Sci-fi veteran Kate Blair (Transferral) veers into paranormal fiction with this adventure set in a magical reading room. A magpie invites young Silva – who is grappling with her grandfather's dementia – to a wondrous world filled with spirits and books. But the bird's ulterior motive may in fact be sinister.
In her latest novel, Australian-Indonesian- Canadian author Michelle Kadarusman (The Theory of Hummingbirds) tells the story of Nia, a young girl steeped in Javanese mythology. While living in the slums of Jakarta, Nia fights for her right to an education, with the goal of becoming a writer – even if her pursuit may alienate her from her family.
In this Dork Diaries for young activists, 12-year-old Mya is out to win a Nobel Prize – but first she needs a smartphone. After all, being socially conscious shouldn't mean having to eschew the latest technology and fashionable phone cases.
In this new middle-grade series from former Owl magazine editor Craig Battle, the k ids of Camp Avalon are comfortable with their "average" reputation when it comes to sports. And they're none too happy when a new camp director expects them to be more competitive – and do a ridiculous number of push-ups.
Winnipeg author Harriet Zaidman (Benny's Dream Horse) commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike with a book about a fictional family who are affected by the chaos of the time.
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Operatic is an intriguing and atmospheric graphic novel – and an ode to Maria Callas – from Toronto author Kyo Maclear and Calgary illustrator Byron Eggenschwiler.
Nira Ghani wants to be a jazz trumpeter, but her Guyanese immigrant parents are set on scientist or doctor in the latest novel from award-winning Edmonton author Natasha Deen. Nira's only constant – as she struggles to navigate family, school, and romance – is her horn George.
Toronto teacher and William C. Morris Award finalist S.K. Ali follows up her breakout debut, Saints and Misfits, with a love story set on a spring break trip to Qatar. In this mix of The Sun Is Also a Star and Eleanor & Park, Muslim teen Zayneb is suspended from her high school and sent to her aunt's in Qatar. There she tries out a nicer version of herself and meets Adam, who's working hard to keep a secret.
Emily R. King has written a complex and timely quest fantasy, in which the main character, Everley, is out to seek revenge on the man who assassinated her family. Complicating things is her unpredictable clockwork heart.
Author Ben Philippe was born in Haiti, raised in Montreal, and is now a New York City–based screenwriter. He makes his YA debut with an #OwnVoices fish-out-of-water story in which Norris Kaplan, a snarky Black French Canadian, makes a difficult transition to a new high school in Austin, Texas.
The preoccupations of Canadian teens are juxtaposed with the lives of refugees in Baggage, a multi-voice and multiple point-of-view narrative from Wendy Phillips – whose 2010 YA novel-in-verse, Fishtailing, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children.
The spring slate of non-fiction books covers everything from wildlife rescues to a history of abortion rights. In The Grizzlies of Grouse Mountain (Heritage House, April), Shelley Hrdlitschka and Rae Schidlo – with illustrator Linda Sharp – tell the story of two orphaned grizzly bears, Coola and Grinder, who have flourished in a B.C. wildlife refuge.
Be prepared to fall for a very special facilitator dog in A Friend Like Iggy (Second Story Press, April), written by Kathryn Cole with photos by Ian Richards – and in collaboration with BOOST Child & Youth Advocacy Centre. Iggy helps abused children navigate difficult situations, including police interviews and court testimonies.
Always Smile: Carley Allison's Secrets for Laughing, Loving and Living (KCP Loft, May) is Alice Kuipers's biography of the eponymous 17-year-old singer/songwriter/figure skater who was bound for stardom before being diagnosed with a rare form of throat cancer.
Magazine writer Jennifer Croll's Bad Boys of Fashion: Style Rebels and Renegades Through the Ages (Annick Press, April) – illustrated by Aneta Pacholska – dives into the sartorial choices of Louis XIV, Malcolm X, Kurt Cobain, and more.
Students are empowered to resolve conflict in their lives in the engagingly informative Freedom of Expression: Deal with it before you are censored (Lorimer, Feb.), by Danielle S. McLaughlin and Paris Alleyne, ill.
Perception: A Photo Series (HighWater Press, May) is designed to challenge the culture of apathy and wilful ignorance about Indigenous issues, by way of a photo series by Winnipeg-based artist KC Adams.
Former social worker Robin Stevenson details the history of abortion and the ongoing stigma in My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights (Orca Book Publishers, May).


