Secret Teacher: when a pupil rules your classroom

terrorized in class and the lack of support from the head,

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do not know where to head

arrives late to class every morning. Walk through me as I take the story, I just push a little, enough to make my sheet hand to remind me it's there. Calls to parents who need to be here in time to fall into deaf ears. Dad does not want to talk to me anyway, and my mother nodded gently, but it's like the lights are off and nobody's home. You know she stopped listening to teachers for years.

But his son governs my class. It makes me feel scared, and I am an adult woman. I know what makes other students feel because I can see it in his eyes. They do everything he says. It has the power, as if he were born to it.

I tried all the strategies in the book with him. There were a number of specialists in my class watching him and me. "Do not worry. Simply move. Imagine that is not here." It's like trying to ignore an itch on the sole of the foot and can not be reached.

I made a positive management and I tried not to say anything that can be interpreted as bad or scold. I had flashcards for him a special place for him, his own book that you can write in when he is upset. Not even trust them to go to the bathroom alone - when he left, he made a run for it

He reigns over my class and I growl. It exhausts me. The applause of the whole class on the days that you have a cold and stay home.

want to be included, but it is difficult when you try to teach a good class for eight years and there is not one, just one, who is determined to make life hell for all of us . I just want out. I want him to go. Then I could do what I was born to do and teach - I have my class precious to me and just danced for joy. But I can not. I included. I just keep him here.

• His behavior has not gone unnoticed by his head is a regular visitor to the office of the head. But somehow it always performs better for the head, looks at me and says all the right things about supporting me and gives me more training to deal with, but there's a glint in his eyes, as if to say " Well, Miss, you really need to get a grip on behavior management. You need to get a grip of this child. "
Get a grip - get a life instead. He dwells in each of my thoughts awake. It's just tiny, but I feel physically afraid of him, and even if I had trained to know exactly what to do in case of rope groaned a little, I'm afraid of him.

I had with him having to watch like a hawk, ready to pounce on the poor boy next class. He sneaked to them, gives them a pinch here or a kidney chop hard. He befriends all the children who want the best of a fragile heart disease, children with Down. He is friends with them for a while, then turns on them. They are too afraid of him any time to say on this subject.

The day I empty my room throwing chairs around - just went out the side door, while lost inside - the day I thought it would go safely. Without doubt, this time the head would be able to see what a danger. So maybe I could go back to being a teacher more than an empty shell, and tormented by the gray lines and knots in my stomach perpetual.


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Sweden makes my gender-free toy Christmas wish come true | Sarah Ditum

with a picture of a girl with a Nerf gun, a toy retailer in Swedish children arm with the ability to challenge gender roles obsolete

"All I want for Christmas is ... every child toy mandatory Gendering all!" Mariah Carey sings. Even if someone could get that many syllables in a musical phrase, Mariah is surely. The person singing this particular affront seasonal pop me, and I was having a girl awful good, because Santa has already given me what I want. Except that instead of being served by a man in the clouds beard round my chimney was visited by the country of Sweden. Nice one!

In 2009, the Swedish equivalent Toy Advertising Standards Authority Top authorized dealer for the production of a catalog that "kept an anachronistic vision of equality" and both sexes showed a "dispensation". So this year, the company has responded to advertisements for all confuse gender bias. Here's a girl ... with a Nerf gun! A child holds a doll ...! A girl ... in a blue shirt! Come patriarchy.

Surprisingly roles for children have become so calcified that such trivial things can be presented as radical. An example included in the Daily Mail: "They Dolls are not just for girls," which of course is based on the voice of your inner UKIP voters shouting: "Yes, the dolls are for girls!" for the reactionary rising sap. Is that the secret postal lesbo signed a matriarchy where children are raised by single mothers? It was cold in the need for parents? It seems unlikely, but if the children can not play in the nursery, and, by extension, we say that they can grow and care for children.

play is how children practice belonging to the world they were born in. Dolls allowing infants tested for the care they give to their children, in their turn, and imagine feelings of their parents - the ability to guess mom and dad are second only to the ability to destroy expensive consumer electronics skills preschool

Many people will try to say that children do not play with dolls. Coincidentally, these same people also speak any guy in your neighborhood that children do not play with dolls. It is innate sexual difference that makes girls and boys play on both sides of the dividing line of blue pink - is constantly impressive adults in their accusations that a group of toys that is fair and the other is bad

• This pressure can be as subtle as the inadvertent "ooh!" applause for a child to choose the "right" toy, or perhaps the audacity of Chicago professor who has students sort toys for boys or girls of a ranking exercise, certainly not eight years old putting most things in the "both" column ("I wish it was not worse," the young father proud, great.)

I was determined to give my child first start a dogma without sex, he was both brilliant and slightly time in three years, opened his Christmas list with a baby stroller (I found a blue coat, of course. gender police have spies everywhere, even inside of me). It helped that I was a student at the time, and my son went to nursery school where most of the other parents were attentive, right speaker to the guys who raised their children in mono and wooden toys .

But even professor reflected on the types do not have television, visiting toy stores and something less serious family and friends as smallpox rose can not be maintained indefinitely. It seemed to go in the space of a week, the room striped shirts and jeans preschool half erupted in princess dresses and tiaras. We, the parents had received a good race, but our kids finally realized that there was more forces wanted to fit a couple of guys.

