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Ο Δρ. Κωνσταντίνος Κόμπος είναι εκ των ιδρυτικών μελών του Τμήματος Νομικής του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου στο οποίο διορίστηκε ως Λέκτορας Δημοσίου Δικαίου και Δικαίου της ΕΕ το 2006, ανελίχθηκε σε Επίκουρο Καθηγητή τον Ιούλιο του 2011 και σε Αναπληρωτή Καθηγητή το Σεπτέμβριο του 2016. Διετέλεσε Λέκτορας Δημοσίου Δικαίου και Δικαίου της ΕΕ στο University of HULL (UK) από το 2003 έως το 2006.
Έχει πτυχίο Νομικής (University of Hull, LLB, 1999), μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές (LLM in European Law, University of Cambridge, U.K., Corpus Christi College) και διδακτορικό δίπλωμα (Ph.D., University of Hull, U.K. Doctoral Thesis on 'The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the ECJ: A Micro-Macro Analysis', awarded with Distinction). Την περίοδο 2001-2003 επιλέγηκε ως Graduate Teaching Assistant (University of Hull) στο προπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα σπουδών. Έχει λάβει υποτροφίες και βραβεία από διάφορους οργανισμούς (Research Grant από A.G.Leventis Foundation, Josephine Onoh Memorial Scholarship, Scholarship by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Andrew Marvell Jackson Prize/Lewenstein Price Fund, German Public Law Prize, University of Hull, Scholarship by Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation).
Από το 2014 είναι μέλος της ομάδας νομικών που συμβουλεύουν τον ελληνοκύπριο Διαπραγματευτή και τον Προέδρο της Δημοκρατίας στις συνομιλίες για την επίλυση του Κυπριακού προβλήματος. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, διετέλεσε μέλος διαφόρων Ομάδων Εργασίας και συμμετείχε στις διαπραγματεύσεις που έγιναν στην Κύπρο, Geneva, Crans Montana. Επιπλέον, ορίστηκε από τον Προέδρο της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων (2015) ως ειδικός εμπειρογνώμονας σε σχέση με την εφαρμογή και την επίδραση της αρχής Fratelli Costanzo στο Κυπριακό Σύνταγμα. Είναι επίσης εκ των συντακτών της μελέτης για την εισαγωγή νομοθετικού πλαισίου για τη σύγκρουση συμφερόντων κατόπιν ανάθεσης της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων (2015). Το 2016 ορίστηκε από το Ανώτατο Δικαστήριο να διεξάγει στατιστική ανάλυση της νομολογίας ως προς τις εφέσεις. Το 2014 ορίστηκε από το Γενικό Εισαγγελέα ως Agent για την Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ενώπιων της Ολομέλειας του ΔΕΕ στην Opinion 2/13, Accession of the EU to the ECHR. Ασχολήθηκε με ζητήματα ιδιωτικοποιήσεων, ενώ 4 φορές κλήθηκε ως εμπειρογνώμονας στην Επιτροπή Νομικών της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων κατά τη συζήτηση της νομοθετικής ρύθμισης της διαδικασίας προδικαστικής παραπομπής (2007-2009). Την περίοδο 2013-2017 διορίστηκε Προέδρος της Επιτροπής Αξιολόγησης του Κυσατς για πτυχία Νομικής και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών. Την περίοδο 2014-15 διορίστηκε από το Συμβούλιο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου ως Προέδρος της Επιτροπής Διερεύνησης της λειτουργίας του Ωκεανογραφικού Κέντρου. Το 2017 κλήθηκε ως Ειδικός Εμπειρογνώμονας από την EU Scoping Mission για τη Μεταρρύθμιση των Κυπριακών Δικαστηρίων.
Έχει συντονίσει αριθμό ερευνητικών προγραμμάτων, ενώ έχει συμμετάσχει σε διεθνή ερευνητικά προγράμματα και έχει διατελέσει εθνικός ανταποκριτής (reporter) σε πλειάδα ερευνών και δημοσιεύσεων για δίκαιο ΕΕ, συνταγματικό δίκαιο, δημόσιο δίκαιο, εργατικό δίκαιο, δίκαιο ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων, προστασίας whistleblowers, συγκριτικού δίκαιου και τοπικής αυτοδιοίκησης. Έχει εκπροσωπήσει την Κύπρο σε σειρά Fide Congresses, Comparative Law Congresses, Constitutional LAw Congresses (Icon), ενώ ήταν national co-reporter για το United Kingdom in 2006 Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law on the theme of European Constitutionalism.
Είναι Πρόεδρος του Cypriot Society for Comparative Law. Διετέλεσε επίσης επισκέπτης ερευνητής στο Waseda University Tokyo (2017), στο Boston College of Law (2018) και στο National University of Singapore (2016) και δίδαξε στην Academy of European Public Law/European Public Law Organisation (2016). Διετέλεσε Αντιπροεδρος του Τμηματος Νομικης.
Διδάσκει τα μαθήματα: Κυπριακό Συνταγματικό Δίκαιο Δίκαιο της ΕΕ 1 &2, Κυπριακό Δημόσιο Δίκαιο, Ευρωπαϊκό Δημόσιο Δίκαιο, Συγκριτικό Συνταγματικό Δίκαιο Έχει συγγράψει 5 βιβλία.
EU Law: Constitutional, Procedural, Institutional, Substantive
Cypriot Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutiional Law
European Public Law
Constitutional Theory
Selected publications and research works
• Kombos, C., The European Court of Justice and Judicial Activism: Myth or Reality? (Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas, 2010)
• Kombos, C. (ed), Studies in European Public Law: Thematic and Post-National Perspectives (Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas, 2010)
• Kombos, C., The Doctrine of Necessity in Constitutional Law (Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas, 2015)
• Kombos, C., The Impact of EU law on Cypriot Public Law (Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas, 2015)
• Kombos, C. and Constantinides, A., KritonTornaritis: A Selection of Writings with Contemporary Comments, (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2018)
Books Under Contract (confirmation by publisher provided)
• Kombos, C., Cypriot Constitutional Law (Nomiki Vivliothiki, forthcoming, under contract)
• Kombos, C., The Primacy of EU Law: Contending Constitutional Narratives (Berlin: Springer Publishing, forthcoming, under contract)
• Kombos, C., Action for Annulment and Locus Standi in EU administrative law (Berlin: LIT-Verlag Publishing, forthcoming, under contract)
Chapters in Books and Articles in Refereed Journals (selection)
• Kombos, C., "The Recent Case Law on Locus Standi of Private Applicants under Art. 230 (4) EC: A Missed Opportunity or A Velvet Revolution?", European Integration online Papers (EIoP) Vol. 9 (2005) N° 17, pp. 1-22
• Kombos, C., "Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: A Symbiosis on the Basis of Subsidiarity", (2006) 12 (3) European Public Law 433-460
• Kombos, C., "Locus Standi of Representative Groups in the Shadow of Plaumann: Limitations and Possible Solutions", (2006) 47 (4) Acta Juridical
Hungarica 373-404
• Kombos, C. and Hadjisolomou, M., "Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: a Dichotomy Transcended?", (2006) 10 (1) Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights 113-132
• Kombos, C. and Hadjisolomou, M., "The Traditional Distinction between International and Internal Armed Conflict: Legal Artefact or Legal Fact?", (2006) 10 (2) Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights 139-156
• Kombos, C. and Hadjisolomou, M., "The Mechanisms Used by the ILO and the EU in Combating Employment Discrimination in Pay: Converging Divergence?", Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, vol 11.2, September 2007, pp. 1-39
• Kombos, C., "A Paradox in the Making: Detecting Something Positive in UPA Under the Ten Kate Effect", (2009) 15 (4) European Law Journal 506-535
• Birkinshaw, P. and Kombos, C., "The UK Approach to the Emergence of European Constitutionalism - Repositioning the Debate: Departure from Constitutional Ontology and the Introduction of the Typological Discussion", in Arnold, R., The Emergence of European Constitutional Law, (Athens: Sakkoulas and Brussels: Bruylant, 2009), p. 35-75
• Kombos, C., "The Esoteric Dimension of Constitutional Pluralism", in Birkinshaw, P. and Varney, M. (ed), The End of the 1992 Legal Order, (Kluwer, 2010), pp. 291-323
• Kombos, C., "The Supreme Court's of Cyprus and the CJEU's Approach to Standing for Judicial Review and to the Preliminary Reference Procedure" (2010) 16 (3) European Public Law 327-355
• Kombos, C., "The Judiciary in Federal Systems", in Krispi, A. and Constantinides, A., Cyprus Problem in Evolution – International Dimension, Issues of Governance, Human Rights (Athens: Sakkoulas: 2010), pp. 81-113
• Kombos, C., "Le Droit de la Nècessitè à Chypre", in Agapiou, K. and Rossetto, J., La singularité de Chypre dansl'Unioneuropéenne (Paris: Mare and Martin, 2012), pp. 371-405
• Kombos, C., and Pantazi, A., "Human Rights post Lisbon-Cypriot Report", in Laffranque.J., The protection of fundamental rights post-Lisbon: the interaction between the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutions: FIDE 2012 Congress, Human Rights Thematic Unit (Tallinn: TUP, 2012), pp. 302-354
• Kombos, C., "Trade Union Representation in Cyprus: the right of association", in La Mechia, C., Representing Employee Interests: Trade Union systems within the EU, (CGIL, funded by the EU Commission) (Albacete: Editorial Bomarzo, 2013),pp. 101-135 (in English and Italian)
• Kombos, C., "Legitimacy and Judicial Activism: CJEU and Supreme Court of Cyprus", in Stragkas, I. et al., Justification, Legitimacy and Law, Legal theory Series, Volume 6, (Sakkoulas, Nomos, L' Harmattan, 2014), pp. 1421-1455 (in Greek)
• Kombos, C., "A Constitutional Shadow over Europe: the Economic Crisis", Stragkas, I. et al., Jus, Ars, Philosophia et Historia, (Sakkoulas, Nomos, 2017), pp. 591-613
• Kombos, C., Arestis, G., Kyriakou, N., "Human Rights in Cyprus: An Overview", in Merten, D. und Papier, H-J., Handbook of fundamental rights in Germany and Europe, (Heidelberg: C.F. Müller Verlag, 2016), pp. 855-96 (in German)
• Kombos, C., "National Report for Cyprus", in Jacqueson, C. et al., FIDE Congress 2014: Union Citizenship, Volume 2 (Copenhagen: Djøf Publishing, 2014), pp. 385-439
• Kombos, C., and Shaelou, S., "The Cypriot Constitution under the Impact of EU law: An Asymmetrical Formation", in Albi, A. and Bardutzky, S. (eds.) The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer Open, 2019), pp. 1373-1432.
• Kombos, C., and Arestis, G.,"Social Rights in Cyprus", in Iliopoulos-Strangas, J.(ed.), Soziale Grundrechte in den "neuen" Mitgliedstaaten der EU (Nomos, 2019), pp. 921-1001 (in German)
• Kombos, C., "Data Retention and Protection of Human Rights: Beyond the Call of Duty" (2015) 21 (2) European Public Law 411-429
