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Bill Cosby's chief accuser says she wants justice in sex trial
Andrea Constand's appearance was her second chance to confront the TV star in court.
Bill Cosby's chief accuser has given evidence at his sexual assault retrial, telling a jury she wants justice after five other women told the court he was a serial rapist who harmed them too.
Andrea Constand's appearance was her second chance to confront Cosby in court after his first trial ended with a hung jury.
This time she will face a defence team intent on portraying her as a "con artist" who framed him for money.
Cosby lawyer Tom Mesereau told jurors in an opening statement that Ms Constand had racked up big credit card debt and once ran a Ponzi scheme until she "hit the jackpot" in 2006, when Cosby paid her 3.4 million dollars to settle a civil lawsuit she filed after a district attorney dropped the case.
Ms Constand, 45, told jurors on Friday that she has nothing to gain financially now by wanting Cosby locked up.
"Ms Constand, why are you here?" prosecutor Kristen Feden asked.
"For justice," she replied.
Ms Constand, an athletic six-footer, said Cosby drugged and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in January 2004, when she was a women's basketball administrator at his alma mater, Temple University.
She said Cosby offered her pills after she said she was "stressed" about telling the Temple women's basketball coach of her plans to leave to study massage therapy in her native Canada.
He called the pills "your friends" and told her they would "help take the edge off", the court was told
Instead, Ms Constand said, the pills instead made her black out, and she awoke to find Cosby performing a sex act on her. She said she was still incapacitated and "was not able to do anything" about the assault.
Her allegation is the only one among dozens against Cosby that has led to criminal charges. He says she consented to a sexual encounter and denies she was incapacitated.
Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said his new defence team has researched Ms Constand's evidence and statements from last year and found "even more inconsistencies".
Mr Wyatt on Thursday derided the five additional accusers as "distractors" and "advocates for the prosecution" and for Ms Constand. Just one other accuser was permitted to give evidence at Cosby's first trial.
The women, Wyatt said, traded in "poetic licensing, better known as alternative facts", and were pawns in an "Ocean's 11-style script" cooked up by lawyers Gloria Allred and her daughter Lisa Bloom, "to extort Mr Cosby for 100 million dollars".
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Anzac Day is celebrated throughout West Wimmera Shire Council on 25 April.
On Thursday 25 April 2019, the following events will take place in our local communities and everyone is invited to attend:
10:45 am | Assemble at War Memorials11:00 am | March to Town HallAnzac Day ServiceGuest Speaker: Mr Chris VardanegaMarch to War Memorials for laying of wreathsLight lunch provided in RSL HallHost: Langkoop/Apsley RSL Sub-Branch
8:00 am | "Moose's Breakfast" at Edenhope RSL Hall, Langford Street, $5 per head, new & renewal memberships also taken10:30 am | Anzac Day Service at CenotaphFollowed by Guest Speaker and Morning Tea at Edenhope Bowling ClubFollowed by light refreshments at RSL Hall to watch AFL Anzac Day Memorial Football Match between Essendon & CollingwoodHost: Edenhope RSL Sub-BranchNote: any groups / family members of veterans who wish to lay a wreath should contact Ian on 0439 975 672
10:00 am | March from Police Station to War Memorial (assemble at 9:30 am) Memorial Service in Goroke Hall Guest Speaker: Councillor Pam Clarke, Horsham Rural City Council Wreath and cross laying at War Memorial Morning tea and display of memorabilia in Goroke Hall - please bring a plate for morning tea Host: Goroke War Memorial Committee, assisted by the Goroke P12 Advance Group
10:30 am | Ecumenical Service at Harrow RSL Hall 11:00 am | March past of veterans & RSL members with piper Andrew Teusner Guest Speaker Wreath laying ceremony followed by the Last Post, Reveille, National Anthem Morning tea & refreshments at Hall (a donation would be appreciated) Host: Harrow RSL Sub-Branch
10:55 am | Assemble at RSL Park / Band Park assemble at 10:30 am Anzac Day Service at Cenotaph Followed by refreshments at Club Hotel, 54 Commercial Street, Kaniva, $10 per person, $30 per family, pay at the doorHost: Kaniva RSL Sub-Branch
In 2016, we honoured the impact the World War One soldier settlement had on shaping our region with the unveiling of several memorial plaques across the Shire.
These WW1 Soldier Settlement Memorials were generously supported by the Victorian Government and the Victorian Veterans Council.
They can be visited by interested residents or members of the public at:
Miga Lake Estate WW1 Soldier SettlementLocation: Miga Lake Hall, Nhill-Harrow Road, Miga Lake (approx 5km south of Wimmera Highway intersection)
Cove Estate WW1 Soldier SettlementLocation: Cove, corner of Cove and Alexander Roads (approx 23km north west of Kaniva)
Mortat Estate WW1 Soldier Settlement (change of name from Mortat to Peronne in 1925)Location: Grounds of Peronne Hall, Natimuk-Frances Road, Peronne (approx 15km west of Goroke)
Benayeo Estate WW1 Soldier SettlementLocation: Benayeo Hall on Benayeo Road (approx 18km north west of Apsley)
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Online University Requirements – Test Scores & Due Dates
In days gone by the requirement of taking a test or entrance exam to enter a university was much more stringent than it is now, but some schools still require it. Before entering many business grad schools for example you are required to take the GRE or Graduate Record exam. Before entering medical school you are asked for your scores on your MCAT or Medical College Admission Test. While these tests share with the university that you plan on attending just how up to speed you are, they don't do as well to show how successful you will be in their programs. For those indicators a university looks at your GPA and transferring credit hours.
However, if you are planning on attending a school that requires you take one of these entrance exams (which may also include the ACT or SAT) you will want to make sure that you do it with plenty of time for them to score the test and send the results to your school or schools of choice. It can take up to two months for the scores to arrive at your online university. This is why it is suggested that Juniors in high school begin to examine their college options. They are still far away, but there are some things that you can't plan for the last minute. Take this to heart and look as soon as you can at the entrance requirements for the university you plan on attending.
Another matter you should consider is when the admission dates and deadlines are. Traditionally schools have only a handful a year, but online you may find a very different story. Because part of the online experience is to provide flexibility for students with very divergent schedules you are likely to come across programs that offer start dates as soon as you enroll and meet any registration requirements. While this is a plus, you are still going to have to wait on any transcripts, test scores or financial aid paperwork to be completed.
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By Staff Sgt. Candace MundtMay 18, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- The Burkina Faso Prime Minister, U.S. Ambassador for Burkina Faso and Deputy Commanding General for U.S. Army Africa attended a Closing Ceremony for Western Accord 2016, May 13, at Camp Zagre.
The two-week command post exercise, which began, May 2, brought together 15 West African Nations, seven NATO European countries and the U.S. to work as a multinational headquarters to build interoperability and shared understanding.