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Was Will Gompertz right when he said the arts had been subsidised to 'no great effect'?

a report on the BBC Radio 4 Today program said mantra Arts Council England's "great art for everyone" was inaccessible. Is this view too dark

my Twitter feed this morning was very angry, very angry. My colleague Will Gompertz, the BBC's creative director, was at the show today to talk about funding the arts. Although the Arts Council of England's efforts since its creation after the war, he said, funding for the arts was "apparently without much success." In 8% of the population, he said, go to the ballet, opera or classical music, according to government figures. It was subsidized arts, welcomed the report, in fact only supports the tastes of middle and upper classes? You institutions such as the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera failed to draw, but few?

• think - with all due respect and board hat nice, as always, Will - the image presented here was very sad and incomplete. Hence the irritation of my Twitter friends. The implication (but perhaps not the intention) of the piece was to suggest that classical music, opera and ballet "acted as" all the arts. It is, of course, a partial picture . You lose entire sectors of cultural activity. theater, galleries, museums. street theater, carnivals, festivals ... whole swathes of things with the support of public funds. Not to mention the incredible work done in community arts organizations, or companies like Streetwise Opera Clean Break and work with a very social end in sight.
• The report was perhaps too much work rather incomplete at the Royal Opera House. Not for a moment think that his audience on an average night presents a true picture of British society, or that it is a forbidden place in many ways, or no work to do, but you must pay £ 115 to see the ballet, my two seconds, click around randomly tickets site vomited four pounds for a special evening to celebrate the ballet in February (you have to break 'em up in advance) - a sum that had difficulty finding theater tickets in London. ROH gives representations of the family (tickets £ 5 - £ 20). Opportunity to dance is a system that works with schools in Lambeth, Southwark and Thurrock to encourage children - not children of the privileged - access and enjoy ballet. But enough about the Royal Opera House. ROH is not an art in England. It is an art organization in England and should not dominate discussions on funding (I know I do ...).
• "Great art for everyone" - a simplistic slogan Arts Council England, maybe., But I'm not sure anyone should apologize about aspiration. Thanks our schools, through the extraordinary range by arts organizations, through the committed work of artists and teachers do not see why everyone (and this is important for all children) should not be with big art. God knows enough people are doing all they can to get there. And indeed, I think it works.

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Coming to bad ends: stories that refuse closure

stories unresolved ending their plots - like Brighton Rock An Inspector Calls - are an endless torture for readers

(WARNING - contains spoilers JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene and Mo Hayder Hanging Hill)

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completely resolved, leaving a gap on the stage and page, with blood and tears, induces a washing cleaning calm in the drive, even when havoc with his mask. Romances crushed Chiffon hugs on the last page, or a box of chocolates mysteries tied with a gold ribbon to solve, let me sigh and filled. Even foreshadowing suites inevitable endings, in which a key player or object search has not yet been released or found (YA trilogies, I look at you) can increase my sense of well-being, and if I liked the world books and writing, and another hope that is not bad. But there is a small subset of the final outstanding and evil protagonists who leave their helpless on the edge of the cataclysm, the reader is always aware, always and forever terrified powerless to intervene. I call sword of Damocles endings, and avoid them like the black and cold.

• The first striking results bestial brain that I found was a theater one - JB Priestley An Inspector Calls, I studied in school. There were successive revelations tirelessly to make the Birling family together until the death of Eva Smith, robbed, humiliated and driven to suicide by the insensitivity and bourgeois hypocrisy, which gave my head 12 years of equivalent dramatic worm. It was not even the "fire and blood and anguish", the inspector called on them in return, if I remember vaguely hope literal flames, and perhaps the appearance of the Demon King, the study trip to the actual exposure. Is the fact that the game ends with a call to the suicide of a young woman, and the conduct of the family, but the inspector could not be what it seems, were not left behind everything - his shame and sorrow simply been postponed. Elderly ass coverage and repentant children take place at this time forever, with no possibility of returning to face his tragedy or find beyond redemption. As Eva Smith, gave no second chance. Just a brief illusion bubble of hope, bright as the curtain falls

Similarly, Graham Greene Brighton Rock tore the lowest string in my brain when I read in my teens, and the buzzing stopped since. Wild and accurate plans of the novel, sharp beak of a bird of aggression are clear to the reader from the opening justly famous ("Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that sought to kill "). Pinkie face and killer of children simply vile complex turns stomping and transmit their love spaniel naive Rose, grinning speaks repeatedly by the reader, his enemy is gay, Ida, and his ruthlessness of a horrible way, hovering like children faded tunic Joyful Spirit Christmas gift. But its end, leaving the pregnant widow, Rose on "fast" to "the worst horror of all", the album in which he recorded Pinkie message booed by hatred instead of love words she thinks will give your courage, makes me want to stick on the glass between the reader and the book until it breaks, make sure the shoulders and distract her while someone breaks the record on his knee and set fire to parts.

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How inspirational ideas from pupils can make a big impact on schools

Looking for a little inspiration for your school We like to participate?

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profiles and ideas for small changes that have a big impact on school life

started a blog on the website inviting students to suggest ideas to help improve your school. Children of primary school Cleobury Mortimer responded with a flurry of proposals ranging from pantomime to go home.

But it was not long before teachers Shropshire began to see a pattern to some of the concerns of children, there was nothing to do in the playground. Yes, there were toys and things for them to play, but the kids wanted to be more creative. A teacher was also an opportunity because they felt that their students are not using their imagination enough class.

