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Syria's Greek legends
From timid refugees to bold storytellers, Syrian women in Beirut use the Greek tragedy of Antigone to share their experiences of war
Isra'a Shahrour tells the story of her flight from Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus (MEE/Tabitha Ross)
Lucy Knight
Published date: 13 February 2015 12:15 UTC | Last update: 5 years 11 months ago
A group of women are sat side by side in a long line, each wearing a red hijab over a black dress. They take it in turns to walk to the front of a stage and stand beneath a spotlight. As each woman comes to stand, looking out into the darkness, a man's voice reaches forth – sometimes sounding angry, sometimes not so angry. The woman then returns to her seat.
At this point the rehearsals for the coming production of 'Antigone of Syria' have entered the technical phase and the director, Omar Abusaada, is checking each of the women actors to see if their costumes are fitted correctly.
In the slightly damp Al Madina Theatre on Beirut's Hamra Street, the chorus of women, all of whom are Syrian refugees now based in Beirut, have never acted before, but under the direction of fellow Syrian Abusaada, and the British/Syrian Aperta Productions, the women have found themselves not only telling the story of Sophocles' Antigone, but their own stories from the Syrian conflict.
Hiba Sahly, 23, rehearses her lines. "I think it's great and important. She says of the project: "It's important to get our voices heard. Hopefully it will be a success" (MEE/Tabitha Ross)
An opportunity to share
"This play is two things for me," said Wesam, 32, one of the female actors. "An opportunity to convey my voice to different people, and second, an opportunity to have room to share these stories of pain and suffering."
In the course of the play, Wesam, like the others, will convey a story to the audience. While still in the Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinians in Damascus, her husband asked her if she would sell the necklace he had once given her as a gift. "We were all bankrupt there," she said, "but I said no, I wanted to keep this necklace as a last, last resort for me and my daughters."
After they managed to leave Damascus, leaving behind the parents of her husband, her mother in-law was killed by a sniper, causing her to regret her decision. "I carry this guilt that I could have made a difference." Like the other women involved in the play, who range in age from 16 to 58, Wesam has found that being in an environment where she can share her experiences with people that are willing to listen is a relief.
For dramaturge Mohammad Al Attar, Antigone serves as "a fantastic frame story", one that allows the women to use the characters of the play, along with their own tales, to speak out.
Using the Greek tragedy as the representation of a current political situation is not something new. Written in approximately the 4th century BC, it tells the story of Antigone, a woman who defies the law of a new ruler, Creon, by burying her brother Polyneices. Her actions not only go against "the state" but her sister disowns her.
The themes central to Sophocles' work – the family, state control, citizenship and civil disobedience – are indeed the perfect backdrop for the representation of a country torn apart by civil war.
From timid refugees to bold storytellers, Syrian women in Beirut use the Greek tragedy of Antigone to share their experiences of war. One of the performers, 29 year old mother of 5, Wardia at the end of a long day's rehearsal (MEE/Tabitha Ross)
Director Abusaada feels these themes are wholly relevant to the situation many Syrians find themselves in today. "In this play you can't tell the difference between right and wrong," he said. "I think a lot of Syrians are questioning themselves like that."
Abusaada, who at the start of 2014 directed refugee women in Jordan in a production of 'The Trojan Women' by Euripides, said that for the women involved the chance to express themselves outside their daily lives has revealed a change not only in their thoughts about the situation they find themselves in (refugees in Beirut), but in their approach to life. "Most of the women once they started working saw themselves in her [Antigone]," said Abusaada. "She's acting against authority, being strong."
With her perfectly tinted eyebrows, make-up and a pink headscarf covered in tiny skulls, Dar'aa native Ruba, 18, is delighted to be taken away from the monotony of her life at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp. Normally working in a beauty salon, or staying at home with her family, she said that being part of the chorus in Antigone, along with her mother, has given her the strength to deal with daily life.
"It's like a prison [the refugee camp], going out each day is like a window, a relief from this life," she said. "Coming here we put aside the burdens of life at home and we have a good time. It helps to go back to life to deal with that life." Signed up by her mother for the play, Ruba said that the acting is something she would pursue again if given the chance.
Of family and freedom
After being involved in a similar project last year in Jordan, Hal Scardino and Aperta co-founder Itab Azzam decided that Lebanon was the next port of call. When the call was put out through the NGO Basmeh & Zeitooneh, 41 women turned out to hear what Aperta Productions had to say for themselves and their proposed project.
As the workshops for the play progressed, the number of women would diminish by a few a week; some would leave because their husbands wouldn't let them continue, others stressed time commitments. This week 22 women will take to the stage.
One of the women tells the story of her brother's disappearance. Participants in this project find talking about their experiences of the war cathartic (MEE/Tabitha Ross)
The progress the women make is not just in their expression of freedom either. Scardino spoke of an actress who told him that since the project started she hadn't hit her son once. "She said she didn't just see a change in herself, but a change in her son, and there was no reason to hit him," he said.
During the rehearsal break and over a quick lunch of zaatar manousheh, some of the women take the opportunity to rehearse their lines while others take turns to shepherd a large number of small children that have broken free from the nursery located in another room of the theatre. Scardino said that the children have been working with artists while their mothers performed in the play – they too learning to express themselves, through drawing. He added that this is one of the few places these children of refugees have to roam free.
For Scardino, the change in behaviours is not surprising, given the power of art to unite people. However, he is still taken with stories of how being involved in such a project can help people. "Women started to tell their stories early on," said Scardino, "but you notice over the course of time how much they omitted as more and more information comes out. They were still incredibly fearful of sharing certain details."
As Syrians in Lebanon, as refugees away from home, many of the women who will appear on stage this week have shared their experiences on Aperta's website. The common themes of racism and depression run through their stories, however, the overriding feeling that comes across is that being part of the Antigone production has given all these women a sense of hope and encouragement for the future.
This encouragement has touched the women's families also. "My husband is very happy for me, about what I'm doing. He has seen how I have changed, become happier," said Wesam. "When I go home and have homework for this, he helps. He is eager for the day of the performance so he can feel proud."
Isra'a Shahrour, 22, during an rehearsal exercise used to encourage focus. She dreams of one day returning to Syria to visit her father's grave (MEE/Tabitha Ross)
More than 2,000 years after Antigone's character made a choice to honour her family over the wishes of her state, so to do these women of Syria now make a choice to express their love of family and freedom.
'Antigone of Syria' is at the Al Madina Theatre in Beirut, from 10-12 December
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Chris Wallace Publicly Blasts Donald Trump For 'Most Sustained Assault On Press Freedom In U.S. History'
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Donald Trump and Chris Wallace have tangled before and after Wallace's Wednesday remarks at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, look for the relationship to deteriorate even further. Trump claimed in October that Wallace was "nothing like his father" which prompted Wallace to quip, "one of us has daddy issues and it's not me." But that was lightweight compared to what Wallace shared last night. The Guardian:
"I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history," Wallace said to applause at the Newseum, a media museum in Washington, on Wednesday night.
"He has done everything he can to undercut the media, to try and delegitimise us, and I think his purpose is clear: to raise doubts when we report critically about him and his administration that we can be trusted. Back in 2017, he tweeted something that said far more about him than it did about us: 'The fake news media is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people.'"
Wallace recalled that retired admiral Bill McRaven, a navy Seal for 37 years, had described Trump's sentiment as maybe "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" because, unlike even the Soviet Union or Islamic terrorism, it undermines the US constitution.
The veteran broadcaster added:"Let's be honest, the president's attacks have done some damage. A Freedom Forum Institute poll, associated here with the Newseum, this year found that 29% of Americans, almost a third of all of us, think the first amendment goes too far. And 77%, three quarters, say that fake news is a serious threat to our democracy."
When Trump hears about this, he'll lose his mind, not just because Wallace had the hubris to stand up to him, but because Fox News is apparently letting this go on. That begs the question, once again, what is Fox News up to with it's seeming betrayal of Trump by certain journalists and pundits over there? This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
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It could well be practicality kicking in. There is not a single person (not even his kids, so don't go there, people) he won't turn on in the end, especially if you're in business with him. What happened to Rudy Colludy could well have been the last straw. And something tells me Newsmax and OAN aren't going to do the job that Fox News in keeping Trump safe.
Oh, no way. Fox is the big platform that Trump needs. OAN is trying to make hay while the sun shines, and Newsmax is off in the corner, trying to be RedState, from what I can ascertain. No, Trump needs Fox and Fox is spurning. I have a feeling it's "hell has no fury" time in Trumpworld.
May your feelings be fulfilled!
He'll certainly turn on Junior and Eric. Probably not on Ivanka, since she's his Chosen Successor.
Push come to shove, P J, yes, he'll even turn on Ivanka, heir or not.
Impeachment Apprentice!