Richard Leon Wilbern's life was a patchwork of crime, failed ventures and debt.
At the start of 2003, Richard Leon Wilbern's life was a financial disaster.
He'd lost his house to foreclosure. He'd declared bankruptcy, burdened by more than $67,000 in debt, but had stopped making the small payments he'd promised to assuage creditors.
Even his attempts to make money through a multi-level marketing company in Las Vegas had gone south. Wilbern owed Equinox International, which peddled water filters and vitamins, about $850.
Chronically late for work, Wilbern had been fired from Xerox Corp., where he'd cleaned and repaired copiers. He'd lost a racial-discrimination lawsuit against his employer as well.
There was desperation and, federal authorities allege, anger.
"There was certainly a degree of hostility towards the (Xerox) institution," said William Hochul Jr., the U.S. attorney for western New York.
Federal authorities allege that on Aug. 12, 2003, Wilbern walked into the Xerox Federal Credit Union at the Xerox Webster campus wearing a wig that sat askew on his head and a blue nylon jacket with FBI lettering on the back. At first claiming he was a federal agent, Wilbern allegedly then robbed the credit union and fatally shot one man, Raymond Batzel, and wounded another.
On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Wilbern after a tipster identified him as the man from posters and videos from the robbery-homicide. Wilbern's DNA matches that of genetic samples from an umbrella left at the credit union by the killer, State Police investigatorAndrew Jasie, a member of a special FBI task force, said in the criminal complaint against Wilbern.
The robber made off with more than $10,000; not a huge score. But Wilbern's financial fortunes seem to have changed shortly after the crime.
He then enrolled his teenage son in a pricey private boarding school in Massachusetts. In the next few years he would take title to a storefront with an apartment attached and open a restaurant. He'd launch a stand-up comedy career, patent eyeglass designs and have other scrapes with the law.
His life since 2003 has been described as nomadic, with him occasionally returning to the Rochester area.
Wilbern could face the federal death penalty if convicted, and part of the decision-making process is an extensive dissection of the life of the accused.
Defense lawyers will look for information that could try to explain why, if Wilbern committed the crimes, he acted as he did, according to defense lawyer Peter Pullano, who has represented defendants in federal cases who could have been sentenced to death.
"You have to go back through his whole life and you really have to go back a couple of generations," Pullano said.
Which means in coming months lawyers will put Wilbern's past under a microscope. And an unusual past it is; one in which Richard Leon Wilbern seemed to careen from famine to feast and back again.
According to a short bio that Wilbern once provided, he was born in Atlanta in 1960 and moved to Rochester three years later.
Rochester would remain home base, perhaps, but Wilbern lived at times in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and possibly Ohio.
Wilbern grew up in a modest family home in northeast Rochester, and graduated from high school here, and he listed that family home on Harris Street as his address when he had his first known brush with the law.
This came in September 1980, when Wilbern walked into a bank on East Ridge Road in Irondequoit, pulled a mask over his face, whipped out a .32-caliber handgun and announced a robbery. Wilbern fled with a bag containing $1,500 but he and an accomplice were caught almost immediately.
Wilbern did a year in the Monroe County Jail.
At some point, Wilbern attended college in New York, though the only records that could be found of that foray into high education were judgments for unpaid tuition. He did not list a college degree on his Linked In profile.
By his mid-20s, Wilbern had moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he remained for roughly a decade.
Little has come to light yet about his time there, which pre-dated the era when Facebook and Google were available to regurgitate personal details about people's lives. What he did for a living has not come out. He would have had at least one child by then, according to what is known now, but whether he married or not is unclear.
The scant public records that do exist note some judgments filed against him in Richmond in the early 1990s, and an arrest in 1992 for an offense related to a forged traffic summons. He received a five-year suspended sentence for that offense, court officials said.
Wilbern had been arrested once previously in Richmond, for possession of a sawed-off shotgun, according to the criminal complaint against him filed in U.S. District Court after his arrest for the Xerox credit union robbery. The complaint states Wilbern did two years in Virginia prison on that felony charge. The Democrat and Chronicle could find no other information about that arrest and conviction.
By the mid-1990s, Wilbern had returned to Rochester. Perhaps he was looking for a fresh start. If so, he seems to have gotten one — though it didn't last for long.
