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Twentieth year of peace protests on the Lake Street-Marshall Ave. Bridge
Annika Johnson December 11, 2019 Features, Talon 91 Views
Sub-zero temperatures, rain or shine. Christmas Day or just an average Wednesday, peace protesters will be on the Lake Street Bridge.
"[The weeks I didn't come out] were when my husband was dying, when I was getting chemo and the one or two times that I was out of town. This is a commitment I'm making," said Heidi Uppgaard, who started protesting in 2007. "We know that it doesn't a hundred percent make a difference but there is still the visibility and it reminds people that we're still here."
Uppgaard is not alone in her spirit for protesting for peace. Every week there is a minimum of about 10 to 15 protesters on the bridge, even on some of the coldest days of the year.
"A guy came by and said, 'I wish you people would leave this bridge, because all this honking really disturbs me because I live right over there. So will you please just go home?' I said, 'No, not until war is ended we can't go home,'" said Penny Gardner, a three year bridge protest veteran.
Others aren't as willing to suffer through the cold weather. Among the protesters a wide variety of ages are represented; the youngest are high schoolers, and the oldest nearly 100 years old. Additionally, there are three different organizations that sponsor the protests The Twin Cities Peace Campaign, Veterans for Peace and the Woman Against Military Madness (WAMM).
"It was so cold last week. When it snows, it's actually warmer," said Kristi Ann Ranck, who has been protesting for one year and was out on Nov 13, in 27 degree weather, that is all the more freezing on a bridge with nothing to block the wind. "I could only stand 15 minutes last week. This week I hesitated to come, but I'm here. We need peace! It's about time that the governments get in line with what we want. Freezing rain is the worst. I refuse to be a martyr in those conditions. I come for a few minutes and then leave."
Why a bridge?
The protesters selected the Lake Street-Marshall Ave. Bridge because it was dedicated as a peace bridge and because of its proximity to both Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
"It is between the two cities, and initially we chose it because a bridge was bombed in Bosnia [in 1993], and we had a theme of building bridges rather than bombing bridges," said Steve Clemens, who's been protesting for the full 20 years. "This has also been dedicated as a peace bridge [in 1991]. We don't want the river to divide us from our friends on the other side."
The protesters said the ratio of positive feedback to negative feedback is about 10 to one. But they almost unequivocally stated that any feedback is better than no feedback. Positive feedback generally consists of waves, honks and the "v" peace sign. Negative feedback often includes yelling or giving the middle finger, which they call "half a peace sign."
"I think the best response is acknowledgment even when they only give us half a peace sign it's at least acknowledging that we're here instead of just looking ahead and pretending that they don't see anything," said Clemens. "Of course, for me, the most gratifying one is the young kids in the back seat giving us the peace sign after their mom or dad explains to them who these people are on the bridge. We've been here on Christmas Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, and Christmas Eve depending on what falls on a Wednesday."
Some of the responses are more violent than merely giving "half a peace sign," though. Some have been violently threatened during their vigil. None of the protesters have been arrested during the Lake Street Bridge vigil, some have been arrested for participating in other peace protests.
"One guy stopped his pickup truck and threatened to throw me over the bridge but then the light changed and he got back into his car because people were honking their horns," said Clemens. "People are really angry,"
Though they have been holding their vigil every Wednesday for 20 years, It seems that the peace protesters are here to stay, at least until war is over.
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LaSalle-Wrap is a pilot project implemented by the Boys and Girls Club of LaSalle that works with youth in a unique and innovative way. The project uses a highly individualized approach with people experiencing multiple persistent needs and helps them fulfil their potential. The approach strengthens and links supportive relationships from all walks of life; these can be with family members, teachers, social workers, coaches, etc. Chances of success increase when positive supports combine their energy and focus it on the youth's goals, in a way that highlights their voice, choice, and dignity. This is necessary for youth to build their capacity.
The changes that have taken place in care over the past years highlight the need to integrate community and system supports and look at youth who are having challenges with existing systems in a new light. The LaSalle-Wrap team is doing just that, and preliminary evaluation data is showing promising results.
On March 30th, LaSalle-Wrap will invite key people who are engaged in the community and who have participated in the project to deepen relationships that are the foundation of its success. Changing Lives, Together, will be an opportunity to learn more about the Wraparound approach and connect with others who are either professionally or informally dedicated to building healthier communities in which our youth can thrive.


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Just When Does The Statute of Limitations Begin to Run in a Failure to Accommodate Claim and Other Issues
September 19, 2016 by William Goren 2 Comments
As everyone knows, my blog entries usually go up on Monday of a given week. Obviously, I missed last week. Last week my daughter was on break and my wife also took the week off. So, lots of family things going on. We also have out-of-town company in for an extended weekend, but I am getting a moment to myself. So, here goes. Today's case discusses the issue of whether the failure to repeatedly provide reasonable accommodations to a student is a continuing violation or a series of discrete acts for purposes of the statute of limitations beginning to run with respect to the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act.
The case of the day is Keith-Foust v. North Carolina Central University, a decision from the U.S District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina that came down on August 11, 2016. As is usual, my blog entry is divided into categories: facts; court's reasoning with respect to the statute of limitations involving claims against the law school; court's reasoning regarding the Masters of Public Administration program; court's reasoning regarding retaliation; court's reasoning with respect to suits against individuals in their individual and official capacities; and (a huge amount of), takeaways. The reader is free to focus on any or all of the categories.
Keith-Foust, the plaintiff, is visually impaired, legally blind, as a result of glaucoma that she had while she was in her early 20s. Even so, she obtained two undergraduate degrees, business administration and also double majors in psychology and political science, from North Carolina Central University. In the spring of 2013, she applied for admission to North Carolina Central University's School of Law. Despite her accomplishments and grade point average of 3.70, the school did not offer her unconditional admission even though it offered unconditional admission to non-disabled students with comparable credentials. Instead, they admitted her into its performance-based admission program, a program set up for those who show promise of success in law school but do not qualify for unconditional admission. That program is a two week program during which students attend class and then are evaluated for admission into the law school based upon their academic performance and professionalism during the program. Since 2008, the plaintiff had always required and utilized reasonable accommodation during her enrollment at North Carolina Central University and had met with the Office of Disability Services prior to the start of each semester. So, she did the same thing prior to starting the performance-based admission program. When meeting with the Office of Disability Services, she requested several different accommodations including: special seating in the front of the classroom; access to a table for her equipment; recorded lectures (for which she would provide the device); use of her personal laptop equipment; absences for medical appointments; electronic copies of handouts/class materials via email sent before class; an oral description of video shown in class as needed; a personal assistant in class to provide reader services; extended time on exams/tests (double time); separate setting for all exams/tests; use of the laptop to access assistive technology on tests; and extended time on assignments as needed (two additional days). North Carolina Central University did not object to any of the accommodations and orally agreed that the plaintiff was entitled to these accommodations during the performance-based admission program. North Carolina Central University determined that these accommodations were reasonable to afford the plaintiff equal access during the performance-based admission program and included the accommodations in an accommodation plan. The Director of Student Disability Services told the plaintiff that the accommodation plan was the official plan that would be used during her enrollment in the program and that she would be provided all of the accommodations under the plan. Further, although not among her requested accommodation, the Director Of Student Disability Services also told her that she would be provided a CCTV, but then took that away due to administrative issues and it was not included in the plan. Both the Director of Student Disability Services, on May 29, 2013, and the plaintiff, on May 31, 2013, signed the accommodations plan.
