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Alex Constantine - November 17, 2010
Ronald Reagan, the Western Goals Foundation & the Downing of KAL Flight 007
By Mae Brussell (Repost)
Fascism in America: The Essential Mae Brussell
Edited by A. Constantine
In the aftermath of the Korean Air Lines disaster that shocked the world on September 1, 1983, the editors of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner had a series of nagging questions, prominent among them the following:
Q: Is there reason to believe that Rep. Lawrence McDonald of Georgia, an admittedly ultra-right U.S. congressman traveling on 007, may have been deliberately assassinated aboard the flight?
A: "While the [U.S.] government has made no such charge, McDonald's widow claims that her husband, the national chairman of the John Birch Society, was 'murdered.' She holds that it was no accident that 'the leading anti-Communist in the American government' had been on a plane that was 'forced into Soviet territory' and shot down."
Another question to be addressed is: Why would the Soviet Union wish to make a martyr of Larry McDonald? If the Russians are the experts at terrorism they're supposed to be, it would seem obvious that they could find an easier way to get rid of the congressman than chasing his airplane over Soviet territory for 2 1/2 hours. They could have easily blown him away anywhere in the world.
Furthermore, it is hard to believe that KAL Flight 007 was forced into Soviet airspace, as if a giant mechanism had sucked McDonald toward his mortal enemy. During the strange 2 1/2 hours that 007 ventured as far as 226 miles inside Soviet airspace, the Russians were testing new missiles directly below. They didn't need any more problems.
And I doubt that McDonald, fanatic as he was, deserves the label of "leading anti-Communist in the American government." He has pretty stiff competition from A.G. "Fritz" Kraemer, Sven Kraemer, John Lenczowski, Paula Dobriansky, William Clark, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, William Casey, Henry Kissinger, Dr. Ernest Lefevre, William F. Buckley, James Buckley, Richard Pipes, General Daniel O. Graham and a cast of thousands.
An article that appeared immediately after the shooting down of 007 accused Secretary of the Navy John Lehman of responsibility for "the deaths of 269 over Sakhalin Island." Lehman's strategic design, known as "Horizontal Escalation" in defense circles, outlines a series of provocations against the USSR. Lehman: "He who gets the signal to fire first in the North Pacific will enjoy a tremendous tactical advantage. This region ... is most probably where we shall witness confrontation with the Soviet Union."
Thus, while Europe and the U.S. divert the public with NATO missile debates, plans are formulated for a first strike in the Pacific. South Korea, Japan and the U.S. are at collectively at work on these plans. Sending spy planes over the Soviet Union serves the purpose of provocation.
Five days after the 007 incident, former CIA spy Ralph McGehee told a college audience that the Korean airliner was indeed on a spy mission. He also believes that the Russians thought 007 was an RC-135 intelligence plane.
It was Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) – another archconservative ideologue; anti-union, anti-government, anti-Communist and an opponent of an international treaty on genocide – who arranged McDonald's invitation to attend the celebration commemorating the 30th anniversary of the official U.S. entry into the Korean War.
Instead of traveling together, however, Helms and McDonald arrived in Anchorage, Alaska – the first stop of the journey to South Korea – on separate planes. The fact that McDonald was the only person in the 36-member American delegation to fly alone seems strange. After refueling, the Boeing 747 carrying Helms arrived at its destination safely. But McDonald – and his fellow passengers on Flight 007 – were not so fortunate.
As depicted in the books by Ian Fleming, 007 was James Bond's "license to kill." In this case, who had the license to kill? Was it the CIA and its Korean counterpart, the KCIA? They were formed at approximately the same time and work together closely.
The fact that McDonald and Helms flew on separate planes brings up several more unanswered questions. Who sat next to McDonald? Korean Air Lines must have a boarding pass for that passenger. If nobody used the seat, and if McDonald was accompanied by others in the American delegation, why didn't one of them occupy the seat? Where were the staff or advisory members of McDonald's Western Goals Foundation, a data bank in Alexandria, Virginia, that serves as a national right-wing clearinghouse for negative information about leftists? Why was McDonald left to die alone?
Who actually gained by Flight 007's violation of Soviet territory? Not the Russians. They were in preparation for the next week's meeting in Madrid, Spain, between U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, also the resumption of arms-reduction talks and the annual United Nations meeting. An incident of any kind would – and did – set world opinion against them at a critical time.
On the other hand, the U.S. government benefited by gathering valuable military information about Soviet radar and defensive capabilities in the hours preceding the crash. Other benefits to the State Department and Pentagon included favorable MX-missile and binary nerve-gas votes from a knee-jerk Congress.
Clearly, Larry McDonald did not die at the hands of Soviet planners. The most important explanation for his demise relates to recent revelations about his clandestine activities. A prior relationship between McDonald and President Reagan started to surface before the crash. Illicit espionage concealed behind a cloak of righteous Americanism at any price was about to be exposed.
The media, along with many other institutions and individuals, had purposely withheld the darker side of Reagan's years as California governor from the 1980 Presidential campaign. Now the dirty laundry of the past was starting to leak out.
Key backers, financiers and appointees of Ronald Reagan have always been involved in political spying – and worse. California was rife with intrigue. Nixon and Reagan were from California. And California is where the bubble burst. The trail leading to the connection between Reagan and McDonald is long and winding. But the facts prove collusion between informers hired by Reagan when he was governor and McDonald's Western Goals Foundation. The methods – and even the persons involved – were the same in both cases.
The first indication that something was even more rotten than usual in California came on August 15, 1980, when Warren Hinckle – the former editor of Ramparts magazine – noted that the snooping of Jerry Ducote appeared to involve members of Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial staff. (Ducote was a former sheriff's deputy employed by Reagan's backers to infiltrate suspected subversive groups.)
