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Why is that news article choosing this evening to roll across my desk?

September 9, 2011 by stickbear Leave a Comment

Well ok. My floor. Since I don’t have a desk to speak of at this current time. . You know, because give it a few days and I won’t have a place to live. But we already went over that earlier. So let’s just um, go down here, use my limited web design skills, and learn about what happens when stupid people/organizations do stupid things.
So, there’s this dude. You know, the guy who wrote this thinggy over here.
That guy who wrote that thing up there that’s used for the social network which shall not be named of which I may or may not be a member, goes to Florida State University.
Well, Florida State’s math department, you see, has this nasty little habit. They like to
force their blind students to use inaccessible software for math courses.
Well, this dude doesn’t like this very much. You se, he, ladies and gentlemen, is blind, in the event you didn’t read that thing over there in your other browser tab. So what did Florida State do that pissed him off enough to get the NFB involved? Well, to refresh your memories, and mine, because it’s half past holy crap o’clock in the morning and I haven’t even had dinner yett, let’s play a li’l game. One of my favorites. it’s called Peel and Stick. It works, kinda like this, wherein I take a piece of that article in that other tab of mine and go… Well, let’s see what they did, now, shall we?

The suit alleges that FSU’s Department of Mathematics discriminated against Mr. Toth
and Ms. Principato by failing to provide them with proper accommodations so that
they could successfully complete required math courses for their respective degree
programs. The violations include requiring the students to use an inaccessible Web-based
application to complete homework assignments, tests, and quizzes; requiring the use
of clickers that cannot be used by a blind person to respond to in-class questions
and obtain bonus credit; failing to provide Braille versions of the required textbooks
in violation of agreed-upon accommodation plans; and engaging in retaliatory actions
when the students complained of these violations. In all cases, faculty members
in the Department of Mathematics were generally uncooperative, unhelpful, and even
hostile, and did not provide meaningful alternative methods for Mr. Toth and Ms.
Principato to successfully complete the required courses. As a result, both students
are currently unable to continue their degree programs and find their careers indefinitely
on hold.

Who are you, FSU math department, to deny these two blind students an education? And who are you, FSU disability services, for allowing the math department to treat students who *you* are supposed to be assisting, so poorly? And don’t even get me started. Inevitably, some fucktard’s gonna waltz on in here and say disability services could have known nothing about it. I’m calling bullshit. I’m calling bullshit based on the fact that other students in other state universities all across the country get treated like this daily. But you know what? As long as the books look pretty, it doesn’t matter how students are treated. Because nobody who works for a state university actually gives a fuck about the students. No. All they care about is their form letters and their handbooks and their rules. as long as it looks good on paper, nobody actually cares! Nope, because as long as their reports look pretty for whomever the hell they report to, they can just carry on treating people like garbage and get away with it.
You can’t rightfully sit here and tell me Florida State didn’t know about the treatment these two students were receiving. (In fact, I wish I could grab the one I have on my mesenger and ask him what disability services actually did about the situation, but unfortunately, right now, I can’t seem to find him.) Um, well, it is 1:26 AM. You normal people that are lucky an that have everything, you’re sleeping right now, wile I’m scrounging for a place to live. yeah. Especially you lucky sighties, who have jobs. And you all sat at home, in your normal houses, with your normal families, this evening, and did normal things. While I bounced around the state with a backpack, a duffel, a cane and a person guiding me, trying to find a place to crash this evening that wasn’t gonna get a friend of mine from high school evicted from her apartment, you people, probably some of the very ones I’m currently being persecuted and treated like a criminal by, get to live your lives like nothing’s wrong. You get to sleep in your own bed, in your own house, while I worry about whether my next move is to court so I dont get put in a group home by my insane mother, or worse, end up under her guardianship, and living in my house for the rest of my pathetic, broken, useless life. Hope you’re proud of yourselves, because I would rather like to start planning ways of getting rid of myself so you all have nothing to worry about anymore. Yeah. remember how someone told me I should kill myself? Suicidal ideations. again. thanks assholes. Just how I wanted to spend an evening in an unfamiliar place. and I thought I was gonna get away with not being a medicated zombie for the rest of my life? Well, guess I’m quite sure who to thank for that.

