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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Blog LATEST Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity's New Role Today in Novels, Movies and the Arts
Donna Levin
Autism, Neurodiversity
By Donna Levin
As has been already noted by several contributors to Different Brains, the past decade has seen a sharp rise in the number of non-fiction books and articles by scientists, educators and parents on neurodiversity. Less well-known and documented is the emerging role that neurodiversity has come to play in novels, movies and the arts; and the far more positive characterizations of the neurodiverse population.
Going forward I plan to discuss these new characterizations of neurodiversity in the arts. I hope that other Different Brains readers will join me.
To introduce myself, I am a novelist in San Francisco, who has taught fiction writing for many years at UC Berkeley extension and other venues. A brief summary of my writing is contained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Levin.
In this initial posting, let me provide a quick overview of some of the characterizations of neurodiversity over the past 25 years, starting with Family Pictures, published in 1990. In this novel by Sue Miller, who recently had achieved literary notice with The Good Mother, a central character is Randall, who is autistic. Randall is severely impacted: He's non-verbal and presented as an on-going burden to his family. Randall's mother has three more (neuro-typical) children just to prove to her husband that Randall's neuro-diversity wasn't her fault. Randall is born in the 1950s when the mental health community, led by Bruno Bettelheim, blamed autism on a "refrigerator mother." The marriage ends in divorce anyway.
Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbit in "Rain Man"
Randall's doppelganger in film is Raymond Babbit (Rain Man, 1988), the unreachable savant played by Dustin Hoffman. Raymond has computer-like math and memory skills, but the best use he can put them to is counting cards in Las Vegas.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2003 was a turning point. Author Mark Haddon gives a voice to the neuro-diverse by having his protagonist, Christopher Boone, tell the story, and the novel launched an entire subgenre of books featuring neuro-diverse characters, including Tilt (Elizabeth Burns, 2004), A Wild Ride up the Cupboards (Ann Bauer, 2005), and Eye Contact (Cammie McGovern, 2007).
Literature prodded the writers of screen-and-teleplays to foray into the same world, with Dr. Virginia Dixon on Grey's Anatomy and Jerry Espenson on Boston Legal.
Mary McDonnell as Dr. Virginia Dixon on "Grey's Anatomy'
Jim Parson as Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory"
In 2007, the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory introduced Sheldon Cooper to the world, and the world has been in love for almost nine years. It's refreshing that Sheldon never gets a label, but he is clearly neuro-diverse: He has trouble understanding sarcasm, but he understands physics in a way that those of us who barely passed high school algebra can only dream of.
Sheldon's literary counterpart is the Australian Don Tillman of The Rosie Project and its sequel, The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion, 2013 and 2014). Like Sheldon, he's brilliant but socially inept.
Sheldon Cooper has a prestigious job and a girlfriend. Don Tillman is similarly employed at a university. He gets married and his wife has a baby.
At the end of Annie Hall, Woody Allen points out that one wants to make things work out in art, "because in life it's real difficult." In life, there's a vast difference to travel from Randall and Raymond to Sheldon and Don. The next generation of characters, in literature and in the electronic media, may be Sheldon Cooper without genius.
Characterizations of neurodiversity in the arts will continue to evolve, and become more nuanced. I plan to write about these characterizations in movies, television and novels in the upcoming months. Are there ones that I'm missing? Do contact me at donnalevin@aol.com.
Donna Levin is the author of two novels, Extraordinary Means (William Morrow) and California Street (Simon and Schuster), as well as two books on the craft of writing, Get That Novel Started and Get That Novel Written, both published by Writer's Digest Books. Her latest novel, There's More Than One Way Home, will be published by Chickadee Prince Books on May 1st of 2017. Her papers are part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University and her novels are part of the "California novels" collection in the California State Library.
She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension and has been a regular presenter at the San Francisco Writers' Conference.
http://www.DonnaLevin.com
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How to apply: Please submit your up to date CV along with a completed Application form. We would also appreciate if you could complete a Diversity Monitoring Form. There is no fixed closing date.