"What is happening in Santa Clara County today is the germ of the biggest scandal of the next 1 1/2 years," Hinckle said. "People thought that with Watergate it was all over. But this is the next layer of Watergate."
On January 4, 1983, nearly 2 1/2 years after Hinckle's prediction, Detective Jay Paul of the Los Angeles Police Department supplied a weary team of investigators with the connection between Larry McDonald and Ronald Reagan. That day marked the end of McDonald's usefulness to the larger network he served. He had become a liability to some very important people.
A carefully-constructed web of deceit was brought down by the massive volumes of files illegally assembled on law-abiding citizens by the L.A. Police Department's Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID). The files were ordered destroyed in 1975, but it was later discovered that LAPD officers kept the data-bank information.
Enraged by this disobedience, the Los Angeles Police Commission officially requested the files. But by then, Lieutenant Thomas Scheidecker had stolen at least 10,000 pages of documents, and PDID Detective Jay Paul had moved a huge batch of files to his garage in Long Beach. Attorney Ann Love, his wife, was paid $30,000 a year to feed a sophisticated $100,000 computer data that had been ordered destroyed.
Daniel O.Graham
Broken Seals was a typical piece of Western Goals ultra-con propaganda, an alarming "report on the attempts to destroy the foreign and domestic intelligence capabilities of the United States." The foreword was written by Daniel O. Graham, former director of the DIA, who went on to chair the High Frontiers Foundation in support of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
The information eventually wound up in the computer of the Western Goals Foundation And lo and behold, the man who paid Ann Love was Representative Larry McDonald, chairman of Western Goals.
Also caught up in the web was John Rees, an editor at the Western Goals Foundation, and a longtime associate of Jerry Ducote by way of their common employers and similar methods of accumulating data. Both acted as agents provocateurs.
"An agent provocateur is a police agent who is introduced into any political organization with instructions to foment discontent . . . or to take a case in order to give his employers the right to act against the organization in question," according to Colonel Victor Kaledin of Imperial Russian Military Intelligence.
Ducote was employed by key Reagan supporters and the John Birch Society. Rees collaborated with the Birch Society and a host of other right-wing groups, feeding them information to harass and embarrass those who opposed their point of view.
Reagan's man, Ducote, and Larry McDonald's crony, John Rees, worked together at the San Francisco-based Western Research, also known as Research West. Ducote secluded himself behind unmarked doors, running a blacklisting service for industry. The results of his spying were added to a repository of information used by Governor Reagan to screen out potential state employees with leftist political tendencies contrary to his own beliefs.
At the same time, photographs of rallies and demonstrations – along with copies of underground newspapers – were supplied to Western Research by agents of the Los Angeles Police Department. In turn, Western Research sold background information on employees and advised corporations about possible risks.
Research West, an incarnation, maintained close ties with law enforcement and corporate data banks, employing spies to feed information to utility companies anxious to identify anti-nuclear activists. Clearly, blacklisting didn't end with the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The witch hunt never ceased.
Last January in Los Angeles, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of 131 law-abiding groups and individuals who were illegally spied upon. Among the defendants in this case were 54 police officers from the LAPD's Public Disorder Intelligence Division.
The law firm representing the defendants was Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Curiously enough, Attorney General William French Smith was a partner in that firm. And none other than President Ronald Reagan is a client of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in all personal legal matters.
Time was running out for Larry McDonald after many years of stealing, bugging and compiling. He was about to be subpoenaed by a Los Angeles County grand jury. His testimony – particularly the parts relating to the feeding of illegal police intelligence files to his Long Beach computer – could embarrass and even damage a great number of powerful people.
Several weeks after the downing of Flight 007, Soviet President Yuri Andropov blamed the United States for a "sophisticated provocation, masterminded by U.S. special services, an example of extreme adventurism in politics."
How could the United States have written such a script? Larry McDonald was going to embarrass President Reagan if too many of the documents from California were exposed. They shared common spies and common enemies. So let's assume that the CIA, FBI and all federal agencies that worked with McDonald – particularly the Pentagon – wanted him silenced immediately. At the same time, because McDonald was so violently anti-Communist, why not make the Soviets responsible for his murder? A New Right martyr could be created in the struggle against communism. Remember the Pueblo?
The scenario might have continued in the following way:
• There would be a celebration in South Korea early in September. McDonald had strong ties to Korean-born Reverend Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church (the Moonies) and the South Korean military. Arrange for McDonald to attend that celebration in South Korea.
(Dorothy Hunt, CIA officer and wife of Watergate defendant E. Howard Hunt, was blown up in a commercial airliner over Chicago, and nobody seemed to care. Undoubtedly, her murder scared into silence the primary witnesses who could have embarrassed President Nixon at the time he was paying them to "plead guilty" before sinking his presidency. Incidentally, the espionage activities of both E. Howard Hunt and Congressman McDonald were entangled with the Los Angeles Police Department.)
• Send spy planes over the USSR continuously. The Soviet Union does not appreciate such flights violating its territory. By putting McDonald on a commercial airliner and timing its incursion inside Soviet airspace with spy-plane operations at the same time, an attack by Soviet missiles would be assured.
One of the many mysteries of Flight 007 is the total lack of communication between its pilots and U.S., Korean and Japanese listening posts. This is known as maintaining radio silence.
Furthermore, 007 left Kennedy Airport in New York with a defective radio and navigational system. When the pilot on the first leg of the flight disembarked in Anchorage, he assumed the plane's malfunctioning parts would be repaired. But this didn't happen.
It is common knowledge to all pilots flying over Soviet territory that aircraft going beyond a certain point inside Russian borders will be forced to land or shot down. If the CIA and the National Security Agency wanted Larry McDonald dead, thereby assuring an international incident, isolating the pilots from instructions or warnings would be essential. The way to accomplish this is either to tamper with radio transmissions or the pilots' minds – or both.