"Let me start by saying thank you to Burkina Faso for hosting Western Accord 2016," said Tulinabo Mushingi, U.S. Ambassador for Burkina Faso. "We, in the United States are very proud that this year's event has been successful and has been an excellent training opportunity for everyone represented here today."
Participants had to plan and notionally execute an African Union and United Nations peacekeeping operation in a joint, combined environment. Each military representative came with a different operational process, but everyone aligned efforts to complete their mission.
"There is no standard for success, that we all have different backgrounds and different experiences that we can capitalize from," said Capt. Scott Saunders, U.S. Army Africa scenario manager for the accord. "We're dealing with language barriers, many different backgrounds and not one person was going to solve it all. So, we had to get out of our comfort zones and contribute in any way we could. It took a little bit more time, but in the end I feel the consensus is what gave us strength."
Western Accord 2016 has allowed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to train for regionally significant real-world scenarios that currently, not only West Africa, but all its partner nations.
"This act is a testimony of your support and involvement in encouraging the armed forces of the countries involved in order to prevent conflict, preserve and maintain peace and stability in the ECOWAS area and all over the world," said General Pingrenoma Zagre, Chief of Defense Staff for Burkina Faso Armed Forces.
While the exercise was directed at enhancing interoperability across the region, it was also beneficial for U.S. participants, as most have less experience outside a combat operational environment.
"While the U.S. does a lot of training, the Burkinabe participate in a lot more peacekeeping operations than we do," Saunders said. "I feel I learned a lot about U.N. operations and the U.N. planning process."
This is the first of four annual U.S. Army Africa accord series exercises scheduled this year. Next year, Saunders hopes to capitalize off what they gained during this year's command post exercise.


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Beetles can be described as holometabolous insects with biting mouth parts, 2 pairs of wings, the first pair of which are modified into leathery elytra which are not used in flight (though they may act as aerofoils), the Prothorax is large and the Mesothorax much reduced. The larvae are usually campodeiform or eruciform with biting mouthparts, the pupa are generally adecticous and exarate.
Beetles range in size from 0.25 mm to over 170mm long, and comprise both the largest and very nearly the smallest insects in the world. There are several different ways of measuring the size of an insect, most people would consider the largest insect to be the bulkiest and in this case the champion insect is the Acteaom Beetle from South America the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick. Another competitor for the title is the extremely rare South American Longhorn Beetle Titanus giganteus these giants can be over 16cms in body length (not including antennae) other longhorn beetles are nearly as long and may look bigger because of their longer legs i.e. Xixuthrus heros from Fiji, while another beetle, Dynastes hercules is also well known for reaching 16cms in length though it is not nearly a heavy. In the other direction many beetles are less than one millimetre in length, and the North american Feather-winged Beetle Nanosella fungi at 0.25mm is a serious contender for the title of smallest insect in the world.
Bark Beetles ( Scolytidae
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Click Beetles ( Elateridae)
Dung Beetles ( Scarabaeoidea (in part))
Ground Beetles ( Carabidae)
Jewel Beetles ( Buprestidae)
Lady Birds ( Coccinelidae)
Larder Beetles ( Dermestidae)
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Longhorn Beetles ( Cerambycidae)
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Rove Beetles ( Staphylinidae)
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Tiger Beetles ( Cicindelidae)
True Water Beetles ( Dytiscidae)
Weevils ( Curculionidae)
Whirligig Beetles ( Gyrinidae)
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So, this card is made with the Verve Stamp set called Petals & Stems and is actually a set that I won from Julee! The colors are Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Wild Wasabi, and PTI White. I don't recall where the designer paper is from but I do love it. I used my Swiss Dots embossing folder to carry over the dots from the flowers as well as the dots in the scallops. Although the sentiment isn't in a circle I still think it works. I can't used those butterflies without making a 3-D butterfly so the butterfly on this card is 3-D and uses Blue Bayou on the sides and Soft Sky in the front. The green on the middle layer is actually a piece of stitched ribbon just placed down further so you can only see the top stitch. There is lots of bling but it doesn't show well. I used my stardust pen for the flower and the butterfly. There is Frosted Lace Stickles in the scallops, and Dot Sparklers from Stampendous in the corner.
I was reading the parent dispatch from the camp that Kyler is at and it said that the campers had some FOB time yesterday. Are you wondering what FOB time is? Flat On Bunk time...which means...the campers are tired, probably a little squirrelly and stinky and they need to have some down time. How funny is that?! I can just imagine what he'll be like when he gets home! I think we'll have some FOB time here too!
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STEREO-B, NASA's Sun-Watching Spacecraft, Starts Talking After Nearly 2 Years Of Silence
NASA has successfully reestablished contact with one of its Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO), after the space agency lost communication with the spacecraft nearly two years ago. The spacecraft, known as STEREO-B, is part of a mission to view the sun from vantage points on the other side of the star from Earth.
After scientists at NASA lost communication with STEREO-B on Oct. 1, 2014, the spacecraft spent 22 months alone in the void until Sunday when contact was reestablished with the help of a monthly recovery operation using NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). At 6:27 p.m. EDT on Sunday, DSN — which tracks and communicates with missions throughout space — managed to establish a lock on the STEREO-B downlink carrier, allowing the Mission Operations team to characterize the attitude of the spacecraft and to take necessary measures to save battery power.
"The STEREO Missions Operations team plans further recovery processes to assess observatory health, re-establish attitude control, and evaluate all subsystems and instruments," NASA said in a statement, adding that STEREO-A still continues to work normally.
The STEREO spacecraft were designed with a command loss timer, an automatic reset button that can restart the spacecraft after 72 hours without contact. Communications with STEREO-B were lost when scientists were testing this function to prepare the spacecraft for solar conjunction, an incident when STEREO-B's line of sight to Earth — as well as all communication — was blocked by the sun.
After the hard reset, STEREO-B was supposed to power itself back on and send a status report to Earth. Seconds after the reset, STEREO-B did send a weaker-than-expected signal, but it quickly faded away. According to scientists, that was the last time they heard from STEREO-B.
In December 2015, NASA said that STEREO-B emerged into a region where it could once again receive radio signals, and that scientists were working on a plan to get it back on track.
Launched in October 2006, the two STEREO spacecraft were originally designed to complete a two-year mission, ending in 2008. However, they lasted much longer, offering scientists with views of the sun's far side.
According to scientists, operating a spacecraft for more than four times its original lifespan is very difficult, and in STEREO's case, its orbit was considered to be the biggest hurdle.
"The sun emits strongly in nearly every wavelength, making it the biggest source of noise in the sky," Dan Ossing, mission operations manager for the STEREO mission at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, said in a statement. "Most deep space missions only have to deal with sun interference for a day or so, but for each of the STEREO spacecraft, this period lasted nearly four months."