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The 26-year-old, who grew up in Cheltenham and Churchdown, died on March 22, two days after being involved in an accident. He was cycling in Reading, where he was a university student, and was involved in a collision with a pedestrian.
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At CPJ's Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg, Shaun Loney delivered a keynote address on the real essence of reconciliation in Canadian society. Loney's book, An Army of Problem Solvers, provides deep insights into the connections between reconciliation and economic prosperity in Indigenous communities.
Making the Links: Refugees, Climate Change, and Poverty
By Asha | May 1, 2017
By Asha Kerr-Wilson and Bolu Coker
When we think of the Syrian refugee crisis, political unrest and terrorism immediately come to mind. Very rarely do we ever think of climate change and poverty as casual factors in this crisis, or in our current global refugee situation. It's not an obvious connection many of us have made. A closer look...
Canada Must Pay Attention to Refugees in Poverty
By Bolu | February 6, 2017
Newcomers to Canada, including refugees, experience poverty at a troubling rate.
While the level of poverty among refugees remains unclear, our 2016 report on poverty in Canada reveals that 34 per cent of new immigrants and refugees live in poverty.
A Warm Welcome for Refugees this Christmas
By Bolu | December 12, 2016
We cannot claim to celebrate Christ this Christmas without caring for refugees.
This Christmas, Christians across the globe will, once again, celebrate the life of a special gift—Jesus Christ—whose work and ministry revolutionized the quality and purpose of human life.
Let's Do More to Help All Refugees
By Bolu | October 11, 2016
From the Catalyst, Winter 2016
Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy, drowned alongside his family members in the Mediterranean on September 2, 2015. The world vowed to do more. Many developed a greater compassion for refugees, but more is required.