Chun Byung In, the pilot in command of 007, held the rank of colonel in the South Korean Air Force. He was considered reliable enough to have flown the Korean president to the U.S. in 1982 and fly overseas routes linking Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Paris to Los Angeles, and New York to Seoul. The co-pilot on 007 was Lieutenant Colonel Sohn Dong Hui.
According to news reports, Chun boasted to close friends that he was carrying out special tasks for American intelligence, and he even showed them some of the plane's spying equipment or surveying Soviet military installations. Spying was sometimes the covert mission of regularly-scheduled commercial flights that began in New York City and ended in Seoul.
After the 007 disaster, it was reported that Koreans often flew over Soviet airspace to reduce fuel expenses. But spy cameras with the ability to photograph Soviet military bases are a more plausible reason for Korean jets losing their way so often.
Reports indicate that Korean Air Lines concluded a secret agreement with the CIA in the early 1970s to carry out intelligence surveys of Soviet territory. These reports further suggest that when Flight 007 was shot down, the U.S. intelligence mission utilized a reconnaissance satellite programmed to pass overhead at the same time. This allowed the U.S. to record electronic traffic denoting the whereabouts of Soviet air-defense systems as they were activated to meet a presumed threat.
After triggering the radar warning of a threat to the USSR, the pilot of a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane used maneuvers typical of American spy planes to frustrate Soviet air defenses. Eventually, he dove below the radar cover off the Kamchatka Peninsula to distract air-defense crews and allow Flight 007 to enter Soviet airspace undetected.
Meanwhile, attempting to dodge Soviet fighter planes 226 miles inside the USSR, pilot Chun requested permission to elevate to 35,000 feet. Moments later, he shouted, "Rapid ... a rapid decompression." Flight 007 was hit by a missile.
Chun's last words –"one-zero, one-zero-delta"– left everyone confused, as did the plane's final radio transmissions. Neither Matsumi Suzuki, head of Japan's Sound Research Institute, nor the Japanese broadcast network NHK could explain what "delta" meant. Was that Chun's "Rosebud"?
Early reports following the tragedy, noting the apparent loss of contact with 007's pilots, suggested that the plane had been hijacked. A second report said that the two pilots and the navigator may have been asleep – a dubious theory considering the crew's unblemished record.
A more likely possibility is that the crew had been the victim of hypnosis and mind control – receiving instructions in advance, before they left Anchorage, that could not be picked up and recorded later.
If this seems farfetched, consider the experience of Candy Jones – a famous model and radio personality – who described in her biography how the CIA programmed her mind for spying and activities related to espionage. A single phone call from an unseen person would have been enough to implement previously implanted instructions to kill herself.
These revelations came to light at the height of the Watergate scandal, along with evidence that she had previously done errands for the CIA. Only the intervention of her husband saved Candy Jones from certain death.
The issue of 007's defective navigational system came under close scrutiny following the disaster. Reports filed with NASA revealed that at least 25 times during the past five years, U.S. airline pilots relying on the same navigational equipment used by 007 had strayed off course – once as much as 250 miles. Cited among the cause were computer malfunctions and human errors.
"It's easy to become complacent [on long flights]," said Pan American World Airways pilot Thomas Foxworth. "It's a human failing. The record is replete with numerous incidents of a guy just falling asleep."
What if the "human failing" cited by Foxworth was actually mind-controlled planning? Two of the 007 crew might have been asleep – or even dead. But the one who cried "delta" was obviously awake until the end. His response to what was going to happen, given his years of experience and expertise, was that of a programmed zombie instructed to fly continuously – disregarding any external sights or sounds on the flight equipment.
As long ago as November 1974, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights – headed by then-Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina – issued a 645-page report titled, Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification, which plotted the advanced state of CIA mind work and testing.
Three years later, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Sub-committee on Health and Scientific Research published another report, Project Mkultra: The CIA's Program in Behavior Modification.
The upshot of these reports is that the Pentagon had the capability, if it so desired, to link mind control with satellite defense systems. And a logical use of mind control, of course, would be to program a pilot – perhaps even turning a normal flight into a kamikaze mission.
Dr. Jose Delgado, the father of military-and-defense mind experimentation who worked with the CIA and Navy Intelligence, perfected such procedures as early as 1971. In one instance, he surgically implanted a receiver in the brain of a Spanish fighting bull. Later in a Madrid arena, when a tiny radio-controlled electrode delivered a minute surge of current to the enraged beast's mind, the bull braked to an abrupt halt.
Delgado also pioneered a method of shooting mood drugs into the brain, calming the subject by a remote computer that sensed oncoming anxiety, depression or rage, and flashed back inhibitor signals by radio.
"The [programmed] individual may think that the most important fact of reality is his own existence," Delgado wrote. "But that is only his personal point of view, a relative frame of reference which is not shared by the rest of the living world."
The justification for perfecting physical control of the mind was to enable outside forces to determine how to use a person's body by activating his brain and directing it beyond the subject's control – in spite of any conscious efforts he might make.
KAL Flight 007 was equipped with the latest navigational technology. Three computer-driven, inertial-navigational systems installed a year earlier told the airplane seven times per second where it is supposed to go .
Only the following elements could have coordinated the death of Representative Larry McDonald with the Soviet missile response: (1) human factors; (2) altered instruments in New York City or Anchorage; or (3) mind control over the Korean Air Force pilots.
Exactly who was Larry McDonald, the strange and complex individual who wore so many robes? At first he was a doctor specializing in urology who prescribed the discredited drug laetrile to cancer patients. He was also a man who concealed the ownership of 200 guns. In 1974, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, later chairman of both the tax-free Western Goals Foundation and the John Birch Society.