• Kombos, C., "Protection and support for Whistleblowers: The Cypriot Experience", in Thuesing, G. and Forst, G. (eds), Whistleblowing-A Comparative Study. Ius Comparatum-Global Studies in Comparative Law, Volume 16 (Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 101-115
• Kombos, C., "Social Rights in the Republic of Cyprus", Wojtyczek, K. (ed), Social and Economic Rights as Fundamental Rights, (Den Haag: Eleven International Publishing, 2016), pp. 57-86
• Kombos, C., "Commentary on Articles 158-161 TFEU", in Blanke, H-J. and Mangiamelli, S. (eds), TFEU: a Commentary, (Springer, forthcoming, approved March 2016; still pending)
• Kombos, C.and Theodosiou, A., "Freedom of Expression and Religion: the Coexistence in the Cypriot Constitutional Order", in Synodinou, T. et al., Freedom of Expression of Journalists and Caricaturists (Athens: Sakkoulas, 2016), pp. 3-35 (in Greek)
• Kombos, C., "Local Administration in the Republic of Cyprus," National Report for Observatory of Local Government (OLA), University of Lille (online publication, 81 pages, approved February 2016, available at http://www.ola-europe.com/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/user_upload/ressources/monographie/mono_en/mono_chypre_en_2015.pdf&t=1478420187&hash=12e6dff06fef34df7ffa6ded61294708)
• Kombos, C., "The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Functioning of Institutions: the Cypriot Experience", in Tarchi, R. (ed.), Crisi economica ed impatto sulle istituzioni nazionali (www.Federalismi.it, numero especialle 26/2016, 2016), 30 pages.
• Kombos, C., "Division of Competences-The Cyprus Report", in Ziller, J. et al, Division of Competences and Regulatory Powers Between the EU and the Member States, Topic III, (Wolters Kluwer, 2016), pp. 89-114
• Kombos, C., "Developments in Cypriot Constitutional Law: the Year 2016 in Review", in Albert, Richard and Landau, David and Faraguna, Pietro and Drugda, Šimon, The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law (August 3, 2017). The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law. ISBN: 9780692925164. Published by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014378, pp. 52-57
• Kombos, C., "Developments in Cypriot Constitutional Law: the Year 2017 in Review", in Albert, Richard and Landau, David and Faraguna, Pietro and Drugda, Šimon, The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2017 Global Review of Constitutional Law (July 19, 2018). The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2017 Global Review of Constitutional Law. ISBN: 978-0-692-15916-3. Published by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy; FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 888; U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3215613, pp. 68-72
• Kombos, C., "Developments in Cypriot Constitutional Law: the Year 2018 in Review", in Albert, Richard and Landau, David and Faraguna, Pietro and Drugda, Šimon, I·CONnect-Clough Center 2018 Global Review of Constitutional Law (October 18, 2019). The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2018 Global Review of Constitutional Law. ISBN: 978-0-692-15916-3. Published by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3471638 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3471638, pp. 74-9
• Kombos, C., "Constitutional review and the Economic Crisis: in the Courts we trust?" (2019) 52 (3) Comparative Law Review 1 (Waseda University), pp. 1-56 (in Japanese)
• Kombos, C., "Constitutional review and the Economic Crisis: in the Courts we trust?", Part I, (2019) 25 (1) European Public Law 105, pp. 105-34
• Kombos, C., "Constitutional review and the Economic Crisis: in the Courts we trust?", Part II, (2019) 25 (2) European Public Law 229, pp. 229-48
• Kombos, C. and Erodotou, A., "(Un-)Constitutional Amendments: The Cypriot Paradigm" (2019) 25 (3) European Public Law 305, pp. 305-324
Forthcoming (reviewed, accepted and confirmed)
• Kombos, C., "Legal Pluralism and Constitutionalism in the Cypriot Example", in Tusseau, G. (ed.), Debating Legal Pluralism and Constitutionalism (Springer, confirmed publication date: February 2020), 52 pages
• Kombos, C. and Erodotou, A., "A 'bail-in' of social rights? The Cypriot experience of the financial crisis", in Becker, U. and Poulou, A. (ed.), Social Rights after the European Financial Crisis: The Constitution of the Welfare State under Pressure, (Oxford University Press, confirmed publication date: 2020), 31 pages
• Kombos, C. and Erodotou, A., "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights During the Crisis in Cyprus: The Interplay Between Domestic and External Normative Systems" (2020) Constitutional Review (confirmed publication date: December 2020), 25 pages
• Kombos, C., "The Rule of Law and the CJEU: Filling in the Political Gap?", European Politeia (accepted 1st May 2019, confirmed publication date: 2020), 17 pages (in English)
• Kombos, C., "Developments in Cypriot Constitutional Law: the Year 2019 in Review", in Albert, Richard and Landau, David and Faraguna, Pietro and Drugda, Šimon, I·CONnect-Clough Center 2019 Global Review of Constitutional Law (2020). The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2018 Global Review of Constitutional Law
• Barrows, N. and Greaves, R., The Advocate General and EC Law (Oxford University Press, 2007), in (2009) 15 European Public Law 139
• Countouris, N., The Changing Law of the Employment Relationship (Ashgate, 2007), in (2009) 13 (4) Electronic Journal of Comparative Law
• Piris, J-C., The Constitution of Europe: A Legal Analysis, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), in (2007) 44 Common Market Law Review 205
Dr. Constantinos Kombos is among the founding members of the Law Department, University of Cyprus. He was appointed as Lecturer of Public Law and EU law in 2006 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2001 and Associate Professor in 2016. Prior to his appointment to the University of Cyprus, he was Lecturer of Public Law and EU law at the University of Hull (UK) (2003-2006).
He was awarded an LLB (University of Hull, 1999), an LLM in European Law (University of Cambridge, U.K., Corpus Christi College) and a Ph.D. in Law (University of Hull, U.K. Doctoral Thesis on 'The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the ECJ: A Micro-Macro Analysis', awarded with Distinction). He was also appointed (2001-2003) as Graduate Teaching Assistant (University of Hull).
He has received various scholarships and grants during his studies (Research Grant από A.G.Leventis Foundation, Josephine Onoh Memorial Scholarship, Scholarship by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Andrew Marvell Jackson Prize/Lewenstein Price Fund, German Public Law Prize, University of Hull, Scholarship by Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation).
In terms of appointments and advisory services, he has been appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus as a member of the legal team advising the President of the Republic of Cyprus and the Greek Cypriot negotiator on the ongoing negotiations for the settlement of the Cyprus Problem (2014-present). In that context, he was also appointed as member of various Working Groups and took part in the negotiations in Cyprus, Geneva and Crans Montana. He was also appointed by President of House of Representatives to provide a Legal Opinion on the Fratelli Costanzo Principle and on its Impact on the Powers of legislature and on Cypriot Constitutional Law (May 2015). In 2015 he was appointed (with Aris Constantinides) by the House of Representatives to report on the need to reform the legislative framework on Conflict of Interest for all public (elected and appointed) officials. In 2014 he was appointed by the Attorney General of the Republic as Agent (Lawyer) for the Republic of Cyprus before the CJEU for Opinion 2/13, Accession of the EU to the ECHR. In 2016 he was appointed by the Supreme Court to conduct a statistical analysis in relation to the development of the case law and the work-load (appeal level) between 1960-2015. He appeared as 'Expert Witness' before the Legal Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, in relation to the adoption and subsequent amendment of the Law relating to the Preliminary Reference procedure (4 times between 2007-2009). In 2017 he was called as expert to give evidence before the EU Scoping Mission for the Reform of Cypriot Courts. He offered advice on issues of privatization and in the context of introducing the Privatization Law 2014 and the subsequent process (February 2014). He was also appointed as Chairman of the Committee on Social Sciences and Legal Studies of the Council of Recognition of Higher Qualifications (KYSATS) (2013-2017) and was appointed by the Council of the University of Cyprus as Chairman of the Special Committee tasked with conducting an Inquiry into the operation of the Oceanographic Centre (May 2014, Report submitted in January 2015).
He acted as coordinator for a number of research projects and has participated in numerous other research projects and as a national reporter leading to publications in the fields of EU law, constitutional law, public law, employment law, human rights, protection of whistleblowers, comparative law and local government. He represented Cyprus in various Fide Congresses, Comparative Law Congresses and Constitutional Law Congresses (Icon), while he was national co-reporter for the United Kingdom in 2006 Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law on the theme of European Constitutionalism.
He is Chairman of the Cypriot Society for Comparative Law. He was visiting researcher in Waseda University Tokyo (2017), National University of Singapore (2016) and Boston College (2018). He taught at the Academy of European Public Law/European Public Law Organisation (2016). He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Law Department.
He teaches: Constitutional Law, Law of the EU 1 &2, Cypriot Public Law, European Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Law. He is the author of 5 books.
EU law:Constitutional, Procedural,Institutional, Substantive
Comparative Constitutional law