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Vol. 48, Issue No. 35, 31 Aug, 2013
Manipadma Jena
Voices from Niyamgiri
The unanimous vote by 12 gram sabhas in Odisha's Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, rejecting Vedanta Aluminium Ltd and the Odisha Mining Corporation's plan to extract bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills, is a historic and significant precedent that could determine the course of similar developments in other tribal areas in India.
The recent assertion of religious and cultural rights over their habitat and habitation, recognised by the Supreme Court under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act – better known as the Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 -- by 12 villages of indigenous Dongria Kondh communities in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts of Odisha is a landmark development. Not only will it negatively impact the course of global mining giant Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, the Indian arm of London-based Vedanta Resources Plc's Rs 50,000 crore investment in bauxite mining and an alumina refinery, it also lays the legal ground for many more communities in India to fight displacement on religious and cultural considerations. 1
This development also brings to the fore, the importance of the little known and less practiced Human Rights Impact Assessment under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – the "protect, respect and remedy" framework.2 And it will remind future investors of the implications of turning a blind eye to undertaking such an assessment and sharing it with the affected communities, before putting a project on the ground. This is the costly omission that the roughly 400 forest dwellers brought forcefully to the notice of Vedanta and the State's Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) at the 12 gram sabhas (village councils) that took place over two months, the last of them on 19 August 2013.
The general mood of the Dongria Kondh community at all the gram sabhas can be summed up in what elderly Sikaka Teladi of the last gram sabha in Jarapa village told the presiding panel of district judge and panchayat office bearers in the Kui dialect that few outsiders understand: "Niyamgiri is ours; we won't leave the place at any cost. We don't know how to work as a paid labour. If government forcefully displaces us, where then we will go for the work? We won't like to be a bonded labour of any one, we would prefer to be shot dead but we will not leave our Niyamgiri."
In remote Bathudi village, considered a Naxal stronghold in Rayagada, where there are no roads and which can be reached by foot, crossing hills and one stream, the village priest Dasru Jasesika echoed this do-or-die attitude towards vacating their homes for mining: "There is unbreakable unity among Dongrias."
In Khambesi, the villagers said, "Write what we say (for the official documentation) and give it to your court. Niyamgiri is our hospital; he gives us medicine. We do not have any facility, only now you are coming saying you will give us hospitals. Niyamgiri is our God. We won't give it to anyone. Leave us."
Battles over bauxite
While Vedanta Aluminium has been embattled with Supreme Court cases since 2004 when it sought 720 hectares of land in Phase I for its refinery in Lanjigarh, Kalahandi district, the recent series of gram sabha referendums were directed by the apex court3 after OMC challenged the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)'s decision not to clear 660 hectares of forest land for Vedanta's phase II mining expansion. The mining of bauxite deposits is being sought from Niyamgiri hill range that covers 240 sq km straddling Kalahandi and Rayagada, two of the most underdeveloped districts in the whole of the country.
On 18 April, the Supreme Court asked the Odisha government to seek consent of the villages on the legal ground under the FRA, that "primitive tribal groups" have a customary right to worship the mountains. The Supreme Court specifically said the villagers would decide whether the proposed mining would cause harm to their religious rights of worshipping Niyam Raja at Hundaljali hilltop, about 10 km from the identified mining site.
The apex court further said that the FRA has been enacted conferring powers on the gram sabha constituted under the Act to protect community resources, individual rights, cultural and religious rights. Underscoring the legal imperative for the recent gram sabha referendums, the court cited the "religious freedom guaranteed to Scheduled Tribes and the Traditional Forest Dwellers under Articles 25 and 26 of the Indian Constitution".
On the basis of this court order, the Kalahandi and Rayagada district administrations, under whose ambit the 12 villages come – five in Kalahandi and seven in Rayagada -- notified the villages in June this year to submit claims over and above the individual and village community claims under the FRA that had already been submitted and settled with land tenures. While most villages had submitted Form C of the FRA covering their claims to forest resources, livelihoods, traditional forest boundaries, Form B relating to communities' cultural, religious, habitat and habitation rights had been largely overlooked.
The district administrations formed an inter-departmental joint verification committee on community rights and community forest resources, and hastened to finalise these village common claims -- some of which run into 79 items -- within the four weeks before the gram sabhas were scheduled.
According to the inter-departmental verification reports, some of which are available with this writer, the Dongria Kondh's Niyam Raja has been granted a small land-space inside each of the villages instead of on top of the Niyamgiri hills where he is traditionally believed to reside and from where they believe he governs the rains clouds and the clean air, the hill streams and the vegetation. Other questionable allocations were also made. For instance, in Jarapa village, two acres is what the Tikapadar stream gets to flow down from the hill; the "bear cave" or their habitat gets six acres while the "tiger cave" gets 11 acres. In Bathudi village, on the other hand, the porcupine is allotted eight acres under the FRA.
On 10 July 2013, nine days before the gram sabhas were to finally decide on these claims, the inter-departmental report was handed to villagers. According to the district administration, a wave of distrust swept through the 12 villages. They feared that after settling claims to these scattered fragments of Niyamgiri hill, Vedanta and the state government would take away their sacred hill forever and mine it as they wished, thereby destroying and polluting even the little land on which they could lay claim.
'We want Niyamgiri'
Subsequently, in gram sabha after gram sabha all the villagers, vociferously said "the entire 240 sq km of the Niyamgiri hill range is ours" and denied they had ever made all the previous individual and community claims under FRA that they had submitted to their respective district administrations just weeks earlier. In the last gram sabha on August 19 at Jarapa village, Wanjelika Jambu, one of the 12 voters who participated spoke for all. He said, "We don't need any land ownership deed from the government, we need Niyamgiri only."
Not only was the government taken aback by this complete and unanimous about turn that occurred within a six-week period, but it was also at a loss to explain it. However, subsequently the district administration implied that the Dongria gram sabhas were misguided and voted "no" to "development", because of the "tutoring" by some non-governmental organisations and the presence of "NRIs (non-residential Indians) and foreigners" at the gram sabhas. Accordingly, they screened such visitors at Panimunda village, the gateway to five of the 12 villages.
One official of Muniguda block alleged that a day or two before each gram sabha, the villagers were given a mock drill on what they should speak at the proceedings. He added that an international NGO also showed the villagers a video documentary of how streams had dried and tribal people in another mining site had died of diseases when they had allowed a mining company to operate in their land.
However, Sikaka Kunji, a 50-year-old widow swinging an axe to express her anger and angst and speaking for the community at the Lakhapadar gram sabha said in her native dialect, "We are not educated but we have the knowledge needed to live wholesome lives and we are not fools."
The mining operations would affect some 8,000 Dongria, Kutia and Jharania Kondh in 112 tribal and dalit villages in Kalahandi and Rayagada district. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), which administers the FRA, had earlier insisted that seeking the referendum from only 12 villages was inadequate and un-representative. However, the Odisha government, with the help of the OMC's geological survey done at the beginning of the Vedanta project, first identified five foothill non-Dongria Kondh villages saying those were the only ones affected by the project. Later, under pressure from MoTA, it added seven more villages for the referendum.
The FRA -- whose rules were notified in January 2008 -- did not see much progress till 2010. It was around this time that the MoEF refused forest clearance for Vedanta's Phase II. In February 2010, stepping up their resistance to the controversial project, hundreds of Dongria Kondhs trekked to the abode of their presiding deity Niyam Raja on the Niyam Dongar (hill slopes) and designated it as inviolate. They carried out religious rituals and then put up a totem pole in the area. Since then, over a two year period, the district government has tried to hasten the process and finalise individual claims under the FRA.
Important changes under FRA
Till the FRA came into force, millions of India's traditional forest dwellers were in the same spot that they have been since colonial times: bereft of any rights on the forest land that they have lived off for generations. This is the situation that the FRA attempts to change. For one, it allows claims to individual family titles of land occupied or cultivated forestlands that are considered "encroachments". For another, the law allows access to, as well as the use and selling of, forest produce that has been traditionally collected. This includes particular leaves that are used as leaf-plates, palm-tree juices, medicinal plants, and fruits. The forest rights law also gives a community — usually one village unit — the right to manage and protect forests it has customarily managed, even though these are government property.
The alumina refinery, capable of producing one million tonnes of alumina from bauxite per annum, has been operating since 2009 from the foothills of Niyamgiri. From 2007, Vedanta has been seeking clearance for a six-fold expansion of its refinery and 660 hectares of bauxite mining land over and above the existing 720-hectares granted in Phase I. This too has run into legal controversy, as it was granted clearance based on false information provided by Vedanta, namely that the land it wanted does not contain any forest land.
According to reports, with this latest unanimous rejection from the gram sabhas, Vedanta has signed agreements with the governments of Chattisgarh and Gujarat for ore to keep the Lanjigarh refinery-- which had been closed for months before reopening two months ago – running. The overhead costs of the present arrangement of ore transportation are huge and untenable. The company expects the MoEF's final decision on the gram sabha outcomes by mid-October this year.
Request for a response on its future course of action, post the gram sabhas' decision, to Vedanta's corporate communication head by this writer has remained unanswered.
On 19 August, when all the 12 villages had said "no" to the mining project, Kumuti Majhi, secretary of the Niyamgiri Suraksya Samiti simply said, "The heavy rain is washing down the hills, Niyamgiri has chased away Vedanta."
1.Jerapa becomes 12th village to reject Vedanta; Sub-head "Boost to Communities"; Down to Earth; Richard Mahapatra;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/jerapa-becomes-12th-village-reject-vedanta; accessed August 21st 2013;
2.'Human Rights Impact Assessment under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights'; www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf, accessed August 21st 2013
3.Supreme Court Judgement: Orissa Mining CorporationMC vs Ministry of Environment & Forests & others; accessed 21st August 2013 www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/outtoday/judgements/180.pdf


