When is comes to ADA Signs, no colors are specified, but there are a few hints. The finish must be a non-glare or matte finish, specifically mentioned is egg shell.
The 2 colors must contrast. The contrast ratio is 7:1 or more. There is a large range of allowed colors, but 2 colors with a good contrast is required. This is at least a 70% color contrast differential between the pictogram and the background. The easiest way to achieved this is with a light colored pictogram on a dark background. A Black background with white letters has over 90% contrast, while a Green background with Blue letters is below the 70% requirement (About 50% contrast). The 2004 federal ADA Accessibility Guidelines define this is sections 4.1.2(7), 4.1.3(16) (a) (b) and 4.30.1-4.30.8.
Here are the colors pulled from the major supplier catalog. All these colors have been used for ADA Signs. There are a couple of other materials that are not in the catalog, the most popular is a brushed Aluminum against a black pictogram and lettering. Sticking to the tried and true colors and combinations makes a lot of sense. The effort required to mix, match and test is significant.
We can also match existing signs or other décor. Standard sign colors or custom colors and designs are possible.
Colors can be applied in different ways. Paint on the back side of clear acrylic is one way to produce a background color. This allows for any pantone color. Metals are also common, particularly a brushed Aluminum is common and popular.
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* Scenic Pasture Farm– An Excellent CSA in Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls, Wi area.
* University of Minnesota Plant Desease Clinic– Plant Disease Testing for Garlic Bloat Nematode.
* Sustainable Farming Association– The Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota supports the development of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, and education.
* University of Minnesota Extension, Growing Garlic– Garlic Growing information, including fertilizer requirements.
* Something Special from Wisconsin– Directory of Wisconsin Products.
* USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map– USDA Plant Hardiness one Map.
* Cornell University vegetable program– Cornell University articles about raising garlic.
* POST-HARVEST GARLIC TRIAL YEAR ONE RESULTS– Cornell University Cooperative Extension, Study of drying methods of garlic and how it impacts the weight of garlic.
* USDA Nationwide List of Farmers' Markets– Find a list of Farmers' Markets in your state.
* Local Harvest– Use their website to find farmers' markets, family farms, CSAs and other sources of sustainable grown food in your area.
* Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education-The SARE program helps advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program.
* Agriculturallink.com– links to Agriculture directory resources and information websites.
* Vegetable Varities for Gardeners– Curious which vegetable varieties might grow best in your garden? Cornell's Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners project compiles information from fellow gardeners to help you decide what to grow. You can even limit your search to just your state or frost-free zone.
* The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture– A nationwide partnership of diverse individuals and organizations cultivating grass roots efforts to engage in policy development processes that result in food and agricultural systems and rural communities that are healthy, environmentally sound, profitable, humane and just.
* Seedwise.com– links Seedwise.com, a site to find almost any seed for your garden.


In supporting our digital marketing clients, AccuList USA has seen rapid growth in online video use, and a recent Forbes magazine article by John Hall, CEO of Influence & Co., cited video as one of six essential trends to include in 2018's digital marketing budget. Why? Researchers forecast that by 2020 online video will account for 80% of all consumer internet traffic. Already over 500 million people are watching video on Facebook every day. If you want a crack at that audience, you'll need to join the video world.
Video ads are not just good at promoting brand awareness and engagement; they deliver sales. Video creation service Animoto's most recent survey of 1,000 consumers and 500 marketers reinforces online video's clout: 64% of consumers say they purchase after watching branded social videos. No wonder more businesses are jumping on the video ad bandwagon and investing in paid/sponsored video as well as paying to "socialize" or promote videos. Helping the video boom is the relatively low production cost; in fact, 92% of marketers told Animoto they make videos with assets they already have. Meanwhile, a nationwide pricing survey of videographers and photographers found that the average small business marketing video cost less than $1,000 in 2015 and a medium-sized product demo video was around $2,000. Cost is not a barrier; coming up with engaging, targeted content is the challenge.
So what platform will best deliver the target audience? Animoto's survey shows where consumers engage with branded videos daily: 49% on Facebook, 32% on YouTube, 24% on Instagram, 22% on Snapchat, and 22% on Twitter. Most brands hedge their bets by using multiple platforms, paying to capture eyes on YouTube and Facebook, for example. The more important goal, regardless of platform, is to optimize for mobile viewing since 84% of online video viewers watch on mobile devices–which is why 81% of marketers are optimizing their social videos for mobile viewership, per Animoto. Timing counts, too. Animoto's survey found 33% of video consumers watch during the lunch hour, 43% during the afternoon, 56% during the evening, 38% before bed, and 16% in the middle of the night.
Square video, as opposed to horizontal video, is growing in popularity, with 39% of surveyed marketers creating square and/or vertical videos now. Why? Square videos take up 78% more space in the Facebook News Feed, and get more engagement, than horizontal videos, according to Animoto. Live streaming video is also growing in popularity. According to IT/networking giant Cisco, live Internet video will account for 13% of total online video traffic by 2020. But before you spend time and dollars crafting a great video sound track, note that video editing software firm Camtasia reports that 85% of Facebook videos are watched without sound.


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SeaGate Yacht Club has something for everyone. Traditionally we have a get together for every month of the year. These events range from casual to semi-formal, Avalon Cruise Weekend, Duffy events, Raft-up Parties and Cruises to Southern California Harbors. We have several themed dinners at our Clubhouse such as St. Patrick's Day, Opening Day, New Year's Eve and more. The goal is to have a relaxing social atmosphere combined with fun, friendship and boating. The purpose is to meet new friends and neighbors of Huntington Harbour. You do not need to own a boat to be a member. We encourage ALL SeaGate residents (and our neighbors!) to consider this great opportunity to be a part of our club, SeaGate Yacht Club. Anyone interested in joining us, please contact any one of our Officers or members.


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The Increasing Decline of American Credibility
Uruguay Tells US Drug War to Take a Hike
Santos wrote this in a Guardian op-ed: "We need to introduce a public health framework to the treatment of drug consumption focusing on prevention, attention, rehabilitation and re-socialisation of drug abusers." He did praise Obama for encouraging his controversial peace initiatives with the FARC — a novel approach that does seem surprisingly good. "Many people warned me that it would be political suicide," Santos told Obama in opening remarks at the summit. "Making war is so much easier than making peace. And you not only believed it was possible, you encouraged me to go ahead, and gave me your full and enthusiastic support." Santos also honored Obama for opening relations with Cuba. Many on the right in Latin American and in the US feel Santos must have lost his mind.
With the ascendancy of a ruthless, inexperienced TV-star/real-estate-mogul as US president — a man who got into the White House by slandering Obama as an illegal immigrant from the Dark Continent and calling Latin American immigrants "rapists" — respect has turned to outright disdain. Eduardo Blasina, the director of something called the Montevideo Cannabis Museum, summed it up this way for The New York Times: "Today, what the United States says has never mattered less. We don't see its president as a reasonable individual whose opinion is worth anything."
Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay, a small nation on the Atlantic coast south of Brazil and northeast of Argentina. Until recently, the amazingly humble Jose "Pepe" Mujica was president of Uruguay; he started the ball rolling on the legalization of marijuana. Mujica is a former guerrilla imprisoned and tortured during the days of the dirty wars in that region. As many will recall, that was when Henry Kissinger — accessory to the murder of duly-elected President Salvador Allende in Chile — liked to point out something called "the arc of history" didn't pass through South America, which meant to Mr. Kissinger what went on down there didn't really matter. It didn't matter if friendly right-wing regimes murdered and disappeared citizens in the left-leaning opposition. It was a horrific time. Many of the disappeared were killed and their naked bodies flown out over the ocean, slit open so they'd sink when kicked out the door as unidentifiable shark chum. It's always good to remember this period, lest it return like a Dracula sequel. One good way to remember is to use Netflicks for films like The Official Story, a memorable Argentine film about a conservative, childless high school history teacher whose husband (he's in the secret police) brings home an adorable baby girl. This woman's growing curiosity and her efforts to figure out where this child came from makes the film a powerful story.