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Bethlehem, Connecticut facts for kids
Bethlehem, Connecticut
Location in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Central Naugatuck Valley
Selectman-town meeting
19.7 sq mi (50.9 km2)
0.3 sq mi (0.7 km2)
190/sq mi (72/km2)
UTC-5 (Eastern)
Bethlehem is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,607 at the 2010 census, up from 3,422 at the 2000 census. The town center is a historic district and a census-designated place (CDP).
The town's name has prompted thousands of visitors each December to mail their Christmas cards at the local post office in order to get a "Bethlehem" postmark. The post office also has nearly 100 Christmas-related stamps for customers to decorate their envelopes during the holiday season.
Bethlehem is one of the two towns in Litchfield County served by the area code 203/area code 475 overlay. The other is the town of Woodbury.
Principal community
Abbey of Regina Laudis
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.7 square miles (51 km2), of which 19.4 square miles (50 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (1.53%) is water. The census-designated place (CDP) corresponding to the town center has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21 km2), of which 7.8 square miles (20 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (3.35%) is water.
At the eastern side of town is a ridge called "the Devil's Backbone", one of more than 30 Connecticut places named after the devil.
Bethlehem Village
1820 932 —
1870 750 −8.0%
1880 655 −12.7%
1900 576 6.1%
1930 644 20.1%
2010 3,607 5.4%
2014 (est.) 3,501 −2.9%
See also: List of Connecticut locations by per capita income
At the 2010 census Bethlehem had a population of 3,607. The racial composition of the population was 97.9% white, 0.4% black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% from some other race and 0.9% from two or more races. 1.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
At the 2000 census, there were 3,422 people, 1,246 households and 935 families residing in the town. The population density was 176.8 per square mile (68.2/km2). There were 1,388 housing units at an average density of 71.7 per square mile (27.7/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.49% White, 0.26% African American, 0.06% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races and 0.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.64% of the population.
There were 1,246 households, of which 35.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.9% were non-families. 19.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.11.
25.2% of the population were under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 30.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.4 males.
The median household income was $68,542 and the median family income was $78,863. Males had a median income of $51,623 compared with $37,500 for females. The per capita income was $29,672. About 0.5% of families and 2.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.
Voter registration and party enrollment as of October 29, 2019
Active voters
Inactive voters
Republican 942 7 949 33.32%
Democratic 687 10 697 24.47%
Unaffiliated 1,143 6 1,149 40.34%
Minor Parties 51 2 53 1.86%
Presidential Election Results
2020 39.6% 937 58.9% 1,393 1.5% 37
2016 34.7% 801 60.7% 1,405 4.6% 106
2008 45.2% 1,027 53.3% 1,214 1.5% 34
1996 37.1% 711 45.1% 867 17.8% 342
1984 31.2% 467 68.6% 1,026 0.2% 3
1976 41.8% 542 57.9% 755 0.3% 5
1968 40.2% 377 53.4% 502 6.4% 60
1964 61.6% 507 39.4% 330 0.00% 0
Route 61 is the main north-south road while Route 132 is the main east-west road through the town.
Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden, built in 1760 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The Bethlehem Green Historic District contains 63 properties and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Old Bethlehem Historical Society Museum
The town is home to the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis, founded in 1947, one of the first houses of contemplative Benedictine nuns in the United States. Robert Leather, a Protestant industrialist, donated 400 acres (1.6 km2) of land on which the convent is located. The convent now has 37 nuns.
The Abbey is known for its commitment to the arts, especially the performance of Gregorian Chant. The acting background of Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., has prompted the convent to sponsor annual summer theatre productions.
Hart has worked with fellow artists, including James and Dawn Douglas, to found The Act Association, a group that performs at The Gary-The Olivia Theater, an open-air venue which seats about 200 people. Built in 1982 with the help of actress Patricia Neal, this open-air theater seats about 200 people. Productions have included plays by Shakespeare, Sartre, opera and musical reviews. Patricia Neal and James Douglas appeared in She Stoops to Conquer in 1999.
Connecticut Garlic and Harvest Festival
Bethlehem Fair
Since 1970, elementary education has been handled by Regional School District 14, including Bethlehem Elementary School.
Nonnewaug High School in neighboring Woodbury is the primary regional high school.
The Woodhall School is a private high school located in town.
View of the center of Bethlehem by John Warner Barber (published 1836), said to be the earliest depiction of the town
Christine Baranski, actress, and her husband, the actor and playwright Matthew Cowles
Joseph Bellamy (1719–1790), influential Congregationalist theologian in the 18th century, was pastor at the Congregational church in town for 50 years, until his death
Dolores Hart, former actress who appeared with Elvis Presley, became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in town, ultimately becoming head (or "prioress") of the convent. Her formal title now is the Reverend Mother Dolores Hart.
David Leavitt (1791–1879), New York City banker, financier and art collector, born at Bethlehem to the Connecticut legislator and businessman David Leavitt Sr.
Noella Marcellino, Benedictine nun who earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut and became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in town. She won a Fulbright scholarship to France to collect and examine native strains of fungi from traditional cheese caves, with an emphasis on Geotrichum candidum, and stayed an additional three years on a grant from the French government in order to analyze the samples.
Bethlehem, Connecticut Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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by George Steiner
all worthwhile insights are at bottom local
It is notoriously difficult to make a strong case for the enduring vitality of criticism written for a weekly or monthly magazine. [...] of course we find, among other things, a variety of local insights or judgments that may seem to us, and often are, ephemeral. [...]
But then all worthwhile insights are at bottom local, or are founded on close readings of texts, sentenes, loosely or tightly formulated ideas. [...] To speak of Steiner's observations in such a reading as "local" is to say in fact only that he was willing to do the essential work of the critic acutely responsive to a novel he took to have some genuine value.
—p.2 Introduction by Robert Boyers (1) by Robert Boyers 3 years, 8 months ago
or commit suicide
Throughout 1938, these stern hopes seemed to wither. The choice before the artist grew ever more stark. He could, wrote Blunt in his Spectator piece for June 24th, either discipline himself to paint the world as it was, paint something else as mere frivolous distraction, or commit suicide. [...]
on Mexican artists
—p.17 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
Anthony Blunt's Marxist sentiments
The Marxist sentiments voiced in Blunt's art reviews and in his contribution to The Mind in Chains are banal. They constitute the widespread routine of anger of a middle-class generation caught up in the threefold context of Western economic deprivation, rising Fascism and Nazism, and what were believed to be the dynamic, libertarian successes of the Russian Revolution. Nothing Blunt writes exhibits any particular grasp either of the philosophical aspects of Marxist dialectical materialism or of the economic and labor theory on which this materialism is founded. It is parlor-pink talk in the approved nineteen-thirties style. Except, perhaps, in one respect. Blunt had arrived early at the conviction that great art, to which he ascribed preeminent value in human consciousness and society, could not survive the fragmented, anarchic, and always modish governance of private patronage and mass-media trivialization. If Western painting, sculpture, and architecture were to regain classic stature, they must do so under the control of an enlightened, educative, and historically purposeful state. [...] The art dealer and the private collector, the tycoon and the journalist-critic, as they mushroom under capitalism, cannot match such coherence. On the contrary, it is the cash nexus that has fatally split the world of art into the esoteric, at one end, and kitsch, and the other. [...] Blunt is shrewd enough to know that the price may be steep, at least during a period of historical transition. But how else are the arts, without which a man would recede into animality, to be rescued from their isolation, from the prostitution of the money market? It may well be because he found no other answer to this question that Anthony Blunt slid from undergraduate and salon Marxism into the practicalities of treason.