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Marketing, Student Life work together to fund NSO
Gabriella Garriga|August 15, 2018
Departments across Trinity worked over the summer to make New Student Orientation (NSO) happen, contributing food, Trinity gear and space on campus. This means budgets can collide.
NSO consists of a weekend full of events for incoming students to get to know Trinity's campus, traditions, faculty, staff and their peers. It's filled with food, promotional items and lots of presentations. Esther Kim, assistant director for orientation programs, is awarded a yearly budget to promote and carry out NSO, Spring Student Orientation, Orientation Team (O-Team) and spirit initiatives.
"We provide critical academic sessions on how to be successful at Trinity while also providing them opportunities to be engaged on and off campus with the Student Involvement Fair or the Campus Service Project," Kim wrote in an email interview.
Although Kim cannot disclose the budget, the biggest expenses of NSO are food, supplies and marketing. Meals and snacks are provided at various events, including the community luncheons for underrepresented groups on campus, such as black, Latinx, international and first-generation students.
Kim's budget also finances supply rentals and purchases like tables, chairs and campus maps for students and family. Additionally, the budget funds marketing initiatives from her department.
However, other facets of NSO don't require money from Kim's budget. Volunteers contribute their time to events allowing Kim to distribute that money elsewhere. Team Trinity is made up of student and faculty volunteers that help move first years into their residence halls. O-Team, after a week-long training session with Kim, works to make first-years feel welcomed and connected to the Trinity community.
Additionally, many departments on campus contribute to New Student Orientation.
"Every department and office on campus contributes to NSO in some way from space, sponsored food [that the budget does not pay for] from Aramark, [Residential Assistant] staff, volunteers, Team Trinity etc. It's an all hands on deck approach when it comes to NSO," Kim wrote.
Departments on campus do not directly contribute money from their own budgets. Rather, they contribute items or spaces to NSO. Tess Coody-Anders, vice president for strategic communications and marketing, uses about one-third of the department budget to support events and efforts related to admissions, including NSO. For example, instead of Kim using her budget to buy promotional materials, the strategic communications and marketing department will collaborate with her to contribute promotional items to NSO.
"We just work together and collaborate. Let's say, for example, she wanted to buy a plastic water bottle. Well, no need for [Kim] to go buy them, and we're buying them for future students. Let's work together so we can get a better price," Coody-Anders said.
Additionally, Coody-Anders' creative team contributes expertise and ideas to NSO when thinking about ways to create a cohesive Trinity brand for events during Welcome Week.
"Our role is to make sure the brand message and the graphic standards are always being adhered to for the university so that we're consistent," Coody-Anders said. "So that even if you might have your own marketing person and your own marketing budget, that we all sing from the same song sheet — and that we look the same and we don't confuse people by presenting a different image or message about Trinity."
When new initiatives are added to NSO, like the community luncheons last year, they are not included in Kim's budget. Instead, departments contribute elements to it. Sheryl Tynes, vice president for student life, works with Kim on New Student Orientation and spoke about how Kim's budget grows.
"If we have a new initiative that's not in the budget, we request other university offices to contribute. It's not really a donation, it's like do you have some budget, so you can help with this new initiative?" Tynes said.
After this process, if the initiative receives positive reviews from students, it is included in Kim's budget for the next year.
Overall, Tynes believes that NSO takes a lot of effort because it is critical to a new student's transition to Trinity University.
"The whole goal of new student orientation is to help start the process of creating a sense of belonging for our students and to connect faces with names. And so here are the people, here are their names, here are ways you can reach them and sort of make that human connection, which is what small liberal arts schools do way better than a big school could do," Tynes said.
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U.S. websites are now speculating that the Tianjin explosion was a U.S. space-based weapons testinvolving a "Rod of God" weapon dropped from orbit. "The [resulting] lake [crater] in China proves a 5 kiloton blast, possibly nuclear or possibly from a space based 'rod from God' (pictured to the left) weapon [was] deployed by the space plane," says The Unhived Mind.
If the United States defines currency war attacks as "cyber attacks," then we may have just witnessed the first application of that new war doctrine, where electronic "attacks" are met withkinetic responses from the Pentagon.