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"A masterpiece of interactive pedagogy..."
- Education Update, October 2005
Ear Training with Practica Musica®
Practica Musica is a complete tutor for both Ear Training and Music Theory.
Ear training and music theory are sometimes handled by entirely separate programs, but we think that it's not really possible to isolate the one task completely from the other. In order to identify an interval by ear, for example (Ear Training) you must first know what the intervals are (Theory). In order to tell the scale degree of a melodic note (Ear Training) you must know the scales (Theory). You can't progress very far even in Theory without having some idea of the related sounds. And so on.
Why Choose Practica Musica? (also PDF)
Some of the Activities in Practica Musica blend both theory and ear training and some are specifically one or the other. Practica Musica contains a large number of activities whose focus is primarily on training the ear. These can be divided into activities dealing with ear training for Single Pitches, Intervals, Scales, Melody, Single Chords, and Chord Progressions.
Practica Musica Overview
Ear Training for Single Pitches
Beginning:
Repeat Pitches is a very basic activity that focuses on simply repeating a pitch that is played by the computer. This is a good one for singers using a microphone as input to the program: a correct answer means hitting that same note clearly on the first attempt. It can also be used with keyboard input, in which case it's a simple keyboard familiarity exercise.
Intermediate:
These single-pitch ear training activities are exercises in hearing relative pitch relations. In Pitch Matching, two tones are played, the first one is displayed on the staff, and you must find the second note on the staff, or on the piano or fretboard or an external instrument. Custom Pitch Matching is the same except that you can choose which intervals are used (seconds, thirds, fourths, etc.) Scale Degrees in Context (also listed under Scales, below) plays a harmonic cadence followed by a single pitch. You are to answer by choosing the box that identifies the degree of that pitch in the current key.
Practica Musica has two activities dealing with "absolute pitch," sometimes called "perfect pitch." These were by user request; we don't consider them part of the typical musical curriculum because it is not certain that all people can acquire a sense of absolute pitch - that is, the ability to know the name of a pitch without reference to any previous pitch. A person with absolute pitch can hear a note played and know that this is an F. There are many questions about not only the learnability of this skill, but about its usefulness; there are great musicians both with and without absolute pitch. The activity Absolute Pitch gives you systematic practice in attempting to identify single tones by sound only. Custom Absolute Pitch is another activity that lets you choose a set of pitches to work with.
Ear Training for Intervals
The exercise Pitch Matching (above) is in a sense an interval activity, though one doesn't have to identify the interval heard. There are a number of activities that deal with identifying intervals by ear. The easiest of are are two from Chapter One of the textbook course: WholeStep-HalfStep asks you to distinguish whole steps from half steps, and Octaves asks you to distinguish octaves from all other types of intervals without having to name the others. In Course 1 you'll find Hearing Interval Qualities, in which two known intervals are played and you tell which came first. This is a good next step in ear training because you hear both intervals side by side and are always comparing two.
Interval Ear Training has four levels of difficulty, starting with those intervals that are easiest to identify and proceeding to more difficult distinction such as that between the major and minor sixth. Custom Interval Ear Training is similar except that you can choose the intervals you want to study. Speed Intervals tests your quickness at identifying intervals: to score a point you must correctly identify the interval before a falling balloon pops. The Interval Exam is a series of specific intervals that works like a test; your score on this indicates how well you would do on a similar test in school.
Getting more difficult, Interval Series combines interval identification with musical memory: you hear not one but two or more intervals, and must identify each. As you get more advanced the number of intervals rises. Custom Interval Series is similar, but with you again choosing the intervals. Finally this category might also contain Mistuned Notes, in which certain notes found in a melody or a chord are mistuned: what is meant to be a major third, for example, might be too flat or too sharp. Your task is to identify the mistuned notes. This activity requires that you use the "sampled" instrument sounds provided in Practica Musica; these are the only ones that can be reliably mistuned this way.
Ear Training for Scales
Scales are the basis of melody, and Practica Musica is able to teach you to recognize all the scales and modes used in music of the western tradition, that is, classical, pop, and jazz. A Major Scale Melody, in Course 1, displays a familiar melody and asks you to find its notes on the keyboard. As you find each one (aided by the solfege syllables Do, Re, Mi...) the harmony also plays, just for fun. This and the activity before it, The Major Scale, could be classified under both theory and ear training.
Scale Degrees in Context performs a cadence in a randomly chosen key and then plays a single tone whose degree you must identify by number - is it the 1 (tonic), 2 (supertonic), and so on. See also the Melodic Scale Degrees and Solfege activities listed under Ear Training for Melody, below. Modal Melodies is an activity that has no grading - it simply creates random melodies in the chosen mode (e.g. Phrygian) to give you a feel for the sound of melodies using the chosen scale.
The Scale Ear Training activity has three levels, beginning with distinguishing the major from the natural minor scale. Level two deals with the three types of minor scale: natural, harmonic, and melodic. In Level three you learn to recognize the Church Modes (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian) in their various transpositions. In Custom Scale Ear Training you can pick the scales you want to work with, so your choices expand to include octatonic, two types of pentatonic, and chromatic. It is also possible to create arbitrary scales for ear training, which opens the possibility of training with still more exotic scales. In the AP Prep Course, I.A.11. Hearing Key Relations asks that you listen to an example containing a key change and then identify the relationship of the new key to the old. Examples are from the literature.
Ear Training for Meter
In the AP Course, activity A.09.Identifying Meter plays a number of examples and ask you to tell the meter of the example, using multiple choice boxes. The example is afterward displayed and can be played as a beat marker that moves to mark the beat.
Ear Training for Melody
This topic can be further divided into Ear Training for Melodic Pitch, Ear Training for Rhythm, and Ear Training for both Pitch and Rhythm together.
Ear Training for Melodic Pitch.
In Melodic Scale Degrees you hear a melody and identify the scale degree of each note in the melody using multiple choice boxes (1, 2, 3, etc.) The Solfege activity is very similar to Melodic Scale Degrees, except that it identifies degrees using the familiar solfege syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti.
In Diatonic Pitch Patterns you hear 4 brief and similar melodic passages, each of which is varied slightly while staying in key. Which one was played? Chromatic Pitch Pattern is similar, but the variations are not within the key.
Dictation is one of the primary learning tasks in ear training for melody. Practica Musica divides dictation into separate tasks, so that you have the option of working just on pitch, just on rhythm, or on both. Generated Pitch Dictation deals with pitch alone, using melodies invented anew each time by the computer. Rhythmic values are present just to make the melodies more interesting, but the rhythm values are automatically supplied for you as you enter each note on the staff. All the usual tools for changing pitches on the screen apply: you can drag notes up or down to change their pitch, etc. Library Pitch Dictation works in a similar way, except that the melodies are drawn from the literature instead of being created on the spot by the computer.Growing Melody Pitch Dictation adds an interesting twist: the melodies begin at just two notes in length and grow longer and longer as your score rises. Progressive Pitch Dictation draws on a library of precomposed melodies that begin very easy and grow progressively more difficult. The graduations of difficulty are more precisely controlled than in the generated melodies.
Getting more difficult, we have 2-Part Dictation and 4-Part Dictation, both using composed examples, plus Atonal Dictation and 2-Part Atonal Dictation, both of which present atonal music freshly composed by the computer each time you ask for a new example. In Custom Atonal Dictation and Custom 2-Part Atonal Dictation you can choose the length, etc. of each example. Also under this heading comes Pitch Errors, in which the computer invents a melody, displays it with one or more wrong notes, and asks you to correct the notes that were not played as written. In the AP Prep Course set, II.A.3-4 Harmonic Dictation asks you to write out two parts (pitch only) of a four-part piece while also identifying the harmonies.
Ear Training for Melodic Rhythm.
Rhythm Matching invents and plays a brief rhythmic idea and asks you to repeat it by tapping the keys of the computer (or a MIDI instrument) while keeping in careful time with the metronome.Custom Rhythm Matching is the same, except that you can choose the complexity and length of the rhythmic examples. In all these activities involving rhythm tapping the activities are set up to play the correct pitches automatically so that you just concentrate on rhythm, typically using a couple of fingers on the middle row of letter keys. That makes the exercise more fun.
Rhythm Patterns creates a melody and then presents 4 rhythm variations on 4 separate staves and plays one of them. Which one did you hear? In the AP prep course you'll find these similar activities: I.A.04. Rhythmic Scale Variations, I.A.07. Dotted Rhythm Patterns, and I.A.08.Compound Rhythm Patterns.
Generated Rhythm Dictation invents melodies for dictation but requires only that you enter the correct rhythmic values: the pitches of notes will adjust automatically to match the model. Library Rhythm Dictation does the same thing with examples drawn from the literature.
Ear Training for Pitch and Rhythm Together.
Intermediate to Advanced:
This category includes all activities dealing with full melodic dictation in one or more parts. Generated Full Dictation has four levels of difficulty and creates an infinite number of new melodies that you can write by ear. The program marks any pitch or rhythm errors in your transcription and lets you hear both your version and the original. Library Full Dictation is similar but uses precomposed examples from the literature. Another difference is that the Library version of this activity doesn't let you see the correct answer unless you've figured it out. The generated version lets you see the answer regardless since it knows you'll never see that melody again. Two activities in the AP Prep Course set also do full melodic dictation, each with one level of difficulty. These are II.A.1 Dictation, in simple meters, and II.A.2. Dictation, in compound meters.
Ear Training for Single Chords
These activities all present chords individually, with no context.
Major and Minor Triads is in Course 1. It plays two chords on the same root, one major and one minor, and asks you which came first. This is a good place to start because there are only those two choices, and you are always hearing two chords side by side that are the same except for being major or minor. In Chapter Seven of the Textbook Course, Recognizing Triads presents major, minor, and (after you are getting the major and minor) diminished triads in various voicings and you identify them by type. Though the chords may sometimes be inverted you are not required in this activity to identify the inversion.
Recognizing Seventh Chords presents the common seventh chords for identification. You can compare a wrong answer with the right one, as is the case in other activities where we think it would be helpful. Chord Ear Training has four levels, Triads, Seventh Chords, Inverted Triads, and Inverted Seventh Chords. In the levels with inversions you need to be able to distinguish the different inversions; for those levels of this activity it is not enough to recognize just the chord type. Hearing Chord Inversions concentrates on the topic of distinguishing the different inversions of the most common chords. Chord Pitch Patterns displays four different chords that each have the same bass, and plays one of them. You identify which chord was played by clicking the appropriate box. Custom Chord Ear Training is like the Chord Ear Training activity except it has only one level, in which you can choose which chords you want to study.
Ear Training for Chords in Progression
The common element in these activities is that they use Roman numerals to identify chords, so again this requires some theory - you need to know the meaning of Roman numerals as applied to chords.
The easiest of these is from Chapter Nine of the textbook course, Recognizing Primary Chords. In the beginning you will only tell I or i (the tonic chord in major or minor) from V (the dominant chord, built on the 5th note of the scale).
Chord Progression Ear Training is a larger activity with 4 levels of difficulty all generated by the computer so that each example is different: level 1 is primary triads, level 2 adds the supertonic and submediant, level 3 adds other secondary triads, and level 4 introduces secondary dominants. Both minor and major keys are covered. Library Chord Progressions works in a similar way but draws all its examples from Bach's chorale harmonizations. Custom Progressions lets you choose which chord groups you want to appear in generated progressions.
Hearing Altered Chords concentrates on progressions involving secondary dominants, Neapolitan, and augmented sixth chords. Under this heading could also be included the activities that combine dictation with chord identification: activity II.A.3-4 Harmonic Dictation from the AP Course is mentioned above under the dictation topic because one must write out 2 of the voices in a four-voice texture. But the other part of the problem is identifying the chords by Roman numeral (examples are again drawn from Bach). See also Pitch Dictation with Chords, in which you again write two voices of a four-part texture while identifying the chords by Roman numeral.