On May 30, 2013, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law emailed the plaintiff a memorandum in which he explained how some but not all of her accommodations would be implemented. He did not mention the accommodations for providing for an oral description of video shown in class, access to a table for equipment, or providing for extended time on assignments. Further, unbeknownst to the plaintiff at the time, he responded to an email from one of her instructors stating that he purposely omitted from his memorandum the accommodation of extended time on assignments because he considered that to be an impractical request. He stated that it would be better to discourage her from the idea of receiving extended time on assignments so that it would not be an expectation later. He went on to say that if the plaintiff insisted on being provided the extended time on assignments, he would be forced to tell the plaintiff that he did not believe she was being realistic about what would be expected of her and that law school was not the route for her. It wasn't until one year later that the plaintiff first learned of this email.
Once enrolled in the program, North Carolina Central University failed to accommodate her as it had agreed. More specifically: they did not provide her with special seating in the front of the class thereby requiring her to arrive earlier than other students in order to get preferential seating. She also had to ask classmates on occasion to relocate; the class was held in the moot court courtroom, which only had stadium seating, and the school failed to make available to her access to a table substantial enough in size to hold her equipment; professor did not consistently email her class materials before class, instead sometimes providing the material by a flash drive almost immediately before the start of class leaving little to no time to upload the materials and sometimes not even providing class material beforehand at all; during mandatory tutoring sessions, her tutor told her that they were not aware they needed to accommodate a blind student and conducted the sessions using class materials in an inaccessible format; she was required to complete a final oral argument during which she, like other students, was allowed to use notes. However, to do that, she required access to her personal equipment but the school failed to provide access to a table to hold her equipment, access to an electrical outlet in front of the classroom during her argument, and extended time to complete her oral argument; although she used a laptop for her exams as required under the plan, performance-based admission faculty transcribed the exams via handwriting so as to protect anonymity because other participants handwrote their exams. However, the staff members carelessly and inaccurately transcribed their answers and made costly grammatical errors not present in her typed exam answers.
Frustrated that the school did not provide her required accommodation during the program despite her diligent efforts, she met with the Chancellor of the School on or about Jun 20, 2013 to discuss her accommodation. She said that she needed access to a CCTV but the Office of Student Disability Services failed to provide it. About a week later, she received a letter from the Assistant Dean of Admissions at the School of Law informing her that she had been denied admission to the school of law based on the valuation from the performance-based submission program. That same day, the plaintiff emailed the associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law and the Chancellor of the school and requested a hearing and copy of her evaluation. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law replied that there was not a formal appeal process or hearing from the decision not to admit her to the School of Law after her participation in the program and copied in the Chancellor, and the Dean of the School of Law, and the Assistant Dean of Admissions of the School of Law on that correspondence.
She then enrolled in the fall program of the school's Masters of Public Administration. The school determined that she required various accommodation, including being provided electronic copies of class materials on a jump drive before the start of each class. Nevertheless, the school failed to provide the class materials until the plaintiff notified it on four separate occasions that she was not being provided the accommodation. Further, despite assurances to the contrary, a CCTV was not provided until months into the fall semester. Things didn't get better when after taking leave during the fall of 2013, she reenrolled for the fall of 2014. She was supposed to receive several different accommodations, but was not provided with those accommodations as required until three weeks after the start of classes. She then took a medical leave on October 8, 2014, and did not return to the Masters of Public Administration program. She brought suit alleging violations of the ADA, §504 the Rehabilitation Act, retaliation, tortious interference with contract; fraud, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. The court wound up dismissing all of the claims except for the ADA and §504 claims.
Court's Reasoning: Statute of Limitations Law School
The most applicable statute of limitations for the ADA in North Carolina is the Person with Disability Protection Act. That act provides a two-year statute of limitation for non-employment claims.
A civil rights claim accrues when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury that is the basis of the action.
In the Fourth Circuit, a defendant's failure to accommodate constitutes a discrete act rather than an ongoing omission for purposes of the statute of limitations.
It would have been readily apparent to the plaintiff that North Carolina Central University was discriminating against her each time it failed to accommodate her. Therefore, each discrete act starts a new time period for that act.
The parties did not argue whether a failure to accommodate occurred each day during the performance-based omission program that North Carolina Central University failed to provide various accommodations in the accommodation plan or whether a failure to accommodate occurred only when the plaintiff renewed her request for an accommodation that was not being provided and the school subsequently failed to provide the accommodation. That is, for the action to accrue must the plaintiff have renewed her request for an accommodation in order to trigger a possible failure to accommodate?
The parties also did not argue that if the plaintiff was required to renew her request for accommodation and, if so, to whom much she had made that request to so that North Carolina Central University would be responsible for subsequent failure to accommodate.
Parties also did not argue that if a renewed request was required, whether both renewed request and the subsequent failure to provide the accommodation must occur on or after June 11, 2013 or whether it was sufficient that the subsequent failure to provide the accommodation occurred on or after June 11, 2013.
The memorandum from the Assistant Dean of the law school did not purport to change the accommodation plan and in any event, the plaintiff did not know until after she began the program what if any accommodation were not being provided, which of course turned out to be more than just the three accommodations missing from the memorandum. Further, the plaintiff did not allegedly learn of the email to her writing instructor until one year later. Accordingly, the intentional discriminatory act allegations stemming from the letter of the Assistant Dean was timely.
Court's Reasoning MPA Program
Proving a case of discrimination under title II of the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act (assuming federal funds, which is the case here), involves showing: 1) plaintiff has a disability; 2) plaintiff is otherwise qualified to receive the benefits of a public service, program, or activity; and 3) plaintiff was excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of such service, program, or activity, or otherwise discriminated against, on the basis of her disability.
With respect to the third prong, the Fourth Circuit has recognized three distinct grounds for relief and they are: disparate treatment; disparate impact; and failure to make reasonable accommodations.
More than enough facts were alleged to show that the school may be subject to a failure to accommodate claim. In particular, receiving materials immediately prior to class inhibited her ability to participate meaningfully in the class; she was unable to view course materials written on the board without the assistance of a CCTV, and since she was not provided with appropriate magnification equipment she suffered unnecessary strain on arise thereby requiring her to take leave from school during the fall of 2013. The failure at the start of both the fall 2013 and fall 2014 semester to provide electronic copies of course materials before class created an intolerable environment for the plaintiff and resulted in a medical leave from the program. The school's failure to provide a CCTV until months into the fall 2013 semester prevented the plaintiff from doing much of the course material during that time and caused additional unnecessary strain on her eyes that caused her to take leave in the fall 2013.
Court's Reasoning Retaliation
The court held that the facts as alleged did not rise to the level of retaliation because such conduct was not of the level that would deter a reasonable student from asserting her rights.
Court's Reasoning regarding Suits against Defendants in Their Individual or Official Capacities
The ADA and the Rehabilitation Act do not provide causes of action against individual defendants in their individual capacities.
The plaintiff was not seeking injunctive relief from individuals in their official capacity, and therefore, the official capacity claims must fail.