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IRS stimulus check rollout continues to be riddled with mistakes
By Steve Noviello
The IRS admits they've made another mistake. However, this one is good news.
DALLAS - Last week, FOX 4 told you about economic stimulus checks being deposited into temporary accounts set up by tax prep services.
Now, consumers are getting notices from the IRS that their money is being deposited into the same wrong accounts for a second time.
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When we first introduced you to Terri Mason, she was pretty laid back about waiting on her stimulus check. But then she found out somebody else got it instead after the IRS mistakenly sent stimulus checks to temporary accounts set up by banks funding refund advances for tax preparers instead of directly to taxpayers themselves.
RELATED: IRS glitch sends taxpayers' stimulus checks to tax prep companies instead
MetaBank, who received the check along with many others, sent it back to the IRS who said the stimulus relief would be reissued by paper check instead.
In the meantime, FOX 4 has learned the bank for H&R Block, the nation's largest tax prep chain, also was mistakenly on the receiving end of stimulus money which was also sent back to be reissued by paper.
But the latest update from the IRS tracking site says the check is being deposited into the same wrong account.
Mason is just one of many viewers who contacted FOX 4 to say they have been notified when they tracked their check that their missing money is being deposited in to the wrong account for a second time.
"Between the bank and the IRS, maybe somebody will get it right," Mason said. "Maybe. And all I can do is just wait."
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Q: Access Violation when resampling using soxr I'm having trouble getting the following code to work:
soxr_error_t err;
soxr_datatype_t itype = SOXR_INT16_I;
soxr_datatype_t otype = SOXR_INT16_I;
soxr_io_spec_t iospec = soxr_io_spec(itype, otype);
size_t idone = 0;
size_t odone = 0;
size_t const olen = (size_t)((speed * 44100) * (numframes * 2) / (44100 + (44100 * speed)) + .5);

// Do the resampling
short* output = new short[numframes * 2];
soxr_t sox = soxr_create(44100, 44100 * speed, 2, &err, &iospec, NULL, NULL);
if (!err)
    soxr_process(sox, input, numframes * 2, &idone, output, olen * 2, &odone);
soxr_delete(sox);

I have PCM short data coming in (the input object) and I want it too be resampled to a value speed that is being multiplied with the original samplerate as you can see (44100 is the standard). Also numframes is the number of frames from the block of data I send (which is in stereo)
The problem is that my application crashes when doing the soxr_process() method. There seems to be no error from the soxr_create() method so I don't really know what it could be.
I'm currently only trying to speed up the sound so I made the output buffer as large as the original which would be good enough to hold everything after the resample.
How can I solve this problem? Did I give the wrong values to the soxr_process() method?
EDIT:
I have also tried with this method:
soxr_oneshot(4410, 44100 * speed, 2, input, numframes * 2, &idone, output, outputFrames * 2, &odone, &iospec, NULL, NULL);

but that also throws a Acces Violation error.
Thanks in advance!