In September 1996, Wilbern was hired as a temporary worker in Building 200 at the Joseph C. Wilson Center for technology, Xerox's sprawling complex in Webster. He lived in the family's Harris Street home and worked as a "scuffer," cleaning, repairing and disassembling copiers, according to the criminal complaint.
The following year he became a permanent Xerox employee. He acquired a house of his own in southwest Rochester, agreeing to take over payment of the seller's bank loan. Things may have been looking up.
But within a year, his mortgage lender had initiated foreclosure on his Lozier Street home, and Wilbern had filed bankruptcy. He brought a Chapter 13 action in August 1998, which allows an individual to shed some debt and work out a plan to repay the rest.
The paperwork that survives shows the sort of unpaid bills that many financially struggling people would have — medical treatment, a child's braces, mortgage payments, college loans.
Under the bankruptcy repayment plan finalized in 1999, Wilbern kept his home, and he still had his position at Xerox.
None of that would last, however.
In August 2000, complaining that he was held to a different standard than his white co-workers, Wilbern engaged a lawyer and filed a discrimination suit against Xerox. He was "singled out," he said, though he admitted that he was often late for work and took lengthy lunch and rest breaks, according to an article in The Daily Record. Other employees did the same, he said, but typically black workers were disciplined for their workplace indiscretions, while white workers were not.
It was not a frivolous lawsuit, or at least was not treated as one. His lawyer and the outside counsel hired by Xerox traded motion papers and arguments for nearly two years in U.S. District Court in Rochester before the case was resolved — and dismissed.
By early 2001 Wilbern was behind on mortgage payments again and had given up on his Lozier Street home. He stopped making his small monthly payments to satisfy creditors in his bankruptcy proceeding.
He was living in an apartment in a two-family home in the village of Fairport in February 2001 when Xerox, lawsuit notwithstanding, fired him for what the criminal complaint said was chronic tardiness and absenteeism.
No job, no permanent home, no money.
That's when he targeted the credit union, authorities allege.
In the weeks after the August 2003 robbery and homicide, Xerox Corp. provided Webster police and other authorities with a list of past workers who may have had beefs with the company.
That list contained dozens and dozens of names. Richard Leon Wilbern was on the list. There is no record that he was ever questioned, authorities say, or that he was even deeply scrutinized as a suspect.
In the years after the robbery, Wilbern bounced about, living in the Philadelphia and Trenton areas, and sometimes returning to Rochester.
"He had ties to Rochester and other areas," said Adam Cohen, the special agent in charge of the FBI's western New York offices.
In Philadelphia, he was hurt in some way in a traffic mishap involving a municipal bus on which he may have been a passenger, and filed a lawsuit for damages in October 2005. The case was settled the following year.
The lawyer who represented Wilbern, Xavier Hayden, remembered his client only vaguely as someone with a connection to upstate New York. He did not know what the settlement was, but said such cases normally do not result in large judgments.
In July 2008 he was photographed by chance in Henrietta by the Democrat and Chronicle as part of a story on mortgage providers. The caption says that Wilbern was hoping to get a lease for a restaurant on the ground floor of his rental property.
During this period Wilbern also may have indulged in a creative interest — designing eyewear.
A man named Richard Wilbern who said he was from Trenton, N.J., obtained four design patents for diamond-shaped eyeglass frames from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in 2012 and 2014. When a reporter described the Richard Wilbern from Rochester to Rakesh Mehta, a Delaware lawyer who handled some of the patent applications, he said, "I believe it would be the same person."
Records in various East Coast cities show Wilbern also amassing multiple traffic infractions, including speeding and driving without a license, during this time.
Most recently in Rochester, he has alternated between trying to make a living running a street-corner restaurant on Hudson Avenue — his ventures failed, and someone else has filled the space with a Mojoe's offering large pizzas for $19.99 — and attempts at a comedy career. His sometimes strained efforts at comedy are available on Youtube.com, and took on a viral life after his arrest Tuesday.
Three videos of Wilbern's comedy routine, made between 2010 and 2012, can be seen online. Two were made at well-known venues in Manhattan, the third at an unnamed location in Baltimore. The short routines include jokes about heavyset women, his mother and crime. Wilbern comes across as self-assured though perhaps not uproariously funny.
The fact that he took the stage at well-known clubs in New York City doesn't mean he hit the big time, though.
"The New York City area is different from the rest of the country. They do what are called 'bringer' shows. We would call it an open mike. If you can bring five people who pay the cover and pay the two-drink minimum, you can get in and get five minutes on stage," said Ralph Tetta, a Rochester stand-up comedian who has managed a club here and run his own comedy school.