I am a big believer in utilizing the Office of Civil Rights of the Department Of Education whenever possible. The thing to keep in mind with OCR is that they have a six-month statute of limitations. There are many advantages to utilizing the Office of Civil Rights process. First, it isn't litigation but much more administrative in focus. Second, it gives you an excellent chance to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your case as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the other side all for little cost. Third, it is essentially free discovery. Fourth, schools take Office of Civil Rights investigations very seriously. Finally, if the Office of Civil Rights does get involved it completely changes the dynamic of the case as now the federal government is involved rather than just a plaintiff with a disability whose resources are often not substantial. It seems to me, that a filing with the Office of Civil Rights would have been in order right after she was formally dismissed from the performance-based admission program. Same could be said for when she had to leave the Masters of Public Administration program.
The allegations, if proven, are fairly egregious and so one wonders whether the plaintiff does not have a good shot at proving deliberate indifference so as to be able to get damages (see this blog entry).
The plaintiff was very upfront about her disability and tried to get on top of it from the get go; a strategy that I highly recommend for students with disabilities. It isn't a bad idea if such a person is running into obstacles to get legal counsel involved sooner than later.
It is a State-By-State situation as to what is the most applicable statute of limitations with respect to ADA/Rehabilitation Act claims. The statute of limitations can be all over the place, 1 to 3 years is not unusual. Most often times it seems to be two. In any event, legal research is needed every time the situation arises.
Continuing violation doctrine exists in theory but it is almost impossible to convince a court that such a violation exists. In the Fourth Circuit anyway, failure to accommodate claims are a discrete act.
In this case, the court held that the allegation did not rise to the level of retaliation. That said, one wonders why an interference claim was not alleged since that is a much lower standard than retaliation.
The overwhelming line of authority is that the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act do not provide a cause of action against individual defendants in their individual capacity.
Disability services need to take the lead. In particular, should a school of the University or faculty have a problem with the accommodation that disability services comes up with, they need to interface with disability services in order to straighten it out. Also, the programs of the particular school of the University would be wise to have its essential eligibility requirements in order as seen in this blog entry.
Whether a reasonable accommodation request is impractical is not the standard, rather the question is whether an undue burden or a fundamental alteration is involved.
I don't understand the need for the exams to be handwritten in law school.
Never forget about the Job Accommodation Network.
An ADA compliance audit, which might cost you a decent sum of money up front, may save you a bunch of money later.
Make sure you have a §504/ADA coordinator as well as a §504/ADA grievance procedure.
The court said that it was readily apparent that the plaintiff was being discriminated against each time a reasonable accommodation request was denied. As someone who has represented persons with disabilities in graduate schools, I can say that to the student it isn't necessarily so readily apparent. Oftentimes, to the student it appears that it is all part of a continuing process rather than separate items with their own cause of action. For example, see this unpublished case, Pollowitz v. University of Medicine and Dentistry, 2007 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1269 (N.J. App. July 27, 2007), holding that depending upon what discovery revealed, a constructive discharge of a student by a university was a possible cause of action and that the actions leading up to that could be a continuing violation.
Considering the open questions, it may make sense if you are representing a plaintiff and the school has not been forthcoming with its reasonable accommodations, to make the renewal request. Once that happens, it may make sense to confirm after a period of time, that they have no intention of following through on the accommodations. That way, it is pretty clear as to when the statute of limitations starts to run.
The fact pattern of this case is such that one wonders how the burden of proof will work. See this blog entry .
The prima facie case for title II of the ADA and for §504 the Rehabilitation Act cannot, despite the court's assertion to the contrary, be the same as causation is different. That is, causation under title II of the ADA is "by reason of," and causation under §504 the Rehabilitation Act is, "solely by reason of." The term used by the court "on the basis of," is actually not a title II or §504 of the Rehabilitation Act concept at all. Rather, it is found in title I and in title III of the ADA.
Filed Under: ADA, Federal Cases, Rehabilitation Act, Title II, Title V Tagged With: §504, 504 coordinator prima facie case, a person with disability protection act, ADA, ADA compliance audit, ADA coordinator, failure to accommodate, grievance procedure, Individual liability, Interference claim, keith-foust v. North Carolina Central University, Masters of public administration, North Carolina Central University school of law, office of civil rights continuing violations, Office of disability services, performance-based admission program, Pollowitz v. University of Medicine and Dentistry, rehabilitation act, statute of limitations, title II, Title V, tolling, US Department of Education
Preventive law systems a must: title II and voting booths
August 13, 2012 by William Goren 4 Comments
The axiom of preventive law is that we live in such a litigious society that you can't prevent a lawsuit. However, you can take steps where if you get sued you can win that lawsuit. A case that illustrates as to what happens when you do not have preventive law systems is United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York, _ F. Supp. 2d__, 2012 WL 3222663 (S.D. N.Y. August 8, 2012) (this case was recently profiled in an USA today article), an abbreviated version of which I found on the Internet. In this case, United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action, organizations consisting of people with mobility and/or vision impairments residing in New York City and who are registered to vote, brought a suit against the Board of Elections in the city of New York alleging violations of title II and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. That is, the suit alleged that the Board of Elections in the city of New York violated title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act because voting places were in many cases inaccessible to people with disabilities. Id. at**1-6. In a decision by Deborah Batts of the Southern District of New York, the court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs finding that the Board of Elections in the city of New York simply did not provide meaningful access to persons with disabilities with respect to voting. Id. at **1,11. Some of the things that the court said that the Board of Elections in New York simply do not do or have in place included: 1) when the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect, it required public entities to do a self-evaluation and then develop a transition plan so as to notify the public as to how it would come into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Board of Elections in the city of New York had done no such thing. Id. at *5. Second, the Americans with Disabilities Act also requires governmental entities having 50 or more employees to have an Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator and the Board of Elections in the city of New York had no such thing. Id. Third, evidence was presented that many voting sites were not visited on election days by Board of Elections personnel and that complaints to the Board of Election were not resolved. Id. at *11. Finally, the court noted with approval the plaintiffs suggestion that the Board of Elections have an individual identified among on-site poll workers at each location to monitor poll site accessibility. Id. The court also noted with approval plaintiffs suggestion that the Board of Election partner with the third-party in order to assess and identify accessibility needs and possible solutions in time for the upcoming presidential election. Id.
Preventive law tips: This case gives us a lot of preventive law tips. First, a governmental entity of 50 or more employees is required to have a person designated as an Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator as well as an internal grievance procedure for handling complaints of disability-based discrimination. See 28 C.F.R. § 35.107. Since they already take federal funds in all probability, they should already have a § 504 coordinator. There is no reason why the 504 coordinator and the ADA coordinator cannot be the same. Further, this ADA/504 coordinator should be prepared to deal with issues beyond just employment, and be able to call on knowledgeable legal counsel whenever appropriate. Second, if you are a governmental entity and have not done a self-evaluation and a transition plan (I have been surprised over the years at the number of governmental entities that did not do this within the timeframe required by the Americans with Disabilities Act), you may want to get with legal counsel to see if it would be a good idea to do one now. Regardless, preventive law demands that even if you do not do a formal transition and self-evaluation plan that it be done informally as the risks need to be known. Third, remember that "fundamental alteration," is a different concept than inconvenience. Finally, make sure there is a system for taking complaints about issues dealing with inaccessibility and a way to resolve them.