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Iraq will have a President and Prime Minister who takes account of both Iranian and US interests
By Elijah J. Magnier – @ejmalrai
Iraqi politicians have agreed on a new prime minister, Adel Abdel Mahdi, to replace Haidar al-Abadi, after over four months of difficult work. Adel Abdel Mahdi is an experienced politician who almost became prime minister in the 2000s when Moqtada al-Sadr suddenly turned against him and, overnight, promoted Nuri al-Maliki for his first term in office. The choice of Abdel Mahdi comes despite the fact that, according to sources close to the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the US envoy Brett McGurk "did everything in his power to discourage Iraqi politicians, Sunni, Shia and Kurds, from adopting a candidate in harmony with Iran".
Up to this day, the Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani has not approved Barham Saleh for the presidency, a position allocated for Kurds (Speaker for Sunni and prime minister for Shia).
The choice of Barham Saleh is contested by the many in the Talbani entourage and the Barzani clan who support Fouad Hussein for the Presidency. This office is the most vexing for all camps, including Iran and the US as they attempt to shape the new government. Barham Saleh has been promoted by Brett McGurk (during his last visit to the late Jalal Talabani's wife) and by General Qassem Soleimani according to the source. Nevertheless, Iran and the Hezbollah envoy to Iraq are both trying to avoid upsetting Masoud Barzani.
The relationship is complicated. Despite the presence of US intelligence HQ, a US base in Kurdistan, and the Israeli relationship with Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran still hopes for some influence with Barzani. This is why a marathon of negotiations is ongoing to convince the Kurdish leader to accept an important ministry, in return for accepting Barham Saleh as President, so that Iraq's leadership may constitute a harmonious team accepted by all players.
The future President will most likely be elected by the parliament, as was the case for the speaker, as happens when there is no previous agreement on one single name. There are seven candidates so far but only three are expected to enjoy support unless Barham is agreed upon at the last minute by all Kurds.
Contrary to what US-linked politicians in Iraq maintain, Iran is not trying to impose on Iraq a candidate who is totally on its side and an enemy of the US. It did work against the US candidate Haidar Abadi. Soleimani and Hezbollah aimed to promote Adel Abdel Mahdi who is accepted by the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, by Iraqi politicians (even if Nuri al-Maliki refused to support him until a couple of days ago), by Iran and by the US.
"Officials from the United Nations, diplomats and many Iraqi politicians were carrying various indirect messages from the US to Soleimani in Iraq that the US is not aiming to cripple Iran from Mesopotamia but is willing to allow a smooth Iraqi government", said a source within Soleimani's inner circle.
On the other hand the same source said that Iraqi politicians "were threatened by the US diplomats in Iraq to be scheduled on a blacklist, to halt all financial and humanitarian support and collaboration, to confiscate their wealth abroad or even to lift US protection from some provinces so the Shia of PMU can kill you all". All this if they would not support Abadi or the list he was leading. Top US official in Iraq who asked anonymity denied the claim.
The source close to Soleimani believes "the US envoy to Iraq has failed in his attempt to twist the Iraqi politicians' arms and legs to promote a candidate hostile to Iran. Abadi placed all his cards in the US basket. That brought him down like a rock. He tried to pull Moqtada onto his side but he was left with his only ally Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim, the man who already choose the US-Gulf camp long ago", said the source.
Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr took a hostile position against Qassem Soleimani even though he met him just after the parliamentary election results were reported. He has suffered from seeing his group – that he inherited from his late father – divided (Asaeb Ahl al-Haq, Kataeb Sayyed al-Shuhada', Harakat al-Nujabaa and others) and financed by Iran. Nevertheless, he is not against Iran in favour of the US or any other country of the Middle Eastern region. Indeed, there are ongoing efforts and future plans to reconcile Moqtada with Iran soon, particularly after the beginning of US president Donald Trump's full embargo on Iran next November. The situation in the Middle East requires that Iraqi politicians no longer be divided and rebuild the country stronger for the benefit of its regional allies. Iran's aim was the selection of a new prime minister who enjoys good relationships with France and Europe and is accepted by the US.
Abdel Mahdi is known to be faithful to his country and will maintain a balanced relationship between Iran and the USA. Abdel Mahdi is expected to ask the parliament to decide regarding the US unilateral sanctions on Iran, one of the main pending decisions that has prevented Abadi from winning a second term when he supported the US unilateral embargo against Iran.
A few years ago, I spent an evening with the Vice President of Iraq Abdel Mahdi on a private occasion in Karbala on the 15thof Shaaban, in the presence of a very few top Iraqi politicians, including the late Sayyed Abdel Aziz al-Hakim. He was very critical of the way al-Maliki was running the government and said: "We are better off reopening our offices in Damascus because Iraqi politicians today don't know how to rule but are good at playing the opposition".
Abdel Mahdi's election is not contested by the Marjaiya in Najaf with whom he maintains an excellent relationship. As an economist, he has once saved the former Iraqi Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi who told me over a dinner: "Al-Maliki called me asking for few billion dollars to be immediately under his disposal in forthcoming days at the latest. I told him it is impossible because I don't have a bank with money to pull out a couple of billions for you, nor do I have a pocket big enough to contain this much money", al-Issawi told me. When no further reasoning was possible, al-Issawi sought help from Adel Abdel Mahdi. Abdel Mahdi explained to al-Maliki the long procedure entailed in presenting an approved budget, not a matter of a few days or weeks. "Adel saved my life. Al-Maliki didn't understand anything, I bet, but at least he is off my back now", said Rafei.
It looks like the US won't finally put pressure on Iraq, and it is unlikely that Trump will impose sanctions on the Iraqi government in November in parallel with the Iran sanctions set to begin in November. Trump, or rather his team, don't want to lose Iraq completely to Iran and thus is expected to allow Iran to trade with Iraq the trade exchange has reached $4bn 165 million for the first six months this year). This is already a weakness in Trump's plans for sanctions!
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Columnist E. Jean Carroll says she won't bring rape charge against Trump for alleged attack
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Columnist E. Jean Carroll said she wouldn't bring a rape charge against President Donald Trump based on her allegation of an assault from the mid-1990s.
In an interview with MSNBC after the account was revealed, Carroll recounted the allegations and said it took years of experience reading other women's accounts of mistreatment for her advice column to come forward with the allegation.
This is the most serious sexual misconduct allegation yet surfaced against the president, aside from his first wife Ivana's allegation of violent rape, the description of which she later walked back.
Columnist E. Jean Carroll said she wouldn't bring a rape charge against President Donald Trump following her allegation that he assaulted her in the mid-1990s.
Carroll alleged Trump assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store in Manhattan, in an excerpt from her book published Friday in New York Magazine. Her account includes her memory of telling two close friends at the time, both of whom confirmed knowledge of the attack to the magazine.
In an interview with MSNBC, Carroll recounted the allegations that had been revealed hours earlier.
The story will be included in the print issue of the magazine, which will also feature the Carroll dressed in the outfit of a Donna Karan shirtdress and tights she said she was wearing at the time. The writer also said she still has the dress, which hangs untouched in her home.
Based on the details of the attack published in the magazine and repeated on-air by Carroll, a prosecutor had said earlier on the network that Carroll could stand to mount a rape charge against Trump.
Despite the possible case, Carroll told MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell she didn't intend on bringing charges against Trump because she "would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection."
"Mine was three minutes, I'm a mature woman, I can handle it, I can keep going, my life has gone on, I'm a happy woman," Carroll said. "For the women around the world...it seems disrespectful, it doesn't make sense to me."
Read more: Columnist E. Jean Carroll wrote a vivid account accusing Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-'90s
The White House denied Carroll's allegations in a statement to New York magazine.
"This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad," the statement read.
Carroll wrote in the magazine that she didn't come forward with her allegations until now because she feared revenge from Trump, who she said would "turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack."
Carroll said on MSNBC that it took her years of experience consulting with people who would write in for advice from her column to come forward with her account.
"I felt that the situation at Bergdorf's was my fault, I blamed myself for that," Carroll said on MSNBC. "I said 'I am the stupidest woman that's ever walked,' and I said that for years."
The columnist's allegation is the most serious sexual assault accusation against the president, in addition to his first wife Ivana Trump's 1990 accusation that Trump raped her in a fit of rage in 1989.
Ivana did not bring a rape charge against her then-husband, instead later altering her description of the incident.
"I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense," she said in a 1993 statement.
Watch the full interview below:
SEE ALSO: The 24 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
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Today, products and services exist in the sales team's tablets or mobiles, in the digital signage of the point of sale, in the e-commerce platform for on-line sales, in digital formats for sending or downloading (pdf or similar) and still in print format for more proactive marketing. Some product catalogs are extremely repetitive, but instead require frequent updates. This process is still done in many cases by the traditional layout system, and with a subsequent revision process. These processes are expensive, slow and, above all, can be a source of errors.
At CeGe we have been designing, designing, managing images and archives, and producing catalogs for many years. To this, we have added PIM cloud and local applications, automation tools in Indesign such as Easy Catalog or Typefi, and even multimedia platforms for sales teams such as Catalog Player.
These systems, and our professionals allow us to give a global solution to the problems of design, integration with databases or ERP, automation, organization, management, updating and access to the channel of the customer's products and services.
To create and keep a catalogue updated, when the range of products and services is wide and changing, requires dedicating many resources of the company … or outsourcing the process.
In step with the increasingly fast growth and innovation of our customers, at CeGe we have done the same with the technologies and professionals that allow us to offer an excellent service in the creation of catalogues. Effective, creative, multi-channel, in printed format or digital, and always updated for the different users of the company: sales teams , distributors and customers.


Where can I find what voltage is supplied to the LED from a Master Replica board? Specifically the MR Darth Maul, I need to calculate which resistor I need.
Or if anyone know which resistor I need that'd be great, I'll be using Cree XP-E2 Red.


NRStor Inc., an energy storage project developer, has secured $11 million in equity financing commitment from Labourers' Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada (LiUNA). Fengate Real Asset Investments will manage LiUNA's investment in NRStor.
As part financing, Toronto based NTStor will also have access to $200 million in additional capital in support of its project pipeline.
LiUNA led the equity round with participation from NRStor founder, Chair and CEO Annette Verschuren.
This funding round builds upon seed capital invested by Northwater Capital Management in 2012. The majority investor is Lake Bridge Capital, is a Toronto based investor with a broad ranging portfolio of growth companies.
NRStor has secured multiple contracts with Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator for utility-scale energy storage projects and is working with Ontario-based companies Hydrostor and Temporal Power to deploy their innovative technologies. NRStor built Canada's first commercial grid-connected flywheel facility, and is developing Canada's first commercial compressed air energy storage facility.
In the residential space, NRStor has partnered with Opus One Solutions to launch a new company, MPower, which is bringing the Tesla Powerwall to Canada. NRStor's third business line, NRStor C&I, is providing commercial and industrial customers solutions to lower their energy bills. Lastly, NRStor is working in partnership with remote indigenous communities to develop sustainable energy solutions that will reduce their dependence on diesel fuel.
Fengate/Labourers' Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada (LiUNA), Lake Bridge Capital closed new round of investment in NRStor Commercial and Industrial (C&I).


Daniel Harrison Connor passed away on November 7, 2017 at the age of 96. He was the beloved husband of Mary Lubash of Wentzville, Missouri for 71 years; He is survived by his two daughters, Linda (Larry) Moore of Wentzville, MO, Cynthia (Joseph Santon) Connor of Houschton, GA; Son in Law, Tim Gregory of Portland, OR; 4 Grandchildren; 4 Great-Grandchildren; He is preceded in death by his father, George Emmett Connor, mother, Susan Blanche Walker, daughter, Patricia Gregory, brother, George, brother, Arthur, brother, James. Daniel Graduated from Virginia Tech Engineering school, worked as an metallurgical engineer at US Steel for over 35 years. In his retirement he enjoyed being the president of the Lapidary club. He was a loving father and friend to many. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him.