There's a very deep-seated mistrust in Latin America for right-wing gringo leaders from the North. Uruguay is small and likely more homogeneous and cosmopolitan than its much larger neighbors. This may explain why its ex-guerrilla leader is so respected, while in the giant to the north — Brazil — ex-guerrilla, former President Dilma Rousseff, who was also imprisoned and tortured, was ignominiously removed from the presidency by the Brazilian right in a highly-polarized political climate. Her predecessor — the popular Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva — was just given a 10-year jail sentence. In both cases, the charge was corruption. With a very violent and exploitative history, Brazil is one of the more corrupt nations on the planet; corruption seems to have been absorbed into its very being. Corruption in Brazil? To paraphrase the narrator's line in Apocalypse Now: "Charging someone with corruption in Brazil is like giving out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500."
Colombia has a very bloody history as well. But President Santos has broken with his predecessor and the absorption of FARC into the system seems to be working. His views on the Drug War are equally interesting. He opened his Guardian op-ed this way:
"How does one explain to a Colombian peasant in a rural community in the southwest of the country that he will be prosecuted under criminal charges for growing marijuana plants, while a young entrepreneur in Colorado finds his or her legal recreational marijuana business booming?"
A very good question that our own Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other drug warriors should be made to ponder. Too many of them are still obsessed with violence and prison as a problem solvers.
Uruguayan Congressman Sebastian Sabini, a 36-years-old leftist and an occasional pot smoker, is the father of the new marijuana legalization plan in Uruguay. He says it's a matter of social justice. "The sectors that bear the brunt of drug policies are the poorest," he told The New York Times. "The ones sent to jail are the poor people."
That class-based dynamic is certainly at work here in the United States. (Of course, we're not supposed to mention the idea of class here in North America.) All one has to do is look at the race and economic strata of the majority of people we have prosecute and imprisoned over the years for drug crimes. Then watch unpopular New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pander to The Opiate Crisis and suburban Jersey girls on heroin. Nobody cried such crocodile tears when it was inner city African American kids ruining their troubled lives on crack or heroin. Then, it was an impassioned call for more cops and more prisons. Get tough! No mercy! Arrest 'em and lock 'em up. And once they're locked up in America — where politicians can never be seen saying I'm sorry or I was wrong — prison reform is a Sisyphian project.
I will never forget an encounter I had back in the '90s with then-Senator Joe Biden from Delaware. I was working as the house photographer for Widener University, which is just south of the Philly airport and just north of the Delaware line. Biden was then working hard in the Senate to fund more cops and prisons. He came to Widener to speak on the topic, and I was assigned to photograph him. After taking a few shots, I decided to stay to listen to the man and his pitch for the Drug War, something that personally interested me, beyond my job as a flak photographer.
I forget exactly what the beloved working-class senator from the corporate state of Delaware said. But it didn't sit right with me. I had been spending my vacation time as a photographer in places like El Salvador and Nicaragua, in the middle of the Reagan Wars. I'd also been photographing addicts on the street through a needle exchange program in inner city Philadelphia and had been reading on Harm Reduction research. Later, I become aware, from a book by Ted Gest called Crime & Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order, that when Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980, Democrats were freaked out: they feared they were finished politically. According to Gest, it was Joe Biden who saved the day by saying, "'Give me the crime issue and you'll never have trouble with it in an election.'" Crime bills were the way for Democrats to stay in the political game.
"How did so much crime legislation pass during the partisan 1980s?" Gest asks. "A key element was important personal relationships in the Capital, especially between Biden and the new Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Strom Thurmond of South Carolina." This is the famous racist Dixiecrat who, following the Nixon Strategy, had changed his party affiliation to Republican, keeping his Senate seniority. It was the beginning of a fruitful political friendship — "fruitful" that is, if you were a politician willing to pander and fuel the Drug War fears of the time. The result was money for more cops and more prisons. It was part and parcel with what Michelle Alexander has dubbed "the new Jim Crow," where the stigma of being a felon replaced the old stigma of being a nigger. Bill Clinton went on to pursue a similar strategy to stay in the political game.
It was thus that I encountered Senator Biden in a Widener University auditorium shilling for the Drug War. I was in the second row and raised my hand. Biden called on me, stepping toward me as I stood up. We were maybe ten feet apart. My question focused on why he seemed to dismiss addressing the demand problem in the United Stares. I mentioned Harm Reduction. The important word I used was decriminalization. My point was why couldn't we try something other than using the military and police and prisons to address our very real drug problem?
I might as well have said something about his children. He knew I was there as some kind of working PR person, and he lit into me with vicious glee. He turned to address the audience, avoiding both me and my question.
"This fellow thinks he's smart. He cleverly uses the term 'decriminalization' — when he really means legalization. He wants to make drugs legal, folks." He went on some more. All the time I wanted to say: "Listen — SIR! — would you answer my question."
It was personal. But it made the man's huge investment in the Drug War very clear. He knew very well that decriminalization and all the very reasonable Harm Reduction research was the Achilles heel of the Drug War. If the well-respected Ted Gest is correct, the Drug War virtually made Joe Biden's political career; working with Strom Thurmond to put away black people made him who he is today. Is this unfair to Joe Biden? No doubt, his bi-partisan cooperation with Thurmond to some degree mitigated the South Carolina senator's Old South racism. It did nothing, however, to ease up the trend that led to the mass incarceration of African Americans; and some would add it did nothing to mitigate the current dysfunctional national bruise caused by the ideological struggle between the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
We all know Joe Biden's well-nourished public persona as the working man's politician, the guy all of us want to sit down and have a beer with. The fact is, I would have loved to sit down and have a beer with Joe. I'd ask him to answer the question he parried away in that auditorium. What do we have to do now to undo what you and your bi-partisan allies created back in the '80s? We all may have the opportunity to ask him these questions, since it feels like he's running for 2020. But let's hope the Democrats get their act together and do better than running good ol' Joe.
Thanks to the moral bankruptcy of our North American leaders on the Drug War and a history of arrogant intervention in Latin America — from Henry Kissinger to Joe Biden — leaders in Latin America are going their own way, working in the interests of their own populations. With the ascendancy of Donald Trump, this moral bankruptcy has reached a new low. The White House has become a major reality show and our attorney general and the rest of the cabinet are fodder for jokes.
In some quarters, there's hope in dope. The great American Willie Nelson has launched his own marijuana company with the classy brand name Willie's Reserve. Like Louis Armstrong and other musicians, Nelson is a regular pot smoker. He told Rolling Stone magazine he wished Attorney General Jeff Sessions would just lighten up and smoke a bone. Nelson also said he once worked for Donald Trump at one of his casinos and that the man had paid him well and on time, despite his vast experience with bankruptcy. Then he somehow became president of the United States and was surprised how hard that job was. Nelson toyed with the idea of running for president once. Then he thought about it and changed his mind.
"It's easy," the laid back Texas country singer said, "when you can just go bankrupt anytime you want to and say, 'I'll check you later.' But that's hard to do when you're president of the United States."
We wonder why we have an opiate crisis among white suburbanites and why legal marijuana is such a big deal now in America. Why every night on TV we get ads ad-nauseam for this or that legal drug to do this or that with our psyche or body. Americans of all stripes are simply exhausted and frustrated with the political/social/cultural world they've allowed to assume such power over them. We're all taught what individuals we are — yet we're caught in a maelstrom way beyond our control. So we turn to escape and delusion, helped along by this or that chemical. It's not that hard to figure out. One simply has to be capable of seeing it. But, then, humans are generally screwed up everywhere. That's the Human Condition, what Jean Paul Sartre meant when he coined the phrase "Hell is other people."