Filed Under: Federal Cases, Final Federal Regulations, Title II Tagged With: § 504, 50 or more employees, 504, ADA coordinator, Americans with Disabilities Act, board of elections, booths, City of New York, complaint resolution's, Deborah Batts, disabled in action, fundamental alteration, inaccessible, inconvenience, legal counsel, one of election, people with disabilities, poll sites, poll workers, polls, preventive law, preventive steps, rehabilitation act, self-evaluation plan, Southern District of New York, title II, transition plan, United spinal Association, USA today, voting, voting places, voting sites

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I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE: INTERVIEW WITH ALISON HAMMOND
I Can See Your Voice will see two players aiming to win a cash prize by guessing who can and can't sing from a group of mystery singers standing before them. But there's a catch… can they predict who has the voice of an angel or who will leave them covering their ears in horror all without ever hearing them sing a note?
With £10,000 on the line, the players will attempt to weed out the bad singers, based on a series of clues, interrogation, and lip sync performances. In the end, the last mystery singer standing will reveal if they are a good or a bad singer in a duet with a weekly Guest Music Star resulting in either a magical musical moment or a comedy collaboration!
I Can See Your Voice begins Saturday 10th April at 7:20pm on BBC One.
PRESS INTERVIEW WITH ALISON HAMMOND
Can you give us a brief overview of the show?
I Can See Your Voice is just one of the best shows I've ever seen in my entire life, not just because I am on it, but it is actually a really good show. You've got good singers, you've got bad singers, it's up to me, Amanda and Jimmy as the investigators to decipher who are the good singers.
Have you got a favourite round?
My favourite round in I Can See Your Voice is the lip sync, that's the round where you can truly see when someone is a good singer or not. Obviously, I am the best lip syncer, so I have the knowledge to know who is lying and who is telling the truth.
If you were to take part in the show as a singer what would your tactics be?
If I was a bad singer, which I'm obviously not. I would learn my songs to the absolute T, I would get it down so I look professional, I'd pop out some of the moves so that they thought I was a real singer. But I tell you this now, if I was a bad singer, I would be winning that £10,000!
Do you think Amanda has an advantage of spotting the good singers because of her background?
Amanda Holden does have a slight advantage over me and Jimmy, she has obviously done lots of judging, she's done loads of talent shows, so she can spot who is a good singer. But to be honest with you, having seen her work, she's not as good as me!
Has Jimmy been behaving himself?
Jimmy never behaves himself, but don't worry, I whip him into shape.
What is your go to karaoke song?
My go to karaoke song is Mustang Sally. I am Karaoke Queen honesty, I will literally hog the whole floor all night long! I have been to karaoke sessions where everyone is like 'When am I going to get a go?' because it's always me! I am a little bit jealous of the people actually lip syncing because I want to do it!


Originally published on Medium, April 30, 2017.
July 15, 2016. Tanks and soldiers enter key Turkish cities. News broadcasters are stormed, the parliament building is bombarded, civilians are killed in the streets. Elements of the Turkish military have attempted to seize control of the country from the democratically elected government. The coup attempt occurs as night falls and while President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is visiting the coastal city of Marmaris — indicative of his geographic separation from the apparatus of power — the president's initial public response is broadcast via iPhone's FaceTime.
By morning Erdoğan had returned to Istanbul, reporting that the coup attempt had collapsed and a "heavy price" would be paid.
Action follows words and within the next twenty four hours 2,800 members of the military and 2,700 judges are detained. The following weeks (and continuing as I write this) see Erdoğan's response widen to embroil more of Turkey's institutions. As of today, 10,000 members of the military (including 143 generals, officers and admirals — one third of all military leaders) have been purged. 1,600 university Deans have been asked to resign and a dozen Universities ordered close. More than 20,000 teachers and scores of public servants have been fired. The press doesn't escape the crosshairs, 45 newspapers, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines are seized, hundreds of journalists lose their jobs and press credentials, and 89 warrants for the arrest of journalists are issued.
A State of emergency is declared, giving Erdoğan further power. In total over 80,000 people are detailed, suspended, or placed under investigation.
The immediacy and extent of the response has raised questions and theories. The more conspiratorial among them suggest that Erdoğan himself instigated the coup. More reasonable voices argue that the chaos is being used to execute a planned purge of any opposition, evinced by the rapid, sweeping arrests and given further credence by the admission that Turkish intelligence had no prior knowledge of the coup. It has been suggested the coup itself was a last ditch attempt by members of the military to stave off an incoming purge, the one that we are witnessing now.
When citizens took to the street in defiance of the military, they did so on the pretence of protecting Turkey's increasingly fragile democratic system. But their victory may be a Pyrrhic one, and spell the defeat of democracy in Turkey.
The Republic of Turkey is a young country with a turbulent past. It took the collapse of an empire and a four year war of liberation for the formation of the modern state that we see today.
For 600 years the Ottoman Empire stood as the crossroad between East and West. After a long decline (signalled by persistent defeat by European armies, catalyzed by centuries of stagnation in social and military doctrine, and technology), the Ottoman defeat in World War I heralded the end of the empire. It's apparent fate, to succumb to occupation and a humiliating partition by European powers. The imperial government of the Sultan (also the Islamic Caliph) was allowed to persist only as a rump state dominated by Europe.
Invigorated by such harsh terms, a nationalist movement took shape, an opposition government was formed, and a war of liberation — against both the occupiers, and the recognised government — was fought and won. At the centre of the movement, a military commander come national hero renowned for his role in the rout of the Allied invasion of Gallipoli (an inspiring victory against European adversaries, contrasting centuries of defeat). This hero, Mustafa Kemal would become the first president of the Republic of Turkey, and would come to be known as Atatürk — Father of Turks.
With the country now under the control of his parliament, President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk would undertake a series of remarkable reforms in order to modernise Turkey.
Atatürk abolished the role of Sultan and the office of Caliphate. A people previously ruled by the custodian of the world's Muslim population were now democratic participants in a country whose leader was mercilessly separating religion from government (and government from religion). Islamic civil and penal codes were abolished and European ones adopted. Women were given universal suffrage (in 1935 the parliament included eighteen women, in a time where neighbouring Syria and Iraq — former areas of the Ottoman empire — now under dominion of England and France, were yet to allow women to vote). A new Latin based alphabet was introduced. The curriculum was stripped of it's religious focus, and education was made free.
By the time of his death in 1939 Atatürk had widely succeeded in reinvented Turkey in the image of a secular European nation.
Today Turkey is undergoing an entirely different transformation.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the once soccer player and Islamist mayor of Istanbul, charged with 'inciting hatred based on religious differences' and jailed for four months in 1999, emerged onto the national stage in 2001 with the formation of the Islamist AKP (Justice and Development Party). In 2003's elections the party won a landslide victory. The AKP accomplished the first clear majority in parliament in 15 years; the Islamist politician Erdoğan became the country's prime minister.
Turkey — bridging Europe and Asia — had long sought membership into the European Union, and in the early years of the new century the EU saw fit to begin negotiating the process.