Matt Ruhland's latest batch of F5 mandolins.
I recently ran across a new builder in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, by the name of Matt Ruhland. Matt started building mandolins around two years ago. He used to call Memphis home, but moved to Portland a while back. He has spent time as a carpenter doing construction work and more recently has been working as a bartender. The idea of a career that he could do at home on his own terms really appealed to him, so he began to brainstorm some possibilities.
At first, he considered making custom furniture, but his room mate suggested that maybe mandolins were the way to go. They were small, didn't use a lot materials, and sold for a decent amount. Matt also plays banjo in a a local bluegrass band, so he was familiar with the instrument. And just like that, he went for it. He's up to mandolin number 11 and is just starting on his next batch of five or six more.
I've seen many examples of mandolins from new builders and Matt's rate very high. His fit and finishes are way better than average, though they definitely still have a handmade look. But it's his sound that really stands out. His mandolins have a depth and presence that shines far more than they honestly should at this stage in his career. I've heard far more expensive mandolins that sound tight and closed-up when new, but Matt's are open, loud, and resonant. They sound like they are already played in. And to my ears, they sound better than several small factory instruments I could name, but I won't. His mandolins sound like they were built by someone who's built 30 or 40 mandolins, instead of just 11.
The maple that Ruhland used here has both bird's eye and flame; an unusual combination!
It's hard to say where someone like Matt will go from here, but as a new mandolin builder, he's off to a great start. And honestly, at $3000 each, this is probably as low a price as you will ever see them. Matt Ruhland doesn't have a website yet, so getting in touch with him isn't easy, but if you are interested in speaking with him, email me and I'll pass along his contact information. Matt is definitely someone to watch.
Here's a simple crafts project that you might find worthwhile. Recently, I noticed that the tin that Altoids Smalls peppermints come in seemed to be the perfect size for storing picks. It fits the bigger Pro-Plec picks and easily slides into my jeans' front pocket. Adding the fact that it is metal and therefore rugged, and it seemed like a sure thing.
But when I took an empty tin, put a few picks in it, and put it in my front pants pocket, it proceeded to rattle like a castanet in my pants, when I walked. So that wasn't going to work for me. I looked around the house and found a scrap piece of wool blanket fabric that my wife had used in one of her projects. It was fuzzy and thick and soft. My problem was solved, at least with the Altoids tin.
I cut a couple of pieces of the wool fabric to go inside the bottom and top of the tin. The one on top needs to be cut a bit smaller so the top can close all the way. Then I used double-sided tape to secure the wool fabric to the top and bottom, and that was it. If you don't have any thick blanket fabric around, you could try some pieces of polar fleece from a worn out jacket or maybe from an extra thick bath towel or even some pieces of thin foam. Whatever you put in the tin needs to be compressible, so keep that in mind.
So if you use expensive Blue Chip picks, or any kind really, and want to keep them safe and secure and not rattling around with your change in your pocket, getting all scratched up, this is an easy way to do it. Just need to work your way through the peppermints first. At least you'll have fresh breath while you're working on this project. Cheers.
celia woodsmith, lead singer for della mae. photo by hermon joyner.
The Mandolin Canon #1: John Reischman & John Miller, "Bumpy Road"
Periodically, I'd like to talk about important "must have" recordings for the mandolin enthusiast here at The Mandolin Player, which we will call the Mandolin Canon. As this involves mostly my opinion as to these choices, I'm sure there are plenty of recordings that have been made over the years that I might overlook and if any of you know of a great recording that you can't imagine living without, then send me a note or comment below. Who knows, it might end up in the Canon as well.
For the first one, I can't really think of a better player to begin this series with than John Reischman and the recording he made with guitarist John Miller, Bumpy Road. This was released back in 2002 on Reischman's own label, Corvus Records. The two Johns have made three records together, the earliest was The Singing Moon in 1998 and the latest was Road Trip in 2013. Though all three are worth getting, Bumpy Road is my personal favorite.
Bumpy Road is the one that finds it way into my CD player most often. It hits the sweet spot for me, showing Reischman at his best and most inventive playing with Miller laying down a solid back-up accompaniment on his Martin guitar. The emphasis from Reischman is on the melody and in doing that he focuses on the tone, for which he is justifiably known. The recording quality is clean and rich and shows off each instrument at their best. The music leans toward Latin Jazz and Celtic tunes, along with some original tunes from these two Johns. Also, there is one song on the CD, a Celtic song called "The Path Downhill," sung by Koralee Tonack, but it also contains one of Reischman's best solos in his career. It is so beautiful and bittersweet. This is what I think of when I think of John Reischman.
If you want to learn more about John Reischman as a mandolin player, this is a great place to start. Of course, he has done more bluegrass inspired recordings and we will eventually get to those, but Bumpy Road is as good as it gets and that is why it deserves to be a part of The Mandolin Canon.
The Decemberists' new album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World is out and I've reviewed it in The Americana Corner. Read the review here.
And last, but not least, The Louvin Brothers, Ira (1924 -1965) and Charlie (1927 -2011), were given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Hi everyone! Welcome to this new site. This is the first of February and we are now up and running!
Like most of you reading this, once upon a time, I fell in love with the mandolin. For me, it was catching David Grisman in concert at a small folk music festival in Spokane, Washington, about 20 years ago. I went to it because Mark O'Connor was the warm-up act and I was learning to play the fiddle at the time, but after hearing Grisman play (and man, did he play), everything changed for me. I bought an inexpensive mandolin and that was it. I listened to everything I could lay my hands on, and read and studied every non-fiction book and instructional book I could find.
Eventually, I ended up writing profiles and reviews for Mandolin Magazine and I did that for seven years until it ceased publication last summer. But my interest in writing about this instrument didn't change or die. And that's why I created The Mandolin Player.
I want The Mandolin Player to be as good as it can be. We will feature long-form profiles of professional players and builders, as well as feature articles covering many other aspects of this special instrument. We'll review the latest recordings, books, and even live concerts, when possible. If it has to do with the mandolin, we'll try to cover it here.
In addition to the wide-ranging mando-centric content, which will remain the primary focus for the site, we'll also dedicate some space to one of the more interesting musical movements of the past few years, and that is Americana or roots music. And this is music that is informed by or is derived from blues, jazz, classical, folk, country, bluegrass, or classic rock. Sometimes all of these genres end up being combined into one glorious mix. The Americana Corner page on this site will have feature articles, profiles, and reviews about this powerful and influential music.
But remember, we are just starting out, and I know we have a long way to go. So be sure to check back now and then, because we have a lot of work to do and we're going to try to get it done as fast as we can.


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Gerard Theo (Gé) Bakker (Makassar, voormalig Nederlands-Indië, 5 juni 1910 – Den Haag, 20 januari 1989) was een Nederlands geluidstechnicus en oprichter-eigenaar van de bekende geluidsopnamestudio GTB, die meer dan 50 jaar toonaangevend was op zijn gebied. Gé Bakker en zoon Erik hebben de geluidstechnieken aanzienlijk weten te verbeteren en hun studio werd daardoor de standaard voor de moderne HIFI opnamestudio.

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Gé Bakker werd geboren in Nederlands-Indië. Zijn vader was een gedecoreerd officier in het KNIL; de contacten met huis werden door briefwisseling onderhouden. Later kwam er een pathéphone, een grammofoonplaatspeler met een grote ronde hoorn waaruit de stem kwam. Gerard Bakker was nog jong en kreeg interesse in dit wonderlijke stuk techniek en het liet hem niet meer los.
Midden jaren 20 vertrok de familie Bakker naar Nederland waar Bakker zijn HBS-opleiding afmaakte. Zijn fascinatie voor het geluid, dat je kon bewaren en terug kon luisteren, bleef. Hij trouwde met Cornelia Wilhelmina Stenstra en er kwamen twee kinderen, Erik Axel (1939) en Evert-Jan (1946). Evert-Jan kwam in het bankwezen terecht. Erik assisteerde zijn vader in de studio, waar hij steeds meer de technische leiding kreeg.

De start van GTB
In 1929 richtte Bakker aan het Thomsonplein te Den Haag de studio GTB op. De naam is gebaseerd op de voorletters van Gerard Theo Bakker, maar staat officieel voor "Geluids Technisch Bureau". Na 1945 verhuisde hij naar een statig herenhuis aan de Haagse Jan van Nassaustraat, waar op de bel-etage de opnamestudio werd gevestigd. In het souterrain bevond zich het kantoor en de familie vertoefde op de bovengelegen etages. Als autodidact was Bakker een van Nederlands geluidspioniers. Hij bekwaamde zich op velerlei gebied. Hij trainde zijn gehoor en verbeterde zijn vermogen fijn-mechanische, elektronische en werktuigbouwkundige problemen op te lossen. Zijn geluidsopnamen vonden zowel binnens- als buitenshuis plaats.

Professioneel
Gerard Bakker schafte steeds de modernste professionele apparatuur aan. Toen de stomme film werd vervangen door de geluidsfilm, schafte Bakker een projector aan. Op grammofoonplatengebied schafte hij platensnijmachines voor 78 toeren aan en een machine voor de minigroevensnijding op 33 en 45 toerenplaten. In zijn studio werden vanaf dat moment opnamen gemaakt voor vele grammofoonplatenmaatschappijen, bedrijven en particulieren. Geluid bij films werd zeer professioneel aangepakt, lipsynchroon en een helder geluid waren een vereiste. Gé Bakker investeerde ook sterk in geluidsinstallaties. De meeste zaken werden in eigen beheer ontwikkeld en gebouwd. Technische apparatuur werd aangeschaft, maar de installatie ervan werd zelf gedaan. Gé Bakker ontwikkelde een aanzienlijke kennis van het vakgebied.

Technieken

Theatersystemen
De zogenaamde "Ampel", met een grote hoeveelheid precies afstralende luidsprekerunits, werd per geval geproduceerd. De zaal werd opgemeten, de demping berekend en het vermogen bepaald. De ervaringen uit het verleden werden toegepast. Luisterproeven en dB-metingen werden daarna uitgevoerd en de resultaten aan de documentatiemap toegevoegd.

Openluchtsystemen voor spraak
Voor buiteninstallaties en spraakweergave ontwierp Bakker zeer hoge driepotige stabiele statieven, waarop acht hoornluidsprekers gemonteerd werden. Zijn grote vrachtbus, waarop een stel enorme multiplex hoornluidsprekers konden worden gemonteerd, was zeer bekend; de Bescherming Bevolking maakte er gebruik van om het volk te instrueren bij calamiteiten.

Systemen voor binnen en buiten
Muziekweergave gebeurde met conusluidsprekers. Het vermogen per luidsprekerunit was niet groot. Er werd dus een combinatie gemaakt met meerdere luidsprekers in een behuizing. Een efficiënt systeem was de luidsprekerzuil (Engels: array). De afstraling nam toe als er meerdere luidsprekerunits in een rechte lijn werden gemonteerd (de Line Array). Gerard Bakker paste dit principe toe. De Line Array in veelvoud opgehangen en goed uitgericht, maakte zeer grote installaties mogelijk. Om de stroom door de kabels te beperken, werd de versterkerspanning omhoog getransformeerd naar 100 volt en in de luidsprekersystemen weer teruggebracht met een lijntransformator. Door een keuzeschakelaar was het mogelijk het opgenomen vermogen per luidspreker afzonderlijk te regelen.