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Done , for security . I'm watching this thread with very interest .
The blockchain shows you received 1,000,000 NXT. You did not develop the project you were paid to develop.
You come on here and accuse multiple people of wrong doing with no evidence.
You dox people who by all sources other than yourself appear to have done nothing wrong.
I sincerely suggest you seek the help of a medical professional to deal with your mental health. Seriously. If you can find me some objective observer that can read through this whole mess and make the claim that you appear to be a rational mentally healthy individual I will be amazed.
There is nothing to do with these kind of people.
Rational arguments are non-sense for them.
The more you try to help them, the more they hate you.
Everyone is seen as an enemy for them, especially their parents and the medical staff.
Cant we up the ante a tad, and serve BM something legal, so at the very least, he is obliged to explain the 1m NXT he took for services not rendered?
Damn, now we are probably ALL on his ignore list !
Took you long enough! It's not like I hide it. Thank you for the third-party verification that I actually am who I say I am. That should help my efforts in the community to develop trust between them and myself.
I'm very interested to hear what they tell you. I suspect it will be along the lines of, "I'm sorry, Mr. Meanie, but since Cadence wasn't acting in an official capacity when she was writing on the Intarwebz, we're really not interested in your story. kthxbye."
I think it's pretty obvious to everyone reading that anything that I post here is my personal opinion and is in no way any sort of statement from my employer.
Please make sure to tell my employer about all my "dysfunctions"! They will want to know all that personal information about me!
So now you know where I work and so does the world - when you gunna man up and post your employer's information? Do you have an employer? Maybe you're actually on government assistance programs and using crypto as a source of undeclared income.
lol Josh is getting lost in the shitstorm.
I feel sorry for the person at the other end of the line that has to waste their time and effort on dealing with you.
Bluemeanie, return 1M NXT that you stole from NXT community, you filthy thief!
Gone strangely quiet in here now. I recall BM wasn't the only one doing some background research, CfB had a bounty out too. BM was kicked off of Open Transactions, was involved in PeerUnity but didn't complete there either. I wonder what CfB found.
So far, of the 2 provable crimes committed in and around this thread: Joshua committed both of them.
Way to go, crusader for justice Josh. You are a frigging genius.


The CUGA® Sequencing System is a product which Nippon GeneTech Co., Ltd. has developed to commercialized Transcriptional Sequencing which utilizes the RNA polymerase to analyze sequences. The principle of TS is based on the dideoxy terminator method by Sanger F., which uses a DNA polymerase, but it has great advantages over the conventional sequencing method using a DNA polymerase.
1. Without purifying the PCR product, it is possible to bring in the sequence reaction just as it is.
In Cycle Sequencing using a DNA polymerase, 2'-dNTP has been used as a substrate in both the PCR and sequencing reaction in the case of template DNA preparation using PCR.
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The condition of reaction 37℃, 60min. many steps of temp., 2〜3hr.
2. It achieves a great result in analyzing the template DNA which was difficult to analyze using Cycle Sequencing.
In Cycle Sequencing using the DNA polymerase, a double-stranded DNA is denatured to a single stranded DNA at the first step of the reaction. This step is necessary to anneal the primer which is indispensable for the initiation of the DNA synthesis. If you use the template DNA with GC-rich sequences, palindromic sequences and so on, the secondary structure occurred, however, it became the obstruction factor in this step.
In Transcriptional Sequencing, on the other hand, it doesn't require the denaturing step which easily forms the secondary structure and this is a great result in terms of analyzing the template DNA with GC-rich sequences, palindromic sequences and so on.
3. It is possible to react at isothermal, short-time condition (37℃, 60min.).
In Cycle Sequencing, 3 steps: denatured, annealing and elongation are indispensable. The temperature is set using a Thermal Cycler and the reaction takes 2 to 3 hrs.
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What's the difference between a tool and a toy? When you were young, you may have had a toy toolbox. A plastic hammer, a flimsy wrench, maybe even a screwdriver that fit into your tiny kid hand. These were fun to play with, and they may have even lead you down a specific career path later in life. But when you got older, you probably started to realize there was a big difference between the toys and the real thing – where the toys were fun to play with, the tools were both fun and effective ways of changing the world around you. Now, no one would ever accuse a smart lighting system of being a mere toy. But when you consider some of the advancements over the past few years in smart technology, today's systems can do a lot to enhance your lighting control design. In this blog, we'll explore a big advancement in lighting control and how it can add a new layer of luxury to the living spaces in your Chicago, IL home or beyond. Keep reading for more.


The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme has announced some important changes to the scheme that will take effect from 2019 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These new rules will apply to existing cardholders and those wishing to apply to the scheme for the first time.
From 01 January 2019, anyone applying for an Installation or Maintenance Electrician gold card for the first time will be required to sign up to Registered Electrician status. This means the applicant must be qualified to the current edition of BS7671 (the Wiring Regulations) when the application is made and sign up to a Code of Professional Practice, in addition to holding the minimum qualifications required for the card.
From 01 July 2019, any existing Installation or Maintenance Electrician gold card holders who have let their card lapse for more than a year will be required to renew as a Registered Electrician.
01 July 2019 is also the deadline for Registered Electricians who have qualified to the 17th Edition of BS7671 to achieve a qualification in the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations (BS7671:2018), which will be published on 02 July 2018.
The changes are being introduced to promote and underpin the status of Registered Electrician, recognising those electricians who are not only working to the NVQ Level 3 standard, but also meet the latest British Standard (BS7671) for electrical installation.
The ECS will advise its cardholders on appropriate training courses in the 18th Edition as soon as details are available from awarding organisations and training providers.
© JIB, 2019. The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme is administered in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Joint Industry Board. Applications and information throughout Scotland are administered by the Scottish Joint Industry Board.


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Property Rights Advocate office opens-No help for Landowners!
Last Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013, the Alberta Government announced the opening of the Property Rights Advocate office. Lee Cutforth will be the newly appointed Property Rights Advocate.
This is not a surprise, as we all knew this day was coming. The Alberta Government announced in 2012 that it would be introducing the Property Rights Advocate (Bill 6) much to the dismay of Alberta Landowners Council and Landowners across the province. Here is an excerpt from an email that we, ALC sent you March 20th, 2012.
"As we expected, the PCs have started their propaganda blitz. We have noticed that the Ministers and MLAs are still professing that the Land Bills are good for Albertans, and that the "property rights advocate" as introduced in Bill 6 would alleviate any problems that Albertans would encounter. In the St. Paul Journal Article, Minister Diana McQueen says that advocate's role is very strong in their role to advocate for landowners. The truth is that Bill 36 (Bill 6, even with the amendments) still takes away the ability for landowners to have access to the courts or compensation. The "property rights advocate" is nothing more than a "grief councilor" with no real power to help landowners. The Property Rights Advocate would simply be representing the government and their legislation, and filing an annual report to the legislature. This will do nothing to protect landowners, and the only solution is to repeal these Bills."
Below are our comments about Wednesday's announcement by the Alberta Government that it has opened a new office called the Property Rights Advocate at an annual cost of $1 million.
Why has the government opened up this office?
-Many rural Albertans, farmers and ranchers are upset with laws passed by the government that either take away or reduce their property rights.
Eg. Carbon Capture and Sequestration Laws (Bill 24) and the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36).
What will the new Property Rights Advocate and his office do?