The timing coincided with the commencement of Erdoğan's tenure and seemed to invigorate the country; nearly 70% of the population were in favor of joining the EU. With a ferocity not seen since Atatürk, Erdoğan implemented sweeping reforms bringing the country closer in alignment with the liberal democracies of the EU, and their strict conditions for membership.
But the honeymoon wasn't to last, negotiations with the EU would eventually stall.
In the 2007 election the AKP party won an even stronger majority. Absent of political opponents and without the guiding light of EU membership, Erdoğan had become increasingly authoritarian, Islamist, and sensitive to criticism. Opposition parties were dissolved, state media was brought under tighter control, the free press was intimidated in to line. Youtube was banned, and even Winnie the Pooh was removed from television(Piglet is a pig you see, and Islam views pigs as unclean. To censor on religious grounds is antithetical to the values of an ostensibly secular country).
The AKP would again be successful in the 2011 election, with their strongest result yet, but a three term limit codified by the Turkish constitution would mean this victory would be Erdoğan's last as prime minister. But Erdoğan wasn't done and his most audacious acts were to come. Erdoğan would rise from prime minister to president, consolidate his power, and transform the constitution to make it possible.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's most powerful politician since Atatürk.
The president has always been recognised as the official head of state of the Republic of Turkey. The role however was heavily ceremonial. Voted on by the parliament (rather than the population) and constitutionally required to sever relations with all political parties, the president has been a unifying figure by design, seen as a guardian of Turkey's secularism. Under Erdoğan's AKP this would change. Two constitutional referendums (in 2007 and 2010) laid the groundwork that would allow Erdoğan to elevate himself to presidency — circumventing the prime minister's term limit — and take with him as much power as possible.
In 2007 the constitution was changed to have the president elected by the public. The amendment was initially passed by the AKP dominated parliament (AKP holding 66% of the seats) but vetoed by the sitting president who prophesized that the AKP would "find itself in possession of all the major State posts (head of state, prime minister and parliament president)", and that this would constitute a "danger" to secular Turkey. The constitutional amendment was forced to referendum, and passed, but not without a million protesters taking to the streets of Istanbul in support of secularism and to oppose the increasing Islamisation of the country. Among the amendments, the potential term of the president was lengthened to 10 years (in the form of two 5 year terms, increased from a single 7 year term).
While the changes in 2007 paved the way for Erdoğan's presidency, the changes in 2010 aimed to increase the power of the presidency, by means of politicising the judiciary and ultimately bringing it under Erdoğan and the AKP's control. The Constitutional Court, at times a thorn in Erdoğan's side (in 2008 the court voted on whether to ban the AKP, the decision narrowly allowed the party to continue), would have it's members raised from 11 to 17, with the president controlling 14 appointments and the parliament three. Another amendment would make it more difficult to ban political parties. Less contentious amendments were included, and the referendum was presented to the public as a modernisation of Turkey's constitution to bring it closer to that of Europe. The head of the main opposition leveled that Erdoğan had "coated a poisonous pill with chocolate" and that the amendments would "put all the branches of government into one man's hand". The referendum passed.
Years later the president of the Constitutional Court would describe the court as having become an "instrument of revenge".
On July 1st, 2014, more than 10 years after he rose to power as prime minister, Erdoğan's candidacy for president was announced. He would win the popular vote during a controversial election, marred by media bias, to become the first president to take advantage of the new powers and method of ascension he had introduced. Long time friend, foreign minister and timid intellectual Ahmet Davutoğlu would be appointed as the new prime minister, ensuring the AKP would continue to be subservient to Erdoğan (in violation of his constitutional duty to cut ties with the party).
Emboldened and no longer tethered to the parliament, Erdoğan became more abrasive and openly authoritarian. An early act as president was to acquire a comfortable new residence worthy of his ambition. Announced audaciously, a new palace intended as the residence of the prime minister (and constructed during Erdoğan's tenure as prime minister) would instead now house the president. Constructed without permission on protected land put aside by Atatürk — the 1,150 room palace, costing upwards of half a billion US dollars, and 30 times bigger than the White House — was deemed illegal. Erdoğan openly defied the court, challenging them to "tear it down if they can. They ordered suspension, yet they can't stop this building. I'll be opening it; I'll be moving in and using it".
The Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi, President Erdoğan's illegal residence.
Erdoğan has employed this inflammatory tone — in combination with his legislative and judicial powers — to dismantle other institutions, chiefly, the free press. Laws have been tightened; terrorism has been redefined to include "supporters of terrorists". Unashamedly Erdoğan tells a crowd that "their titles as an MP, an academic, an author, a journalist do not change the fact they are actually terrorists". Speaking at a rally Erdoğan singled out prominent female journalist and Economist correspondent Amberin Zaman, calling her a "shameless militant woman" who should "know [her] place". What predictably followed was a wave of violent threats leveled at her via twitter. Physical violence is also tolerated, if not encouraged. Mobs attack press offices with impunity — during one such attack an AKP parliament member incited the mob to violence against the editor-in-chief and top columnist of one of the country's leading newspapers, telling the crowd the two had "never had a beating". AKP followers complied, waiting at the CNN Turk building, following the columnist home, and putting him in hospital. Three journalists were killed in Turkey in 2015. Private citizens do not escape the censorship either, since his taking office, 1,800 legal cases have been opened for 'insulting the president'. Examples include Orwellian cases like that of a husband reporting his wife for comments she made in the privacy of their home and for t̶u̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶e̶l̶e̶s̶c̶r̶e̶e̶n changing the channel during Erdoğan speeches, or the 12 and 13 year old boys arrested for tearing down posters of Erdoğan. 'Insulting' the president can lead to four years in jail. 'Making terrorist propaganda' as journalists are routinely charged, can attract seven and a half years.
Erdoğan's oppressive response to the failed coup isn't decisive, but simply an acceleration of a trend of behaviour extending back a decade.
Turkey has seen it's share of coups; the Republic was born from the dethroning of the Sultan. A year before his death Atatürk professed that the military "will help and assist especially in our economic, cultural and social struggles". The military internalised the message, coming to see itself as the guarantor of a secular Turkey and protector of Atatürk's reforms and ideas. Four times (1960, 1971, 1980, 1997) the military has dissolved governments that have been deemed to stray too far from the secularism articulated by Atatürk. On the most recent occasion (1997) the very threat of violence was enough. If the 2016 coup attempt is noteworthy for any reason, it is that it failed. The failure of the coup is a sign of the weakness of the military and other Turkish institutions, and how absolute Erdoğan's control has become.
Of course there is no room for a military coup in a liberal democracy, but neither is there room for an authoritarian leader. This coup attempt is part of a long history, and part of multiple dialectics, between Islamism and secularism, between democracy and authoritarianism, between military and civil society, between the ideas and legacies of Atatürk and Erdoğan. When people took to the streets in defiance of the military they did so in support of democracy, in support of the belief that a government must be changed with a vote and not a gun. But the question needs to be asked, when a country and its institutions are so tightly controlled and opposition oppressed so excessively, what path for change remains?


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Alan Stone Appointed Harvard Vice President for Government, Community, and Public Affairs
By Ken Gewertz
By Gazette Staff
It used to be that people who wanted their kids to grow up into cultured, educated adults made sharp distinctions between good and bad forms of artistic endeavor.