A: I have been able to fix it using this code:
// Check the number of frames needed to fill extra or send to the next block
int outputFrames = numframes * speed;
int extraReadNeeded = numframes - outputFrames;

soxr_error_t err;

soxr_datatype_t itype = SOXR_INT16_I;
soxr_datatype_t otype = SOXR_INT16_I;
soxr_io_spec_t iospec = soxr_io_spec(itype, otype);

size_t idone = 0;
size_t odone = 0;

size_t const olen = (size_t)((speed * 44100) * (numframes * 2) / (44100 + (44100 * speed)) + .5);

// Do the resampling
short* output = new short[outputFrames * 4];
soxr_t sox = soxr_create(44100, 44100 * speed, 2, &err, &iospec, NULL, NULL);
if (!err)
    err = soxr_process(sox, input, numframes * 2, &idone, output, outputFrames, &odone);
soxr_delete(sox);

It seems like the output wasn't large enough like I expected. Don't really know how it is written to the pointer though. It's fixed for now.
If anyone has any remarks feel free to point out the mistakes

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intersection of Fibonacci projections or significant accumulations. Fibonacci methods in Forex, nowadays technical tools based on Fibonacci numbers are included in a standard set of any trade platform. Fibonacci Fan is the.8. If you build the upward channel Fibonacci, then build it in two successive maxima and conduct a parallel line to a minimum, the result will be constructed projection of Fibonacci trend lines: If you are building a downlink Fibonacci, then build it through two consecutive. How can Fibonacci be used in Forex?
Fibonacci Channel is a system of parallel trend lines : the main channel equidistant parallel lines in the proportions of the Fibonacci series:.8, 161.8, 200, 261.8, etc. For the Fibo lines to be drawn precisely there is a need for confident practical skills, namely an ability to see the most significant price points on the graphics and to build trend lines correctly.
On the downward trend we choose the most upper point (a start of motion down) and we move to an expected point of the beginning of correction. Any Fibonacci Forex trading strategy for the market trade shall consider that in the zone close to Fibo levels speculative price bounces can possibly happen in case of a sharp breakdown. Fibonacci retracement numbers,.2,.0, and.8.More often than not the main support line on the. Fibonacci Fan produces 3 lines set at the main. Coincidence of the Fibo levels constructed on the various periods makes such price level especially strong.
Fibonacci can be used in Forex approximately in such a way: Traditionally there can be made calculations of the following Fibonacci levels: 0;.6;.2; 50;.80;.6; 100; 161.8; 261.8; and 423.6, fr om which 50,.6, and 100 are not part of the. Contents, fibonacci methods in Forex, first correction Fibonacci system, parabola Hunt Fibonacci Strategy. Availability and simplicity of application of Fibonacci strategy trading by the great number of traders has led to the fact that the huge number of players starts thinking similarly and carrying out same the same drawings, and, therefore, Fibo levels really become the strong support/resistance.