-Not much-he has no powers-all he can do is confirm your rights have been taken, he can't do anything to fix it or stop it.
-It appears to be an effort by the government to show that they are concerned about property without actually doing anything to address the new laws that created the controversy in the first place.
Is creating this office a good idea?
-No, because it's a waste of tax dollars.
-It would make more sense for the government to fix the laws it has passed rather than create a new taxpayer-funded office to protect landowners against those laws.
-It would make more sense for the government to respect property rights than to pay a new high level official to pretend to advocate for Albertans whose rights are taken.
To jog your memory, we have attached a few articles from March of 2012, when we first heard about Bill 6 (Property Rights Advocate) and another article from Dec 10th, 2012 from the Edmonton Journal.
On Wednesday, Feb 06, 2013, Lawyer and ALC policy chair, Keith Wilson was interviewed on Calgary's QR 770 about the opening of the Property Rights Advocate office. To listen to Keith Wilson's radio interview (entitled Audio-QR770 Radio Interview Wilson re Property Rights Advocate, Feb 2013) go to this link from our website:
http://www.albertalandownerscouncil.com/bill2.htm
With the government having brought in Bill 2 last fall—a new law that takes away our rights when energy projects are coming onto our own land—it is clear that we still have work to do. We at Alberta Landowners Council wish to continue on with the fight. We are a non profit society and rely on the help of our fellow concerned and affected Albertans to keep fighting.
We need to keep landowners connected and informed. We need the government to now that we are not going away. Your donation will help us do this. You can donate on-line by going to the ALC website or you can send a cheque to the following address:
Alberta Landowners Council
55017 Range Road 262,
Sturgeon County, Alberta,
T8T 1A4


The Houston Indiana Fall Festival is the 2nd Saturday of October. For 2018, the date is October 13. Hope to see you there this year!
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Development: LDC graduation the 'first milestone', not the 'winning post'
The Trade and Development Board of UNCTAD on Monday held a discussion on the Least Developed Countries Report 2016 which amongst others had argued that graduation of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is "not the winning post of a race to cease being an LDC, but rather the first milestone in the marathon of development."
The number of new countries becoming LDCs, the near doubling of the size of the group in the last 45 years in part reflects the small number of countries graduating out of the category - just four in the 25 years since the principle of graduation was established (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014).
The report, released around mid-December last year, had pointed out that the progressive nature of development means that graduation - and still more the achievement of the statistical criteria for graduation - is not an end in itself. It marks the end of a political and administrative process, but not the completion of an economic or developmental process.
According to the report, it is not enough simply to target achievement of the criteria needed for graduation, it is also necessary to establish the foundations needed to maintain development progress beyond graduation.
"Focusing exclusively on the graduation indicators risks diverting attention and resources from other aspects of development that will be critical long after graduation has been achieved," it said.
Policy approaches to graduation need to go beyond the need to escape from the traps particular to the earliest stages of development, and take fully into account the need to prepare for the challenges of development beyond graduation.
"In other words, it is not sufficient merely to fulfil the criteria and complete the processes of graduation itself. The aim should rather be to achieve graduation with the momentum required to maintain development progress in the post-graduation period."
The report had also noted that the number of LDCs doubled from the original list of 25 in 1971 to a peak of 50 between 2003 and 2007, declining only to 48 since 2014.
As well as the number of new countries becoming LDCs, the near doubling of the size of the group in the last 45 years in part reflects the small number of countries graduating out of the category - just four in the 25 years since the principle of graduation was established (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014).
The report had called for improvements to international support measures to address the developmental needs of the LDCs.
According to UNCTAD, these include donors fulfilling their long-standing commitments to provide 0.15-0.20 per cent of their national income for assistance to LDCs, to make aid more stable and predictable and to align it more closely with national development strategies; faster progress towards 100 per cent duty-free and quota-free access for LDC exports to developed country markets; renewed efforts to break the stalemate on special and differential treatment for LDCs in the WTO negotiations; improved monitoring of technology transfer to the LDCs; and a more systematic, smooth transition process for graduating countries, to limit the impact of losing access to international support measures when they graduate.
In addition, among the key priorities for LDCs in moving from graduation strategies to graduation-plus strategies are: transforming rural economies by developing rural non-farm activities in parallel with upgrading agriculture; combining economy-wide industrial policies directed towards market failures with policies aimed at promoting productive activities; building capacities in science, technology and innovation; strengthening tax systems, improving financial systems and addressing financial inclusion; and strengthening efforts to address gender inequality across all policy areas.
The report went on to emphasise that the economic outlook for LDCs as a group for the next two years remains uncertain and will be driven by unfolding conditions at the global level.
It said the current international economic scenario remains lacklustre due to a combination of weak demand in developed countries as a result of stagnant real wages, the continuing slowdown of international trade, a sharp decline in growth or even recession in many developing countries, high or rising debt in both developed and developing countries, and depressed commodity prices.
"This international environment will continue to weigh down on the outlook for economic growth in LDCs and, hence, on their prospects for graduation and sustainable development."
Nevertheless, the collective GDP growth of the LDCs is forecast to strengthen somewhat to 4.5 per cent in 2016 and 5.7 per cent in 2017, it said.
The presentation of the Least Developed Countries Report 2016 was one of the agenda items of the sixty-fourth executive session of the Trade and Development Board, being held from 6-8 February.
In some opening remarks on Monday, Mr Joakim Reiter, the Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD, said that the complex challenges and vulnerabilities of LDCs do not come to an end with graduation. After graduation, much more work remains to be done to face the daunting task of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The road to graduation and beyond is the focus of the LDC report of 2016, he said. The report provides advice to all LDCs including those that are close to graduation on how to achieve graduation, how to make the most of the process to graduation while setting the course for sustainable development beyond graduation itself.
Graduation is only a milestone in the development process. "It is a signpost, not the winning post of the long marathon of development. And how a country graduates is at least as important as when graduation is achieved," said Mr Reiter.
He pointed out that the LDC report of 2016 advises LDCs on graduation-plus strategies. Those are supposed to be game-changing strategies and they should be an indispensable feature of every LDCs' sustainable development policy tool kit.
Such strategies are centred on structural transformation and action to mitigate the loss of access to LDC-specific international support measures following graduation. Those strategies are also in-line with the Istanbul Programme of Action principle of ownership, leadership and primary responsibility of LDCs for their own development.
Technology has in many cases been the missing link in the international support to the LDCs, he said, adding that the report highlights how the international community can match LDCs' self-initiative with constructive targeted and expanded support especially technology fusion and transfer and technology capacity building.
Finally, he said, the report recalls the importance of donor countries' fulfilment of their longstanding Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments to LDCs, which have recently been reaffirmed in Agenda 2030 (for Sustainable Development).
He highlighted that in 2015-16, ODA to LDCs amounted to around US$26 billion, and that LDCs are missing or losing an equivalent of US$23 billion in exports because of G20 protectionist measures.
"So you will understand that for many LDCs what is given with one hand, although still inadequate compared to the ODA commitments, is also taken by the other hand through the various market distortions and protectionist measures that more powerful countries are imposing on LDC exports."
Also speaking on Monday was the new Director of the UNCTAD Division on Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes, Mr Paul Akiwumi.
Mr Akiwumi said that the 2030 Agenda is a universal agenda. The increased emphasis on social goals, and the aim of leaving no one behind, has shifted the world's attention towards a category of countries that are the epitome of those left behind by the global economy, and socially.
This universal agenda and integrated approach now has critical implications for global and national approaches to development. It clearly calls for a stronger focus on those countries where poverty reduction is most difficult, i.e. the least developed countries.
"As you are also aware, the LDCs are intrinsically linked to the 17 goals and 169 targets that make up the SDGs," he told the meeting.