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Intermed 1 Sole Ltd understands that a good education and training of the employees is an important factor for the success of the bio farming and also its own operations. In total about four weeks of training in various qualification measures take place each year; in which the activities are divided into individual discussions, training on-site and in external courses.
Various courses, which were organised time and again in the past by the German companies WALA Heilmittel GmbH and Weleda AG, play an important role. Team members could have an important exchange of experiences by participating in various foreign visits to other bio-farmers and could also participate in a USA training visit with the topic "Bio-farming and Bio-marketing in America".


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Party handling issues
XRODX_xTed_Bundy Posts: 2Player
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I have noticed an issue with matchmaking and parties. I created a party with 3 other friends from the lobby screen. After joining a game its expected for the party to not all make it on the same team. After finishing the map and moving to the next map, for some reason the party still gets split up and the sides will be lopsided. 4 vs 8 in this case, with me 1 of my friends and 2 randoms going against my 2 friends and 6 ramdoms. Can this please get fixed.
V_NillaJ Posts: 72Developer@XRODX_xTed_Bundy thanks for the feedback. We are aware of the issue, and are working on this fix, as well as other party and private lobby improvements.
Ix-M0NTANA-xI Posts: 98PlayerDevelopers should also fix the issue with being able to hear the other team during a match.


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Every financial plan should start with an emergency fund. Even if you have debt, before you start focusing on accelerating those repayments, you need to first build up an emergency fund. An emergency fund is what will stop you going back into debt.
Ideally you should build up three months' worth of expenses, but that takes time and commitment. At the very least you should start with R10 000 and build it up as you get bonuses or extra cash.
An emergency fund needs to be accessible, but not too accessible, to prevent you from being tempted to use it for non-emergencies.
The worst thing you can do is leave your emergency fund in your current account. Apart from easy access, you won't be earning any interest. You need to select a separate investment account that earns a better interest rate and keeps the money separate from day-to-day expenses.
To keep your banking simple, it is easiest to select an appropriate investment account offered by your bank. Rates depend on how much you deposit and how long you lock it in for, so it is important to do your research on the best solution for your needs.
You could keep the money in an investment account which is accessible within 24 hours. This would allow you to access the funds for an emergency that requires you to have money straight away, but in most cases, we have some time to pay the bill.
In that case, a 7-day notice or even 32-day notice account provides a good solution by providing both a higher interest rate and some distance between you and your money. A one-month fixed deposit is also an option as you can just then roll it over at the end of every month if you do not need the money.
One of the best options is a flexible fixed deposit where your money is fixed for a period, but you can access some of the funds immediately. This would be ideal once you have built up a larger emergency fund of at least R20 000, as half would still be accessible within 24 hours. Absa has an interesting option where you can access any percentage of the investment but the interest rate changes accordingly.
You also need to consider that fixed deposits do not necessarily allow you to add to the balance during the fixed term. In this case you would want to build up a balance in a shorter-term investment and transfer to your fixed deposit at the end of each notice period.
We did some research on what the banks are currently offering for short-term deposits. This is based on a balance of R10 000. In most cases interest rates increase for higher balances.
We found that African Bank has very high interest rates as they are focused on raising deposits. You need to do the maths to see if an extra 2% on R10 000 (R200 per annum) is worth opening a separate bank account. The rates do not increase with higher balances as is the case with other banks, so the differential narrows the more money you have to deposit.
Interest rates based on a starting balance of R10 000
Access money within one day
Absa TruSave: 3.45%
Absa depositer plus (minimum R15 000): 5.2%
Capitec: 4.85%
FNB Savings Account: 5%
Nedbank JustInvest: 5%
Standard Bank PureSave: 2.35%
Access after 7-days' notice
Absa notice select: 5.4%
African Bank notice account: 7.01%
Standard Bank notice deposit: 2.85%
Note: FNB minimum is R20 000, Nedbank and Capitec do not specify a 7-day notice account.
Access after 32-days' notice
Absa notice select: 5.5%
African Bank notice account: 7.49%
FNB 32-day notice: 5.5%
Nedbank 32-day notice: 5.75%
Standard Bank notice deposit: 4.45%
Note: On all Standard Bank notice accounts you earn an extra 0.15% if you open via online banking.
One-month fixed deposit
Absa notice select: 5.5%
FNB fixed deposit: 5.70%
Nedbank fixed deposit 6.05%
Standard bank fixed deposit: 6.45%
Note: Absa allows the customer to select access to a portion of the funds for any notice select product. The rate depends on the portion you select for accessibility. In this example we assumed no accessibility
Note: African Bank fixed deposit only starts at 3 months, Capitec only starts at 6 months.
Fixed deposit with accessibility (you have access to a portion of your money within 24 hours)
Nedbank EasyAccess: 3 months fixed deposit: 6.20% or 6 months: 6.35%
FNB Flexi Fixed deposit: 3 months 5.25%, 12 months 5.5%
Absa dynamic fixed deposit: 6 months 6.45% (assuming access to 50%)
Standard Bank Flexi Advantage: 3 months 5.45% and 5.7% on 6 months
African Bank: Only offer 24-month deposit period but you can access 100% of your capital. The interest rate depends on how long you leave the funds for. You start with 6.55% but increases to 8.96% if untouched in 24 months.
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- The Food Literacy Project (at Harvard University Dining Services) cultivates an understanding of food from the ground up. Education focuses on four integrated areas of food and society: agriculture, nutrition, food preparation and community. Ultimately, the project goal is to promote enduring knowledge, enabling consumers to make informed food choices.
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Meet the Meal: surveys, student feedback, and vocal minorities
Harvard University Dining Services runs a complex operation. In this web series, the Food Literacy Project will be interviewing different members of the Harvard University Dining Services, with one primary goal: provide more transparency in how food reaches your plate … Continue reading
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Model railway enthusiasts gathered in Highbridge to spend the day indulging their passion.
Collectors from across the South West headed to the 10th Vintage Hornby Train Show at The King Alfred School on Saturday.
Vintage model railway layouts were on display so excited visitors could see them in action.
Many layouts are made in situ using loose track sections to create one-off displays.
The exhibition was organised by the Bristol and Somerset Group of the Hornby Railway Collectors' Association.
There were also a number of trade stands so collectors could pick up new and second-hand items for their displays at home.
Money raised on the day will go towards the Friends of Burnham War Memorial Hospital.
The group meets on the fourth Thursday of the month from 6-10pm in the scout hut, in Totterdown Road.


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In thinking about the recent LARB critique of digital humanities and of responses to it I couldn't help but think, once again, about the term itself: "digital humanities." One criticism is simply that Allington, Brouillette, and Golumbia (ABG) had a circumscribed conception of DH that left too much out of account. But then the term has such a diverse range of reference that discussing DH in a way that is both coherent and compact is all but impossible. Moreover, that diffuseness has led some people in the field to distance themselves from the term.