Thus, children have the head and had the idea to create a scene in the playground, a castle, a house of three bears, a big boat and several other features they would like see built.

only problem. When the children asked their manager if they could have their new gaming facilities replied: "Only if you have to build yourself." They were horrified.

"I said that I could have, but we would have to order the wood and make it ourselves because we could not a professional company," says Williams Bavita. The project started when he met Bob Williams Green - a real life Bob the Builder -. Who agreed to collaborate with the school at an exceptional price

"Wine supervised and that all was well off. Children made the cut saws and used hammers and nails as well as the appropriate constructor., And they showed that they can.

"I was not surprised. Be aware that children may be challenged and do something if monitoring is and are taught properly. Taking risks is good with children. "

The project, which cost £ 5,000 and was overseen by the charity of health and safety, ROSPA, had a great impact on children, Williams said.

"They use both with respect and in a creative way and that is to improve relations in the yard. 'S also had an impact on the development of language in the classroom. Were allowed to be more creative-writing of history and explain things to each other and improved their verbal responses in class. "

This is just one of the many inspiring projects that schools across the country have developed ideas submitted by students to improve the quality of life of their communities. Desiring to encourage more work of this kind, The Guardian and Zurich Municipal have launched a competition to encourage students and teachers to work together to develop an idea that will benefit the school, sustainable and realistic. We would like to School Contest is open to all schools in the UK and there are three categories - primary, secondary and special - with a first prize of £ 5000 for each category

• many innovative projects have a strong emphasis on improving the school environment, the ideas of sustainable development and environmentally friendly to reduce carbon emissions. An example is the eco-garden club founded by students' school girls in Liverpool Merchant Taylors. Other schools have used links with schools in developing countries to create a school climate based on ethical trade. Cardinal Wiseman School and Language College, Coventry has created and sells its own brand of organic tea called tea Cardinal ("eminently superior ') with proceeds going to support a community in Malawi.
• Blackwood Primary School in Caerphilly, Wales, opened his own fair trade coffee shop after the kids had the idea as an inspiring way to learn about money.

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also has a project to build a dining room of the 21st century Chorley Southlands High School and an anti-vandalism at school Welling in Kent, who used the savings from the reduction damage caused by vandalism for a wet diaper for students.

but notes that the conclusion is not limited to ideas of physical improvements or support the ethos of a school. They could, for example, proposals for the development of parental involvement and improving links with local primary schools.

A good example is the Year 7 student online interactive brochure and other creative elements developed by students Sweyne Park School in Rayleigh, Essex.

"We asked our year 7s think this could help to improve the transition from elementary school. Decided that we should have a section of webpage much more appropriate details of our program of mentoring, interactive map and answers to questions that have been asked, "says director Andy Hodgkinson.

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Did being uncool at school help you? | Open thread

Tell us if you are the most popular student in the school, the pressure to shine, or a regular guy - and it is better

better to be a "plain Jane" on the most popular girl in school, according to a university study. Students considered sociable, often beautiful and successful may be unhappy and stressed because of the pressure to be the most popular girl. they must be constantly obsessed with their appearance and often fear their domination, and therefore may be at increased risk of emotional or psychological problems.

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Paechter, professor of education at Goldsmiths College, London, said: "A group has been studied in a school was very dominant and constantly watching each other, proving that his socks had rolled in and exactly how your hair is done correctly. "

• He added: "Babes lowest in the hierarchy do not know how your socks should be ... if you're perfectly normal can have a decent time in school, stay out of thereof. "

movies like Mean Girls high school show students that seem popular as part of a tight-knit group of friends who are often themselves.

So you agree with Professor Paechter? Tell us if you were popular in school. Was that fun or was under a lot of pressure to be perfect and adapt to the group that came out with? Or you're a regular, or even a student fashion? Were you happy because it has the pressure to be popular or to be Miss High class or excel in sports?

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Etan Patz suspect indicted in boy's 1979 disappearance and murder

Pedro Hernandez, 51, was an employee of teenagers in a convenience store in the neighborhood of the child at the time of removal

The suspect in the disappearance in 1979 of a city of 6 years, New York, which led to a national movement of missing children has been charged with murder and kidnapping, his lawyer said Wednesday.

attorney Harvey Fishbein said 51-year-old Pedro Hernandez was accused of the disappearance of Etan Patz.

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Etan was among the first to be milk cartons, and if they are met May 25 at the National Missing Children's Day in the United States.

• Hernandez was arrested this year, and investigators say he confessed.
investigators began to focus on Hernandez after an informant called the police about the comments he heard Sister Hernandez Hernandez told a group of prayer for the Church in the 1980s that killed a child in New York.

Hernandez, now married and a father, was an employee at a convenience store where teenage Etan disappeared on the way to school. Police said Hernandez told investigators he brought the child to the store with the promise of a drink.

He allegedly said he had taken the boy to the basement, strangled and left his body in a trash bag one block.
Fishbein Hernandez described as schizophrenic and bipolar, with a history of hallucinations. The diagnosis may become the basis for asserting that psychiatric defense Hernandez agreed to talk to the police without understanding their rights and that the alleged confession was sick fantasy.

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Facebook: it's more than genius | Media Monkey

a new low for the brain morning, children are more likely to recognize the founder of Facebook

• Mark Zuckerberg
• Albert Einstein, according to a survey . i reported that only 45% of 1,000 children aged five to 16 years were able to identify the man who discovered the theory of relativity, compared to 68% who recognized Zuck. The same survey, the electronics manufacturer Haier showed that nearly a quarter of eight Hawking, Stephen doubt confused with a hair salon. Can not find the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games?