Nearly half of the population of the 48 LDCs - approximately 400 million people - remain in extreme poverty, compared to less than a quarter in any other developing country.
The proportion of poverty in LDCs has doubled from less than 20 per cent in the 1990s to nearly 40 per cent in 2014. And the latest growth rates between 4.5 per cent and 5 per cent expected by the LDCs on average falls well short of the target growth rate of 7 per cent.
What this means is that under the current trajectory, some 35 per cent of the population will remain below extreme poverty (line) by 2030, said Mr Akiwumi.
He noted that UNCTAD has repeatedly argued - and will continue to argue - that the LDCs are the battleground on which the 2030 Agenda will be won or lost.
This is where the shortfalls for the SDG targets are greatest, where the improvements have been the slowest and where the barriers to further progress are highest.
Closing the existing gaps and achieving the SDG targets will require not only specific focus on the LDCs but extremely important will be political commitment from member states and continued coordination and enhanced international support.
In this regard, he encouraged member states to participate at the next High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of ECOSOC which will take place from 10-19 July in New York, and for it to be represented at the highest level.
The theme of the forum will be eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world, he noted.
By: Kanaga Raja, TWN, Geneva.
Source: SUNS - South North Development Monitor, SUNS #8397, 8 February 2017.


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Creating the Oswald Legend: Conclusion
Written by Vasilios Vazakas
Vasilios Vazakas concludes his seven-part investigation into the creation of the Oswald legend by exploring the delay in opening up a CIA 201 file using Betsy Wolf's HSCA investigation notes and its relation to James Angleton's use of mole hunts as cover for more sinister operations.
In 1959, the US intelligence services, and notably the CIA, were trying to infiltrate revolutionary movements like Castro's government and sympathetic organizations for purposes of infiltration and discreditation. Lee Harvey Oswald had all the earmarks of being prepared with that purpose in mind. In all likelihood, Oswald was a creature of American intelligence who was sent to the USSR to help him build what is called in espionage parlance, a 'Legend'. He was a defector with Marxist ideology who may or may not have betrayed technical information about the U2 spy plane to the Russians.
The plan was to return to the United States and use this Legend to infiltrate and smoke out subversives: Communists and Castro supporters, not only in public and private life, but also in defense contractor industrial plants. His primary target would have been the newly organized Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which was active in both New York and the Los Angeles area. In the LA area, the first people who established the organization attended Robert Fritchman's First Unitarian Church. Coincidentally or not, one of his Marine buddies, Kerry Thornley, was also attending that Church. It is most likely then that Thornley, Fritchman, or both provided Oswald with information about the Albert Schweitzer College (ASC), a quite obscure higher learning institute in Switzerland and encouraged him to enroll and study there. For when Oswald made out his passport application to Europe, this was one of the destinations he listed. After being contacted by the Director of the college, his mother thought he might be attending classes there when he left the United States after being discharged from the Marines.
The ASC was created by the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) and was supported by the Unitarian American Friends of Albert Schweitzer College. Percival Brundage, an important figure of the Eastern establishment, was one of the Directors of the Unitarian American Friends of Albert Schweitzer College. Brundage was also the Director of the Bureau of Budget (BOB) during the Eisenhower presidency and along with another Unitarian, James Killian, they were involved in the U-2 and CORONA satellite projects, the latter which was intended to replace the U-2 plane.
Brundage held major stocks in Southern Air Transport, which Paul Helliwell, a CIA man in the Far East, had established. Helliwell was responsible for arranging and managing the drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle to finance CIA operations.
As Senator Richard Schweiker stated, Oswald had the fingerprints of intelligence all over him. If there was one person whose fingertips were more dominant than anyone else, that person was James Jesus Angleton. He and his ultra-secretive CI/SIG unit were keeping tabs on the young Marine since his defection to the Soviet Union and maybe earlier. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt, we learned for the first time of the magnificent work of HSCA researcher Betsy Wolf. Her work was nowhere to be found in the HSCA report or in any typed memorandum. Malcolm could only manage to get her handwritten notes when they were declassified in 1998. Her notes helped solve a riddle that had plagued the critical community since 1995 and the release of John Newman's Oswald and the CIA.
When Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, he made plain his intent to dangle the U-2 spy plane secrets to the Soviets. Yet his defection and this dangerous offer did not cause the opening of a CIA 201 file. That did not occur until 13 months after. Years later, when Richard Helms was asked about this delay, he found it inexplicable. He replied, ''I am amazed.''
Betsy Wolf was most probably doubly amazed when she discovered this odd discrepancy. She set out to find a solution to his mystery. In an HSCA interview of a CIA officer named William Larson, he revealed that if there were more than five documents on someone at the CIA, a 201 file should be opened. Betsy was intrigued by this, because after Oswald's defection, there were more than five documents concerning him. And yet a 201 file was not opened.
But there was another paradox about Oswald's files at CIA. Larson revealed that the documents about Oswald should have gone to the Soviet Russia Division (SR), but instead they went to the Office of Security (OS). Malcolm Blunt found out that the OS was cooperating with Angleton's CI/SIG, or mole hunters unit. Betsy Wolf found out that there a dissemination of files form upon request from CIA offices. In Oswald's case, someone from OS deliberately directed his files to the Office of Security instead of the General Filing System.
Betsy Wolf's notes included a new information about a never-before-seen interview of Robert Gambino, then Chief of the CIA's Office of Security. Wolf interviewed her in the latter half of 1978, as the HSCA was closing down. Gambino told her that it was CIA Mail Logistics, a component of the Office of Central Reference (OCR), that was responsible for disseminating all incoming documents. Mail Logistics should have sent all Oswald documents to the SR division through the General Filing System. That was bypassed. Instead, they were sent to the OS. This was important information, because it revealed that someone had rigged the system at the time of, or even before, Oswald's defection.
It is possible that this was done for the purpose of a mole hunt, after former KGB officer Pyotr Popov was placed under surveillance. Popov was a double agent who had informed the CIA that information about the U-2 project had been compromised. It is possible that Angleton, who monitored Oswald more closely than anyone else, decided to use him in an to start a mole hunt to find out the alleged Soviet spy who had possibly betrayed the U-2 secrets that led to the alleged 1960 shootdown of the Gary Powers flown U-2 over the USSR., although some observers, like the late Fletcher Prouty, did not think this was how Powers was downed.
Angleton would initiate this mole hunt as a cover to conceal the true purpose of the U-2 incident, which was probably the cancellation of the Paris Peace Summit between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev. The CIA and the Military Industrial Complex were willing to sacrifice the U-2, since its utility was coming to an end, ready to be replaced by a newer airplane and satellites. A scapegoat was needed, and the Soviet mole—who was never found—was just that. The CIA had the excuse to officially search for him, without success.
Three years later, Angleton would initiate a similar mole hunt in Mexico City after Oswald's, or an impersonator's, visit to the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, in order to reveal a Soviet mole who had helped the Cubans impersonate Oswald and expose an official CIA operation to embarrass the FPCC in countries where it had support. The victim this time was the receptionist at the Cuban embassy, Sylvia Duran.
The Mexico City operation was used to conceal Kennedy's assassination by forcing a major cover up that would ensure that the identity of the perpetrators would never be known. John Newman named Angleton as the CIA officer who was most likely the architect of the Mexico City plot and orchestrated the drama that evolved down there.