And so I found my way to some articles that Matthew Kirschenbaum has written more or less about the term itself. But I also found myself thinking about another term, one considerably older: "computational linguistics." While it has not been problematic in the way DH is proving to be, it was coined under the pressure of practical circumstances and the discipline it names has changed out from under it. Both terms, of course, must grapple with the complex intrusion of computing machines into our life ways.
Digital Humanities
Let's begin with Kirschenbaum's "Digital Humanities as/Is a Tactical Term" from Debates in the Digital Humanities (2011):
To assert that digital humanities is a "tactical" coinage is not simply to indulge in neopragmatic relativism. Rather, it is to insist on the reality of circumstances in which it is unabashedly deployed to get things done—"things" that might include getting a faculty line or funding a staff position, establishing a curriculum, revamping a lab, or launching a center. At a moment when the academy in general and the humanities in particular are the objects of massive and wrenching changes, digital humanities emerges as a rare vector for jujitsu, simultaneously serving to position the humanities at the very forefront of certain value-laden agendas—entrepreneurship, openness and public engagement, future-oriented thinking, collaboration, interdisciplinarity, big data, industry tie-ins, and distance or distributed education—while at the same time allowing for various forms of intrainstitutional mobility as new courses are approved, new colleagues are hired, new resources are allotted, and old resources are reallocated.
Just so, the way of the world.
Kirschenbaum then goes into the weeds of discussions that took place at the University of Virginia while a bunch of scholars where trying to form a discipline. So:
A tactically aware reading of the foregoing would note that tension had clearly centered on the gerund "computing" and its service connotations (and we might note that a verb functioning as a noun occupies a service posture even as a part of speech). "Media," as a proper noun, enters the deliberations of the group already backed by the disciplinary machinery of "media studies" (also the name of the then new program at Virginia in which the curriculum would eventually be housed) and thus seems to offer a safer landing place. In addition, there is the implicit shift in emphasis from computing as numeric calculation to media and the representational spaces they inhabit—a move also compatible with the introduction of "knowledge representation" into the terms under discussion.
How we then get from "digital media" to "digital humanities" is an open question. There is no discussion of the lexical shift in the materials available online for the 2001–2 seminar, which is simply titled, ex cathedra, "Digital Humanities Curriculum Seminar." The key substitution—"humanities" for "media"—seems straightforward enough, on the one hand serving to topically define the scope of the endeavor while also producing a novel construction to rescue it from the flats of the generic phrase "digital media." And it preserves, by chiasmus, one half of the former appellation, though "humanities" is now simply a noun modified by an adjective.
And there we have it.
A decade later, however, the term was being used to different effect by critics of DH. As Kirschenbaum noted at the end of "What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" (ADE Bulletin #150, 2010):
Digital humanities, which began as a term of consensus among a relatively small group of researchers, is now backed on a growing number of campuses by a level of funding, infrastructure, and administrative commitments that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. Even more recently, I would argue, the network effects of blogs and Twitter at a moment when the academy itself is facing massive and often wrenching changes linked both to new technologies and the changing political and economic landscape has led to the construction of "digital humanities" as a free- floating signifier, one that increasingly serves to focus the anxiety and even outrage of individual scholars over their own lack of agency amid the turmoil in their institutions and profession. This is manifested in the intensity of debates around open- access publishing, where faculty members increasingly demand the right to retain ownership of their own scholarship—meaning, their own labor—and disseminate it freely to an audience apart from or parallel with more traditional structures of academic publishing, which in turn are perceived as outgrowths of dysfunctional and outmoded practices surrounding peer review, tenure, and promotion […].
And that, more or less, is where we are today. The recent ABG critique can be read, at least in part, as yet another use of "digital humanities" as a "free-floating signifier [that] serves to focus the anxiety and even outrage of individual scholars over their own lack of agency amid the turmoil in their institutions and profession."
Of course, the use of computers in humanities research is much older than these debates. The standard history leads back to Roberto Busa and the Index Thomisticus in the early 1950. At roughly the same time there another enterprise got started, one that could plausibly be grandfathered into the history of DH.
Computational Linguistics
That enterprise is translation from one language to another. As that is certainly an activity undertaken by humanists, one could reasonably regard attempts to do so by digital computers as an activity within the scope of DH though, as far as I know, DHers generally do not do so. Nor was the early work in machine translation (MT), as it was and is called, undertaken toward humanistic ends. It was undertaken for practical purposes and was undertaken in the United States through funding from the federal government. The object was to translate technical texts in Russian into English.
The early work was promising – early work in such ventures is always promising, as no one really knows what's going on – but the distance between promises and working technology became so wide that the paymasters cut off funding in the middle 1960s and threw the enterprise into a tailspin. David Hays was one of the researchers involved in these efforts. He headed the RAND Corporation's work in MT and he was one of the authors of the report the resulted in defunding. Now, that's not quite what the report recommended, but that's what happened.
Hays and others feared that defunding was likely and took steps to survive afterward. They created a professional society and the coined a new term for what they regarded as a new enterprise. No, practical MT was not around any corner forseeable in the early 1960s, but opportunities for deep and fundamental research abounded. What should we call this new/reborn enterprise?
According to Martin Kay the name was chosen in a meeting that was held at Hays's office at RAND. Kay was on Hays's team at RAND and attended that meeting. In time he became one of the Grand Old Men of the discipline and was given a lifetime award in 1994. Here's what he said about that meeting when he accepted that award:
Now anybody who competes for research grants knows that, while substance and competence play a significant role, the most important thing to have is a name, and we did not have one for the exciting new scientific enterprise we were about to engage upon. To be sure, the association and the committee antedated that report, but we had inside information and we were ready. I use the word "we" loosely. I was precocious, but very junior, so that my role was no more than that of a fly on the wall. However, I was indeed present at a meeting in the office of David Hays at Rand when the name "computational linguistics" was settled upon. I remember who was there but, in the interests of avoiding embarrassment, I will abstain from mentioning their names. As I recall, four proposals were put forward, namely
- Computational Linguistics
- Mechanolinguistics
- Automatic Language Data Processing
- Natural Language Processing
One can see why "mechanolinguistics" was rejected; it sounds like some mechanical toy, Legos for language if you will. Kay tells us that the last two were rejected "because it was felt that they did not sufficiently stress the scientific nature of the proposed enterprise." That makes sense. Who wants to fund mere "processing"? Note, moreover, a similar consideration was in play at the birth of DH. Science was not the issue in this case, of course. But in both cases we're dealing with intellectual seriousness, with the creation of knowledge–scientific knowledge in one case, humanistic knowledge in the other.