Rock 'n' roll was bad, Mozart and Tchaikovsky were good. Comic books were bad, Shakespeare and Dickens were good. If you consumed only "good" art, your mind would expand, intelligence and taste would infuse your thoughts, and you would be welcomed, nay, eagerly sought after, by the best society. If, on the other hand, you succumbed to "bad art," you would become a drooling degenerate and end up with your mug on a wanted poster.
It turns out we were wrong. Since at least as far back as the 1960s, artists and critics have been breaking down those distinctions. Today, in a world where academics publish studies of Elvis Presley and Madonna, and original "cells" from Mickey Mouse cartoons fetch six figures at Sotheby's, not many are quick to draw value judgments between "high" and "low" art.
The artistic playing field is thoroughly leveled now, and there is no better way to learn the lay of the land than by attending the fall lecture series at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The scheduled speakers include a conceptual artist whose name is forever linked with one of the 20th century's most famous rock stars, a young British painter and critic whose exuberant work eschews all pretense and solemnity, and a cartoonist whose daring decision to tell the story of the Holocaust in the visual language of Pogo and Krazy Kat won him a Pulitzer Prize.
"The lectures are meant to compliment the work of our own students and faculty," said Carpenter Center director Marjorie Garber. "They're not just one-shot events; they're a set of conversations. These are very exciting people who are able to talk about art from the inside out."
The Carpenter Center lectures are a long-running and distinguished series, Garber pointed out. "We're trying to live up to it."
"An Evening With Yoko Ono" leads off the series on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m. An artist who has explored many media, Ono was one of the originators of conceptual art. Indeed, her romance with John Lennon reportedly began in 1966 at her installation in a London gallery when Lennon climbed a ladder to read a tiny placard on the ceiling containing the single word "yes."
Ono's works include musical compositions, performance pieces, films, books, and installations. Her talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Yes Yoko Ono," on view Oct. 18 to Jan. 6, 2002, at the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and organized by the Japan Society of New York.
Bruce Jenkins, curator of the Harvard Film Archive, who was instrumental in bringing Ono to the Carpenter Center, calls her "one of the finest artists of her generation and one of the finest living artists."
Jenkins, who thinks the time is right for a reconsideration of the range and quality of Ono's work, said that, ironically, Ono's "celebrity has obscured the fact that she is an enormously gifted and accomplished artist and far more than the partner and wife of John Lennon. Her work not only predates that relationship, but an extraordinary amount of art postdates it too. She's still doing extremely good work."
Martin Maloney, who joins the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) this year as a visiting faculty member, has had an extremely active career as a painter, critic, lecturer, and curator since his graduation in 1993 from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Maloney has exhibited his work in the Gagosian Gallery in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and many others. As a curator, he has championed the work of other young artists, producing exhibitions with titles like "Die Young Stay Pretty" and "Death to the Fascist Insect That Preys on the Life of the People." He has written for magazines such as Flash Art and Artforum and is a regular contributor to arts discussion programs on BBC radio. His lecture, "Wanted: New Premises for Painting," will take place Nov. 15.
Art Spiegelman, the creator of "Maus: My Father Bleeds History" (Pantheon Books, 1986) and "Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" (Pantheon Books, 1991), will visit the Carpenter Center on Dec. 6 to deliver a lecture titled "Comix 101: Some Notes on the History and Evolution of Comic Art."
Spiegelman, a "crossover" artist whose intricate and nuanced tale of a Holocaust survivor is told in the form of an extended cartoon novel, has attracted numerous readers who are not ordinarily consumers of comic book art. The book portrays Jews as mice and Germans as cats, although both have human bodies and inhabit an otherwise realistic world.
Comparative Literature Professor Susan Suleiman, who teaches "Maus" in her course "The Holocaust and Problems of Representation," calls the book "brilliant and wonderfully original" and "an instant classic" that "pushes the boundaries of how one narrates the Holocaust."
Tickets to "An Evening with Yoko Ono" are free and available to individuals with a Harvard ID, from Oct. 11 to the 21, through the Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center, (617) 496-2222. Tickets to the Spiegelman lecture are available on the same basis from Nov. 26 to Dec. 6. Martin Maloney's talk is open to the general public, tickets not required. All talks will take place in the Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. For further information call (617) 495-3251 or visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ves-www/.
Contact Ken Gewertz at ken_gewertz@harvard.edu.


Cheylla Silva and John Paul Jebian, who are deaf, sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act after several visits to two hospitals. Both persons claim discrimination. Both claimed they did not receive the aids to communicate effectively with hospital staff. The District Court said that if a person is correctly diagnosed and treated, then the legal mandate is met. However, the Court of Appeals, focused on the ADA meaning of "effective communication". The ADA meaning says patients must also be able to participate, in a meaningful way, in their own care.
Deaf patients Cheylla Silva and John Paul Jebian sued two hospitals, South Miami Hospital and Baptist Hospital of Miami. They claimed they had both repeatedly experienced discrimination at the hospitals.
Silva and Jebian communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). During hospital visits, they use an ASL interpreter or another assistive device. These tools allow them to communicate with doctors and nurses. As places of public accommodation, hospitals must follow the ADA. This means they must give patients with disabilities the auxiliary aids and services they need to engage with medical staff. Likewise, many hospitals receive federal funds and therefore must follow Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This law also requires hospitals to provide effective communication and other accommodations to patients with disabilities.
Silva and Jebian allege that the hospitals did not follow these federal laws when they visited the hospitals between 2010 and 2015. They separately visited the hospitals several times. Each time they asked for a live, on-site interpreter. Often though, the hospitals offered Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) instead of an on-site interpreter.
VRI uses an off-site ASL interpreter seen on a portable screen. The interpreter translates for the doctor and patient. However, VRI machines sometimes have technical problems. These problems disrupt communication. Silva and Jebian claimed that technical problems often stopped them from fully engaging with doctors. They said that poor connections, blurry pictures and machines that would not turn on were common. They recalled that when machines broke, the hospitals often did not call a qualified ASL interpreter. Instead, the hospitals used family members or pen and paper to communicate. As a result, Jebian and Silva said their care suffered. They were asked to sign papers they did not understand. They watched discussions they could not follow. They also waited long periods of time for care.
Silva and Jebian claimed that there were times when they did not receive the communication aids they needed to participate in their own care. They said this was discrimination under the ADA and Section 504. They sued the hospitals in district court. The District Court for the Southern District of Florida, however, agreed with the hospitals for two reasons. It said Silva and Jebian lacked standing to sue the hospitals. It also found no violation because Silva and Jebian did not prove actual harm. It said that effective communication only requires a doctor to understand a patient's main medical concerns and to offer treatment.
Silva and Jebian appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
What is required to have standing?
What does "effective communication" mean?
1. What is required to have standing?
To have standing means to be allowed to bring a case to court. In order to have standing, parties must prove that the claimed discrimination will likely impact them in the future. In this case, Silva and Jebian had to show that they were likely to visit the hospitals in the future and encounter the same communication problems. The District Court said that it was not certain that either Silva or Jebian would return to the hospitals in the future. It also stated there was no clear proof that the VRI systems would continue breaking down. Thus, the District Court found that neither individual had standing.