What Betsy Wolf revealed was that Ray Rocca, Angleton's most trusted associate, had cabled Luis Echeverria on November 23, 1963, to inform him about Oswald's and Sylvia Duran's relationship. What is striking about this is that it occurred long before Helms assigned Angleton to take over the Mexico City investigation from John Whitten, thus before Angleton became liaison to the Warren Commission. The day after the assassination, the CIA took Elena Garro de Paz under their protection. In other words, the CIA had both the accuser, Elena, and the accused collaborator Duran, under their control within 24 hours of Kennedy's assassination. It is important to note that Philip Shenon used Elena's story about Duran being a communist aide to Oswald quite liberally in his Commission supporting book A Cruel and Shocking Act.
Besides Betsy Wolf's revelations, the Angleton fingertips could have been laid upon Dallas, if one considers the strange behavior of certain Policemen like Gerald Hill and Captain Westbrook. A declassified CIA file revealed that the CIA Police Group had been transferred from the NE Division to Angleton's CI staff. It was the Counter Intelligence Police Group (CI/GP) that was running the CIA's police programs.
After Angleton was fired by William Colby, he made the following bizarre remark to reporter Seymour Hersh: "A mansion has many rooms and there were many things going on…I am not privy to who struck John." This comment was cryptic and it is difficult to interpret it with precision. Did Angleton mean that he was out of the loop and someone else within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, someone even higher up than him? Or, in a similar fashion to the mole hunt, was he trying to deflect all responsibility from himself and blame it on the ever-elusive mole? Do we have any indications that Angleton has ever admitted that his famous mole hunt was just an excuse and a cover?
In part 5, we documented that Angleton revealed to Joseph Trento that E. Howard Hunt was in Dallas on the day of the assassination and possibly sent there by a high-level mole inside the CIA. Trento believed that Angleton was trying to hide his own connections to Hunt and that it was him that had sent Hunt to Dallas. If we consider Trento's explanation, then we have an indication that Angleton was using the mole hunt as a cover whenever it was suitable to cover his sinister operations.
Hunt himself vehemently denied that he ever was in Dallas that day, but Mark Lane proved in the Liberty Lobby trial that Hunt was contradicting himself. Hunt had testified to the Rockefeller Commission back in 1974 that on 11/22/1963 he was with his wife and children in Washington D.C. Lane asked him if he recalled his testimony at the first Liberty Lobby trial, where he had admitted that his children were upset when allegations came out that he was in Dallas that day and he had to reassure his children that he was not in Dallas that day and had nothing to do with the assassination.[1] Then Lane asked him a question that Hunt could not adequately answer:
Mr. Hunt, why did you have to convince your children that you were not in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, if in fact, as you say, a fourteen-year-old daughter, a thirteen-year-old daughter, and a ten-year-old son were with you in the Washington D.C. area on November 22, 1963 and were with you at least for the next forty eight hours, as you all stayed glued to the TV set?'[2]
Did Oswald visit Mexico City in the fall of 1963? Angleton may have designed the Mexico City plot, but it was David Phillips and Anne Goodpasture in Mexico who were controlling the information that made it possible to succeed. Years later, Phillips admitted that Oswald likely never visited Mexico City:
I am not in a position today to talk to you about the inner workings of the CIA station in Mexico City…but I will tell you this, that when the record comes out, we will find that there was never a photograph taken of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City. We will find out that Lee Harvey Oswald never visited, let me put it, that is a categorical statement…there is no evidence to show that Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet Embassy.[3]
Continuing with Mark Lane's encounter with Phillips: he said that if the CIA gave deliberately false information about the incident, Mexico City would ask for the abolishment of the Agency and made a very enigmatic statement that "if some CIA guy that I never saw did something that I never heard of, I don't want to have to come back here."[4] Was Phillips trying to say that he was innocent and that someone else within the CIA was to blame for the crime? Or as a former actor, was he was trying to confuse his audience and appear innocent?
Part of Oswald's mission was to join the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which he was the only member in New Orleans. Through people like Guy Banister, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie, he got into contact with Cuban exiles. In Dallas, the allegedly Marxist Oswald was in contact with peculiar characters like the the White Russians, most prominently George DeMohrenschildt and George Bouhe, and also with Michael and Ruth Paine.
Oswald was probably employed indirectly by the CIA's Domestic Operations Division, through some proprietary firm, most likely involved in industrial security. As Paul Bleau has shown, William Stuckey was in contact with the FBI in 1962 trying to find out if there was any member of the FPCC in New Orleans. It was Stuckey who arranged the New Orleans radio interview during which Oswald had a slip of the tongue that almost gave away his secret that in Russia he was under the protection of the US Government.
When he was captured in Dallas, he again dropped a hint as to what he was. Roger Craig told Captain Fritz that he saw Oswald entering a station wagon after the assassination. Oswald replied "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don't try to drag her into this." Then in a very disgusted and disappointed tone, he added "Everybody will know who I am now." The Warren Commission transposed the 'now' and wrote in its report "NOW everybody will know who I am."[5]
Oswald was likely not an official CIA agent, but he was made to believe so and he was probably the creation of a joint project by primarily the CIA, along with the FBI and the military, exemplified by a mentality mostly marked by the American Security Council. However, this author does not want to give the wrong impression that the American Security Council killed President Kennedy. Oswald just happened to be a protagonist in a drama, a theatrical play where some actors were known to him, but most of them—along with the director, the script writers, and the producers—were operating in the shadows. Oswald had no knowledge of how the story would end. He would soon realize that this theater was larger than he could imagine, that the stage was the Globe, like Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard (see Appendix).
After Oswald's funeral, his mother Marguerite, stated to a television camera:
Lee Harvey Oswald, my son, even after his death, has done more for his country than any other living human being.
To sum up Oswald's tragic life and fate, one has to remember Jim Garrison's words during an on camera interview for the TV mini-series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" (Part 4; "The Patsy"):
Lee Oswald was totally, unequivocally, completely innocent of the assassination of President Kennedy and the fact that history, or in the re-writing of history, disinformation has made a villain out of this young man who wanted nothing more than to be a fine Marine, is in some ways the greatest injustice of all.
By all accounts, Oswald was innocent, never fired a shot, and he was not on the sixth floor of the TSBD at the crucial time. The latest research reveals that Oswald might have been outside on the steps watching the Presidential Parade.[6]
If Oswald was innocent, then who committed this heinous crime? Ideally, when trying to solve a murder case, the first step would be to examine the crime scene, evidence and question the witnesses. Sadly, for the JFK assassination it would be an exercise in futility to even try to contemplate such a feat. It would be a Herculean task, since the crime scene has been tampered with, evidence has been destroyed, witnesses' testimonies were withheld or altered and a massive cover up of Gargantuan proportions ensured that it would be impossible for future investigators to piece it together. It was not only the Dallas Police that did not do its job properly, but also the FBI, the medical doctors at Bethesda, and all the investigative bodies, from the Warren Commission to the HSCA, never really tried hard to uncover the truth.
Faced with this improbable mountain to climb, what is left for today's researchers is to focus on Fletcher Prouty's phrase "Cui Bono?'' and the classic triptych of the Means, Motive and Opportunity. In part 6, we examined Oswald's elite connections and how JFK's foreign policy was drastically reversed by LBJ when he ascended into power. We also discussed how enormous profits were made from the Vietnam War and this foreign policy reversal in general. However, this author would like to stress that this is circumstantial evidence and one cannot conclude beyond reasonable doubt who were those that instigated the assassination. Their identities will likely forever remain obscured from the eye of history.
The same could be said for the actual assassins. We'll probably never find out their names. Lucky for us, a wealth of official documents and tireless research by those who investigated the assassination left us some clues as to who were the facilitators who carried out the instigators wishes.