[...] We touch here on a problem about which I feel considerable ambivalence. The private ownership of great art, its seclusion from the general view of men and women, let alone from that of interested amateurs and scholars, is a curious business. The literal disappearance of a Turner or a van Gogh into some Middle Eastern or Latin-American bank vault to be kept as investment and collateral, the sardonic decision of a Greek shipping tycoon to put an incomparable El Greco on his yacht, where it hangs at persistent risk--these are phenomena that verge on vandalism. Ought there to be private possession of great art, with everything that such possession entails of material risk, of greed, of removal from the general currents of thought and feeling? [...] To say that private collectors, especially in the United States, have been generous in allowing scholarly guests to look at their treasures (not always, in fact) is no answer. Should mere wealth or the speculative fever of the investor determine the location, the accessibility of universal and always irreplaceable products in the legacy of man? There are times when I feel that the answer ought to be emphatically negative--that great art is not, cannot be, private property. But I am not certain. My conjecture is that Blunt was certain, and that the young scholar-connoisseur, barred from certain paintings and drawings of genius because they were locked up in private keeping, experienced a spasm of contemptuous loathing for capitalism. In the Soviet Union, he knew, great art hangs in public galleries. No scholars, no men and women wanting to mend their souls before a Raphael or a Matisse need wait, cap in hand, at the mansion door.
makes you think: why is there private possession of great art? why is great art valued so highly? could it because there's a surplus of capital with a deficit of productive ways to invest it!!?!?!
also: the difference between Blunt's era and now is that while one can, today, easily feel the same contempt for capitalism that he likely did, there is no comparable outlet for our feelings. there is no nation-state alternative to capitalism. there is no Soviet Union that we can spy for. obviously the Soviet Union was little more than an illusory alternative - in that it was a flawed implementation that wouldn't have fixed many of the negative aspects of capitalism - but now we have nothing! is that better or worse? i don't know.
its etymological roots
[...] "What a damn silly profession ours is" (wherein "profession" carries, as always in Greene, the pull of its etymological roots). [...]
just thought this was a cool way of expressing that meaning. referring to Graham Greene's The Human Factor
—p.67 God's Spies (61) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
the infinite becomes finite
There is not the least doubt that Pietro Catte in the abstract has no reality, any more than any other man on the face of the earth. But the fact remains that he was born and that he died, as those irrefutable certificates prove. And this endows him with reality in actual fact, because birth and death are the two moments at which the infinite becomes finite; and the infinite can have no being except through the finite. Pietro Catte attempted to escape from reality by hanging himself on that tree at Biscollai, but his was a vain hope, because one cannot erase one's own birth. This is why I say that Pietro Catte, like all the hapless characters in this story, is important, and ought to be interesting to everyone: if he does not exist, then none of us exist.
a quote by Salvatore Satta
—p.90 One Thousand Years of Solitude (86) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
[...] Its implicit picture of the globe as irremediably divided between American capitalism and Soviet Marxism is an oversimplification. There is, according to Orwell, a third way--that of "democratic Socialism." And it is the historical duty of Europe, after two homicidal and, basically, internal wars, to show that "democratic Socialism" can be made to work. A "Socialist United States of Europe" may be very difficult to bring about, argues Orwell, but it certainly not inconceivable. It may, in fact, hold the fragile, elusive key to human survival. [...]
Essay on George Orwell
—p.104 Killing Time (95) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler
I was soon confirmed in my suspicion that our relations with Jesus Christ were in reality no different from those we had had with Adolf Hitler six months or a year earlier. When we consider the songs and choruses that are sung to the honour and glory of any so-called extraordinary personality, no matter whom--songs and choruses like those we used to sing at the boarding house during the Nazi period and later--we are bound to admit that, with slight differences in the wording, the texts are always the same and are always sung to the same music. All in all these songs and choruses are simply an expression of stupidity, baseness, and lack of character on the part of those who sing them, The voice one hears in these songs and choruses is the voice of inanity--universal, worldwide inanity. All the educational crimes perpetrated against the young in educational establishments the world over are perpetuated in the name of some extraordinary personality, whether his name is Hitler or Jesus or whatever.
quoting Thomas Bernhard (Gathering Evidence)
—p.125 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
But there are losses
But there are losses. Marxism, being itself the product of an intelligentsia, notably in East Germany, felt committed to certain archaic, paternalistic ideals of high literacy, of literary-academic culture. Classical theatre and music, the publication of the classics flourished. Because it carried within its raucous facility and mass seductiveness the germ of anarchic protest, much of what is shoddiest in modernity, in the media, in down-market entertainment was kept (partly) at bay. Now the conductors and the performers are leaving the more than seventy symphony orchestras financed by the East German government. The professors are draining away. The poets, the thinkers wonder whether they can compete on the futures market of commercial choices. Oppression happens to be the mother of metaphor. In the supermarket, Goethe is a lossmaker. These losses, however, are, at an immediate level, luxury losses, and are perhaps recoverable. The minus signs on the balance sheet cut deeper but are much more difficult to define.
in an essay about Berthold Brecht, about the losses after the fall of the Berlin Wall
—p.129 B.B. (128) by George Steiner 3 years, 8 months ago
one or another form of the Gulag
When Marx, in the famous 1844 manuscripts, imagined a society in which love and solidarity, rather than money and competitive hatreds, would be exchanged among human beings, he was simply rephrasing the summons to transcendence of Jeremiah, of Amos, and of the Gospels. When he urged a kingdom of social justice, of classless fraternity on earth, he was translating into secular terms the sunburst of the messianic. We know—I suppose we always knew—that such summonings were Utopian: that human beings are more or less gifted carnivores; and that man is wolf to man. What is even grimmer, we know now—and should have known since the Utopian fantasies of Plato—that ideals of equality, of communal rationality, of self-sacrificial austerity can be enforced only at totally unacceptable costs. Human egotism, the competitive pulse, the lust for waste and display can be suffocated only by tyrannical violence. And, in turn, those who practice such violence themselves wither into corruption. Ineluctably, collectivist-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.
awakened to junk food
[...] It is better to have been hallucinated by justice than to have been awakened to junk food. [...]