The best way to describe most people is to understand who their heroes are. McDonald reportedly kept two photographs on the walls of his Congressional office that give some clues to his mental state.
One picture was of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The other was of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Senator McCarthy began his Senate career after World War II with financial assistance from two known Nazi sympathizers in Wisconsin – Frank Seusenbrenner and Walter Harnischfeger. Fred J. Cook's The Nightmare Decade details the pro-Nazi backers of McCarthy and how the senator knew of their "passionate ultra-rightism and admiration for Hitler."
Harnischfeger's nephew, in fact, often displayed an autographed copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf. He also flaunted a watch-chain swastika.
In December 1946, 43 of Hitler's top military officers received death sentences or long prison terms at the Dachau Trials for the bloody massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy, France. One of McCarthy's primary objectives as he entered the Senate was to facilitate their release. By 1949, thanks to Congressional hearings, he directed another maneuvering. McCarthy's efforts paid off. The 43 Nazis were freed.
When McCarthy conducted his House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings in 1953 and accumulated data on law-abiding citizens for future fascist purposes, most of his information came from combined United States intelligence and Nazi war criminals. He also drew upon the extensive files of a spy network known as ODDESSA, an association of former SS officers formed between 1943 and 1945, when it became obvious the Third Reich could not win the war against the Soviet Union.
After McCarthy died in 1957, it is reasonable to assume that Larry McDonaid – by way of Louise Rees – took over the massive computerized files that now contain millions of names worldwide.
Louise Rees, the wife of John Rees, an editor at McDonald's Western Goals Foundation, worked for McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn, counsel for the senator's 1953 Permanent Investigations Subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee. Western Goals lists Roy M. Cohn, now a New York lawyer, on its advisory board. And when McDonald went to Washington as a representative from Georgia in 1974, Louise Rees was his paid staff aide.
McDonald's admiration for his other major hero, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, can be explained in part by the fact that both of their careers benefited from the support of international fascist organizations. And there is evidence that Nazis in Chile funded McDonald's Congressional campaigns since 1974, at Pinochet's direction – just as Nazis were the source of funds for McCarthy in Wisconsin.
Ironically, the very night that McDonald was killed, Pinochet, his CIA-supported hero – was taunted by rioters in Chile. The Chilean people also want their nightmare decade to end.
Pinochet is responsible for DINA, Nazi-like death-squad terrorist teams that are an arm of the Chilean police, necessary to maintain his repressive regime. Without DINA's methods of fear and torture, the U.S. puppet government in Chile would not last another day.
Pinochet also does nothing to interfere with Colonia Dignidad, a haven for Nazi war criminals located on the border between Argentina and Chile. Colonia Dignidad serves as a torture center where dissenters who oppose Pinochet are mutilated and fed to dogs while still alive. Armed guards discourage snoopers. Amnesty International is currently investigating this deplorable situation.
Larry McDonald's unsavory Chilean connection was further exposed when Robert Byron Watson presented attorneys from the House Select Committee on Assassinations with an affidavit reportedly detailing McDonald's dealings with Fuad Habash Ansare in Santiago de Chile; Watson claimed that Fuad Habash is the brother of Arab terrorist leader Dr. George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This organization is said to work with our CIA to arrange Arab terrorist murders around the globe.
Larry McDonald's Western Goals Foundation, another sinister organization, was formed in 1979. Members of its advisory board are listed in brochures and newspaper advertisements, and include the following: Jean Ashbrook, Mrs. Walter Brennan, Taylor Caldwell, Roy M. Cohn, Congressman Philip M. Crane (R-Illinois), General Raymond Davis, Henry Hazlitt, Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, Dr. Anthony Kubek, Robert Milliken, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, E. A. Morris, Vice-Admiral Lloyd M. Mustin, Mrs. John C. Newington, General George S. Patton III, Dr. Hans Sennholz, General John Singlaub, Dan Smoot, Robert Stoddard, Congressman Bob Stump (D-Arizona), Mrs. Helen Marie Taylor, Dr. Edward Teller, General Lewis Walt and Dr. Eugene Wigner.
The executive staff of Western Goals consists of Linda Guell, director; John Rees, editor; and Julia Ferguson, research associate.
Two members of Western Goals bear special mention. According to Seymour Hersh's recent book The Price of Power in the Nixon White House, Admiral Thomas Moorer masterminded the surreptitious removal of sensitive data from President Nixon's office. Working through Yeoman Charles Radford, Moorer stole papers clearly marked "President's Eyes Only" and had them delivered to the Pentagon.
His reward for stealing these top-secret documents was a promotion to the prestigious Joint Chiefs of Staff. Merry Christmas, Cambodia! Bypassing every member of Congress, Henry Kissinger and Admiral Moorer conducted their own private war against that country – one that has not fought the United States at any time – gleefully selecting bombing targets that cost the lives of millions of innocent people.
It later developed that Los Angeles Police Department files on two million Californians were assessed by Moorer's and McDonald's Western Goals computer.
So it comes to pass that the criminals keep track of the innocent. Information about you is probably already filed and computerized in their secret data banks. Would you trust people like this with your good name?
A second Western Goals advisory board member worth noting is Edward Teller, Hungarian-born father of the hydrogen bomb. The same day that McDonald made the front page of the Washington Post – when Western Goals was ordered to answer the stolen-documents subpoena in Los Angeles – Teller was attending a European seminar on nuclear warfare critical to America's future foreign policy.
There is no beginning or end to the Larry McDonald tragedy. His right-wing fanaticism drew him to the crueler side of blackmailers, burglars, assassins, terrorists, wiretappers, and people dedicated to waging a future war with the Soviet Union.
And there he was, last August 31 and September 1, apparently sitting all alone on Flight 007. If that was by Soviet design, then all in his entourage were communists who knew in advance.