Drukkamerarray voor grote muzieksystemen
Gerard Bakker ontwikkelde zeer compacte luidsprekerarrays waarin vier 12-inch-dubbelconusluidsprekers gemonteerd waren. Het frequentiebereik was 35-17.000 Hz. De gevoeligheid was 93 dB/W/m per luidsprekerunit. De array was 6 dB beter, door het toepassen van vele arrays werd dit nog verhoogd. Het nadeel was dat de arrays flink wat kilo's wogen. Dit was weer goed voor de versnelling van de luidsprekerconus ten opzichte van het geheel. De conusuitslag was aanzienlijk. De gebruikte luidsprekerunits waren van gerenommeerde Engelse en Amerikaanse luidsprekerfabrikanten. Het gemiddelde geluidsniveau in de ruimte was ruim 90 dB; zelfs nu is dit een zeer respectabele waarde. De artiesten die live optraden waren enthousiast.

De Neumann U67 met GTB-modificatie
Bakker paste de hoofdzangmicrofoon van zijn studio (een zeer dure Neumann) elektronisch aan door de elektronenbuisschakeling te vervangen door een nuvistor. Deze microfoon presteerde daardoor beter dan de oorspronkelijke microfoon.

De studio en zijn gasten
In de GTB-studio maakten vele artiesten hun eerste opname. De registraties werden op de plaat gezet en uitgebracht. GTB was een vooraanstaand bedrijf in de wereld van het geluid. Kort na de oorlog konden ook particulieren een eigen plaatje laten opnemen. De excentrieke Koningin van Voorburg was een van die gasten. Artiesten als Eddy Christiani, Tonny Eyk, Arie Maasland, het Malando Orkest, The Moochers o.l.v. Boy Edgar en het Metropole Orkest behoorden tot de vaste gasten. Na 1960 namen ook diverse Nederlandse popgroepen er hun platen op. Bekende namen zijn onder anderen Peter Koelewijn and his Rockets, Q65, Golden Earring, Eddy Christiani, Johan Cruijff, Rutger Hauer, Livin' Blues, US 66 - Hoek van Holland, Mariska Veres, Neil Sedaka, The Shoes, Supersister, de Kilima Hawaiians met hun zanger Theo Ehrlicher, die een goede vriend werd, Tee Set, Albert West, The Outsiders met hun zanger Wally Tax, Earth & Fire en the Dutch Swing College Band met Peter Schilperoort, maar ook woordkunstenaar Otto Sterman.

Toen het pionieren voorbij was, werd de studio van Pa Bakker steeds meer een instituut. Men zocht naar microfoonopstellingen en de juiste microfoons om de geproduceerde toon op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen. Technisch waren zij zeer vooruitstrevend en vernieuwend. Belangrijk daartoe was ook de eigen ontwikkelingsafdeling in het souterrain. Daar werden de mengtafels en luidsprekersystemen ontworpen en geproduceerd. Hier werd tot begin jaren tachtig flink doorgewerkt, want de ontwikkelingen stonden niet stil. Het pionieren was bewust ontwikkelen geworden, wat je niet kon kopen maakte je zelf. Zijn technische kennis en interesse stond garant tot het vastleggen van kristalhelder geluid op grammofoonplaten, films en in het bioscoopjournaal. Daartoe werd voortdurend geïnvesteerd. De studio die begin jaren 60 nog een 3-sporentechniek kende, was eind jaren 60 een 24-sporenstudio geworden. De meeste apparatuur was van eigen fabricaat. De mengtafel was een geheel eigen product, de meersporenbandrecorders werden als loopwerk aangekocht en van extra elektronica voorzien.
Op de bandsporen waarop rusten geschreven waren en dus geen muzieksignaal stond, werd een door GTB ontwikkelde, vroege vorm van de hedendaagse gate gebruikt. Dit om de band ruis van dit stille spoor te onderdrukken. Het gebeurde met behulp van gekalibreerde schakelende meetversterkers en optocouplers, die het bandspoor signaal klikloos afstopten of doorlieten.

Buiten de studio
Theaters die zelf nog geen geluidssysteem hadden vroegen om assistentie. Bakker leverde geluidstechniek naar behoefte. De opening van het vernieuwde Schiphol werd door GTB van geluid voorzien, The Skymasters met Greetje Kauffeld op het podium in de ontvangsthal, het Trio Pim Jacobs met Rita Reys in de bar en Shirley Zwerus een dag later bij een diner. De zaalversterking was een belangrijke inkomstenbron van het bedrijf. Toen Gerard Bakker de televisieactie Open het dorp mede sponsorde, werd in die wereld de naam van Bakker gevestigd. Na een verzoek van een organisator om in de kuip voldoende geluid te creëren bij een gepland optreden van José Feliciano, kwam Gé Bakker na een berekening tot de conclusie dat zij het konden leveren. Dit was in 1973.
Andere optredens die werden verzorgd, waren: The Beatles - Blokker, The Rolling Stones - Kurhaus, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)Aretha Franklin 1968, Tom Jones, Simon and Garfunkel en Snip en Snap - Carré, Sammy Davis jr. - Concertgebouw, Caterina Valente, Enrico Macias - Orpheus Apeldoorn, Toon Hermans, Mies Bouwman met onder andere de 1 van de 8 tv-show in de Kurzaal en Sjef van Oekel, The Original Glenn Miller Orchestra onder leiding van Buddy DeFranco. Bij het Grand Gala du Disque met een uniek optreden van Marlene Dietrich, was dit succes mede te danken aan Pa Bakker die de microfoon tot haar genoegen op hoogte van haar mond bracht. Bij The Gala of the Year eiste impresario Lou van Rees dat Gé Bakker het geluid verzorgde. Op paleis Soestdijk zorgde Gé Bakker regelmatig voor het geluid bij de aubade op 30 april.

De gloriedagen en het slot
De studio nam een grote vlucht toen zoon Erik in het bedrijf kwam. Hij had een technische opleiding en nam de leiding van de studio voor zijn rekening. De studio groeide en bloeide vanaf dat moment tot eind jaren 70. Bakker senior moest het om gezondheidsredenen rustiger aan gaan doen en na enig onderhandelen werd de studio overgenomen door Hans Vermeulen, die als muzikant en producer veel gebruik maakte van de GTB-studio. Zijn beheer was slechts van korte duur en vervolgens werd de studio ontruimd.

Trivia
 Gé Bakker werd Pa Bakker genoemd doordat zoon Erik hem zo noemde. Degenen die Bakker senior van dichtbij kenden, namen die bijnaam over.
 Bij een optreden van Tom Jones in Theater Carré in 1973, onderbrak de artiest zijn show om Gé Bakker te complimenteren en te bedanken voor "the perfect sound".
 Gé Bakker nam in het gebouw van K&W in Den Haag jazzmuziek op. In zijn studio vonden nachtelijke opnamen plaats van jazz- en Amerikaanse bandmuziek. Dit vond plaats in de periode 1941-1945, het was toen echter niet toegestaan Amerikaanse muziek te produceren en ten gehore te brengen.
 Bij de troonswisseling van Koningin Wilhelmina en prinses Juliana voorzag Gé Bakker de opgenomen kleurenfilm van geluid.
 De dag na de geboorte van Prins Willem-Alexander produceerde Gé Bakker een kartonnen 45 toerenplaat waarop aan de ene zijde de afbeelding van Kasteel Drakensteijn en aan de andere kant geluid.
 Bij de aankondiging van de verloving van Prinses Juliana met Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld maakte Gé Bakker opnamen die later historisch bleken.
 De intocht van Winston Churchill in Den Haag werd door Gé Bakker uitversterkt en opgenomen.
 In de GTB-opnamestudio werden in de begintijd van de zeezender Radio Veronica banden opgenomen. Deze werden naar Scheveningen gereden en aan boord gebracht.
 Het Haags Gemeentearchief bezit een groot aantal opnamen die door Gé Bakker zijn gemaakt, soms in opdracht van de gemeente Den Haag. De zoekterm in dit archief is "GTB opnamestudio".
 In het fundament van het inmiddels gesloopte Haags gemeentehuis was een grammofoonplaat ingemetseld in een loden behuizing. Bij de sloop is die weer tevoorschijn gekomen en de uitgesproken opname was nog kristalhelder.

Externe link
 GTB in Den Haag (Erik Bakker), door Harry Knipschild, 8 februari 2013

Nederlands ondernemer
Geluidstechnicus
Persoon in Nederlands-Indië

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Алтинто́п () — турецьке прізвище.