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Life ambitions? Creating space for social enterprise in Singapore

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"individuals have taken the space for innovation in Singapore by storm - and the sector is growing

"What do you do when you grow up?" This is probably the most common question you get from any member of the family, friends of the family and head stroking adults in general. It was a question I want to answer when I was 10 years old. The possibilities were endless. But I wondered why adults love this question. It was because they found the need to deal with our responses passing fancy, or is it to remember what was for themselves?

Unfortunately, as I will in adult life, something happens along the way that eventually rob us of our inherent propensity to imagine and create value. Call it the education system, parents or the economy, but throughout our long educated, we were invited to form -. A defined career paths, fixed models of thought and modes prescribed for a living, not a life

This is more common in Asian countries where Confucian values ??of obedience and collectivism can be worshiped. It is therefore difficult for me and others to come "alive". The risk is that blind conformity - a life of unfulfilled potential and purpose Unfound

But life is like trying to succeed in a start-up. Many environmental factors are needed to increase this probability. How to start a business, the first step is often the most difficult, it takes courage and a level of stubbornness. Once taken, the rest, as they say, is history. Life is exciting and the opportunities are taken to the next level.

In 2010, while working at the Skoll Foundation in Palo Alto, California, I met in San Francisco hub. This is an area of ??10,000 square meters in the old building of the San Francisco Chronicle. In this area, there were about a hundred business leaders and non-profit organizations, investors and ecosystem impact manufacturers, innovators and students working together on their own ideas, the creation of companies that have a positive impact on the world. Some talked with animation, others attend workshops begin. In one corner, an investor is launched, and the other team was a conference call Ghana. Overall it was a kind of energy that could make anyone believe that anything is possible, and it is normal to live your passion and do something good for the world, even at a young age. I quickly realized that the hub is a global community, a co-working space and platform events for individuals and teams using entrepreneurial approaches to sustainable impact. Existed in 30 cities, but there were none in Asia. Shocking. 400 interviews After eight months of coffee and long hours of research space building, fundraising and community, first in Asia HUB was founded in May 2012 in Singapore. I chose Singapore because of his hunger was new and even more innovative, to be a center for social innovation. In addition, if it's done in Singapore, the region will continue. But Singapore has its own challenges. For decades, success has been defined through a lens rudimentary capitalist and where his success as a nation lies in its efficiency and compliance - which is said to be the richest country in the world in 2050 New and his passion has always been frowned upon. Singapore HUB doors were opened for five months in a variety of what we call "purpose-driven individuals." Ranging from technical to social entrepreneurs, bankers, filmmakers, related iners-Googlers. Ago a space for any discipline, but any discipline. Intention is the main problem with filtering Hubber - no status, level of education, wealth or profession. space of 5,400 square meters in the heart of Orchard, style life and the main street entertainment in Singapore, it quickly became home to outliers. 200 strong ties, businesses, foundations and government agencies begin to enter the hub of business ideas for Hubbers meet and have an informal conversation with Chris coffee (we have a coffee house barista headed by former racer, Chris).

The vision is for the community to grow to 1,000 members in two years. Which is 0.0002% of the population of 5 million. A drop in the ocean, perhaps, but most movements, ecosystems and innovations start with a small group of individuals. The Hub aims to serve as an incubator for new ways of thinking, unconventional careers, find innovative solutions and great ideas. It is a safe place for failures and successes.

common curse the individual is under the assumption that the options are limited to the availability of options existing when the advance and progress of humanity is based on decisions that have not yet been devised. As adults, we can not accept the infinite possibilities that we felt when we were kids?

• Grace of Sai is the co-founder of
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Childhood stimulation key to brain development, study finds

twenty years, research has shown that the most critical aspects of developing cortex stimulation in late adolescence was four years

a childhood surrounded by books and educational toys positive trace in the brain of a healthy person in their twenties, a research study for a period of two decades has shown.

Scientists have discovered that mental stimulation, but a child is about four years, the most developed regions of the brain dedicated to language and cognition will be in the coming decades.

is known that childhood experience affects brain development, but scientists have had evidence of what has usually come from the extreme cases, such as children who have been abused or trauma. Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the latest study, wanted to know how a normal range of childhood experiences may influence brain development.

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data from surveys of family life and brain scans of 64 people conducted over 20 years. Their findings, presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, showed that cognitive stimulation parents at the age of four years has been the key factor in predicting the evolution of different parts of cortex - the layer of gray matter on the outside of the brain -. 15 years later

Participants were followed from the age of four. Investigators visited their homes and recorded a number of details about their lives to measure cognitive stimulation, details such as the number of children's books they had, they had toys that teach colors, numbers, letters, or whether you played with Real or toy musical instruments.

The researchers also noted the participants' parental rearing "- the amount of heat, support or care of the child has parents. The researchers conducted the same survey, when the children were eight years. When participants were aged between 17 and 19 years, had their brains scanned.

• Farah
results showed that the development of the cortex in adolescence strongly correlated with cognitive stimulation of a child at the age of four years. All other factors, including the parents of all ages and cognitive stimulation in eight years - had no effect. Farah said that his results are proof of the existence of a sensitive period early in the life of a person that determines the optimal development of the cerebral cortex. "It really supports the idea that the early years are particularly influential."