But since the American delegation was screened and cleared for travel with a congressman, then the CIA and U.S. agents knew something they wouldn't share with him – even to save his life.
So what's it all about, Alfie?


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International HapMap Project
The elucidation of the entire human genome has made possible our current effort to develop a haplotype map of the human genome. The haplotype map, or "HapMap," is a tool that allows researchers to find genes and genetic variations that affect health and disease.
The DNA sequence of any two people is 99.5 percent identical. The variations, however, may greatly affect an individual's disease risk. Sites in the DNA sequence where individuals differ at a single DNA base are called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Sets of nearby SNPs on the same chromosome are inherited in blocks. This pattern of SNPs on a block is a haplotype. Blocks may contain a large number of SNPs, but a few SNPs are enough to uniquely identify the haplotypes in a block. The HapMap is a map of these haplotype blocks and the specific SNPs that identify the haplotypes are called tag SNPs.
The HapMap is valuable by reducing the number of SNPs required to examine the entire genome for association with a phenotype from the 10 million SNPs that exist to roughly 500,000 tag SNPs. This makes genome scan approaches to finding regions with genes that affect diseases much more efficient and comprehensive, since effort is not wasted typing more SNPs than necessary and all regions of the genome can be included.
In addition to its use in studying genetic associations with disease, the HapMap is a powerful resource for studying the genetic factors contributing to variation in response to environmental factors, in susceptibility to infection, and in the effectiveness of and adverse responses to drugs and vaccines. All such studies are based on the expectation that there are higher frequencies of the contributing genetic components in a group of people with a disease or particular response to a drug, vaccine, pathogen, or environmental factor than in a group of similar people without the disease or response. Using just the tag SNPs, researchers are able to find chromosome regions that have different haplotype distributions in the two groups of people, those with a disease or response and those without. Each region is then studied in more detail to discover which variants in which genes in the region contribute to the disease or response, leading to more effective interventions. This also allows the development of tests to predict which drugs or vaccines would be most effective in individuals with particular genotypes for genes affecting drug metabolism.
Information, Project Events and Reports
HapMap Information
- The International HapMap Project Web Site [hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The Web site for the HapMap Project partnership of scientists and funding agencies from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States
- Groups Participating in the International HapMap Project [hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
- Members of the Initial HapMap Project Planning Working Groups
- HapMap Project News Release: International Consortium Launches Genetic Variation Mapping Project October 29, 2002
- The International HapMap Tutorial Webcast
The webcast for the October 27, 2005 tutorial: How to Use the HapMap Data.
- HapMap Tutorial: How to use the HapMap Data [hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Support materials for the two-hour tutorial on effective HapMap usage. Includes an introduction to the HapMap, use of the HapMap for association studies, tag SNP selection, improving analyses using chips with pre-selected SNPs and a guide to the HapMap web pages.
- HapMap Tutorial: How to use the HapMap Data [hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Meeting Reports
- Developing a Haplotype Map of the Human Genome for Finding Genes Related to Health and Disease
July 18-19, 2001
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International HapMap Constortium. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature, 449:851-862. 2007. [Full Text]
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Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations. Nature, 449:913-919. 2007. [Full Text]
International HapMap Consortium. A haplotype map of the human genome. Nature, 437: 1229-1320. 2005. [Full Text]
The International HapMap Consortium. The International HapMap Project. Nature, 426: 789-796. 2003. [Full Text]
The International HapMap Consortium. Integrating ethics and science in the International HapMap Project. Nature Genetics, 5: 467-475. 2004. [Full Text]
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Weir, B.S., Cardon, L.R., Anderson, A.D., Nielsen, D.M., and Hill, W.G. Measures of human population structure show heterogeneity among genomic regions. Genome Research, 15:1468-1476. 2005. [PubMed]
Daly, M.J., Rioux, J.D., Schaffner, S.F., Hudson, T.J., and Lander, E.S. High-resolution haplotype structure in the human genome. Nature Genetics, 29: 229-232. 2001. [Full Text] [nature.com]
Gabriel, S.B., Schaffner, S.F., Nguyen, H., Moore, J.M., Roy, J., Blumenstiel, B., Higgins, J., DeFelice, M., Lochner, A., Faggart, M., Liu-Cordero, S.N., Rotimi, C., Adeyemo, A., Cooper, R., Ward, R., Lander, E.S., Daly, M.J., Altshuler, D. The Structure of Haplotype Blocks in the Human Genome. Science, 296(5576):2225-9. 2002. (Look at the supplemental data, especially Fig. 1 also.) [PubMed]
Reich, D.E., Cargill, M., Bolk, S., Ireland, J., Sabeti, P.C., Richter, D.J., Lavery, T., Kouyoumjian, R., Farhadian, S.F., Ward, R., and Lander, E.S. Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. Nature, 411: 199-204. 2001. [Full Text] [nature.com]
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February 13, 2013
Disputes over the return of antiquities
Hugh Eakin's post in the New York Times about museums handing back artefacts to thheir original owners prompted interesting & well reasoned responses from both Paul Barford & David Gill's blogs.
Now, the newspaper has printed a selection of reader's letters replying to the article.
New York Times
The Dispute Over Returning Antiquities
Published: February 3, 2013To the Editor:
"The Great Giveback," by Hugh Eakin (Sunday Review, Jan. 27), made several important points that have been missing in the discussion about "repatriation" of museum-acquired artifacts.
But it did not mention that the repatriation issue applies to the United States as well. Until the creation of the Archaeological Conservancy in 1980, neither our state nor federal governments made much of an attempt to defend important sites all over this country from looters, who not only destroyed both the sites and thousands of artifacts as they bulldozed their way through Indian burial mounds, but also "illegally" sold off the remains to foreign buyers.