Filed Under: accessibility, articles, computers, court, facebook, FSU stupid, internet, news articles, opinion, people needing a clue, random posts from random locations, rants, stupid people, technology

follow up and final post regarding kerri arik, and court appearance

January 10, 2010 by stickbear 1 Comment

as a lot of you have read in previous posts, kerri, (now an x of mine.) has been taken to
court and i had posted all legal documentation and my comments pertaining to this case as
they became available.
January 6, 2010 was the court date set to attempt to settle this matter. I give you the
report as posted to kerri’s blog. I combined multiple entries thanks to mobile blogging
having space limitations. Note i did edit for obvious spelling errors while putting this
together. My final thoughts and comments will of course follow.

On-site mediation report
Submitted to: The Honourable Mr. D.M Steinberg
Court file: F-1585/09
Parties: Jenkins, Barbra (Applicant, paternal grandmother) Murtland, Kerri (respondant,
mother) Remmelzwaal, Joshua (respondant, father)
child(ren): Arik Remmelzwaal, born 3 November, 2007
Mediator: Al Wilkinson, B.A., B.Ed. Acc. F.M.
Date: 6 January, 2010
Referral: The parties were referred to on-site mediation by counsel
Issue(s): Parenting
Interviews: A total of three sessions were held as follows:
Mrs. Jenkins on 6 January, 2010
Mr. Remmelzwaal on 6 January, 2010
Ms. Murtland on 6 January, 2010
Mrs. Jenkins, Ms. Murtland & Mr. Remmelzwaal on 6 January, 2010
Outcome: A full agreement was reached on all the issues raised.
It is much to the credit of the parties that they were able to negotiate the issues
arising out of their family law dispute.
Subject to independant legal advice, all parties agree that on a TEMPORARY and WITHOUT
PREJUDICE basis:
1. The parties shall consult each other and the respondant father before making any
major decision regarding the child and shall provide, upon request, written authorization
for the other party or the respondant father to obtain information about the child
from any professionals involved with the child (i.e. teachers, doctors)
2. The applicant paternal grandmother and the respondant mother shall advise each
other of any emergency concerning the child while he is in their care as soon as
possible.
3. Commencing 18 January, 2010, the applicant paternal grandmother, the respontant
mother and respondant father shall share time with the child on a 2 week block as
follows:
a. The respondent mother shall share time with the child from Monday at 10 a.m. of
week 1 until Tuesday of week 2 at 6 p.m. and he shal be primarily resident with her
at that time.
b. The applicant paternal grandmother shall share time with the child from Tuesday
of week 2 at 6 p.m. until the following Monday at 10 a.m. and he shall be primarily resident
with her at that time.
c. The respondent father shall share time with the child when and as the applicant
paternal grandmother deems appropriate.
4. The mother shall ensure the child is not in the presence of any current or future
common-law partner, unless or until the applicant paternal grandmother has provided
written consent for the child to be introduced to that person, when the child is
in her care.
5. The applicant paternal grandmother and the respondand mother shall communicate
about the child’s needs only via a notebook sent along with the child at each transition.
6. The applicant paternal grandmother and the respondant mother shall consider mediation
to resolve any differences regarding parenting the child prior to litigating.
7. Neither party shall talk badly about the other party in the presence of the child
nor shall they allow anyone else to do so.
The parties have been advised to seek legal advice regarding this report.
The purpose of mediation is to reach a negotiated settlement, not to conduct a comprehensive
investigation, to provide opinion or provide recommendation.
The information provided to mediate was not independantly verified by the mediator
(especially as this pertains to financial matters)
This closed on-site mediation report only limited information, which I, as the mediator,
consider to be relevant. Al Wilkinson, On-site mediator.

a lot of this makes sense, and frankly, in my opinion is the best for everyone. i did note
that josh’s supposed rights being signed over to his mother never came up. this begs the
question, was what was done regarding josh’s rights actually legal? i guess we’ll never know
unless kerri posts a comment here regarding this. secondly. i noticed that barb’s repeated
jabs at blindness and other disabilities as shown in the initial paperwork as posted
previously here never came up here. I’ll take that as a sign that the courts through that one
out of hand as being irrelivent. the question regarding custody? again, we never got a
resolution to that one either. I beg to wonder what the hell’s up with item 4 as listed
above? How much arm twisting occured to make kerri agree to that one in the first place? In
my opinion, barb’s an opinionated self centered egotistical bitch with an ego that rivals
that of nicoli carpathia, (left behind reference, sorry.) The day she allows someone that
hasn’t been approved by her to be in the presence of arik is the day hell freezes over. Barb
controling who can interact with the child is again, a sign that barb’s trying to control
kerri and her life choices, llike you’d control a child. So if say kerri marries someone, is
barb gonna say no you can’t marry this person because i don’t aproove? marrying said person
means i can’t control who my cgrandson interacts with? ok, i’ll stop now. remember these are
my opinions and thoughts. don’t like? don’t read. simple as that. I may not be dating kerri
anymore but i still have to wonder. with all that said, unless i get anymore on this matter.
i’ll officially consider this one a closed deal.
I’ll post at a later point in time.
piece out

Filed Under: court, Uncategorized

the aftermath of toronto, more hamilton drama, a knew book, and more!