As the brain matures during childhood and adolescence, the brain cells in the cortex are cut and as useless cells are removed, the thin crust. Farah cognitive stimulation revealed that more than one participant had at the age of four years, thinner, and therefore more developed, its bark. "Almost anything that resembles the normal developmental process is either accelerated or increased more for children with cognitive stimulation better," he said.

The area most affected is the left temporal lateral cortex, which is on the surface of the brain, behind the ear. This region is involved in semantic memory, processing the meaning of words and general knowledge about the world.

When participants had their brains scanned in adolescence were also tested and language, Farah said, the finest of its bark, the better their understanding of the language .

Andrea Danese, a clinical professor of child psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry at the Institute, Kings College London, said the study suggests that the experience of a family could have an effect on brain development, family affair, perhaps genetic predisposition, the best brains. Danese added that this type of research has highlighted the "important role" that parents and caregivers have to play that children develop their cognitive, social and emotional, providing secure personal interactions, predictable, stimulating and tailored to Children.

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Pussy Riot member uses freedom to resume protests against Vladimir Putin

Yekaterina

Samutsevich promises other group members, who remain in prison, continuing the fight against President

Yekaterina

Samutsevich, riot member Pussy released by a Moscow court this week, vowed to continue participating in anti-Putin band, saying it would be "more cautious and smarter "to avoid being arrested again.

Friday during his first interview with a newspaper Samutsevich said his words of farewell to two members of the band were still in prison he would continue his fight against the president. But it is expected that the increasing pressure on their status, despite his newfound freedom

"They did not overturn the verdict, do not say I'm not guilty - I was given a reprieve if the slightest thing I do [wrong], even an administrative offense, I can return to. prison, "he told the Guardian.

The three women were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" because of its anti-Putin "punk prayer" in a cathedral in Moscow. Samutsevich was unexpectedly released by an appeal court on Wednesday after successfully arguing that it had not taken part in the exercise.

"I did not expect," said Samutsevich, sitting in a cafe in central Moscow wear the same jeans and a white sweater she wore to the appeal hearing. A's feet was a canvas bag and a large plastic bag full of clothes, cards and books. She had picked up his business from the south to the detention center in Moscow still has its followers, and Marie Alyokhina Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

Samutsevich describes how the three friends had prepared for prison during the appeal hearing. . "In the courtyard, we talked about how we were going to the colony, which would be like when we took her back to the room, we were told that it was a very short deliberation, will probably not change the verdict. ' (A panel of three judges deliberated for 40 minutes before announcing the release of Samutsevich.)

She struggled to explain the reasoning of judges. "Maybe the authorities have sought to emulate the independence of the judiciary," he said. "But it is just that - an imitation." Pussy The case against Riot was one of the most prominent trial policies in Russia since Putin came to power 12 years ago. President condemned his performance and his name, while Dmitri Medvedev, the Prime Minister said he was "disgusted" by the action of the group.

Samutsevich said Putin was behind the decision to continue the band. "These decisions are not made without the president," he said. "I was very motivated by personal hatred was a political gesture." Judges of Appeal held a press conference on Thursday, few journalists who have made the decision independently and without any pressure from above.

"They're trying to marginalize, to say that we are not normal people," he said. "We have been imprisoned for his political beliefs."

Pussy Riot

formed after Putin announced last year that he planned to return to the presidency - a move that has led to growing discontent spread through the streets with a protest of more more than promised to prevent a return to totalitarianism.

The arrest of three members of the group in early March was considered a signal to the other demonstrators. Duma, the Russian parliament, has since adopted a set of restrictive laws that impose fines on illegal demonstrations and extension of a law on treason. "Putin is a person who does not listen to the citizens of Russia," said Samutsevich. "People complain and does not reflect the changes, the government passes laws horrible -. Such is its response to attempts by citizens to speak with him," she said

Samutsevich said he would continue to take part in the riot Pussy anonymous procedure. She does not care that it is now recognized, often by people in the street.

"When a person is in a mask and gown, it can become anonymous again," he said. As for the fear of being discovered, she said: "I'll be more cautious and clever."

thought Russian security services to intensify their surveillance. "I have to live by imagining that everything you hear, what you read."

Samutsevich Alyokhina Tolokonnikova and said they were satisfied with their release. As they kissed goodbye in the glass cage of the room, his associates said: "Finally, one of us is free." Samutsevich recalls: "They said to go ahead with the group and said alleged. "

• Alyokhina, 24 and Tolokonnikova, 22 mothers and young children should be sent away to prison camps serve the remainder of his sentence until March 2014.
• "Masha [Alyokhina] suffers especially for his son," said Samutsevich. "This is a big blow for her, as Nadya. Just saw their children. "

Samutsevich describes seven months of detention as a time of insulation from the cold in which the system has "full control". Wake-up came at 6:00 and lights out at 21 hours. Between the two, there were three meals a day - oatmeal for breakfast, or a potato soup for lunch and porridge or soup for dinner

once a week was allocated 30 minutes in the privacy of a shower. Otherwise, everything was done by a guard.

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Matthew Woods deserves support as much as airport tweeter Paul Chambers | Charlie Skelton

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Jones Woods jokes may be offensive - and frankly confusing - but the logic of his imprisonment is scary mafia

consternation was this week at the junction 8 of 10 cats writing room. Usually, when a group of writers to express a true horror TV sincere because the broker presented with a plate of muffins taste bad. But this time, it was something serious, almost severe: imprisonment of Matthew Woods. Nineteen years and three months to "patently offensive" comments about an abducted child. In his own Facebook page.