But, while "natural language processing" was rejected in favor of "computational linguistics" back in the early 1960s, the intellectual world had changed considerably by the mid-1990s. As Kay went on to note: "The term 'Natural Language Processing' is now very popular and, if you look at the proceedings of this conference, you may well wonder whether the question of what we call ourselves and our association should not be revisited." The matter is still very much in play.
Both "computational linguistics" (CL) and "natural language processing" (NLP) have entries in Wikipedia. If you examine the Talk pages for those entries you'll see that the editors concerned about those entries have been considering merging them for the last decade: CL Talk, NLP Talk. But what name should we give to the merged entry? And what happened to bring this situation about?
What happened is that the intellectual methods that came along with the name "computational linguistics" proved brittle and gave way to somewhat different methods, methods based on statistics and machine learning. Here's what Martin Kay said about the difference:
Computational linguistics is not natural language processing. Computational linguistics is trying to do what linguists do in a computational manner, not trying to process texts, by whatever methods, for practical purposes. Natural Language Processing, on the other hand, is motivated by engineering concerns. I suspect that nobody would care about building probabilistic models of language unless it was thought that they would serve some practical end. There is nothing unworthy in such an enterprise. But ALPAC's conclusions are as true today as they were in the 1960's—good engineering requires good science. If one's view of language is that it is a probability distribution over strings of letter or sounds, one turns one's back on the scientific achievements of the ages and foreswears the opportunity that computers offer to carry that enterprise forward.
The crucial point, it seems to me, comes down to this: Researchers in computational linguistics have had to create theories and models of language and language processes: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and cognition. These models have to be painstakingly "hand-coded" into computer programs. This work could reasonably be seen as an investigation of human psychology. Researchers in natural language processing, in contrast, created statistical models of machine learning and then fed those models large bodies of language data. Depending on the nature of that data, the machine would learn to recognize human speech, to translate from one language to another, or two answer circumscribed questions and perform circumscribed tasks. None of these systems perform at full human level; but they do remarkably well, good enough for many practical purposes.
In particular they perform much better than any of the systems created under the regime that had coined the term "computational linguistics" and preferred it to "natural language processing" because that term "did not sufficiently stress the scientific nature of the proposed enterprise." The transition from one regime to the other happened during the 1980s. In practical terms, statistical processing has won out over scientific knowledge.
The issues that history presents to us are as deep and profound as any before us. I am deeply sympathetic to Martin Kay's plea on behalf of "the scientific achievements of the ages" but I can no more ignore the real and practical achievements of statistical NLP than Martin Kay did (you might want to read his piece through to the end). What the future will bring in a decade, two decades, five or six decades, that's anyone's guess. We don't know.
What does this imply for DH?
The only thing I can be sure of is that the future is opaque. I will note a couple of things, however. When Kirschenbaum was reviewing the discussions that took place at the University of Virginia he mentioned that John Sowa took part in them and that he introduced knowledge representation into the discussions. Sowa is a mathematician and computer scientist who spent his career at IBM in various capacities, mostly as a researcher. Knowledge representation is one of those pesky terms that means many things to many people but is most centrally concerned about the representation of human knowledge in forms accessible to computers. As such knowledge representation was central to (classical) computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. I see precious little of (classical) knowledge representation in digital humanities though now one constructs a database or organizes a dataset can reasonably be seen as a problem of knowledge representation. And for that matter, so can data visualization.
Moreover, the machine learning techniques that are so important in computational criticism are in or are closely related to the large family of statistical techniques subsumed under natural language processing. That is to say, there is a historical line of development that starts with those early efforts at machine translation and continues in today's statistical NLP, though obviously other lines of development feed into and have come to dominate that stream. If you want to understand how we arrived at our current situation–for a large range of values for "we" and "current situation"–you need to think about machine translation and computational linguistics.
And as for neoliberalism, the term hadn't been coined when machine translation was born. But, as I've noted, machine translation, and thus computational linguistics, was born deep in the Cold War and in intimate contract with military purposes. David Hays tells me that during his early years at RAND half of RAND's budget came from a single Air Force contract and that the work order for that contract was simple: to do work for the good of the nation. Does anyone get a grant with such generous terms these days?
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By Mike Gustafson//Contributor | Monday, February 13, 2017
Every Monday, I answer questions from swimmers around the country. If you have a question, please email me at email@example.com or ask me on Twitter @MicGustafson.
Hey Mike,So this fall I started swimming at a big D1 school, I was offered some money but I am one of the slower freestylers on the team. My senior year of high school I lost a lot of weight and my times suffered a lot. I am currently swimming really well in practice here, but my times in meets are really off from my best. I just feel like I am not going to improve. I have always enjoyed tough workouts but with classes and everything I am getting really burnt out. I have an awesome relationship with my coach, which helps. But I really don't know if swimming is right for me anymore. Any advice?
Confused swimmer
Hey Confused Swimmer,
Transitioning from high school to college can be very, very difficult. It was for me. Classes are intense. Practices are harder, more frequent, tougher. Acclimating to "being on your own" can be a struggle. Homesickness. Schedules. Social obligations. Meeting new friends. New teammates, new coaches, new training programs, new events, travel meets… it can add up. It can feel overwhelming.
Remember no matter what happens: Just breathe. Find a quiet spot on campus, or on the pool deck, or in your dorm room. Find a quiet place and breathe. Start by breathing. (When we get stressed, we resort to the 'fight or flight' mentality; anxiety worsens our ability to think clearly. Breathing deeply has shown the brain returns to stress less levels, without anxiety, so you can think clearly and make better decisions. Breathing relaxes the mind, and it'll also help you think.)
When you feel overwhelmed, breathe.
Okay. You're breathing deeply. You've got a clear head.
What now?
Your freshman year of college is a strange, odd year. It is not a normal year. It is a year of transition, change, and newness. Life during freshman year will seem chaotic compared to life as a senior. This "overwhelmed" feeling doesn't last forever. (For me, it dissipated junior year.) When I think back to a similar transition I made — like, you, I transitioned from club swimming to a more competitive D1 environment — I, too, was overwhelmed. Classes, practices, new living situations — it was difficult, not just for me, but for many of my teammates.
And I can tell you: You acclimate. You adapt. You become not only a better swimmer, but a human being who can navigate struggles and time commitments.
Talk to your coach. Seriously. Not just in passing on the pool deck, but over lunch. Set up a meeting. Tell your coach how you feel. Your coach may not know how you feel, and may conjure ways for you to succeed. During my first two years of collegiate swimming, I was overwhelmed. I wanted to pursue educational opportunities and I believed that swimming was in my way. I bottled all my emotions about swimming; one day, I just quit. Quit for a spring and summer. Stopped swimming. Stopped training. Stopped being active. Before the next season began, I spoke to my coach. He put the sport in context:
"Swimming is such a short time: It's five months now, five months your senior year, and you can graduate knowing you gave it everything you had and knowing that you finished."