Rare Mimbres pots, for example, are held in collections from Germany to Japan, with little pressure from the press or the courts to return them.If the governments of Italy, Greece, Egypt, Cambodia and the rest put so little store by their heritage that indigenous pothunters could dig it up and sell it off, it is all the more to the credit of foreign buyers — and the diligent archaeologists who helped to find and excavate the artifacts — that they are now preserved and most of them available for study and display.
The Elgin marbles probably would not have survived without the care they have been given in the British Museum, and the same is true of much of the remains from Egyptian tombs, Greek temples and the monasteries of Spain honored by institutions that know their value.
As Mr. Eakin points out, our museums make a mistake by giving up these artifacts. The governments that so carelessly let them go should be grateful that these things have been kept intact.
Osprey, Fla., Jan. 30, 2013The writer was director of a national study of art museum education and a founder of the Archaeological Conservancy.
To the Editor:
Stephen Urice, a cultural property lawyer, is quoted as saying that archaeological looting is increasing despite the voluntary restitution of unprovenanced objects by American museums. I disagree. Archaeological looting has substantially decreased in some countries, independent of museum restitution and American import restrictions.
The Italian cultural police have stated that they have largely halted looting in Italy by breaking up the big international smuggling rings. Little fresh material is coming out of Cambodia, decades after the civil war and the demise of the Khmer Rouge. It's time to rationally address whether archaeological looting in specific nations is driven by demand in the American antiquities market.
New York, Jan. 28, 2013The writer is a lawyer who represents art dealers and collectors.
To the Editor:
In describing the "hardball tactics of foreign governments" to repatriate art objects, Hugh Eakin glosses over the issue of power imbalance. Repatriation is only partly about the art. It's also a specific form of diplomacy that must be understood in a broader context of power and politics.
Since the early 20th century, when officials in Rome lamented the exodus of Italian art works to the Americans, the field of antiquities collecting has been characterized by submissive source countries and dominant destination countries.
That Italy, Turkey and Greece have increasingly asserted their ownership of antiquities in the past decade is indicative of a decisive change in the power dynamics of this field, a change that mirrors shifting geopolitical relations more broadly. "Americans' access to the ancient world" may well have to take a back seat to the Italians' (or Turks' or Greeks') access.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 28, 2013
- Greece & Italy agree to work together to recover artefacts : December 12, 2006
- Bronze Statuette returned to Oliveriano Archaeological museum : February 27, 2015
- Getty expected to return gold wreath to Greece : December 12, 2006
- Getty may return artefacts to Italy : June 23, 2006
- Museum of Fine Arts deal with Italy : October 4, 2006
- Hungary offers to return looted artefacts to Greece : September 16, 2008
- The return of cultural treasures – and it wasn't the Parthenon Marbles that opened the floodgates : January 28, 2013
- Museums assert right to looted antiquities : February 28, 2006


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TRACE MODE SCADA Employed in Automated Control System for 2nd Power Unit at Krasnodar Heat and Power Plant
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PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write PostgreSQL functions in the Perl programming language.
The usual advantage to using PL/Perl is that this allows use, within stored functions, of the manyfold "string munging" operators and functions available for Perl. Parsing complex strings may be be easier using Perl than it is with the string functions and control structures provided in PL/pgsql.
To install PL/Perl in a particular database, use createlang plperl dbname.
Tip: If a language is installed into template1, all subsequently created databases will have the language installed automatically.
Note: Users of source packages must specially enable the build of PL/Perl during the installation process. (Refer to Chapter 14 for more information.) Users of binary packages might find PL/Perl in a separate subpackage.
To create a function in the PL/Perl language, use the standard CREATE FUNCTION syntax:
CREATE FUNCTION funcname (argument-types) RETURNS return-type AS $$ # PL/Perl function body $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
The body of the function is ordinary Perl code. In fact, the PL/Perl glue code wraps it inside a Perl subroutine. A PL/Perl function must always return a scalar value. You can return more complex structures (arrays, records, and sets) by returning a reference, as discussed below. Never return a list.
Note: The use of named nested subroutines is dangerous in Perl, especially if they refer to lexical variables in the enclosing scope. Because a PL/Perl function is wrapped in a subroutine, any named subroutine you create will be nested. In general, it is far safer to create anonymous subroutines which you call via a coderef. See the perldiag man page for more details.
The syntax of the CREATE FUNCTION command requires the function body to be written as a string constant. It is usually most convenient to use dollar quoting (see Section 184.108.40.206) for the string constant. If you choose to use regular single-quoted string constant syntax, you must escape single quote marks (') and backslashes (\) used in the body of the function, typically by doubling them (see Section 22.214.171.124).
Arguments and results are handled as in any other Perl subroutine: arguments are passed in @_, and a result value is returned with return or as the last expression evaluated in the function.
For example, a function returning the greater of two integer values could be defined as:
CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS $$ if ($_[0] > $_[1]) { return $_[0]; } return $_[1]; $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
If an SQL null value is
passed to a function, the argument value will appear as
"undefined" in Perl. The above
function definition will not behave very nicely with null
inputs (in fact, it will act as though they are zeroes). We
could add STRICT to the function
definition to make PostgreSQL
do something more reasonable: if a null value is passed, the
function will not be called at all, but will just return a null
result automatically. Alternatively, we could check for
undefined inputs in the function body. For example, suppose
that we wanted perl_max
with one
null and one nonnull argument to return the nonnull argument,
rather than a null value:
CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS $$ my ($x,$y) = @_; if (! defined $x) { if (! defined $y) { return undef; } return $y; } if (! defined $y) { return $x; } if ($x > $y) { return $x; } return $y; $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
As shown above, to return an SQL null value from a PL/Perl function, return an undefined value. This can be done whether the function is strict or not.