The Court of Appeals disagreed with the District Court's decision. The Court thought it was likely that Silva and Jebian would visit the hospitals again. The Court's reasons included their history of hospital visits, ongoing health concerns, and the convenience of the hospitals' locations. The Court of Appeals also said that the frequent breakdowns of the VRI indicated they were likely to fail in the future. Thus, discrimination likely would happen again. The Court of Appeals concluded that Silva and Jebian did have standing to sue the hospitals.
2. What does "effective communication" mean?
The ADA, and Section 504, require hospitals to communicate effectively with persons with disabilities. If a deaf person is denied an aid deemed "necessary to ensure effective communication," they are entitled to sue.
The Court of Appeals focused on what "effective communication" means. It said that the District Court incorrectly focused only on whether medical concerns were identified and treated. The Court of Appeals instead emphasized the importance of meaningful participation in one's own medical care. The Court of Appeals said that the focus should be on the quality of communication leading to a treatment.
The Court of Appeals stated that a deaf person must be given the tools needed to fully engage in their healthcare. The experience should be equal to that of a hearing patient. The Court explained that a hearing person is not limited to talking about symptoms and receiving treatment. Visits include discussion of current medications, medical history, side effects, and follow up procedures. The Court found that it is against federal law to deny deaf patients the same chance to fully participate with their doctor.
The Court of Appeals also said that "effective communication" does not require that an on-site interpreter be present for all visits. It emphasized that there is no one right way to achieve effective communication. It varies from person to person and depends on the different facts of each case. The Court concluded that the District Court should not have dismissed the case without a full understanding of the facts.
The Court of Appeals reversed the District Court's ruling in favor of Silva and Jebian. The Court said that they provided enough clear proof to move forward with the case. It concluded that a better understanding of the facts was needed. The Court sent the case back to the District Court to reconsider the effective communication issue.
This ruling changes the standard for effective communication that hospitals must provide when serving deaf patrons within the Eleventh Circuit. The standard now requires successfully engaging an outcome or treatment and the overall communication experience.


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Q: How to send to a jsp page from a rest call I've written a rest interface (with jersey), a browser will be calling this rest interface. I would like show some html/jsp to the user as a response to this rest call...
Is this possible? How do I do it?

A: Yes, that is possible. This post as well as this one gives a hint how to use Viewables to return JSPs as a response.

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Ne dumaj pro belych obez'jan (Не думай про белых обезьян) è un film del 2008 diretto da Jurij Mamin.

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Il film racconta di Vova, una giovane ed energica barista, per la quale la cosa più importante sono i soldi. Il suo futuro suocero gli concede una soffitta abbandonata a sua disposizione e chiede che il seminterrato venga trasformato in un ristorante. In soffitta, Vova incontra una ragazza depressa di nome Daša, un'artista alcolizzata Gena e uno strano uomo calvo. All'inizio, vuole usarli come manodopera a basso costo, ma poi la sua idea del mondo cambia.

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Home Lifestyle Art & Culture Sylvia Plath poems: Best way to bring out your good emotions!
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An American poetess and novelist, having acquired her education from the renowned University of Cambridge. Sylvia Plath was one of a kind. She was born in Boston, on October 27th, 1932 to her parents Otto Plath, a biologist, and Aurelia Plath. Though she was into poetry from a very age and did show symptoms of being a capable artist. Sylvia Plath Poems are world famous. Losing her father at an early age left a deep impact on her. He died because of untreated diabetes.
While she was in college, she had an affair with another famous poet Ted Hughes. Both of them married and had two kids. She and Ted had two kids when Plath realizes about his affair with another woman. All this while she was already suffering from Depression, but this incident triggered it more and she committed suicide by poisoning herself from Carbon Monoxide, by putting her head in the oven. She did die a tragic death but is still remembered because of the legendary work she produced. She was in pain and all her pain was somehow shown in her works. You cannot help it with anything but adore and notice the haunting beauty in all of them.
A poem in which the Mirror seems to be talking about a woman who comes and watches her reflection and as she grows old, she seems agitated. The Poem reflects the insecurities of women having a beautiful reflection or carrying a personality and as she turns old, she takes herself to be ugly. The poem is one of a kind which has its eerie feeling in it and can only be expressed by Plath.
Having a stressed childhood, and an equally strenuous adulthood, surviving multiple suicide attempts, Daddy was written shortly before her death. Though the poem has some rather challenging statements which do raise issues like maybe she had some problems with her father, the poem shows every other impact her life has had on her. Another poem which has a haunting beauty, only enabled by Plath.
Starting with these lines, the poem talks about betrayal and love felt as it is about the unrequited love achieved by Plath. Maybe it is about her failed love life, we never know for sure but the poem for sure is beautiful and will urge you to listen to the recitals.
Another one of Plath's best works produced, Lady Lazarus is a twisted one to understand. But then, which one of her works came easily anyway? And that's what the beauty of it.
The bizarre sense of all Sylvia Plath poems brings out so much of passion that it becomes impossible not to relate to them at a certain point of time.
Sylvia Plath did suffer from various mental problems and had suicidal tendencies, but all this cannot overshadow her famous poems and works which were in fact, can be taken as the reflection of her degrading mental health, or maybe a silenced cry for help. She was prescribed with antidepressant and was frequently visited by one of her close friends, Dr. John Horder, but she did what she had too.
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Psa 37:25, "I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread."
These are the words of David who walked in the ways of God from his childhood. He says that through out his life from childhood to old age he has never seen a righteous person forsaken nor his descendants begging for bread. Jesus conveyed similar idea in Mat 6:28-30, "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" Further He said in Mat 6:33-34, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Once I heard the true story of a young girl who lived in USA (she could still be alive). She loved the Lord and tried to walk in the ways of God. She got married and had kids. When the kids grew up a little, her husband left her. She was heart broken, not knowing what to do, how she could survive this crisis. She started praying to God for sending a godly man in her life so that she could start her life once again. Many months passed by and she felt that it was not a wise prayer which she did. So she started asking God to show her a real solution to come out of financial difficulties and to survive with her kids.
Days and months passed by. One day she attended a wedding. In the reception she looked and saw that the wedding cake was beautifully decorated. When the cake was served, it tasted nothing better than a piece of cardboard. And just a thought struck her mind, "I can make tasty cakes than this." The thought grew and grew in her heart that she started thinking about it seriously. She began to bake cakes on special occasions for relatives and neighbors. Her fame grew and soon she started getting big orders. Even with in months she could earn enough money that she could start her own bakery. Not only she and her kids survived but she had more than enough money to live a good life.
How true it is when David said, "I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his descendents begging bread." When we put our trust in God, He takes care of our needs.
Hagar was in the wilderness and was in distress. Her survival was not possible without a miracle. We read in Gen 21:19, "Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink." The well was already there but she could not see it until God showed her. There are hidden treasures which are more than enough for our survival but at times we are unable to see it. Only God can show where it is and what it is. He alone can give a new idea which could restore your life and make you prosperous.
Are you in the same situation as Hagar was or as the divorced woman about whom I wrote above? Ask God to show you, what exactly He wants from your life. He will certainly show you and will make a way for you.
There was a ruler of the synagogue whose twelve year old daughter was very sick. He came to Jesus, fell on His feet and begged Him to go to His house. While Jesus was on the way to his house, someone told the ruler that his daughter had died. But Jesus told him, "Do not be afraid; only believe. (Mark 5:36)" And further we read in Mark 5:37, "He permitted no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James."