If you want to quit, that's perfectly fine.
Whatever you decide, you will have support from your family and your teammates, too.
But remember the arc of this life is long. Swimming may feel like "forever" right now, but it's really a blip on the radar, a small chapter in a long life. You may feel you are missing out on opportunities, but opportunities are plentiful. Swimming is a limited experience. It ends when you graduate. It ends your senior year.
Instead of focusing on your times, focus on experiences: Are you trying your best? Are you putting yourself in the best position possible to help your teammates? Are you having fun? Are you being a leader? Ask yourself these questions. Improvement begins with this shift towards experiences, and asking these questions.
I look back now at my collegiate swimming experiences as some of the fondest moments of growing up. They weren't all happy moments. But I learned during those unhappy moments.
Talk to your coach. When I spoke to my coach, a piano magically lifted from my shoulders and I could put into context what this experience is: A sport, competed in five months a year, for a season. Once I put it into context, I became a happier swimmer, a co-captain of my swim team, and a guy who swam personal bests at the last meet of his career. I didn't win Olympic gold, but it felt like I had.
Talk to your coach. Share your frustrations. Share your concerns.
And breathe.
I hope this helps.


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The Starks weren't kidding—they aren't really a joke-telling family—winter is coming. Or, was coming, because (spoiler!) winter officially/unofficially arrived in the season finale.
The news has John Snow like, "I told you so."
Bran totally terrified.
And even Mr. Freeze rejoicing.
You would be excited, Mr Freeze!
What this means for fans in the real world—other than that there's going to be some crazy White Walker vs. Human battles for us to watch next season—is that we'll have to wait a little longer than usual for our next fix. Production is being delayed on account of weather. Or, on account of not-weather: specifically, not wintry enough weather to film wintry scenes, which will be plentiful next season.
"We don't have an air date, but we are starting a bit later because at the end of this season winter is here," said David Benioff on his podcast, UFC Unfiltered, with fellow GOT writer and producer Dan Weiss.
So, there you have it. No snow, no show.
"Sunny weather doesn't really serve our purposes anymore," explained the hosts. "So, we pushed everything down the line to get some grim, grey weather, even in the sunnier places that we shoot."
The show is shot in various locations around the globe including Iceland for the north-of-the-wall scenes, Croatia for King's Landing, Spain for Dorne, and Northern Ireland for the Stark's hood.
And while we're certainly enjoying our summer (sweet, blessed, far-too-short summer), we might actually wish for an early winter—at least in those locations. It's going to be cold, it's going to be scary and it's going to be intense, but we're ready!
Bring on the winter!
Game of Thrones Season 7 is expected to debut next
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*UPDATE* – not announced at IBC, but at the time of writing, GoPro's Hero5 cameras (as 'Black' and 'Session' units) have been released and must be included in any discussion re: VR rigs. We're especially keen to see how the 'advanced image stabilization' will play out in multi-camera rigs – not to mention the 2-inch touch-screen display in the new unit. It's released in Australia on the 2nd of October, RRP $569.95.
IBC 2016, part 2: Virtual Reality Live Streaming – IBC
Live VR streaming:
Exploring the various VR rigs and cameras currently on the market and under development at IBC (see My IBC 2016, part 1), suggests another emerging trend: the growth in the proliferation of real-time VR streaming. The applications and opportunities across all creative genres and VR markets is huge – both from a preview (working on set or location) point of view, and a streamed (for live broadcast and publishing to online channels) point of view.
On-set, live streaming is incredibly relevant, as Directors and crew (and clients) are forced to 'tuck-away' beyond the eyes of the camera unit which capturing everything in the 360-degree space. This makes direction especially difficult and changes the dynamic on-set. Live streaming provides a more intuitive way for a Director and DoP (Director of Photography) to interact with the set or location, saving time in takes and ensuring the shot is 'in the can' before moving on…
Operationally, it also allows the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) to play with various tools such as 'live stitch and sync,' as well as add basic LUT's, and indeed play with camera settings on-the-fly; usually using proprietary software, depending on the unit.
Nokia's OZO Remote and Creator software allows such control over the camera on-set, and with a near-live stitch allows not only a rough-cut export on-set, but also allows the Director to preview shots in an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive head-set, prior to the next set-up. Media can then be published quickly, either to a cloud-based editorial/logging platform for the cutting room or, if desired, direct to social media channels.
OZO is not alone in that – on the lower end, cameras such as the NakedEYE offer similar functionality.
At IBC, it was good to see a demo of TeraDek's Sphere – a smart 360-degree monitoring and live streaming box that basically sends a video source to a wireless router via Ethernet, which can then connect to iPad Pros via wifi. A proprietary IOS app allows for live stitching and review on iPads, and he functionality in that app seemed especially good.
The applications for live sports and events are very compelling – reference what NextVR are doing in the US in this space – and, while at early stages of development, the tools on display at IBC suggest that this is a market that will grow as live VR streaming tech becomes more prevalent and embedded in shooting work-flows.
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Maui Astronomy Club on hold
Aloha this is Becky Sydney, creator of the Maui Astronomy Club.
After 25 years of running the Club, I am sad to let it go. I have retired from my astronomy business and the Astronomy Club in preparation to move off island. I hope to find someone to take over the Club soon. Until then, don't stop looking up!
Cold and cloudy on Haleakala Summit!
Total Lunar Eclipse Jan. 20, 2019
Maui will get to experience the first Total Lunar Eclipse of the year on Sunday, January 20, 2019
The NASA page says Jan. 21 because they report eclipses using Universal Time UT which is 10 hours ahead of Maui.
On Sunday the 20th, the Moon will be rising in the east around 6:00pm while in eclipse! Should be cool.
Look to the east! Totality happens at 7:12pm and Moon should appear orangish.
Here are the times of the eclipse in HST Hawaii Standard Time and Universal Time UT
Heather may have a gathering to view this and will be in touch. Hope you get to see it!!! …… Becky Sydney
Eclipse starts Jan. 20: 4:36pm HST 2:36am UT
Moon in Shadow 6:41pm HST 4:41am UT
Maximum eclipse 7:12pm HST 5:12am UT
Moon leaves umbra 7:43pm HST 5:43am UT
New Leader for Maui Astronomy Club
Aloha Maui Astronomy Club,
Happy 2019 New Year! I want to introduce you to Heather Green. She will be the new coordinator for the Maui Astronomy Club.
I have retired and will be moving to New York in the months to come.
I'm so happy Heather is eager and willing to take the baton! Thank you Heather!!
As a beginner in astronomy, please come together and share your knowledge with Heather and with the group at the gatherings.
Everyone will learn together as you keep your eyes to the skies! And if anyone can share your telescope at gatherings that would be great too.
Heather will be in touch with everyone soon. I still need to send her the member contact list and website details.