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 Халіл Алтинтоп — турецький футболіст, брат Хаміта
 Хаміт Алтинтоп — турецький футболіст, брат Халіла

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Endangered Pangolin Successfully Rescued and Relocated in India
By Wildlife SOS
Lead Image Source : Image Courtesy of Wildlife SOS
The residents of a village in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, were in for an unexpected surprise when they spotted an odd-looking scaly animal in the middle of an open field. They immediately informed the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department who reached the location along with a team from wildlife conservation NGO—Wildlife SOS.
Upon closer investigation, the animal was identified as an Indian Pangolin – infamous as the world's most trafficked animal!
Image Courtesy of Wildlife SOS
The pangolin lay curled up in a ball; this is a defence mechanism used when they feel threatened. Their body is entirely covered in scales (made up of keratin), that act as armour for their face and abdomen. Pangolins, also known as 'scaly anteaters', are the only mammals to be completely covered in scales. Their distinct features include long powerful claws that they can dig holes with, a long sticky tongue, that may be longer than their entire bodies at times, and of course the overlapping scales that cover their entire body.
As the small animal was lying completely vulnerable to external threats like predators and poachers, the team from Wildlife SOS carefully transferred the pangolin to their transit facility.
The Wildlife SOS team and the Forest Department also used the opportunity to educate the local residents about the pangolin species, their importance in the ecosystem and what to do if they come across a pangolin again.
The presence of the Indian Pangolin in the area proves to be a positive sign indicating rich biodiversity. In fact, the Indian Pangolin is known to inhabit the wetland ecosystem of the Sur Sarovar Bird Sanctuary which is located a few kilometres from where the pangolin was found.
After a few days of medical observation, the pangolin was released back into its natural habitat, away from human habitation and under the supervision of the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department. The small animal took measured steps out of the safe-box and was quick to find a tree to catch a quick afternoon snack before disappearing into the thickets of the forest!
Pangolins are anteaters and play an important role in balancing the forest ecosystem by feeding on ants and termites. India is home to two pangolin species – The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) and the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla); both these species find themselves in an increasingly disadvantageous position. The harmless-looking pangolin is poached for its scales and is believed to have medicinal qualities in the South Asian culture, making it the target for being ruthlessly killed and brutally de-scaled to fuel illegal wildlife trade.
The Wildlife Protection Act 1972 enlists the Indian Pangolin under Schedule I of the Act, thus granting it the same protection as the Asian elephant and the tiger! Despite the pangolin being highly protected under Indian law (Wildlife Protection Act 1972) and under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), it continues to be illegally hunted and traded for its meat, a south-east Asian delicacy and its scales, blood and other body parts are used for traditional Chinese medicine. Local trade of pangolin meat and scales have also been reported in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Manipur, Tripura, Assam, Nagaland and West Bengal. Large consignments of pangolins and pangolin scales are seized at national and international borders by enforcement authorities, annually.
According to Wildlife SOS co-founder, Kartick Satyanarayan, most people don't even know that pangolins exist and that they are being pushed towards extinction at an alarming rate. As a result, creating awareness and protection of this species is crucial to ensure their survival today!
Sign these petitions to help save pangolins!
Demand Government Officials Help Save Pangolins
Put an end to the trade of pangolins in Nigeria
Save the Highly Trafficked, Critically Endangered Pangolins
Ban All Wildlife Markets in Light of Coronavirus
China Continues Allowing Use of Pangolin Scales Despite Promises to Crackdown on Illegal Trade
Facebook Allows the Sale of Pangolins, the Endangered Species Thought to be the Animals Who Transmitted Coronavirus to Humans
Endangered Baby Pangolin Was Rescued from Poachers and Released Into the Wild!
Adorable Rescued Pangolin Gets a Bedtime Kiss (VIDEO)
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The Queen's Film Theatre is a unique cultural venue with almost 50 years of experience of bringing a high quality film experience to Belfast audiences. The QFT is also a friendly, intimate cinema that values it's audiences, as without their loyalty, support and interest in our programme, QFT would not be able to exist.
Vision: To be a leading centre for film excellence and creativity that inspires, informs and entertains.
Mission: To provide a unique cinema experience and widen access to the best of film from around the world through a programme that actively encourages appreciation, enjoyment, debate and understanding.


The taxi drivers are a diverse bunch but share a passion for all things Elvis. The new drivers get sucked in slowly but before they know it their collars are permanently up and they're humming his early work. They each have their own conspiracy theory about what he is up to these days.
They have years' worth of free flights that they have never even think about using. They are secretly afraid of flying.


The Democratic Republic of the Congo (/ˈkɒŋɡoʊ/; French: République démocratique du Congo French pronunciation: [kɔ̃ɡo]), also known as DR Congo, DRC, Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, DROC, or RDC (known as Zaïre 1965–97), is a country located in Central Africa. It borders the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan to the north, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania to the East, Zambia and Angola to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world. With a population of over 75 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country, the fourth most populous nation in Africa and the nineteenth most populous country in the world.


Sinner's Sorrow is a game that relies on setting up a heavy and tense atmosphere. One of the methods we use to achieve this is with the lighting.
Below you see a simple tree branch and a couple of rocks to the left. Here you can see how the light bends around the objects and creates the illusion that we are looking at objects with mass and depth as if existing in a 3D plane, while they are still 2D images. This creates some cool possibilities to play with the lights and how they create situations for the player. For instance, what if all the lights suddenly went out and you find yourself in near darkness, relying on a small source of light that you have on you? Good luck not getting tangled up with something nasty hiding in the darkness!
We use SpriteDLight to automatically generate these normal maps as creating these manually is a bit too much. These images are then combined in a single shader which has parameters that can be adjusted to alter some of the image properties (such as how intensely it reacts to lights or how much the light wraps around the images). This can all be adjusted in real-time.
The lighting in Sinner's Sorrow is a core component of the game to create the atmosphere, facilitate gameplay and set up an engaging visual style, even more so because we are working with a black and white style which brings challenges of its own. But with this style we can set up some awesome and surprising encounters.
As a teaser for what you may find in your path, below is part of a scene we are currently working on. Note that due to unavoidable video compression the in-game result actually looks a lot nicer!
Copyright 2018 Sinner's Sorrow, bitHuffel.


Here's an excerpt from The Age from last year about the death of Gloria Staley. Click her name if you wish to see her family details.
[M]elbourne's restaurant world is mourning the loss of Gloria Staley (nee De Salis), who died on May 11, 2010 aged 90. When Staley's restaurant, Fanny's, opened in Lonsdale Street in 1960, it was one of Melbourne's most innovative and stylish, and she was considered a trailblazer.
Staley would devise the seasonal menu for her chef to cook — something you would not see today. Fanny's closed in 1993. Son-in-law Malcolm Spry said she was a creative, theatrical woman ''who made dining glamorous''.
Of the restaurant's name, he said she thought it was one people would remember. Staley's influence continued at Glo Glo's in Toorak and Chez Oz in Sydney. She is survived by three children and six grandchildren.


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Daytona Winner Harrison Burton Leads Eventual ARCA Series Owner Points Championship Team to Kansas Finale Hoping to Cap Off Season with Win
CONCORD, NC – OCTOBER 14, 2019: It started with a trip to victory lane at the World Center of Racing in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. Eight months later Toyota Racing Development's (TRD) Harrison Burton looks to cap off the 2019 season with an exclamation point when the ARCA Menards Series returns to Kansas Speedway for series finale on Friday, October 18.
Ready to finish what he started Burton will pilot Venturini Motorsport's (VMS) No.20 RUUD Toyota which by virtue of starting the race will lock up the series' Owner Points Championship for the Billy Venturini led team and deliver the long time series organization its first owner's title since 1991.
"It's a great feeling being a part of the success of this Venturini Motorsports team this year," said Burton. "But it's not over yet – we still have some unfinished business to take care of at Kansas. Nothing would be better than ending the season on a high note like the way we started it. I love running on these big tracks and know my RUUD team will be ready to answer the call."
Burton who celebrated his 19th birthday last week is slated to make his sixth start of the season with his RUUD backed team and his 17th overall start since entering the series in 2016.
A career three-time series winner, Burton has shared the driving duties on the No.20 team throughout the 2019 season with VMS teammates Chandler Smith, Logan Seavey, Brandon Lynn and Myatt Snider.
In addition to his win at Daytona, the North Carolina native scored his first career General Tire Pole Award at Pocono Raceway and has given the team three of its 14 top-5's and five of their 18 top-10 finishes on the season. The No.20 team has dominated series competition this year with six wins, seven pole awards and 757 laps led.
The ARCA Kansas 150 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway will close the 2019 ARCA Menards Series season on Friday, October 18. Practice opens the day at 1 pm ET/12 n CT followed by General Tire Pole Qualifying at 6 pm ET/5 pm CT. The 100-lap/150-mile feature event will go green at 8:30 pm ET/7:30 pm CT and will be shown live on FS2 with an immediate replay on FS1.


FLAT FLAVOURS: Usually the problem is not only created during the brewing process (for example by not choosing a suitable preparation method), but often times it's caused by low quality coffee beans as well.
• the flow of water was not smooth, inconsistent, i.e. the water streams power was unstable – as a result the coffee dust had been washed to the middle of the ground bed while the water remained in the filter.
Keep in mind that also the temperature of the final coffee drink affects the flavour profile. It's advised to let the coffee cool down a bit after it had been brewed. The coffee tastes best, when it's not too hot. For light to medium roasted beans, I recommend a drinking temperature of around 40°C (104°F). A few times I was surprised to have a great tasting experience when the temperature of the final drink was already quite cold, between 20-30°C (68-86°F).