Some researchers would blame the Mafia, the Cubans, the CIA, or the Military. This author believes that this is a false argument, that neither the CIA per se or the Military per se murdered the President. Most likely members of both participated outside their agencies, carrying out the wishes of a powerful elite, who believed in the American Century and its Manifest Destiny of financial conquest and economic possession, a refined neo-colonialism. This American Century was built on the solid foundations of the US dollar and the American war machine in order to expand around the Globe. As Henry Luce commented about the American Century in 1941, ''Tyrannies may require a large amount of living space, but Freedom requires and will require far greater living space than Tyranny.'' Allen Dulles, the CIA's Director, had always been in the service of the Power Elite and championed their interests whenever it was needed.
John Kennedy was a part of that elite, but after a while he was perceived as a virus, an internal fault that had to be eliminated and his murder was seen as an erasure of a fault line in the system. This could not be exemplified better than by the chilling and arrogant words that Allen Dulles uttered to Willie Morris, young editor of Harper's magazine, ''That little Kennedy…he thought he was a god.''[7] Those opposing his policies were a ruthless elite partly composed of Malthusian ideology championing Eugenics, the survival of the fittest, and social engineering.
Regarding Kennedy's assassination and the critical community, a great deal of time has been spent on finding who the marksmen were: their location, the shot trajectories, etc. This has led to some weird, silly theories: e.g. James Files, John Roselli, Charles Nicoletti.
The late great astronomer, Carl Sagan warned us about the dangers of not using our critical mind:
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, a world of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along.[8]
In the case of the JFK assassination, we have been up for grabs for the last 58 years, but it is time to practice these tough habits of thought to stop all those charlatans who have been throwing ashes so shamelessly into our eyes to obscure the truth.
The weight of history will be against us in our effort to reveal the true circumstances of President Kennedy's assassination, since there was so much obstruction of justice, destroyed evidence, disinformation, and an ongoing cover up, but we must persist in our quest for the truth.
In an X-Files episode, a retired Navy Commander tells Agent Scully:
We bury our dead alive, don't we?…We hear them every day, they talk to us, they haunt us, they beg us for meaning. Conscience is just the voices of the dead trying to save us from our own damnation.
Later, Scully tells Mulder about what a man said to her "that the dead speak to us from beyond the grave, that that's what conscience is…I think the dead are speaking to us Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. Maybe we bury the dead alive."[9]
Similarly, we have buried not only John Kennedy alive, but also his brother Robert and Martin Luther King. They have become our conscience, demanding justice and trying to save us from our damnation before it is too late. We only have to listen to our conscience.
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[1] Lane Mark, Plausible Denial, Plexus Publishing Ltd, 1992, p. 274.
[2] Ibid, pp. 282–283.
[3] Ibid, p. 82.
[5] "Roger Dean Craig," Spartacus Educational
[6] Prayer Man
[7] Talbot David, The Devil's Chessboard, HarperCollins 2015, p. 1.
[8] Sagan Carl, The Demon Haunted World, Headline Book Publishing, 1997, p. 42.
[9] X-Files, episode 3x15, Apocrypha.
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Vasilios Vazakas was born in Athens, Greece, and studied in Edinburgh, Scotland; he holds a BEng in energy engineering and an MSc in building services engineering. He has had a long-running interest in the JFK assassination, its relation to US foreign policy, and its relevance today. Vasilios has contributed a number of book reviews to this site.
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The tanker Mangun Jaya collided with passenger ferry KMP Victorious V off Cilegon oil terminals, Indonesia. The both ships dragged anchors and collided in Sunda Strait, being stuck together in a shallow. The accident happened in very bad weather and strong winds, which caused collision with anchors down. The local authorities dispatched tug at the scene of the accident, which tried to refloat the both ships, but attempt failed due to split anchor chains. The both ships remain afloat, but rescue team evacuated part of the crew for safety reasons. The authorities ordered bigger tug to refloat the stuck ships and salvage operation is planned to later today.
The accident with tanker Mangun Jaya and ferry KMP Victorious V happened in bad weather and stormy conditions. The both ships suffered damages from collision and breached in the hulls from grounding with water ingress, but remained afloat. According to preliminary information, there are no injured seamen during the accident and no water pollution, but oil collection boat was dispatched at the scene of grounding in case of oil spill. The salvage and investigation is under way.
"In last three days there were really high waves and weather was bad, which caused several shipping accident off Merak. In fact, some ships were not able to reach the jetty, because of the strong sea currents in Merak. Indeed, the current weather conditions in Merak are less friendly", said the Supervisor of Port Traffic Control, Banten Raya. "The information about the accident came to us, but we are coordinating out salvage operation with Ship Traffic Control", he added.
The tanker Mangun Jaya (IMO: 8211277) has overall length of 90.00 m, moulded beam of 15.00 m and maximum draft of 4.00 m. The deadweight of the vessel is 4,222 DWt and the gross tonnage is 2,621 GRT. The ship was built in 1987 by Intan Sengkunyit in their shipyard in Palembang, Indonesia and operated by local company Pertamina. During the accident the ship was under ballast on the anchorage off Cilegon oil terminals, waiting to be loaded.
The passenger ferry KMP Victorious V was empty during the collision, without any of the crew injured.


How long have you been playing your current sport: Since the third grade.
What position do you play: Punter and kicker.
What is your favorite memory from past games: Last season against Lima senior. I broke the school record for going 4/4 on field goals.
How do you work together with the other players on your team: I work with the shapers and holders every day trying to get faster and more consistent.
Stats: 14/21 in career field goals. Long of 49 yards.


Students who live in any RPS 205 attendance zone are welcome to complete an application. Lottery programs are for incoming kindergarten students for Barbour and Haskell, and for incoming pre-k students at Maria Montessori. Students in first through fifth grades can apply at the Welcome Center as limited seats are available. Visit rps205.com for more information and a complete list of open house dates.
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Doctors at the Igando General Hospital in Lagos area battling to save the life of a mother and her twin children who were hit by a truck suspected to be that of the Lagos State Waste Management Agency , LAWMA Thursday, in Igando area of state.
Eye witnesses said that driver of the truck with plate number FKJ 267 XW was driving against traffic, to dispose refuse at a dump site when tragedy occurred.
The unidentified woman according to eye witnesses was about crossing the road, unaware that the truck was approaching.
Angry residents who described incident of such along that route as one too many, shattered the windscreen of the truck. But the driver reportedly fled before the mob arrived.
An eye witness Okeho Jumbo , said " The tyres of the truck climbed the woman's legs while one of her twins was brought out under the truck.
They were all rushed to the Igando General hospital , where doctors are battling to save their lives".
Policemen at Igando division who spoke on the condition of anonymity stated that no life was lost as earlier reported.


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The devil's puppet — Perhaps it's that thick, black-as-the-devil's-soul monobrow that lurks above his beady little eyes. Or is it was his constant, cantankerous bitching and killjoy demeanor? Maybe it's just that ugly-ass striped sweater — whatever it is, Sesame Street's Bert is most definitely evil. Eeeeee-vil!
He's also a testament to the tenacity, hilarity and just plain fucked-upness of the Internet.
In 1998, a Web geek by the name of Dino Ignacio created a site devoted to the inherent evilness of Ernie's curmudgeonly housemate. It featured Photoshopped images of Bert consorting with the likes of Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan. The site immediately became a cult hit, and has prevailed far longer than a mere 15 minutes of fame. You can see a current incarnation at bertisevil.tv; an older mirror site can be found at welcome.to/Evil-Bert (evilbert.com now leads to a defunct mirror and a link to a porn site).
The site truly rocketed to international notoriety when, in 2001, Evil Bert actually turned up at an Osama bin Laden protest in Bangladesh. The nefarious muppet appeared lurking over the shoulder of Osama on a poster carried by a member of the crowd; it was assumed that the protester had downloaded the image from Web, and not knowing who Bert was, slapped it on a collage of Osama images.