She will continue to email you cool space news and create gatherings for everyone to attend.
If you have any questions or comments or suggestions for Heather, here is her email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Welcome her onboard!
5th Night of the Moon
Aloha Moon Lovers!
Years ago when I was studying all I could about astronomy, I stumbled upon an old Farmers Almanac which had the most interesting astronomy knowledge ( Farmers Almanac traces its format and tradition to Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack).
I learned that our ancestors had such a great understanding of nature and the cycles and rhythms of planets, the Moon, the Sun, the stars, weather, agricultural, and life itself. Much like the native Hawaiians and their profound respect and relationship to nature, I wanted to learn all I could.
One of the articles I read was about the 5th day of the Moon being a predictor of weather. What ever the weather is like on the 5th day of the Moon will be the trending pattern of weather for the next 30 days! So if it's windy on this day……there will be lots of wind in the coming weeks. If it's cloudy island wide…..expect a lot of clouds for 30 days!
I have been testing this theory for 19 years! And it has been 95% accurate!
You may have noticed this year that Feb., March, April and May were very cloudy months……guess what?! It was in accordance with the 5th day of the Moon!!
So go outside and check the weather today. This is what it will be like for the next moon cycle. I'm so happy because Makawao is clear as a bell today (so rare as of late)!
June 2018 Sky Highlights
JUNE 2018 Viewable Stars, Planets & Constellations
Summer Solstice, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Big Dipper, Bootes, Arcturus, Corvus, Centaurus, Vega, Corona Borealis, Hercules, Southern Cross, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Meteor Showers: alpha Scorpiids, Sagittarids, Bootids
June 2 – Waning Moon phase (dark skies until June 19 when Moon is much brighter)
June 6 – 3rd Quarter Moon
June 9 – Mercury creeps into western sky after sunset
June 12 – ISS flies near Polaris 7:40pm Hubble crosses Venus at 8:35pm
June 13 – New Moon – Hubble near Venus 8:25pm and ISS too!
June 14 – ISS in North 7:32pm – Hubble near Venus 8:14pm
June 15 – Crescent Moon below Venus – Hubble flies by them at 8:03pm
June 16 – Moon above Venus – Hubble in west at 7:54pm
June 20 – 1st Quarter Moon – bright Moon nights begin- SUMMER SOLSTICE
June 23– Moon kisses Jupiter
June 26 – Bootids Meteor Shower
June 27 – Full Moon
May 2018 Celestial Highlights
MAY 2018 Viewable Stars, Planets & Constellations
Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Big Dipper, Bootes, Arcturus, Corvus, Centaurus, Scorpio, Southern Cross, Venus, Jupiter, Meteor Showers: eta Aquarids, eta Lyrids, alpha Scorpiids Meteor Shower
May 1 – Waning Moon phase (dark skies until May 21 when Moon is bright)
May 4 – Moon next to Saturn. May the 4th be with you!!
May 5 – eta Aquarid Meteor Shower – best after midnight. Moon kisses Mars.
May 7 – 3rd Quarter Moon (dark skies continue)
May 8 – eta Lyrid Meteors – best seen early morning. Jupiter at opposition.
May 12 – alpha Scorpiid Meteors
May 15 – New Moon
May 17 – Moon and Venus kiss
May 21 – 1st Quarter Moon – bright Moon nights begin
May 27 – Moon kisses Jupiter
May 29 – Full Moon
March 2018 – Exciting Astronomy
Hey Astrophiles,
March is another awesome month for astronomy……lets just hope this cloudy weather goes away so we can see it!
Blue Moon ! Equinox ! Hubble Space Telescope sightings ! Venus and Mercury ! and more.
Tonight March 1 is Full Moon…..the first of 2 happening this month…..which means March 31 is another (amateur astronomer) Blue Moon! Yippeeee.
Also, watch for Venus low in the West after sunset……Mercury, the trickster, will be dancing by Venus the night of March 5.
I'm looking to have a stargazing party on Saturday March 17……on the New Moon……details to follow.
Spring Equinox is March 20. See you soon. Becky – Maui Astronomy Club
March 1 – Full Moon
March 5 – Venus and Mercury kiss low in west after sunset
March 7 – Hubble in W at 7:53pm
March 8 – Hubble in W at 7:43pm
March 9 – 3rd Quarter Moon / Hubble in W at 7:33pm
March 10 – Hubble in W at 7:23pm
March 11 – Hubble in W at 7:13pm
March 12 – Hubble in W at 7:03pm
March 17 – New Moon
March 20 – Spring Equinox
March 31 – Blue Moon – 2nd Full Moon in March
Aloha and Happy New Year!
I'm so excited for the upcoming SUPER BLOOD MOON TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE! Jan. 30 – 31, 2018
Be sure to mark your calendar for the night of Tuesday, Jan. 30 and we finish Wednesday, Jan. 31.
I am thrilled to announce that the Institute for Astronomy in Pukalani is offering their place for us to view!! Thank you JD Armstrong!!
Address: 34 Ohia Ku St – Pukalani ……below the Longs Drugs Store
If you are in Lahaina, Eddie at the Hyatt Regency is also hosting the event…..go to the rooftop of the Lahaina Tower to find him.
I will be setting up my scope in the parking lot of IfA and will rest in my car if I feel I need a nap…….eclipse happens from 12:51am with totality at 3:29am and finishes after 5am!!!
We'll have a little party!!! I can bring pizza, however it will be cold pizza by midnight 🙂 Bring a chair or mat or sleeping bag to be comfortable. Bring water or beverages.
I'll be there before midnight the night of Jan. 30, to set up and get things ready. You can at your leisure and leave anytime.
Let me know if you are interested so I can add you to the list……include your phone number too just in case we get weathered out. EMAIL ME : firstname.lastname@example.com
All are invited! Invite your friends! Hope to see you under the Blood Moon!
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Fred Jordan, San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, talks about how he loved to go to jazz and supper clubs in The Fillmore District of San Francisco in the 1970s. At the time there were 29 clubs over the space of only a few blocks, and all the great musicians of the time recorded there. The neighborhood fell victim to 'redevelopment', leaving the blocks empty. He says this pushed 50,000 African Americans out of San Francisco.
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The Tuesday agenda includes two appeals of recent Planning & Zoning Board decisions which were heard and voted upon by Council at the July 7th meeting. These include the Council's decision to grant a variance to Wood Spring Suites (formerly Value Place) permitting an over-height extended stay hotel and denying an appeal regarding a rear set back on a property in Oak Island. The reason that these appeals are back on the agenda is unknown, as the appeals were already decided and Council has not voted to reconsider its ruling with regard to either of these appeals.