Heat oven to 350°F. Line 13x9-inch pan with foil so foil extends about 2 inches over ends of pan. Grease bottom only of foil with shortening or cooking spray. In medium bowl, make brownie batter as directed on box--except stir in butterscotch-flavored chips. Spread in pan.
Bake as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool about 1 hour before frosting.
In 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low. Boil and stir 2 minutes. Stir in milk. Heat to boiling; remove from heat. Cool about 45 minutes or until lukewarm. Gradually stir in powdered sugar. If frosting is too thin, place saucepan of frosting in bowl of cold water. Beat frosting until smooth and thick enough to spread. If frosting becomes too thick, stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time.
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If using a dark or nonstick pan, shorten the bake time by 3 minutes. If using an insulated pan, lengthen the bake time by 7 minutes.
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Julia Grant and the Actress
Posted on March 14, 2016	by Feather Schwartz Foster
Marie Dressler, probably forgotten today, was a mega-star character movie actress of the early 20th century. She starred with Charlie Chaplin – and Greta Garbo!
Miss Dressler, Actress
Marie Dressler (1868-1934) was a large woman, plain, and plus-sized. But she had enormous comedic skills, and co-starred in early silent movies with Charlie Chaplin, no small judge of comedic talent. She could also sing and dance just as well as she could mug for Broadway audiences.
Marie Dressler was a featured comedienne on Broadway long before motion pictures were invented.
By the mid-1890s, Marie Dressler was a featured player in the New York theatre, on her way to achieving the stardom that would come in subsequent years. But in the mid-1890s, stage actresses were still disdained by the snooty set (although their menfolk usually thought otherwise). But times were changing, and since Miss Dressler was far from glamorous, her choice of occupation was not considered "threatening." At least not as threatening as the Floradora girls who danced and cavorted in flesh-colored tights.
Therefore, when Miss D. decided to take a brief vacation at a posh resort in Lake George, she was somewhat unprepared for the cool reception she received from the other guests. Blessed with an outgoing personality and fine sense of humor, she had hoped for some pleasant conversation, and perhaps an invitation to join one of their excursions.
It was not happening. Word obviously got out that a "stage actress" was among them, and the high-society matrons avoided her as if she had a plague. She was lonely and disappointed.
The Little Old Lady
By the mid-1890s, Julia Grant had been widowed for a decade. Her forty-year marriage to General Ulysses S. Grant had been a particularly loving and happy one. Her eight years as mistress of the White House were the culmination of every dream she could possibly have had.
Julia Grant was a plain woman. Few photographs of her exist, and those that do usually show her in profile, to protect her "crossed" eye from wandering at will.
She had been born to a middle-class St. Louis family some seventy years earlier. It had been a happy and loving childhood, which glowed even brighter in retrospect. One thing that did not glow brighter was the fact that Julia Dent Grant was a plain child with a figure that age and children made stout. She also was born with an eye condition that turned her eye inward. She never would be a beauty; and her eye condition was never repaired. Her doting husband loved her as is.
Nevertheless, and despite her shortcomings, she had a genial disposition and a pleasant personality that won her many friends, male and female, from the start. Naturally, when Prominence (with a capital 'P') fell into her lap, the matrons of Society (with a capital 'S') were happy to take her under their collective wing. Perhaps realizing that their help might indeed be helpful, she learned to put on the appropriate airs. But whatever "airs" she learned to adopt were those of her position – not of essential Julia. She was never a snob.
And she never permitted her "widowhood" to dictate her life. While she always wore appropriate black
A middle-aged Julia Grant would become "iconic" in her own right.
widow's-garments, she managed to get out and about enjoying those years that remained to her, surrounded by a close-knit family and friends – and new friends that she would continue to make.
The Private Concert
Marie Dressler was not enjoying her lonely vacation in Lake George. So one afternoon, she spied a piano in an empty public room, and provided her own entertainment and consolation. The soft music and pleasant singing attracted the attention of an elderly lady passing by. She entered the room quietly and took a seat in the back, enjoying a private performance given by someone who obviously had some musical talents and training.
A rare photograph of Julia Grant as an elderly woman.
When Miss Dressler became aware that she had an audience, she naturally invited the woman to come and sit near her, and asked if she had any "requests." The woman approached the piano and sat nearby, and asked if she knew "Lorena," which had been popular some thirty or forty years earlier. Miss Dressler said that she did know the song, and proceeded to play and sing for her audience-of-one.
The elderly woman in black engaged her in conversation, and then invited the younger woman to tea the next day. Marie Dressler, who had made no friends at all at the resort, was happy to accept the invitation – even if it was from an elderly woman.
The Reach of Influence
Marie Dressler indeed joined her older companion for tea, and the two of them had a pleasant hour.
As a much older woman, Marie Dressler appeared in "Anna Christie" with Greta Garbo.
The host did not bat an eye when Miss Dressler admitted that she was a stage actress in New York. And Miss Dressler did not bat an eye when her companion said that her name was "Mrs. Grant."
She appeared in "Min and Bill" with Wallace Beery.
"Grant" is not a particularly uncommon or unusual name. It meant nothing to Marie Dressler, who was Canadian, born in 1868, the year that Grant was elected President. The prestige and prominence of General USG of the USA would have been known of course, but may not have had the same impact.
Lionel Barrymore presented Marie Dressler with an Oscar for Best Actress in "Min and Bill" in 1932.
The bottom line, was that all Marie Dressler knew about the elderly woman was that her name was "Mrs. Grant." It meant little… Until she began to receive pleasant smiles, nods and how-do-you-do's from the other guests. Plus invitations to join their table or their excursions. Clearly something had changed their attitudes. It became apparent that her Mrs. Grant was the Mrs. Grant, and if the company of an actress was good enough for Mrs. Grant it was surely good enough for them.
Marie Dressler went on to become a major stage and screen celebrity, and plain and plus-sized notwithstanding, won the Academy Award in 1932 for Best Actress.
Grant, Julia Dent – The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) – 1975, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Kennedy, Matthew – Marie Dressler : A Biography, With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography, McFarland & Co. Publishing, 1998
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Great story. It should have been in your book. sd
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Lake Hāwea is New Zealand's ninth largest lake.

The lake is in the Otago Region at an altitude of 348 metres. It covers 141 km² and reaches 392 metres deep.

Lake Hāwea is named after a Māori tribe who preceded the Waitaha people in the area.

Lake Hāwea stretches 35 kilometres from north to south. It lies in a glacial valley formed during the last ice age, and is fed by the Hunter River. Nearby Lake Wānaka lies in a parallel glacial valley eight kilometres to the west. At their closest point, a rocky ridge called The Neck, the lakes are only 1000 metres apart.

Lake Hāwea is dammed to the south by an ancient terminal moraine created some 10,000 years ago. In 1958 the lake was artificially raised 20 metres to store more water for increased hydroelectric power generation at the Roxburgh Dam.

The only flat land around the lake is at its southern end, surrounding its outflow into the Hāwea River, a short tributary of the Clutha
/ Matau-au, which it joins near Albert Town. The settlement of Lake Hāwea is found at the lake's southern shore.

The lake is a popular resort, well used in the summer for fishing, boating and swimming. The nearby mountains and fast-flowing rivers allow for adventure tourism year-round, such as jetboating and skiing.

Māori history

For Māori, the Wānaka and Hāwea area was a natural crossroads. The Haast Pass led to the West Coast and its pounamu; the Cardrona Valley led to the natural rock bridge "Whatatorere" which was the only place that the Kawarau River and Clutha River / Mata-Au could be crossed without boats.  reed boats enabled a swift return downriver to the east coast.

The Cromwell basin supported a large population of moa, which were hunted to extinction about 500 years ago.