Why Jesus did not allow others to follow Him? The crowd that was walking with Him could not see with eyes of faith that the girl was not dead but sleeping. Things viewed with natural eyes could be completely different when you see it with eyes of faith. In the natural realm everything was over, the girl was dead but in the faith realm she was still alive and there was still hope. Jesus did not allow them to go with Him because they would have discourages others by their unbelief. Sometimes it is necessary to keep distance with those who do not have faith.
Last year my dad was very sick. On 3rd Oct. four expert doctors told us that everything was over and there was no hope of his recovery. While they were preparing him to rush to the ICU and to put him in ventilator, we sat in the family room. Hospital chaplain came to comfort us. He started talking about dad and his condition and my mom said that dad will not die but live. The chaplain answered, "Look, we all hope and pray for this but sometimes what we hope and desire may not be true!" The doctors already told us that there was no hope though the first time I felt as if we had lost all hopes, I thought, "why these people are talking like this? Will we really lose our dad?..." Though dad was unconscious yet he was still breathing. I tried to content to myself and tried to focus on the promises of God which He gave us for dad. I started claiming as many promises as I could remember and I could feel the hopelessness leaving me. Great peace surrounded me. Of course later God healed my dad and delivered us with great deliverance.
You see sometimes we listen to people who are only able to see the natural and not beyond that. It will bring your faith to a grinding halt. Never allow people to rob your faith. Jesus understood the danger and He did not allow anybody except three of His disciples to accompany Him.
Finally Jesus and others came to the ruler's house but the trial of their faith was far from over. When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, Jesus found people weeping and wailing. But Jesus told them in Mark 5:39-42, "the child is not dead, but sleeping." Further we read in Mark 5:40-43, "And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all outside, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child was lying. Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, "Talitha, cumi," which is translated, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were overcome with great amazement."
You can see the people who could not believe what Jesus said and they ridiculed Him. Yes, my friend, it is not easy to walk by faith. The day you decide to walk by faith and not by sight the world will ridicule you. Whole world will laugh at you and they will consider you as an insane person. If they have laughed and ridiculed our Master Jesus, how they will leave us alone? They will give the same treatment to us. But we can see in all these laughter, ridicule and unbelief, Jesus never wavered from His faith. He put them all out and performed a mighty miracle by raising the little girl from death.
Yes, it is not easy to keep your faith when others are laughing at you. But Jesus could look beyond natural. When He looked beyond natural and because of it He had faith. He knew that heavenly father can do anything and nothing is impossible with Him.
Today also if we want to see miracles in our lives we need to focus on God and His ability to do mighty things. No matter what circumstances could be when we are focused on Him, we would have faith to move mountains. Miracle would follow because of that faith. Let us shut our natural eyes and start seeing through the eyes of faith. Just like a small child believes that the promises of his father is true. What he has spoken, he will do it. In the same way what our heavenly father has promised, He will bring it to pass. Just believe!
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Dozens dead after ferry, tug collide off Hong Kong
HONG KONG (CNN) -- At least 36 people have died after two passenger boats collided off Hong Kong's Lamma Island on Monday evening, throwing more than 100 people into the sea.
The incident happened as Hong Kong's busy waters were even more crowded than usual, as the city celebrated China's National Day. The accident occurred less than an hour before the city's scheduled fireworks display.
One of the vessels, owned by The Hong Kong Electric Company, was carrying company employees and their families to watch the fireworks when it was struck by a ferry traveling from Hong Kong Island to Lamma.
Government officials said the collision occurred off the seafront of Lamma at around 8:20 p.m. local time.
According to a statement from the Hong Kong Fire Services Department (FSD), which led the rescue, the vessel sunk quickly after the impact. It said low visibility and many obstacles on board also made it difficult for rescuers. The FSD said its rescue boats, including a diving support vessel, arrived on the scene at 8:41 p.m. local time.
The FSD said 123 passengers were picked up, 28 of whom were declared dead at scene, while eight others were certified dead upon arrival at hospital. Over 100 people were sent to five hospitals across the city, with nine said to have serious injuries or be in critical condition, the FSD added.
The authorities have not ruled out that there are still people inside the vessel or missing. The passenger ferry was able to dock safely, according to media reports, though government officials have not yet confirmed if passengers aboard that vessel were injured.
"After 10 minutes out a boat crashed into ours from the side at very high speed," one male survivor told the South China Morning Post. "The rear of the ferry started to sink. I suddenly found myself deep under the sea. I swam hard and tried to grab a life buoy. I don't know where my two kids are."
Another woman said, "I swam for a long time to reach the surface and swallowed a lot of water. Then I found a rescue boat."
CNN's Judy Kwon and Mark Morgenstein contributed to this report.


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East Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire District
Statistical comparisons will be made with Aylesbury Vale (change comparison)
Total Population 1801 to 2011: Population grew from 23,507 in 1801 to 83,818 in 2011.
Precentage of workforce with degrees 1951 to 2011: In 1951, only 2.1 per cent of occupied males had stayed in education past age 20, but in 2011 29.02 per cent of the population had degree-level qualifications.
Proportion of male workers with professional and managerial jobs, from 1951 to 2011: In 1951, 20.25 per cent of men had these generally better paid jobs, and in 2011 this had risen to 28.22 per cent.
East Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire
EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE Preferred English Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
12UC Code: Office for National Statistics English Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE Modern (post 1974) County Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, East Cambridgeshire District through time | Census tables with data for the District/Unitary Authority, A Vision of Britain through Time.


Nowdays, there is an increasing demand for robustness, fault-tolerance and resilience in engineering and industrial applications. Most of the complex applications are safety critical, so it is necessary to devise methods to check that the system design is correct and the system behaviour is adequate. The problem treated in this project is the formal verification of dynamical systems. That is, to check, in an automated way, that a dynamical system satisfies some specific property or behaviour.
MetiTarski developed by Lawrence Paulson in Cambridge is a powerful automatic theorem prover which can handle with real-valued special functions (such as, log, exp, sin, cos and sqrt). This feature makes Metitarki especially suitable for proving properties of dynamical systems.
The goal of this project is to use MetiTarski in order to check the presence of long-term dynamical behaviours in dynamical systems. The evolution in time of concrete systems will be studied. Depending on the student's interests and background, we could explore systems from different application domains, and the complexity of the systems treated could be increased: from linear to nonlinear systems, from nonlinear to discontinuous systems.
In combination with MetiTarski, the student will have to use mathematics software to make symbolic computations and analysis; mainly, Maple or Sage (free open-source).
Formal specification of properties to verify.
Use of MetiTarski (theorem prover) in combination with other mathematical packages to prove the satisfaction or non-satisfaction of the specified properties in the dynamical system.
This project is suitable for students keen on exploring inter-disciplinary work, with enthusiasm for dynamical systems analysis and simulation, automated reasoning and logics.
 W. Stein et al. Sage.


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Maxine Brundle one of our newer members, currently involved on stage in our Autumn production – 'Secondary Cause of Death', took some action shots from last nights rehearsal. Cast are now starting to go without scripts (the comfort blanket for any actor!) and Colin the director is exceedingly happy with progress. Take a look!
Autumn 2018 production – In full swing!