Significantly more concerning is that the Tuesday agenda also includes a public hearing regarding the proposed preliminary plat for the six-home, walled and gated, subdivision at the intersection of Nela Avenue and Seminole Drive. This proposal was denied by the Planning and Zoning Board on July 28th, in-part due to an ongoing petition drive, a good resident turnout, comments from neighbors, and arguments from a citizen-retained attorney.
The inclusion of this issue on the Tuesday agenda is purported to be a public hearing scheduled for Council consideration pursuant to the Belle Isle Land Development Code, section 50-33(3)(a)(4). However, the Code requires that notice of such hearings be publicized in a newspaper and by mailings to all property owners within 300 feet of the subject property (see section 50-33(1)(d) in the link above).
But regardless of whether the public hearing on the subdivision plat can proceed as scheduled, you are still encouraged to attend the City Council meeting this Tuesday, August 4, at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall. You can download a PDF copy of the Tuesday meeting agenda at the link below.
City Council Meeting Agenda - August 4, 2015
The mystery deepens. All information initially indicated that the required notices were not mailed to residents, but according to records just received from City Hall, notices of the public hearing regarding the proposed subdivision were mailed to the 20+ required households on July 24, 2015. However, a quick poll of six of these households which should have received this notice reveals that NONE have actually received a notice in the mail, despite it supposedly being mailed by the City a week and a half ago.
Regardless, the City Attorney now states that the public hearing will proceed on Tuesday based on the City's claim that the notice was mailed. Residents opposed to this proposed subdivision at the intersection of Nela and Seminole should be prepared to speak about their concerns at the 6:00 p.m. meeting on August 4.


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Dir: Sebastián Lelio. Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Based on Naomi Alderman's 2007 novel of the same name.
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser, Bernice Stegers
114 mins, USA, 2018
Watched by: Sarah, HoneyBee, Michèle
I went to see Disobedience at the Watershed with elder daughter and oldest friend (I've just read Anna Burns's Milkman, the funniest, darkest and most feminist novel ever, and am trying out her naming-style); younger daughter was busy that Saturday afternoon making Christmas wreaths and decorations, and I wasn't entirely sure that mother-in-law would enjoy it.
The story kicks off when the Chief Rabbi of an Orthodox Jewish community in North London, having delivered a peroration on men and women being distinguished from angels and from beasts by their ability to make choices, keels over and dies. His daughter Ronit (Rachel Weisz), an only child, now a fashionable portrait photographer in New York, returns to London for the funeral rituals. She has been estranged from her father and from the whole community ever since she left – or was expelled – when as a teenager she and her best friend Esti (Rachel McAdams) had a lesbian relationship.
She finds that Esti, once a disobedient rebel like herself, now wears the wig and fullcover-up clothes of an Orthodox wife, and is married, to Ronit's astonishment, to their old mutual friend Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), one-time disciple and now spiritual heir of Ronit's father.
HB says: Very funny in parts and excellently structured. But I needed more of the backstory for Ronit, Esti and Dovid; their interactions and conversations didn't seem to reflect what we're expected to believe was a past close and complex relationship.
The first half of the film is sharp, funny, unsettling. I was reminded of the portrayal of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Daniel Kokotajlo's Apostasy: the same patriarchal laws, the same misogyny, the same complicity on the part of (most of) the women. (Bernice Stegers is good as a sympathetic older woman but the part is under-written.) Ronit has been disinherited both by her father (literally: he has left his house and goods to the synagogue) and by the community. They don't much like her; they'd rather she wasn't there at all. Lelio uses close-ups of faces and of stuffy over-furnished interiors, with almost minimal dialogue, to great comic effect.
Much to the disapproval of the elders and their wives Dovid invites Ronit to stay with him and Esti rather than book in to a hotel. The old attraction between the two women resurfaces …
So far so very enjoyable. Then, half-way through, the film takes a sudden swerve in direction, after a climactic (literally) scene between the two women when they repair to a hotel room to have sex.
Michèle Roberts says: The Hendon (north-west London) setting is beautifully captured in exterior shots of streets of Edwardian semis, and interiors of genteel, plush decor of brown sideboards and bad oil paintings. The love story is weakened by our being given no information about the women's previous relationship, so that the sex scene, when it duly arrives, lacks depth and history and subjectivity and makes us feel like voyeurs, watching two beautiful women go at it pornographically rather than erotically.
When we were talking about it afterwards, Michèle and I puzzled over why the women kept their clothes on during this long-drawn-out heavily-panting, loudly-moaning and groaning sequence. Michèle: Is this how we're meant to think lesbians have sex? Me: Or how Orthodox sex happens? But what was with the drooling, or spitting, into each other's mouths, which puzzled us even more? 'Spitting is a 'thing',' HB told us. 'A 'thing'? Really?' Michèle and I had never heard of it. Back in the day people used to exchange a mouthful of wine, or perhaps a mouthful of weed-smoke. But spit?? 'A lesbian thing?' we asked. No, not particularly, HB thought. I wondered whether possibly it was a 'thing' infiltrated from pornographic films into mainstream cinema and thus normalized. But what do I know?
And … sorry, here's another complaint … what was with Ronit lighting up a cigarette after sex? A corny enough trope anyway, but smoking in a hotel room …? Earlier we had seen her lighting up inside Esti and Dovid's kitchen, which struck me as pretty weird. For the last ten years this woman has been living in New York, surely the birthplace of the no-smoking-inside rule? (Regular readers of this blog may have noticed how annoyed I get by male directors making their female actors smoke in weird and unlikely ways – see for example Charlotte Rampling's unconvincng smokes in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, or more recently Glenn Close in Bjorn Runge's The Wife).
However and furthermore, besides keeping their clothes on, spitting in each other's mouths, and inappropriate smoking, the main trouble with this sex/love scene is that we don't have anything invested in the two characters. Did they really have a passionate teen affair? We aren't shown it. Hmm. See comments above from HB and Michèle.
And so to the other road onto which this film veers … The second half of the film consists of a series of scenes of Richard Curtis-style schmaltz. There are a number of trips to and from Heathrow (despite being disinherited Ronit must have quite a bit of independent money considering how many taxis she takes); a series of showdowns between the three central characters in which their eyes brim with tears; much talk about freedom of choice; a surprise pregnancy; and a great big group hug outside the synagogue. Almost finally we see Esti running after the taxi at dawn for a final tearful goodbye kiss. And finally finally Ronit asks the taxi driver to take a little detour.
Oh my goodness, what a surprise, Ronit is taking a detour to the cemetery where her father has been buried. 'I thought maybe she was going to dance on his grave,' said HB. Alas, she did not.
On the way out of the Watershed we stopped to take a look at the audience comments pinned up on the review board. 'Lesbians don't spit in each other's mouths. Yuk!' said one of them. So there you have it.
I'm thinking now that maybe my mother-in-law would have enjoyed this film … Despite all the caveats above, we three certainly did.


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