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Home » Bollywood News » Aditi Rao Hydari On Losing Out Hollywood Projects: "The Makers Felt I Don't Look Conventional Indian"
Aditi Rao Hydari On Losing Out Hollywood Projects: "The Makers Felt I Don't Look Conventional Indian"
Recently, Nushrat Bharucha revealed that she got rejected by the makers of Slumdog Millionaire.
A lot of Indian actresses get rejected from international and foreign films strange reasons. Recently, Nushrat Bharucha revealed that she got rejected by the makers of Slumdog Millionaire. Now even Aditi Rao Hydari shared that she was rejected from international projects due to her looks.
The Rockstar actress told Hindustan Times that she lost international films as the makers felt she didn't look Indian enough. Aditya shared, "I've lost international films, and in most cases the makers felt I don't look conventional Indian… It's surprising how I have been told that I look different quite a number of times. Had it happened once I would have still ignored. There are instances when even after giving a good audition, the role did not come to me."
She added, "Later when I saw who they cast, it was evident why I got rejected… I don't want to name those films as that would not be the right thing to do."
The Sky Is Pink Director Shonali Bose Reveals Why She Made The Film & It Has An Emotional Connect
Milind Sonam Is Moving Ahead Of All The 'Barriers' As He Speaks About The 26 Year Age Gap With Wife Ankita Konwar!
When asked if she regrets losing out on these projects, Aditi Rao Hydari said that she isn't someone who regrets after making a decision. She believes in staying strong and make the best of what she has with all her heart and positivity.
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import com.twitter.io.TempDirectory
import java.io.File
import java.net.InetAddress
import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer
import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfter, FunSuite}
import org.scalatest.junit.JUnitRunner