Perl can return PostgreSQL arrays as references to Perl arrays. Here is an example:
CREATE OR REPLACE function returns_array() RETURNS text[][] AS $$ return [['a"b','c,d'],['e\\f','g']]; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; select returns_array();
Composite-type arguments are passed to the function as references to hashes. The keys of the hash are the attribute names of the composite type. Here is an example:
CREATE TABLE employee ( name text, basesalary integer, bonus integer ); CREATE FUNCTION empcomp(employee) RETURNS integer AS $$ my ($emp) = @_; return $emp->{basesalary} + $emp->{bonus}; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; SELECT name, empcomp(employee.*) FROM employee;
A PL/Perl function can return a composite-type result using the same approach: return a reference to a hash that has the required attributes. For example,
CREATE TYPE testrowperl AS (f1 integer, f2 text, f3 text); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_row() RETURNS testrowperl AS $$ return {f2 => 'hello', f1 => 1, f3 => 'world'}; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; SELECT * FROM perl_row();
Any columns in the declared result data type that are not present in the hash will be returned as NULLs.
PL/Perl functions can also return sets of either scalar or
composite types. Usually you'll want to return rows one at a
time, both to speed up startup time and to keep from queueing
up the entire result set in memory. You can do this with
as illustrated below.
Note that after the last return_next
, you must put either return or (better) return
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_set_int(int) RETURNS SETOF INTEGER AS $$ foreach (0..$_[0]) { return_next($_); } return undef; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; SELECT * FROM perl_set_int(5); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_set() RETURNS SETOF testrowperl AS $$ return_next({ f1 => 1, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'World' }); return_next({ f1 => 2, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PostgreSQL' }); return_next({ f1 => 3, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PL/Perl' }); return undef; $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
For small result sets, you can return a reference to an array that contains either scalars, references to arrays, or references to hashes for simple types, array types, and composite types, respectively. Here are some simple examples of returning the entire result set as an array reference:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_set_int(int) RETURNS SETOF INTEGER AS $$ return [0..$_[0]]; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; SELECT * FROM perl_set_int(5); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_set() RETURNS SETOF testrowperl AS $$ return [ { f1 => 1, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'World' }, { f1 => 2, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PostgreSQL' }, { f1 => 3, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PL/Perl' } ]; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; SELECT * FROM perl_set();
PL/Perl does not currently have full support for domain types: it treats a domain the same as the underlying scalar type. This means that constraints associated with the domain will not be enforced. This is not an issue for function arguments, but it is a hazard if you declare a PL/Perl function as returning a domain type.
If you wish to use the strict pragma with your code, the easiest way to do so is to SET plperl.use_strict to true. This parameter affects subsequent compilations of PL/Perl functions, but not functions already compiled in the current session. To set the parameter before PL/Perl has been loaded, it is necessary to have added "plperl" to the custom_variable_classes list in postgresql.conf.
Another way to use the strict pragma is to put
use strict;
in the function body.


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Making life better for fish and wildlife and the people who hunt them lies at the heart of the Sportsmen's Act of 2012, the bill that covers everything from habitat conservation to transporting bows through national parks, which is likely to be approved by the Senate on Monday.
But though the bill enjoys broad, bipartisan support, some environmentalists are not happy with it. The bill ensures that lead can continue to be used in ammunition, which they say poisons some wildlife, and it specifically says that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot regulate components "used in shot, bullets and other projectiles," such as bullets and fishing tackle.
The wording aimed at the EPA is so broad that opponents of the bill say it could block the agency from regulating, for example, perchlorate, a component of explosives and rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems in children and pregnant women and has been found in drinking water in 35 states.
And, in this grab bag of a bill, there's the issue of polar bear trophies. The federal government banned the importation of polar bear pelts four years ago, when it listed the species under the Endangered Species Act. The Sportsmen's Act, however, allows a one-time importation of 41 polar bear trophies killed in Canada by U.S. hunters before 2008.
Those trophies — tanned skin and claws, skull and the traditionally prized penis bone — have been in cold storage in Canada.
The Sportsman's Act, authored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is a collection of 17 provisions that would seem to have something for everyone.
The bill would boost the amount of available funds for conserving fish and wildlife along with their habitat, and expand opportunities for hunters and anglers to target wild species. It would make it easier for the federal government to buy land to improve access to public lands for hunters and anglers.
The bill also would raise the price of duck stamps — proceeds of which help fund wetlands protection — for the first time in two decades and allow the interior secretary to reevaluate their price every three years. Maryland, Louisiana and other coastal states would be eligible for funding to eradicate nutria, or swamp rats.
The measure also would reauthorize several federal programs and institutions that work to protect wildlife, such as the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and a program issuing stamps to raise money for elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, marine turtles and great apes.
But a dispute has emerged over the provision on lead. The Center for Biological Diversity and other advocacy groups have pushed unsuccessfully for the EPA to ban lead in hunting and fishing equipment.
Lead is a significant component of ammunition, as well as some fishing gear: At least 14,000 tons of lead is introduced into the environment every year by U.S. hunters and anglers, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lead shot and tackle left on the ground or in waterways are consumed by birds and other wildlife, often with deadly results.
The EPA has rejected the center's petition twice on the grounds that the Toxic Substances Control Act includes a provision excluding some gun-related items from agency controls. The agency is fighting a lawsuit filed by the group in federal court.
Tester spokesman Aaron Murphy said the senator crafted the bill's language to ensure that the agency would not bow to outside pressure. In 2010, Murphy said, "acting on behalf of many concerned Montanans, [Tester] asked the EPA not to pursue consideration of banning lead ammunition — an overreaching restriction that would affect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans."
Senate Democrats, including Barbara Boxer (Calif.), said in a statement that while the bill "has many good provisions," it also "includes two provisions that threaten public health and could set back wildlife conservation efforts."
The other contentious provision is the one-time importation of polar bear trophies, authored by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).