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[ January 28, 2023 ] Ukraine Rocked By Corruption Scandal, Wave Of Top Officials Resign: Sports Cars, Mansions & Luxury Vacations As People Suffered Around the Web
[ January 28, 2023 ] REPORT: Director Of George Soros Organization Has Visited Biden White House Over A Dozen Times Around the Web
Demoralize, Destabilize Until a Crisis Finally Arrives (Updated)
October 3, 2022 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Business, US News, Winter Watch Articles 21
"When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." — Comedian George Carlin (1937-2008)
It has been said that it takes about 50 years to demoralize a strong, powerful country. For the U.S., that's three generations, starting with the Kennedy assassination in 1963. It takes five to 10 years to destabilize a country, and I would mark the 2008 financial blowup and administration of Cloward-Pivan practitioner Obama as that period. The erratic term of Red Queen Donald Trump greased the skids. The unpopular dementia afflicted Joe Biden and low IQ air head Kamala Harris are the closers.
Biden Completely Lost on Stage During Global Fund Speech… HE IS A PUPPET AND SOMEONE ELSE HAS GOT THE STRINGS! WHO?😳
YIKES… President Joe Biden seemed to be wandering around on stage AGAIN after wrapping up his speech at the Global Fund on Wednesday.https://t.co/lNNU1Ad2MW
— Unsneakycindy (@unsneakycindy) September 24, 2022
FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell: "MR. PRESIDENT…?!?"
Joe Biden, Forever confused pic.twitter.com/sYjIVogACn
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 29, 2022
This has been followed by open-border impacts in Europe and America. In addition the discordians have infiltrated American institutions and government with nation wrecking 5th Columnists. Then once the brew has been prepared and put on the stove it takes a six-week crisis to finally push a country off a cliff.
In a short period of time the financial markets are crashy looking.
Absolutely amazing chart from Gavekal showing the extent of the collapse in markets this year: the aggregate slump in the value of US equity, corporate, government and mortgage bonds is about *twice as large as during the global financial crisis* pic.twitter.com/0a6fBnfOCd
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) September 30, 2022
Europe is boxed in on energy shortages, and food prices are spiking. An inexplicable sabotage of a potential lifeline for Europe has occurred. The lies are unravelling. Winter is coming.
There are numerous internal tells that the end of the line is near.
US Army falls 25% short of recruiting goal https://t.co/fLiRP9FiYK #FoxNews
— Winter Watch (@New_Nationalist) October 2, 2022
Most of this has been self-inflicted, but the U.S. now has sworn enemies to help give it a big shove off that cliff — namely Russia, and China in particular. The key influential think tank on the U.S. takedown is Russian. Russia tends to reveal its goals openly. China is also on board, though playing its cards closer to the vest. They are constantly and deliberately on the move. For the US this is a bad time to be in a defacto war.
A key component of this Russia-China strategy is to reveal the criminogenic nature of the U.S. deep state and financial cabal apparatus. That has increasingly become an easy task because the cabal that runs the U.S. is in full-court loot mode. A recent speech by Vladimir Putin clearly laid out that view.
Putin speaking about the destructive role of the US in the world: "They destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives." pic.twitter.com/fs7dgxHfeS
— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) October 1, 2022
Although Americans are brainwashed and mind controlled about this, the rest of the planet is less so. And once the six-week crisis hits, comatose attitudes in the U.S. will flip.
The question remains: Who is going to stand with the U.S on the dollar? Saudi Arabia and their oil? Europe, which needs and receives energy from Russia? African nations that have been ignored (while China has courted them)? South American countries that have had the screws put to them by Wall Street and Washington Consensus for over 50 years?
The Saudi petrodollar arrangement is now front and center. The Saudis are already quietly trading in petro-yuan as are others of late. Russia won't sell energy to Europe in lieu of Dollars and Euros.
Russia's policy, and I think China's policy, can be gleaned from Sergey Glazyev, the key economic aide of Vladimir Putin. He published an article outlining a plan for "undermining the economic strength of the U.S." Glazyev believes that the only way to make the U.S. give up its plans of continuing a new cold war is to crash the dollar system and expose the rot inside. I don't think Russia would go so public with this, if they didn't have their ducks already lined up.
Glazyev specifically targets the central scheme of the U.S. war machine: the Fed's printing press. Putin's adviser proposes the creation of a "broad anti-dollar alliance" of countries willing and able to drop the dollar from international trade. Glazyev advocates treating positions in dollar-denominated instruments like junk securities requiring full collateral.
Today's edition of all is not well in the bond market.
The Move (the "VIX of the bond market") closed today at 158.12. This is its second highest print in 13 years.
Since 2009, the only day higher was March 9, 2020, arguably the worst market day of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/jGcklmR2od
— Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth (@biancoresearch) September 27, 2022
As far as Russia, China and others' world view, Alexander Dugin, the man known as "Putin's Brain," describes the U.S.-led New World Order as the "Kingdom of the Antichrist." He makes statements such as the following: "If you are in favor of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy."
In particular, Dugin has a tremendous distaste for the cultural "colonialism" of the United States. He believes that U.S. meddling in world affairs is the cause of a great deal of what is wrong in our world today. He says, "The USA is a chimerical, anti-organic, transplanted culture which does not have sacral state traditions and cultural soil, but, nevertheless, tries to force upon the other continents its anti-ethnic, anti-traditional [and] 'babylonic' model."
This counter-offensive is in full swing now, almost on a daily basis. Not helping the U.S. deep state is that some of its psychopathic masters are willing to pull the plug for personal gain, as I have discussed in my various "reveal" posts. These psychopaths have no national loyalty. It is just business for them.
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21 Comments on Demoralize, Destabilize Until a Crisis Finally Arrives (Updated)
Douteux55 October 8, 2016 at 12:40 am
I'm afraid I agree. Even if our cherished Cabal is overthrown, I doubt that our Russian and/or Chinese overlords will be kind to us. I'm on the Ben Fulford site and he's another super pro-Chinese advocate, always praising the White Dragon societies and insinuating that they have ultimate power on a global scale. Hard to know what's true because once you accept that most of what you've been told is lies, pretty nearly everything becomes suspect. Still, neither Russia nor China have treated their own people well, in fact worse than we've been treated here by our handlers.
That the US government could use a reset and the dollar could stand some dusting up isn't in dispute. Question is- who can we really trust to do it? The global leadership, save Iceland maybe, is a pit of greedy, perverted vipers. I'm just hoping Poland and Hungary can shine some light on it all.
First I've ever heard of the "Jewish autonomous regions". Just what is that? Where is that? and how long has it been around? Who governs there- rabbis? A frightening revelation for me.
Russ Winter October 8, 2016 at 5:17 am
It was a dud, nothing ever came of it.
Soviet authorities established the autonomous oblast in 1934. It was the result of Soviet nationality policy under Stalin, which provided the Jewish population of the Soviet Union with a territory in which to pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.[18]
According to the 1939 population census, 17,695 Jews lived in the region (16% of the total population). The Jewish population peaked in 1948 at around 30,000, about one-quarter of the region's population.[19]
In 1953, Joseph Stalin died and thereafter the Jewish population in the JAO began a long decline. The census of 1959 found that the Jewish population of the JAO had declined by approximately 50%, down to 14,269 persons.[20] In 2002, there were 2,327 people of Jewish descent living in the JAO (1.2% of the total population), while ethnic Russians made up 90% of the JAO population.
Rufus Peckham October 10, 2016 at 12:33 pm
Interesting stuff.
I never heard of that either until that article.
bob saffron October 14, 2016 at 7:35 am
https://www.swarthmore.edu/Home/News/biro/
Brabantian July 3, 2018 at 1:21 pm
Mentioned above in the article, one astonishingly popular insanity is the 'end all national borders' agenda … which obviously would bring immediate Western societal collapse if the world's billions were suddenly told they could freely enter the wealthier contries
Yet it seems a quarter or so of Western people are now on board with this crazy idea
– People are being told they are racist fascist evil extreme right wing etc if they support border controls
– The USA Democratic Party is on the verge of supporting the end of border controls and abolishing the US border police agencies, as part of their national platform
– The Rothschilds' 'Economist' magazine has been pumping this idea as a serious topic
From the June 2018 Monthly Harvard-Harris Poll:
Americans were polled on the question: "Do you think we should have basically open borders or do you think we need secure borders?" Twenty-one per cent of white respondents went for Open Borders; thirty-eight per cent of Hispanics; 28 per cent of blacks
brabantian August 1, 2020 at 11:07 am
Re the US dollar, am impressed with just how correct Jeffrey Snider of Alhambra has been on his many calls re the dollar etc over the last decade
Whereas the US dollar has sunk some 6-7% over the last month, per Snider this is not what most people think, and the dollar has yet a long run of staying power
As Snider repeatedly and correctly calls, the dollar comes roaring back, and it will do so now he says credibly
The reason is that the reserve currency is not exactly the US dollar but the 'eurodollar', the offshore-of-USA credit pyramid built on offshore-of-USA dollars and other major currencies
The blips like the last month in DXY have a lot more to do with when the yen strengthens, which it does for various reasons that are a bit lengthy: carry trade, east Asian business slight upturn, or actually just positive blips more generally, the dollar somewhat ironically sinking when its foundations sometimes are stronger
The things like foreign reserves, people selling treasuries, pricing some trade differently, geopolitical posturing etc all all trumped by the need for dollars in the whole international credit framework, says Snider, and he's been calling the trends right almost impeccably for a long time
– 80% of international trade invoiced in USD
– 90% of all foreign exchange trades involve USD
– 96% dealer FX swaps and forwards involve USD
– 40% approx. of global debt issued USD
– $18 trillion in offshore bank USD-denominated international liabilities
Snider:
"Unless and until the banking system moves away from Dollars, diversifying national reserve holdings means absolutely nothing. Nothing…despite a decade's worth of noise, fury and quite often heartache, there is simply no realistic alternative…We are stuck with this arrangement largely because the media, politicians, central bankers etc, don't know a thing about it.
The dollar isn't crashing, it's not even down, combined with gold and bonds all three remain firmly fixed within the same deflationary camp.
DXY is not the dollar, it's the euro. To a lesser extent the yen. Whereas the former doesn't really matter much, especially against the dollar, the latter does and when JPY is on the rise, though that makes the dollar fall in exchange with it, a rising yen signals nothing to do with dollar, money, or global inflation.
What happens instead, what keeps happening, is that lower bond yields irrespective of QE correspond to rising dollar environments and both for the same background reason – the global dollar shortage."
'There is no 'money' in monetary policy."
nedlern August 2, 2020 at 9:24 pm
Luongo says a similar viewpoint
https://tomluongo.me/2020/07/29/big-lie-eu-fixed-dollar-is-dying-covid-will-kill-you/
Black Throated Sparrow August 1, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Deagle.com is apparently expecting a large U.S. cull in the next 5 years. They forecast the population of the U.S. to be only 100 million in 2025…
http://www.deagel.com/country/United-States-of-America_c0001.aspx
Janelle McKinley August 1, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Israeli News Live recently had former Green Beret John Moore on his show, the topic: the incoming debris field and comet-planet body coming in…..don't know exactly when, but that's why Deagle knows the population will be reduced. I agree with Steve Ben-Nun, I'd rather be hit by a big rock than forced to take a hideous vaccine.
J Daedalus August 1, 2020 at 4:35 pm
Russ,
I recommend you check Catherine Austin Fitts. She is a financial advisor, ex sub secretary under W, very awake, and awesome "red-piller".
She asserts that a great deal of what is happening now is a currency war. The petro dollar machinery, knowing that the dollar will lose (as you explain in your article), has pulled the trigger into switching to digital currency (their new currency, aka economic reset), where they expect to win the battle by hooking people up to this new currency via the nanochip ("vaccine") or whatever similar scheme.
She has a team and a website, called Solari Report, but you can find interviews still in YT.
Here's one of them, with the also good researcher James Corbett.
https://youtu.be/miyQj8yuKCM
RegretLeft August 3, 2020 at 10:28 pm
Thank you very much – CA Fitts was totally new to me. But the best 57 minutes I have spent, think since "this" began.
BullionGrower NZ August 2, 2020 at 3:32 am
Another crisis? Lets see, since the PCR Test measures exosomes, and exosomes look like coronas, and the creator of the PCR Test says it should not be used.. And stress can cause the release of exosomes, and breathing through a muzzle can cause stress and 5G…well just have a look here
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/26/paper-blaming-covid-19-on-5g-technology-withdrawn/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180219001729/http://www.stop007crimes.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/patent-list.pdf
bloke August 7, 2020 at 2:09 am
2020 is a jewish jubilee year where jews forgive each others debts by passing them onto the goy, hence the several trillion dollars added to the national debt, which btw, has been accruing largely since Reagan with no payments on the principle at all. If you do your research, the loss of goy businesses recently corresponds to the rise of new jew businesses (largely franchises) which the big noses can run from computers from their enclaves in NY, Cali, israel, etc. They key to understanding what has happened to western civilizations, particularly since WWI, is the fantastic war jews have waged upon us. All roads lead back to the jews. When you finally realize that, then all questions are answered. The question then is what to do about it? The NSDAP model worked very well until we ganged up on them and shut it down. This time however, we will see a global collapse, and there will be no world wars, which may be an opportunity in disguise…
eah August 13, 2020 at 11:33 am
… the national debt, which btw, has been accruing largely since Reagan with no payments on the principle at all.
Part of UST debt is constantly rolled over, which can be seen as repayment of principal for those issues — but the debt is constantly growing; the net outstanding principal never decreases — so in this sense there are "no payments on the principle at all".
The larger/more germane point is that it's not necessary to issue debt: the government could just spend the money into existence.
Multi-generational national indebtedness is an evil crime committed against future generations.
etheb1 October 3, 2022 at 10:32 am
The Fitts video has been removed as "This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines" see Community = Communistic!
CK_ October 4, 2022 at 3:29 am
This link has comments from an Off Guardian post from a possible insider. If true, it means COVID was a bust so TPTB ordered Putin to invade Ukraine as a Plan B towards the Great Reset:
https://henrymakow.com/2022/09/ukraine-provides-new-route-great-reset.html?_ga=2.128007758.35718272.1664846960-643641832.1664846960
Hauntess October 4, 2022 at 10:00 am
Why are some of the above comments dated 2 to 6 years ago when the above article is dated 10/3/2022?
Any how, it seems a done deal for world wide 'equality through poverty' policy until a divine turn of events takes place through an anointed generation.
Winter Watch October 4, 2022 at 10:26 am
I updated and added to an older but highly relevant post. Rather than start an entirely new post, I wished to preserve some of the earlier comments.
Also I am not as prolific as I was a few years ago mainly because of health and vision issues. But there are many prior works that are worth rerunning.
Prostitution, Blackmail and the Presidency
Why Did Foreign Companies Manage the 9/11 Debris Removal?
The Hollywood Story of 'Amistad' Was a Fictional Exaggeration, Missing in Historic Texts and Records
Pablo Picasso: Another Myth of the 20th Century?
Germany Transformed as Hard-Core Hooton Plan Implemented