@RunWith(classOf[JUnitRunner])
class ServerCnxnFactoryTest extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfter  {
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  var testServer: ZooKeeperServer = null
  var tmpDir: File = null

  before {
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  after {
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    factory.startup(testServer)
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Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia announced the commission of a new American opera, DARK SISTERS, composed by Nico Muhly with libretto by Stephen Karam, conducted by Neal Goren, and directed by Rebecca Taichman at The Chelsea Art Museum on Thursday, October 28. The three organizations have co-commissioned and will co-produce the opera, which will have its World Premiere in November 2011 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC, one of the first works to be presented at the Theater following the creation of a new lobby at the space. The cast will be headed by Caitlin Lynch and Kevin Burdette, with Kristina Bachrach, Jennifer Check, Eve Gigliotti, Brenda Harris, and Jennifer Zetlan. Dark Sisters will also be presented in June 2012 as part of the Opera Company of Philadelphia's chamber opera series at the Perelman Theater.


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Max Verstappen anger after missing out on pole position for the Mexican Grand Prix had nothing to do with him missing out on the record for Formula 1's youngest pole-sitter. In what was likely Verstappen's final chance to take the record off Sebastian Vettel, the Dutchman was pipped right at the last by Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo.
Red Bull are not expected to challenge for pole in Brazil or Abu Dhabi, while Verstappen will move beyond Vettel's age from his 2008 Monza pole over the winter break.
Verstappen's father, Jos, said that Ricciardo's celebrations had inspired his son to get the better of his teammate in Sunday's race.
However, the Dutchman says that the untimely return of an engine-breaking issue was the main source of his frustration.
"I was mainly very angry because of the problems I had with my engine during qualifying," Verstappen said.
"That weekend I was clearly fastest, but for 75 seconds I wasn't. I was literally pissed off.
"And of course every little thing that comes with it makes me even more angry.
"I wouldn't even say it… But I could literally do some damage to someone if somebody would say something wrong to me after qualifying, that angry I was. Every little thing makes it even worse.
"For me I was not really after the youngest pole record. I don't think Lewis [Hamilton] really cares that he's not the youngest polesitter, with five titles, you know what I mean? It's not a big deal.
"Just fighting for pole, that was the target.
"For me it felt like I never really had a great opportunity, compared to some other qualifying sessions where felt like it was great, a good feeling, and then you're only P3 or P5 sometimes, but it felt like it was a good session.
"This felt horrible, and then you're still second by such a small margin."
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Academic journal article Comparative Drama
"Killing, Hewing, Stabbing, Dagger-Drawing, Fighting, Butchery": Skin Penetration in Renaissance Tragedy and Its Bearing on Dramatic Theory
By Goth, Maik
From Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (ca. 1582-92) to John Ford's The Broken Heart (published in 1633), Renaissance tragedies bear witness to the histrionic appeal of onstage stabbing. (1) A particularly effective example figures at the end of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus (ca. 1593-94). When Titus exclaims, "witness my knife's sharp point" to announce his murder of Tamora and the consummation of his revenge, the imperative also draws attention to the knife paused in midair. (2) This creates a powerful moment of suspense that proclaims the violent encounter between knife and skin not only to Titus's victim, but also to playgoers. (3) Shakespeare's playing with the audience's excitement for and enjoyment of such violence highlights the early modern fascination with theatrical skin penetration and the generic expectations of tragedy. (4) The popularity of onstage stabbings throughout the Renaissance provoked Stephen Gosson to include "murther ... violent by sworde" among the faults of tragedy (Plays Confuted in Flue Actions, 1582); more elaborately, I. G. (John Greene?) differentiated between "killing, hewing, stabbing, dagger-drawing, fighting, butchery" in his Refutation of the Apology for Actors (1615). (5) Although skin penetration was thus perceived as a defining aspect of tragedy by Renaissance writers, (6) it has received little critical attention so far. This is especially surprising as over the past fifteen years, literary and dramatic criticism has explored the significance of the Renaissance body, dead and alive, in the drama and poetry of the early modern period. (7) Also, in 2003, Steven Connor published The Book of Skin, a cultural-philosophical examination that elaborates on the historical and contemporaneous implications of skin; among others, he discusses the term complexion in Shakespeare's plays. (8)
One reason for the neglect of skin penetration in drama criticism may be that stabbing is only one of many possible ways to die in Renaissance tragedies. Dramatists were indeed particularly resourceful in continuously inventing spectacular and gruesome deaths, which also involved poison, death traps, unfortunate accidents, and mutilation. I contend that skin penetration warrants a detailed analysis because its histrionic onstage representation illustrates critical notions of the workings of tragedy and reflects early modern views of the body's vulnerability. The precariousness of skin as the fragile boundary between the interior and the exterior is perhaps best illustrated by the early modern physician Helkiah Crooke, who remarks that "there is betwixt vs and our dissolution, not an inch boord, but a tender skinne, which the slenderest violence euen the cold aire is able to slice through." (9) Engaging in the interaction between skin and violence, and the discourses of tragedy and the body, this article assesses the representation of skin penetration with regard to its theatrical and dramatic aspects. It addresses the performative opening of the carnal envelope from the vantage point of stage pragmatics, before focusing on the way skin penetration was thematized and enacted in Renaissance drama. This article also expands upon the relevance of medical imagery, more precisely that of surgery, in protracted stabbings. What makes such a discussion especially valid is the use of surgical metaphors of skin penetration in theoretical assessments of tragedy, which suggests a conceptual continuity between the theory and practice of drama.
II. Staging Skin Penetration
From the Elizabethan to the Caroline age, tragedies abounded with sensationalist displays of blood and violence, which were in no small part indebted to the influence of Seneca. (10) This predilection for bloody scenes was shared by playgoers and dramatists alike: to the former, it was a much-anticipated spectacle, to the latter, an integral part of their artistic vision and commercial feasibility. …
Publication: Comparative Drama
Publication date: Summer 2012
Goth, Maik
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The Influence of Robert Garnier on Elizabethan Drama By Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon; Albert S. Cook Yale University Press, 1924
Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama By Forker, Charles R. Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 23, 2010
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Rev. George Huddesford (1749–1809) was a painter and a satirical poet in Oxford. His first work was described by Fanny Burney as a "vile poem" as it revealed that she had written the novel, Evelina.

Life
Huddesford was baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, on 7 December 1749. His father, also George Huddesford, was the president of Trinity College. He attended Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. His elder brother, William, was to become a leading creator of the Ashmolean Museum.

Huddesford left his father's college and became a fellow of New College in 1771. Huddesford resigned the fellowship as a result of his marriage a year later. It was said that Huddesford had married in haste and unwisely driven by youthful enthusiasm for his prospective wife.