As you can imagine, seeing someone deprivation of liberty to make jokes, but ugly and unimaginative are not exactly play well among people whose job it is to make jokes . As my colleague at 10:00 Live writer, Alan Connor, said: "If you really criminalized attempts to disgust your fellow horrible jokes and all comedy writers in the UK is, for better or ill, will prison before take your second sip of coffee in the morning tomorrow. "

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Matthew Woods talked about Facebook and asked beery night versions of the same question: since when sick jokes become a crime? "I feel uncomfortable as obscenity conviction," said the comedian Frankie Boyle. "There are millions of horrible things are said on Twitter every day, how the police? Perhaps a better idea would be things of the police as direct threats of violence."

In this case, the only real threats of violence aimed at Woods. As Charlie Brooker said: "Forests are supposed to Matthew learned a great lesson about the possible consequences of humor in bad taste when a crowd of 50 people who came to his home and the police had to stop for his own imprisoned for security. on top of that is demented sick jokes. could change and offend. vigilante mobs can kill quickly trained. If the State believes that the first is a greater threat to the social order than the second, the state is crazy. "

The scariest thing about this trial is the nutty logic mafia. The court ruled Woods jokes an offense under section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003, which prohibits "extremely offensive" messages. President of the bank in Chorley Magistrates Court, Bill Hudson, explained why he resulted in a custodial sentence ".'s why the sentence is the seriousness of the offense, the public outcry, he"

In other words, the "public scandal" is evidence of a serious offense (which constitutes the crime). The harm is evidence of the crime. So people in a strange way, the people who decide what is shocking (and therefore criminal) journalists are outraged crowd vigilante visceral and barking.

Moreover, according to the Communications Act of 2003, seriously offended by the message "should not be addressed." So whenever someone gets angry.

is a reason to be leased by Dawson Bros. comedy writers: "If a joke has offended one person," they say, "the author should be imprisoned without trial A sketch of a dead parrot will not. be fun for someone mourning the death of a loved one bird. Monty Python prison six years. A play on gardening implement any sick person whose relationship was impaled on a fork handle. Prison Corbett Barker headstone and sent to the landfill. And a man who falls through a trapdoor open bar profoundly offended countless people who have lost loved ones killed pub. Prison David Jason. And while you're at it, lock shot as an accomplice. "

• Personally, I think that the public statements of the President of Hudson, which were published online to be "patently offensive" - ??does this mean that I can lay charges under Article 127 of the Act of 2003 communications? Of course, the problem here lies in the raid of a term "patently offensive."
• This is the kind of act that the actor Liam dangerously vague Mullone described as "head stuffed with fascism", which he says is "largely the legacy of occupation Blair. within a few years, our government has doubled the legislation very poorly thought out, open tote laws that had little to do with the protection of people and more to do with Blair's penchant for engineering social. seemed to ignore all that "I learned about the sanctity of individual freedom."

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Regardless of where the comedy comes out? Mullone said - what bothers me, so do not tell "- backed by the police in the wings" Would you not be able to do or say anything remotely interesting in a context where the mob mentality. ""

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anyone working in comedy is to scrape the outside in bad taste. No wonder that the actors get nervous.

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Kenwright profits shrink, but West End remains upbeat

benefit reduced by two thirds in major theaters Productions UK producer Bill Kenwright and "difficult" summer collection also can affect

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Bill Kenwright Productions, one of the largest producers of UK commercial theater, reduced by two thirds last year and the company has warned against a recession, even after difficult "" The show was their longest running, Blood Brothers, closed after 24 years.

According to the Liverpool Daily Post, the Group before tax increased from £ 2m in 2010 to £ 668,000 the following year, sales rose 13% to £ 30.9 million .

The fall is the Society of London Theatre association announced record revenues at the box office of over £ 528m by its members in 2011. Bill Kenwright Productions has been involved in a number of major productions such as The Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde and the South Pacific during the year.

Accounts submitted to Companies House also show that Kenwright is not paid a dividend last year on top of his £ 404,000 salary. He received an additional ? 3 million the previous year.

• However, a spokesman said the situation was unlikely to have improved in 2012, during which the company competes with the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Jubilee celebrations.

"We predicted that this summer would be difficult and, in fact, by all accounts, has been selling tickets to West End and poor emotional decision to take off Blood Brothers at Phoenix, which has tried entering its 25th year, "said the spokesman.

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The painful lessons of the Central Park Five and the jogger rape case | Jill Filipovic

unfinished saga of the Central Park rape case shows that if the police suspect forced the victim of a horrible crime multiply

The NYC quote Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker whose recent project involved the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of five men accused of raping and beating a woman in Central Park opens a wound in the history of New York, and raises questions about the strength and scope of the laws of New York journalists shield. You must also open an evolution of the real demand in the police investigation and interrogation tactics - to preserve the rights of the accused, and to protect the victims of crime.

more than 20 years, the Central Park rape case Corridor shook New York City, fueling racial tensions and stoke the flames of fear and frustration widespread crime and violence. The broker, banker aged 28, was brutally raped and beaten, she barely survived. A group of five black and Latino teenagers were involved in the crime. Four of the five confessed on videotape. Boys before retracting, but were convicted. The media storm surrounding the crime and the trial was stuck on the story of roving bands of children of ongoing projects "Wilding" attack innocent victims in the park and robbing, beating or worse.