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Iliff, William Angus Boyd
Lynn, Brendan
Iliff, William Angus Boyd (1898–1972), civil servant and administrator, was born 2 October 1898 in Kircubbin, Co. Down, son of John Boyd Iliff, local merchant, and Emily Iliff (née Browne). He was educated at Mountjoy School, Dublin, before attending the Cadet College, Wellington, India. He was then commissioned in the Indian army, serving on the north-west frontier, Mesopotamia, north Persia, and south Russia. In 1922 he returned to Northern Ireland to take up a post in the newly established civil service, becoming private secretary to John M. Andrews (qv), who had been appointed as minister of labour. Later in 1935 he joined the staff of the Ministry of Labour as assistant secretary. His career within the civil service was, however, interrupted with the outbreak of the second world war, and as a major in the Supplementary Reserve Royal Artillery, he saw active service in France, particularly around Dunkirk, in the summer of 1940. On his return to Belfast he was appointed permanent secretary to the Ministry of Public Security for Northern Ireland, serving (1940–41) under the minister, John Clarke MacDermott (qv). The prime minister, Lord Craigavon (qv), had established this department in the face of mounting criticism, from unionist backbench MPs as well as public opinion at large, over the failure of his government to make a proper contribution to the war effort as well as its apparent inability to make adequate preparations against aerial attack. Among the tasks given to Iliff by MacDermott was to draw up a scheme, the 'Hiram plan', to allow for an advanced government headquarters to function in Belfast in the wake of a major air raid on the city. This proposed the creation of a government secretariat with the authority to act on the government's behalf in the event of communications in Belfast breaking down. Although the Hiram plan was never activated as such, the attacks on Belfast that had long been feared finally took place in April and May 1941. With the city still largely defenceless and ill prepared to cope, the result was devastating, with around 1,100 killed and some 56,000 houses destroyed.
Although no direct blame was attributed to Iliff, he was transferred out of Northern Ireland and acted (1941–4) as financial counsellor at the British legation in Tehran, Persia, and financial adviser to the governor of Burma. Then (1944–8) he was chief representative of the United Kingdom treasury in the Middle East, dealing with complex financial problems as well as the economic difficulties of newly independent states such as Iraq and Egypt. His abilities in this field were recognised in 1948 when he was appointed loan director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), and in 1951 he became assistant to its president before serving (1956–62) as vice-president. During this period Iliff's skills were employed in various capacities on behalf of the bank, most notably in the negotiations between India and Pakistan (1954–60) leading to the Indus Waters treaty (1960). In addition he acted (1958) as the bank's chief mediator in the successful discussions between Egypt and the Suez canal company to fix the level of compensation to be paid for the nationalisation of the Suez canal. His attributes as a conciliator were also applied in the context of Ireland, where in an indirect manner he encouraged the growing rapprochement between the governments in Belfast and Dublin in the 1960s. This was done by way of his decision at meetings of the World Bank in the late 1950s to place T. K. Whitaker, secretary of the Irish Department of Finance and (like Iliff) a native of Co. Down, beside the Northern Ireland delegation led by the minister of finance, Capt. Terence O'Neill (qv). Over time a relationship began to develop between the delegates from the Republic and Northern Ireland, and this was later crucial when O'Neill as prime minister sought to use the contacts built up with Whitaker as a means to open links with his counterpart in Dublin, Seán Lemass (qv).
Iliff's work was recognised with an MBE (1924), CMG (1944), and knighthood (1961). He married (1947) Jacqueline Lois Christine Reepmaker-d'Orville; they had one son. After a brief illness he died at his home near Stourton, Wiltshire, England, on 29 December 1972; his wife and son survived him.
Times, 30 Jan. 1972, 15 Jan. 1973; Belfast Newsletter, Belfast Telegraph, 1 Jan. 1973; Newtownards and County Down Spectator, 5 Jan. 1973; WWW; Robert Fisk, In time of war: Ireland, Ulster and the price of neutrality 1939–1945 (1985); John Horgan, Seán Lemass: the enigmatic patriot (1997)
Forename: William, Angus, Boyd
Surname: Iliff
Career: Administration and Diplomacy
Born 2 October 1898 in Co. Down
Died 29 December 1972 in England


Published Mar 20, 2015 - EControls provided donations to local food banks in San Antonio, Texas.
Kennon Guglielmo Appointed to Board of Directors for Rush Enterprises, Inc.
Published Jan 07, 2015 - Kennon Guglielmo, Ph.D., chief technology officer of Enovation Controls, has been appointed by Rush Enterprises Inc. to serve on its board of directors.
Published Dec 23, 2014 - Enovation Controls employees collected toys for the Toys for Tots Foundation.
Published Nov 21, 2014 - Employees in San Antonio collected more than 3,700 pounds of food for the San Antonio Food Bank.
Published Jun 23, 2014 - EControls by Enovation Controls was the platinum sponsor of Texas A&M University's entry at the 2014 Formula SAE competition held in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Published Mar 28, 2014 - Kennon Guglielmo, Ph.D., chief technology officer for Enovation Controls, spoke on the topic of Natural Gas: Fueling trends in the U.S., Europe and China.
Published Mar 10, 2014 - A short video highlighting the EControls brand and our San Antonio facility was shot by Manufacturing Marvels and aired on the Fox Business Network on Thursday, February 27, 2014.