Neither was Tetta surprised that someone who did stand-up would end up on the wrong side of the law. "Unfortunately, comedy seems to attract lazy people ... or people who have the substance (abuse) thing," he said. "There aren't too many normal comedians out there."
Indeed, Tetta noted, another local stand-up comedian whom he once counted as a friend, Joe Cumbo, was busted for bank robbery two years ago.
In two other more recent videos, his year-old son — a child Wilbern has with a current girlfriend — is, so to speak, the star. In one, the youngster drags a bulging bag of trash across a yard, and then Wilbern lifts him so he can toss the garbage into a bin. In another, the boy sits in what appears to be a homemade stroller.
That video was posted on YouTube only days before the arrest. Wilbern is lighthearted in the video, telling his son, "It's a nice car you got there, sir."
Days later, Wilbern would walk into the FBI Office in Rochester for what would be his third visit in 2016. He was there, having told the agency that he was the victim of a tax fraud in the foreclosure of his home. Having received the tip about Wilbern and his checkered Xerox career in March, and now deep into an investigation into his life, the agents could not believe the good fortune that would bring Wilbern to them.
During a July visit, agents duped Wilbern into providing a genetic sample; he licked an envelope containing papers they claimed were part of the investigation into his fraud claims. When he returned in September, the FBI had evidence that the DNA was a match with samples on an umbrella the Xerox killer left behind at the credit union in 2003.
The interview with Wilbern at first focused on his allegations of fraud. Agents also talked to him a little about his life, the talk more friendly than adversarial.
Then the agents began to ask about his employment years before at Xerox — the very company that fired him at a time of financial distress.
"His demeanor changed," the FBI's Cohen said.
Wilbern decided he had nothing more to say — except one thing.
"He invoked his right at that point to speak with an attorney," Cohen said.


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'Live, Work, Play': Why Businesses are Choosing Brooklyn over Manhattan in Pandemic Recovery
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Brooklyn has become the fastest growing borough in New York City's pandemic recovery.
"People just love the live, work and play vibe that we've got going here," said Randy Peers, the president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, on the WCBS Small Business Spotlight, sponsored by Dime Community Bank.
Peers noted that in order to understand the COVID-19 recovery, one would have to look at what he calls the "rebranding" of Brooklyn that began in the 1970s when crime gave the borough a dark reputation.
"We were the fourth largest manufacturing center in the country after World War II," he said. "Then, like most industrial cities, we went in decline. Heavy manufacturing left, people left, they left to the suburbs."
Photo credit Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
The key to Brooklyn's transformation into a creative hub, Peers told WCBS 880, was the conversion of old industrial space into residential buildings.
"I like to say this a lot, but mixed-use matters and it gives that sense of a true sort of holistic community. And I think that's part of the rebranding story."
A recent Partnership for New York City survey found only 8% of office workers have returned full-time. Remote and hybrid work have accelerated business growth in Brooklyn.
"I mean, if you're working from home, you're more likely to shop locally," said Peers.
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce said technology is the borough's fastest growing industry with the highest paying jobs.
"People don't realize this, but we rival San Francisco in terms of new tech startups. But it's what I call little tech. It's not big tech."
"We've got Newlab out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we've got NYU Tandon Future Labs. We've actually tried to cultivate tech through these wonderful incubators," said the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce leader.
Another incubator that has helped launch numerous startups during the pandemic is the Brooklyn Public Library in Prospect Park. Their business experts guided Brooklyn Tea, new environmentally conscious companies, e-commerce brands and more with skills and managerial training. Its PowerUP! program awarded a total of $41,000 in seed capital to eight finalists last year.
While business is booming in Brooklyn, Peers emphasized on the Small Business Spotlight that the outer boroughs need Manhattan to thrive because it's the city's economic engine.
"I will say we need Manhattan to bounce back. We need office workers to come back if we're going to have a full recovery for New York City as a whole."
Peers said there are three factors still holding back the city's recovery: back rents from the COVID-19 shutdown need to be resolved; labor shortages in key sectors such as childcare are keeping some people out of the workforce; and people are cutting back on their spending due to high inflation.
See more on New York City's recovery, the post-pandemic economy taking shape, and the neighborhoods in Brooklyn where businesses are booming on the WCBS Small Business Spotlight video above.