More than a decade later, DNA evidence and the confession of the man tied to what proved the innocence of the "Central Park Five". They were released prison and his conviction was overturned. Three of the five - now men who spent much of his adult life in prison - sued the city in 2003. It is in this application that Burns images - images which, ironically, the city is doing everything possible to avoid being shot in the first place -. has been cited

Central Park jogger The case is particularly compelling because it goes against what we believe to be the right direction on convictions. A confession, it seems to me, is the absolute proof of guilt: why would anyone in their right mind would confess to a crime he did not commit? How could five boys all confess the crime itself if they were not really responsible?

What is the law and order and crime fiction thrillers do not tell you is that false confessions are surprisingly common. According to the Innocence Project, 25% of the accused were innocent exonerated with DNA evidence incriminating statements or admissions made by any account. A disproportionate number of those who falsely confess mental health problems or mental health problems, children and adolescents also regularly do not understand their rights during police interrogation. And false confessions are, unfortunately, an American tradition: already in 1692, 50 different women "confess" to witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.

The cops want to get nasty, but too often choose what they believe to be the most plausible story and made her catch. When police interrogate a subject which has determined that the person is probably guilty of the crime. The purpose of the examination is not to know the truth: it is to solidify the blame.

This view lends itself to a mentality where coercive interrogation techniques are justified. Most of the techniques used by the police

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Legal - lie to the person arrested, falsely claiming that there is evidence implicating the trunk, intimidated, which minimizes the crime and the possible consequences of making a confession seem like an easy solution. One of the most troubling coercive tactics insomnia is intentional, so that psychologically suspect more susceptible to suggestion. Lack of sleep may seem relatively harmless, but it has been widely used as a powerful instrument of torture. Depriving someone of sleep away your ability to think and act coherently. They have delusions and hallucinations and sleepiness becomes so desperate that private person, who often do almost anything for clemency - including, as in the case of Central Park, to admit the murder.

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took all his confessions to be formally arrested. These are the boys who were awake for almost two days and interrogated without a lawyer present, they were told that if they confessed they could return home. The stories in their confessions were incompatible with each other and with the physical evidence. Several of the boys said he had stabbed the victim, but there was no stabbing. Their stories varied in the crime scene, the victim's description and schedule of the crime itself. There was little physical evidence linking rape and beatings. They were tried and convicted anyway.

• Meanwhile, Matias Reyes, the man who raped and killed near Central Park runner, continued his series of serial violations throughout New York. Reyes was violently assaulted several women before the Central Park rape, including his own mother, the same year he committed aggression Central Park, which was also actively involved decomposition apartment and stabbed the woman in front of their victims they could not identify after being raped. He killed at least one of them.
• In 2002, while in prison for rape and murder, rape Reyes admitted to Central Park. DNA evidence tied him to the crime. It is significant that, even after a judge overturned the convictions of five Central Park, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was behind the work of the police five innocent young in prison

"The decision of the judge acquitted the accused or found collusion or coercion by the police."

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In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children | Susie Orbach

has come to something when the children of couples in conflict must inform their parents when they parted

bad breaks. It hurts like hell, even for the couple that caused the separation. And if there are children involved, the damage can be even greater - for children are a constant reminder that hope and love that has gone wrong has created. In a divorce, the pain may be aggravated by traditional legal "solutions".

A spectacular example of these truths emerged following the divorce case v Kavanagh Kavanagh, when the two parties - the lawyers themselves, middle-aged, presumably rational and three children - were able to squander his fortune £ 3 million in the fight against each other in court. Say financial consequences, of course, but also consider the emotional impact, including the impact on children.

inadvertently adversarial system exploits the pain and disappointment of broken relationships. It strives to relieve pain by turning antagonists former lovers whose interests are opposed to each other. Through these practices, the anger and rage are replacing broken hearts and set aside the possibility of mourning a lost love and think that children need both parents.

course, it is too easy to blame the lawyers when a bullish stance often seen by people who are divorced or devastated the contrary, he feels guilty. Awkward postures provide temporary protection against emotional pain and confusion continues.

But if antagonism becomes the path of compromise, both parties are stuck in a horrible pas de deux

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create a relationship in which the other is the enemy instead of a relationship that holds affection for what once was. The two are so intertwined than ever, but on the basis of the macabre hatred, anger and misunderstanding.

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and it is perhaps the point. Some people prefer to stay connected

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more than ever. If there is a third party involved, and with the old antipathy can often be used to enhance the potential cracks in the new relationship, especially if the relationship was illegal source. The concept of plot may persist with a constant need for unity against the "evil" wife or husband. There are a trio of foot, instead of a separate pair.

Nobody leaves a long-term relationship without conflict or unpunished. But as long as healing is interrupted by the continued belligerence on the side of one of the parties, as often happens when the law gets involved, it can be assumed that the belligerent is unstable. He or she uses to strengthen the attack emotional fragility and treat each other as if they were still in a company and have other emotional demands. When this happens on both sides, offers extremely difficult for children.

• In this regard, from the point of view of the child, a new HBO documentary

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excerpts of which can now be viewed online, promises good sense of children and adults was evident last week. "Try to ensure that their children receive both types of parents are like," "I say that I have no guilt", "learn to live" are some "rules" that offer children of divorce in the film. Common sense, you might think, but how often this lack of vision of their parents?