Huddesford was an amateur painter and was a student of Joshua Reynolds after he left Oxford. Huddesford was able to have several paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy before 1775. He had carried out several paintings in oil, including a full-length portrait of George Lee, the Earl of Lichfield. Joshua Reynolds in turn captured Huddesford in a painting that Huddesford had commissioned, with his good friend John Bampfylde and also complete a painting of Mrs Huddesford. Huddesford's self-portrait from about 1780 is in the collection of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford.

His satire 'Warley, A Satire' was published anonymously in 1778 and was dedicated to Joshua Reynolds. This work was called a "vile poem" by Fanny Burney as it revealed that she was the author of Evelina, a novel she had published anonymously as well as revealing a pet name that had been given to her by Samuel Johnson. Other satirical poems followed with "the French" and rigged elections as targets of his wordplay. One later work was a collection of poetry by old fellow Winchester College students which was called the "Wiccamical Chaplet".

In 1791, Huddesford wrote a comic verse anonymously on the subject of the death of Thomas Warton (the younger) who had been Professor of poetry in Oxford, and a friend to Samuel Johnson, Reynolds and Edmund Burke. This large poem compares Warton to a college cat and it is titled, "Monody on the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat." The poem is littered with clever puns and allusions. The painting of him with John Bampfylde shows the two of them admiring a portrait of Thomas Warton who was master of Winchester College. Huddesford and Bampfylde were close friends, but their relationship was destroyed by the onset of Bampfylde's insanity. Having proposed to Reynolds' niece Mary Palmer (later wife of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond), he was turned down, and expelled from the house by Reynolds; Bampfylde was then arrested for breaking Reynolds's windows. He was eventually sent to a mental asylum where he was kept for twenty years. It is said that Bampfylde regained his sanity but died of tuberculosis shortly after reclaiming his freedom.

Huddesford joined the church in the six years before his death in London. His connections had brought him the living of Loxley in Warwickshire and "Sir George Whelkers Chapel" in London.

Works

 Warley, a Satire (anon.), part i., October 1778; part ii., November 1778
 Salmagundi: a Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry (anon.), 1791
 Topsy Turvy; with Anecdotes and Observations illustrative of the Present Government of France (anon.), 1793
 Bubble and Squeak: a Gallimaufry of British Beef with the Chopp'd Cabbage of Gallic Philosophy and Radical Reform (anon.), 1799.
 Crambe Repetita, a Second Course of Bubble and Squeak (anon.), 1799.
 Les Champignons du Diable, or Imperial Mushrooms, 1805.
 The Scum Uppermost when the Middlesex Porridge-pot Boils Over: an Heroic Election Ballad, 1802; two editions.
 Wood and Stone, or a Dialogue between a Wooden Duke [of Northumberland] and Stone Lion [over his house at Charing Cross, London], c. 1802.
 Bonaparte: an Heroic Ballad: with a Sermon in its Belly..., 1803.
 The Wiccamical Chaplet, a Selection of Original Poetry, Leigh, Sotheby and Son, 1804. (Editor)

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require_relative '../../spec_helper'
require_relative 'fixtures/classes'

describe "String#casecmp independent of case" do
  it "returns -1 when less than other" do
    "a".casecmp("b").should == -1
    "A".casecmp("b").should == -1
  end

  it "returns 0 when equal to other" do
    "a".casecmp("a").should == 0
    "A".casecmp("a").should == 0
  end

  it "returns 1 when greater than other" do
    "b".casecmp("a").should == 1
    "B".casecmp("a").should == 1
  end

  it "tries to convert other to string using to_str" do
    other = mock('x')
    other.should_receive(:to_str).and_return("abc")

    "abc".casecmp(other).should == 0
  end

  ruby_version_is ""..."2.5" do
    it "raises a TypeError if other can't be converted to a string" do
      lambda { "abc".casecmp(mock('abc')) }.should raise_error(TypeError)
    end
  end

  ruby_version_is "2.5" do
    it "returns nil if other can't be converted to a string" do
      "abc".casecmp(mock('abc')).should be_nil
    end
  end

  it "returns nil if incompatible encodings" do
    "あれ".casecmp("れ".encode(Encoding::EUC_JP)).should be_nil
  end

  describe "in UTF-8 mode" do
    describe "for non-ASCII characters" do
      before :each do
        @upper_a_tilde  = "Ã"
        @lower_a_tilde  = "ã"
        @upper_a_umlaut = "Ä"
        @lower_a_umlaut = "ä"
      end

      it "returns -1 when numerically less than other" do
        @upper_a_tilde.casecmp(@lower_a_tilde).should == -1
        @upper_a_tilde.casecmp(@upper_a_umlaut).should == -1
      end

      it "returns 0 when numerically equal to other" do
        @upper_a_tilde.casecmp(@upper_a_tilde).should == 0
      end

      it "returns 1 when numerically greater than other" do
        @lower_a_umlaut.casecmp(@upper_a_umlaut).should == 1
        @lower_a_umlaut.casecmp(@lower_a_tilde).should == 1
      end
    end

    describe "for ASCII characters" do
      it "returns -1 when less than other" do
        "a".casecmp("b").should == -1
        "A".casecmp("b").should == -1
      end

      it "returns 0 when equal to other" do
        "a".casecmp("a").should == 0
        "A".casecmp("a").should == 0
      end

      it "returns 1 when greater than other" do
        "b".casecmp("a").should == 1
        "B".casecmp("a").should == 1
      end
    end
  end

  describe "for non-ASCII characters" do
    before :each do
      @upper_a_tilde = "\xc3"
      @lower_a_tilde = "\xe3"
    end

    it "returns -1 when numerically less than other" do
      @upper_a_tilde.casecmp(@lower_a_tilde).should == -1
    end

    it "returns 0 when equal to other" do
      @upper_a_tilde.casecmp("\xc3").should == 0
    end

    it "returns 1 when numerically greater than other" do
      @lower_a_tilde.casecmp(@upper_a_tilde).should == 1
    end

    ruby_version_is "2.4" do
      it "does not case fold" do
        "ß".casecmp("ss").should == 1
      end
    end
  end

  describe "when comparing a subclass instance" do
    it "returns -1 when less than other" do
      b = StringSpecs::MyString.new "b"
      "a".casecmp(b).should == -1
      "A".casecmp(b).should == -1
    end

    it "returns 0 when equal to other" do
      a = StringSpecs::MyString.new "a"
      "a".casecmp(a).should == 0
      "A".casecmp(a).should == 0
    end

    it "returns 1 when greater than other" do
      a = StringSpecs::MyString.new "a"
      "b".casecmp(a).should == 1
      "B".casecmp(a).should == 1
    end
  end
end

ruby_version_is "2.4" do
  describe 'String#casecmp? independent of case' do
    it 'returns true when equal to other' do
      'abc'.casecmp?('abc').should == true
      'abc'.casecmp?('ABC').should == true
    end

    it 'returns false when not equal to other' do
      'abc'.casecmp?('DEF').should == false
      'abc'.casecmp?('def').should == false
    end

    it "tries to convert other to string using to_str" do
      other = mock('x')
      other.should_receive(:to_str).and_return("abc")