September 2, 2009 by stickbear 2 Comments

good morning fellow blog readers.
we’ve got lots to cover. so let’s roll!
Let’s start with toronto.
Things went OK, kerri and I picked up the paperwork that we needed to pick up and spent the rest of the day bumming around with emily.
We ended up meeting up with earle and rose, and met their child, Genevra, in the process.
So that’s toronto, the long and short.
hamilton Drama… let’s see. The thing of note this time around is one josh remellzwaal (remmalzwall for jaws, for the sake of this entry we’ll call him ding bat.) anyhow, he starts running his mouth, oh CAS has a problem with me, I’ll be going down, how they looked up my previous information from brantford, oh god it goes on.
Anyhow, We end up reaching the worker he mentions, and sadly, oh my god, CAS has nothing against me, she *has* never spoken with josh, never will speak with josh, and their was never a conference. yada yada fucking yada. The short, josh, lying, again! Am I surprised? not really, it’s something I’ve come to expect from the little crippled mentally in need of a psychic evaluation specimen of a human. He’ll lie to get his own way, but what this little dimwitted moron fails to realize is that, this crap will come back to bite him in the ass, and then he’ll continue to lose, until someone finally knocks his lights out, or runs him over, whatever happens first. Either or, I don’t care which, as long as he’s taken out of this world.
Ok, finally, oh yes, this is good!
Kerri was served papers today, I won’t go into details, because it aint my story to tell, but needless to say, their are a few things I’d like to say, and please, feel free to comment.
In these papers, Mrs. Barb jenkins, (hereafter refered to as idiot for my own retribution), states to the effect of, Kerri’s current boyfriend is blind, meaning he cannot look after arik, and arik is at risk being around him. She says something similar about Kerri’s father in the same set of documentation.
She also says in that documentation that she’s not discriminating?
Excuse me you stupid idiot, but you are, so get ready to die. Oh idiot who thinks she knows all, what facts do you have that state that, I, (or any other blind/visually impaired individual) cannot look after a child, or that blind persons around children are putting the child(s) in danger?
She also mentions that kerri’s father being visually impaired requires special assistants so makes it impossible for him to participate effectively in the raising/care of arik?
Yet again, I raise the question, on what fact do you base your accusations ms. I have all these high priced lawyers?
Please, if I’m missing something here, highly unlikely, someone, correct me!
Their’s a lot more that I’m not at liberty to disclose right now, but if I do get permission, you can bet I’ll be back with more of this interesting paperwork.
Oh wait, their r a few more things, how the hell, if the child was born on november 3, 2007, could he have been placed in kinship care on September 15, 2007?
Time travel anyone?
yeah, according to the *hand written* letter attached to the papers, that was the date listed for kinship care.
Oh, wait, and the child was born on november 11, 2007? no, birth cirtificate states the 3rd of november, not the 11th.
Does anyone see the buildup of mistakes in this set of paperwork?
Let’s see, what else is wrong with this set of documentation.
Oh yes, supposedly Josh signed his rights over to his mother? Um, no, wrong!
firstly, the letter you enclosed with said papers was never signed by a court judge/justice of the piece, so it’s invalid on that part, and second, you don’t sign your parental rights over to anyone you just sign them away, so again, you lose!
and their’s also something in their, about asking the court for an order to trap kerri here in hamilton?
I’m sorry, but legally, you *cannot* do that. you can prevent her from leaving the country, but if she chooses to leave hamilton, that’s her right as a citizen, and that, again, is a violation of her rights.
Am I the only one seing the buildup for a case dismissal here?
With that out of the way, let’s talk about this knew book.
While in toronto a book title, wake, was mentioned.
I liked what I was hering about it, so I went after the book.
I now have the book, and once I’ve read it, I’ll be sure to post my thoughts.
Ok, that’s it for now.
the comment boards await you!
piece ya’ll.

Filed Under: court, josh, relationship, toronto, Uncategorized

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