From the perspective of the child, there is rarely a good time for parents to separate, although there was a great shock and struggle. Children want what they grew up with (which is an argument in favor of a separation soon if the couple are really unable to cooperate). Change in family arrangements Found disconcerting and painful. If your parents were together until they are eight or 14 or even 19 and 26, their inner world is structured themselves in relation to the set-up.

This makes it more difficult or easy depends entirely on how the couple separates manage their own relationships and arrangements with children. At the very least, consistency is needed. It is also important that children are allowed to have a relationship with both parents without being inveigled in espionage or carrier message. "Do not put me in the middle," said one of the children in the HBO documentary.
Not for children to arrange things for parents. Not for children to take the attitude of a father who feels aggrieved and delivered to the other parent. Both parents should make sure they have the "clean" possible relationship with their children so that children can rely on their parents to care for them. The task of parents is to be there for their children, and not the reverse. Problems between parents must be spoken by friends and visited the children.

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We had to hide from the tally man

Laura Marcus in situations of poverty hidden in the rich stockbroker belt

Irecognised Mr. Micawber then when he crashed into the life of David Copperfield. Micawber Dickens based his father. He was my father. Often very funny, but wildly unpredictable and often unreliable. Sometimes we had money coming in, more often than not. Sometimes, my father was at work - and they are the best days. But I do not remember too clearly that many times he was not working, had no money and I had to hide the "whole person." Or duck behind the trees on the street if the mother saw the man in the commission of the price collection. "I'll give you a pound a week," he said when we could not prevent it. He groaned and decided to "give it a turn." We all knew, however, that this book week stopped suddenly and we would like to hide.

Once we were seven days after being kicked out of the house, my parents, the property theory. I have no idea what I never did get a mortgage or, indeed, miraculously clung to our house. But they did. And we never went hungry. In fact, we ate pretty well. Sometimes wealthy Americans packets sent parents beautiful clothes again. Pygmalion do at school, our English teacher talked about how George Bernard Shaw was an expression for families who, like us, were in the middle class neighborhood remains low genteel poverty. Again, I found a reference in the literature that summarizes my life. This should be comforting, because we were clearly recognizable type - but it was

hidden Growing up in poverty in the boom years of the late 50s and 60s, Surrey shames me most of the time rich. He wanted to be like my friends with their mat houses (this was long before fashion wooden floors), central heating, thick velvet curtains shut out the world is scary and makes them feel safe, warm and caring.

I never had that feeling, I never felt safe. I've always been afraid of the knock on the door, back staircase. As the oldest of the four, none of our situation I had.

There were good times, though. For a while we had a nice family car Vauxhall Victor, I loved the fighting in and affectionately called Vicky, as if it were a friend. Then came another blow. We returned from school one day and disappeared. A family friend suggested that it might be better if my parents sold the house and to warn. It has ceased to be a friend of the family.

In the long economic boom that followed the Second World War, who lives in a city with many jobs, how is that my father never found - or rather, keep - post regular? Unfortunately, he suffered from a mental illness and out, and diabetes, which he never fully mastered. This may have caused some of the erratic behavior that makes it difficult for him to keep a job. And be a proud man, always walked with a slight real or imagined.

was incredibly intelligent but frustrated. He had suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of 16 years during the war, while studying for his tuition. He rarely spoke of it, except to say that he remembered was immersed in baths of hot and cold water. It was a condition of his release, he gave to his studies. At age 11, he had approved a grant to study in one of the best grammar schools in London, but his mother did not allow him to go to the place he was sent to a Jewish school to train as a rabbi.

• saw their report cards and was clearly struggling with hours of religious instruction, which he hated. I know that I have a brain and courage because he wrote an account of his time as a soldier in Israel impressive. It would have flourished if it had been authorized academic. I speculate, but I suspect that his ambitions were frustrated by what later suffered outages.
It was my father's frequent bouts of mental illness that seemed shameful or embarrassing. It was the lack of money. It was, for me, more stigma attached to it. Thus, even if I hated the days, my father did not dress or open the curtains, it was difficult to explain to friends who visit as a "cold." I was worried that he could not buy the latest fashions, go shopping or Saturday in the photos or the local dance. Friends activities for granted. All children love never necessary. It was hard enough to be the only Jewish family in Surrey clogged monocultural smug, and even more difficult to be unsuitable twice.

However, I realized long ago that the majority of children felt like outsiders or fraud at any given time. So do not look back in anger, frustration or anger even. There was always an abundance of love, my parents insisted that accounts for more than money. So what if we had nothing but torn sheets on the floor and Jack Frost every winter? We were bathed in love. Many children had everything they wanted, but they have the security of knowing how much he loved my parents told me. Pooey, I thought, and sometimes - when was particularly nasty - I have to say. What was love if we never had a holiday - not one - never go out and buy shoes could save only one in the city that gave us credit and never sold anything in the log Jackie

What a horrible, wretched boy, that was me. But I just wanted to be like everyone else. Getting lost in the anonymity of Ravel bright patent leather shoes, skirts and patterned socks rafters.

mother did her best to provide these much coveted post-trafficking, as well as bases. He worked most of the time, despite having four children, but that was before equal pay and sex discrimination Acts therefore never earned enough money. We received benefits, but it added to my shame and fear of being discovered. Often claimed that my father was at work when he was not.

Maybe that's why I never had children. I was terrified to inflict the same insecurity in them - even if I was in a solid, loving relationship for 23 years. So clearly assimilated the values ??my parents put love at the center of my life. I finally realized values ??are worth more and are more durable to be able to buy the latest fashions.

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