Boxer and Democratic Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (N.J.) and John F. Kerry (Mass.) had authored amendments aimed at tweaking the bill, but no amendments will be considered when the bill comes up for a vote.
The dispute presents an awkward moment for environmental groups, several of which worked hard to ensure Tester's reelection this month.
Daniel Rosenberg, a senior attorney at the advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council, questioned why the Senate would vote on the bill, which has not been subject to a full hearing and committee markup.
"There is simply no justification for making any of these changes to our nation's chemical control law [the Toxic Substances Control Act], and particularly for rushing it forward without the benefit of any scrutiny or comment by the Senate itself or members of the public," Rosenberg said.
An aide to Tester said the measure would have no effect on the EPA's current work on whether to establish limits on perchlorate exposure. The EPA declined to comment on the matter, noting that the administration has endorsed the bill.
Backers of the legislation say it would boost the economy as well as foster conservation by promoting outdoor recreation.
Whit Fosburgh, president of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, said critics were misinterpreting the bill's environmental impact. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the use of lead ammunition in waterfowl hunting in 1991, he noted, and could take further action if needed.
"It shouldn't be controversial for anybody," Fosburgh said. "The Fish and Wildlife Service, not EPA, is the proper place to regulate lead. . . . There's a genuine fear of an EPA overreach on this."
Fishing and hunting groups have resisted a total phaseout of lead in their gear, mainly because non-toxic metals are much more expensive. Gordon Robertson, vice president of the American Sportfishing Association, noted that lures made of steel and tungsten are more costly, and steel is less malleable. He added that the elemental lead in lures is less toxic than other forms of the metal.
National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the prospect of requiring non-toxic bullets nationwide is "a very grave concern of ours. Banning commonly-used ammunition would make it difficult for common people to hunt, and it could alone make it cost prohibitive."
But Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said lead exposure kills 20 million birds annually in the United States and poses a threat to the endangered California condor, which feeds on dead animals.
That species nearly went extinct 25 years ago before the launch of a captive breeding program. There are now 232 California condors in the wild, 204 of which live in the American West.
California banned the use of lead shot in the condor's range four years ago. Since then, just three have died in California, but lead exposure rates continue to be high in Arizona. In that state, the flock's annual lead poisoning rates from eating poisoned carrion have ranged from 31 percent to 95 percent.
Millions of other birds are poisoned each year because they eat lead shot, mistaking it for gravel.
"You don't have to slow down a single hunter," Suckling said, adding that a lead ban would also benefit less-imperiled birds. "This is a perfect example of what you can do proactively to ensure you have abundant wildlife and prevent animals from becoming endangered."
Even if Tester's bill passes as expected, it remains unclear if the House will approve it before adjourning for the year. The lower chamber has passed its own version, which includes some additional controversial provisions, such as one that could bar the president from declaring new national monuments. Given the time constraints, the House would either have to accept the Senate measure or reconcile the competing bills very quickly.
Fosburgh said that while some people might want to alter Tester's bill, it represents the best chance at securing a conservation win before the 112th Congress ends.
"This is the bill everyone can live with," he said. "Everyone claims they're friends of the sportsmen. We'll see."
Outdoors bill angers some environmentalists – The Washington Post


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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...aliphate-groupThe large and influential French TV network TV5Monde was taken off the air and its online presence was hijacked by a group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate. Hours after the attack began, the network was still unable to produce live programming.
The attack by what are being called cyber jihadists began at 10 p.m. in Paris on Wednesday, when screens that would normally show TV5Monde went blank, with normal programming replaced by a message: "Je suIS IS."
http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-31128889.htmlAfter January terrorist attacks in France by gunmen claiming links to IS and al Qaida in Yemen, officials said hackers had targeted some 19,000 French websites. William Reymond, editor of the French investigative website Breaking3zero, which traced the January hackings, said the latest attack can be directly linked to two IS-linked militants - one in Algeria who built the malicious software and another in Iraq who helped speed up the attack.
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"They have to erase everything. There were at least three other encrypted viruses," he said.


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Last month Jacob Williams, CEO of Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA), told municipal utility leaders that they should impose a fixed, monthly $50 fee to make solar customers "go away."
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I like to dye an entire rainbow although I didn't get the whole thing done this week. I'm missing some of the blues and brown. Here's several of them hanging on the clothesline to dry.
After they're dry I split them up into small pieces and make small packs of wool tidbits for felting. Do you felt? I've felted soap before and made some needle felted Christmas ornaments, but that's it. Believe me when I say, my customers are far better at felting than I am.
Here's the warm colors divided up. I'll be making a cool colors pack as well, but I still need to get those last few colors done.
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It's great to see Insights that data can uncover. I saw a nice insight in a report I read about Analyzing customer acquisition channels for e-commerce sites and in this blog post, I am sharing it with you. So what are the top customer acquisition channels for Commerce sites? The Top channels are Organic Search, Emails & Paid Search.Here's the report: E-Commerce Customer Acquisition Snapshot
It was not surprising to me to see Organic Search and Emails being among the Top customer acquisition channels but what surprised me was relatively poor performance of social media in acquiring customers. Here's the chart showing performance of various online channels for acquiring customers:
Data Source: http://blog.custora.com/2013/06/e-commerce-customer-acquisition-snapshot/
Note #1: The post is NOT about devaluing the benefits of social media and it comes to down to understanding the goals of having a social media presence in the first place. While computing the ROI of social media, there are other factors like increased brand awareness, customer loyalty to be considered. But I posted this data because it's a great way to show how data can uncover insights and sometimes it may surprise you
Note #2: The percentage of customers acquired does not add up to 100% for a year because the data does not include things like direct traffic. The author of the report confirmed it over an email w/ me.
That's about it for this post. Your comments are very welcome!