Until the early nineteenth century, the area was visited annually by Ngāi Tahu who sought pounamu in the mountains above the Haast River and hunted eels and birds over summer, returning to the east coast by descending the Clutha River / Mata-Au in reed boats.  Ngāi Tahu use of the land was ended by attacks by North Island tribes. In 1836, the Ngati Tama chief Te Puoho led a 100-person war party, armed with muskets, down the West Coast and over the Haast Pass: they fell on the Ngāi Tahu encampment between Lake Wānaka and Lake Hāwea, capturing 10 people and killing and eating two children. Although Te Puoho was later killed by the southern Ngāi Tahu leader Tuhawaiki, Maori seasonal visits to the area ceased.

The first European to see the lake was Nathaniel Chalmers in 1853. Guided by Reko and Kaikoura, he walked from Tuturau (Southland) to the lakes via the Kawarau River. He was stricken by dysentery, so his guides returned him down the Clutha in a reed boat.

Namesakes
There have been three Royal New Zealand Navy ships named after the lake, one of which is still in active service.

See also
 List of lakes in New Zealand
 Lakes of New Zealand

References

Other sources
 Hawea

Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.

Lakes of Otago

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Despite the industry-wide excitement associated with manufacturing analytics, I often see continuous manufacturers get bogged down early in these efforts.
They get stuck discussing theoretical trade-offs between project feasibility and impact. The uncertainty inherent in hypothetical projects ultimately slows down the ability for large manufacturers to move forward.
What I've learned is that it's fruitless to become mired in the detailed analysis because many variables associated with these efforts are unknowable until you actually get started on the project. Only after diving in, does the manufacturer discover the intricacies of the data: What data is readily available? How ready it is to be used in analysis? What types of data modeling and preparation is needed? What type of questions can be addressed? What types of projects are achievable?
So how are innovative process manufactures overcoming this and accelerate their time to impact?
When it comes to manufacturing analytics, the leaders are using an agile strategy that allows them to start learning and executing. By gathering and aggregating production data into a platform for analytics, manufacturers will immediately get a better understanding of their overall data readiness. Building a data platform provides visibility into: what can easily be addressed, what are the data gaps, and what needs to be built out.
Too often, manufacturers are initially focused on complex analytic approaches, when the simplest solution often works best. One example is the current hype associated with deep learning. In most cases a combination of simpler techniques are much more appropriate. At a minimum, more basic data exploration methods may provide a better understanding of the problem space, and hence make it easier to develop and tune more complex algorithms.
Deep learning and AI have so much market buzz, that many of our customers are looking to apply it to all issues. However, for initial data exploration, there are far faster and easier solutions. Simpler algorithms such as linear regression often give you a "good enough" answer much more quickly.
For example, one of our current customers approached us looking for a predictive maintenance solution. They were looking for an intelligent model that would help them reduce the cost associated with the catastrophic failure of equipment. The customer's original idea involved the creation of a model that would provide complex rare event analysis. Instead, we quickly addressed their challenge using a simple model for anomaly detection.
One additional benefit of using simple techniques is that they often help establish trust with users of the solution. Modern advances in AI are able to do incredible things with great accuracy. However, it is often difficult to understand why the algorithms make a particular decision. In many cases, a simpler analytic, that is more easily understood by the operations and engineering teams, is more likely to be adopted broadly and incorporated into daily workflows.
It's well known that data scientists spend three-quarters of their time cleaning, preparing, and modeling data. This is necessary data housekeeping before performing an analysis. Yet since it is the analysis phase that drives actual business value, it is tempting for manufacturers to attempt to look for shortcuts or to bypass data preparation. I often see teams design algorithms they hope can manage noisy data.
But by expecting the algorithms within the analytic tools to do the work, they become more cumbersome, slow, less accurate, and are more difficult to improve. More importantly, this approach increases the level of maintenance and upkeep required to keep the algorithms current with inevitable changes to the production process.
If you give the algorithm clean, well modeled data, you reduce computation time, achieve higher accuracy in predictions, and are more likely to have easily interpreted links between the underlying data features and the predicted outcomes.
I've been involved in numerous projects where the manufacturer requires the algorithm to discover patterns by segmenting and massaging data, only to discover that this limits their ability to scale the project across use cases and increases the ongoing support requirements.
Leading process manufacturers start by building out a platform that turns their raw data into higher-level elements such as digital twins of machines, lines, and facilities. You can read more tips on how to approach data readiness here.
Data scientists love flashy visualizations. But operators or technicians are primarily interested in the concrete actions they need to take to respond to the analysis.
To accelerate the success of early projects, take some time to understand the data sources and visualization system users are already using. Then map the results into reporting that fits into their existing visualizations, vocabulary, and workflow.
For example, at a dairy manufacturer, we had a visualization with sophisticated graphics of expected completion times, uncertainty windows, and potential production issues. However, after developing an interface that provided analysis of the 10 tanks involved in the production process, it was not clear what data was relevant to the operator.
We changed this to a simple graphic: a table with one line for each tank and when it needed to be drained. Just the information the operator needed. Because of this, the analytic project's output immediately became ingrained in the operator's workflow.
These four tips will help accelerate your initial digital transformation efforts. However, this is just the start. To truly scale projects, you need to ensure you have a comprehensive technical and organizational foundation in place. Sight Machine has compiled our learnings from multiple engagements into our Digital Readiness Assessment (DRI). The DRI will help you evaluate multiple factors that will impact the long-term success of your digital manufacturing efforts.
Chief AI Officer and Co-Founder – Kurt co-founded Slashdot.org and has served as a professor at Michigan State University in information management, economics, and policy. Kurt is an accomplished analytics programmer.