After that incident, Ignacio pulled the plug on the site, but it was heavily mirrored, and images of Evil Bert are scattered across the Web to this day.
Heil Bert!
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Peer educator helps students stay healthy
Photo courtesy of Kristen Steffes
Kristen Steffes, a junior biology major, works with organizations like Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, Feminist Empower Movement and PantherWELL to keep her peers informed.
By Katie Sottile, Staff Writer
Imagine standing in front of a group of fellow college students and encouraging them to put a condom on a dildo as efficiently as they can. Kristen Steffes doesn't have to.
Steffes, a junior biology major, has done this a few times as a peer health educator with the University's PantherWELL program. Her responsibilities include providing students with a comfortable space to explore sexual health, among other wellness-related topics. Educating others has even taught her a little bit about herself, Steffes said.
"My ability to be present for others, actively listen and give advice when asked has heightened," Steffes said. "It has also improved my relationship with myself as I am more understanding towards negative feelings and more welcoming of my own vulnerability."
PantherWELL is a division of the Student Health Service that employs 17 undergraduate peer educators to host programs for residence halls, sororities and fraternities. Steffes got involved with PantherWELL during her first year at Pitt, when she saw them tabling in Towers Lobby.
"The most rewarding part of being a peer educator is helping people open up about a stigmatized topic like mental or sexual health," Steffes said. "Creating a safe space for people to talk about their experiences is definitely the best part."
As a peer health educator, Steffes facilitates discussion and engagement during programs that emphasize sexual and mental health, nutrition and drug use. She coordinates Pitt Grit: Bouncing Back, which focuses on resilience, Pitt Grit: Positive U, which promotes body positivity, and Easy Mac, which provides students with meal ideas for the dorms.
At the same time, being a peer educator can pose its own set of challenges. Some students can be apathetic and close-minded to the material, Steffes said, which can complicate programs.
"I have had students joke about suicide during stress management programs," Steffes said. "Learning how to address those comments without alienating the person who made the comment and regain trust of the group is very challenging."
The way programs are presented and received depend on the content, Steffes said. Sexual health programs generally feature humor to lighten the mood.
"The last thing I want to do is be serious on a topic that already makes people uncomfortable," Steffes said. "We make it easier to digest by throwing in some jokes and activities."
Steffes admitted that one of the most popular sexual health programs is Sex in the Lounge, an activity where residence halls learn about STIs and contraception. During the program, groups compete to see who can put a condom on a dildo under various conditions, including simulated darkness and intoxication.
Megan Stahl, the PantherWELL supervisor, believes students enjoy the programs because they are engaging and geared toward group participation. She said, though, that it's difficult to continue hosting programs for the remainder of the school year, given the University's transition to online learning.
"We are exploring remote programming from PantherWELL," Stahl said. "We are currently developing our Stress Free Zone into a series of virtual programs from daily guided meditations to virtual tea times."
Sai Bhatte, a junior economics and neuroscience double major, is another peer health educator who works closely with Steffes and Stahl. She agrees that the value of PantherWELL comes from the group dynamic.
"The people we present to keep the job fun," Bhatte said. "No program is ever the same because the participation and conversation differs every single time."
Steffes also educates other groups of peers through community organizations such as Pittsburgh Action Against Rape and Feminist Empower Movement to help others feel heard and understood.
Her experience with PAAR has made her more compassionate and empathetic, Steffes said. According to her, PAAR has also given her the ability to calm herself and others down from panic attacks.
As a volunteer with PAAR, Steffes acts as sexual violence crisis counselor on its 24/7 helpline. When callers reach the helpline, she provides grounding tools, emotional support and resources related to therapeutic and judicial assistance. Steffes chose to apply to PAAR after meeting someone else who worked with the organization.
"I came to college full of feminist fury — every day I was seeing gender inequality and discrimination based on people's identities and I couldn't handle it," Steffes said. "PAAR seemed like the most direct way I could make an impact on society while supporting people who have experienced sexual violence."
But Steffes said some of her most fulfilling work comes from serving as president of FEM, a student organization that aims to foster a sense of inclusivity.
"I felt I didn't fit in at Pitt my first year and was about to transfer to another university when I went to a FEM meeting," Steffes said. "I immediately felt welcomed, and for the first time, I felt like I belonged at Pitt."
With all three organizations, Steffes has prioritized the creation of spaces where people feel comfortable expressing themselves and exploring new things.
"I ran for president of FEM so I could create a community where everyone knows they belong," Steffes said. "The fulfilling part is when members tell me I have achieved just that."
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Karkwatson (Karkwa and Patrick Watson) Festival de Musique Emergente, Rouyn-Noranda QC, August 31
It's easy, when wrapped up in the tricky language narratives that ensconce French Canada, to place Karkwa and Patrick Watson in separate worlds. When the two Montreal-based acts teamed up for a trio of collaborative performances as Karkwatson 10 years ago, both had established themselves as key entities in Quebecois rock, but their treatment outside their home province proved a fascinating case study on the politics of Quebecois music in English Canada. Watson, who performs in English, had just won the Polaris Music Prize, skyrocketing his exposure in the rest of the country, while Karkwa, who perform in French, were largely unrecognized outside their home province. (No one could have predicted that the band would win their own Polaris two years later, marking the first non-English record to do so.)
But Karkwa and Patrick Watson have always been kindred spirits, guided by a love for meticulous songcraft and musicianship. And though their careers have taken different trajectories in the past decade — Karkwa won the Polaris Music Prize in 2010 before embarking on a hiatus in 2011 that has yet to officially end, a recent reunion show notwithstanding, while Watson has churned out a few more well-received albums — both parties are still connected by an incredible bond, even after all this time.
Linking up into a nine-piece hybrid band including two bassists and three percussionists, the sizable ensemble started off by showcasing their restraint and compositional synergy with a delicate opening medley of Watson's "Close to Paradise" and Karkwa's "Le compteur." Both songs toy with quiet-loud dynamics, and Karkwatson embraced the shared element to navigate a series of seamless transitions between the two, which served to increase the impact of both songs. It was an impressive opening feat.
Following the opening medley, the nine-piece outfit alternated between Watson and Karkwa songs, filling out each with robust arrangements that bolstered the tunes: Karkwa's "Mieux respirer" was given a beautiful rendition featuring singing saw, while Watson's "Beijing" was given plenty of percussive weight and a full, dissonant breakdown.
All nine members are talented multi-instrumentalists, and their constant rotations between instruments showed off their professional poise, underpinned by mutual respect and a clear love for each others' music. A two-song, small-ensemble acoustic interlude proved that no one was hiding behind the numbers as they turned a four-person version of Watson's "Into Giants" into a giant folk sing-along, while Karkwa's "Marie, tu pleures" featured literal foot-stomping percussion. All the laughs and jokes (many courtesy of Karkwa's François Lafontaine, who is a total ham) showcased the camaraderie that made such a collaboration possible in the first place.
Late-set renditions of Karkwa's "Les Chemins de verre" and Watson's "Big Bird in a Small Cage" only served to reinforce the compositional and performative strengths of each and every performer. Navigating every possible angle of folk and rock explored by the two acts throughout their careers, from Watson at his most fragile to Karkwa at their most raucous, Karkwatson was a masterful display of talent and skill. Let's hope we don't have to wait 10 more years for it to happen again — and, given the due respect both acts have now received nationwide, that they take the show outside their home province for a change.
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Q: Google maps: Управление камерой при перемещении маркера на карте (android) Вообщем, при открытии карты я получаю местоположения юзера, все гуд, но при перемещении маркера камера перемешается на новое место,а потом обратно на текущее местоположение. Необходимо при установке маркера на новую позицию перемещать камеру корректно(без возврата на местоположение) и получать координаты маркера.
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