      "abc".casecmp?(other).should == true
    end

    it "returns nil if incompatible encodings" do
      "あれ".casecmp?("れ".encode(Encoding::EUC_JP)).should be_nil
    end

    describe 'for UNICODE characters' do
      it 'returns true when downcase(:fold) on unicode' do
        'äöü'.casecmp?('ÄÖÜ').should == true
      end
    end

    describe "when comparing a subclass instance" do
      it 'returns true when equal to other' do
        a = StringSpecs::MyString.new "a"
        'a'.casecmp?(a).should == true
        'A'.casecmp?(a).should == true
      end

      it 'returns false when not equal to other' do
        b = StringSpecs::MyString.new "a"
        'b'.casecmp?(b).should == false
        'B'.casecmp?(b).should == false
      end
    end

    describe "in UTF-8 mode" do
      describe "for non-ASCII characters" do
        before :each do
          @upper_a_tilde  = "Ã"
          @lower_a_tilde  = "ã"
          @upper_a_umlaut = "Ä"
          @lower_a_umlaut = "ä"
        end

        it "returns true when they are the same with normalized case" do
          @upper_a_tilde.casecmp?(@lower_a_tilde).should == true
        end

        it "returns false when they are unrelated" do
          @upper_a_tilde.casecmp?(@upper_a_umlaut).should == false
        end

        it "returns true when they have the same bytes" do
          @upper_a_tilde.casecmp?(@upper_a_tilde).should == true
        end
      end
    end

    ruby_version_is "2.4" do
      it "case folds" do
        "ß".casecmp?("ss").should be_true
      end
    end

    ruby_version_is "2.4" ... "2.5" do
      it "raises a TypeError if other can't be converted to a string" do
        lambda { "abc".casecmp?(mock('abc')) }.should raise_error(TypeError)
      end
    end

    ruby_version_is "2.5" do
      it "returns nil if other can't be converted to a string" do
        "abc".casecmp?(mock('abc')).should be_nil
      end
    end
  end
end


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My husband watches YouTube on the toilet while I'm left alone with our twins
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"He also spends up to EIGHT HOURS a day playing video games. It's got to the point I've started turning off the wifi."
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It's always tricky finding your feet in the early days of parenthood. And while many women have to take on the bulk of the caring responsibilities while they are breastfeeding, there's no doubt that plenty are juggling the mental load of childcare too. While it can take some time to accept that your carefree days of looking after no-one but yourself are over, many women just get on with it - if they didn't, y'know, their kids would die - while blokes, more often than not, go back to work and (sleep deprivation aside) their lives more or less return to normal.
But what if BOTH parents are on extended parental leave and Mum is still doing the bulk of the child-rearing? What happens then? And what if while the mum is looking after the kids the dad is taking the piss? Literally. One mum has taken to reddit with this exact issue, asking if she's being unreasonable.
"Any time my husband should be doing something with the children, he ALWAYS goes to the bathroom first." Oh, sister. We hear you. Loud and clear.
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"His average session is 25 minutes long"
She explains that their twins are less than a year old, they're both on parental leave and "over the past couple of months he has been spending more and more time in there. He always takes his phone. He is always watching YouTube. His average session is 25 minutes in there, often longer."
She concedes that he does have to take medication which can occasionally mean he has to go, but that he takes it intermittently and when she approached his doctor for advice, the doctor said it shouldn't be affecting him so strongly and perhaps he should come in for a check-up - which her husband refuses to do.
She said the most frustrating thing is when it comes to feeding time, she's dealing with the palaver of warming up two bottles, wiping bums, burping and trying to get one settled, while he has checked out. "In ten days, only twice has he not ditched me to go camp out in the bathroom and let me finish 80 percent of the childcare." On top of that, he spends his spare time playing video games - up to eight hours a day!
She said she's instigated a new rule: If he's gone longer than 10 minutes, she switches off the wifi. It's had the desired effect - he gets out of the bathroom quicker - but it's caused tension in their relationship. "He feels I'm being unreasonable and I need to make sure sleep deprivation isn't making me an a**hole."
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"She might as well be a single parent"
Not surprisingly, the internet had her back. "What kind of man f*cks around on the internet while his baby screams and cries?" one asked.
"Yeah honestly, if she has to act like a single parent, she might as well be one," said another, while a third added, "I really hope she shows him this thread. Hopefully, he realises that most people feel that this is totally unacceptable... His family deserves much better than what he is giving right now."
Others wondered what going to the loo had to do with evading childcare: "You can hold a baby while you're on the toilet. They don't care!" said one, and yep, been there! My kid spent most of his early life in the bathroom with me. No permanent damage. "Just let them hang with you while you poop," the poster said.
A couple of people suggested he may have depression, but most agreed this was no excuse. "I have depression. Don't give people the pass that they can neglect their families shame-free because of it," said one, while another agreed, "you can have depression but still be an asshole," adding, " he's selfish and lazy and irresponsible."
Either way, everyone agreed she needed to have it out with him as there was no way they were sharing the duties equally. "How can he say with a straight face 'you're only feeling this way because you're sleep-deprived!' If she's sleep-deprived and he's not, that just proves her point."
They suggested it was definitely grounds for couples counselling, if not a separation. "I'd honestly feel so betrayed by my partner at that point... I don't know if it's grounds for a divorce but at least from where I'm standing, I wouldn't be looking at my partner the same way."
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Do You Help Students Identify Class Environments That Are Conducive to Their Needs?
Yes. The CSP prepares and assists students to ask questions and seek information about class environments relative to their sensory concerns.
Do You Help Non-Commuting Students Adjust to Living with Others in the Residence Halls?
CSP students can choose to live on or off campus. Those living in University housing may be placed on any of the five campuses in residence halls or apartments. Students may request a roommate(s) or a single room. The CSP coordinator, peer mentors, and University staff work with students to build tolerance, negotiation and advocacy skills with peers, residence assistants (RA's) and people in related University offices. For more information about Residence Life, please visit: http://ruoncampus.rutgers.edu/.
Do You Interact With Parents/Guardians?
Yes. Intake sessions/interviews usually involve the families, as does the student's year-end review session held at the end of the spring semester. Periodic workshops are prepared for parents, and, with student approval, the coordinator will contact parents as needed.
Is Application to the CSP Part of the Process for Application to Rutgers University?
No. They are separate processes. Applications to the CSP are accepted at any time; however, the CSP admissions process does not begin until after a student has been notified that h/she meets Rutgers University's admissions requirements,
Is There a Fee for the Program?
Yes. The services are funded by a fee of $7,000 for the full academic year. The CSP fee is separate from Rutgers University tuition and fees. It is recommended that students remain in the CSP program for a minimum of two consecutive semesters. New Jersey families are encouraged to contact the NJ Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS) to determine eligibility for funding and services.
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Rutgers University Undergraduate Admissions and the CSP co-host Joint Inquiry Days several times throughout the year. Our next one is Friday, April 10th at the Visitor Center on the Busch Campus. We highly encourage you to attend this free, informative event! To register, simply click on the banner at the top of this website, complete and submit the form.
For specific questions about the CSP, please email: csp-info@rutgers.edu. Thank you for your interest in Rutgers-CSP.